If you are in Lausanne for #eas2006, there’s a panel on Friday about AI and astronomy publishing featuring yours truly, plus people with actual expertise. Session SS44a at 13:15!
David W Hogg
@hogg.bsky.social
Astronomer, physicist, statistician, data analyst, open scientist. (Totally not at all the other David Hogg). I live on Lenape land.
Marla Geha (Yale) at @flatironinstitute.org talking about spectroscopy of the absolutely tiniest galaxies!
Since it's all the rage, I wrote a thing about LLMs. nataliebhogg.com/2026/03/09/f...
Find the stable and pull out the bolt
On the use of ChatGPT in academia: a measured response Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote what might charitably be called a think-piece on the use of ChatGPT in academia, or more specifically, m…
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I hope everyone who checked out @hogg.bsky.social’s white paper on the implications of LLMs in astronomy and shared it across slack channels similarly perused and amplified this white paper of best practices for broadening participation in astronomy!
Ava Polzin@avapolzin.bsky.social · 5mo agoHappy International Women's Day! Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general). arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465 🧪🔭☄️👩🔬
MUST READ: The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪 Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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Hot take: If you are thinking about observation planning, and if you have choices, you should choose the plan that maximizes your long-term future-discounted information gain. . . .
I’m so proud to be a jury member for The 2025 International Kindness Olympiad (haha that doesn’t exist because how could kindness be important??)
Excellent piece by @briles34.bsky.social on writing in the discipline. It’s depressing that we think that theoretical physics expertise is not just more important but INFINITELY more important than writing to… *writing* PhD dissertations (on any subfield of astro, say). arxiv.org/abs/2510.03493
Surveying the State of Writing Education in Physics and Astronomy
Writing is a critical skill for modern science, enabling collaboration, scientific discourse, public outreach, and more. Accordingly, it is important to consider how physicists and astronomers are tra...
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The main thing that it all makes me—Palestinian genocide, ICE kidnappings, tariffs, H1b visas, infinite detentions without hearings, all make me—is sad. Tired and sad. Love to all, and strength for this journey.
Cantiello @kantyellow.bsky.social at @flatironinstitute.org explains, in terms of fundamental physics, why we won’t be simulating stars in full 3D, ever. I likey.
Josh Ruderman @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about freeze out and freeze in of dark matter candidates.
My colleague Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) wrote a nice blog post about political things on campus, academic freedom, and our @aaup.org lawsuit. voelkerrechtsblog.org/academic-fre...
Academic Freedom on Trial
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Many universities on lockdown after black faculty were sent extremely racist death threats and threats of racial extermination. Stay safe out there. Black faculty at NYU received extremely frightening emails today.
It’s back to school, but not for anyone in Gaza. We all have responsibility for the scholasticide, the killing of students, and the destruction of educational infrastructure.
This is a good (long!!) newsletter covering many things related to academic freedom, with an NYU bias. I learn a ton every time this comes out.
NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine@nyufsjp.bsky.social · 11mo ago📰🧵Hot off the press! Issue #21 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. Click this link to read: facultyforpalestine.education/2025/08/28/a...
Fascinating piece by @stephenornes.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social on “emergent misalignment” showing that we really don’t know much about what LLMs are doing. www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.
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It’s long been suspected that Rubio and Noem were targeting foreign students based on info supplied by these fanatical, sinister groups. This is the first time the government has acknowledged it in open court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists
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The NYU AAUP (@aaup; of which I am a member) made the news yesterday with its lawsuit against the Trump administration: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trial to consider Trump’s ‘ideological-deportation policy’ targeting pro-Palestinian students
Case is the first of several legal challenges to White House’s sweeping crackdown on universities to make it to trial
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We (and I mean US physicists) dreamed up these weapons, and soldiers deployed them. Enormous suffering was the outcome. Never again www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens h...
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The most heartbreaking thing I’ve maybe ever read. CW: Deaths of workers; exceedingly unsafe workplace. I apologize if this is paywalled (@lrb.co.uk please don’t paywall old things) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Sullivan · Diary: Trapped in the Mine
Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries stopped...
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www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Harriet Tubman’s church in Canada was a crucial force in the abolitionist movement. It’s still standing today
Located in Ontario, the church provided shelter and aid to Black Americans who participated in the Underground Railroad to escape slavery in the US
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James Beard Foundation! Prizes to Hamada Shoo and Mosab Abu Toha today. Two of my heroes, uplifting Gaza. And: Food is critical to liberation and justice. So much love. @mosababutoha.bsky.social
