Dr Alfredo Carpineti
@drcarpineti.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | He/him | opinions are my own
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For the last seven months, Chris and I have worked on creating a limited series to tackle the topic of dark skies and light pollution, and why you should care about it.
We couldn’t be prouder. The first episode is now out on all your favourite podcast apps
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We couldn’t be prouder. The first episode is now out on all your favourite podcast apps
www.theastroholic.co.uk/blog/fading-...
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Was having a conversation recently about these people and how they have to believe they are right. They truly believe history will laud. They couldn't do what they do if they believed anything else.
I came across a clip from yesterday from LBC of John Sopel and Emily Maitlis talking to Shelagh Fogarty about what's happening at the BBC and they all conceded the complainant DID have a point about the BBC's pro-trans bias and it was just three people being transphobic for a couple of minutes.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Was having a conversation recently about these people and how they have to believe they are right. They truly believe history will laud. They couldn't do what they do if they believed anything else.
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For years, I’ve known that Maitlis was a key player in the institutional and orchestrated attacks on Trans+ youth
Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity
The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable
Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity
The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
For years, I’ve known that Maitlis was a key player in the institutional and orchestrated attacks on Trans+ youth
Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity
The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable
Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity
The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable
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She doesn't know why. I'm getting pretty tired of bluesky moderation without explanation.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
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iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
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Please share 🙏🏾 Yall fundraising is over. Survival funds are over. It’s done.
Unless you change that. Because I can’t accept that after two years we are collectively telling Palestinians to die in silence.
As much as that’s how it appears.
Six families only eat through this link:
Unless you change that. Because I can’t accept that after two years we are collectively telling Palestinians to die in silence.
As much as that’s how it appears.
Six families only eat through this link:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Please share 🙏🏾 Yall fundraising is over. Survival funds are over. It’s done.
Unless you change that. Because I can’t accept that after two years we are collectively telling Palestinians to die in silence.
As much as that’s how it appears.
Six families only eat through this link:
Unless you change that. Because I can’t accept that after two years we are collectively telling Palestinians to die in silence.
As much as that’s how it appears.
Six families only eat through this link:
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ScienceWrite 2026 is open for applications! 🧪
Our programme for minoritised/marginalised science writers based in the UK is running again!
Have an idea for a book, article or other writing project for a lay audience? This is for you!
Apply & find out more at sciencewrite.co.uk
Our programme for minoritised/marginalised science writers based in the UK is running again!
Have an idea for a book, article or other writing project for a lay audience? This is for you!
Apply & find out more at sciencewrite.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ScienceWrite 2026 is open for applications! 🧪
Our programme for minoritised/marginalised science writers based in the UK is running again!
Have an idea for a book, article or other writing project for a lay audience? This is for you!
Apply & find out more at sciencewrite.co.uk
Our programme for minoritised/marginalised science writers based in the UK is running again!
Have an idea for a book, article or other writing project for a lay audience? This is for you!
Apply & find out more at sciencewrite.co.uk
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It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
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I'm not a fan of BBC News; since the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003, the corporation has been too cautious about opposing the govt that manages its funding.
But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded
observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded
observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I'm not a fan of BBC News; since the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003, the corporation has been too cautious about opposing the govt that manages its funding.
But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded
observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded
observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
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Balance isn’t the same as objectivity.
The former can be done fairly mechanically. The latter requires analysis, clear thought, data and being prepared to present your conclusions. The BBC is very capable of the analysis, but scared of the presentation part, because it inevitably pisses people off.
The former can be done fairly mechanically. The latter requires analysis, clear thought, data and being prepared to present your conclusions. The BBC is very capable of the analysis, but scared of the presentation part, because it inevitably pisses people off.
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Balance isn’t the same as objectivity.
The former can be done fairly mechanically. The latter requires analysis, clear thought, data and being prepared to present your conclusions. The BBC is very capable of the analysis, but scared of the presentation part, because it inevitably pisses people off.
The former can be done fairly mechanically. The latter requires analysis, clear thought, data and being prepared to present your conclusions. The BBC is very capable of the analysis, but scared of the presentation part, because it inevitably pisses people off.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
I give a lot of talks but this was the first time I gave a talk in a castle 🏰
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I give a lot of talks but this was the first time I gave a talk in a castle 🏰
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Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
BREAKING: Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC's director-general.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
British political journalists never beating the allegations of being the stupidest people around
World's worst gotcha from Trevor Phillips: "If trans women are women why don't we just say 'women'... who needs 'pregnant people?'" 🤔
Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning standing up for trans people.
It’s clear that Trevor Phillips was trying to trap Zack by not giving him all the facts! Martine Croxall not only eye rolled, she changed a direct quote - unethical for a journalist!
It’s clear that Trevor Phillips was trying to trap Zack by not giving him all the facts! Martine Croxall not only eye rolled, she changed a direct quote - unethical for a journalist!
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
British political journalists never beating the allegations of being the stupidest people around
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River, frog, scorpion, et cetera.
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
River, frog, scorpion, et cetera.
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Can we just stop please? Just let it go. We are not anywhere close to “conscious” machines.
We’re going to look back on hot takes like this in 20 years and wonder how people fell for such clear fairytales.
We’re going to look back on hot takes like this in 20 years and wonder how people fell for such clear fairytales.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes in a guest essay. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes in a guest essay. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
Opinion | A.I. Is Already Intelligent. This Is How It Becomes Conscious.
Skeptics overlook how our concepts change.
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Can we just stop please? Just let it go. We are not anywhere close to “conscious” machines.
We’re going to look back on hot takes like this in 20 years and wonder how people fell for such clear fairytales.
We’re going to look back on hot takes like this in 20 years and wonder how people fell for such clear fairytales.
Off to the Emerald Isle for space, cocktails, and queerness 🪐🌈🍹
Today (might be sold out): spacefest.net/beyond-the-v...
Wednesday: spacefest.net/taking-up-sp...
Today (might be sold out): spacefest.net/beyond-the-v...
Wednesday: spacefest.net/taking-up-sp...
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Off to the Emerald Isle for space, cocktails, and queerness 🪐🌈🍹
Today (might be sold out): spacefest.net/beyond-the-v...
Wednesday: spacefest.net/taking-up-sp...
Today (might be sold out): spacefest.net/beyond-the-v...
Wednesday: spacefest.net/taking-up-sp...
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When we understand that our history is diverse, it changes our outlook. I hope that this Black History Month, we all take the time to uncover the history lessons we were denied in school
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-many-more-generations-will-be-denied-black-queer-history-before-we-take-action/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-many-more-generations-will-be-denied-black-queer-history-before-we-take-action/
How many more generations will be denied Black queer history before we take action?
When we understand that our history is diverse, it changes our outlook. I hope that this Black History Month, we all take the time to uncover the history lessons we were denied in school
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
When we understand that our history is diverse, it changes our outlook. I hope that this Black History Month, we all take the time to uncover the history lessons we were denied in school
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-many-more-generations-will-be-denied-black-queer-history-before-we-take-action/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-many-more-generations-will-be-denied-black-queer-history-before-we-take-action/
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The… the bbc that wrote an article about trans people that only took from a “gender critical” group and included quotes from a lesbian rapist? That bbc?
Lmao.
These people are actually deluded to think the bbc is left wing and pro trans.
Lmao.
These people are actually deluded to think the bbc is left wing and pro trans.
Obsessive ‘gender critical’ activist-journalist - Sonia Sodha - makes gaslighting statements about the provably trans-hostile BBC! 🙄😖
It’s also pretty desperate that she’s colluding with the Telegraph to push transphobic stories (Observer not hateful enough?)
It’s also pretty desperate that she’s colluding with the Telegraph to push transphobic stories (Observer not hateful enough?)
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The… the bbc that wrote an article about trans people that only took from a “gender critical” group and included quotes from a lesbian rapist? That bbc?
Lmao.
These people are actually deluded to think the bbc is left wing and pro trans.
Lmao.
These people are actually deluded to think the bbc is left wing and pro trans.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Rowling and Liddle are both repugnant, hate-driven arseholes, and this stuff is saying that believing they are is some kind of wild extremist insanity that must be expunged. How long do we think these miniature Canutes can send back the incoming tide, do we think?
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Rowling and Liddle are both repugnant, hate-driven arseholes, and this stuff is saying that believing they are is some kind of wild extremist insanity that must be expunged. How long do we think these miniature Canutes can send back the incoming tide, do we think?
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Could all fireworks now kindly piss off for ever. Thank you.
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Could all fireworks now kindly piss off for ever. Thank you.
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We are very happy to share the first part of our our LGBT+ History Month UK resources in collaboration with Pop'n'Olly!
prideinstem.org/primary-scho...
prideinstem.org/primary-scho...
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We are very happy to share the first part of our our LGBT+ History Month UK resources in collaboration with Pop'n'Olly!
prideinstem.org/primary-scho...
prideinstem.org/primary-scho...
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We dispatched our IFLScience Investigates team – a motley bunch of intrepid sleuths – to dig into the origins of the Loch Ness Monster story. 🎧
www.iflscience.com/searching-fo...
www.iflscience.com/searching-fo...
Searching For Nessie: IFLScience Takes On Cryptozoology
In this bonus Halloween special episode of The Big Questions, IFLScience takes on the “mystery” of the Loch Ness Monster.
www.iflscience.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We dispatched our IFLScience Investigates team – a motley bunch of intrepid sleuths – to dig into the origins of the Loch Ness Monster story. 🎧
www.iflscience.com/searching-fo...
www.iflscience.com/searching-fo...