Josh Peek

@fakeaviloeb on X did this starting 11 years ago!

She also said, of the Harvard astronomical plate archive, “there are more fish in that sea than have been drawn from it”

This is how I see our data — a vast ocean teeming with discoveries yet to be caught.

Starting in 2020 lots of companies pivoted compute into the cloud, and lots more consumers pivoted to consuming more services online. None of that jump in energy use has the faintest thing to do with AI.

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Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

Look folks, I get that AI has lots of possible negatives, and I think it is important that we honestly discuss them. But man, if I see another AI-centered article about datacenter power use that shows the dramatic growth in power use from 2021-2023 I am gonna lose it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Declination in decimal hours? I have never seen anyone do it ever!

Shhh @mustaric.bsky.social is on here!!

I should get this as a secret option for the true sickos

Also *hard-core or *hare-brained choose your own typo adventure.

It is the perfect solution and you know it!

Petition to measure RA and Dec in decimal hours. Hare-core observers get their precious hours, the rest of us can use the decimal system and have symmetrical coordinates as god intended.

Yes! They are everywhere 🥰🥰🥰

My supervisors did a fair amount of this for me...

and everyone I know hates them

Yeah that’s fair. I’m just saying that the idea that Musk was trying to destroy NASA more than Voght is not supported by evidence.

Not at all. His pick for NASA was very pro science and was kicked to the curb.

That’s not dark matter, that’s baryons. We’ve long been unsure how closely the intergalactic plasma is clustered around galaxies. These folks have added some important measurements.

It’s bleak out there, but it’s heartening to know millions of people from all walks of life took the time to ruin one specific persons birthday, America’s hater spirit remains strong

so fascinating, but I don't really understand the temporal correlation aspect!

This work by my collaborator Blakesley (with support from yours truly) is based on data made much more easily available by MAST! This paper would not have happened if we (esp.
adrian lucy) hadn’t made this data so easy to use! Go @mast-news.bsky.social !!

Oh hey, Gerry

As a person who has professionally done my own research on a number of things, let me say: I do not want to have to do my own research on most things. I am happy for experts to do research in their fields and publish their finds, and for service providers to read and summarize it for me.

yeah, was really enjoying this thoughtful discussion today!

🚨 A 50% cut to NASA science is on the table for 2026.

This would kill missions, halt discoveries, and threaten thousands of jobs.

The American Astronomical Society makes it super easy to tell Congress: fund NASA science.

Speak up here: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

“The Hubble Image Similarity Project” by RL White & @jegpeek.bsky.social - what a cool idea! arxiv.org/pdf/2504.17688. See also the WIRED article by @sarahscoles.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/this-c...

90% of these images are of the ISM. There I said it!

Already built and on budget and on time!

David Brooks is ready to take it to the streets and Senator Van Hollen has demonstrated admirable resolve and compassion for a constituent in danger, let's make this the flapping of butterfly wings that causes a tornado

Many thanks to Simons Foundation for picking up this torch when others would not.