Quick thread about my book, "The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)", with FAQ. #EndOfEverythingBook astrokatie.com/book
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Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. , CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. She/her. Dr. mastodon.social/@AstroKatie
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🦠 This article is a really excellent summary (as a Q&A with ) of where we as a society are right now with respect to the pandemic. Highly recommended. 🦠
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"The removal of masks in healthcare settings is mind-boggling. It’s kind of in the same vein as if people were like, “Yeah, well, HIV is not new anymore, so people handling blood or contaminated material don’t need to wear gloves in a healthcare setting.” bu.edu/articles/2023/
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Okay, talking to and is the science X popular tech crossover I didn’t know I want and now want a lot more of.
Catch this episode!!
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It's time for another new episode of Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.! This week's episode is 182: The Healthy Kind of Nihilism Check your podcast app or grab it here: ift.tt/pLtzlAI
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Ryan's forced landing debrief episode is live - He had 3 cameras rolling, and the footage is compelling.
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Nine days. There were just NINE days between these tweets from the WHO.
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This was a fun chat — a bit of a random walk though cosmology and existential terror 😁
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It's time for another new episode of Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.! This week's episode is 182: The Healthy Kind of Nihilism Check your podcast app or grab it here: ift.tt/pLtzlAI
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“We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos.”
— in “The End of Everything”
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It's time for another new episode of Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.! This week's episode is 182: The Healthy Kind of Nihilism Check your podcast app or grab it here: ift.tt/pLtzlAI
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[poll] If something you’re sharing online turns out to be fake/false, do you appreciate people who let you know that?
- Yes; better to correct99.1%
- No; believable is enough0.3%
- Don’t care if fake or not0.6%
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When someone is as singularly repugnant as Cruz is there’s no need to fabricate screenshots to illustrate his awfulness but anyway it’s not really about him; I just figured people would want to know if they’re inadvertently spreading something made-up
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The Ted Cruz copied-tweet screenshot isn’t real; it goes viral after every shooting but it’s been debunked many times.
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Testing before spending time with people is a simple kindness that can prevent a lot of pain. 💙
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Narrowly missed getting exposed this week at a family dinner. My elderly parents had the good sense to test when they had symptoms, and sent this to me a couple of hours before we were to meet.
They are very medically vulnerable and thankfully they were able to start antiviral… Show more
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I appreciate the optimism, guys, but I'm fairly confident it's going to be Charles.
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The good news and great hope: the global health emergency of #COVID19 is over. bit.ly/412LUjW
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Really enjoyed talking cosmic destruction at the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers meeting this morning! 🌌🧑🏫⚛️
(I may have also gone on a bit of a rant about protons. In my defense, they are infuriating: sciencefocus.com/news/it-may-be)
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In my happy place, talking about physics with physics teachers @Perimeter. Very cool (and sometimes 
) keynote with @AstroKatie! #OAPT2023
) keynote with @AstroKatie! #OAPT2023
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As a past Simons Emmy Noether Fellow, I’m very glad this program will continue!
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Perimeter is grateful to the @SimonsFdn for their ongoing support of the Simons Emmy Noether Fellowship Program, including a recent $750,000 grant that will allow for its expansion to include more researchers. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q01NBgSQ0
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Starting off the day with as our keynote ... such an interesting and fascinating talk!! #OAPT23 #TheEndofEverythingAstrophysicallySpeaking
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Kicking things off with a great talk from walking us through some possible fates of the universe!
#OAPT2023
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This is terrifying: a marketer pinged me for quote permission — common for a journalist. Only I didn’t recognize the text as something I’d ever said. Pumping it into Google returned nothing.
I asked where he got it: ChatGPT. AI fabricated a quote and attributed it to me.
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The system is broken and unsafe — fixing it should be an urgent priority and if won’t do it themselves needs to get involved
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This week joins to discuss how much of a mess Elon Musk has made of Twitter in his first six months.
In this clip, Matt talks about the recent influx of Twitter users to Bluesky.
Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/elon-m
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I've watched several news stories now that are covering this as a story bringing attention to the plight of homelessness, as if this is not about a man strangling another to death because he didn't like how he was behaving. Homelessness is a problem, but it didn't cause this.
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I have an important message for you.
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
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“Sadly on the long Covid front, it is fair to say that it has cancelled my life until further notice.”
Astronomer royal Catherine Heymans was “efficient, effervescent, and unstoppable” until she developed #LongCovid
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In honour of Guardians of the Galaxy in theaters Friday, here’s a screenshot of the time I forgot I had scheduled a COUPLES THERAPY session on a day we were shooting. #GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3
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We have so much female talent across the country that will certainly drive innovation for generations to come.
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An incredible afternoon of conversation with , and Zainab Azim at the Institute's Emmy Noether National Virtual Forum exploring ways to advance women and diversity in STEM, particularly in physics.
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In case you missed it, here's my article in about Schrödinger's Cat sciencefocus.com/news/schroding
* No cats were harmed in the writing of this article!
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Hello Twitter friends! Today is my 🎂BIRTHDAY🎉!
If you'd like to help me celebrate, check out my birthday page, where you can find links to some charities that could use support!
➡️ astrokatie.com/birthday ⬅️
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“She’s probably going to block me for this but…” Yes! Gold star, well done sir, I didn’t even finish reading your tweet, I got distracted by a fluffy cloud outside and it was just way more interesting
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Anyway there is nothing wrong with blocking someone at any point, even mid-conversation, if you take a glance at their timeline and decide you don’t want to invite them into your parlor. No one is paying you to be here and entertain every stranger you meet.
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There are people here I care a lot about and I do think that there are interesting discussions to be had but none of that makes me keen to placate people who get aggro in my mentions, it is a waste of their time and immaterial to me
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My level of investment in this platform is extremely low at the moment; I have precisely zero incentive to engage in discussions initiated by strangers and blocking immediately at the slightest hint of a bad vibe costs me nothing. If you come at me I honestly couldn’t care less.
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Your desire for a better scientific understanding does not justify hurting other people; I don’t think that should be such a difficult notion.
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I don’t think it should be surprising that certain kinds of rhetoric can be harmful/immoral even when presented as “just trying to understand the science” since it’s clear that there are methods of scientific experimentation that are unethical even if scientifically effective.
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Can't help feeling this tweet could have been better phrased. twitter.com/BBCBristol/sta
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To my trans friends / followers / strangers: I’m deeply sorry that people are taking it upon themselves to devil’s-advocate your life and well-being and I want to be clear that I support and celebrate you being who you are and getting whatever kind of care you need to be well.
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“Both sides are crazy” isn’t a neutral or impartial position when one side is arguing for the oppression and elimination of marginalized people and the other side is arguing for letting people live their lives in peace. It’s just a callous attempt to evade moral integrity.
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