@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-01-09 02:57:36
The penultimate #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBq0KdXU9c about High Redshifts and High Energies dealt e.g. with An Unlensed Barred Spiral Before Cosmic Noon (https://www.newswise.com/articles/pitt-student-finds-familiar-structure-just-2-billion-years-after-the-big-bang and https://www.umass.edu/news/article/astronomers-find-one-oldest-barred-spiral-galaxies-universe), A precessing jet from an active galactic nucleus (https://public.nrao.edu/news/record-breaking-stream-of-super-heated-gas/ and https://keckobservatory.org/vv340a/ and https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ecz5crtdymxrlodycogpt/AB32N_1Bh3pyI2SyzbRGkTs?rlkey=zbyz1muz40y1rh8ierpw1yfok&e=1&st=ebs24tqb&dl=0) and the papers AT2024wpp: An Extremely Luminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient Powered by Accretion onto a Black Hole & Multiwavelength Modeling of the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2024wpp (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03337 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03372 with https://docs.google.com/document/d/1foKS2AQJlWvI4_ZzUlV8pYfkyAsElzkRQ5yo82VWy4s/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0 and https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2026/1/6/cow and https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-telescopes-uncover-invisible-gas-around-record-shattering-cosmic-explosion/).
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-08 16:49:59
A profile of Apple SVP John Ternus, the head of hardware engineering, who sources say is the front-runner to succeed Tim Cook, who wants to reduce his workload (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/technology/apple-ceo-tim-cook-john-ternus.html…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-01-08 09:42:04
from my link log —
Why the trans flag emoji uses a sequence of 5 unicode codepoints.
https://hecate.pink/blog/2026/trans-flag-emoji/
saved 2026-01-07 …
@macandi@social.heise.de2025-12-09 07:05:00
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-09 01:00:04
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-09 10:45:35
Transportation chief Duffy floats flight reductions of up to 20 percent if shutdown doesn't end (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5595194-transportation-sean-duffy-flight-reductions-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p16#a251109p16
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-01-09 03:07:26
The final (8th) #AAS247 presser #Lazuli, described in detail the paper #ArgusArray to the astronomical community: https://carolinastories.unc.edu/developing-the-worlds-largest-sky-survey-telescope/ and https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/ and https://www.astronomy.com/science/eric-and-wendy-schmidt-to-fund-space-telescope-three-ground-based-observatories/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/former-ceo-of-google-spearheads-4-next-gen-telescopes-3-on-earth-and-1-in-space and https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schmidt-sciences-announces-plan-for-lazuli-a-private-space-telescope/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-09 03:00:04
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-01-07 18:45:52
The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-01-07 23:51:20
The 6th #AAS247 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nss3zNi5SYA about Cosmology and Galaxy Clusters discussed the lensed supernova Ares from the Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS) program (https://www.stsci.edu/jwst-program-info/download/jwst/pdf/9478/), the paper PASSAGES: The Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Protocluster Core Candidate at Cosmic Noon (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf4d5 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-lens-reveals-hyperactive-cradle-of-future-galaxy-cluster/), new results from the One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad165e) and the paper Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3
(https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849463900911844 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-galaxy-clusters/).