Genevieve Marshall
@genmarshall.bsky.social
Head of Fundraising, International Astronomical Union @ Leiden Observatory
Stargazer ✨ Gender equity. Mental health.
Scottish/Dutch. Gamer. Avid fantasy nerd. Views own.
Art: Gerry Arthur @gerryart.bsky.social
Stargazer ✨ Gender equity. Mental health.
Scottish/Dutch. Gamer. Avid fantasy nerd. Views own.
Art: Gerry Arthur @gerryart.bsky.social
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"Unique. Creative. Dynamic"
"Respects the people who're going to buy it"
"Genuinely stunned that's 40 quid"
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"Clean, compact, muscular"
"Unique. Creative. Dynamic"
"Respects the people who're going to buy it"
"Genuinely stunned that's 40 quid"
modiphius.us/collections/... US / rest of world store. more links in my bio
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
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A stunning image of a monstrous stellar factory: the Tarantula Nebula, measuring nearly 1,000 light-years across.
It is thought to contain more than half a million times the mass of the Sun in gas, and it hosts some of the most massive stars known.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0650/ 🔭
It is thought to contain more than half a million times the mass of the Sun in gas, and it hosts some of the most massive stars known.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0650/ 🔭
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A stunning image of a monstrous stellar factory: the Tarantula Nebula, measuring nearly 1,000 light-years across.
It is thought to contain more than half a million times the mass of the Sun in gas, and it hosts some of the most massive stars known.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0650/ 🔭
It is thought to contain more than half a million times the mass of the Sun in gas, and it hosts some of the most massive stars known.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0650/ 🔭
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So AI, which will turn any half-cocked idea into a mediocre text/script/whatever is an amateur’s *dream*. But something pro largely shrugs off – especially because a good final product usually only slightly resembles the initial idea. The actual work improves it greatly. Still can’t skip that.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
So AI, which will turn any half-cocked idea into a mediocre text/script/whatever is an amateur’s *dream*. But something pro largely shrugs off – especially because a good final product usually only slightly resembles the initial idea. The actual work improves it greatly. Still can’t skip that.
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It’s the mark of an amateur – in journalistic writing, book writing, TV, whatever – that they think ideas are the currency, where the value is, and need fiercely protecting.
Everyone has ideas. Usually ten before breakfast. Executing them well is the hard bit.
Everyone has ideas. Usually ten before breakfast. Executing them well is the hard bit.
'The words are AI, but the idea is all me.'
'This is MY story, I just needed telling it.'
'The voice is authentically my own.'
'The novel is mine, but I used AI to write it.'
'This is MY story, I just needed telling it.'
'The voice is authentically my own.'
'The novel is mine, but I used AI to write it.'
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It’s the mark of an amateur – in journalistic writing, book writing, TV, whatever – that they think ideas are the currency, where the value is, and need fiercely protecting.
Everyone has ideas. Usually ten before breakfast. Executing them well is the hard bit.
Everyone has ideas. Usually ten before breakfast. Executing them well is the hard bit.
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Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
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This isn't even the point, but I feel pissed off that my years of editorial experience and genuine, lifelong enthusiasm for the work is being channelled into a new role as a professional fluffer for a large-language model.
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This isn't even the point, but I feel pissed off that my years of editorial experience and genuine, lifelong enthusiasm for the work is being channelled into a new role as a professional fluffer for a large-language model.
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But also creatively, intellectually, personally.
Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.
Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
But also creatively, intellectually, personally.
Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.
Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.
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I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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#Repost #FromTheBlog #Archive 📖 This week, we're featuring a blog post by Aurelia Brandenburg and Adrian Demleitner. They discuss bare-chested men as protagonists and the depiction of violence in 1980s video games. Read the full article here: chludens.hypotheses....
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#Repost #FromTheBlog #Archive 📖 This week, we're featuring a blog post by Aurelia Brandenburg and Adrian Demleitner. They discuss bare-chested men as protagonists and the depiction of violence in 1980s video games. Read the full article here: chludens.hypotheses....
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black friday: a great time to unsubscribe from brand mailing lists you forgot you were on
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
black friday: a great time to unsubscribe from brand mailing lists you forgot you were on
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My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
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This quote from Michał Nowakowski is SO important: [Opening the Boston studio] "brought in a wealth of multi-layered experience, skills, and backgrounds. We strongly believe that this investment will pay off in the future, bringing the next Cyberpunk experience to a new level."
Cyberpunk has sold 35 million copies, outpacing The Witcher 3, and is CD Projekt's main source of revenue: www.gamesindustry.biz/cyberpunk-20...
Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 35 million copies to date
Dystopian sci-fi blockbuster Cyberpunk 2077 has shifted over 35 million copies to date.
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This quote from Michał Nowakowski is SO important: [Opening the Boston studio] "brought in a wealth of multi-layered experience, skills, and backgrounds. We strongly believe that this investment will pay off in the future, bringing the next Cyberpunk experience to a new level."
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📡Signal Boost!
There's still time to enter our quantum micro-fiction competition, closing Mon 8th Dec ⚛️
👉https://london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/stories-of-the-quantum-universe-micro-fiction-competition
We're looking for original works of micro-fiction between 300-500 words.
Good luck!
There's still time to enter our quantum micro-fiction competition, closing Mon 8th Dec ⚛️
👉https://london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/stories-of-the-quantum-universe-micro-fiction-competition
We're looking for original works of micro-fiction between 300-500 words.
Good luck!
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
📡Signal Boost!
There's still time to enter our quantum micro-fiction competition, closing Mon 8th Dec ⚛️
👉https://london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/stories-of-the-quantum-universe-micro-fiction-competition
We're looking for original works of micro-fiction between 300-500 words.
Good luck!
There's still time to enter our quantum micro-fiction competition, closing Mon 8th Dec ⚛️
👉https://london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/stories-of-the-quantum-universe-micro-fiction-competition
We're looking for original works of micro-fiction between 300-500 words.
Good luck!
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you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
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Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Dr. Munazza Alam, an assistant astronomer at STScI, was named in The City University of New York's 50 Under 50 alumni awards in 2025. Each year the school celebrates a class of distinguished graduates who have made headway in their respective fields over the past year. 👏
Munazza Alam – The City University of New York
26 Colleges. One University.
www.cuny.edu
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Dr. Munazza Alam, an assistant astronomer at STScI, was named in The City University of New York's 50 Under 50 alumni awards in 2025. Each year the school celebrates a class of distinguished graduates who have made headway in their respective fields over the past year. 👏
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Currently writing a proposal on science misinformation and 3i/ATLAS and hooboy some of those theories are wild. It's only knowing that this has happened so often in history as well that prevents me from thinking we've lost it as a species....
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Currently writing a proposal on science misinformation and 3i/ATLAS and hooboy some of those theories are wild. It's only knowing that this has happened so often in history as well that prevents me from thinking we've lost it as a species....
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What happens when you combine the most powerful infrared telescope ever built with the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built?
Absolute, astonishing gorgeousity.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/powers-of-...
🧪 🔭
Absolute, astonishing gorgeousity.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/powers-of-...
🧪 🔭
Powers of Chandra and JWST unite!
The two great telescopes combine to make amazing science and gorgeous images
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What happens when you combine the most powerful infrared telescope ever built with the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built?
Absolute, astonishing gorgeousity.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/powers-of-...
🧪 🔭
Absolute, astonishing gorgeousity.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/powers-of-...
🧪 🔭