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A. Suárez Mascareño

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Astronomy postdoc at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain). Hunting low mass exoplanets. Member of the ESPRESSO, NIRPS, HARPS-3, ANDES, and CHORUS, science teams. Co-PI of the IACSAT-1.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 10h

After watching Avatar 2 I almost couldn't believe what I was watching were VFX. Is there still something that filmakers want to show, but vfx studios/technology still can't pull off convincingly?

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 11h

Friendship ended with GJ 536. LHS 1678 is my new best friend.

3D representation of the planetary system of LHS 1678. Taken from the NASA exoplanets page.

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 22h

I know researchers that are very secretive about their work and are always worried a collaborator will go behind their back and steal it from them. I randomly write people I know might be interested in the stuff I'm doing and it then get invited to join projects. Friends are better than secrets.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 1d

At least in its current state, work isn't saved, it's just moved around.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 1d

Then the secretary explained that doing it would defy the purpose of using them in the first place, as they would need to dedicate more time after the meeting than they would have done with "hand-written" minutes.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 1d

The person tasked with the archival demanded to not receive unpolished AI-generated minutes again. If the secretary decided to use them, they had to also polish them before sending them.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 1d

The secretary of the meeting decided to use the AI-generated minutes to save on work and passed them as produced. Then, the complaint was that the person in charge with archiving them had to dedicate an hour to polish them to make them coherent and presentable. That person wasn't at the meeting.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 1d

Yesterday I caught an interesting conversation about the effect of using AI-generated minutes in a meeting where those minutes had to be archived and preserved to be available in case on an audit. Spoiler: It was a demand to stop using them.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 6d

Maybe it's because I started as an MS-DOS+Win95 user, and haven't really changed too much the way I use PCs since then lol

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 6d

(and Windows allows fractional scaling, which I use).

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 6d

I don't really think it's really a matter of pixels. I'm used to full screen everything at any resolution and any size. I have a PC connected to my living room 55" TV, and I full screen everything there.

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 6d

I full-screen everything on a 27" 4K screen. I have two monitors to full-screen two things at the same time lol

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 7d

One Battle After Another. One fucking battle after another. Movie of the year.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 8d

With 2746 unread emails I am arithmetically closer to the first category

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 12d

Trump presenta una aberración colonial disfrazada de acuerdo de paz y reconstrucción para Palestina. Una nueva Palestina dirigida por mandatarios extranjeros, centrada en los intereses económicos de empresas extranjeras, y donde los palestinos serán meros subditos.

Trump presenta un plan de paz para Gaza que prevé la rendición de Hamás y un Gobierno supervisado por él

El presidente de Estados Unidos asegura que Israel ya ha aceptado la propuesta, que incluye el retorno de los rehenes y un órgano de gestión de la Franja en el que se contempla la participación de Ton...

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 12d

This is a horrifying read. Seems like a relic of past darker times... but it might be the future. Fuck Tony Blair, Trump, and all their minions.

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 12d

There is apparently a leaked document planning a monstrous colonial abomination for Palestine disguised as reconstruction, which would be led by Tony Blair and Trump's son-in-law. What the actual fuck...

Postwar Gaza authority potentially led by Tony Blair ‘would sideline Palestinians’

Draft plan’s critics say it hands power to international figures and splits Gaza from Palestinian Authority in West Bank

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 16d

There is one particular plot point I was a fan when it started and very much not where it led to. Without getting into too many spoilers, the idea of understanding the thing was great, the place they went with that wasn't.

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 16d

So... what a journey... I finished Alien Earth today... This has been all over the place. Some good world building, some good ideas, some weird ideas, some really bad ideas, and too many dissolves. This ending has been... well, something. I didn't dislike it, but it didn't feel like an ending.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 19d

Wildly different tone compared to 1997s Anaconda

ANACONDA [1997] – Official Trailer (HD)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 19d

So... there's a reboot of the infamous Anaconda, in which a bunch of people try to reboot Anaconda, it goes wrong, and the movie becomes kind-of a reboot of Anaconda. And I love the trailer?

ANACONDA – Official Trailer (HD)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 23d

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 24d

Hope they don't change It much. I like seeing my image there :P

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 24d

Does linking this page always show this image?

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 24d

The 6000th planet of (some of) the people

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 24d

I feel arxiv comments are under-utilized. There's a lot of untapped potential there.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 24d

Sometimes 2025 just feels like a lot, and you need an excuse to celebrate your fabulous team (and the whole exoplanet community!) reaching a new milestone…

Happy 6,000 Confirmed Exoplanets Day, everybody!!!!

(You may recognize the narrator of the video at the link! 🫣)

www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

A close-up photo of a box of cupcakes with gold candles spelling out ‘6000’.

A group of smiling people - scientists, engineers, data analysts and writers - standing behind a table of goodies.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 28d

Top 10 most dramatic battles in cat history (Tenerife, Spain, 2020)

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 29d

On the other side of the sofa, my head is tapped by Suri, who has been craving for attention all day.

A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 29d

Kate Beckinsale should have starred 200 million $ actions movies

Jolt (2021)

A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.

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