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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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We've compiled high-res imagery from Vantor and NOAA showing Jamaica before and after Hurricane Melissa.
Before 👉 soaratlas.com/maps/139676?...
After 👉 soaratlas.com/maps/139587?...
Explore more at 🌎 www.soaratlas.com
#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #SatelliteImagery #SoarAtlas
Before 👉 soaratlas.com/maps/139676?...
After 👉 soaratlas.com/maps/139587?...
Explore more at 🌎 www.soaratlas.com
#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #SatelliteImagery #SoarAtlas
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We've compiled high-res imagery from Vantor and NOAA showing Jamaica before and after Hurricane Melissa.
Before 👉 soaratlas.com/maps/139676?...
After 👉 soaratlas.com/maps/139587?...
Explore more at 🌎 www.soaratlas.com
#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #SatelliteImagery #SoarAtlas
Before 👉 soaratlas.com/maps/139676?...
After 👉 soaratlas.com/maps/139587?...
Explore more at 🌎 www.soaratlas.com
#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #SatelliteImagery #SoarAtlas
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Announcing ISS in Real Time, a new multimedia project where you can play back every day of the past 25 years aboard the International Space Station.
issinrealtime.org
issinrealtime.org
ISS in Real Time
Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.
issinrealtime.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Announcing ISS in Real Time, a new multimedia project where you can play back every day of the past 25 years aboard the International Space Station.
issinrealtime.org
issinrealtime.org
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Copernicus Sentinel-1D Earth observation satellite successfully launched by Arianespace with an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s spaceport, in French Guiana: lnkd.in/gRGXxdd2
The Sentinel-1 family is now complete!
@esa.int
The Sentinel-1 family is now complete!
@esa.int
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Copernicus Sentinel-1D Earth observation satellite successfully launched by Arianespace with an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s spaceport, in French Guiana: lnkd.in/gRGXxdd2
The Sentinel-1 family is now complete!
@esa.int
The Sentinel-1 family is now complete!
@esa.int
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I’ve known I wanted to work in aerospace since I was 10. My mom brought me home an art kit that let you draw aircraft. Then in high school, I started drawing spacecraft blueprints, coming up with designs and layouts. Astronaut Andrew Allen spoke at my high school & I knew where I wanted to work.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I’ve known I wanted to work in aerospace since I was 10. My mom brought me home an art kit that let you draw aircraft. Then in high school, I started drawing spacecraft blueprints, coming up with designs and layouts. Astronaut Andrew Allen spoke at my high school & I knew where I wanted to work.
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25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space 🧪 🏺 🔭 #SpaceArchaeology
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space 🧪 🏺 🔭 #SpaceArchaeology
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Open Sesame!
The ELT doors have moved for the first time. This was no small feat, as each door will weigh 650 tonnes once completed.
The ELT dome & its doors will guard the telescope from the harsh conditions of the Atacama Desert.
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2544a/
🔭 🧪
📹 ESO/ACe
The ELT doors have moved for the first time. This was no small feat, as each door will weigh 650 tonnes once completed.
The ELT dome & its doors will guard the telescope from the harsh conditions of the Atacama Desert.
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2544a/
🔭 🧪
📹 ESO/ACe
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Open Sesame!
The ELT doors have moved for the first time. This was no small feat, as each door will weigh 650 tonnes once completed.
The ELT dome & its doors will guard the telescope from the harsh conditions of the Atacama Desert.
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2544a/
🔭 🧪
📹 ESO/ACe
The ELT doors have moved for the first time. This was no small feat, as each door will weigh 650 tonnes once completed.
The ELT dome & its doors will guard the telescope from the harsh conditions of the Atacama Desert.
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2544a/
🔭 🧪
📹 ESO/ACe
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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(9/9)This article details the administration’s ongoing destruction of NASA science. Here Press Secretary Bethany Stevens clearly violates the Hatch Act, as Acting Administrator Duffy has done. If they’re not held accountable, NASA’s integrity may never be restored.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
(9/9)This article details the administration’s ongoing destruction of NASA science. Here Press Secretary Bethany Stevens clearly violates the Hatch Act, as Acting Administrator Duffy has done. If they’re not held accountable, NASA’s integrity may never be restored.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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I want to say, Jeff, read my book, but, a, I haven't written it yet, and b, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social & @weinersmith.bsky.social's A CITY ON MARS so easily shows the impossibility of "millions" in space in decades. Just the amount of transport that would be needed is absurd!
Jeff can afford to believe in a lot of things that just aren’t gonna happen.
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I want to say, Jeff, read my book, but, a, I haven't written it yet, and b, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social & @weinersmith.bsky.social's A CITY ON MARS so easily shows the impossibility of "millions" in space in decades. Just the amount of transport that would be needed is absurd!
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In solidarity with a friend who started a 9-month course of chemotherapy for brain cancer yesterday (24/10/2025), I'm going sober for the same period. Only 273 days to go! (Ends: Friday 24/07/2026).
I'm hoping to raise £1000 for @braintumourcharity.bsky.social
www.justgiving.com/page/guy-wat...
I'm hoping to raise £1000 for @braintumourcharity.bsky.social
www.justgiving.com/page/guy-wat...
Guy's fundraiser for The Brain Tumour Charity
Help Guy Watkins raise money to support The Brain Tumour Charity
www.justgiving.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
In solidarity with a friend who started a 9-month course of chemotherapy for brain cancer yesterday (24/10/2025), I'm going sober for the same period. Only 273 days to go! (Ends: Friday 24/07/2026).
I'm hoping to raise £1000 for @braintumourcharity.bsky.social
www.justgiving.com/page/guy-wat...
I'm hoping to raise £1000 for @braintumourcharity.bsky.social
www.justgiving.com/page/guy-wat...
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Quite the battle royale here.
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Quite the battle royale here.
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In case you missed it: From @csis.org - "The U.S. Enduring Human Presence in Orbit: Reflecting on the Future and Past 25 Years" with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine & Dr. Peggy Whitson, Astronaut & VP of Human Spaceflight at #AxiomSpace www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOq2...
The U.S. Enduring Human Presence in Orbit: Reflecting on the Future and Past 25 Years
YouTube video by Center for Strategic & International Studies
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In case you missed it: From @csis.org - "The U.S. Enduring Human Presence in Orbit: Reflecting on the Future and Past 25 Years" with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine & Dr. Peggy Whitson, Astronaut & VP of Human Spaceflight at #AxiomSpace www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOq2...
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Twitter used to be the place where reporter talked to experts in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, etc., but the experts all left but reporters did not.
Now reporters only talk to guys who do computers (but haven't coded in at least a decade). It shows.
Now reporters only talk to guys who do computers (but haven't coded in at least a decade). It shows.
October 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Twitter used to be the place where reporter talked to experts in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, etc., but the experts all left but reporters did not.
Now reporters only talk to guys who do computers (but haven't coded in at least a decade). It shows.
Now reporters only talk to guys who do computers (but haven't coded in at least a decade). It shows.
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Musk came back 12 or so later with a cringe homophobic gif. Spectacular crashout happening over at MuskHQ
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Musk came back 12 or so later with a cringe homophobic gif. Spectacular crashout happening over at MuskHQ
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Interesting: Greenland picks French company Eutelsat over Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Greenland's government-owned telecommunications company Tusass signed the agreement with Eutelsat to provide east and north Greenland with better and more reliable internet connectivity.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Greenland's government-owned telecommunications company Tusass signed the agreement with Eutelsat to provide east and north Greenland with better and more reliable internet connectivity.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Grønland satser på fransk selskab frem for Elon Musk-satellitter
Grønlands selvstyreejede teleselskab Tusass har indgået en aftale med et fransk selskab om at sikre bedre internet i Øst- og Nordgrønland.
www.dr.dk
October 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Interesting: Greenland picks French company Eutelsat over Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Greenland's government-owned telecommunications company Tusass signed the agreement with Eutelsat to provide east and north Greenland with better and more reliable internet connectivity.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Greenland's government-owned telecommunications company Tusass signed the agreement with Eutelsat to provide east and north Greenland with better and more reliable internet connectivity.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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Remember our mantra:
Don't Engage, Just Block.
Don't Engage, Just Block.
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Remember our mantra:
Don't Engage, Just Block.
Don't Engage, Just Block.
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@plasmonica.bsky.social is organizing a summer school on "Plasmonic and Nano-optics" (march 23-27 in Florence, Italy), with a bunch of amazing lecturers and speakers, plus me.
Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
Plasmonica School 2026
www.plasmonica.it
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@plasmonica.bsky.social is organizing a summer school on "Plasmonic and Nano-optics" (march 23-27 in Florence, Italy), with a bunch of amazing lecturers and speakers, plus me.
Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
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We've been working on a new galaxy model for Gaia Sky. It is a compromise between 'looking good' and 'rendering fast'.
October 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We've been working on a new galaxy model for Gaia Sky. It is a compromise between 'looking good' and 'rendering fast'.
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ESA has awarded a contract to Ingegneria Dei Sistemi to design a reusable rocket stage recovery vessel as part of Avio’s €40 million reusable upper stage project.
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-awards-c...
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-awards-c...
ESA Awards Contract for Reusable Rocket Stage Recovery Vessel - European Spaceflight
ESA has awarded a contract to Ingegneria Dei Sistemi to design a reusable rocket stage recovery vessel as part of Avio’s €40 million reusable upper stage project.
europeanspaceflight.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
ESA has awarded a contract to Ingegneria Dei Sistemi to design a reusable rocket stage recovery vessel as part of Avio’s €40 million reusable upper stage project.
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-awards-c...
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-awards-c...
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Thrilled to have two years' of work out, in a pair of papers led by @gradientrider.bsky.social and @maxecharles.bsky.social.
We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!
We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!
How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away
The only Australian hardware on board the legendary telescope is starting to fulfil its duties.
theconversation.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Thrilled to have two years' of work out, in a pair of papers led by @gradientrider.bsky.social and @maxecharles.bsky.social.
We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!
We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!
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Really happy with the write-up in the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social of our work with JWST interferometry, with quotes from me, @spiralstar.bsky.social, and @gradientrider.bsky.social, and above all a great photoshoot with @maxecharles.bsky.social showing his tattoo of the instrument!
This $10 billion telescope was taking blurry pictures. Sydney students fixed it
The extraordinary James Webb Space Telescope had a major problem before two young scientists unlocked its full potential.
www.smh.com.au
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Really happy with the write-up in the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social of our work with JWST interferometry, with quotes from me, @spiralstar.bsky.social, and @gradientrider.bsky.social, and above all a great photoshoot with @maxecharles.bsky.social showing his tattoo of the instrument!
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“Restructuring” because the Whitehouse and their allies choose destruction of all the good parts of the United States federal government because it won’t make them a personal profit. Also, they hate science, people who do good things for everyone instead of for them only, and actual reality.
NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure
NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.
cnb.cx
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Restructuring” because the Whitehouse and their allies choose destruction of all the good parts of the United States federal government because it won’t make them a personal profit. Also, they hate science, people who do good things for everyone instead of for them only, and actual reality.
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I can’t think of a better reason to finally join Bluesky - my first first-authored paper is out! It being published in @science.org is surreal. This was a community effort in every sense, led by an incredible team with @rosvall-lab.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @juncowren.bsky.social
As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note.
Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL
Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I can’t think of a better reason to finally join Bluesky - my first first-authored paper is out! It being published in @science.org is surreal. This was a community effort in every sense, led by an incredible team with @rosvall-lab.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @juncowren.bsky.social