why are you still here, go follow me on Bluesky @emily.space instead
not on this hell app
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ASTRONOMERS! I am trying really hard to improve our community over on 🇧🇱🇺🇪🇸🇰🇾! 🔭
You can try joining now with a starter pack at starterpack.astronomy.blue, which makes it easier than ever to try out 🇧🇱🇺🇪🇸🇰🇾 and join us 😊
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Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. wired.com/story/bluesky-now-…
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Jay Graber, Bluesky CEO:
"I think social media should be basically common infrastructure that society gets to use and evolve it as society evolves, building a more democratic form of social media to reflect a democratic society."
bsky.app/download
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"I didn't realize how much I missed interacting with real humans"
many people are saying this
bsky.app/download
ALT A collage of screenshots of people talking about how much engagement they get on Bluesky
Just gonna repost this today for no particular reason 👀
ASTRONOMERS! I am trying really hard to improve our community over on 🇧🇱🇺🇪🇸🇰🇾! 🔭
You can try joining now with a starter pack at starterpack.astronomy.blue, which makes it easier than ever to try out 🇧🇱🇺🇪🇸🇰🇾 and join us 😊
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Interested in UK news and politics? tomirwin.bsky.social created this starter pack to bring you onboard!
Join here: go.bsky.app/VNsC9bL
Oh hello Britain 😳
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join the fun! bsky.app/download🦋
ALT A chart showing activity from various countries on Bluesky. The UK, in blue, is experiencing a huge spike.
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Bluesky signups surge in UK amid Musk's row with government over riots reut.rs/3Ams7V3
Over a hundred young star clusters near to the Sun can be traced back to just *three* distinct star-forming regions. This is a *huge* result for studying our own galaxy!
The work is out today in Nature, led by Cameren Swiggum in Vienna: arxiv.org/abs/2406.06510
Link to a very cool interactive version of that first figure, which lets you trace the cluster's orbits back in time: cswigg.github.io/cam_website…
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On X, scientists are sidelined, attacked, and trolled.
Meanwhile on B l u e s k y, they’re asking scientists how to make the platform better for them ⬇️
If you love science and constructive discussions on social media, and you are not yet there….what are you waiting for?!
ALT A screenshot of a post by a blue sky employee asking scientists and science communication experts how to make the platform better for them.
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Just confirmed!
Everyone you have ever blocked is now able to see your posts!
They just can't interact with them.
This is gonna make a bunch of toxic stalkers happy.
What a complete douchebag!
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This week I added a second zoomed in 1 kpc 3D map using @emilydoesastro's very latest cluster catalog and the ability to display labels on a corresponding top down 2D map (as adding readable labels directly on a 3D map is difficult). (2/3)
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Billionaires like @elonmusk are threatened by Bluesky.
We’re building an open social network that lets you choose your own feed, gives you the right to leave, and gives communities the tools to self-govern. The skies are bluer on bsky.app.
Sign up for Bluesky (no invite code required): bsky.app
Exactly.
Any organization that puts “Trust” in their name cannot trusted, as that is obviously a euphemism for censorship.
We are changing the name of our Trust & Safety group, to simply @Safety. Trust is something that must be earned.
The goal of our Safety team is simply to ensure compliance with the laws that already exist to protect the people.
Our galaxy's young star clusters now have accurately measured masses, radii, and classifications!
My new paper out today uses a new method to distinguish between bound and unbound clusters, improving the usability of the cluster census and setting new observational constraints.
The paper has been accepted in A&A, but you can read it now on the arXiv!
There's a link to download the data in the comments of the arXiv posting.
arxiv.org/abs/2403.05143