Colin Stark
@cstark.bsky.social
🧪⚒️⚛️🧮 Geoscientist studying physics of geomorphology/professor/civ eng faculty. Left pieces of my ❤️ in NYC, SF, Rennes, Cambridge. 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 🇯🇵 🌈 日本語/中文/Français ok
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Colin Stark
@cstark.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”
Aaaaaand 2026 is off to a rip-roaring start, eh?
January 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Aaaaaand 2026 is off to a rip-roaring start, eh?
The US is conducting terrorist operations in Venezuela, and my Google News feed keeps giving me the latest on how much of an asshole Chevy Chase is.
Call me crazy, but I think Google is rather missing the big picture here.
Call me crazy, but I think Google is rather missing the big picture here.
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
The US is conducting terrorist operations in Venezuela, and my Google News feed keeps giving me the latest on how much of an asshole Chevy Chase is.
Call me crazy, but I think Google is rather missing the big picture here.
Call me crazy, but I think Google is rather missing the big picture here.
Reposted by Colin Stark
What’s the collective noun for the volcanoes within in a pumice throw of one’s house? 🧪⚒️🌋
View from Karakunidake 韓国岳 of Oonaminoike 大浪池 and Sakurajima, Kirishima, Kyūshū
View from Karakunidake 韓国岳 of Oonaminoike 大浪池 and Sakurajima, Kirishima, Kyūshū
January 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
What’s the collective noun for the volcanoes within in a pumice throw of one’s house? 🧪⚒️🌋
View from Karakunidake 韓国岳 of Oonaminoike 大浪池 and Sakurajima, Kirishima, Kyūshū
View from Karakunidake 韓国岳 of Oonaminoike 大浪池 and Sakurajima, Kirishima, Kyūshū
Deep in rural Japan last night we had a party: three families, three languages (JP, EN, FR), six countries (Japan, Martinique, France, England, Pakistan, South Africa) represented, and a rainbow of colors. Haven’t seen such a cultural mix since the time I lived in NYC. 😍
January 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Deep in rural Japan last night we had a party: three families, three languages (JP, EN, FR), six countries (Japan, Martinique, France, England, Pakistan, South Africa) represented, and a rainbow of colors. Haven’t seen such a cultural mix since the time I lived in NYC. 😍
🧪⚛️⚒️🧮🪐🔭
The massive response to my #Typst article* suggests that Typst is gaining ground much more rapidly than even I expected:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539...
#latex #physics #mathematics #typsetting
*https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539...
#latex #physics #mathematics #typsetting
*https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/
Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:54 PM
🧪⚛️⚒️🧮🪐🔭
Reposted by Colin Stark
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases, according to two papers published in Nature Astronomy and Nature in January.
go.nature.com/40SlwfF
go.nature.com/3CC6ZLO
🔭 🧪
go.nature.com/40SlwfF
go.nature.com/3CC6ZLO
🔭 🧪
January 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases, according to two papers published in Nature Astronomy and Nature in January.
go.nature.com/40SlwfF
go.nature.com/3CC6ZLO
🔭 🧪
go.nature.com/40SlwfF
go.nature.com/3CC6ZLO
🔭 🧪
Reposted by Colin Stark
![Comic. [Comment section on a video. 564 comments, including posts from three different avatars: “Who else is here in 2023?” “Is anyone else watching this in 2017?” “Anyone else here in 2025?”] [caption] For some reason, confused time travelers always try to find each other using YouTube comments.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia42izz36bkhdteb5743objgf2s3whe3kblmnxnwjvgggtu66ea54@jpeg)
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
It could happen to anyone
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
It could happen to anyone
I’ve started the year with what is, for me, a viral post! 😍 Perhaps this presages a 2026 full of fabulous success 😃. Or perhaps it’s an omen of another pandemic… 😳
January 2, 2026 at 12:32 AM
I’ve started the year with what is, for me, a viral post! 😍 Perhaps this presages a 2026 full of fabulous success 😃. Or perhaps it’s an omen of another pandemic… 😳
Beautiful day at the beach today
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Beautiful day at the beach today
“Get your ass on board!”
The image we’ve all been waiting for. It is now officially 2026 in Tokyo 🎉
January 1, 2026 at 1:12 AM
“Get your ass on board!”
A mathematical cookie
January 1, 2026 at 1:09 AM
A mathematical cookie
I want to send Happy New Year’s greetings to all my friends but I did that a year ago and look where that got us
January 1, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I want to send Happy New Year’s greetings to all my friends but I did that a year ago and look where that got us
Truer words were never spoken
There's a nap for that
January 1, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Truer words were never spoken
My thoughts on 2025 going into 2026
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
My thoughts on 2025 going into 2026
🧪⚛️⚒️
December 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Reposted by Colin Stark
Magnitude : 5.9
Region: *Taiwan *
Time: 2025-12-24 09:47:06 UTC
Epicenter : 121.28°E 22.90°N
Depth: 10 km
*First posted at: 09:53 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025zczy/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
Region: *Taiwan *
Time: 2025-12-24 09:47:06 UTC
Epicenter : 121.28°E 22.90°N
Depth: 10 km
*First posted at: 09:53 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025zczy/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
December 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Magnitude : 5.9
Region: *Taiwan *
Time: 2025-12-24 09:47:06 UTC
Epicenter : 121.28°E 22.90°N
Depth: 10 km
*First posted at: 09:53 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025zczy/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
Region: *Taiwan *
Time: 2025-12-24 09:47:06 UTC
Epicenter : 121.28°E 22.90°N
Depth: 10 km
*First posted at: 09:53 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025zczy/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
Reposted by Colin Stark
Meanwhile, they still have a good sense of humor in Chicago. This place has been around a long time.
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Meanwhile, they still have a good sense of humor in Chicago. This place has been around a long time.
Quite
The story of historians that humans are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is so true.
December 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Quite
