Jim Geach

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[University of Hertfordshire Observatory @BayfordburyObs]

Very strong #aurora visible above Hertfordshire right now. #Auroraborealis #northernlights

[University of Hertfordshire Observatory @BayfordburyObs]

Last week we installed a camera to monitor the northern sky. It didn't have long to wait to capture a brief but intense show of red #AuroraBorealis this morning.
#aurora #northernlights

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

A situation where collar gap really is unacceptable

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

shape & drape slim fit

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

@rcrain_astro Wow!

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

Whoa - Shaw was only 48 in Jaws?

[The Daily Jaws @thedailyjaws]

Actor and writer Robert Shaw passed away #onthisday in 1978, just three years after his iconic performance as Quint in Steven Spielberg's #JAWS. He was just 51 years old.

[Tod R. Lauer @TodLauer]

Probably the best "slow fuse" paper I've discovered yet. This is the citation history for Fritz Zwicky's 1937 paper on the possibility of dark matter in the Coma cluster of galaxies. It really didn't get going until the '90s:

[Scientific American @sciam]

Large language models may enable real-time communication with extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vast distances between stars. We need to start thinking about what to tell them about us | Opinion https://t.co/o2a08AZ8FQ

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

astropy | IRAF

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

Put the tent up in the garden. Cats immediately commandeer the roof as their personal hammock.

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

No, evidently not.

[Keith Frankish @keithfrankish]

Do you find it plausible that we can gain insight into the fundamental nature of reality simply by reflecting on our own minds?

[Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1]

Sam Altman has an OpEd in today's Washington Post: "Who will control the future of AI?". He frames the future of AI as an urgent competition between the US / West and "nations or movements that don’t share our values".

https://t.co/bvCHWKmUsY

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[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

OK Computer should have been an EP with Airbag / Paranoid Android / Subterranean Homesick Alien /:Electioneering and nothing else. All of the other songs are rubbish.

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

@bushontheradio My Boglin

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

@bushontheradio Conkers

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

@Philip_Goff Did you read George Ellis's recent piece which touches on interpretation: https://t.co/ViYreYl9Qp

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

Check out our new work led by Jianhang Chen: pushing the detection of ordered galactic B-fields back to z=5.6 in SPT0346-52! https://t.co/jEKYof3EJw with @Enloro et al.

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

@bushontheradio Need anything from Trago, Bush?

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Prominent security consultant Troy Hunt says 'this will be the largest IT outage in history' and 'this is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time'

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

Mind blown.

[Alyssa Drake (@abdrake.bsky.social) @ab_drake]

More @I_Hert_Space stars: @AstronomerEmma giving her plenary talk about all the exciting JADES results