National Science Foundation significantly downgrades the review process of its proposals... 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
I disagree with a significant fraction of this article, but still it's an interesting and thought-stimulating read on an issue I've been grappling with... www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d... 🧪
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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ESA/Webb picture of the month - image of interacting dwarf galaxies NGC 4490 and NGC 4485. Interaction between these galaxies led to a recent starburst and formation of star clusters. 🔭 esawebb.org/images/potm2...
Schrödinger's plates: the plates are simultaneously whole and broken and we won't know their true state until we open the cabinet... ) p.s. This month marks the 90th anniversary of Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involving cat in a chamber.
Aurora over lake Michigan tonight. In the background are Castor, Pollux, Jupiter, and Procyon. 🔭
![Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifptvo6h6kdpf75j3i443ospzumiii7a3pblah2urjrawmyymh3ga)
Euclid’s “Tuning Fork” By way of a quick follow-up to yesterday's post, here's another Euclid Q1 product. This one is an updated version of the famous "Tuning Fork" representation of galaxy morphology: Credits: Diagram: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Diagram by J.-C. Cuillandre, L. Quilley, F.…
Euclid’s “Tuning Fork”
By way of a quick follow-up to yesterday's post, here's another Euclid Q1 product. This one is an updated version of the famous "Tuning Fork" representation of galaxy morphology: Credits: Diagram: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Diagram by J.-C. Cuillandre, L. Quilley, F. Marleau. Images alone: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi You can click on the image to make it (much) bigger.
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"Beyond Hubble": a workshop aimed to trigger cross discussions between observers and theorists on our current understanding on galaxy morphology and kinematics, with an emphasis on revisiting the Hubble Sequence in the modern-day galaxy formation framework. sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/be... 🔭
a BEAUTIFUL image of spiral galaxy ngc 1068 that uses combined data from hubble, jwst, AND chandra telescopes!!!! 🌌
I used this from the Opticks in my PhD thesis: it seems probable to me that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable Particles of such Sizes and Figures and with such other Properties and in such Proportion to Space as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them
Reading a section of Newton's "Opticks", I think he should have enlisted ChatGPT to help him with his spelling.
A new fantastic image of M82 by JWST NIRCam, showing a biconical outflow of gas and dust from this starbursting galaxy. 🔭🧪 esawebb.org/images/potm2...
Want to instead explore the Virgo Cluster as captured by Rubin at full resolution? Head to our Skyviewer and enjoy some cosmic joyscrolling! There's so much to explore and discover ✨ #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪 ➡️ skyviewer.app
In case you've been contemplating moving elsewhere in our Galaxy... bsky.app/profile/phdc...
PHD Comics@phdcomics.com · last yr.Wow, @phdcomics.com in conversation with @xkcd.com talking about the worst place to live in the galaxy? This might be the nerdiest podcast ever recorded. Listen to the full episode here: link.podtrac.com/SciStuff_XKCD
NEW: Astronomers used Hubble to re-examined the prediction that the Milky Way galaxy will eventually collide with the Andromeda galaxy. They find there is only a fifty-fifty chance the two galaxies will smash together within the next 10 billion years: bit.ly/3YzymOx 🔭 🧪
The science paper publication industry gives millions in revenues to the publishers, but is created for free by the experts. The value-add of publication (what people pay for) is much less than that of peer-review and editorial (which they don't). It is ripe for disruption. Hopefully like this.
Andrey Kravtsov@grumpy1.bsky.social · last yr.This may not be obvious, but a paper like the Naidu et al on the new distance record holder galaxy arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 would normally be submitted to Nature. The fact that it was submitted to the @ojastro.bsky.social signals a major shift in the field. 🔭🧪
This may not be obvious, but a paper like the Naidu et al on the new distance record holder galaxy arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 would normally be submitted to Nature. The fact that it was submitted to the @ojastro.bsky.social signals a major shift in the field. 🔭🧪
A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at $z_{\rm{spec}}=14.44$ Confirmed with JWST
JWST has revealed a stunning population of bright galaxies at surprisingly early epochs, $z>10$, where few such sources were expected. Here we present the most distant example of this class yet -- MoM...
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A galaxy at redshift z=14.44? This morning's arXiv mailing presented me with a distraction from examination marking in the form of a paper by Naidu et al. with this abstract: This paper has been submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics. I usually feel a bit conflicted in situations when a…
A galaxy at redshift z=14.44?
This morning's arXiv mailing presented me with a distraction from examination marking in the form of a paper by Naidu et al. with this abstract: This paper has been submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics. I usually feel a bit conflicted in situations when a paper has been submitted for editorial review. I am posting it here for two reasons: one is that I am not the Editor responsible for this paper; the other is that the…
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not yet sure whether this is useful at all, but an interesting concept: each arXiv paper is a star and the nearest stars are papers on related topics: soarxiv.org It only has papers up to April 2025 rn (if you lose your cursor, hit Esc to recover it). 🔭
soarXiv - the universe of science
soarXiv is a visual exploration of the arXiv, a repository of scientific papers. It is a tool for exploring the arXiv in a new way, and for finding new papers to read.
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