Peter K. G. Williams

Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector…

Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. That could be you! More info here: defector.com/would-you-li...

Congrats!! You & Kate both with the twins ... something in the Berger Group Radio Astronomer water? 🧐

A large slide fills most of the image, projected in a modern glass-walled auditorium. The slide has a pink background with bold red text at the top: “Managers have been vibe coding forever” Below is a bulleted list in plain red text: • tell dev to implement a new feature (vibe coding) • dev makes changes to code • manager tests app • manager does not read the code • manager complains about bugs • dev makes changes to fix bugs • manager doesn’t read the code (again) • dev says “done, by now” • manager says “gj but be faster next time” or insults the living hell out of the dev In the lower-left foreground, a speaker stands behind a black podium labeled: AI Engineer Code Summit Presented by Google DeepMind The room is bright with floor-to-ceiling windows behind the stage showing greenery and modern architecture outside.

truth hurts

Munazza Alam – The City University of New York 26 Colleges. One University.

Munazza Alam, Asst Astronomer at @stsci.edu is among this year's "50 under 50" alumni award winners from @cuny.edu - great work! 🔭https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/communications-marketing/alumni-network/50under50/munazza-alam/

Reflections On Five Years In Worker-Owned Media | Defector As I finally got to work on writing Defector’s fifth Annual Report, I found myself noodling on some broader thoughts about the worker-owned media landscape. Tom said some sections would work as a…

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Things could be different / BUT THEY'RE NOT! — all-timer imo

Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection - Nature An analogue to a type II burst from the early M dwarf StKM 1-1262 exhibits identical frequency, time and polarization properties to fundamental plasma emission from a solar type II burst.

Nature research paper: Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection

go.nature.com/3JyIByp

Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.

A Mamdani style sign that reads "Harvard Astronomers for normal cometary activity"

Excited to attend the @astrosociety.org gala tonight & receive the Nancy Grace Roman Award! I read about her life & career on my way here. Did you know she was responsible for making NASA data archives public so that everyone could benefit, not just PIs? Such an amazing impact on our field. 🔭

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@scixcommunity.bsky.social #planetaryscience 🔭#heliophysics

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.

arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven’t been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why?

A tide of AI slop.

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Nah, I'm sure that the billionaires will behave totally reasonably and put the common good above their petty personal interests

OK fine

I want a position player pitching in extra innings of World Series Game 7.

I'm in YOLO mode, let's tie this up and go for 19 innings. I want daylight saving clock confusion.

Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.

So, did anyone else completely miss the call for Cool Stars 23 splinter sessions? Apparently, it was only sent to a Google Group? Here's the main bit:

The deadline for submission is **November 3rd**.
coolstars23.github.io/splinters.html
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(seems they only have an X account, no bsky)

Congrats!

Well well well

wow what are the chances

youth pastor sitting backwards on chair: you know who else assembled a “starter pack” of people to follow?

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Congrats new #ChemNobel Laureates, and brilliant collaborators! Can you spot another famous #NobelPrize winner? Explore how metal–organic frameworks (#MOFs) are transforming research in #EnvironmentalScience, #SpaceExploration, and #SustainableMaterials at scixplorer.org

Divide that by ten, is my understanding...

FWIW, my understanding is that the amount of money that has actually been delivered is a lot less than the numbers that get announced.

So excited to share that I'm a Researcher-in-Residence @inkandswitch.com! I'll be hanging out with the amazing people there in my free time - can't wait to share what I've been working on 🥳