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Hippolyte
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Post doc researcher in Deep Learning for Cultural Heritage in Marseille/ Astronomy enthusiast /🏳️‍🌈
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Hippolyte @hippolytium.bsky.social · Dec 1
Content Analysis: Their writing strikes a balance between technical precision and poetic grandeur, like a scientist reciting Shakespeare while gazing at the stars.

blueskyroast.com
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davidbflower.bsky.social
New 'Lucifer' bee with devil-like horns found in Australia. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New 'Lucifer' bee with devil-like horns found in Australia
The native bee was found near a rare wildflower, prompting scientists to call for the area to be protected.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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compoundchem.com
Poppies are a symbol of remembrance on Armistice Day. Did you know that some poppies are also the source of powerful opioid painkillers?

Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on the chemistry of poppies. The red colour of the common poppy is due to anthocyanin pigments. Other red poppies also contain anthocyanins but the yellow Iceland poppy and alpine poppy contain nudicaulin pigments. The opium poppy has been used in medicine for thousands of years, with the milky opium fluid which contains alkaloids such as morphine used as a painkiller. The common poppy contains different alkaloids, which only have very milld pain-killing properties.
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
I find this remarkable:

The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century. 🧪🔭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sheets of the Dresden Codex depicting eclipses, multiplication tables, and the flood.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

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The planet Jupiter appears full frame in apparent colours of a variety of blues and some pink bands. The Great Red Spot is visible on the lower left as a dark spot. Jupiter's Moon Ganymede is visible on the upper left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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skycalpro.com
While Andrew Ainslie Common was pioneering Jupiter photography, French artist-astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot captured what he saw through Harvard’s 15-inch Merz refractor.
Drawn Nov 1 1880 (9:30 PM); published 1881 in The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings. #AstroHistory #Jupiter
Chromolithograph of Jupiter by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, titled 'The Planet Jupiter, observed November 1, 1880, at 9:30 P.M.' A large pale orange globe dominates the frame, crossed by subtle horizontal bands in shades of peach, tan, and faint blue. The Great Red Spot appears as a distinct pale oval near the lower left limb. Delicate pastel shading captures atmospheric turbulence and limb darkening. Title and artist signature in elegant script at bottom. From The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1881)
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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lloydchery.bsky.social
Mort de Tatsuya Nakadai, immense acteur du cinéma Japonais ! Il aura eu une filmographie sublime : Hara-Kiri, Kagemusha, Ran, Goyokin, Yojinbo, Sanjuro, La Condition de L’homme, Le Sabre du Mal, Rébellion, Après La Pluie. Un monstre équivalent à Toshiro Mifune et Takashi Shimura. RIP
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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dorialexander.bsky.social
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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frestagn.bsky.social
« Puisque pareille chose est possible, combien tout ce qu'on a jamais écrit, fait ou pensé est vain ! Tout n'est forcement que mensonge ou insignifiance, si la culture de milliers d'années n'a même pas pu empêcher que ces flots de sang… » Erich Maria Remarque - À l’Ouest, rien de nouveau.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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eso.org
While the Magellanic Clouds shine upon the Chilean Desert, two VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes point up to the sky — all together reminding us of how small we are as humans compared to cosmic objects & the telescopes we observe them with.

https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2545a/

🔭 🧪
📷 J. Looten/ESO
Two of ESO’s small Auxiliary Telescopes, accompanied by the Magellanic Clouds up in the night sky. A human silhouette is visible on the right side of the picture.
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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mikejonesphd.bsky.social
Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
Colour photograph of a white USB stick. Printed text on the USB stick reads: '...this is not an archive.'
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Mars - Foggy Valles Marineris and Noctis Labyrinthus - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2raZiMc
Download full size image: 12K: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54590641401/sizes/o/ Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Image created processing data from: psa.esa.int Mission: ESA Mars Express North is approx down Instrument: HRSC Orbit: 17508 Date: 2017-10-30T18:09:05.764Z Raw Data: HH508_0000_RE3.IMG HH508_0000_BL3.IMG Notes: Green filter has been created mixing Red and Blue channels Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.

It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭

www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created one of the largest low-frequency radio colour images of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of the Galactic Plane – the disk of our Galaxy, which appears to human eyes as the glowing band of the Milky Way – now revealed across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or ‘colours’ of radio light.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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kevinmgill.bsky.social
Sol 1675 Navcam mosaic from the Mars Perseverance Rover. White balanced color.

flic.kr/p/2rEqzvT
Rocks and sand out to the horizon. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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flo.by
Bonjour, la vaccination obligatoire c'est bien de gauche.
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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taigasangare.bsky.social
TW serpent mais serpent mignon
Allons, un peu de choupitude pour se détendre avec cette toutepotite couleuvre helvétique (anciennement appelée couleuvre à collier)
Une petite couleuvre qui doit mesurer 20 cm de long et 1 cm de diamètre avec son petit collier jaune clair, tenue dans une main (sauvetage SOS Serpents)
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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pierrearlais.bsky.social
Merci au MIT qui publie une base de données répertoriant plus de 1600 risques liés à l'IA, classés par cause et domaine de risque.
https://airisk.mit.edu/
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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nick-stevens.com
Cosmonaut cat mosaic! Dubna, Moscow region.
Cosmonaut cat mosaic! Dubna, Moscow region.
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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maitre-poulard.bsky.social
Je ne sais pas quoi faire de cette infographie donc la voici
Most to Least Common 4-Digit PIN Numbers 34m analysed from multiple data breaches
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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twigtechnology.bsky.social
On the left, Alan Turing’s 1950 paper introducing the imitation game, where he says that using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent is absurd.

On the right, yesterday’s NYT opinion piece using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent.

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The introduction to Turing’s paper titled ‘Computing Machinery and intelligence’: I PROPOSE to consider the question, 'Can machines think ?' This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine' and "think'.The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous. If the meaning of the words 'machine' and 'think' are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, 'Can machines think ?' is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll. But this is absurd. Instead of attempting such a definition I shall replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words. Introduction to an opinion piece published in the New York Times on 8 November 2025, by Barbara Gail Montero, titled ‘A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence’: Not long ago, A.I. became intelligent. Some may dismiss this claim, but the number of people who doubt A.I.'s acumen is dwindling. According to a 2024 YouGov poll, a clear majority of U.S. adults say that computers are already more intelligent than people or will become so in the near future.
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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robindher.bsky.social
Toujours le même constat sur l'IA gen : quand ça parle d'un truc où on n'y connait rien ça a l'air hyper efficace et pertinent, et dès qu'on connait un peu le sujet on se rend compte que ça balance absolument n'importe quoi.

Ça devrait s'appeler un simulateur d'éditorialiste
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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nature.com
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire

go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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asteroiddave.bsky.social
New morphology in the tail of comet 3I/Atlas will inevitably be spun by the quack Avi Loeb as some evidence of alien activity. This is nothing new, we've seen similar behavior in other comes including 17P, C/2016 R2, and C/1961 R1, and others. It's ionized carbon monoxide. #3I #3I/Atlas #Comet 🔭
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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joshlukedavis.com
oh yeah ok this is super cool

not only did they find a gynandromorph spider, it also turned out to be a new species! 🤯🧪🕷️
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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lehmanndrc.bsky.social
« Il y a trente-cinq ans, j'ai interviewé le père de Rorschach... »
Interview avec Alan Moore ( 1987 ) version française

#WATCHMEN #VFORVENDETTA #NOPASARANLEJEU

www.christian-lehmann.org/post/le-pere...
LE PERE DE RORSCHACH: les cassettes perdues
« Il y a trente-cinq ans, j’ai interviewé le père de Rorschach… »Ce devait être en 1987, lorsque la maison d’édition française Zenda (aujourd’hui disparue) publia Watchmen en français, avec une superb...
www.christian-lehmann.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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2tout2rien.bsky.social
Une scène digne d’un conte étrange : un papillon qui boit les larmes d’un oiseau endormi. 🕊️🦋
Ce comportement, appelé lachryphagie, lui permet d’absorber des sels et nutriments essentiels.
Quand la nature se fait à la fois poète… et un peu vampire. 😉
📸 Inconnu
#Nature #Insolite #Papillon
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM