Postdoc @univie.ac.at working on star clusters & machine learning
Passionate about a better future for science communication via @astrosky.eco
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (she/her), Ⓥ
Website: https://emily.space
GitHub: https://github.com/emilyhunt
Emily Hunt
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AtmosphereConf 2026 is a wrap! We hope all the remote attendees had a great Streamplace experience.
When VODs, you ask? They're actually up right now! They're `place.stream.video` records in this repo.
One catch: no frontend yet. That's where you come in.
Welcome to the Streamplace VOD JAM.
"men continued to publish the same number of papers after becoming fathers, women experienced a significant drop in research output (mothers had 31% fewer publications than did fathers 8 years after the birth of their first child)"
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s
Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
The challenge with Attie for the builder community isn't the use of AI. It's the question of whether Bluesky begins absorbing/cannibalizing existing ecosystems within the Atmosphere.
wow, something really changed when my transport post went viral and I suddenly started to get a lot of engagement bait (four examples below)
I do not trust that all of those responses are real accounts... I guess that by replying weirdly they're trying to get replies & attention
for my last night in Vancouver, I walked down to the beach at UBC and watched the sun set 🥹 it was SO beautiful!
An absolutely excellent analysis of how dangerous outsourcing your thinking is for early career researchers in astronomy. 🔭☄️
"But the moment you use the machine to bypass the thinking itself ... you have crossed a line that is very difficult to see and very difficult to uncross. You haven't saved time. You've forfeited the experience that the time was supposed to give you."
Stanley Park in Vancouver is amazing! I spent nearly four hours walking around the peninsula, enjoying the views, and identifying birds on the bird app (Merlin)
I think I also drafted a blog post in my head, keep an eye out for the next hot take on AI dropping later this week
