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Yan-Jie Schnellbach

@yjschnellbach.bsky.social
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Physicist, tinkerer, general purpose nerd. Friend of pigeons. Simulates neutrinos, codes bugs, draws maps, designs shenanigans, tells stories.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title for the first two panels reads “dog domestication”.
The first panel shows a wolf running with a pack. The text reads “we changed form, size, personality…”
The second panel shows a chihuahua in a dog bed. The text reads “…lifestyle, instinct, our entire way of being.”
The title for the last two panel reads “cat domestication.”
The third panel shows an image of a cat outside.
The fourth panel shows the exact same cat indoors. The text reads “we went inside.”
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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 24/07/2026
I'm not mad that Neill Blomkamp tried to do something with AI, he has always been about pushing tech... but more that he thinks it's good... it's so bad in so many ways... the script?? To quote this brilliant script "I'm getting too old for this bullshit" www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbt...
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NIGHTBORNE — A Neill Blomkamp Sci-Fi Film. Fully AI (4K)
YouTube video by Barley Studios
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eshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.
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The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact
Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...
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CNTR | Arms Control Research @cntrarmscontrol.org · 18/05/2026
Eine eigene deutsche Atomwaffe bleibt vertraglich, politisch & technisch nahezu ausgeschlossen. Es bleibt die Frage: Wer garantiert Europas Sicherheit, wenn nicht die USA? @yjschnellbach.bsky.social ordnet die Diskussion im Interview ein ⬇️ www.merkur.de/politik/us-s...
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Wie wahrscheinlich wäre eine deutsche Atombombe? Experte: „Außerordentlich kompliziert auf vielen Ebenen“
Benötigt Deutschland Atomwaffen? Die politischen Rahmenbedingungen im Hintergrund verändern sich rasant. Doch: Wie wahrscheinlich wäre das überhaupt?
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 07/04/2026
Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...
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The Video NASA’s Laser Communications Experiment Streamed From Deep Space
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 20/03/2026
Pigeon milk.
A six panel comic. In panel 1, a banner says "Pigeons make milk" and a smaller banner says "A fact you didn't need to know". A pigeon stands looking at the reader next to a carton of milk. In panel 2, the text says "Like mammals, pigeons feed milk to their babies. Both male and female pigeons produce it." Two pigeons sit next to their pink and gray babies, all looking happy, and one of the parents says, "Teamwork." In panel 3, the text says "Pigeons don't have nipples. They make milk in a part of their esophagus and regurgitate it." Two pigeons stand next to each other, one with a cow udder and one with a line of nipples down its chest, with red X's next to them. In panel 3, the text says "Amazingly, it evolved independently from mammal milk but it's triggered by the same hormone, prolactin." A black and white dairy cow looks down at a pigeon, who says "We're not so different, you and I." In panel 5, the text says "Like our milk, it has fats, proteins, immune-supporting substances, and more." A cow foot and a pigeon wing are shown high-fiving, and text says "milk high five". In panel 6, the text says "However, it's very chunky, so don't trust any pigeon to make you a good latte." A white coffee cup steaming with a latte inside is shown with the contents censored, and a pigeon leans into the frame looking proud of itself.
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Keith @minguseyes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner
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かみとすみ | Sumi @sumipigeon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
my nice borb #illustration #art #pigeon #鳩 #bird
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
Frontispiece of a book with a portrait of James I of England and opposit, a sleepy looking cat
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
For this week's DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I wrote a little bit about Martin Amis' essay "Thinkability," which I think is just one of the sharpest pieces of writing on nuclear war that I am aware of... doomsdaymachines.net/p/nuclear-we...
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"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"
Martin Amis on the difficulties of writing about nuclear war
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/11/2025
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
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Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
An urgent message is sent by delivery raven (a la Game of Thrones). The royal recipient is concerned. Below cursive script, crude raven scrawl has been added to the scroll: “feed food gud ravin”
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Hanford's waste vitrification plant has vitrified (turned to glass) its first nuclear waste today. It's taken a LONG time to get to this point and its a huge milestone. It also comes as I hear rumors that workers on the site are being furloughed because of the govt shutdown....
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Graph of British Rivers
A map showing South West England and Wales, labelled "Graph of British Rivers". Two river courses are shown, labelled 'Wye axis' and 'Exe axis'. 

Does anyone read these descriptions, or am I wasting my time?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 13/06/2025
The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.
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New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problems
Puzzle-based experiments reveal limitations of simulated reasoning, but others dispute findings.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“When the system forces you to code with a hallucinating clown, eventually you stop resisting. You let him type. You let him be "productive." You check out. You surrender your brain to the noise and just float.” deplet.ing/the-copilot-...
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The Copilot Delusion
Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...
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Sluggy 🐌 | Team Tragedy 💧 @lildisgustinart.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Pigeon Party 🕊 #illustration #pigeons #animalart #artsky
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
do you remember before social media when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden the web made me love humanity
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
📣 CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep 🐑 ​​Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon where two particles’ states are tied to each other, no matter how far apart the particles are. These findings could now help to explain the species’ fascinating flocking behaviour.
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 01/04/2025
Draw for the Namesake chat for #TransDayofVisibility yesterday. Support trans rights and trans artists 🎨 ⭐️🩵🩷🤍🤍🩷🩵⭐️
Two crows, one black and one white, holding a trans flag and a bettle using the same colors.
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I skipped that "advice from the over 30s" QT that was going around a couple of weeks ago, but I have one now. If there is a little sandwich place that does a sandwich that is perfect and you love it, get that sandwich whenever you feel like it, because any day that shop might shut without warning.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 21/01/2025
The slow, then sudden decline of Stack Overflow. Full article: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-mak...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Hoo boy, I bet you could use a distraction today! So how about an intense JWST image of a pair of colossal stars whizzing past each other and blasting out wave after wave of dusty shells, expanding away at a soul-freezing NINE MILLION KPH?! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/two-coloss... 🧪🔭
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Two colossal stars send out waves of dust in an amazing JWST image
WR 140 is a terrifying star system, but it sure is beautiful. Also, announcing a new rate for the newsletter.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
new article. it's about what cozy and wholesome games are, why shitty people like them, and why I really liked I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...
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i was a teenage exocolonist (and so can you)
I’ve realized that I’m much better at discussing broad ranging theory than individual games, just because it’s easier to find ten games…
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)
Title: The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - Available in all good bookshops.

Description -  December 1st to 23rd: open the door to watch Gerorge Smiley reluctantly uncover a conspiracy as he wanders around the damp, dilapidated London of the seventies.

(images of six of the doors, showing a stick figure os Smiley going about his business in shades of browny-gray)

December 24th: Having solved the mystery and written his resignation letter, Smiley eats Christmas dinner alone.

(image of Smiley at a table with a letter, unappetising portion of food and glass of wine, in browny-gray)
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Yan-Jie Schnellbach @yjschnellbach.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Spaceship names! - Solar Serendipity - The Falling Knife - Point of Light
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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
A different perspective on the Civil War damage of 1645 to Chester’s (in origin, Roman) city walls. These devices for imagining past events are extremely cool, and also not always accessible or long-lasting. 📸 Chester Roman Gardens, Oct’ 2023
Photograph of an historical information board in the Roman Gardens of Chester in NW England. In the background is the tall city wall of the city. Between the background and the foreground is a grassy lawn and pavement of stone slabs and laid square stones. In the foreground is a semi-transparent vertical panel of plastic, which is overlain with a reconstruction image of the breach of Chester’s walls in September 1645, during the Civil War. The image is position such that the person viewing it can overlay it upon the city walls of the today, creating an impression in which the past and the present overlap.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 06/08/2024
Haha just saw a screenshot of the "Harris could have shown she was a moderate, but now she looks like an extremist, what a mistake" like, all my life Democrats have been treating things like "I think kids shouldn't starve" as damagingly extreme left positions and it made me want to chew my arm off.
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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
I love potatoes. If you ignore other vegetables they become gross mush. If you ignore a potato it becomes a Creature. This is an approach I deeply respect
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 04/03/2024
What city pigeons talk about, part 1.
A comic called "What City Pigeons Talk About". Two city pigeons are standing on the sidewalk. One says "Hey, do you ever think about the past?" The other says "The past?"A closeup of the first pigeon. They say "Yeah - do you ever think about where we came from? Sometimes I forget that city pigeons are domestic animals."A hand reaches out to three wild pigeons. The narrator pigeon says "Humans domesticated us many millennia ago in the Middle East. We provided meat, feces used for fertilizer, and much more." There are two very fancy pigeon breeds. "Over time, people split us into hundreds of pure breeds - some quite elaborate! Kings and queens proudly kept pigeons, and colonists spread us worldwide."A closeup again of the first pigeon, who says, "But we fell out of fashion.  Now we peck at the dusty concrete, our past glory all but forgotten. Do you ever think about that?"
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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 01/03/2024
You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.
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NPR @npr.org · 23/02/2024
BREAKING NEWS: The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.
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Private lunar lander returns U.S. to the moon 50 years later. Here's what to know
The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.
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tarquined.bsky.social @tarquined.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
on.ft.com/3HoUeTH I didn't know I needed tribunal judges to state that "Nominative determinism is not a characteristic of snack foods" or a pie chart of % potato in poppadoms
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Yan-Jie Schnellbach @yjschnellbach.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
After many moons, finally published a paper on our work done a while back: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... - review took time, but it was 100% worth it in this case, we ended up expanding it with an entirely new section!
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Supernova model discrimination with a kilotonne-scale Gd-H2O Cherenkov detector - IOPscience
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/12/2023
A thing that's always surprising to me is how many techbros think they can nuance their way through Nazis. Pro trip: You can't nuance your way through Nazis. There's no nuance in Nazis. What's more, you're (probably) not the fucking US government. You don't *have* to nuance the Nazis. So just don't.
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tarquined.bsky.social @tarquined.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
absence makes the heart grow fonder?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/11/2023
Decay Modes xkcd.com/2860
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