Emily Hunt

If you like astronomy posts, then you'll probably really like the astronomy feeds! If you didn't know, Bluesky gives you direct control over your social algorithm. Instead of doomscrolling, look at space instead:

no, we don't need to rebuild everything from scratch. we spent decades improving our stack, building on others' successes and lessons, weaving a huge web of trust between teams that depend on each other. a clean slate disrupting it all isn't progress; the process and people are what matter

Great thread on spider snoozles.

In a world where most conferences apps are pretty bad one conference app will actually leverage social media in a useful way Come join us at #EMNLP2026 !

Our alerts now also go out on the AT Protocol, the open network behind Bluesky: JSON and VOEvent records from @astro-colibri.science, seconds after our broker. Free, no account needed. 🔭 📖 astro-colibri.science/atprotodoc 📡 astro-colibri.science/brokerdoc#broker-status

spent 2 hours debugging a multiprocessing bug so I could make my script that took 12 minutes run in 2 minutes #useful

word on the street is that there is *another* PHP vulnerability. this one was found by something even more powerful for security research than a frontier LLM: a catgirl

hey #atdevs - if there was ever a time to post on Meta platforms it’s **NOW** people are talking all about the new AI policy and where they’re moving next. PUT YOUR APP IN FRONT OF THEM. And tell them why joining your app (in the Atmopshere) is **BETTER** than all their other options. #atproto

The PHP vulnerability today has been handled absolutely awfully. Unreal that the exploit was leaked before a fix was even available

finally got to reading maevyn's post. add this one to your queue. two paragraphs that hit me particularly hard

An excellent read about the current state of AI in software development

I need to write this up in the next few days, but there is about to be a full event stream of astronomy transients on the AT Protocol, ready to use for science - and that's awesome!

in a shocking turn of events I am 30 in two weeks' time I would like to know how this happened, where the past ten years went, and how to make time go slower 😅

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill

*Every single one* of these "ways to tell that someone doesn't like you" is an autistic trait. So, this is ableist bullshit. It takes immense effort for me to make eye contact with people. Paradoxically, I can socialise better when I'm *not* doing all of these things.

The Call for Presentations (CFP) is now open for @atmosphereconf.org We're looking forward to seeing your great submissions!

open sans is just about ugly enough to be annoying but not ugly enough to make me hate it i need better sans-serif fonts hmph

Study of 10,000 faculty finds women leave academia because they feel pushed out, not pulled toward another opportunity. Analysis of 6,615 comments showed a gender gap of feeling devalued: 41% of women vs 18% of men. www.science.org/content/arti...

chronic problem in this industry with people mistaking sigmoids for exponentials tbh

Have you looked at the night sky recently? It is ABSURD how many satellites there are, and it will get >1000× worse in our lifetimes. A few billionaires and state actors will ruin the night sky for the next few *centuries*. This ought to be a much, much bigger story than it is

The title says it all: arxiv.org/abs/2610.10834 Still in the peer review process but we* felt it Important to get this out there. Satellite companies are not complying with visual brightness limits. Our estimates are that it will get worse, especially at twilight. *I’m a minor part of “we” here

young men (18-29) who spend >5 hours a day on social media are more likely to agree that advancing women’s and girls’ rights has gone too far than those who don’t use social media as much. no difference detected among young women. @eurcorrespond.bsky.social

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

frontier AI labs are a cult

Who do we have to ask to get an aster flower emoji added? I don't think that any flower emojis available right now are asters: 🌼💐🏵️🌷💮🌺🌻🪻🌸🌹🥀

There is a world in which AI progress is a little bit slower in exchange for not turning back to fossil fuel power again, and it speaks to the immense greed of tech oligarchs that they'd rather see the Earth burn than their share prices grow more slowly

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

🤦‍♀️ #WSocial is posting legal names, nationalities and approx. birthdays of verified users as a public record on the Atmosphere. Confronted, they claim it's "by design" 🤯

Anthropic's new User Policy forbids you from engaging in "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models". It does not, however, explain what the fuck this could possibly mean.

🆕 📝 New paper officially out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! In 2023, Change.org built an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We offer causal evidence that access to the AI tool changed petition text (word count, language)... but may have actually hurt outcomes (signatures, comments).