Burr Ito
@ututuy.org
Geophysicist | Astrophysicist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
Fluid Dynamics of Rotation | Helio/Asteroseismology | Planetary Fluid Cores. Mostly pics of clouds and timelapses. All media by me. He/him.
Fluid Dynamics of Rotation | Helio/Asteroseismology | Planetary Fluid Cores. Mostly pics of clouds and timelapses. All media by me. He/him.
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Burr Ito
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· Nov 20
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I hope this deal helps, I hope my Belgian friends will forgive me for initially thinking it was a frite not a pen he is holding.
Belgium’s coalition struck a budget deal early today, allowing Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s government to avoid collapse.
Belgium avoids government collapse as Bart De Wever strikes budget deal
Months of disagreement finally come to an end.
www.politico.eu
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I hope this deal helps, I hope my Belgian friends will forgive me for initially thinking it was a frite not a pen he is holding.
Earth and planetary sciences folks, como to Vienna next year and tell us about your work! We have a really cool session on the dynamics of planetary cores and subsurface oceans:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Hope to see you there! 🧪 🔭
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Hope to see you there! 🧪 🔭
Session GD8.1
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Earth and planetary sciences folks, como to Vienna next year and tell us about your work! We have a really cool session on the dynamics of planetary cores and subsurface oceans:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Hope to see you there! 🧪 🔭
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Hope to see you there! 🧪 🔭
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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New episode! Do other planets really have diamond rain? Dr. Sabine Stanley answers.
www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/202...
#astronomy #planetsci
www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/202...
#astronomy #planetsci
Do other planets really have diamond rain? — Spacepod
Dr. Sabine Stanley answers. For more about planetary insides, check out her book, " What's Hidden Inside Planets ".
www.listentospacepod.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New episode! Do other planets really have diamond rain? Dr. Sabine Stanley answers.
www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/202...
#astronomy #planetsci
www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/202...
#astronomy #planetsci
This weekend the Belgian government decides on the space sector budget. A harsh reduction of about 50% is being debated, with my job and many other colleagues' jobs at stake. 🧪 🔭
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Belgische ruimtevaartsector vreest halvering budget | VRT NWS: nieuws
De Belgische ruimtevaartsector vreest dat de begrotingsimpasse op federaal niveau en de besparingsplannen van de regering-De Wever tot een halvering van het budget zal leiden. Woensdag moet bevoegd mi...
www.vrt.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This weekend the Belgian government decides on the space sector budget. A harsh reduction of about 50% is being debated, with my job and many other colleagues' jobs at stake. 🧪 🔭
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
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JD Vance said the quiet part out loud, alluding to COVID-19:
“As we found out the hard way over the last few years,” very often that people outside the scientific mainstream “were right and all the experts were wrong”, he said, to loud cheers from the audience.
“As we found out the hard way over the last few years,” very often that people outside the scientific mainstream “were right and all the experts were wrong”, he said, to loud cheers from the audience.
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
JD Vance said the quiet part out loud, alluding to COVID-19:
“As we found out the hard way over the last few years,” very often that people outside the scientific mainstream “were right and all the experts were wrong”, he said, to loud cheers from the audience.
“As we found out the hard way over the last few years,” very often that people outside the scientific mainstream “were right and all the experts were wrong”, he said, to loud cheers from the audience.
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@kapteynastro.bsky.social of @rug.nl invites applications for in total 7 PhD and 4 ERC-funded postdoc positions in our annual call. ⭐🔭
PhD positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...
#exoplanet #astronomy #geoscience 🧪🔭⭐
[Image credit: Mark A. Garlick.]
PhD positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...
#exoplanet #astronomy #geoscience 🧪🔭⭐
[Image credit: Mark A. Garlick.]
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
@kapteynastro.bsky.social of @rug.nl invites applications for in total 7 PhD and 4 ERC-funded postdoc positions in our annual call. ⭐🔭
PhD positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...
#exoplanet #astronomy #geoscience 🧪🔭⭐
[Image credit: Mark A. Garlick.]
PhD positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...
#exoplanet #astronomy #geoscience 🧪🔭⭐
[Image credit: Mark A. Garlick.]
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
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Hoy es el día del hombre, ¿alguna lista de novelas escritas por hombres que merezcan la pena? Pero que sea buena literatura, no las típicas tonterías masculinas. También podemos hacer un trend en rrss citando a hombres que nos inspiren. El hombre, lo más bonito del mundo, qué haríamos sin ellos.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hoy es el día del hombre, ¿alguna lista de novelas escritas por hombres que merezcan la pena? Pero que sea buena literatura, no las típicas tonterías masculinas. También podemos hacer un trend en rrss citando a hombres que nos inspiren. El hombre, lo más bonito del mundo, qué haríamos sin ellos.
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This is misinformation by default, so if you're a journal and you use AI slop for your cover or your announcements, you're not scientific in any way and should be shamed mercilessly 🧪
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is misinformation by default, so if you're a journal and you use AI slop for your cover or your announcements, you're not scientific in any way and should be shamed mercilessly 🧪
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Every moderator should begin Q&A this way:
A good question has one part, not two; it’s never a comment; and it’s almost never about AI.
A good question has one part, not two; it’s never a comment; and it’s almost never about AI.
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Every moderator should begin Q&A this way:
A good question has one part, not two; it’s never a comment; and it’s almost never about AI.
A good question has one part, not two; it’s never a comment; and it’s almost never about AI.
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Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭
He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.
He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.
a bunch of ants are crawling around a circular object that looks like an infinity sign
Alt: A bunch of ants are crawling around a Mobius strip, which is a one sides object produced by twisting one end of a flat strip by 180 degrees and then gluing it to the other end.
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭
He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.
He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
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Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
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Volgende week zondag (23 november) is het Dag van de Wetenschap. De perfecte uitstap!
Alle info via
www.dagvandewetenschap.be
#DVDW2025
Alle info via
www.dagvandewetenschap.be
#DVDW2025
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Volgende week zondag (23 november) is het Dag van de Wetenschap. De perfecte uitstap!
Alle info via
www.dagvandewetenschap.be
#DVDW2025
Alle info via
www.dagvandewetenschap.be
#DVDW2025
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Study is Exaltation IV
oil on canvas
12 x 16
Science is thought by some to be dry, technical, and quantitative. It is not. Study is exaltation. Fact is miracle. Number is portal. Understanding is joy. - STEVEN NIGHTINGALE
Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p672/s...
#art
Story-ALTtext⬇️
oil on canvas
12 x 16
Science is thought by some to be dry, technical, and quantitative. It is not. Study is exaltation. Fact is miracle. Number is portal. Understanding is joy. - STEVEN NIGHTINGALE
Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p672/s...
#art
Story-ALTtext⬇️
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Study is Exaltation IV
oil on canvas
12 x 16
Science is thought by some to be dry, technical, and quantitative. It is not. Study is exaltation. Fact is miracle. Number is portal. Understanding is joy. - STEVEN NIGHTINGALE
Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p672/s...
#art
Story-ALTtext⬇️
oil on canvas
12 x 16
Science is thought by some to be dry, technical, and quantitative. It is not. Study is exaltation. Fact is miracle. Number is portal. Understanding is joy. - STEVEN NIGHTINGALE
Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p672/s...
#art
Story-ALTtext⬇️
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
The orbiting moons of the gas giant planets are likely to drive resonant waves in the central planet via tides. Here's one such wave. It behaves as a gravity wave (aka g mode) in the convectively stable region in the center, while behaving as an inertial mode (Coriolis force dominated) outside. 🧪 🔭
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The orbiting moons of the gas giant planets are likely to drive resonant waves in the central planet via tides. Here's one such wave. It behaves as a gravity wave (aka g mode) in the convectively stable region in the center, while behaving as an inertial mode (Coriolis force dominated) outside. 🧪 🔭
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FRS
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
FRS
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Jupiter says trans rights
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.