RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪
@rachelbc.bsky.social
Research scientist @MIT working with @NASA to make Earth & space more accessible & engaging. Here for the science 🧪🌏🪐✨🔭🚀🛰️
Did you not even get that they sang American Idiot? Read the freaking lyrics 🙄
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
A rocking start to the Super Bowl.
pagesix.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Did you not even get that they sang American Idiot? Read the freaking lyrics 🙄
More on catastrophic cuts to UK astronomy & particle physics. Costs of facilities & international subscriptions go up so grants line and individual projects are cut. If the Government is serious about backing science & technology, they need to fix this. www.space.com/astronomy/uk...
UK government proposes 30% budget cut to astronomy and physics research: 'It's pretty disastrous'
"You can't have a cut of that scale and not expect to see a massive impact."
www.space.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:24 PM
#cancer patient is forced from hospital and dies 2 hours later after accident trying to drive home. This is a sad and infuriating story that #medsky and #vernont should be aware of 🥼🩺🚑🏥⚕️
Rutland’s hospital called police to kick out a cancer patient. He died two hours later
Hospital staff called police to eject a 60-year-old cancer patient who wouldn't leave. He was back within hours — in an ambulance.
www.vermontpublic.org
February 8, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...
Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos
Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...
eos.org
February 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
So the question here is mis-specified. There is no "alternative" research funding in any way that would make American biomedical research whole for researchers to seek out. 1/ www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/p... via @statnews.com
We asked whether principal investigators have plans in place for how research can continue without them
Researchers must be mindful of unexpected events that may leave them incapacitated or unable to lead their research projects or labs.
www.statnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM
America's healthiest, least healthy states: mapped - Axios www.axios.com/2026/01/08/s...
Mapped: America's healthiest, least healthy states
A state-by-state report card, out today from the United Health Foundation, found encouraging signs.
www.axios.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Fun fact: we recently moved two satellites to meet a plane. Why? For valuable scientific data on atmospheric reentries.
Find out more about the why & how 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Find out more about the why & how 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Moving satellites to meet a plane for rare reentry data
When satellites eventually fall back down to Earth, they mostly burn up because of the friction caused by the atmosphere. Scientific data about this atmospheric reentry process is urgently needed to d...
www.esa.int
February 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Check this #sunspot out using the student helioviewer at student.helioviewer.org
Zoom in and compare to the Earth!
Zoom in and compare to the Earth!
February 3, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Check this #sunspot out using the student helioviewer at student.helioviewer.org
Zoom in and compare to the Earth!
Zoom in and compare to the Earth!
Passing 5 million views! Congrats to @geekfamilygaming.bsky.social for bringing quality #indiegaming #videogame content to #youtube
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Thanks so much to all of you for bringing us this far! We are slowly but steadily growing bigger every day and, hopefully, getting a little better with each video we put out there. We may not respond...
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February 2, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Passing 5 million views! Congrats to @geekfamilygaming.bsky.social for bringing quality #indiegaming #videogame content to #youtube
www.youtube.com/@geekfamilyg...
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🧦 #science
My latest Forbes piece is inspired by an actual conversation with my wife this morning. My 101 on why socks are so important and the "multiple" ways feet are important to our core body temperature. I promise you are going to learn something reading it.
Read www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Read www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
The Science Of Why Socks Keep Us Warm. It’s More Than You Think
Socks are more important than you may think during the Arctic plunge currently gripping much of the U.S. Here's why feet are so important in regulating body temperature.
www.forbes.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
🧦 #science
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We’re proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our international partners in Artemis. Our European Service Module is at the heart of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Together, we're extending humankind’s presence in space and demonstrating that multilateral and inclusive cooperation is vital for our future.
January 30, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Reality keeps asserting itself whether we’re ready or not. We are watching sea urchins collapse across oceans, another reminder that Earth systems don’t care about our attention, consensus, or permission. A dramatic rethink of security has never been clearer.
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
The Sea Urchin Apocalypse Is Real, and It Might Be Spreading Globally, Scientists Warn
New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.
gizmodo.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Come sail away ⛵️
January 29, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Come sail away ⛵️
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![3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia3p425asp237hjolbn5lly6g6hzm2eoygqjpkd5dii6zrwqnp7qi@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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just a reminder: if fire hydrants near where you live are buried in snow after this week’s storms, it’s a mitzvah (and a gooooood workout!) to dig out around that hydrant so fire crews can get to it faster if need be.
January 28, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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#friendship 🎁 link
The Friendship Advice Experts Swear By
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:38 PM
#friendship 🎁 link
Discord now?! 🤦🏻♀️
Discord probably won't last long after its IPO sadly. Any sort of long term viability for social media will be dependent on the rules for such things being dictated by its users (or some sort of benevolent private ownership aka a unicorn)
January 28, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Discord now?! 🤦🏻♀️
Marine #science 🌊
Stockholm University has launched a new interdisciplinary marine research network that brings together researchers across natural sciences, social sciences, law & humanities to spark new ideas and advance marine knowledge.
👉 Read more: buff.ly/Whgx018
👉 Read more: buff.ly/Whgx018
January 28, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Marine #science 🌊
“Nuclear safety” and “may be considered” are two things you don’t want to see together. Especially around groundwater #epa
I s'pose that's one way to cut nuclear costs:
"Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules" www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
"Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules" www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
January 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
“Nuclear safety” and “may be considered” are two things you don’t want to see together. Especially around groundwater #epa
geopatriation. They're predicting that 75% of European and Middle Eastern enterprises will move workloads out of global clouds and back to local or sovereign environments by 2030, up from less than 5% today.
And do it begins….
And do it begins….
France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 PM
geopatriation. They're predicting that 75% of European and Middle Eastern enterprises will move workloads out of global clouds and back to local or sovereign environments by 2030, up from less than 5% today.
And do it begins….
And do it begins….
Reposted by RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪
maybe things that you think are fungible are really not? (data edition)
www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-01-26-t...
www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-01-26-t...
The Myth of Fungible Data
Gartner recently coined a new term: geopatriation. They're predicting that 75% of European and Middle Eastern enterprises will move workloads out of global clouds and back to local or sovereign enviro...
www.distributedthoughts.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:48 PM
maybe things that you think are fungible are really not? (data edition)
www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-01-26-t...
www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-01-26-t...
That’s 13 times the volume of all the Great Lakes combined. eos.org/articles/rep...
Report: 13 Great Lakes’ Worth of Water Underlies the Contiguous United States - Eos
Researchers used 1 million data points and a machine learning algorithm to estimate groundwater stores with higher resolution than ever before.
eos.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:31 PM