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What draws you to the Pulitzer Center's mission? How does this role fit into your career trajectory, and what unique value do you believe you would bring to this position? Describe your approach to using data and analytics to inform audience segmentation and communications strategy. How do you use data to identify, understand, and prioritize different audience segments? What specific metrics and tools do you use to measure audience engagement and behavior? Provide an example of how you have used data insights to segment audiences and optimize a campaign strategy What systems, tools, or processes have you implemented to improve communications efficiency and effectiveness? Be specific about the problem you were solving, the solution you implemented, and the measurable impact it had on your team's capacity or output quality.

Just one of many signs the job market stinks: More & more employers are making you spend half an hour on essay questions *just to apply* so they can spend 15 seconds glancing at it & stealing your ideas before deleting your application

I'm honored to share that I didn't post some nonsense to LinkedIn humble-bragging about something that isn't particularly noteworthy.

Long but good analysis of recent Science editorial.

Organizations like AAAS (and so many more) are failing to meet the moment because they cannot imagine the status quo collapsing. They have no "crisis mode."

Can Artemis Overcome Challenges to Win the New Space Race? NASA's Artemis aims for the moon's south pole by 2028, but challenges loom.

Space exploration is a beautiful dream marred by the dumbest of politics.

Artemis doesn't use shuttle parts to save time/money/reuse known tech. After Columbia blew it was clear STS was on its last legs, but a slew of gov't contractors would lose their gravy train, so we are pork engineering.

The Plundering of NASA: an Exposé At last, here is a book peering behind the veil of Congressional politics which force NASA to do the bidding of regional interests that cripple the nation’s capabilities in both exploring outer space ...

Title says it all. Written <2013, still true a decade later.

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When I was working in R&D at J&J medtech some years ago we mulled this over and I promptly shot it down for this reason. There are no insights an AI can add during a procedure that isnt already available in the mind of physician with experience that is worth the patient risk.

One of the many ways the 1970s is a foreign country is how marginal this vision of space was. Common heritage of mankind, site for international cooperation, frontier of research. The fight to make it a “perfect playground for libertarian billionaires” was a long one.

The pros and cons of patenting – Physics World Honor Powrie reveals her love–hate relationship with patents

Honor Powrie reveals why she has a love–hate relationship with patents. On the one hand, they can be worthwhile but on the other can be time-consuming and expensive to take out. 🧪⚛️🔭

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@arxiv.bsky.social leadership told me moderation is now opinion-based editorial triage, not the neutral process they advertise. Overloaded moderators pre-judge controversial work to keep “signal-to-noise” high. That’s why my black holes paper—under review at CQG—was blocked.
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I've posted this before, but what is the point of "Letters" anymore? I don't remember the last time I saw a paper where a quick turnaround was warranted. Our journals usually only use a single referee, so adding the additional time pressure is only further hurting quality. #exoplanets

Update on the post below: in a letter sent to Chile's Environmental Assessment Service on 6 February, AES Andes requested the withdrawal of INNA from evaluation.

This formally confirms that INNA is not going ahead.

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Happy to be a coauthor and to have contributed to this one! :)

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All claims of extraterrestrial life must pass these 7 hurdles No claim has even made it halfway up the Confidence of Life Detection (CoLD) scale, but 21st century science is just beginning to unfold.

All claims of extraterrestrial life must pass these 7 hurdles

The old recipe of "observe something unusual, declare presence of aliens" doesn't work anymore: at least on scientists.

The seven hurdles of the CoLD scale illustrate why.
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#space #aliens #astro #astrobiology

Episode 15: Science Communication for International Audiences with Dr. Elizabeth Tasker — Art Astra Podcast Join Emily and Alexa as they speak with Dr. Elizabeth Tasker about her trajectory in science communication for international audiences. Dr. Tasker is an associate professor at the Japan Aerospace Expl...

I chatted with @artastrapodcast.bsky.social about international science communication, from supporting JAXA's Hayabusa2 and MMX missions 🛰️, to the choice for style and content in "The Planet Factory" and a splash of #VR with @futuremeetings.bsky.social! 🔭🧪

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Some asteroids have their own mini moons.

The first to be discovered was Dactyl orbiting the main belt asteroid Ida (seen here)

#astronomy

Image: NASA/JPL

Still tickets to hear all about what makes the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) the next leap for ground-based astronomy and how its survey of the night sky is going to completely change our view of the Solar System - Feb 19 7pm in Belfast nisciencefestival.com/event/beyond... 🧪🔭

Solar Radio Astronomy - CESRA Comet 2I/Borisov was only the second interstellar object known to have entered the solar system. The highly eccentric, hyperbolic orbit of 2I/Borisov and its high inclination to the ecliptic plane dem...

Radio Scintillation Observations of the Plasma Tail of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov, by P K Manoharan et al.* www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/eduard...
#Astronomy #radioastronomy

A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight? Comet MAPS has the potential to be one of the ‘Great Comets’ of this century.

New sungrazer comet! 🧪🔭

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Observations by NASA’s SPHEREx showing the infrared light emitted by the dust, water, organic molecules, and carbon dioxide contained within comet 3I/ATLAS’s coma during the mission’s December 2025 campaign.

NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Tracks Brightening of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

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Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#3IATLAS #SPHEREx 🧪🔭

Amateurism: people worse than uninformed... they *think* they're informed, so they won't stop.

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𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺—𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗧𝗲𝗫 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀. But this isn&#39;t about LaTeX. And it&#39;s not about training data. They could get… | Adam Hyde | 25 comments 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺—𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗧𝗲𝗫 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀. But this isn't about LaTeX. And it's not about training data. They could get papers from arXiv or partner with Overleaf for that. So w...

"Writing papers is rarely (probably never) the rate-limiting step in scientific research"

Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time.

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Contemplating Artificial Intelligence A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

Oops. I forgot to announce my most recent blog about Artificial Intelligence. A very small sample of my Big AI Book that I just finished!

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Reorientation and despinning of 4 Vesta formed the Divalia Fossae The Divalia Fossae are formed by tectonic stresses from reorientation and despinning of Vesta caused by large impacts.

He also works on valid dwarf planets with @jupforjupiter.bsky.social, e.g., this paper by Cheng, Klimczak, and Matsuyama (open access).

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'plan to lay the groundwork for'

Is this like "I have concepts of a plan"?

According Microsoft last earnings report only 3.3% of users are actually paying for Copilot lol.

Same place as Musk's mission to Mars: in Marketing.

But you're 'one of them'.

Flat Earth-ism, like many other conspiracy theories, uses identity politics and 'the other' to create (false) feelings of accomplishment and community and solidarity, and thus spread and entrench itself.

You mean "failed to help astronomers measure the size of the solar system."

Venus, a resolved object, causes the Black Drop Effect, and its transits couldn't be measured with any more precision than previous attempts at the AU.

It was Eros, juuust resolved in multi-meter scopes that found the AU.

As someone who has dealt with Adobe as they devolved from "software you own" to "fuck you we fucking hate you we piss on your corpse now rent our shit monthly, peasant", I'm delighted to see the censored Internet shorthand for the worst criminal imaginable is now "PDF file".

Chondritic Meteorites (and some other groups): spectacular on multiple levels