It's such a treat when my hear one of my favourite podcast host appear as a guest on one of my other favorite podcasts. This week it was @seanmcarroll.bsky.social on @sciencevs.bsky.social

I just finished listening to @doctorow.pluralistic.net 's audiobook: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. I see centaurs and reverse centaurs everywhere now!  "Who it does it for, and who it does it to" is indeed the question. Hour-long excerpt here: craphound.com/podcast/2026...

David (@davidmcraney.bsky.social), your latest episode about Enlightened Disagreement gave me so much hope. Thank you! youarenotsosmart.com/2026/05/11/y...

YANSS 339 – How a new organization devoted to the science of debate, conversation, and deliberation plans to “save disagreement from polarization.”

Northwestern University just launched the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement, a real-world institution devoted to “research-backed approaches to cultivating open-mindedness, identif…

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Hi Bluesky, we're the Trottier Observatory, a research and public outreach observatory based at @sfu.ca in Burnaby, BC. We're home to Canada's largest star party every clear Friday evening (last Friday of the month online). Follow us for event and weather updates. We hope to see you soon!

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

This might be one of my favorites from Artemis II. A cinematic alignment of the Moon and Earth, each cradled within the warmth of sunbeams. Taken from behind the Moon on April 6th. flic.kr/p/2s6BABn

Government-Funded infomercial from Norway striking back at US corporations and the tech Bros for filling the Internet with slop. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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It moves! We can watch as the Kepler supernova remnant changes over a quarter of century in X-rays from Chandra. #aas247 chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/k...

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

Yeah... le sigh

jae holzman@jael.bsky.social · last yr.

i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere

Big news! There's a new project that's raising cash to build out AT Protocol infrastructure that isn't dependent on venture-funded Bluesky, to stimulate the development of new social networks using that infrastructure, and to make the protocol's governance more democratic fortune.com/2025/01/13/m...

Hollywood stars and geeks unite to billionaire-proof social media

The likes of Mark Ruffalo and Jimmy Wales are backing the Free Our Feeds project, to ensure Bluesky's tech will thrive even if the company goes bad.

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As a convicted felon the only way Trump can now visit Canada is if he annexes it

i hate to be a monocausal guy but i really think this discussion of masculinity, trade school, the gendering of education etc is beating around the bush. male democrats have seen no sizable drop in their desire to attend college. female republicans have. it’s about politics.

Matt Salomone@matthematics.com · 2y ago

Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:

After lurking here for almost a year: Hello Bluesky. I quit twitter five years ago after being active for 10 years. And I have to admit I'm a bit hesitant to get invested in a new social media platform so I'll take it slow. For all the good I've seen so far, I'm still worried about lock-in...