Springtime

#birds #wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography

FCC reply comments are due by 5pm EDT Monday 30 March on Reflect Orbital. If you wrote in a comment, please please please write in again saying that they did not address your concerns in their letter (which is very hard to find in the FCC dumpster-fire-of-a-website). Instructions here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

The most horrifying part in their "consolidated reply": they agree that they could in fact cause permanent eye damage to people using medium-sized telescopes. WILD.

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/

“Holding the ICM in the United States, after it started two illegal wars, represents a double standard, given that, practically immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine, the ICM in Russia was canceled,” says Michael Harris, a mathematician at Columbia University.

#Governance #AI

Serious food for thought . . .
https://youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0?si=T3PQ1A42GJeK8SaH

Are you interested in spacecraft models? Then you now have the chance to 3d-print your own #Euclid satellite! You can download all files for your personal version, including detailed assembly instructions:

https://www.euclid-ec.org/public/3d-model/

Scale is 1:16 (~30cm tall) for printing on any printer with a min. 200mm print bed.

Show us your models and tweaks with the hashtag #EuclidAtHome.

#ESAEuclid #ESA #space #astronomy #3dprinting

Interesting study coming out of Science Advances, where the team looked at ways to probe whether ancient civilizations were more or less "democratic".

I'm still going through the actual paper, and even given its assumptions and methodological limitations, the central question is quite compelling and the conclusion intriguing.

New study shows democracy has deep global roots—not just Greece and Rome https://phys.org/news/2026-03-democracy-deep-global-roots-greece.html

First upgrade of LHCb bearing fruit.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/17/scientists-discover-heavier-proton-upgraded-detector

I've been working on a prototype for an instrument that fits an entire keyboard in a compact space.

This is tuned in 4ths like a bass guitar, if only it had 12 strings and a really wide neck.

#music #instruments #electronics #wip