Johanna Hartke

You do realise the irony of using 'bomb throwers' when complaining about polarising language?

For now I don't really see a need for it, as the full text search works pretty well, but I can see how it could reach its limits as the database grows. Let's hope we don't need to rely on AI to deal with a database full of AI-generated papers...

I agree with that statement. We will have to wait and see how it is actually implemented before we can judge. The folks at SAO have been doing a fantastic job with ADS so far.

Our university-hosted AI-based search tool had the audacity to suggest "consider also searching for Johannes Hartke" when it could not find any of my papers. This is after a decade of mostly publishing as "J Hartke" for a reason...

Great news from my former home! I wish something like this could be considered in city centres in Finland, too. But car-centric Turku could never...

Students have access to these tools and it's important to properly guide them on their use (or avoidance).

I am glad I participated in this workshop on using these tools though (facilitated by the @utu.fi library and @tcsmtutu.bsky.social), as it made me even more aware of the biases and pitfalls of AI-based literature research.

At least when I finally found one of my papers to benchmark how much it is getting right about its content, it did not do too poorly. But for now, back to the ADS.

- and then my un-favourite, suggesting to search for Johannes Hartke rather than J Hartke

- not being able to search by author: "I could not find any publications by Hartke on extragalactic planetary nebulae"; well RIP to 10 years of my contributions to the field

Highlights from the 'conversation':
- coming up with a fake reference to Springer for a paper that I am very sure I published in A&A back in the day

Wild ride trying out different AI-based literature research tools endorsed by our university library. So glad the astro community has been blessed with the ADS for decades and hoping that it'll remain free from hallucinating AI-bots for the foreseeable future. 🔭

Could be worse, could be Fortran 77...

„[KI] ist nur dann allgegenwärtig, wenn wir das zulassen“ — this!! Viele Diskussionen gehen von der Prämisse aus, dass wir der Entwicklung ohnmächtig ausgeliefert sind & jetzt alle KI nutzen müssen. Das ist 1 Bankrotterklärung an die Selbstwirksamkeit der Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft. We can do better!

1/ Happy International Day of #WomenAndGirlsInScience!

To mark the occasion, women from across the @eiroforum.org organisations, including ESO, shared one piece of advice that helped them in their professional journeys 👇

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Fighting the Equality Paradox in Finnish Science - HIP Blog (NUTS, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, is an EU standard referencing the administrative divisions of counties) Finland is one of the most equal countries in the world and in the Euro...

Some food for thought on today's #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience and lack of initiatives around it in Finland: blog.hip.fi/fighting-the...

Liebe deswegen finnische Fernzüge: die haben Telefonkabinen wo man sich zurückziehen kann um die Mitreisenden nicht zu stören.

Ich kann diese Postings von wegen „spätestens wenn Männer Töchter haben“ oder „ihrer Frau zuliebe“ zum Thema (sexualisierte) Gewalt gegen Frauen & Mädchen echt nicht mehr lesen. Basic Menschenrechte sollten unabhängig vom individuellen Familien- & Beziehungsstatus gelten & durchgesetzt werden.

The Milky Way stretches across the night sky above a dark mountain ridge. An astronomical observatory is silhouetted on the summit.

AES Andes announced that it will step back from the project INNA, planned near our Paranal Observatory.
We welcome this and expect the project to be withdrawn from Chile's Environmental Assessment Service soon, which would formally confirm the cancelation: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2602
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Fluss mit Eis

Schatten auf Ziegelsteinwand

Laterne an Holzhaus

Bunte Fassade

So viel Sonne 😌

#Turku #Finnland

Zum Glück nimmt mein Chef and der Uni auch den Zug nach Oulu und würde gar nicht mit der Wimper zucken, wenn wir den abrechnen.

Me this week with new data 🤩

An image of a spiral galaxy, showing only the light from specific gasses within, looking like much of the galaxy has been replaced with empty space and only an outline remains. This outline is composed of specks of different coloured light, with a cone of white-ish light at the centre. Nearby the dots are a warm orange, replaced with pink light as you get to the edges of the grand spiral.

Dive into this ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor Galaxy!

Based on observations made with our VLT, it was created by stitching together over 100 exposures, covering an area about 65 000 light-years wide.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2510b/

🔭 #flashback

📷 ESO/E. Congiu et al.

title: The Writer in January Panel 1. “A short stroll...” says the writer aleaving the house. The sun has begun to peek over the horizon. Panel 2. “Then back to my desk for a good day's writing in the winter sun.” The sun has risen a little higher. Panel 3. “Surely it's not going down yet?” The sun is indeed on its way down. Panel 4. “Perhaps I'll catch the last rays.” Says the writer breaking into a sprint. Panel 5. The writer is back at home sitting at a desk saying “Damn!”. The sun is gone. The sky is gloomy.

A recent cartoon for @theguardian.com

Median time under review (time intervened from submission to acceptance) of articles indexed in PubMed with a female first author (n = 2,562,262), a male first author (n = 3,405,821), a female corresponding author (n = 975,010), a male corresponding author (n = 1,946,469), a female first author and a female corresponding author (n = 757,878), a male first author and a male corresponding author (n = 1,357,835), all-female authors (n = 650,280), and all-male authors (n = 2,146,799)

Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org

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Speaking as a scientist who studies the cosmos but who’s never been that interested in doing it with telescopes, it’s both humbling and awe-inspiring to get out and truly see the full night sky with your own two eyes in an area without light pollution. We’re losing something that’s invaluable.

The application for the ESO Summer Research Programme 2026 has just opened!

It‘s a six week programme in Garching close to Munich where pre-Ph.D students can work on a hands-on project.

Working at @eso.org is a fabulous experience, so please help me spread the word ✨

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New SOXS instrument ready to observe fleeting cosmic events The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) new instrument in Chile can quickly detect fleeting cosmic events. The SOXS spectrograph opens exciting new opportunities for Finnish astronomy.

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) new instrument in Chile can quickly detect fleeting cosmic events.

The SOXS spectrograph opens exciting new opportunities for Finnish astronomy.

www.utu.fi/en/news/news...

Liste von Dingen, die ich an der Wissenschaft nicht vermissen werde (wird fortlaufend ergänzt). #IchBinHanna

1. Nie Feierabend haben.