@emily.space
Postdoc @univie.ac.at Researches the Milky Way & star clusters with machine learning Founded the Astronomy feeds (@astronomy.blue) 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (she/her), Ⓥ Website: https://emily.space GitHub: https://github.com/emilyhunt
I worry about the hassle a lot. I'd have to change my name in so many places that I need day to day (eg on my visa, passport) which will be hassle. But equally, it'd be cute to have the same name, so hrm
Annoyingly, I have to decide by Monday, as we have to submit our plans to the registry office in Germany very far in advance 😅 and I'm stressing about what name I want for the rest of my life
It would feel stupid to still be using my old name a decade from now, so I might as well just bite the bullet and change it. It's also a lot easier now to change your name, e.g. on past papers! But it would definitely be ✨hassle✨
I'm probably going to change my name when I get married this year, taking a double-barrelled name with my partner. But should I change it within science too?
It would be nice to have a much easier to search name, as my current one is *very* common, but it's also a lot of hassle.
Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
"Feminism" [Times]
Astronomers for Planet Earth are submitting a statement about some of the proposed megaconstellations that would ruin ground-based astronomy to the FCC.
You can read the statement below: 🔭☄️
Nope!
Fellow astronomers, please submit your name if you'd like to join the Astronomers for Planet Earth (@a4e.org) statement on the proposed megaconstellations 🔭
You can also add your name to the statement (ONE DAY LEFT!) at this link: 🔭☄️
Astronomers for Planet Earth are submitting a statement about some of the proposed megaconstellations that would ruin ground-based astronomy to the FCC.
You can read the statement below: 🔭☄️
🔭☄️ #exoplanets
They were all great though! Had meetings with students who are gonna do/are doing really exciting projects
Just spent the entire day in meetings for the first time in my life 😅 I guess I am 30 this year...
Payel & Eugene are lovely and the Surrey astro group is great - definitely check this out! 🔭☄️
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I'm finding the air pollution in Vienna pretty miserable this winter =( are air purifiers worth it? I really miss not being able to open the window for fresh air
come to think of it both sides of my family have some history of cardiovascular issues, so err... suspicious much
oh rats! today I found out that I have a gene that gives me a higher risk of cardiovascular issues [I have high lipoprotein (a)]
not a problem for me really as I don't smoke or drink much, but I'm now super worried for whichever of my parents I got this gene from 😅
They can absolutely be overused though (and usually are). I always use them in conjunction with a Python module for each project where any actual heavy-lifting code goes
For prototyping, iterating on plots, or tutorials, I love them - especially when in an IDE. When it takes minutes to load/process some data but only 1 second to plot it, it's insanely useful to be able to keep it loaded while you tweak
I lost all respect for her already when she said this - and now she's racing to throw the entire field that she's supposed to represent under the bus???
Illustrated graphic with the boot-shaped Rubin Observatory atop its site on Cerro Pachón beneath a sparkling night sky and the glowing band of the Milky Way stretching from lower left to upper right. Sprinkled throughout are many "Data alert!" popups, labeled with icons that represent supernovae, asteroids, hungry black holes, and more.
A 3-by-4 grid of grayscale astronomical images zoomed in on single objects. From left to right, the columns are labeled Template, New image, and difference. From top to bottom, the rows are labeled supernova, variable star, active galactic nucleus, and solar system object.
The largest spot-the-difference effort EVER has begun!🚨
On the night of Feb 24, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially released its first ~800,000 public alerts of detected changes in the night sky!🔍
A new era of discovery is here✨ 🔭🧪☄️
🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/first-a...
uncritically posting an AI video to over 300k followers is a bit of a fuck up
Yes, but it's not the point - most people don't know enough about proper LLM use / pay money for subscriptions to be able to get a better answer out, and hence that's why I've seen some awful mis-citations of even basic numbers from my papers recently
misgendered by the machine 🚫👩🔬🚫
It's actually quite depressing that LLMs will replace women scientists with the name of men - especially when these tools are being pushed *so* hard (even by universities!) as tools that should be the primary way to look things up...
The main paper from my PhD crossed 300 citations last week, so it's not like I'm prompting about niche research either. 🤷♀️
Three years on, these tools remain piss-poor at searching the literature & not being overconfident, and it pains me to see my own papers getting very badly miscited and knowing that this is probably the cause.
thought I'd give it another chance. now i'm an andrew lol
(and I have never written a paper about Kepler before so it's wildly wrong)
AFAIK, the only times that right answers are given is when the model searches the internet & summarizes the results instead, so any prompt that doesn't hit the "this should be searched" criterion ends up wrong
While some models might do better or worse, I think it's still sadly moot - most people use the path of least resistance (i.e. free ChatGPT) or aren't tuned in enough to know what to pick, so the problem is very much a big thing impact stuff right now. 🫤