@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Heisenberg Professor for Nighttime Light Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography of the Ruhr University Bochum
#RemoteSensing #CitizenScience #LightPollution
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@ieg-mainz.bsky.socialReposted by @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyThe IEG Mainz invites applications for a Research Associate (Postdoc, m/f/x) in European Religious History (16th–20th centuries).
📅 Apply by 10 November 2026!
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyI'm grading student papers, and when I started one tonight I was like "hmmm, that sounds familiar". Weirdly, the paper I graded yesterday has nearly the same start, even though the topics are different. None of the other students in the class used this start […]
@mhaklay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyThis is already all over the place in Germany. I've seen a demo, it takes only a few minutes to set up, no electrical work required. You do need an outdoor socket, though.
@sarabpritchard.bsky.socialReposted by @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyAttending #4S #4SToronto #4S2026 ?
I am giving away* 2 print copies of my new book, #TransformingNight, to grad students, postdocs, and/or contingent faculty who are attending in-person and repost this tweek/skeet/post/thingy between now and Friday.
* randomly selected, obvi 1 copy per person
@ketanjoshi.coReposted by @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyThis is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyI'm not sure which fact about neutrinos is more astounding:
A) That it's possible for a single #neutrino to travel through 5,000 km of Earth without ever interacting with an atom
or
B) That it's possible for a single neutrino physicist to win a #NobelPrize without ever coming within 5,000 km […]
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyAstronomers in Kyiv, Ukraine, detected the beginning of a new outburst of the cataclysmic variable Gaia20cnt (ASASSN-14fc) using a Unistellar eVscope provided through the Astronomy for Equity program: http://astronomerstelegram.org/?read=18059
(From Franck Marchis)
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyI'm in a talk about the #History of aerial photography in the #Ruhrgebiet. (https://www.geonetzwerk.ruhr/veranstaltungen-treffen/geowebtalks/)
Until a change in the law in 1990, it was illegal to publish aerial photographs taken over #NRW. Scientists who wanted to publish images had to get them […]
@rikefranke.euReposted by @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyWhat a fascinating view into the Russians’ opinions and impressions of the world
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyThe moon struggling against the clouds and the overilluminated Parthenon.
If only European cities would turn off their monument lighting when the full moon is out...
It would be so amazing to be able to see #CulturalHeritage buildings the way they […]
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyI missed this when it came out, maybe you did too.
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyMore Canadians attended #EARSeL2026 than US Americans!
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gySpeaker 1: "It's impressive, what you've done." Speaker 2: "Yes." 😂
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyA presenter at #EARSeL2026 just apologized that the fonts in his machine generated slides are too small 🤦♂️
You know, there's a really simple way to avoid that...
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyIs anyone else at #EARSeL / #EARSeL2026?
@jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gyReposted by @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyWe recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email.
Here's an email I got from one of them.
Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […]
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyThere's a new analysis paper about #RemoteSensing and conflict research in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11004-6
@0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyReposted by @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gymy mentions are full of very informed experts who want me to know that Russia is clearly the only organization on earth with the logistical capability to dump a bunch of pipes across train tracks on commuter routes in the Netherlands, a tactic that sure sounds a lot like what Dutch protestors do […]
@0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyReposted by @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyholy %+/= the Dutch train system just announced they are being sabotaged: piles of junk dropped across several different tracks simultaneously
