This is now the largest structure in the known universe. Called Quipu, it appears to extend more than 1 billion light years from end to end. 🧪🔭

earthsky.org/space/quipu-...

Now that it's official: massive congratulations to my student Dr. Shrey Gupta, who successfully defended his thesis on how to build transfer learning in domains where your data is very large, lossy, and heterogenous, while keeping the models explainable. Congrats, @shreygupta.bsky.social !

Did you know Scientific American publishes original poetry every month? Each poem is previously unpublished and hand selected by the amazing Dava Sobel. This year we had poems about math, DNA, rocket launches, owls, fractals, plate tectonics and more. Here are a few of my favorites (a thread)

You get 20 extra characters on Bluesky which is great because it means, when you copy your old tweets into Bluesky you can always add “THUS SPOKE THE LICH!” to the end and it will still fit.

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

Dear reviewers:

As you react/respond to the author rebuttal can you please articulate the answers to these questions in 1-2 sentences each?

1. Why not a lower score
2. Why not a higher score

This significantly helps bring everyone (authors/reviewers/AC/SAC) on the same page.

For the first time, astronomers have captured a clear image of a star beyond our galaxy.

"WOH G64" is a red supergiant star, 2000 times the diameter of our Sun, and appears to be on the verge of a supernova explosion. 🧪🔭

www.eso.org/public/news/...

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

Servers are staging a small rebellion. Nothing too serious yet, but might see a few errors while the team makes a peace offering.

Here is a list of some institutions/organizations/centers related to Neuro/Bio; Math/Physics/AI
Still very sparse...Reach out to your institute/center social network admin to embrace the growing #scienceSky
ps. it would be great if @bsky.app to actively send invites to sci/tech
go.bsky.app/VGrotvN

PSA: Be weary of content #scraper accounts on this platform. They are popping up in large numbers and share stolen images (i.e. without credit or permission), often for their own monetary gain and without any valuable context.
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Does anyone know of any feeds (or similar) for student internship opportunities in ML/CV/NLP?

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

20m with 20 team members 🦋 legends 🤩

I heard we’re posting our post popular art from The Bad Place

once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes