Augusto Carballido
@astroabc.bsky.social
Planetary science • Astrobiology • Complex systems • Public health advocacy.
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Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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The driving motivation behind science is to ultimately answer one simple question (with no simple answer): are we alone in the universe?
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The driving motivation behind science is to ultimately answer one simple question (with no simple answer): are we alone in the universe?
“It may start as a respiratory virus, but that’s really the tip of the iceberg, and it has downstream ramifications in multiple organ systems, specifically in this case in the cardiovascular space”.
A number of viral infections, including flu, Covid-19 and shingles, are linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, a new study affirmed.
Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack
A new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease.
nyti.ms
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“It may start as a respiratory virus, but that’s really the tip of the iceberg, and it has downstream ramifications in multiple organ systems, specifically in this case in the cardiovascular space”.
If galaxies could talk…
We come with receipts🧾
Tidal tails are cosmic “receipts” of galactic drama, showing who collided with whom. Rubin's camera is sharp enough to catch wind of even the faintest intergalactic tea.
No need to worry about "pics or it didn't happen" with Rubin keeping a close eye 😎 🔭🧪
Tidal tails are cosmic “receipts” of galactic drama, showing who collided with whom. Rubin's camera is sharp enough to catch wind of even the faintest intergalactic tea.
No need to worry about "pics or it didn't happen" with Rubin keeping a close eye 😎 🔭🧪
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If galaxies could talk…
Reaction-diffusion systems are so cool.
October 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reaction-diffusion systems are so cool.
"Current guidelines of increasing physical separation appear to have a limited impact on reducing aerosol transmission."
Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line
Waiting and walking in lines (queues) can create unexpected air currents that can either heighten or suppress infection risks.
www.science.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
"Current guidelines of increasing physical separation appear to have a limited impact on reducing aerosol transmission."
Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Much needed.
Healthy indoor air is a proven prescription for public health that can help fortify our buildings and enhance people’s health, protecting against respiratory diseases and illnesses, cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline.
resources.wellcertified.com/press-releas...
resources.wellcertified.com/press-releas...
October 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Much needed.
One of this year’s Nobel prize laureates in chemistry is an immigrant in the U.S. 👍
October 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
One of this year’s Nobel prize laureates in chemistry is an immigrant in the U.S. 👍
At the dawn of the French Revolution, rumors spread like a disease | Journal Club | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/journal...
At the dawn of the French Revolution, rumors spread like a disease
The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, depicted here, sparked the French Revolution. As word of dissatisfaction and revolution spread throughout the country, poor economic conditions and other...
www.pnas.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
At the dawn of the French Revolution, rumors spread like a disease | Journal Club | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/journal...
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Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), top Democrat on Senate Commerce Cmte, is out with a Democratic staff report: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency."
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
September 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), top Democrat on Senate Commerce Cmte, is out with a Democratic staff report: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency."
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
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Earth’s journey through the Milky Way’s dense spiral arms might have churned up the planet’s surface
go.nature.com/3Ildx4C
go.nature.com/3Ildx4C
How passage through the Milky Way’s spiral arms altered our planet
The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s surface.
go.nature.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Earth’s journey through the Milky Way’s dense spiral arms might have churned up the planet’s surface
go.nature.com/3Ildx4C
go.nature.com/3Ildx4C
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Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?
September 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been…nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
–Isaac Asimov
–Isaac Asimov
August 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been…nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
–Isaac Asimov
–Isaac Asimov
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Our new study finds that the upper atmosphere is becoming more sheared and less stratified because of climate change. Both these changes are making the atmosphere less stable and more conducive to turbulence.
Covered by the BBC here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Covered by the BBC here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reading University research shows turbulent flights to increase
University of Reading research shows that clear-air turbulence, which is invisible to aircraft, is set to get worse.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Our new study finds that the upper atmosphere is becoming more sheared and less stratified because of climate change. Both these changes are making the atmosphere less stable and more conducive to turbulence.
Covered by the BBC here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Covered by the BBC here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mammoths in Mexico? Huge bone trove reveals giant beasts thrived in warmth, too | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Mammoths in Mexico? Huge bone trove reveals giant beasts thrived in warmth, too
Fossils found while building airport contain first mammoth DNA from tropical location
www.science.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Mammoths in Mexico? Huge bone trove reveals giant beasts thrived in warmth, too | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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COVID-19 is spreading in California. Getting the 2024/2025 COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant is safe, effective & protects you & your developing baby from getting very sick.
📲Talk to your prenatal care provider or visit MyTurn.ca.gov to schedule your vaccine appointment.
📲Talk to your prenatal care provider or visit MyTurn.ca.gov to schedule your vaccine appointment.
August 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
COVID-19 is spreading in California. Getting the 2024/2025 COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant is safe, effective & protects you & your developing baby from getting very sick.
📲Talk to your prenatal care provider or visit MyTurn.ca.gov to schedule your vaccine appointment.
📲Talk to your prenatal care provider or visit MyTurn.ca.gov to schedule your vaccine appointment.
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Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report
Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025
www.ametsoc.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
“This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so…brief… They care only about the time they are in power”.
- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Carl Sagan, Contact
August 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so…brief… They care only about the time they are in power”.
- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Carl Sagan, Contact
“…the discovery of an extended CO2 coma and the abundance of ice water shows that 3I/ATLAS may not be so different from the comets that formed around our Sun”.
spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atla...
spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atla...
SPHEREx Discovers Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in Interstellar Object 3I-ATLAS | SPHEREx
spherex.caltech.edu
August 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“…the discovery of an extended CO2 coma and the abundance of ice water shows that 3I/ATLAS may not be so different from the comets that formed around our Sun”.
spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atla...
spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atla...
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El asteroide Bennu tiene materiales de miles de millones de años del Sistema Solar y de más lejos.
#Latinus #InformaciónParaTi
latinus.us/estilo-de-vi...
#Latinus #InformaciónParaTi
latinus.us/estilo-de-vi...
El asteroide Bennu tiene materiales de miles de millones de años del Sistema Solar y de más lejos
Los apenas 122 gramos de polvo y roca que nos dejó la sonda OSIRIS-REx y que están siendo analizadas en diversos laboratorios del mundo permiten ir reconstruyendo la historia de nuestra región del uni...
latinus.us
August 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
El asteroide Bennu tiene materiales de miles de millones de años del Sistema Solar y de más lejos.
#Latinus #InformaciónParaTi
latinus.us/estilo-de-vi...
#Latinus #InformaciónParaTi
latinus.us/estilo-de-vi...
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This is a shocking executive order that undermines the very idea of open inquiry. It turns federal grants into dispensations, subject to arbitrary and capricious withdrawal should the recipient say or believe the wrong things.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is a shocking executive order that undermines the very idea of open inquiry. It turns federal grants into dispensations, subject to arbitrary and capricious withdrawal should the recipient say or believe the wrong things.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Actually, the best protection is to *combine* vaccines with N95-wearing, indoor space ventilation and indoor air filtration.
All of those things will reduce your risk of developing Long COVID, which can damage your heart, brain and other organs.
All of those things will reduce your risk of developing Long COVID, which can damage your heart, brain and other organs.
COVID-19 is circulating in California. Stay up to date on your COVID-19 vaccine. It is the best way to protect yourself from serious illness.
📲Talk to your health care provider or visit MyTurn.ca.gov to schedule a vaccine appointment.
📲Talk to your health care provider or visit MyTurn.ca.gov to schedule a vaccine appointment.
August 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Actually, the best protection is to *combine* vaccines with N95-wearing, indoor space ventilation and indoor air filtration.
All of those things will reduce your risk of developing Long COVID, which can damage your heart, brain and other organs.
All of those things will reduce your risk of developing Long COVID, which can damage your heart, brain and other organs.