Cristóbal Sifón
@csifon.bsky.social
Astrophysicist. Dark matter, galaxies and clusters through optical/submm/other wavelengths.
"A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication." Yikes.
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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If you need a reason to live or something to help feel less alone, we published the Stay With Us package in late November of 2024 for moments like those. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Whether they’re inspiring us through their advocacy, their creativity, or their humor, these essays by prominent trans writers give us heart.
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Whoever is writing captions for the Guardian seems to have run fresh out of fucks.
28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian partisans. This (long!) thread recounts the events surrounding the flight, capture & execution of Mussolini (Photo: last known photo of Mussolini alive, as he leaves Milan on the evening of 25 April 1945) [Thread] >> 1
Gran experiencia esta semana haber participado de la inauguración del Telescopio Submilimétrico Fred Young (FYST) en el Observatorio CCAT en el Cerro Chajnantor a 5600 metros de altura!
Esta columna de Matamala va al meollo del proyecto que 23 senadores de derecha de la coalición de Kast, votaron a favor y esperan avanzar para que sea ley: Liberar a 12 mil de los más peligrosos criminales, es solo un "daño colateral" para liberar a los psicopatas ya privilegiados de Punta Peuco:
For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5mo agoPreliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6mo agoBreaking news: Trump officials have struggled to figure out how to increase military spending by $500 billion. The White House budget chief was among those who objected to the defense secretary’s plan to increase military spending by roughly 50 percent.
If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life
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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 6mo agoRep Mark Alford (R-MO) says House Rs are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show & talking with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Alford says he didn't watch the whole thing & also doesn't know Spanish but suspects it might have been "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction"
I have read this 20 times, have checked that the author is reputable anither 20, and still cannot believe this would be real
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 7mo agomad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4)
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 8mo agoMark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead (via WSJ)
There's no falling below going from "Trump has nothing to do with this pedophile" to "He was not the *bad* kind of pedophile, you know?" and expecting people to go "oh, ok" [Narrator in a few months: Yes, there was...]
Republican Accountability@accountablegop.bsky.social · 9mo agoMegyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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Excelente experiencia la exhibivión de Van Gogh en el Mall Marina en Viña, hasta los niños se entretuvieron con la historia inmersiva y el recorrido de realidad virtual ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on NOT understanding it. Well, the Republican Party depends on fossil fuel money.
Por enésima vez, astrónomo de Harvard: No hay evidencia de tecnologías extraterrestres y 3I/ATLAS no es tecnología avanzada. Estos sinsentidos generan un daño enorme: falsas expectativas y menor credibilidad. Avi Loeb solo daña al público y la comunidad astronómica www.instagram.com/reel/DMdr1A5...
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Journey with us to the star that exploded twice! 🚀 The remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 are all that is left of this star. Our VLT found out that it suffered a pair of explosive blasts, shedding new light on some of the most important explosions in the Universe. www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭 🧪
Las primeras imágenes tomadas con la cámara más grande del mundo, LSSTCam, por el Observatorio Vera C. Rubin @vrubinobs.bsky.social, ya están disponibles y son una maravilla! planetariochile.cl/el-observato...
El Observatorio Vera C. Rubin y su cámara digital, la más grande del mundo, revelan desde Chile sus primeras imágenes del Universo – Planetario Chile
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