Thayne Currie

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Thayne Currie

@AstroThayne

Astrophysicist @ Subaru/UTSA. Exoplanets, Direct Imaging. Pro-immigrant. Likes scientific rigor. Empiricist. The Enlightenment was a good thing.

Texas/Hawaii Katılım Mayıs 2019

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·13 Nis

Today, we are excited to report the publication of our paper in Science on the discovery of HIP 99770 b w/ Gaia/Hipparcos astrometry & direct imaging w/ the Subaru & Keck Telescopes on Maunakea science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @ScienceMagazine @esa @SubaruTelescope @SubaruTel_Eng 🧵

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Christopher W. Jones@cwjones89·3d

New study of LLM hallucinations in citations using preprint articles from 2025: What discipline has the most fake citations? The social sciences, judging by SSRN, where nearly 2% of citations in 2025 were of articles that don't exist. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·2d

less than 24 hrs after a mag 6.0 earthquake in Hawaii, Subaru is back on sky and doing great science on Maunakea. See below our redetection of the HIP 71618 B brown dwarf (Roman CGI tech demo target) and HIP xxxx B (new unreported discovery), both in the raw quicklook data.

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·3d

@TSHamiltonAstro It was a better movie than Temple of Doom, which came out a year before, I think.

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Tim Hamilton@TSHamiltonAstro·3d

@AstroThayne Yes, I can hear that whole chant and music right now. Bruce Broughton’s soundtrack is excellent.

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Tim Hamilton@TSHamiltonAstro·4d

I still love this movie. And it was the very first movie I saw with a post-credits scene. In fact, that scene tied up a loose end and was very cleverly done.

Pulp Librarian@PulpLibrarian

Young Sherlock (1985). This is remembered for its early (and effective) use of CGI, but it's actually a cracker of an adventure movie. There's a bit of Indiana Jones and a bit of The Goonies to it: no surprise given the involvement of Steven Spielberg!

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion·3d

This will do a lot more to hold back AI progress than some data center protests!!

The Wall Street Journal@WSJ

Most green-card applicants will need to go abroad to apply for permanent residency at an American consulate, rather than filing from within the U.S. as they do now, the Trump administration announced Friday. on.wsj.com/4v2Fqkr

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·5d

@WKCosmo and they read all of the papers they cited

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·5d

But hey, I'm sure the bibliography in that paper is really accurate.

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Flint Dibble 🍖🏺@FlintDibble

we've always tried to explain that one of the huge benefits of a liberal arts education is that the humanities teaches rigor in research and writing it's one reason why humanists disdain AI so much. Its hallucinations are like the laziest mistakes made by slacker students

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Maunakea Observatories@maunakeaobs·6d

Join @StS_ShadowSci and @SubaruTel_Eng May 22 at 9p to shadow the SPIDERS team as they test a new instrument that could allow us to take images of planets on the scale of our solar system! Register for this session today: bit.ly/May22-StS-Suba…

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·6d

@horizonSci LOL

Jason Steffen@horizonSci·19 May

I have an idea: Citations have always been political.

Will Kinney@WKCosmo

OK academic Twitter, how are we going to collectively undermine our credibility today?

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·6d

yeah, there are a lot of people telling on themselves with this whole @arxiv anti-AI slop action ...

Donald Clarke@donaldcclarke

“You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible.” Holy cow — what an incredible statement. No, I don’t know that and I’ve never done it.

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Niko@NikoSarcevic·19 May

To be clear, I’m not saying this as some virtue-signalling, moral-high-ground thing. I don’t think “authors are responsible for what they put their names on” is a radical position. It is just how science is supposed to work. 1/

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·19 May

@WKCosmo Will, my wife is in comp bio. I promise you that others are a bit more at home with nuance

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·19 May

So I have now been introduced to the culture of computational biology.

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·19 May

A very instructive thread. Also nice shout out to ADS

Will Kinney@WKCosmo

Today in "Will explains things to people who have a vested interest in not understanding them," let's talk about INSPRE-HEP. 1/ help.inspirehep.net/knowledge-base…

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·18 May

@WKCosmo "In cosmology, if you publish an erratum to your own paper do you get to be listed twice on the author list?" Sometimes. If the main paper supports a statement you cite it. If the erratum supports a different statement you cite it too.

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·18 May

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Michael 英泉 Eisen@mbeisen

I'm confused. In cosmology, if you publish an erratum to your own paper do you get to be listed twice on the author list? I mean come on. It obviously isn't correctly cited. You propagated an error from INSPIRE-HEP into your paper, and you didn't catch the obvious absurdity of the author list. No biggy. This kind of shit happens all the time, as I was saying, even to people who scrutinize their papers "cover to cover".

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·17 May

Ironically, one of the best use-cases for AI in scientific writing is to act as a second set of eyes to catch errors in your manuscript that you have missed because of over-familiarity from reading it too many times.

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Dr Jake Taylor@AstroJake·16 May

I don’t understand how you can publish a paper with hallucinated citations… do you not read your paper? Do you not know the literature of your field? Do you not have a bib manager? I just don’t get it. Banning people who have hallucinated citations from arxiv is the best idea.

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·17 May

@WKCosmo By new trend this is mostly "that one person who somehow others think we should pay attention to"...or are there others now?

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·11 May

There is of course the new trend of physical scientists moonlighting as social scientists and writing meaningless word salads, to the acclaim of social scientists.

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·11 May

Because STEM papers don't bury banal and/or stupid ideas beneath obscurantist language, and the fact that so many humanities and social science people cannot tell the difference is precisely the problem. Straight-up cargo cult shit.

danny@d4nnytye

nobody ever applies this argument to any other academic field of study besides humanities and social sciences. why should all theory have to be written for complete novices, and why should novices not be expected to broaden their vocabulary?

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Steinn Sigurðsson@steinly0·16 May

on the whole @arxiv flap about hallucinated references etc you don't see the stuff we reject... some of it is really really egregious the decision to impose additional consequences is largely to throttle that stuff so n00bs and bad actors don't trash us trying repeatedly

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·15 May

The wife, child, and I ran into some very proud residents of Central Square, Cambridge today

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·14 May

@WKCosmo I would think that Hawking/Penrose 'got away with it' because they made highly impactful advances as a part of their day job (and only were moonlighting as populists/did more so later in life)? What scientific result(s) is Kaku known for?

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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·14 May

The thing that I wonder about is how Hawking and Penrose repeatedly got away with saying equally stupid shit — nobody complains that Hawking was a publicity hound or a "science populist", even though he was one of the worst offenders.

Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage

Physicist Michio Kaku suggests dark matter isn’t matter at all. It is gravity leaking from a parallel dimension.

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Thayne Currie@AstroThayne·14 May

Belated anniversary of the posting of our review article on Exoplanet Direct Imaging. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ASPC..… If you're getting started in the field, need references for some core concepts and foundational results, or are just curious ... this may be a good place to start.

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