Daniel Ethier

This is NGC 1530, a spiral galaxy 67 million light years away. I love the nifty spiral. This is a total of about 9 hours of imaging over three nights. #astronomy

Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in elections in the past two years, which experts say may violate state election law. ProPublica and @texastribune.org linked him to a home in suburban Dallas since February.

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NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

The Rosette Nebula, which is to the left of Orion. This is a total of about 16 hours of imaging over 7 sessions spread over about 2 weeks. The second image uses different processing to enhance the oxygen (the blue). #astronomy

Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere. www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...

Social media and teen mental health: There is no smoking gun In this week’s Torment Nexus, I wrote about the rush to blame social media use for teen mental-health problems despite the fact that the vast majority of research shows little or no correlation between those two things

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up For years now, we've been repeatedly pointing out that the "social media is destroying kids" narrative, popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of shaky, often contradictory research. We've…

From @404media.co, “ICE has told lawmakers the app, called Mobile Fortify, provides a “definitive” determination of someone’s immigration status, and should be trusted over a birth certificate. “ www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services. The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart

In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to. 2/2

Deliberate errors - This isn't about learning through failure or productive failure or productive struggle or any of those failing approaches that let kids flail. It's more a possible extension of retrieval practice with hints of interleaving. paulkirschner173727.substack.com/p/learning-b...

A core source for the article that prompted Trump’s tirade against Somalis now calls the story “bullshit” and claims he was misquoted.

ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

We should help teens with social media not ban them from it Blaming social media for teen mental health issues obscures the real issues, and solutions like Australia's could make things worse

School districts are rushing to adopt "one chatbot per child" models, but decades of research shows learning is fundamentally social. Here’s why isolating students with AI tutors may undermine the classroom interactions that actually support brain development. buff.ly/gv76wEl

Girls typically stick to the classic math formulas while boys wing it with shortcuts — and researchers say that difference may help explain why men still dominate high-stakes tests and #STEM. buff.ly/Gu59lvr

The Pacman Nebula. This is about 20 hours of imaging over 4 nights. It is about 9500 light years away from us and about 25 light years in diameter. #astronomy

If we want to talk affordability, you know what would really help? Re-jiggering how we pay for college. There's a lot to learn from my native Australia, which has an incredibly fair and efficient system of income-based repayment.

Northern lights at about 8:20 this evening. Things had just picked up with the reds starting to appear above the green that had just become more wavy and active.

A few photos from the amazing northern lights tonight. #aurora

Panorama of tonight's northern lights. Handheld with my iPhone. Stitched two photos together using Panorama Stitcher. #astronomy

SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. www.wired.com/story/disinf...

The Triangulum Galaxy. This is the result of almost 24 hours of imaging over 5 nights. This galaxy is about 2.7 million light years away. It is about 60,000 light years in diameter, a bit more than half the size of our Milky Way galaxy. #astronomy

It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Young children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems without any instruction, contradicting long-held assumptions about cognitive development, according to a psychologist buff.ly/226VzMZ 🧪

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

The Andromeda Galaxy. We had 6 consecutive nights of very clear skies, just beautiful weather, with the moon new to a thin crescent setting before imaging began. This is a mosaic of five individual images totaling about 25 hours.

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

NEW: The messages on the bullets are from a video game called Helldivers2. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-me...

#AI in #education: Is it a brain booster or a brain drain? A cognitive psychologist explains why genuine mental effort remains crucial for learning and mastery. buff.ly/JViMka4

Believing community to be the key to ending chronic homelessness, the Sacred Settlement model uses religious land use law to overcome opposition.

NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.

Hint of the northern lights visible low in the sky from the Twin Cities this evening.

The Dumbbell Nebula. This is about 5 1/2 hours of imaging over three nights. Very clear all three nights. This is the result of a star that exploded about 10,000 years ago. It is about 1360 light years away and about 2 light years in diameter. #astronomy

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

High school sports promise character development and leadership skills, but many coaches lack training to deliver these outcomes. 90% of coaches want leadership training, yet only 12% have received it, according to two researchers who study HS sports buff.ly/D0VHip2 #Edusky

A huge amount of new generating capacity is expected in the US this year, and about half of that is solar, with a small fraction of natural gas (no coal). This would be the highest ever annual addition to US capacity (prev. peak before graph starts is mid-70s at ~40GW). www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

"That doesn't make for a great headline though. 'The troubling decline in conscientiousness' is a lot more compelling than 'A very small decline in conscientiousness.'"

Everything from military radios to AI can be hacked. At the Defcon hacker conference, researchers showed how they hacked into these systems—not for gain—but to point out vulnerabilities. First, a student who found that vape detectors installed at his high school could be used for surveillance: 🧵

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...