#introduction I am new here. My brother @jaforbes tells me it is customary to do an opening post of things I find interesting or likely to discuss in the future. Here is my list: #democracy #ai #eng #engineering #osint #geopol #math #mathematics #humanrights #compsci #history #philosophy #space #australia #japan #bluemountains #science #tech #anu #unsw #uts #physics #uai #agi #nafo #peace #ukraine #taiwan #photography #tdd #andor. I have friends everywhere. I hope that you'll join me.
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Lake George hides an earthquake fault zone, and scientists are using your road noise to see it
The vast, brooding expanse of Lake George, tucked against the foothills of mountains, is a familiar sight to…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ACT #ANU #AU #Australia #AustralianNationalUniversity #Canberra #ChengxinJiang #earthquakefaultzone #FederalHighway #Gunning-Daltonregion #JonathanGriffin #LakeGeorge #LakeGeorgefaultzone #MeghanMiller
https://www.newsbeep.com/326842/
(1/2) What do you get when you mix teen #popculture references 💅, time travelling witches ⏰🔮, and zine making 📰? A very Sci_Burst workshop experience!
Earlier this month we ran a #scicomm #workshop for this group of exceptional high school students participating in the Curious Minds ‘East’ Camp at #ANU 👩🔬💜
#CuriousMinds is a STEM mentoring program for talented girls in years 8-9 who face barriers because of where they live, their socio-economic background, and/or their Indigenous status.
The #ANU #Logic Summer School is under way! https://comp.anu.edu.au/lss/ If you're interested in seeing what we teach, some slides will start appearing on the Lectures page of our website (currently only Peter Baumgartner's slides on Overview of Automated Reasoning have gone up).
After all this time, #Anu has finally managed to help us out with our productivity.
Definitely keeping us motivated. A bit of a kitty #pomodoro reminder to take regular breaks.
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2025-11-22Tuatha De Danann
This “name” is usually translated as “folk of the goddess Danu.” They are also known by the earlier name: Tuath De (“tribe of the gods” or “divine tribe”). They’re a supernatural race in Irish mythology. Many of them are thought to represent deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland.
The Tuatha De Danann are often pictured as kings, queens, druids, bards, warriors, heroes, healers, & craftsmen who have supernatural powers. They live in the Otherworld but interact with humans & the human world. They’re associated with sidhe.
Their traditional rivals are the Fomorians (Fomoire), who might represent the destructive powers of nature, & whom the Tuatha De Danann defeated in the Battle of Mag Tuired.
Prominent members include the Dagda (“the great god”), The Morrigan (“the great queen” or “phantom queen”), Lugh, Nuada, Aengus, Brigid, Manannan, Dian Cecht the healer, & Goibniu the smith, 1 of the Tri De Dana (“three gods of craft”).
They’re immune to ageing & sickness, & who have magic powers. The powers most often attributed to them are control over the weather & the elements, & the ability to shape shift themselves & other things.
They’re also said to control the fertility of the land. The tale De Gabail in t-Sida says the 1st Gaels had to establish friendship with the Tuatha De Danann before they could raise crops & herds.
They live in the Otherworld, which is described as either a parallel world or a heavenly land beyond the sea or under the earth’s surface. Many of them are associated with specific places in the landscape, especially the sidh mounds.
These are the ancient burial mounds & passage tombs which are entrances to Otherworld realms. The Tuatha De Danann can hide themselves with a feth fiada (“magic mist”) & appear to humans only when they wish to.
In euhemerized accounts, the Tuatha De Danann were descended from Nemed, leader of a previous wave of inhabitants of Ireland. In non-euhemerized accounts, they’re descended from Danu/Anu, a mother goddess. They came from 4 cities to the north of Ireland (Falias, Gorias, Murias, & Finias), where architecture, the arts, & magic.
According to Lebor Gabala Erenn, they came to Ireland “in dark clouds” & “landed on the mountains of the Conmaicne Rein in Connachta.” Otherwise Sliabh an Iarainn, “and they brought a darkness over the sun for 3 days & 3 nights.”
Sliabh an Iarainn (anglicized Slieve Anierin) is a mountain in County Leitrim, Ireland. It’s part of the Cuilcagh Mountains.
They immediately burnt the ships “so that they should not of retreating to them, & the smoke & the mist that came from the vessels filled the neighbouring land & air. Therefore it was conceived that they had arrived in clouds of mist.”
Led by King Nuada, they fought the First Battle of Magh Tuireadh on the west coast, in which they defeated & displaced the native Fir Bolg, who then inhabited Ireland. In the battle, Nuada lost an arm to their champion, Sreng.
Since Nuada was no longer “unblemished,” he couldn’t continue as king & was replaced by the half-Fomorian Bres, who turned out to be a tyrant.
The doctor Dian Cecht replaced Nuada’s arm with a working silver 1. (Think Bucky from Captain America.) He was reinstated as king. Back in those days, if a king wasn’t physically whole, then he wasn’t fit to be king.
However, Dian Cecht’s son, Miach, was dissatisfied with the replacement. So he recited the spell, “adult fri halt do and feith fri feth” (joint to joint of it & sinew to sinew), which caused flesh to grow over the silver over the course of 9 days & nights.
In a fit of jealous rage, Dian Cecht killed his own son. Because of Nuada’s restoration as king, Bres whined to his family & dad, Elatha, who sent him to look for help from King Balor of the Fomorians.
The Tuatha De Danann fought the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh against the Fomorians. King Nuada was killed by King Balor’s poisonous eye. But KIng Balor was killed by Lugh (who was the champion of the Tuatha De Danann), who then took over as king.
A 3rd battle was fought against a wave of invaders, the Milesians, from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Galicia & Northern Portugal). These were descendants of Mil Espaine (who are thought to represent the Goidelic Celts).
The Milesians encountered 3 Tuatha De Danann goddesses, Eriu, Banba, & Fodla, who asked that the island be named after them. Eriu is the origin of the modern name Eire (which is the Irish language name for Ireland), & Banba & Fodla are still sometimes used as poetic names for Ireland.
Their 2 husbands (Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, & Mac Greine) were kings of the Tuatha De Danann and created a magical storm in an attempt to drive them away. The Milesian poet calmed the sea with his verse, then his people landed & defeated the Tuatha De Danann at Tailtiu.
When Amergin was called upon to divide the land between the Tuatha De Danann & his own people, he cleverly allotted the portion above ground to the Milesians & the portion underground to the Tuatha De Danann.
The Tuatha De Danann were led underground into the Sidhe mounds by Manannan mac Lir & Tir na nOg onto a flowery plain/plain of honey attested to in the Voyage of Bran.
The Tuatha De Danann brought 4 magical treasure with them to Ireland, 1 a piece from their 4 cities: Dagda’s Cauldron, The Spear of Lugh, Lia Fail (The Stone of Fal), & Claiomh Solais (The Sword of Light).
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I just got a tour of the National Computational Infrastructure building in #Canberra (at #ANU) and please excuse me while I just admire all the pretty lights and big machines and how many terabytes of data they can process 24/7
Aviation weather for V.C. Bird International airport in St. John's area (Antigua and Barbuda) is “TAPA 041500Z 09009KT 060V130 9999 SCT018 29/23 Q1016 NOSIG” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/tapa/en #vcbirdinternationalairport #airport #stjohns #antiguaandbarbuda #tapa #anu #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl
@cheryanne ANY TOTP MFA app will work with ANU logins. What does this mean? It means nearly any open source authentication helper app for Android or IOS will do the job, securely and reliably.
🌡️ The Lancet's ‘Countdown on Health and Climate Change’ report states that globally, failure to curb the warming effects of climate change has seen the rate of heat-related deaths surge 23% since the 1990s
Experts from #UQ #ANU #Flinders #CharlesSturtUni #UTS respond
✨Follow the link for more information and to read the commentary✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-inaction-on-climate-change-could-be-paid-for-in-millions-of-lives-each-year
#science #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #climatechange
The official ads are now out for the #ANU #Logic Summer School, to be held in #Canberra , Australia from 1-12 December. https://comp.anu.edu.au/lss/
Paraphrasing a bit to fit in a toot:
OVERVIEW
The ANU Logic Summer School is an annual event that offers a two week long programme of lectures on modern logic, the foundational discipline of the information sciences. Topics include not only the science of reasoning but also computability theory, type theory and other tools for understanding processes, declarative programming, automatic proof generation, program verification and much more. The school is primarily geared at late undergraduate and masters students, but is open to all, including postgraduate and PhD students, postdocs, and participants from industry.
PROGRAMME
Week 1:
John Slaney (ANU): Foundations of Metalogic
Michael Norrish (ANU): Computability and Incompleteness
Peter Baumgartner (CSIRO): Overview of Automated Reasoning
Liam O'Connor (ANU): Introduction to Interactive Theorem-Proving with Isabelle
Week 2:
Sonia Marin (Birmingham): Intuitionistic Modal Logic
Chelsea Edmonds (UWA): Advanced Isabelle for Software Verification
Cláudia Nalon (Brasília): Resolution for Modal Logics and its Implementation
Gillian Russell (ANU): Barriers to Entailment
Vineet Rajani (UNSW): Modal Type Theories and Logical Relations
ORGANISATION
The logic summer school is organised by Ranald Clouston, Peter Hoefner, and Michael Norrish. Please direct all enquiries to lss.comp@anu.edu.au
One for the #RSE crew - @jamessmithies is hiring for a Research Fellow (Computational Methods) at #ANU - 2 year fixed term
Focus on computational methods to support #DigitalHumanities
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4313700832
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The fluff has started to fly. It is time for University students to start worrying about their exams.
At the Senate's Estimates today, #Bishop waxed lyrical about the funds she has personally brought into ANU from Philanthropists in WA and elsewhere (Over $60M). She also mentioned that in 2019 ANU's financial position was 'vastly' better (ie. before she took it over), and then COVID happen, nasty Covid made everything dearer and expenditure went up apparently. That was the entire focus in her defence. Verbal garbage a plenty avoiding any explanations for ANU's alledged financial woes or financial mismanagement.
I blame the #Senators for focussing on #Bishop rather than ANU's financial management and the doctered financial reports which show something like $142M deficit whereas the auditors had the university with a $90M surplus. Instead they wasted time on student numbers, student scholarships and the Kambri programme giving Bishop the lecturn she gladly used. Funny though, she now accepts credit for turning the ANU financial position around -- just like that in a few months, magically.
It's also convenient that the interim #Vice Prof Brown was the one who made changes to RenewANU implementations in January this year and is implementing those changes now.
Senators Shoebridge, Pocock and Faruqui were more on point (on leadership and finance) and made a few uncomfortable - Covid came up again then. But it was confirmed that ANU's dire financial position stems from an accounting perspective (different buckets of money)
Giving Bishop an opportunity to glaze the cherry and ignore accounting practices was irresponsible. And I am now convinced that the Chancellor is blind to her conduct and reponsibility for the current state of affairs on campus.
Throughout, Bishop appears in total denial else she's completely clueless.
#ANU #RenewANU #SenateEstimates
If you haven't watched the Senate Estimate hearing with ANU Chancellors answering questions from Senators.
Link to Vid:
https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Read_Listen/ParlView/video/3951731
C'mon #ANU, you can and should do better - sharp insight from @richarddenniss.bsky.social.
#HigherEd #Australia #UniversityCrisis #AcademicSky
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