Dr Chris Bridges

Screenshot showing Ubuntu's System Monitor where all 22 CPU cores are maxed out at 100% utilisation.

Just me or do you also enjoy using make -j22 and watching the world burn? #dev

Isn’t AI simply value extraction in such cases with music? The intent is to mimic, copy, or emulate while reducing cost and people, no?

Very unlike the ML I use #MLsky

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

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Libby Jackson with a CubeSat at the Science Museum, London

Hi @libbyjackson.com, hi @sciencemuseum.org.uk, hi #CubeSat - looks like a wonderful exhibition! 🚀

Fml. Is Researchgate OK still?

Thanks #EduSky #AcademicSky @nposegay.bsky.social for the heads up on this. Account deleted.

“There is as yet no systematic policy approach for integrating higher education institutions into the UK’s emergency planning and national readiness frameworks” - Strategic Defence Review

The ISS Ham Radio Status as of Sunday, 14-September-2025 is: - **Columbus Module Radio**: Configured as crossband repeater, Downlink: 437.800 MHz, Uplink: 145.990 MHz - PL 67 Hz. - **Service Module Radio**: Configured for Packet (APRS), Up & Downlink: 145.825 MHz. - **HamTV**: Active, transmitting blank AV signal, Downlink: 2395 MHz (2.395 GHz). - **SSTV Outlook**: Two events planned: - 03-06 October: Celebrating the 1957 launch of the first artificial Earth satellite. - 17-20 October: Scouting themed images for International Scouting Jamboree. - **HamTV Outage Planned**: Outage for Cygnus operations on Wednesday, 17-September, around 10:03 UTC [6:03 AM ET] to 18:40 UTC [2:40 PM ET]. Event timing subject to change.

The ARISS cross band voice repeater and packet (APRS) radios are back online after the recent outage for Progress operations.

HamTV trackers, note that there is an outage planned for Wednesday due to spacecraft operations.

Dear #MLSky - good news - @docker.com #docker for build, #python @pytorch.org 2.9, on #FPGA (ARM7l) from S. Lane, OBDH Extraordinaire.

Simple load, inference, validation & profiling working.

Bleak

for some reason i was absolutely *compelled* to give this NASA europa mission animation a freebird edit

NASA's Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) website has been down for at least a week now — has anyone heard anything about why that may be the case?

nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov

Super & factual as usual Bleddyn 👍

The UK Space Agency has been absorbed into the science department. The potential effects are still unclear The agency has been the subject of some criticism and some aspects of the new arrangement could be positive.

No, UK Government is not scrapping its space programmes.

There’s been some confusion and bungled communications over the musical chairs in civil space policy and the UK Space Agency this week. It all matters less than the chronic lack of focus and leadership from UK Government for 15 years. 👇👇👇

Council for Science and Technology: advice on building a sovereign AI chip design industry in the UK

"Today, we graduate about 9,000 electronic engineers per year, and if just 10% become chip designers, we would only produce 4,500 #AI chip designers in 5 years, just over a third of what we will need." #MLSky #AcademicSky

< yikes >

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Yes, it does. I'm sensitive to this as there will have been civil servants who put blood, sweat & (more!) tears into it building something ... good. I really hope those voices are heard as managing & communicating such change needs real human care for the people who make it all tick.

UK space sector bolstered with government reforms to boost growth and cut red tape UK Space Agency to join the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology by April 2026, helping to streamline support for the UK’s growing space industry.

It's a bad headline Peter - UKSA will still exist, just now in DSIT from April 2026: www.gov.uk/government/n...

I really miss your gifs Bleddyn ☺️

Ah - the "vacuum of what is not said" strikes again.

UK Space Agency CEO Dr Paul Bate said: “I strongly welcome this improved approach to achieving the Government’s space ambitions. Having a single unit with a golden thread through strategy, policy and delivery will make it faster and easier to translate the nation’s space goals into reality. “In coming together, the UK Space Agency and space policy colleagues are building on the firm foundations of economic growth and capability development laid in recent years, including cutting-edge missions, major national programmes, and the regulations that enable UK launch and leadership in space sustainability. “We will continue to deliver, while reducing duplication and ensuring we work even more closely with Ministers to support the UK space sector, and the country.”

Our CEO Paul Bate welcomes the news that the UK Space Agency will become part of DSIT from April 2026. 🤝

This is a major step to boost support for the space sector and deliver for the country, building on firm foundations to drive economic growth and national security. 🚀

It started independent but then many .gov depts became stakeholders (dependent on the activity) ... HO, DfT, FO, Treasury ... reseting the relationship with itself is not a bad thing. The risks are around 1/ less autonomy for long term projects, & 2/ political winds.

Yup - just a poor headline here / bsky.app/profile/chri...

Not scrapped - but perhaps a poor headline /
bsky.app/profile/chri...

It does not say that it would cut (science) funding - but the threat is there ofc.

Yes, free-ing up people is one outcome. Plus 1/ easier budget & policy coordination across .gov & 2/ faster/easier alignment with national goals to for the new industrial strategy too.

That line does the heavy lifting there and is what is to be preserved.

Compare & contrast these headlines re: @ukspaceagency.bsky.social & DSIT. Many thoughts but I don't think the BBC article's main thrust vector is one I can share.

Links: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... / www.gov.uk/government/n...

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people