Carl Joseph

I’d say the second ‘a’ in Advance has to be similar to the way we pronounce “air”. /eː/ or /ɛə/ That’s the proper Aussie way

I agree. She has such an interesting take on this. Another interesting perspective is Vertesi's book "Seeing Like a Rover". She brings a real embodied experience to image making which I love.

Awww, so happy so hear it helped. Let me know if there's anything I can do to support your book! It looks super interesting.

The astronomical sublime Part of a visual tradition that reaches back to Romanticism, images from the Hubble Space Telescope awe as they inform.

Here are a few that come to mind ...

Kessler, The Astronomical Sublime, mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanit...

Lynch & Edgerton, Aesthetics and Digital Image Processing: Representational Craft in Contemporary Astronomy (1987)

Leibowitz, The Hubble Photographs as Aesthetic Objects, IN Aesthetics (2017)

Very cool. Thanks for the cc.

Thanks so much Alice! Yes the colour choice stuff is quite fascinating. There’s definitely been some work on this topic. I’ll see if I can dig up some refs and post them here

Thanks Patrick. Your previous work on this has informed my own PhD research. Great to see you here in the better place.

Aww thanks for the boost!

Thanks Alice. Am working in turning this into a paper so would be keen to hear any feedback etc. 🙏🏻

My presentation that highlights a lengthy period of hybrid analog-digital photography in astronomy.Includes some interesting examples like JPL engineers colouring an image with crayons, and the first astronomical CCD image.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsXX...

#histsci #sts #astronomy #hps #photography

Texas A&M Bans Plato (with updates) - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

400BCE is far too progressive for Texan Universities it seems dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Carl standing in front of the title screen of his talk “Blurred Visions”

Carl standing in front of a screen showing the first astronomical “digital” image taken (of lunar craters)

Another AAHPSSS conference wraps up. Some amazing and interesting presentations given this year.

#histsci #sts #astronomy #hps

Deus ex nihilo Decoherence and the superposition of capital in the OpenAI ecosytem

“Your physics teacher lied to you. Your economics teacher lied to you. Jensen Huang's leather jacket is the only truth that matters.”

jamesthomason.com/deus-ex-nihi...

the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

My interview for *The Philosopher's Zone* podcast on Feminism and Primatology is out now!

I managed to scrounge up the courage to listen and I'm quite proud 🙃

You can listen to the ep via the ABC website or in the usual podcast places

#hps #sts #histsci #PhilSci #feminism #primatology

Thanks for taking the hit to watch Sky News for the rest of us

Thankfully, because of preferential voting, this needn’t be the case

Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate

So stupid.

Yet, this really shines a light on the underlying racism belly that exists in Australia.

If this article was changed so every instance of "US" switched to "China" (as an example), then people would be yelling 25 hours a day about this. And yet, we don't see much discussion on this.

Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate

Even the tyranny of distance won’t protect us from the tyrrany of the current US (lack of) government.

Incredibly strange decision from the society

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A very good online lesson-style thing about what ChatGPT is and whether it's a huge invention (or just bullshit).

Probably a great thing to get in front of your students, seeing as they're almost definitely using it regularly: thebullshitmachines.com

Nice. I might have to take another closer look at it

Thanks Ryan! Do you find Quarto useful for non stats/coding stuff too?

I’m using Scrivener as my writing tool and compiling with pandoc, citeproc, etc.

Ahh so they make more expensive and experienced people redundant and hire back cheaper. How awful, especially for those who were let go :(

Isn’t there a time limit for when you can rehire for a redundant position?

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

Curious how they justify the AI use given their climate action stance?

Why do tech bros keep reinventing eugenics and phrenology?!