I guess "cool" isn't the right word for things on that planet!
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I guess "cool" isn't the right word for things on that planet!
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Spiny little friend.
A quick doodle of Haolong dongi, a newly described ornithopod from China with... spikes. Numerous sharp spines grew from the animal's neck and back, seemingly different from all other known dinosaur integuments. Definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 dinosaur finds!
A quick doodle of Haolong dongi, a newly described ornithopod from China with... spikes. Numerous sharp spines grew from the animal's neck and back, seemingly different from all other known dinosaur integuments. Definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 dinosaur finds!
February 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Spiny little friend.
A quick doodle of Haolong dongi, a newly described ornithopod from China with... spikes. Numerous sharp spines grew from the animal's neck and back, seemingly different from all other known dinosaur integuments. Definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 dinosaur finds!
A quick doodle of Haolong dongi, a newly described ornithopod from China with... spikes. Numerous sharp spines grew from the animal's neck and back, seemingly different from all other known dinosaur integuments. Definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 dinosaur finds!
This.
I am yet to see a single vibe coded project that's actually large in scope and not just remixing a known thing (e.g. "this game but...", or "basic website made with AI").
Tech debt is the cardinal sin of software development and these things are tech debt machines.
Tech debt is the cardinal sin of software development and these things are tech debt machines.
February 7, 2026 at 12:43 PM
This.
I look forward to the first time when we find a chunk of ice and rock passing through our Solar System that we can confidently say is from Epsilon Eridani, or Beta Pictoris, or some other identifiable star.
A recent study looks to the nearest rubble-ridden systems for the potential origins of interstellar objects that have visited our solar system. 🔭🧪 aasnova.org/2026/02/06/w...
We Have Visitors: Interstellar Material from Nearby Debris Disks
A recent study looks to the nearest rubble-ridden systems for the potential origins of interstellar objects that have visited our solar system.
aasnova.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I look forward to the first time when we find a chunk of ice and rock passing through our Solar System that we can confidently say is from Epsilon Eridani, or Beta Pictoris, or some other identifiable star.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Finally, another fuzzy ornithischian: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... This is a big deal for dinosaur #paleoart, confirming some of what we've been doing for a while now, but also showing that we've probably underestimated how weird the integuments of these animals could be.
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A juvenile iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous of China preserves both spikes and scales in its skin that are different from integumentary structures in either non-avian dinosaurs or extant squama...
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Finally, another fuzzy ornithischian: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... This is a big deal for dinosaur #paleoart, confirming some of what we've been doing for a while now, but also showing that we've probably underestimated how weird the integuments of these animals could be.
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This is a cool photo of crescent Venus.
And the Moon, too.
Image credit: Iván Éder
And the Moon, too.
Image credit: Iván Éder
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 AM
This is a cool photo of crescent Venus.
And the Moon, too.
Image credit: Iván Éder
And the Moon, too.
Image credit: Iván Éder
I love being able to read axis labels.
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I love being able to read axis labels.
I was not expecting the apocalypse to be this mindbogglingly stupid. More fool me, I guess.
January 31, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I was not expecting the apocalypse to be this mindbogglingly stupid. More fool me, I guess.
Hoping that HD 137010 b turns out to have an unexpectedly high orbital eccentricity.
January 29, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Hoping that HD 137010 b turns out to have an unexpectedly high orbital eccentricity.
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We’re getting so many journal submissions from people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for.
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:58 AM
We’re getting so many journal submissions from people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for.
If he's so worried about this stuff, maybe he could start by shutting down his entire bloody company.
‘Wake up to the risks of AI, they are almost here,’ Anthropic boss warns
Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
If he's so worried about this stuff, maybe he could start by shutting down his entire bloody company.
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Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies
Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies
Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
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@acollierastro.bsky.social says it better than I did. "Everyone can have maximum output while accomplishing nothing." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...
January 24, 2026 at 1:28 AM
@acollierastro.bsky.social says it better than I did. "Everyone can have maximum output while accomplishing nothing." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...
Huh, I didn't know about this setting. Time to adjust that, then.
Thinking about how bsky has the most horrible setting turned on by default that says "i don't want to see any other languages except English" and if no one tells you to put it on "no selection" you straight up won't see posts from people set to different languages on your TL.
January 22, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Huh, I didn't know about this setting. Time to adjust that, then.
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Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
“The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception become apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness.”
Peter Watts – Blindsight
Peter Watts – Blindsight
January 21, 2026 at 8:51 PM
“The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception become apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness.”
Peter Watts – Blindsight
Peter Watts – Blindsight
After being bitten by a radioactive Hugh Everett, Many Worlds Man gains the ability to travel to alternate versions of Earth.
Unfortunately for him, most of them are mini-Neptunes.
Unfortunately for him, most of them are mini-Neptunes.
January 20, 2026 at 11:39 PM
After being bitten by a radioactive Hugh Everett, Many Worlds Man gains the ability to travel to alternate versions of Earth.
Unfortunately for him, most of them are mini-Neptunes.
Unfortunately for him, most of them are mini-Neptunes.
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I love looking around the globe on Google Earth and zooming into tiny islands to see what they're called and find out more about them. Today I seen this one with a catchy name of "Inaccessible Island". Sounds like a skill issue.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inacces...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inacces...
Inaccessible Island - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I love looking around the globe on Google Earth and zooming into tiny islands to see what they're called and find out more about them. Today I seen this one with a catchy name of "Inaccessible Island". Sounds like a skill issue.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inacces...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inacces...
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Brilliant essay in The Guardian by Cory Doctorow, about why AI will fail and how while doing so it will make everything worse for everbody except the oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Brilliant essay in The Guardian by Cory Doctorow, about why AI will fail and how while doing so it will make everything worse for everbody except the oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
TIL that Cambridge University has a Plumian professor.
Does it also have a Greenian reverend?
A Mustardian colonel?
Does it also have a Greenian reverend?
A Mustardian colonel?
Revolutionary imaging of black hole aims to prove they are not ‘evil vacuum cleaners’
Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:13 PM
TIL that Cambridge University has a Plumian professor.
Does it also have a Greenian reverend?
A Mustardian colonel?
Does it also have a Greenian reverend?
A Mustardian colonel?
Vök - "Something Bad"
not sure why brain decided to randomly remind me of this one, not sure at all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV9S...
not sure why brain decided to randomly remind me of this one, not sure at all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV9S...
Vök - Something Bad - LIVE feat. Reykjavík Queer Choir
YouTube video by Vök
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Vök - "Something Bad"
not sure why brain decided to randomly remind me of this one, not sure at all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV9S...
not sure why brain decided to randomly remind me of this one, not sure at all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV9S...
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NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
January 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH