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Colin Stark
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🧪⚒️⚛️🧮 Geoscientist studying physics of geomorphology/professor/civ eng faculty. Left pieces of my ❤️ in NYC, SF, Rennes, Cambridge. 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 🇯🇵 🌈 日本語/中文/Français ok
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Colin Stark @cstark.bsky.social · Nov 18
Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”
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osiggie.bsky.social
#watercolor
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 AM
cstark.bsky.social
French speakers may react differently to this sign 😳
Sign says “you might get bite”
January 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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Randall Monroe is a genius
January 16, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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JFC
rightwingwatch.bsky.social Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 1d
Christian nationalist pastor says that wives must submit to their husbands with "a sense of fear, and trembling, and awe ... not only in things she agrees with, but in everything": "She belongs to him. He owns her."
January 16, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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Sound advice here
Sign saying “Please be careful about butts”
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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fikgm.bsky.social
Links to Geology-related Open GIS Data
open.substack.com/pub/ikegami/...
January 14, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
A photo of Claudette Colvin in a red sweater
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Armadillo! 😍
January 9, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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Nope. He was *paid* $74.3M. No CEO really earns that kind of money.
Snapshot of news headline claiming Tim Cook earned $74.3M last year
January 9, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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sundaedivine.lol
When you're about to land but realize it's the US.
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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yassmin.bsky.social
Got such a lovely review from the team at @thecandidbookclub.bsky.social for #ATSEA!! Remember, out in May inshallah and you can pre-order here: buythebook.online/at-sea

(Also so many other AMAZING books I want to read 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

youtu.be/8k3xoMrNafk?...
The 2026 books you need to check out!
YouTube video by The Candid Book Club
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January 8, 2026 at 12:45 PM
cstark.bsky.social
They’ve finally taken Extraordinary Rendition one step too far

www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces...
Expedition 74 Ready for Thursday Spacewalk and Continuing Research - NASA
Expedition 74 is making final preparations for the first spacewalk of 2026 that will see two NASA astronauts exit the International Space Station for power upgrade work on Thursday. Science also conti...
www.nasa.gov
January 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
cstark.bsky.social
Just muted any posts that mention Epstein, because FFS what can I possibly do with any of this? Anything that will actually change anything?
January 8, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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unnieikeseth.bsky.social
Eg har skrive bok som kjem ut i januar! I Krigens laboratorium utforskar eg vitskapens rolle i våpenutvikling, men også korleis vitskapen kan brukast til å arbeide for nedrusting og fred. Bodskapen min er at vi har eit val når det gjeld korleis vi vil bruke kunnskapen vår: skald.no/b%C3%B8ker/a...
Krigens laboratorium - Skald
Skald forlag gir ut vakre bøker du kan bla i, lese i og kjenne på. Vi lager bøker som lyser opp bokhylla di og som skal vare. Ta ein titt.
skald.no
January 6, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
This is one of my favourite space pictures.

Crescent Earth, photographed by the crew of Apollo 15.
A thin crescent of illuminated Earth, the Sun shining off to the top left and casting reflections and lens flares across the scene. This is Apollo image AS15-99-13487, taken by the Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden with a Hasselblad 70 mm camera during the return coast from the Moon in August 1971. Credit: NASA/Apollo 15 crew/A. Worden (minor processing by me)
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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bgslandslides.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Bay cliff fall blocks beach on Dorset's Jurassic Coast
Suzanne Sears describes the moment of the collapse as she walked near West Bay in Dorset.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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pankraru.bsky.social
for a long time, I thought the Democrats were fighting valiantly but just overwhelmed by the oligarchy and the Republicans. Then I saw that the Democrats keep losing fights they should win and figured they must be just weak and ineffectual. Then I kept seeing them backing off without putting up any fight at all and decided they were gutless cowards. Finally, I noticed that enough of them keep voting with the Republicans to always ensure that the Republicans more or less win almost every fight, and that they start by bargaining from the Center position and moving Right-and eventually, after enough of that, it became impossible to ignore the only conclusion that actually fits the facts: The Democrats are not overmatched, they aren't weak, they aren't cowards ... they're complicit.
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Aaaaaand 2026 is off to a rip-roaring start, eh?
January 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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The US is conducting terrorist operations in Venezuela, and my Google News feed keeps giving me the latest on how much of an asshole Chevy Chase is.

Call me crazy, but I think Google is rather missing the big picture here.
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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helenmaryme.bsky.social
The C is now silent
January 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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What’s the collective noun for the volcanoes within in a pumice throw of one’s house? 🧪⚒️🌋

View from Karakunidake 韓国岳 of Oonaminoike 大浪池 and Sakurajima, Kirishima, Kyūshū
View from Karakuni of Oonaminoike and Sakurajima 🌋, Kirishima, Kyūshū
January 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Deep in rural Japan last night we had a party: three families, three languages (JP, EN, FR), six countries (Japan, Martinique, France, England, Pakistan, South Africa) represented, and a rainbow of colors. Haven’t seen such a cultural mix since the time I lived in NYC. 😍
January 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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🧪⚛️⚒️🧮🪐🔭
badphysicist.bsky.social Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 14d
The massive response to my #Typst article* suggests that Typst is gaining ground much more rapidly than even I expected:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539...

#latex #physics #mathematics #typsetting

*https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/
Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases, according to two papers published in Nature Astronomy and Nature in January.
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This figure illustrates molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023. The upper left panel depicts precursor molecules like ammonia and formaldehyde, while the upper right depicts salts and clays. These early ingredients mixed with water inside the parent body to undergo chemical reactions and synthesize organic molecules, shown at bottom. The lower right panel depicts nucleobases, the genetic components of DNA and RNA, while the lower left depicts amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The Bennu samples contain all five of the nucleobases that are found in DNA and RNA, and 14 of the 20 amino acids that life uses to build proteins. Credit: NASA
January 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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xkcd.com
Anyone Else Here

xkcd.com/3188/
Comic. [Comment section on a video. 564 comments, including posts from three different avatars: “Who else is here in 2023?” “Is anyone else watching this in 2017?” “Anyone else here in 2025?”] [caption] For some reason, confused time travelers always try to find each other using YouTube comments.
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM