Jean-François Gonzalez

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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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"Women participation in French Astronomy 2025", Lagarde et al. 2025, résumé et quelques plots...

👉 La Commission Femmes & Astro de la @sf2a.bsky.social a mené une étude statistique sur la présence des femmes dans l’astronomie professionnelle française 👇👇👇

ESOblog: The magic behind 4MOST Thousands of eyes to chart the sky The magic behind 4MOST

2/ If you want to learn more about 4MOST, head over to the ESO Blog to learn about:

👉 the technical challenges of observing thousands of objects simultaneously
👉 the scientific questions @4most-eu.bsky.social will address

www.eso.org/public/blog/...

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#instrumentation

4MOST Captures First Light On October 18, 2025, the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, obta

First Light for 4MOST - what an experience! Paranal Observatory is already a magic place on its own right - but getting a new facility on sky ... that's hard to top! www.aip.de/en/news/4mos...

A dramatic three-colour Hubble image of an edge-on disk, with distant stars in the background. The disks' midplane forms a dark lane in the middle and hides a young star. Above and below it, dramatic wisps of backlit dust can be seen. To the north of the disk, faint filaments of material connect to the disk. On the left side of the dust lane, there is a hint of a spiral. Descriptions of the disk features are based on Fig. 2 in the paper.

Very cool work from Monsch et al. on the arxiv today, on a recently-discovered protoplanetary disk seen very nearly edge-on. It has weird, wispy structures and asymmetries - far more dynamic than we normally imagine disks to be! And, of course, it makes for beautiful images.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.11819

Yep, phone numbers and people’s b’days.

I always highlight these examples as us “outsourcing” the part of our brain that remembered this to tech/social media and now we don’t use that part of our brain as much.

So imagine what your losing when outsourcing the thinking part of your brain to ChatGPT

Your yearly reminder that university rankings are less than useless

Conférence #astro / #climat suivie d'une soirée d'observation 🔭 🪐 ce samedi 11 octobre à #Gières (métropole de #Grenoble) dans le cadre du jour de la nuit. [1/3]

Congrats!

Personal milestone ✅

So proud to share this article / research, which has been accepted for publication in @pasajournal.bsky.social

This is several years of my PhD work so far, so here's a little thread about it.

The BIG question: Are millisecond #pulsar profiles stable?

Strap in!

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Fig.3 from Tong et al. (2025), showing ALMA observations of the GM Aur protoplanetary disc at 1.3mm (Band 6) and 2.1mm (Band 4). Left panels are the sky-plane images from Huang et al. (2020); right panels show the same observations de-projected.

New paper, led by @physicsuol.bsky.social PhD student @simintong.bsky.social. Simin looked at the rings we see in planet-forming discs, and combined new models with multi-wavelength ALMA observations to understand the underlying physical properties of the dust and gas. 🔭

arxiv.org/abs/2509.24818

Chart showing temperature steady from 1850 to 1920 and the rising by 1.5 degrees

Only a con artist would say this was a con. Source BBC

Discours lunaire à l'ONU de M. Trump. Les scientifiques travaillant sur le climat sont des "idiots". "Le changement climatique est la plus grande arnaque jamais menée contre le monde".
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Well, Betelgeuse can offer a nice show for both hemispheres…

We have job opportunities in the APEx department at MPIA - please spread the word!

Postdocs: aas.org/jobregister/...
Tenure-track staff: aas.org/jobregister/...
Max Planck Research Group Leaders: aas.org/jobregister/...

+ happy to host ERC, Humboldt, and other third-party funds.

I also loved the book! This is exciting news!

YouTube video by ONE Media PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer (2025) Ryan Gosling

Project Hail Mary, based on one of the best sci-fi books I’ve read recently, is about to hit the screen. The story? A teacher-turned-astronaut who meets an alien named Rocky. I can’t wait! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkcE...

72 savantes sur la tour Eiffel !
Le projet porté par Isabelle Vauglin au nom de l'association femmes & sciences a abouti à la recommandation par la maire de Paris d'inscrire le nom de 72 savantes ayant vécu de 1789 à nos jours sur la tour Eiffel, en surplomb des 72 savants de la frise actuelle.

OYEZ OYEZ, GRENOBLOISES, GRENOBLOIS ET METROPOLE, un évènement ce weekend dans nos contrées !!!
@osug-fr.bsky.social

Avi Loeb posted these notes on comet 3I/ATLAS on August 20, but they are full of mistakes. I correct them and provide notes on how comets actually work.

Sorry it took me so long to grade your August 20 assignment, Avi Loeb. Are you sure you're ready for a class on comets? You might need to learn about things like bow shocks and chemistry.

Assessing Astronomical Impacts of Reflect Orbital’s Proposed Satellite System This survey is being conducted by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to gather input from astronomers, observatories, and night sky users worldwide regarding the potential impacts of Reflect…

La start-up américaine Reflect Orbital prévoit de refléter la lumière du Soleil la nuit en construisant une constellation de réflecteurs en orbite terrestre basse.
L'AAS sollicite l'avis des astronomes, des observatoires et des utilisateurs du ciel nocturne concernant l'impact :
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Stairways to Heaven Mea culpa. I was wrong. Like Rolling Stone’s John Mendelsohn panning Led Zeppelin’s debut album, I couldn’t recognize it at first. Now I…

Guys, I was wrong. Avi Loeb is an artistic genius.
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I agree. Anybody who remembers Heavens Gate knows this is dangerous territory. What is the cost for feeding Loeb’s narcissism?

Time to move ➡️ 🐘

Where are my royalties? He said there was no evidence of a dusty coma. I said lean in, claim the spaceship is dirty. Now he likes dust and “can’t rule that out”. 😂

There’s No “I” in Team. But There Is One in “ALIENS” Yelling “Tarantulas!” in a crowded movie theater has its time and place. If you’re enduring Madame Web, everyone will be relieved you…

My complaints have not yet been resolved.

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