Andrey Kravtsov
- National Science Foundation significantly downgrades the review process of its proposals... 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
- I disagree with a significant fraction of this article, but still it's an interesting and thought-stimulating read on an issue I've been grappling with... www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d... 🧪
- ESA/Webb picture of the month - image of interacting dwarf galaxies NGC 4490 and NGC 4485. Interaction between these galaxies led to a recent starburst and formation of star clusters. 🔭 esawebb.org/images/potm2...
- Schrödinger's plates: the plates are simultaneously whole and broken and we won't know their true state until we open the cabinet... ) p.s. This month marks the 90th anniversary of Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involving cat in a chamber.
- A fantastic image by @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea_int... 🧪🔭
- Food for thought/discussion. 🧪
- Aurora over lake Michigan tonight. In the background are Castor, Pollux, Jupiter, and Procyon. 🔭
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- (Adler) Planetarium eclipse... 🔭
- "Beyond Hubble": a workshop aimed to trigger cross discussions between observers and theorists on our current understanding on galaxy morphology and kinematics, with an emphasis on revisiting the Hubble Sequence in the modern-day galaxy formation framework. sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/be... 🔭
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- I used this from the Opticks in my PhD thesis: it seems probable to me that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable Particles of such Sizes and Figures and with such other Properties and in such Proportion to Space as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them
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- A new fantastic image of M82 by JWST NIRCam, showing a biconical outflow of gas and dust from this starbursting galaxy. 🔭🧪 esawebb.org/images/potm2...
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- In case you've been contemplating moving elsewhere in our Galaxy... bsky.app/profile/phdc...
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- Courtesy of @karpathy.bsky.social
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- This may not be obvious, but a paper like the Naidu et al on the new distance record holder galaxy arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 would normally be submitted to Nature. The fact that it was submitted to the @ojastro.bsky.social signals a major shift in the field. 🔭🧪
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- not yet sure whether this is useful at all, but an interesting concept: each arXiv paper is a star and the nearest stars are papers on related topics: soarxiv.org It only has papers up to April 2025 rn (if you lose your cursor, hit Esc to recover it). 🔭
- If your next European adventure does not pan out, Illinois has alternatives to offer...
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- Reposted by Andrey KravtsovModern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
- A reminder from @astrokatie.com at the end of her "Picture an Astronomer" talk at UChicago tonight that no matter what you see in the news, things can get MUCH worse if the Higgs field tunnels to its true vacuum state... 🧪🔭
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- Visualization of the Milky Way based on the current data from the Gaia space mission that took its last data today. 🧪
- Best wishes for 2025 everyone! 🧪
- From Yuan-Sen Ting on X. Evolution of the programming languages use in astronomy research. 🔭
- I've contributed... astro.theoj.org/article/1274...
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- Intergalactic salsa dance anyone? This is an infrared image of merging galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 by the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. If you wonder why it looks different than typical images of galaxies, this is because this image shows dust particles and dense gas.
- Not a particularly impressive image taken with my phone (but what do you expect from a theorist?..) on a flight last week. This view of the Moon and Venus over Mississippi at sunset was pretty mesmerizing though. 🧪
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- Firefly Sparkle is a galaxy with mass was discovered in JWST observations of a galaxy cluster as a highly lensed and magnified source. Remarkably, about half of stars in this galaxy are in 10 massive star clusters. This galaxy provides a unique view into the youth of our own Milky Way galaxy. 🔭
- @jwstfeed.bsky.social Amazing new field imaged by JWST with a nascent cluster of galaxies. esawebb.org/news/weic2428/ 🔭
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- Derek Lindstrom, who received a heart transplant a year ago, completed his 115th marathon last Saturday (Nov 9) in Indianapolis setting the world record among runners with transplants. First 10k he averaged under 12 min/mi. 🧪 His story is recounted here: www.jsonline.com/story/sports...
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- What worked for me is to go to the Windows Recovery part of the repair screen and choosing the latest recovery point (last Windows update on 7/16/2024). This does not affect any user files, only restores system back to 7/16. #CloudStrike
