Co-advisor: “So you’re like a general contractor now!?” Me: “Yeah, but I have all these ouchies and boo-boos now 😭”
Jake Postiglione
@jakepost.tech
PhD student in Astrophysics at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 🔭, guest researcher at @amnh.org, and @flatironinstitute.org 🌌, gw and multi-messenger enthusiast 📡, hoarder of D&D dice 🐉, only codes in dark mode 🌑. he/him 🏳️🌈 🔗 https://jakepost.tech
Just my whole job being dragged by Andy Weir.
Halfway through #LISASymposium2026 and the energy's anything but halved! Brilliant talks and an engaged community. Let's chase them gravitational waves! Here's the crew and energy at midpoint - ready for round two! #lisasymposium2026
New research shows bugs are shrimp instead of shrimp are bugs. Amazing. I need to find this source immediately!
The start of a catholic war against AI was not on my 2026 bucket list.
Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...
Anyone out there inventing new pasta shapes? Whos the authority on that? I feel like the maths people would be the final call on things if tensions were to… boil over.
Feeling rich in life because I got a “nice find!” comment from the girlies leaving their 5th floor walk-up while @annahi.bsky.social and I were carrying away a facebook marketplace purchase.
canvas got hacked because it is software. brightspace will never get hacked because it is a malevolent entity trapped inside a web browser by a wizard.
It’s a great book, but sort of idiosyncratic in its approach to general relativity. Maybe not the best place to learn the subject but a worthwhile read. On the other hand, does your favorite GR textbook tackle the really big questions like “Is Middle Earth flat?” (18/n)
NYC is going through a second false Summer today. If I crack and put my air conditioner in, the temperature outside will surely plummet back into the 40s as punishment 🥲
I haven’t seen it much here but over on Threads there are A LOT of posts like this and honestly same.
I want to give just the biggest kudos to Kelsey Young, the Artemis II science officer. She did a phenomenal job today of communicating clearly and joyously and it was honestly orders of magnitude more distracting than I thought it would be to have on.
Waking up to the #Artemis II live stream and delighted to find one of the solar arrays was turned around towards the Moon.
Jake Postiglione@jakepost.tech · 5mo agoLeft the #Artemis II live stream up on my computer last night. Waking up to this view is nothing short of magical.
The #Artemis II crew must have just set a "furthest from Earth" record for troubleshooting a Bluetooth device not connecting 😂
Beautiful view of the Homeworld from Artemis II right now...
Scrolling through my follow feed and seeing everyone post their own screen grab is just awesome 🤩
Jake Postiglione@jakepost.tech · 5mo agoLeft the #Artemis II live stream up on my computer last night. Waking up to this view is nothing short of magical.
Left the #Artemis II live stream up on my computer last night. Waking up to this view is nothing short of magical.
Anyone else really excited about NASA power cycling the space toilet from mission control?
Hey #astrosci scientists, has anyone included a "I did not use AI" disclosure in one of their recent papers? I would like include one in an upcoming work, so I want to see if there is already a standard.
@steampowered.com @valvesoftware.com will games using DLSS 5 be required to disclose AI use on the steam store?
Jake Postiglione@jakepost.tech · 5mo agoNvidia CEO: “because they’re wrong” What a tone deaf and ignorant response. I don’t want generative “AI” to touch the media I consume. A game developer using image generation for textures is the same thing as using “DLSS 5” and I won’t buy games that use the technology.
Nvidia CEO: “because they’re wrong” What a tone deaf and ignorant response. I don’t want generative “AI” to touch the media I consume. A game developer using image generation for textures is the same thing as using “DLSS 5” and I won’t buy games that use the technology.
To all those living in New York for the first time: Sorry about the past couple of nice weather days. That was fake spring 1. We’ll have another one or two of them before we really get a good spring going on 🥰
Whoever decided to make an android based tv operating system that 1. takes a long time to boot, and 2. frequently crashes, better watch your back 👊
I have the best students, who surprised me with a birthday cake 🎂 during our weekly institutional happy hour!!! (I don’t think they’re the best because of the cake, but it is nice to have cake!!) 🤩 @jakepost.tech @emilymcpike.bsky.social and Shawn Ray!!!