Andy Rivkin
@asrivkin.bsky.social
Planetary Astronomer on #TeamAsteroid; Gedankenband member/guitarist; “Surprisingly nonchalant” according to Wired. He/him הנני 🌻
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Andy Rivkin
@asrivkin.bsky.social
· Sep 5
All* of your favorite** planetary scientists on Bluesky, collected into one starter pack for your convenience! Sometimes, we'll even discuss planetary science!
Is your favorite planetary scientist missing? Have them DM me to be added. :) 🧪🔭
go.bsky.app/SdZsrfw
*OK, many of
**plus me
Is your favorite planetary scientist missing? Have them DM me to be added. :) 🧪🔭
go.bsky.app/SdZsrfw
*OK, many of
**plus me
I'm 8 minutes in to the @500songspodcast.bsky.social episode on "Good Vibrations" and I'm already online searching for a cheap beginners' (electro-)theremin.
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I'm 8 minutes in to the @500songspodcast.bsky.social episode on "Good Vibrations" and I'm already online searching for a cheap beginners' (electro-)theremin.
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excuse me I have been actively soliciting Edmund Fitzgerald memes for years
May 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
excuse me I have been actively soliciting Edmund Fitzgerald memes for years
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The first surviving successful image of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Andrew Ainslie Common in Ealing, London, using his 36-inch Newtonian reflector and the wet collodion process invented in 1851 by portrait photographer Frederick Scott Archer
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Just called my senator, who's a reliable guy who will vote the right way on this, left a message asking him to pass on to his squishier colleagues that if this goes through I'll take any money I would have used to help his campaign and instead use it to help their primary opponents.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Just called my senator, who's a reliable guy who will vote the right way on this, left a message asking him to pass on to his squishier colleagues that if this goes through I'll take any money I would have used to help his campaign and instead use it to help their primary opponents.
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Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
I have no strong position on whether dude in the beer jacket is AI-generated or not, but I will note that if it real it would only be performance art--I can think of much better pastimes than lugging around 50-100+ pounds of liquid that is slowly sapping my body heat to become undrinkably warm.
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I have no strong position on whether dude in the beer jacket is AI-generated or not, but I will note that if it real it would only be performance art--I can think of much better pastimes than lugging around 50-100+ pounds of liquid that is slowly sapping my body heat to become undrinkably warm.
While out with @brianwolven.bsky.social and @vexedmuddler.bsky.social last night (I think @barbylon.bsky.social had already left?) we came up with the idea of "Jugband Demon Hunters", which may or may not star Emmett Otter. So it's up to all of yinz animator types to actually make it happen.
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
While out with @brianwolven.bsky.social and @vexedmuddler.bsky.social last night (I think @barbylon.bsky.social had already left?) we came up with the idea of "Jugband Demon Hunters", which may or may not star Emmett Otter. So it's up to all of yinz animator types to actually make it happen.
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It me! My story! I dun writ it! 🧪🔭
Some asteroids spin smoothly. Others tumble chaotically. Understanding their differences could help us learn more about asteroid history and improve planetary defense measures.
What Tumbling Asteroids Tell Us About Their Innards - Eos
Data from the Gaia space observatory reveal that many slowly spinning asteroids rotate chaotically. A new theory links that chaos to their inner structure and history.
eos.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It me! My story! I dun writ it! 🧪🔭
I am just outside that cohort and think peak Fleetwood Mac was peerless! However, like that cohort, I lived in real time through the very public airing of their very toxic interpersonal dynamics while their music descended from astonishing to ubiquitous and pedestrian, which also colored opinions.
I'm not saying 'only people aged 47 to 55 think Fleetwood Mac are bad' - obviously people of all ages have different opinions. But only people in that v specific age group think that 'Fleetwood Mac are bad' is a common sense, commonplace opinion.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am just outside that cohort and think peak Fleetwood Mac was peerless! However, like that cohort, I lived in real time through the very public airing of their very toxic interpersonal dynamics while their music descended from astonishing to ubiquitous and pedestrian, which also colored opinions.
I’m accusing him of that!
Comer on why he thinks Biden's pardons were worse than Trump saying he knows nothing about people he's pardoning: "Nobody is accusing Donald Trump of not knowing what day it is, what year it is, the pardon process and things like that, so I think there's a big difference."
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m accusing him of that!
ok, well, if we're doing this let's do this i guess.
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ok, well, if we're doing this let's do this i guess.
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Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
I want cereal
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
OK, last post to celebrate N7 Day from this account (at least right now): My tribute to my blue girlfriend, Liara.
(song isn't really one of my best, the performance isn't one of my best, I know I'm really selling it here)
(song isn't really one of my best, the performance isn't one of my best, I know I'm really selling it here)
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
OK, last post to celebrate N7 Day from this account (at least right now): My tribute to my blue girlfriend, Liara.
(song isn't really one of my best, the performance isn't one of my best, I know I'm really selling it here)
(song isn't really one of my best, the performance isn't one of my best, I know I'm really selling it here)
This video was one of my go-to Zoom backgrounds c. 2021, even when it wasn't N7 Day.
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This video was one of my go-to Zoom backgrounds c. 2021, even when it wasn't N7 Day.
Here's what you might hear at your N7 Day Party, in very specific and fictional circumstances.
(I'd say spoilers, but the game is well over 10 years old at this point, and this isn't actually plot critical?)
(I'd say spoilers, but the game is well over 10 years old at this point, and this isn't actually plot critical?)
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Here's what you might hear at your N7 Day Party, in very specific and fictional circumstances.
(I'd say spoilers, but the game is well over 10 years old at this point, and this isn't actually plot critical?)
(I'd say spoilers, but the game is well over 10 years old at this point, and this isn't actually plot critical?)
Happy N7 Day, everybody!
(there will be at least one more post)
(there will be at least one more post)
COMMANDER SHEPARD - The song (OFFICIAL VIDEO) by Miracle Of Sound
YouTube video by miracleofsound
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Happy N7 Day, everybody!
(there will be at least one more post)
(there will be at least one more post)
This is the guy who doesn’t wash his hands because he doesn’t believe in germs? Or am I mixing him up with someone else who is also high in the line if succession?
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is the guy who doesn’t wash his hands because he doesn’t believe in germs? Or am I mixing him up with someone else who is also high in the line if succession?
Ooh. Sophomore year of college. I saw them twice on this tour. At the time I would have said “You Are the Everything” was my favorite, but nowadays I’m a bit more partial to “I Remember California”.
Green, the band’s 6th studio album, was released this week in November 1988. What’s your favorite song on the album?
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Ooh. Sophomore year of college. I saw them twice on this tour. At the time I would have said “You Are the Everything” was my favorite, but nowadays I’m a bit more partial to “I Remember California”.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Hüsker Dü 1985: THE MIRACLE YEAR vinyl box set acquired!
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Looking to start a PhD in Physics & Astronomy in 2026? The team @physicsuol.bsky.social have announced their STFC-funded projects on offer next year, spanning astrophysics, planetary science, and space instrumentation. Deadline: Jan 18th, contact us to learn more!
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November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Contact Congress and help save some of not just America’s but humanity’s greatest achievements.
Contact Congress and help save some of not just America’s but humanity’s greatest achievements.
🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Contact Congress and help save some of not just America’s but humanity’s greatest achievements.
Contact Congress and help save some of not just America’s but humanity’s greatest achievements.
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The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from our solar system. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Follow the Trajectory of Comet 3I/Atlas
The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from our solar system.
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from our solar system. www.wired.com/story/how-to...