Few people outside academia grasp the seismic transformation underway in the U.S.
One of the key pillars of the American development model—the university and research system—is under violent attack, with the goal of undermining its very foundations. And with them, democracy itself.
#EconSky

1/3

Beautifully worded.
A long transcript, but the original podcast is... wherever you get your podcasts
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/o...

Revenge of the nerds!
#romania #NicusorDan #Math

"Non è vero che siamo in pericolo, e poi comunque tanto non avremmo speranze, inutile pensare di resistere, resistere crea solo più morti, Zelensky è un assassino, basta con la propaganda guerrafondaia".
E un'immagine balena in mente

Death threats against judges are rising — and instead of dialing it back, the GOP is doubling down.

Even after Chief Justice John Roberts called the push for impeachment “not appropriate,” Republicans are pressing ahead. Just this week, House Republicans moved to impeach six federal judges.

Gli USA sono stati molte cose. Imperialisti, guerrafondai, ma ispirazione per le migliori menti di tutto il mondo, per portare avanti un'idea o per fare ricerca all'avanguardia su tutto lo scibile umano, prendendosene i vantaggi in termini di sviluppo competitivo per la sua industria. 1/

Re-upping this: @astropy.org is running our first user survey! If you use Astropy, please help us by filling this out and sharing it with your students / colleagues / collaborations / departments:

forms.gle/dE3F6Rd8yTes...

🧪🔭

Well, I guess we are witnessing how autocracies are born. Fascists doing fascist things and opposers still wasting time accusing one another of not being coherent enough ten years ago, or nitpicking about how appropriate a given word is.

At this point, I don't feel particularly at ease when most of the web in my country runs on AWS and other services from the big 5.
It's not just "big bad corporations" anymore. It has become a matter of corporations from a potentially hostile country. Who knew I would have ever feared this.

Quanto mi piacerebbe che l'Italia ne approfittasse, sburocratizzando il sistema della ricerca per attrarre cervelli dall'estero.

The thing I love the most about every social media but Facebook is the absence of the "laughter" reaction

Scottecs by Sio

I can understand why people filter out as much "disturbing" content as possible by blocking away. However, this also means that we stay in our comfortable space preaching to the converted, with zero chances of convincing others or -- heaven preserve us! -- looking critically at our own reasoning.

I finally managed to hire a web developer

#education #science #usa #astronomy
I read a lot of (well-justified) complaints about how expensive American high education system is. So, I have a naive question. No intent to mock or provoke, a genuine (probably ill-informed) question: 1/3

#astronomy #timeseries enthusiasts: Release 2.0 of Stingray is out 🥳 Lots of new methods and performance improvements in this release (full Changelog here: github.com/StingraySoft...), you can see some of them in action in our new tutorial with NICER data: docs.stingray.science/en/v2.0.0/no...

Hey #astro timeseries enthusiasts, we just released Stingray 2.0.0rc1
New features:
Power colors à la Heil+2015
An easier mechanism for Color-color diagrams and HIDs
Lomb-Scargle cross spectra (with lags) and periodograms
Gaussian process modeling of QPOs (early version)
Polarimetric data support

Open Days at the Physics Department of Cagliari University. Come visit us to talk about accretion onto compact objects!