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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

Uncritical University... gee, that would be a diploma mill

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 8d

> “Universities are not tech companies,” Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, two computational cognitive scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands[.] “Our role is to foster critical thinking,” the researchers said, “not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 8d

I was pleased to see @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social mentioned in this NYT article (gift link below). But I wish there was more analysis. Boasts and critiques re: #GenAI were strewn throughout, requiring readers to sort the concerns from the hyperbole. For example… (1/2)

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 8d

“A lot of niche research should be published on preprint servers and be informally reviewed by the appropriate community” - speaks to the old question of what % of papers should be formally peer reviewed newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...

Journalology #126: Open access week

Hello fellow journalologists,

newsletter.journalology.com

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

Gee, sounds like... Bluesky!

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

I've used both styles. Yes, context matters.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 8d

Really surreal hearing my uni career center talking about careers in AI as if even the billionaires pushing it hadn’t started admitting that there’s a huge bubble about to burst

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

They have their metrics- placing a June grad into a July job that leads to an August bubble bursting still means they met their metric. August is the kid's problem.

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 8d

I continue to hold that the entire premise underlying all of these metrics is extremely flawed, and that what it all comes down to is unimaginative managers who are content to offload scientist performance reviews to publishing companies, resulting in a perverse incentive structure. 🧵

Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 9d

Just what we need in astronomy: a metric that rewards those who never do any work, or whose names begin with “Z”. 🔭🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

www.nature.com

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

Broadening/deepening pool is better. Free work, not so much.

Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 8d

Yup. Diversifying the reviewer pool is key

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

Every additional H3 launch bodes well for MMX launch next year.

At least, every _successful_ launch. Ad aspera, nihon!

Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 9d

JAXA have launched the first HTV-X, the new resupply pod for the International Space Station onboard the new~ish H3 rocket 🚀 This was the first launch for the H3 in maxed-out configuration, with four solid rocket boosters, because the HTV-X is a 5.82 ton BEAST!

sorae 宇宙へのポータルサイト @soraespace.bsky.social · 9d

JAXAが新型補給機「HTV-X1」を搭載した「H3」ロケット7号機を打ち上げ

⬇️記事本文はこちら⬇️
sorae.info/ssn/20251026...

JAXA＝宇宙航空研究開発機構は日本時間2025年10月26日に「H3」ロケット7号機の打ち上げを実施しました。JAXAは公式ライブ配信にて、搭載されていた新型宇宙ステーション補給機1号機「HTV-X1」の分離確認を発表しています

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 9d

The bubble is about to burst vs they’ve found their killer app

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 9d

Oh no

4 The World's #1 Al Feet Generation Platform
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 9d

That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation

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Mark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social · 10d

It almost feels like civil disobedience to solve a differential equation nowadays too.

Elizabeth @elizasoul.bsky.social · 10d

Got a new IUD and a covid vaccine today. That shouldn't feel like civil disobedience, but it does.

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

My god, I can instantly call them out on this BS. A majority of Aero Fanboys can call them out on this.

And considering majority of Aero Fanboys likely are History Channel Hard-Ons, that's really bad optics for MAGAs and Musk-Suckers.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 10d

Hadn’t seen the Musk post before but as the person who has literally written the book on invisibility it is painfully obvious that neither Trump nor Musk understands anything about stealth aircraft. (And I can explain them in two skeets.)

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Nov 25

TRUMP: Stealth jets are invisible, you can stand right next to one, and not even know it's there!

MUSK: Not exactly, low light sensitivity cameras can see them.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 10d

The stock market is so dominated by the tech companies and their AI bet, index funds tracking the whole US stock market is like buying a tech stock index fund. I had to redo my portfolio to reduce my tech stock exposure a bit.

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

Even investment firms are admitting this now.

Saw a full-page ad from a firm, displaying that they're "AI-woke" now. To get more customers.

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

In PSJ (Planetary Science Journal) recently:

-Any more Trojan flybys for Lucy we haven't found yet?
-Ice-rock mixtures at Ceres: more decimal places
-Main Belt dynamics: any billiard-ball action in short term?

cphlo.net/abc/index.ph...

Note, Paper: PSJ Particle Population Post - Asteroid Blog, c Phlo...

Of late, in Planetary Science Journal (all vol.6): Salazar Manzano, L. E. Gerdes, D. W. Napier, K. J. et al. Prospects of a New L5 Trojan Flyby Target for the Lucy Mission 213 adf5c2Dorsey, R. C. H...

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

Name ends in Z... like Michael Zolensky!

As curator of the JSC meteorite collection (one of the world's largest), meteorite papers give last-author slot to lab manager as a courtesy. Zolensky is thus last author on a staggering number of papers- before google policy.

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

In meteoritics, at least, last author is lab manager. Hence, Michael Zolensky, head of JSC meteorite curation (one of world's largest collections), is listed as an author on >4,000 papers.

I'm sure other hardware-intensive subfields are similar.

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

Most Solar System missions last longer, and perform more science, than first expected. Sometimes the most interesting questions are the ones we didn't even think to have asked.

Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 8d

#JUNO #Jupiter orbiter
#JIRAM Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper
Perijove 70 Target: #IO

atmos.nmsu.edu/PDS/data/PDS...

NASA/JPL/SwRI/JIRAM/ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA/j. Roger

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 8d

While it has already been a few weeks that #3I/Atlas flew by Mars, here is a very good writeup (in Italian) about the observations made by the #Perseverance rover that caused a lot of confusion in the news. 🔭

www.coelum.com/news/news-da...

News Da Marte #42: Venti Marziani E Un Ipotetico Visitatore Interstellare | Coelum Astronomia

I venti su Marte soffiano molto più forte di quanto finora immaginassimo. Lo rivela un nuovo studio pubblicato l’8 ottobre su Science Advances frutto dell’analisi di immagini raccolte nel corso di ven...

www.coelum.com

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

Astronomy from urban areas: not impossible.

Quit not, intrepid searchers!

Thad Szabo @astrothad.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, you can shoot the Milky Way from Los Angeles! Ok, you have to put nearly all of the population if LA behind you, but even through skies that are still fairly blue well after sunset, it is possible. 🔭
flic.kr/p/2rByLeE

Milky Way, looking south over Bluff Cove

I headed out to Palos Verdes to get a better chance of seeing Comet Lemmon. I would be looking west over the Pacific, with far less light pollution than anywhere inland. As I looked south, I noticed t...

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Eliud Bonilla @eliudbonilla.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes you just have to chuckle and admire the "artistry" of misrepresentation and misleading practiced in some news organizations! Who says the press is dead? 😏 @Planetsci @astronomy
nypost.com/2025/10/23/s...

NASA group launches defense probe to protect Earth from Manhattan-size comet

A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting an alloy not seen in nature and exhibiting other strange behaviors.

nypost.com

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

So explore asteroids instead.

A percentage of NEOs require less propellant than the Large Achondrite, while also being chondrites. Less propellant cascades down through the rocket stages, all the way back to the launch pad.

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 8d

There was no switch. Object has an anti-tail (as expected), and also has a sunward jet (as fewer would expect). Presence of opposing emissions then construed by a febrile imagination.

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