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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino
@neutrinocatcher.bsky.social
Spanish astroparticle physicist making spacecraft in Italy.

NeutrinoCatcher in good ol' Twitter for 10 mostly good years (2014-24) - also somewhat in NeutrinoCatcher@mastodon.social
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Long overdue 🔔 INTRO 🔔 ! 😅

Currently my work revolves around LISA and NGGM (among other cool Moon stuff when there's free time), in Italy. Five years ago I was moving into this industry from my previous academic career in neutrino and nuclear physics, in Japan, Italy and the US.

Feels great here!
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En esto consiste la privatización de la sanidad pública, es inadmisible.
El CEO de Ribera Salud da instrucciones para aumentar las listas de espera para tener más beneficios.
Estos hijos de puta están ganando millones a costa de dejar morir gente.
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Hace tres semanas se puso en órbita la unidad II del programa satelital SpainSat NG, que duplica (del 21% al 45%) los componentes de fabricación española de la generación anterior (2006) y nos coloca entre los 8-10 países líderes del sector.

Cero conversación pública al respecto. Para reflexionar.
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Even right-wing propagandists think X has a right-wing propaganda problem that is poisoning people's brains.

That should cause concern among the many media / politics types who still use it and who consider their feeds to be representative of the public's views.
Ben Shapiro tells Megyn Kelly that to avoid vile extremists like Nick Fuentes “the first thing people need to do is turn off X, which is poisoning brains and making people think not true things.” Yet, Shapiro continues to post there, often multiple times a day. youtu.be/tprng5mObQg?...
Ben Shapiro Responds to Tucker Carlson, Plus Sydney Sweeney and Newsom, with Knowles and Klavan
YouTube video by Megyn Kelly
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I try not to curse as much as I used to, but every now and then there is a time and a place.

Get fucked fascists
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Thales Alenia Space Italia has completed Phase A development of Italy's LAORIE lunar lander mission, which forms part of the country's broader Earth-Moon-Mars programme.
europeanspaceflight.com/italy-comple...
Italy Completes Phase A Development of LAORIE Lunar Lander Mission
Thales Alenia Space Italia has successfully completed Phase A development of Italy's LAORIE lunar lander mission.
europeanspaceflight.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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"This is an architecture that no NASA administrator that I know of would ever select and it was selected in the absence of a NASA Administrator." - Bridenstine.
September 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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JUNO has completed filling its 20,000-ton liquid scintillator detector and begun data collection to investigate the ordering of neutrino masses with unprecedented precision.
JUNO completes liquid filling and begins taking data to investigate ordering of neutrino masses
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) has successfully completed filling its 20,000-tons liquid scintillator detector and began taking data on Aug.
phys.org
August 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Developer: Yeah I reckon the AI coding tools make me about 20% faster

Narrator: The AI tools made them 19% slower
metr.org METR @metr.org · Jul 10
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Un buen día para recordar esto: los servicios y cargos públicos no pueden obligarnos a usar una red privada y opaca para informarnos, y deberían por ley tener presencia en redes abiertas. Además de eso, por higiene democrática, deberían abandonar X ya mismo.
Uno de los múltiples melones que hay que abrir es que las redes sociales privadas, y en especial Twitter, funcionan como altavoz de servicios y cargos públicos. Es lo que más urge cambiar y lo que va a crear más resistencias para abandonarlas.
Bueno, y nuestro Gobierno y las instituciones que deberían velar por el orden democrático y nuestro bienestar piensan pronunciarse sobre el tema de que las redes donde realizan su comunicación estén en manos de nazis intentando considerar lo LGTBIQ+ una enfermedad de nuevo, o...?
July 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op
a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it

2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth
New from me: An exclusive interview with David Suzuki, who talked about reaching the conclusion that humanity has failed in the fight against climate change, and why communities should start preparing for more destructive natural disasters #cdnpoli #cdnenviro

www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
July 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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do what you want, of course. but don't act like something easy is actually hard or a sacrifice...
Also! It’s NOT hard to leave X. I left a year ago and haven’t missed it. BlueSky is actually better.
July 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Italialaisten luovuutta ja yritteliäisyyttä on pakko arvostaa. 🤌🏼

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Italy will list £11bn bridge to Sicily as defence spending
Giorgia Meloni reclassifies ailing project so that expenditure can count towards new Nato goal
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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June 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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🛰️ Thales Alenia Space signs contract with OHB to provide critical elements for LISA mission
Read more ⤵️
shorturl.at/Nzeip

#ParisAirShow #ParisAirShow2025 #science #exploration @esa.int
June 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
June 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Hopefully we are witnessing the downfall of Elon Musk. I don't think there's any way back for him now in the court of public opinion - he's alienated himself from pretty much all sides, apart from his wacky die-hard fans on X. I only hope that SpaceX can decouple from him in time - but I fear not.
June 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.'

TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
June 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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This blows up the theory underpinning much of the eco modernist movement
This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.
June 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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South Park residents of San Diego, California, confront Trump’s ICE agents after they stormed a local Italian restaurant to detain staff.

This is how fascism is resisted. Courageous citizens standing their ground against regime thugs sent to intimidate them.

More of this, America!
June 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Jobs. Cutting jobs. Taking money out of the economy so that they can give it to the rich in tax cuts.
Also, the budget proposal would cut NASA's civil service workforce by a third.
May 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Veo que hay mucha confusión con el tema, así que os voy a dejar aquí una ayuda visual para que identifiquéis quién es cada cual, cosa que en algún momento os puede llegar a salvar la vida.
May 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Ahora más que nunca, recordemos aquella maravillosa frase de Pepe Mujica, de cuando le entrevistaron para @elpais.com:

«La cultura es hija del boludeo.» ❤️
May 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Definitely a life lesson not to become so naïvely dependent on certain apps and socials, when they can later push this kind of BS.

They're making increasing droves of people aware of their opportunism though, and soon few will trust anything they offer.
Meta has just started activating its slop machine within Whatsapp across Europe

Generative AI reminds me of single-use plastic in terms of how it's being rolled out: no one asked for it, everyone lives fine without it, but a company will manufacture demand for it through sheer brute, bloody force
April 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM