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Francesca Bo.
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Crazy old #physics of the #universe / #astrophysics MSc + #Science #Communication #SciComm diploma. Obsessed by #birds and #blazars. Unemployed with no future […]

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@hfalcke @ehtelescope On that fateful day in 2019 humanity collectively looked into the Orthanc stone and drew the attention of Sauron's Eye. Things went downhill from there.
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I'll end with the last paragraph of the paper:

"In addition to the dangerously high collision risks calculated here, we are already experiencing disruption of astronomy, pollution in the upper atmosphere from increasingly frequent satellite ablation, and increased ground casualty risks. By […]
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December 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The genAI model will be updated from time to time like the CV one and its answers are the stored ones, they are not generated each time an ID is requested
#inaturalist #genai
December 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
No plans to extend the demo to include journal posts, at least...
#inaturalist
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I missed half of the webinar to write, like, 15 lines of rhetorical questions in the Q&A section 😂

#inaturalist #genai #google #enshittification
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ok, in the end, I am listening to the webinar. And asking myself: isn't this what experts are for? And, can't relevant comment lists be done with a "normal" search engine?

I quite like, however, that comments can be "upvoted" and "downvoted". But this should be available for comments themselves […]
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December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reposted by Francesca Bo.
And here are the current measurements of Starlink brightnesses by Mallama and Cole 2025: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/544/1/L15/8251664?login=false

Everybody is too bright. OneWeb manages to halfway make it below the recommended limit, but everybody else pretty much sucks.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
@sundogplanets 7. Countryside in the Po plain = fog and light pollution. Mine was the first region in Italy enacting a law against light pollution, but it doesn't work imo.
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Everything back now! What a start for the workshop 😅 #shawiau25 #IAU #astronomy #education
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM