Fwd: Academic Harassment

[Paola Di Maio]

Greetings Ronin Scholars

Happy Lunar New Year and Happy Losar for anyone celebrating it

Avi Loeb is a serious academic affiliated with established institutions and even he 

experiences academic harassment.  See his post on Medium today. Thank you Avi for reporting openly, it makes those of us who suffer from

this kind of behaviour less isolated

I that all is well with everyone here and hope to find the time to nurture more topics related to independent scholarship and advance organisational matters for new forms of collaboration

Until then

Paola

A few days ago, I co-authored a new paper with my brilliant postdoc, Richard Cloete, which reported here (and to a broader audience here)… Academic Harassment Avi Loeb   ∙   February 12, 2026   ∙   6 min read   ∙   View on Medium (Image credit: American Psychological Association) A few days ago, I co-authored a new paper with my brilliant postdoc, Richard Cloete, which reported here (and to a broader audience here) the statistically-robust discovery of two interstellar meteors from 2022 and 2025 in the CNEOS fireballs catalog of NASA/JPL — based on data from sensors onboard U.S. government satellites. Our rigorous data analysis used a details model which calibrated the uncertainties in the CNEOS database by comparing it to independent ground-based observations. A day after our paper was posted and submitted for publication, two things happened: - First, NASA flipped the sign on one of the velocity… Continue reading Continue reading this story on Medium. Sent to paola....@gmail.com by Avi Loeb on Medium Unsubscribe from this writer's email notifications Manage your email settings 3500 South DuPont Highway, Suite IQ-101, Dover, DE 19901 Careers·Help Center·Privacy Policy·Terms of service

[AGM Fox]

Thanks for sharing, Paola.