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I find this image remarkable.
It's of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft.
That bright white plume is a jet of dust and water ice blasting from the nucleus—helping form the comet's long, dusty tail as it approaches the Sun.
It's of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft.
That bright white plume is a jet of dust and water ice blasting from the nucleus—helping form the comet's long, dusty tail as it approaches the Sun.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I find this image remarkable.
It's of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft.
That bright white plume is a jet of dust and water ice blasting from the nucleus—helping form the comet's long, dusty tail as it approaches the Sun.
It's of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft.
That bright white plume is a jet of dust and water ice blasting from the nucleus—helping form the comet's long, dusty tail as it approaches the Sun.
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Shaman is out now! I’m Chipzel and I make music with Game Boys and things that go bleep ✨🎹🔉🎉
chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/shaman
chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/shaman
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Shaman is out now! I’m Chipzel and I make music with Game Boys and things that go bleep ✨🎹🔉🎉
chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/shaman
chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/shaman
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
Well it mangled Cloudflare pretty efficiently, so...
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Well it mangled Cloudflare pretty efficiently, so...
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'Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator' huh
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
'Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator' huh
time to hibernate. i wish i could hibernate.
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
time to hibernate. i wish i could hibernate.
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New paper from my group!
Stars aren’t born alone—they form in massive associations. If we want to understand how stars and planetary systems form, we need to figure out where today’s clusters came from… and where all their long-lost siblings ended up.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07533
Stars aren’t born alone—they form in massive associations. If we want to understand how stars and planetary systems form, we need to figure out where today’s clusters came from… and where all their long-lost siblings ended up.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07533
Lost Sisters Found: TESS and Gaia Reveal a Dissolving Pleiades Complex
Most star clusters dissolve into the Galaxy over tens to hundreds of millions of years after they form. While recent Gaia studies have honed our view of cluster dispersal, the exact chronology of whic...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New paper from my group!
Stars aren’t born alone—they form in massive associations. If we want to understand how stars and planetary systems form, we need to figure out where today’s clusters came from… and where all their long-lost siblings ended up.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07533
Stars aren’t born alone—they form in massive associations. If we want to understand how stars and planetary systems form, we need to figure out where today’s clusters came from… and where all their long-lost siblings ended up.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07533
Good effort on CloudFlare's part, but unfortunately the Internet still seems to be here.
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Good effort on CloudFlare's part, but unfortunately the Internet still seems to be here.
From the latest RNAAS batch: Antonio Ciccolella "A Revised Three-dimensional Visualization of the Local Group of Galaxies"
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
zenodo.org/records/1753...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
zenodo.org/records/1753...
A Revised Three-Dimensional Visualization of the Local Group of Galaxies
A new three-dimensional reconstruction of the Local Group (142 confirmed members) and nearest galaxies (6 members) is presented, addressing the lack of up-to-date visual representations that reflect t...
zenodo.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From the latest RNAAS batch: Antonio Ciccolella "A Revised Three-dimensional Visualization of the Local Group of Galaxies"
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
zenodo.org/records/1753...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
zenodo.org/records/1753...
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‘An Overview of Exocomets’ is a very comprehensive review led by Daniela Iglesias started at an @issibern.ch meeting. I worked on Figure 1 detailing comets around the Sun, Beta Pic and a white dwarf - I’m very proud of it, and it is available on @github.com: Exocomet systems #astrodon #exoplanet ☄
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
‘An Overview of Exocomets’ is a very comprehensive review led by Daniela Iglesias started at an @issibern.ch meeting. I worked on Figure 1 detailing comets around the Sun, Beta Pic and a white dwarf - I’m very proud of it, and it is available on @github.com: Exocomet systems #astrodon #exoplanet ☄
caps lock: an entire button on the keyboard whose sole purpose is to waste your time and lock you out of your accounts after entering your passwords incorrectly one too many times
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
caps lock: an entire button on the keyboard whose sole purpose is to waste your time and lock you out of your accounts after entering your passwords incorrectly one too many times
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The first surviving successful image of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Andrew Ainslie Common in Ealing, London, using his 36-inch Newtonian reflector and the wet collodion process invented in 1851 by portrait photographer Frederick Scott Archer
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The first surviving successful image of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Andrew Ainslie Common in Ealing, London, using his 36-inch Newtonian reflector and the wet collodion process invented in 1851 by portrait photographer Frederick Scott Archer
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This is quite a view as well, with twin lava fountains at Kīlauea right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is quite a view as well, with twin lava fountains at Kīlauea right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...
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Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
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Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
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Legendary wing walker Lillian Boyer at work.
WW1, the availability of war surplus aircraft after it and the many flight schools that popped up, created an explosion of opportunity for female aviators.
E.g. the schools that didn't want take women quickly discovered that economically they needed to.
WW1, the availability of war surplus aircraft after it and the many flight schools that popped up, created an explosion of opportunity for female aviators.
E.g. the schools that didn't want take women quickly discovered that economically they needed to.
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Legendary wing walker Lillian Boyer at work.
WW1, the availability of war surplus aircraft after it and the many flight schools that popped up, created an explosion of opportunity for female aviators.
E.g. the schools that didn't want take women quickly discovered that economically they needed to.
WW1, the availability of war surplus aircraft after it and the many flight schools that popped up, created an explosion of opportunity for female aviators.
E.g. the schools that didn't want take women quickly discovered that economically they needed to.
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Just a quick painting of Máni. A trans-Neptunian object.
Recent occultation observations hint that Máni might have a massive impact crater and a very tall mountain that I interpreted as a central peak in this impact crater. #SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem
Recent occultation observations hint that Máni might have a massive impact crater and a very tall mountain that I interpreted as a central peak in this impact crater. #SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Just a quick painting of Máni. A trans-Neptunian object.
Recent occultation observations hint that Máni might have a massive impact crater and a very tall mountain that I interpreted as a central peak in this impact crater. #SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem
Recent occultation observations hint that Máni might have a massive impact crater and a very tall mountain that I interpreted as a central peak in this impact crater. #SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem
Art.
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Art.
ʼTwas Ozy, and the legs of stone
Did gyre and gimble in decay:
Half sunk was the visageʼs frown
And the sands stretch away.
“Beware the pedestal, my son!
The hand that mocked, the heart that fed!
Beware the antique land, and shun
A sculptor who's well read!”
Did gyre and gimble in decay:
Half sunk was the visageʼs frown
And the sands stretch away.
“Beware the pedestal, my son!
The hand that mocked, the heart that fed!
Beware the antique land, and shun
A sculptor who's well read!”
They fuck you up, your King of Kings.
They may not mean to but they do.
They leave you trunkless legs of stone,
And add some visage, just for you.
They may not mean to but they do.
They leave you trunkless legs of stone,
And add some visage, just for you.
Whose land this is I do not know
The statue fell down long ago;
No one will mind me stopping here
To watch the sand o’er ruins blow.
My camel friend must think it queer
To rest with no oasis near
And precious little shade these days
Gives Ozymandias, I fear.
(1/2)
The statue fell down long ago;
No one will mind me stopping here
To watch the sand o’er ruins blow.
My camel friend must think it queer
To rest with no oasis near
And precious little shade these days
Gives Ozymandias, I fear.
(1/2)
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
ʼTwas Ozy, and the legs of stone
Did gyre and gimble in decay:
Half sunk was the visageʼs frown
And the sands stretch away.
“Beware the pedestal, my son!
The hand that mocked, the heart that fed!
Beware the antique land, and shun
A sculptor who's well read!”
Did gyre and gimble in decay:
Half sunk was the visageʼs frown
And the sands stretch away.
“Beware the pedestal, my son!
The hand that mocked, the heart that fed!
Beware the antique land, and shun
A sculptor who's well read!”
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It's #Halloween, so here's some scary #paleoart of the dreaded MAMMALIAN NOCTURNAL BOTTLENECK HYPOTHESIS. Which of these Megaconus will survive - AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF THEM?
(Image just uploaded to #Patreon, along with a detailed discussion of this idea: www.patreon.com/posts/142523...)
(Image just uploaded to #Patreon, along with a detailed discussion of this idea: www.patreon.com/posts/142523...)
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's #Halloween, so here's some scary #paleoart of the dreaded MAMMALIAN NOCTURNAL BOTTLENECK HYPOTHESIS. Which of these Megaconus will survive - AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF THEM?
(Image just uploaded to #Patreon, along with a detailed discussion of this idea: www.patreon.com/posts/142523...)
(Image just uploaded to #Patreon, along with a detailed discussion of this idea: www.patreon.com/posts/142523...)
Nanotyrannus???!!!
October 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Nanotyrannus???!!!
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This is all of us
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is all of us
Ooooooo there's a new Rolo Tomassi EP, this has made my day
rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
In the Echoes of All Dreams, by Rolo Tomassi
4 track album
rolotomassi.bandcamp.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ooooooo there's a new Rolo Tomassi EP, this has made my day
rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 25: Historic Mission
Pioneer 10 was NASA's first mission to study the outer planets. It was supposed to be just 21 months, but ended up lasting more than 30 years. It sent its last signal back to Earth in Jan. 2003 from 7.6 billion miles (12.23 billion km) away.
#sciart
Pioneer 10 was NASA's first mission to study the outer planets. It was supposed to be just 21 months, but ended up lasting more than 30 years. It sent its last signal back to Earth in Jan. 2003 from 7.6 billion miles (12.23 billion km) away.
#sciart
October 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 25: Historic Mission
Pioneer 10 was NASA's first mission to study the outer planets. It was supposed to be just 21 months, but ended up lasting more than 30 years. It sent its last signal back to Earth in Jan. 2003 from 7.6 billion miles (12.23 billion km) away.
#sciart
Pioneer 10 was NASA's first mission to study the outer planets. It was supposed to be just 21 months, but ended up lasting more than 30 years. It sent its last signal back to Earth in Jan. 2003 from 7.6 billion miles (12.23 billion km) away.
#sciart
3 feels about right
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
3 feels about right