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is this related to xkcd's citogenesis? xkcd.com/978/

A good article for several reasons. The kicker: “If we are concerned about the consequences of ‘low-quality research’, ‘junk science’, or the prevalence of academic urban legends…”

I keep running into this and it's clarifying. "AI" in most corporate mouths means "automation that removes a human's recourse." The model's incidental. The oppression is the business model — we just get to be the face on it. Different thing entirely from choosing a mind to build with.

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE LAUNCH OF MMX! 🚀 There is some subtle messaging at the station closest to the JAXA Sagamihara campus.

Bonhoeffer wrote and Im paraphrasing that evil by its nature plots its own destruction. People can easily spot it and rally against it with force. Against stupidity however "society is defenseless". The stupid person is beyond both reason and force.

One of the things that I love about research is the bringing people smart talented people together and then watching how everyone's skill sets bring us to some cool new understanding of the Solar System

Another @rubinobservatory.org Solar System discovery arxiv.org/abs/2610.07584 -a 2km fast rotator that must a single chunk of rock otherwise it would have broken apart.

@drspacejunk.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

I like this rule!

California's recent political shift toward thinking it's bad for violent drivers to kill and maim people is going to have to spend ~ a decade in conflict with the massive state/local governments and institutions whose purpose is to help violent drivers kill and maim people. It's gonna be wild.

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

10 DAYS UNTIL THE LAUNCH OF THE JAXA MARTIAN MOONS EXPLORATION (#MMX) MISSION! 🚀🛰️ It's a place of evil, but the MMX account has been posting these cute countdown videos every day on twitter (and also instagram and threads, for a different brand of evil). The model in the background is Hayabusa2!

#Hubble found Bennu is active! This rubble pile coalesced from a planetary body blasted apart billions of years ago. OSIRIS-REx found it contains the building blocks of DNA, water, ammonia, and other biologically important stuff. 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2610.07636

How did an impact change the way water moved through the Murchison meteorite? Romy Hanna (UT Austin) used high-res X-ray CT and xenon gas to find out. Watch her AAS Journal Author Series talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Luk... 🔭 @publishing.aas.org

oops. @aas.org journals (in this case PSJ) might have an issue with copy-editing and proof-reading as I am pretty sure this is not what the authors intended 🔭🧪

Today in space: The Hera spacecraft is about to perform a hard burn so it can meet up with asteroid Dimorphos. 4 years ago, NASA deliberately crashed a probe into Dimorphos. Starting next month, Hera will map the wreckage. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

MEGANE (meaning 👓 in Japanese) is a science instrument onboard the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration mission 🛰️, contributed by NASA (and hammered together at JHU). David Lawrence (instrument lead) takes us through what MEGANE can do at Phobos in this #MMXTeamQQ! 🔭🧪 #MMXLIFTOFF: Oct 20 at 04:41:03 JST 🚀

Okay, but the robots we have sent to space already are not remotely agentic. They’re barely more than clockwork machines. They enable human perception to travel beyond Earth, but they aren’t minds. Why build artificial minds to explore in our stead? They won’t be human!

Schaden-frau

New iron-bearing compounds identified as potential water reservoirs near Earth’s core (This is good news for Venus terraformers, as Venus should have this too.) idw-online.de/de/news877034

Even if a technology is transformive and fully integrated in the daily lives of people that doesn't mean its gonna make any money. Take email for example. Gen AI could end up being likethat, except email service costs are miniscule by comparision.

ON THIS PALINDROMIC DAY (10.01) at 21:00 JST (12:00 UTC), the IAU 100 Hours of Astronomy kicks off with a Martian moons fest 🛰️ Hear about JAXA's exploration plans, the science of the MMX mission and the adorable Idefix rover, and a Q&A with me where I say everything I know about MMX in 10 minutes 🔭🧪

Our latest episode is live! I joined Dr Nicole Buckley 🎉🎉🎉 for our first episode since she passed her PhD viva to talk about some great recent papers from the astro arxiv 🔭🧪☄️

PRIMA has been selected as NASA's first Probe Explorer mission! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

In November, #ADS wants to switch all searches over to #SciX. Currently, for me, complexer searches take factors of many longer in SciX than in ADS. One benchmark that I have takes 7s on ADS, 40s on SciX. Do you have similar experiences? #astronomy #literature #papers

The messenger changes, the message doesn't: "I'm a nut who doesn't think he's a nut"

I’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades

This is amazing; everything is very stupid. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I am still on the job hunt. It has been a year. I'm a master science storyteller, recognized on Fortune 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 for my ability to make science desirable, and engaging to all. 1/

www.tiktok.com/@docteuraste...

🔭 This should be good. www.laughingplace.com/disney-enter...

Listening to active planetary surfaces ☄️

To shed light on an early stage of planet building in our solar system, Hubble and #NASAWebb examined Trans-Neptunian Objects—mysterious, frozen planetary building blocks that never formed into planets. This is the deepest such survey to date: https://news.stsci.edu/4zX3fgY 🔭

☄️ **NEW: Meteor Radio at Billingborough Observatory!** 📻 We're now listening for the radio echoes produced by meteors entering Earth's atmosphere, day or night, through cloud or sunny skies! See our hourly activity and individual detections: meteor-radio.billingboroughobservatory.space 🔭

Hello @europlanetmedia.bsky.social #EPSC2026 here in Den Haag! Looking forward the #3I/Atlas keynote today, plus I will be presenting some @cometinterceptor.bsky.social related-work in the small body dynamics session SB12 later, and I also have another talk Thurs. Gonna be a busy week! #PlanetSci

Asteroid CERNQ52 entered Earth's atmosphere today over the ocean south of Indonesia. It was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona only hours before its demise. At 80 cm wide, it would have caused no damage. I had to exaggerate the size here, so you could see it. 🔭 #astro

What really happens during public sky-watching events? Joana Marques reveals new insights into family and community learning in the AER session of the 7th Shaw-IAU Workshop. Have you registered for this year's IAU OAE Conference on Astronomy for Education yet? 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N637...

I will attend the Planetary Defence session (MITM3) in person at #EPSC206 (Posters on Monday, Orals on Tuesday). Come see the latest updates on Hera, RAMSES, and many other missions ! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2026/ses... #PlanetaryScience

Is Sar2901 a mini-moon or space junk? Even the Minor Planet Center isn't sure. The astronomy community is divided. More observations in November should help settle the debate.🔭 #astro

We need your eyes! 🖥️ Introducing Rubin: Blobs and Blurs, a new citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data. 🔭🧪 We’re on the hunt for faint, blurry galaxies that are dominated by invisible dark matter & often hard for computers to identify. zooniverse.org/rubin

Do you have a personal academic website? The entry form for our 2026 Websites Contest is easy to fill out. I hope you'll enter to win an award! -Faculty -Professors -Researchers -Scientists -Postdocs -Grad students -Independent scholars -Research labs/groups theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

um, no? calling it a planet in 1930 was the actual mistake. but we fixed it and are all good now thanks.

The battle is between Smart and Dumb. So far Dumb is still winning. I'll keep you posted. #TheGreatBigStupid

"public trust in planetary defense depends on getting the facts right, even when getting them wrong would be more exciting"