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Rebecca Boyle 🌕
@rboyle31.bsky.social
Author, journalist, selenophile, hiker, Coloradan. I speak for the Moon.
Life is short but sweet for certain.
My award-winning national bestseller OUR MOON is out in paperback!
Buy it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611468/our-moon-by
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Packed splinter session at #AAS247 for the announcement of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System—a modular, rapid-response network of four novel observatories designed to democratize access to the cosmos.

Read more about the initiatives here: www.schmidtsciences.org/focus-area-a...
January 7, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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This is awesome

Repeating what my mom told me: the universe is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us
NEW from #AAS247: New Discovery Challenges Evolution of Galaxy Clusters

#ALMA detects the earliest hot intracluster atmosphere ever seen, revealing a huge thermal reservoir, and forcing astronomers to reconsider how galaxy clusters grew in the early Universe.

#AAS #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy
New Discovery Challenges Evolution of Galaxy Clusters - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Peering back in time, around 12 billion years, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found the...
public.nrao.edu
January 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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The first two hours this morning
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam.

Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.
January 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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13. Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are, @rboyle31.bsky.social. Beautifully written, full of fascinating information.
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.
December 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Rian did you fuckin RICK ROLL US
WHAT

(Loved this movie btw)
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Friday 13 April 2029 is the day Earth gets lucky, as asteroid Apophis skims (safely) past our planet. 🔭 ESA & JAXA are launching the Ramses mission 🛰️ to rendezvous for a journey only seen every few millennia. It's time to #LookUp. My latest for #JAXA Cosmos 🤸‍♂️🧪: cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/look-up-esa-...
December 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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This means we have an opportunity to shift to an alternate timeline if we all work together. Who's with me?
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a stunning map of the cosmos in infrared
Get Lost in This Dazzling New Map of the Cosmos
NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a stunning map of the cosmos in infrared
www.scientificamerican.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Why would I erase the laughter from Dead tour or the worry of launching kids in the world? Every sun-kissed hike I’ve been on? All the weight that comes with loving and being loved? I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond
December 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Glad the good folks at @merriam-webster.com are helping lead the AI resistance
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Check out this new #JWST image.

It's another stunning view of the deep universe, but in the box at right is a small, red blob.

That's a galaxy in which a supernova was detected in March.

That galaxy is thirteen BILLION lightyears away. It's the oldest supernova found so far.
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🤔 1 John 4:3

(Man, it’s interesting the catechism that comes back when the occasion rises)
AI as co-redemptor or co-redemptrix. Cardinal Ottaviani where are you?
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I don’t need to hear, let alone believe, some kind of mythical conspiracy about this thing in order to consider it absolutely astonishing
The stanning of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in this account continues

Image credit: Victor Sabet, Julien De Winter
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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So this woman is being interviewed, gently, about the salacious memoir she wrote, and then can’t talk about what she wrote and falls back on the damsel in distress tactic? I cannot believe how do may people elevated her and continue to do so.
this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"

Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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