Emily Hunt

One of the most powerful speeches I've seen in the UK parliament. Wow.

I'm gonna guess this happened to her around the time in 2021 when she stepped down from a front bench role in the opposition, due to "personal reasons".

How the times have changed for Starmer's Labour... just awful

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

Wow - according to this paper 3I/ATLAS is more than twice as old as our solar system - a messenger from the distant past doi.org/10.48550/arX... 🧪🔭

Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

> it once and reuse that. If it works for you then that's great! But I don't get the hype 😅

again, I have no idea where the alleged speedup is coming from as a seasoned matplotlib user, I can make plots at the speed I can think and I am super unconvinced that describing that in natural language is really worth it. If I have to make complex plots repeatedly I write a reusable module for >

THIS PART.

When I graduated from high school my counselor (who was great) told me it was good I wanted to be a physicist because I'd never be a great writer. I was also the worst writer in my frosh expos course.

I am now an award-winning writer. BECAUSE I PRACTICED!!!!!!

cv/get_pubs.py at main · adrn/cv I can haz job? Contribute to adrn/cv development by creating an account on GitHub.

I definitely recommend biting the bullet and doing a Python script to automate it! Here's an example from @adrian.pw's CV which is on my to-do list to add to my own CV, should be easy to modify:

I'm not saying most/all web devs are using AI or claiming benefits, just that the only programmers I see claiming benefits are web devs

And lots of people still use react, which to me as a svelte person is still somewhat heavier on boilerplate than needs be

Hell even svelte has boilerplate

Do you use orcid? I can recommend using ADS to claim papers in orcid (easy, nice UI) and then just searching your orcid record in ADS to get a paper list

It's such a missed opportunity for good rail travel, though. Most of the population lives in a straight line from Quebec to Toronto, it's literally perfect for a high speed rail route 😭

It's certainly extremely far from the e.g. 10× productivity boost many AI companies are claiming for coding, and these studies also don't measure lost time in the future from e.g. majorly reduced code understanding within orgs making future bugfixes/features much harder

Research is still very scant on how much benefit/slowdown AI causes, but the below is one example... devs usually self-report a much larger benefit than they actually get when compared against a control group. This one actually found a slowdown.

e.g. I'm the person in our research group who understands ci/cd and web stuff best, all just stuff I've learnt in the last three years; because of that, I put together a new site for @starformationnews.org in ~3 days that replaced what Google Sites charged ~50 euro a month for with free solutions.

While it might help you ship what you're doing right now faster, I honestly don't get the appeal of refusing to learn new skills because you as a human can do so so much with those new skills once you get them

*shrug* I didn't know how to do ci/cd three years ago, but learning it through @astrosky.eco means I now know how to self-host *everything* I use online (I'm degoogling and have a few self-hosted cloud solutions going.)

What are you needing to update on your website? The beauty of code is that you can automate anything you want. If it's e.g. a list of papers, there are scripts to query e.g. the ADS that already exist that you can adapt for your needs =)

I hope she can find a good spot going back to working on the tech side. I have a lot of qualms with many things that Bluesky (the company) has done in the last years, but I am also grateful for how the Bluesky team have set up an extremely interoperable and well-optimized protocol.

Huge news for Bluesky. I think multiple things are true:
a) Graber has done a great job of pushing decentralized social tech
b) Bluesky has had an awful PR strategy, and Graber's own posts haven't helped
c) initiatives to diversify this network (e.g. via @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social) are VITAL

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

meanwhile I've seen Claude fuck up a lot of basic Python code, and tbh having dug into some source code for AI-generated web projects I'm still not even sure what the hype is about there!

I've seen so much *awful* generated code that may be faster now to write but is gonna be an ass to maintain

My hot AI take is that it is mostly web/app developers seeing any benefits at all from LLM coding, and this is because:
a) web/app coding has a lot of boilerplate and repetition
b) there are far more web projects in the training data
c) web code is often shorter functions with limited scope

Interessanter Video auf Deutsch über Frauen in Astronomie:

Ooooh this paper looks awesome, thanks for making it & sharing!

Cover of "Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics", which features an illustration of a 19-year-old Vera Rubin looking through a telescope over a backdrop of a first light image of spiral galaxies from the Rubin Observatory.

Happy 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

🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬

I haven't! Sounds cool though =o

Ah, this one was actually just from Hetzner's US hosting to their EU - we switched away from Digital Ocean originally in 2024.

Choosing their US sites in the first place was a pre-election mistake 😅 I'm sure they'll still be very stable but I don't want to risk it...

lmaoooo yet another banger joke 😂 good luck with the PR!

but seriously: we accept PRs with new jokes 😉

github.com/the-astrosky...

you got me in the first half not gonna lie 😭😂

(and thankfully we're not AWS, Hetzner ftw 😇)