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Charles Q. Choi
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After seeing the wonderful effects of "pivot to video" in journalism, I'm sure the upcoming "pivot to AI" will work out well too
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I write about what happens at the edge between the unknown & the impossible. Science journalist for 20+ years & SFF author at Scientific American, NYT, Analog & more. Adventured to seven continents. Yondan in Toyama-ryu swordsmanship. He/him.
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Charles Q. Choi
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After seeing the wonderful effects of "pivot to video" in journalism, I'm sure the upcoming "pivot to AI" will work out well too
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The Transmitter
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Genes that predispose people to autism account for a large portion of the neuronal and glial cell changes seen in those with the condition.
By @cqchoi.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/gia...
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Charles Q. Choi
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@patrickwyman.bsky.social In case you hadn't already seen this: www.openculture.com/2024/06/the-...
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Charles Q. Choi
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I mean, I watched Videodrome when I was 8, so
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Charles Q. Choi
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Scientists have discovered a brain circuit in mice that can detect, ramp up and tamp down inflammation, and it's likely in humans as well. Study's in Nature. It's a body-brain connection I think will raise a lot of questions on psychosomatic and placebo effects. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Charles Q. Choi
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@annaleen.bsky.social Have you read "Cahokia Jazz?" It's a mystery set in an alt-America where one of your favorite cities, Cahokia, continued to the modern day. It came out about the same time as "The Terraformers." I'm just starting it now. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/caho...
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Charles Q. Choi
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With @older.bsky.social’s new Mossa and Pleiti book and Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup coming out essentially simultaneously, it’s a banner time for SFF Holmes-inflected mysteries
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Charles Q. Choi
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Love the stories in general, but the fact that I'm a Holmesian, a writer of sci-fi murder mysteries (www.cqchoi.com/bythewilloft...) and a creator of BDOs (spectrum.ieee.org/hard-science...) means Mossa, Pleiti and Giant are especially up my alley
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Charles Q. Choi
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Just reached the point of “The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles” where “the second aria of Murderbot” was mentioned and wonder what @marthawells.bsky.social thinks about it
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Charles Q. Choi
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My new feature in @ieeespectrum.bsky.social not only explores the science of turning a planet into a computer, but is also paired with science fiction from acclaimed author @karlschroeder.bsky.social. Cool story, cool art, a piece unlike any I've done before. spectrum.ieee.org/hard-science...
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Charles Q. Choi
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Have you ever watched Executive Koala? Given its weirdness, might be up your alley
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Charles Q. Choi
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It's such a daring stunt at its core--setting a murder mystery in an old story of Astro Boy, a detective trying to track down a serial killer hunting the seven greatest robots in the world. But beyond that, it's a great meditation on robots, humanity, war, bigotry and more.
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Charles Q. Choi
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@annaleen.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social have you read the manga Pluto, or watched the critically acclaimed Netflix anime adaptation? interested in your thoughts, given your interests in AI!
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Charles Q. Choi
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…it’s giving us the finger?
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Charles Q. Choi
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I guess I was envisioning someone more like Audrey Plaza? Or Jessica Henwick? deadline.com/2023/12/alex...
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John Scalzi
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OH HELL YES
Congrats @marthawells.bsky.social!
deadline.com/2023/12/alex...
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allie! ally! allé! 👩🏽💻🥃✨
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Just saw that Leverage: Redemption season 3 is on and this time with @johnrogers.bsky.social back at the helm! So excited for another turn with my favorite con family
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Locus Magazine
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The Stormy Age of SFF Magazines by Neil Clarke locusmag.com/2023/11...
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Charles Q. Choi
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Particle Accelerator on a Chip Hits Penny-Size -- tiny electron guns can help zap cancers and drive new classes of lasers spectrum.ieee.org/particle-acc... by @cqchoi.bsky.social for @ieeespectrum.bsky.social
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Charles Q. Choi
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"I had long come to disregard much human writing, but I found this novel an incredibly powerful romance. The way in which the relationship grew from antagonism to true love between Winston Smith and Big Brother is a story for the ages!" -- E. Garak, Garak's Clothiers, Promenade 02-485, DS9.
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Charles Q. Choi
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Let's set off high explosives to crush plutonium to states near those needed for a nuclear detonation and watch it with X-rays, shall we? spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-weap... by @cqchoi for @ieeespectrum.bsky.social
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Charles Q. Choi
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Scientists want to make paved roads on the moon by blasting lunar soil with sunlight www.space.com/blasting-lun... by @cqchoi.bsky.social for Space.com
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Charles Q. Choi
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I've always found it interesting that Falun-associated Shen Yun holds its performance in the David Koch theater, and has quoted praise from him in its ads.
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Charles Q. Choi
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Impossible Photo Feat Now Possible Via Holography: now you can focus on anything while giving up nothing, with simple, cheap optics spectrum.ieee.org/depth-of-field by @cqchoi.bsky.social for @ieeespectrum.bsky.social
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Charles Q. Choi
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I think that ending really capture the out of the blue gut punch feel of some incidents; how it feels outrageously unjustified and unfair, and you’re helpless to do anything about it. It’s a very real feeling. Poison indeed.
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Charles Q. Choi
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@criticacclaim.bsky.social re: Poison; the final moment reminds me of being in a playground w my toddlers when two grade - school kids called me a racial slur.
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Charles Q. Choi
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@criticacclaim.bsky.social Bibbs is totally right: Hobson was totally a bigoted douche. He’s probably be an admiral in the mirror universe
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Bethany Brookshire
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I know a lot of science writers have been worried because, well, with the collapse of Twitter, how do editors and jobs find us?
@theopennotebook.bsky.social has come to the RESCUE and has made a science writer DATABASE! www.theopennotebook.com/writers/
Love this so much! Join! Hire from it! 🧪
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Jennifer Ouellette
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"The group attempted to have Nature and its staff put under surveillance and investigated by MI5, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, and Japanese and Australian intelligence agencies." www.computerweekly.com/news/3665534...
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Charles Q. Choi
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Yeah — the only thing that makes this really considerable is the extreme inefficiency of the current system of refueling
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Charles Q. Choi
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DARPA Hopes to Beam Power Across 200 Kilometers: lasers could one day relay power to remote areas, or even from solar power satellites spectrum.ieee.org/power-beamin... by @cqchoi.bsky.social for @ieeespectrum.bsky.social
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
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Science on Bluesky is growing rapidly! Science friends, introduce yourselves below and I’ll share! Who are you? What do you work on? Where are you based? I’ll go first. I’m David, and I study sharks and their conservation. I’m based in the Washington, DC area. 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐡
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Charles Q. Choi
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Charles Q. Choi
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@whysharksmatter.bsky.social I've written for Science, Nature, SciAm, NYT, WaPo and many others for 20+ years. I've reported from Maya digs in Belize, dino digs in Montana & the reactor control room in Chernobyl. I also practice Japanese swordsmanship, write SFF and have been to seven continents.
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Charles Q. Choi
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Programmable DNA Machines Offer General-Purpose Computing -- new liquid computer can run more than 100 billion distinct circuits spectrum.ieee.org/dna-computing by @cqchoi.bsky.social for @ieeespectrum.bsky.social
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Charles Q. Choi
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In addition to writing science and SFF, I also practice the Toyama-ryu battodo style of Japanese swordsmanship. Here I am in a recent cutting session: www.youtube.com/shorts/vMeFW...
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Charles Q. Choi
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Mute. Mute mute mute mute mute. Mute. Ahh.
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Charles Q. Choi
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Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets using a variety of elements beyond the carbon upon which Earth's life is based www.space.com/alien-life-n... by @cqchoi.bsky.social
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Charles Q. Choi
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So far my experience with Bluesky is most of what I liked about Twitter without any of the crap. So far.
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Charles Q. Choi
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Much thanks! Glad you liked it!
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Charles Q. Choi
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In addition, as intro and update, you can ready my sci-fi murder mystery for Analog, "By the Will of the Gods", free here:
www.cqchoi.com/bythewilloft...
It has a genetically modified detective, a temple devoted to foretelling the future, labyrinths linked to countless worlds & more. Enjoy!
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Charles Q. Choi
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As an intro & update, two recent stories:
1) For Nat Geo: how the James Webb Space Telescope is deepening the mystery of how fast our universe is expanding:
www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/arti...
x) For IEEE Spectrum: how ChatGPT might out-MacGyver you:
spectrum.ieee.org/ai-better-im...
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Charles Q. Choi
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Hola!
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Chris Baraniuk
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PLEASE RETWEET (or whatever it's called):
I want to follow and support fellow science journalists on Bluesky! Help me find them!!
Reply to this if you are among that hallowed number.
@easternblot.bsky.social @jjbw.bsky.social @eshirin.bsky.social @duncanfyfe.bsky.social @colinschultz.bsky.social
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Charles Q. Choi
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Hello world!
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