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“In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk AF. Be punk AF.”
- Daniel Abraham
Into: astronomy | astrophysics | space rocket | The Expanse | No Man's Sky
- Daniel Abraham
Into: astronomy | astrophysics | space rocket | The Expanse | No Man's Sky
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While some news stories will talk about many other firsts for the forthcoming Artemis II mission, I wanted to focus on this being the first mission to the moon with an actual toilet and how that works.
youtu.be/DaDSuCXIRms
youtu.be/DaDSuCXIRms
The First Toilet To Fly Beyond The Moon! A New Era In Lunar Luxury!
YouTube video by Scott Manley
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January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
While some news stories will talk about many other firsts for the forthcoming Artemis II mission, I wanted to focus on this being the first mission to the moon with an actual toilet and how that works.
youtu.be/DaDSuCXIRms
youtu.be/DaDSuCXIRms
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European space governance is complicated from ESA, EU (COM), EUMETSAT and EUSPA to national space agencies... If you are confused this new ESPI report might help:
www.espi.eu/reports/euro...
www.espi.eu/reports/euro...
January 26, 2026 at 11:09 AM
European space governance is complicated from ESA, EU (COM), EUMETSAT and EUSPA to national space agencies... If you are confused this new ESPI report might help:
www.espi.eu/reports/euro...
www.espi.eu/reports/euro...
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Social media is essential for outreach and communication. So why should a single bad actor be able to destroy it? 🔭☄️
We don't think that should be the case, and that's why we're building The Astrosky Ecosystem - starting with the Astronomy feeds.
We now have a paper about our project! #astrocode
We don't think that should be the case, and that's why we're building The Astrosky Ecosystem - starting with the Astronomy feeds.
We now have a paper about our project! #astrocode
The Astrosky Ecosystem: An independent online platform for science communication and social networking
While almost everything that astronomers study occurs in the vacuum of space, astronomy itself does not `happen in a vacuum'. Interactions between scientists, as well as outreach to members of the pub...
arxiv.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Social media is essential for outreach and communication. So why should a single bad actor be able to destroy it? 🔭☄️
We don't think that should be the case, and that's why we're building The Astrosky Ecosystem - starting with the Astronomy feeds.
We now have a paper about our project! #astrocode
We don't think that should be the case, and that's why we're building The Astrosky Ecosystem - starting with the Astronomy feeds.
We now have a paper about our project! #astrocode
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I second everything John said here. I already knew Greg Ketter from DreamHaven Books was a good person so this really isn’t surprising, but at 70 he shouldn’t have to be walking through tear gas on a Minneapolis street to try to protect his neighbors. Abolish Ice.
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I second everything John said here. I already knew Greg Ketter from DreamHaven Books was a good person so this really isn’t surprising, but at 70 he shouldn’t have to be walking through tear gas on a Minneapolis street to try to protect his neighbors. Abolish Ice.
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Some info on how #Artemis II might impact #JWST operations, from our @jwstobserver.bsky.social site. 🔭https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2026/artemis-ii's-possible-impact-on-jwst-science-operations.html
Artemis II’s Possible Impact on JWST Science Operations
www.stsci.edu
January 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Some info on how #Artemis II might impact #JWST operations, from our @jwstobserver.bsky.social site. 🔭https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2026/artemis-ii's-possible-impact-on-jwst-science-operations.html
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Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week
@science.org and @nature.com
www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
@science.org and @nature.com
www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 22, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week
@science.org and @nature.com
www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
@science.org and @nature.com
www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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I had a fun conversation with @fcain.universetoday.com a few days ago about our new Europa seafloor paper—check it out!
youtu.be/Sj3JwQde-b8
youtu.be/Sj3JwQde-b8
We Were Wrong About Europa’s Sub-Surface Ocean
YouTube video by Fraser Cain
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January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
I had a fun conversation with @fcain.universetoday.com a few days ago about our new Europa seafloor paper—check it out!
youtu.be/Sj3JwQde-b8
youtu.be/Sj3JwQde-b8
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US federal agencies were gutted in 2025, losing ~20% of their staff relative to 2024.
January 22, 2026 at 11:57 AM
US federal agencies were gutted in 2025, losing ~20% of their staff relative to 2024.
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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As various groups roll out their analyses of 2025 temperature records today (spoiler alert: it’s hot) , NOAA and NASA are not holding the joint press conference they usually do to announce their recap. Data will be released but without the open chance to talk to agency experts that usually exists.
January 14, 2026 at 1:51 PM
As various groups roll out their analyses of 2025 temperature records today (spoiler alert: it’s hot) , NOAA and NASA are not holding the joint press conference they usually do to announce their recap. Data will be released but without the open chance to talk to agency experts that usually exists.
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[Thread] The Expanse ended 4 years ago today already!
While waiting for a sequel and the Laconia story (I believe it will happen🤞), it's never too late to (re)embark in this great saga across the solar system.
And then The Expanse continues in other forms, as we will see in the following posts.
While waiting for a sequel and the Laconia story (I believe it will happen🤞), it's never too late to (re)embark in this great saga across the solar system.
And then The Expanse continues in other forms, as we will see in the following posts.
January 14, 2026 at 11:09 AM
[Thread] The Expanse ended 4 years ago today already!
While waiting for a sequel and the Laconia story (I believe it will happen🤞), it's never too late to (re)embark in this great saga across the solar system.
And then The Expanse continues in other forms, as we will see in the following posts.
While waiting for a sequel and the Laconia story (I believe it will happen🤞), it's never too late to (re)embark in this great saga across the solar system.
And then The Expanse continues in other forms, as we will see in the following posts.
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"We did the worst of all worlds. We positioned it as a race without planning to win."
@noahshachtman.bsky.social with a must-read on how the US bungled its efforts to get back to the moon--meaning China is poised to beat Trump at a space race he declared (after laying waste to NASA, because sure).
@noahshachtman.bsky.social with a must-read on how the US bungled its efforts to get back to the moon--meaning China is poised to beat Trump at a space race he declared (after laying waste to NASA, because sure).
Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing
If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
www.wired.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
"We did the worst of all worlds. We positioned it as a race without planning to win."
@noahshachtman.bsky.social with a must-read on how the US bungled its efforts to get back to the moon--meaning China is poised to beat Trump at a space race he declared (after laying waste to NASA, because sure).
@noahshachtman.bsky.social with a must-read on how the US bungled its efforts to get back to the moon--meaning China is poised to beat Trump at a space race he declared (after laying waste to NASA, because sure).
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It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.
January 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.
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Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
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Thank you for being part of our growing community!
More and more of you are following our joint account for #CopernicusClimate & #CopernicusAtmosphere for trusted, data-based information on climate and air quality. Science matters – and so does your support.
#ECMWF @ecmwf.int
More and more of you are following our joint account for #CopernicusClimate & #CopernicusAtmosphere for trusted, data-based information on climate and air quality. Science matters – and so does your support.
#ECMWF @ecmwf.int
January 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Thank you for being part of our growing community!
More and more of you are following our joint account for #CopernicusClimate & #CopernicusAtmosphere for trusted, data-based information on climate and air quality. Science matters – and so does your support.
#ECMWF @ecmwf.int
More and more of you are following our joint account for #CopernicusClimate & #CopernicusAtmosphere for trusted, data-based information on climate and air quality. Science matters – and so does your support.
#ECMWF @ecmwf.int
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Now you REALLY need to leave X (and so does your employer…)
Staying on X is morally indefensible. It is the Epstein Island of social media.
Staying on X is morally indefensible. It is the Epstein Island of social media.
Now you REALLY need to leave X (and so does your employer…)
Staying on X is morally indefensible. It is the Epstein Island of social media.
telescoper.blog
January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Now you REALLY need to leave X (and so does your employer…)
Staying on X is morally indefensible. It is the Epstein Island of social media.
Staying on X is morally indefensible. It is the Epstein Island of social media.
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This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.
January 1, 2026 at 5:38 AM
This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.
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SecUnit.
December 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
SecUnit.
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This year's gingerbread is the Vera Rubin Observatory! @vrubinobs.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This year's gingerbread is the Vera Rubin Observatory! @vrubinobs.bsky.social
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Thread of my Christmas gingerbreads 🌌⬇️
December 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Thread of my Christmas gingerbreads 🌌⬇️
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Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
atproto.science
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
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Europa Clipper has observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with its ultraviolet spectrograph instrument! News here:
www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...
www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Europa Clipper has observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with its ultraviolet spectrograph instrument! News here:
www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...
www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...
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LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event
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UPDATE: #MRO and #MAVEN downlink frequencies are 6 MHz apart, so they should normally not interfere with each other. However, the events we saw yesterday and today as of timings and frequency doppler agree with Horizons/MRO exactly. In the attached screenshots we can see “spurious” and “harmonics”.
December 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM