“The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot…It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century.”
26.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 98 🔁 20 💬 10 📌 5
“The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot…It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century.”
26.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 98 🔁 20 💬 10 📌 5
Good morning from Finnish Lapland 🇫🇮 at Santa Claus Village, the northernmost stop on the FlixBus European network 🚌
Over the next 100+ hours, I’ll be travelling exclusively with FlixBus all the way to Lisbon 🇵🇹 which is the longest journey you can book as a single ticket with them!
The only vows colum you ever need to read. They can retire the concept now. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/s...
26.02.2026 04:40 — 👍 73 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0We should have canceled him a generation ago for being bad at statistics. How can you trust an economist who is that bad at interpreting information?
25.02.2026 21:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Fuck Larry Summers and his misogyny. Who is surprised? He’s been boasting about it for more than 20 years! www.pbs.org/newshour/sci... @harvard.edu
25.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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Replays of that superb pass from Taylor Heise and the goal from Megan Keller
19.02.2026 21:11 — 👍 548 🔁 107 💬 8 📌 37
Two Bluesky posts. The first is a headline from the Colorado Sun that says “An old land dispute in the San Luis Valley pits the privacy of a billionaire's new home against grazing sheep” and the second from Effin’ Birds that says “What a fuckwit”.
Enjoying the serendipity of the timeline.
18.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I’m biased bc I used to do a little fieldwork for the forest service in Yosemite, but they’re all neat. I had no idea they would do custom orders, though — it’s such a great idea for swag!
www.buff.com/us/coolnet-u...
Those are SO COOL! 😍
I would be biased for Yosemite too. :) My family used to go there every year to go skiing at Badger Pass. 🎿
As a Buffs fan, I absolutely love this idea, and look how great they are!
And if you didn’t know, but are a fan of the US National Parks, Buffs has an equally cool looking parks collection with unique designs for the big favorites.
Ooo! That’s great to know. I will make sure to keep an eye out for them. Thanks for the heads up!
14.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Buff neck warmer/head cover on its packaging.
One side of the Buff featuring three radio telescopes in yellow that represent the OSO 25 m, and the Osaka twin telescopes. Above the telescopes is some geometric stylised northern lights, and in the foreground is an inlet from the sea and the rocky coastline. The landscape is shades of blue.
A side of the Buff featuring the ray dome, in yellow, that houses the Onsala 20 m. There is some aurora and stars above the dome and pine trees on the horizon, and two deer subtly in the foreground. The landscape is in blue.
We got custom Buffs made for the Sweden SKA Science Days and other sweSRC and Nordic ARC node events this year, inspired by the telescopes and landscape of Onsala Space Observatory. The anticipation has been intense, but they turned out so well! 🤩 🔭 📡
14.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Looking across a conference table with a laptop and coffee cup on the near side. Out the windows on the opposite side of the room is a snowy Swedish coastal landscape featuring three radio telescopes and a small red painted building
View from the office yesterday.
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OK BUT THE SOURCING AND CONSTRUCTION OF OLYMPIC CURLING STONES IS SO FREAKING COOL i'm glad people are yapping about this
(i did not Understand a damn thing about curling until quite recently and am low-key mildly obsessed now)
Siblings Isabella Wranå and Rasmus Wranå holding up the Swedish flag after winning the mixed doubles final in curling against the United States in the 2026 winter Olympic games.
Swedish language PSA: The mixed doubles curling gold medal winners are named "Wranå", not "Wranaa" as is used in the official Olympic games broadcasts and results. "Å" is an actual letter in the Swedish alphabet, just like "ä" and "ö". Its pronunciation is similar to the "o" in "gold."
10.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Today, in Jevons Paradox…
10.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.
09.02.2026 05:54 — 👍 349 🔁 58 💬 4 📌 1
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Our flagship public universities are already not "public" universities. Soon, they'll either be fully privatized, or they'll be "universities." The question for places like UW - Madison is which one we'll become. Others have already made their choices. And the rest simply haven't admitted this yet.
05.02.2026 22:27 — 👍 52 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1The next edition circa Sept 2027 is bound to be exciting with SKA Low science verification data (results?) in hand. For now…I’m excited to catch up on sleep. 😴
05.02.2026 19:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just wrapped up a great meeting of the 3rd Sweden SKA Science Days! 50+ people and folks online, 8+ countries represented, a myriad of science topics from proto-planetary disks to galaxies to cosmic rays to the epoch of reionization, & lively discussions about machine learning in the SKA era. 🔭 📡
05.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Block this fucker.
01.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 419 🔁 401 💬 24 📌 11
Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.
This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
A colleague just got off the phone & said a Chinese satellite 🛰️ is going to crash into Sweden this afternoon. Wait. WHAT?
In the interest of not causing an international incident: there is *ten hour* uncertainty on this, and Swedish civil defense issued a warning: www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...
I'm not sure people do think of sand in terms of the composition, as people are happy with black (iron oxides), green (olivine), and pink (coral) sands being sand. Using grain size to distinguish between gravel, sand, and mud comes intuitively to most people, even if they don't use the term
28.01.2026 21:58 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0🔭
28.01.2026 06:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a fucking disaster.
Not only are OpenAI and the likes unleashing this shit on the world, they are deliberately leaning into the harms that their business model causes with products like Prism.
An App Store reporting form complaining about the X app.
Part of the App Store page for the X app, with the “Report a Problem” link circled in red.
If you ever installed Twitter (or X or Grok) on the App Store, you can submit a report of abusive content and ask them to remove the apps from the App Store.
Just click the “Report a Problem” link on the app’s page in the App Store.
