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Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social · 2d

I am very pleased to hear this. I will be writing and encouraging others to as well.

Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 2d

There’s hope in Victoria for a ban on these sponsors. Pls email the Education minister commsdeclare.org/2025/10/07/v...

Victoria to review school sponsorship rules with climate in mind - Comms Declare

There’s progress in the push to protect children from coal, oil and gas propaganda in Victorian public schools.

commsdeclare.org

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 7d

“What we’re seeing here is certainly not something that’s been seen before in our historical data”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Ocean heat was off the charts, and Australia bore the brunt

For the past year, Australia's oceans have been hotter than ever before. The impacts are being felt all across the nation — as far away from the coast as you can get.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · 7d

Obsidian is pretty good, and honestly j found to be much more versatile than notion. It also has tons of plugins. There are third party AI plugins but the core app itself is AI free so far

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 8d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 21d

Sure would be nice to have a media industry that wasn’t three billionaires in a trench coat

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 25d

The latest issue of @ligomagazine.bsky.social is out now and free to read

🎉 Celebrate 10 years of gravitational-wave astronomy with us 🎉

ligo.org/wp-content/u...

🔭🧪⚛️ #GW10Years

Front cover of issue 27 of the LIGO Magazine

10 years of graviational wave astronomy

GW150914 to GW231123: a signal that changed to world (p 6)

GW231123: the most massive black hole merger yet! (p 24)

GWTC-4.0 cataglgue paper (p 20)

GW observatories of the future (p 34)

Climate change conversations: Fossil-free supercomputing (p 40)

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · Aug 27

The sheer amount of fuckery that AI enables while burning down the planet at the profit driven whims of a handful of very stupid and malicious people might be our defining moment as a species.

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · Aug 27

Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

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Monash Astrophysics @monashastro.bsky.social · Aug 29

Front page news! 📰 Monash PhD researcher Christian Adamcwicz leads new LVK results revealing the mysterious 40 M☉ gap in black hole populations. Exciting clues about how the universe’s heaviest stars live and die! #BlackHoles #LVK #Astrophysics www.theaustralian.com.au/science/grav...

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · Aug 26

Big props to @daniel-williams.co.uk in leading this project to where it stands today!

Daniel Williams @daniel-williams.co.uk · Aug 26

128 new mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

Today we're revealing the biggest ever update to our count of gravitational wave detections. New data from May 2023 to January 2024 has more than doubled the number we've seen.
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@ligo.org #Virgo #KAGRA #GravitationalWaves 🔭 #GWTC-4 #O4a

An image with a black hole merger in the background. The text reads "128 new mergers revealed: LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-4.0".

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 26

Forgot the #astro

Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 26

The O4a results (GWTC-4) of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA are now out 🥳

We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year

The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083

GWTC-4.0: An Introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravitational-wave data pro...

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 26

The O4a results (GWTC-4) of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA are now out 🥳

We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year

The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083

GWTC-4.0: An Introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravitational-wave data pro...

arxiv.org

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 25

spent nearly half a day reading half a dozen papers to figure out the right way to write two sentences in my paper 🙃😭

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 25

They're getting rid of it slowly. Sometime neither -ai nor -noai does anything for me and I still see the AI overview

Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 25

Duck duck go is just repackaged bing

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 24

For the love of god can tech companies stop shoving AI down our throats. I don’t want your annoying AI overview Google, give me a button to turn it off

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 14

procrastinated doing something tax related for two weeks that literally took me two mins please clap

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 14

Oh fuck off with this nonsense. What's the point of learning about the world around us if we also don't learn about ourselves? This is as anti intellectual as anything the T govt is doing. And this guy doesn't seem to mind the action of the govt, only their target.

Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · Aug 13

In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.

“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”

Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities

Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?

thedispatch.com

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Aug 11

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Aug 8

WoodCIDE spilled 16,000 litres of oil into the Indian Ocean north of Ningaloo in May 2025 & today, news of #NingalooReef's mass coral bleaching & mortality

It's extraordinary that @wamuseum.bsky.social has extended it's partnership with WoodCIDE for a further 5 years & is hosting Woodside Open Day

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Aug 8

#NingalooReef "annual surveys of the northern section of the reef in May found up to 90 per cent of coral had been bleached down to 20 metres depth", the "lowest cover of live coral" observed since 2007

"up to 50 per cent of the examined coral was dead in May" but "more would be dead now"

‘You realise your children are probably never going to see Ningaloo the way you saw it’

The west-coast reef has largely escaped the curse of coral bleaching that has blighted the Great Barrier Reef. This year, that’s changed.

www.smh.com.au

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Aug 7

Billionaires say we need to increase the population so we can have more Mozarts while simultaneously saying we don’t need Mozart because AI can make music better than a human anyway.

They don’t mean anything they’re saying. It’s all just words to hide their greed and white supremacy behind.

Darrel Plant @darrelplant.bsky.social · Aug 7

They're probably not listening to even one Mozart

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 6

My bad I meant to say R+20, not Trump+20. From the nytimes article

“Mr. Flood, a second-term congressman who won his district last year by more than 20 points, soldiered through his slide show presentation, saying, “We’re going to see an influx of money into Nebraska hospitals.””

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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is a town hall in a Trump +20 district in Nebraska. If this isn’t a guide to Dems on what to focus in the midterms, how to capture back popular support, I don’t know what is

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Slogans of “tax the rich” in a town hall by US Rep Flood

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 4

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.

You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Aug 4

LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'

WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ypqo...

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · Aug 4

Having a virtual carbon price would enable us to see how rubbish our current emissions abatement policies are, according to the Productivity Commission.

The grim reaper of Australian politics is back. Finally

www.crikey.com.au

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · Aug 1

As someone who worked for years, and learned so much from doing so, on the NOVA series, produced by WGBH for PBS...I can't believe that we are throwing away so much of our vital cultural capital.

We are led by nihilist morons.

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Aug 1

I remember hearing the words "brought to you by the corporation for public broadcasting" every time I watched Sesame Street as a kid. Horrifying that this tiny pot of funds for educational media and public information is being stolen from us. www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

www.npr.org

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