Dr. Victoria Grinberg
@vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
- professional PhD astrophysicist #XraysAreTheBestRays
- published author & artist
- #ClimateCrisis & Astronomers for Planet Earth
- science communication […]
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- published author & artist
- #ClimateCrisis & Astronomers for Planet Earth
- science communication […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Neat one - also generelly well explained!
(Found it on mastodon but unfortunately the link was to an article generator so not re-posting...)
▶️ https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/11/lupus-epstein-barr.html
(Found it on mastodon but unfortunately the link was to an article generator so not re-posting...)
▶️ https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/11/lupus-epstein-barr.html
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Neat one - also generelly well explained!
(Found it on mastodon but unfortunately the link was to an article generator so not re-posting...)
▶️ https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/11/lupus-epstein-barr.html
(Found it on mastodon but unfortunately the link was to an article generator so not re-posting...)
▶️ https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/11/lupus-epstein-barr.html
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Sure way to cause excitement:
> poke bear
> stick your finger in a hornets’ nest
> call #libre surface outdated
> call Mastodon a social network
> poke bear
> stick your finger in a hornets’ nest
> call #libre surface outdated
> call Mastodon a social network
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sure way to cause excitement:
> poke bear
> stick your finger in a hornets’ nest
> call #libre surface outdated
> call Mastodon a social network
> poke bear
> stick your finger in a hornets’ nest
> call #libre surface outdated
> call Mastodon a social network
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It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron.
Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into […]
Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into […]
Original post on discuss.systems
discuss.systems
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron.
Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into […]
Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into […]
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"Leiden, a city whose university is often called the Oxford of the Netherlands,"
BY WHOM??? 😂
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/travel/leiden-netherlands-university.html
BY WHOM??? 😂
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/travel/leiden-netherlands-university.html
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"Leiden, a city whose university is often called the Oxford of the Netherlands,"
BY WHOM??? 😂
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/travel/leiden-netherlands-university.html
BY WHOM??? 😂
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/travel/leiden-netherlands-university.html
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Please share: Congratulations to Clara Wanjura for receiving the German Physical Society's Gustav Hertz Prize 2026 !
She is awarded the prize for her pioneering contributions to two modern topics: #neuromorphic systems, that promise to reduce the energy consumption of artificial intelligence […]
She is awarded the prize for her pioneering contributions to two modern topics: #neuromorphic systems, that promise to reduce the energy consumption of artificial intelligence […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Please share: Congratulations to Clara Wanjura for receiving the German Physical Society's Gustav Hertz Prize 2026 !
She is awarded the prize for her pioneering contributions to two modern topics: #neuromorphic systems, that promise to reduce the energy consumption of artificial intelligence […]
She is awarded the prize for her pioneering contributions to two modern topics: #neuromorphic systems, that promise to reduce the energy consumption of artificial intelligence […]
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
I prefer old (as in: 60ies and 70ies)book prints: this paper, small writing, hardly any margins.
Because wtf, of the modern fantasy books, you struggle to fit in 20 on an Ikea-Ivar shelf. Not to mention that the height of the shelfs needs to be more than 6 holes.
How am I supposed to keep my […]
Because wtf, of the modern fantasy books, you struggle to fit in 20 on an Ikea-Ivar shelf. Not to mention that the height of the shelfs needs to be more than 6 holes.
How am I supposed to keep my […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I prefer old (as in: 60ies and 70ies)book prints: this paper, small writing, hardly any margins.
Because wtf, of the modern fantasy books, you struggle to fit in 20 on an Ikea-Ivar shelf. Not to mention that the height of the shelfs needs to be more than 6 holes.
How am I supposed to keep my […]
Because wtf, of the modern fantasy books, you struggle to fit in 20 on an Ikea-Ivar shelf. Not to mention that the height of the shelfs needs to be more than 6 holes.
How am I supposed to keep my […]
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
The first book Maurice Sendak has illustrated was a physics book 🤩
▶️ https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251
(Via https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5epaedyzrdghz5tglz2ubhof/post/3m5bjjuwwjs2l who was kind enough to […]
▶️ https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251
(Via https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5epaedyzrdghz5tglz2ubhof/post/3m5bjjuwwjs2l who was kind enough to […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The first book Maurice Sendak has illustrated was a physics book 🤩
▶️ https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251
(Via https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5epaedyzrdghz5tglz2ubhof/post/3m5bjjuwwjs2l who was kind enough to […]
▶️ https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251
(Via https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5epaedyzrdghz5tglz2ubhof/post/3m5bjjuwwjs2l who was kind enough to […]
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I cannot believe how much misinformation there is about comet 3I/ATLAS. It's just very cool on its own without having to be an alien spaceship conspiracy...
Prof. Jason Wright wrote a great breakdown of all the ways Avi Loeb is wrong about his awful alien conspiracy theories, and why 3I/ATLAS […]
Prof. Jason Wright wrote a great breakdown of all the ways Avi Loeb is wrong about his awful alien conspiracy theories, and why 3I/ATLAS […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I cannot believe how much misinformation there is about comet 3I/ATLAS. It's just very cool on its own without having to be an alien spaceship conspiracy...
Prof. Jason Wright wrote a great breakdown of all the ways Avi Loeb is wrong about his awful alien conspiracy theories, and why 3I/ATLAS […]
Prof. Jason Wright wrote a great breakdown of all the ways Avi Loeb is wrong about his awful alien conspiracy theories, and why 3I/ATLAS […]
Ah, ICE rides (even the second class ones!). Overhearing a business man discussing offers for different office configuration (do we need 8 or 10 workplaces? Get offers for both!) and a start up-looking guy discussing whether it will cost 1.5 or 2 millions. Whatever "it" is. And me, having a […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Ah, ICE rides (even the second class ones!). Overhearing a business man discussing offers for different office configuration (do we need 8 or 10 workplaces? Get offers for both!) and a start up-looking guy discussing whether it will cost 1.5 or 2 millions. Whatever "it" is. And me, having a […]
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Living as a human in this here 21st century is in fact immensely complicated and relentlessly exhausting and most of us want fewer choices, not more. We want to *delegate*, abstract away, and never have to think about it.
Most people only want more choice if (a) it is their area of niche […]
Most people only want more choice if (a) it is their area of niche […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Living as a human in this here 21st century is in fact immensely complicated and relentlessly exhausting and most of us want fewer choices, not more. We want to *delegate*, abstract away, and never have to think about it.
Most people only want more choice if (a) it is their area of niche […]
Most people only want more choice if (a) it is their area of niche […]
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
"Everybody is gonna be happy. [...] They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
This is manifestly stupid but I need people to understand that there is very little in the world so universally enjoyable that you can replace "negotiate their own insurance" in that sentence […]
This is manifestly stupid but I need people to understand that there is very little in the world so universally enjoyable that you can replace "negotiate their own insurance" in that sentence […]
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"Everybody is gonna be happy. [...] They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
This is manifestly stupid but I need people to understand that there is very little in the world so universally enjoyable that you can replace "negotiate their own insurance" in that sentence […]
This is manifestly stupid but I need people to understand that there is very little in the world so universally enjoyable that you can replace "negotiate their own insurance" in that sentence […]
The first book Maurice Sendak has illustrated was a physics book 🤩
▶️ https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251
(Via https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5epaedyzrdghz5tglz2ubhof/post/3m5bjjuwwjs2l who was kind enough to […]
▶️ https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251
(Via https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5epaedyzrdghz5tglz2ubhof/post/3m5bjjuwwjs2l who was kind enough to […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The first book Maurice Sendak has illustrated was a physics book 🤩
▶️ https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251
(Via https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5epaedyzrdghz5tglz2ubhof/post/3m5bjjuwwjs2l who was kind enough to […]
▶️ https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251
(Via https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5epaedyzrdghz5tglz2ubhof/post/3m5bjjuwwjs2l who was kind enough to […]
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Open Source Software klemmt, alle so: War ja klar, das kann ja nix sein, weg damit! 😡
Microsoft klemmt, alle so: Hm, das wird bestimmt noch und liegt sicher auch an mir. 🥺
Microsoft klemmt, alle so: Hm, das wird bestimmt noch und liegt sicher auch an mir. 🥺
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Open Source Software klemmt, alle so: War ja klar, das kann ja nix sein, weg damit! 😡
Microsoft klemmt, alle so: Hm, das wird bestimmt noch und liegt sicher auch an mir. 🥺
Microsoft klemmt, alle so: Hm, das wird bestimmt noch und liegt sicher auch an mir. 🥺
I prefer old (as in: 60ies and 70ies)book prints: this paper, small writing, hardly any margins.
Because wtf, of the modern fantasy books, you struggle to fit in 20 on an Ikea-Ivar shelf. Not to mention that the height of the shelfs needs to be more than 6 holes.
How am I supposed to keep my […]
Because wtf, of the modern fantasy books, you struggle to fit in 20 on an Ikea-Ivar shelf. Not to mention that the height of the shelfs needs to be more than 6 holes.
How am I supposed to keep my […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I prefer old (as in: 60ies and 70ies)book prints: this paper, small writing, hardly any margins.
Because wtf, of the modern fantasy books, you struggle to fit in 20 on an Ikea-Ivar shelf. Not to mention that the height of the shelfs needs to be more than 6 holes.
How am I supposed to keep my […]
Because wtf, of the modern fantasy books, you struggle to fit in 20 on an Ikea-Ivar shelf. Not to mention that the height of the shelfs needs to be more than 6 holes.
How am I supposed to keep my […]
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Habe heute in eins meiner Bücher, das zu einem großen Lebensereignis (nicht die Bachelorarbeit, die drauf erwähnt wird) verschenkt wird, was reinmalen dürfen 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Habe heute in eins meiner Bücher, das zu einem großen Lebensereignis (nicht die Bachelorarbeit, die drauf erwähnt wird) verschenkt wird, was reinmalen dürfen 🤩
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I love how delightfully diabolical evolution can be.
A new article in Annual Review of Entomology is about the plant pathogens that are vectored between plants by herbivorous insects. These plant pathogens invade plant tissues and make plants sick. To get between plants they hitch a ride inside […]
A new article in Annual Review of Entomology is about the plant pathogens that are vectored between plants by herbivorous insects. These plant pathogens invade plant tissues and make plants sick. To get between plants they hitch a ride inside […]
Original post on mastodon.nz
mastodon.nz
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I love how delightfully diabolical evolution can be.
A new article in Annual Review of Entomology is about the plant pathogens that are vectored between plants by herbivorous insects. These plant pathogens invade plant tissues and make plants sick. To get between plants they hitch a ride inside […]
A new article in Annual Review of Entomology is about the plant pathogens that are vectored between plants by herbivorous insects. These plant pathogens invade plant tissues and make plants sick. To get between plants they hitch a ride inside […]
Habe heute in eins meiner Bücher, das zu einem großen Lebensereignis (nicht die Bachelorarbeit, die drauf erwähnt wird) verschenkt wird, was reinmalen dürfen 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Habe heute in eins meiner Bücher, das zu einem großen Lebensereignis (nicht die Bachelorarbeit, die drauf erwähnt wird) verschenkt wird, was reinmalen dürfen 🤩
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Recommendation for everyone interested in the first-hand experience of, and critical reflections upon, moving from state socialism to capitalist liberalism. Tertium datur?
"Free. Coming of Age at the End of History" by Lea Ypi
#book #Books #bookstodon
"Free. Coming of Age at the End of History" by Lea Ypi
#book #Books #bookstodon
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Recommendation for everyone interested in the first-hand experience of, and critical reflections upon, moving from state socialism to capitalist liberalism. Tertium datur?
"Free. Coming of Age at the End of History" by Lea Ypi
#book #Books #bookstodon
"Free. Coming of Age at the End of History" by Lea Ypi
#book #Books #bookstodon
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Heute habe ich es gemacht - ich habe mir das Buch von @vicgrinberg über Schwarze Löcher bestellt bei der netten Buchhändlerin meines Vertrauens. Bin schon gespannt.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Heute habe ich es gemacht - ich habe mir das Buch von @vicgrinberg über Schwarze Löcher bestellt bei der netten Buchhändlerin meines Vertrauens. Bin schon gespannt.
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🎉 New paper accepted and now out on the arxiv:
Early evidence for isotropic planetary obliquities in young super-Jupiter systems
Michael Poon has been the lead on this! Michael constructs a hierarchical Bayesian model that combines all published exoplanet […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Early evidence for isotropic planetary obliquities in young super-Jupiter systems
Michael Poon has been the lead on this! Michael constructs a hierarchical Bayesian model that combines all published exoplanet […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🎉 New paper accepted and now out on the arxiv:
Early evidence for isotropic planetary obliquities in young super-Jupiter systems
Michael Poon has been the lead on this! Michael constructs a hierarchical Bayesian model that combines all published exoplanet […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Early evidence for isotropic planetary obliquities in young super-Jupiter systems
Michael Poon has been the lead on this! Michael constructs a hierarchical Bayesian model that combines all published exoplanet […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Reposted by Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Seufz. Nächste Woche zwei Recherchetermine in #stuttgart, einen in S-Feuerbach, dann in S-Vaihingen. Der Stadtrand ist nur 40km von mir (Tübingen) entfernt. Das schreit nach ÖPNV. Aber: Es kostet mich über den Tag 2,5 zusätzliche Stunden, *kein* Auto zu nehmen. Irgendwas ist da kaputt.
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Seufz. Nächste Woche zwei Recherchetermine in #stuttgart, einen in S-Feuerbach, dann in S-Vaihingen. Der Stadtrand ist nur 40km von mir (Tübingen) entfernt. Das schreit nach ÖPNV. Aber: Es kostet mich über den Tag 2,5 zusätzliche Stunden, *kein* Auto zu nehmen. Irgendwas ist da kaputt.
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Finally here! Two years after #nasa 's #OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples of #asteroid #bennu to Earth, we have now received 319 mg to study in our labs. We are hoping to determine Bennu’s isotopic composition and learn more about its “birthplace” in the Solar System.
#osirisrex #asteroidbennu
#osirisrex #asteroidbennu
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Finally here! Two years after #nasa 's #OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples of #asteroid #bennu to Earth, we have now received 319 mg to study in our labs. We are hoping to determine Bennu’s isotopic composition and learn more about its “birthplace” in the Solar System.
#osirisrex #asteroidbennu
#osirisrex #asteroidbennu
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Now in detailed Black and White: The #Trump administration is blackmailing other countries to actively destroy the environment at the behest of the US oil industry. There is no sugarcoating it.
Evil seems a fitting adjective.
#MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen
Evil seems a fitting adjective.
#MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Now in detailed Black and White: The #Trump administration is blackmailing other countries to actively destroy the environment at the behest of the US oil industry. There is no sugarcoating it.
Evil seems a fitting adjective.
#MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen
Evil seems a fitting adjective.
#MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen
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Mystery man: “Investigators confirmed that the caller was actually Carl Avinger and that the defendant was not. Nor was he Carl E. Avinger, John Stamp, Bobby Jackson, Craig Taylor, Graig Taylor, Anthony S. Williams, Kevin C. Windley, Kevin Windleg, Corey Blake Duncan, Marco Ferrari, Marco […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Mystery man: “Investigators confirmed that the caller was actually Carl Avinger and that the defendant was not. Nor was he Carl E. Avinger, John Stamp, Bobby Jackson, Craig Taylor, Graig Taylor, Anthony S. Williams, Kevin C. Windley, Kevin Windleg, Corey Blake Duncan, Marco Ferrari, Marco […]