Manlio De Domenico

The left image is not even close to what I can see by make 👀: it comes from the stellarium app and it shows what I could see w/o clouds and, overall, the extremely high light pollution (right image).

/fin

Why it's so exciting?

W/ naked 👀 I saw only 3 stars

W/ the old setup I could take only shots for 0.9s to avoid trailing stars

Now, after a rough (obviously manual) alignment to Polaris, I can easily capture for 10+s, enhancing the signal to noise ratio by order of magnitude.

Now I aim at 30s.

This Pic could appear insignificant to many, but it's gamechanging for me.

For technical reasons and ☁️☁️ I could point only to the area covered by the red square: this time, the 1st, with my 📷 positioned on my new star tracker. There are about 1200 stars captured in that red square!

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Trump moves nuclear submarines after ex-Russia president’s menacing tweet Order comes after president’s anger at tweet from Dmitry Medvedev which called Trump’s threat to sanction Russia over Ukraine a ‘step towards war’

Americans: after the dismantling of science and civil rights, do you really want someone positioning nuclear submarines in response to a tweet?

I mean, I can't understand this world. This is out of control. Where are we heading?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thanks Ricard! 🙏

Superheating gold beyond the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold - Nature Gold samples can be heated to more than 14 times their melting point while retaining their crystalline structure, far surpassing the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold and suggesting a substantia...

Max Planck was once advised not to study physics because "everything important had already been discovered."

Luckily, he didn’t listen. And neither should we.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not to be alarmist or anything, but we're basically witnessing the commodification of individual economic psychology in real-time. | Rebecca Bultsma Not to be alarmist or anything, but we're basically witnessing the commodification of individual economic psychology in real-time.   You just paid $847 for a flight. The person next to you paid $332. ...

Late-stage capitalism is reaching its most paradoxical form:
AI systems that profile you, predict you and increasingly choose for you.

A poetic irony, if it weren’t such a disturbing trajectory.

www.linkedin.com/posts/rebecc...

Not to be alarmist or anything, but we're basically witnessing the commodification of individual economic psychology in real-time. | Rebecca Bultsma Not to be alarmist or anything, but we're basically witnessing the commodification of individual economic psychology in real-time.   You just paid $847 for a flight. The person next to you paid $332. ...

Late-stage capitalism is reaching its most paradoxical form:
AI systems that profile you, predict you and increasingly choose for you.

A poetic irony, if it weren’t such a disturbing trajectory.

www.linkedin.com/posts/rebecc...

Climate change in action

Water stressed areas around the world form a band around the northern lower-to mid-latitudes

As if atmospheric circulation which carries heat from the equator to the poles has been disrupted

www.ft.com/content/e67a...

If you are curious about how to assess the emergence of network functionality in empirical systems and why modeling and first principles matter to study #ComplexSystems, let's meet at the #CCS2025 in Siena, 1st September 👇

#FunctionalTraits 🧪🌐

Nature weaves on the loom of complexity: light with darkness, chaos with calm, destruction with creation.

Until beauty emerges from turbulence.

Pictures are my own: all rights reserved.

Nature weaves on the loom of complexity: light with darkness, chaos with calm, destruction with creation.

Until beauty emerges from turbulence.

Emergent Evolution and the Social

Got it! Many thanks 🙏

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ricard, do you know published papers from him about this topic?

To me, part of this is that these “billionaire geniuses” are so bought in to the myth of their own brilliance that their ego can’t acknowledge how they just happened to be standing next to a money making machine at the right moment in history, and that their contributions rest on the work of others.

Why AI chatbots lie to us A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

LLMs don't lie because they want to. They lie because they're trained to role-play, reinforced to please and lack grounding in truth.

This misalignment isn't just theoretical: it’s showing up in fabricated data, hallucinated praise, even red-teamed blackmail.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why AI chatbots lie to us A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

LLMs don't lie because they want to. They lie because they're trained to role-play, reinforced to please and lack grounding in truth.

This misalignment isn't just theoretical: it’s showing up in fabricated data, hallucinated praise, even red-teamed blackmail.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A beautiful instant, vanishingly brief in space and time against the backdrop of the cosmos' evolution.

Less is more, more is different and sparse is better: but why? The answer can come from an unexpected connection with the statistical physics of quantum systems

If you caught some of my summer‑conference sessions, you’ve already seen how the network density matrix and emergent latent geometry let us quantify a system's functionality.

While I finish an updated post, here's a concise #ComplexityThoughts refresher 👇

#NetworkScience #ComplexSystems

Less is more, more is different and sparse is better: but why? The answer can come from an unexpected connection with the statistical physics of quantum systems

If you caught some of my summer‑conference sessions, you’ve already seen how the network density matrix and emergent latent geometry let us quantify a system's functionality.

While I finish an updated post, here's a concise #ComplexityThoughts refresher 👇

#NetworkScience #ComplexSystems

I think that from APS there is publicly available data. After all, that's not representative of all STEM at all.

Still: do we have any plausible argument to think that other fields will behave differently?

The innovation trade-off: how following superstars shapes academic novelty - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The innovation trade-off: how following superstars shapes academic novelty

"our results indicate that academia pays a price by focusing attention and resources on superstars"

Nice to see this supported by data analysis, now.

H/T: @cxdig.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool that to go to the venue, we must wait here

On my way to this amazing venue to talk about how to assess the emergence of functionality in empirical complex networks.

Coarse graining, mesoscale, multiscale signal propagation, and much more.

If you are in Venice, show up and say hello!

#ComplexSystems

Sure, the idea is lovely.
But before registering I was wondering if the corresponding podcast entries and the materials will be behind paywall.

Yep

Do you know if the patreon material is accessible only after subscription?

Is that subscription free?

Sure, every study comes with its own limitations. Here just APS data, and the choice of H-index as metric (which is plausibly broadly used to assess superstars).

It gives a good hint.