Matthew Kenworthy

@mattkenworthy
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Associate professor at Leiden Observatory taking photos of planets around other stars and seeing the shadows of rings around other worlds.
Websitehttps://kenworthy.space/
LocationThe Netherlands
PronounsHe/him
Grooveis in the heart, ooooh yeah na na na na

the worst bit? i still like machine learning, i still think stochastic approaches can have benefits

but if i wrote software that pushed vulnerable teenagers to suicide, or enabled people to sexually harass strangers with pornographic forgeries

i would take a step back from the keyboard and ask my good buddy hans, "are we the baddies"

or at least, i hope i'd ask those hard questions

we're destroying the open web

we're burning down the closest thing i've ever seen in my life to the library of alexandria

and people are explaining to me how warm it keeps their hands, and maybe, in the future, the ashes will contain the secrets of the universe

Marcussen+ solve a complex multiple stellar system in a very elegant paper: “The µ Herculis system solved after nearly three centuries”. It’s rare that the figures in a paper make me stop and say “Wow!” and I tip my hat to the authors for genuinely beautiful diagrams. Go take a look! #astrodon 🔭☄ https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12492
Li+ on “A Search for Wide-orbit Planets Around M-dwarfs using Deep MIRI 15 micron Images” shows how the background sensitivity of JWST enables searches down to a few Jupiter masses for targets that are typically several gigayears old. #exoplanets #astrodon https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07703

Important XScreenSaver policy update.

25: No contributions built with, or assisted by, LLMs or any kind of "generative AI" tools will be considered. If you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it. XScreenSaver is art by humans for humans.

https://jwz.org/b/yk56

Important XScreenSaver policy update

25: No contributions built with, or assisted by, LLMs or any kind of "generative AI" tools will be considered. If you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it. XScreenSaver is art by humans for humans.

Gruyère stuffed cheesy bread for Easter Sunday brunch #OmNomNom

RE: https://dice.camp/@JoeSondow/116352504992152972

I just switched off AI training, and shut off Copilot. I'll make my own mistakes, thanks.

@sundogplanets

You're on the front page of the Dutch news. Well, your pet peeve is. It's working!

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2608321-kritiek-op-plan-om-aarde-vanuit-ruimte-met-spiegels-te-verlichten
Kritiek op plan om aarde vanuit ruimte met spiegels te verlichten

Een Amerikaanse startup wil vijftigduizend megaspiegels in een baan om de aarde brengen die 's nachts - tegen betaling - zonlicht naar de aarde reflecteren. Maar er is kritiek uit astronomische en ecologische hoek.

If you haven’t seen 3Blue1Brown videos yet, you are missing out! His latest one is on M.C. Escher’s picture frame distortion is absolutely breathtaking, using visuals to introduce complex analysis in what feels a very intuitive way. All his videos are excellent and well worth a browse. https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown
Delighted to see our WISPIT team announce the second directly imaged exoplanet from the WISPIT 2 system! Led by Chloe Lawlor (Galway) with Richelle van Capelleveen (Leiden), we also have a spectrum of the inner, more massive planet, showing carbon monoxide features. ☄ #exoplanet #astrodon https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2604/