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From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : The IceCube collaboration presents the strongest limit yet on the proton fraction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/05/31/t...
astrobites.org/2025/05/31/t...
Kachow! Three high energy neutrinos speed through IceCube
The IceCube collaboration presents the strongest limit yet on the proton fraction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
astrobites.org
June 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : The IceCube collaboration presents the strongest limit yet on the proton fraction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/05/31/t...
astrobites.org/2025/05/31/t...
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These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years.
It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
May 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years.
It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
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From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Five years after this supermassive black hole started shining, its X-ray behavior is anything but ordinary. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/16/x-treme-x-rays-in-an-x-tra-young-system/
astrobites.org/2025/04/16/x-treme-x-rays-in-an-x-tra-young-system/
X-treme X-rays in an X-tra young system
Five years after this supermassive black hole started shining, its X-ray behavior is anything but ordinary.
astrobites.org
April 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Five years after this supermassive black hole started shining, its X-ray behavior is anything but ordinary. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/16/x-treme-x-rays-in-an-x-tra-young-system/
astrobites.org/2025/04/16/x-treme-x-rays-in-an-x-tra-young-system/
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From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Today’s authors come up with a new way to account for foreground and background galaxies in galaxy cluster measurements.🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/03/29/c...
astrobites.org/2025/03/29/c...
Less than meets the eye: measuring the bias in galaxy cluster observations
Today’s authors come up with a new way to account for foreground and background galaxies in galaxy cluster measurements.
astrobites.org
March 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Today’s authors come up with a new way to account for foreground and background galaxies in galaxy cluster measurements.🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/03/29/c...
astrobites.org/2025/03/29/c...
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From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Six galaxies show signs of a brand new active black hole in today’s bite. ✨🔭
astrobites.org/2025/02/25/c...
astrobites.org/2025/02/25/c...
Six Supermassive Black Holes Wake Up from a Long Nap
Six galaxies show signs of a brand new active black hole in today's bite.
astrobites.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Six galaxies show signs of a brand new active black hole in today’s bite. ✨🔭
astrobites.org/2025/02/25/c...
astrobites.org/2025/02/25/c...
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6 weeks ago today, planes flew a few hundred people to El Salvador, where they’re being held at CECOT — a place from which Salvadoran officials brag no one is ever released — at US expense.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
April 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
6 weeks ago today, planes flew a few hundred people to El Salvador, where they’re being held at CECOT — a place from which Salvadoran officials brag no one is ever released — at US expense.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
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Pope Francis’s Easter message, read in St. Peter's Square a day before his death:
April 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Pope Francis’s Easter message, read in St. Peter's Square a day before his death:
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in less than eight years the NCAA went from banning North Carolina from hosting championships due to its bathroom bill to... this.
Statement from NCAA president Charlie Baker on Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.
Says the NCAA will move quickly to align with the EO.
Says the NCAA will move quickly to align with the EO.
February 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
in less than eight years the NCAA went from banning North Carolina from hosting championships due to its bathroom bill to... this.
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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Folks have been writing about how the rollback of DEI is segregationist which is absolutely true, but to add, so too are the deportations. Immigration policy in the US has a long history of servicing white supremacy — and it literally denies the co presence of people of color.
February 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Folks have been writing about how the rollback of DEI is segregationist which is absolutely true, but to add, so too are the deportations. Immigration policy in the US has a long history of servicing white supremacy — and it literally denies the co presence of people of color.
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This list is mostly Black women. It's clear that the entire anti-DEI project is just neo-segregation. It's the same reason they only targeted Black women at Harvard. They don't believe people of color or women should have any positions of power. www.aol.com/federal-heal...
Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets'
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies.
www.aol.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This list is mostly Black women. It's clear that the entire anti-DEI project is just neo-segregation. It's the same reason they only targeted Black women at Harvard. They don't believe people of color or women should have any positions of power. www.aol.com/federal-heal...
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Bouie lays out the stakes plainly and clearly. It’s the first such frank appraisal in legacy media. I’m very glad he wrote it. It’s shareable and accessible and will provide framing Dems who haven’t been able to figure it out can use.There’s also a nudge toward 2nd reconstruction at the end. Bravo.
February 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Bouie lays out the stakes plainly and clearly. It’s the first such frank appraisal in legacy media. I’m very glad he wrote it. It’s shareable and accessible and will provide framing Dems who haven’t been able to figure it out can use.There’s also a nudge toward 2nd reconstruction at the end. Bravo.
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Gift link to Washington Post article on NSF hunting through grant content wapo.st/4aMAdEz
February 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Gift link to Washington Post article on NSF hunting through grant content wapo.st/4aMAdEz
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To be clear, Palestinians have resisted American funded & Israeli operated ethnic cleansing since 1948.
Trump is just the latest of a long line of monsters, he’s just the dumbest & says the quiet part out loud.
But make no mistake: Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
Trump is just the latest of a long line of monsters, he’s just the dumbest & says the quiet part out loud.
But make no mistake: Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
February 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
To be clear, Palestinians have resisted American funded & Israeli operated ethnic cleansing since 1948.
Trump is just the latest of a long line of monsters, he’s just the dumbest & says the quiet part out loud.
But make no mistake: Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
Trump is just the latest of a long line of monsters, he’s just the dumbest & says the quiet part out loud.
But make no mistake: Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
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Horrendous & painful come to mind. The disaster this would cause is hard to fathom, & yet, that’s the point of such threats & possible actions. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
www.politico.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Horrendous & painful come to mind. The disaster this would cause is hard to fathom, & yet, that’s the point of such threats & possible actions. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute
When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech
We are talking about an actual Nazi
When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech
We are talking about an actual Nazi
February 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute
When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech
We are talking about an actual Nazi
When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech
We are talking about an actual Nazi
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Today is the founding date of a concentration camp
BREAKING | CBS News reports that a flight is scheduled to transport migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay today, as confirmed by a U.S. official.
February 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today is the founding date of a concentration camp
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Snap out of it, America. The warning lights are flashing red. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...
Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You
January 6 was nothing compared to the current mob of thugs intent on tearing apart our country’s very system of government.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Snap out of it, America. The warning lights are flashing red. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...
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Fifth largest economy in the world.
"California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023"
"California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023"
Some good news: California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023, with battery storage doubled.
“Every major renewable—geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind—is lower cost than fossil fuels”
grist.org/energy/calif...
“Every major renewable—geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind—is lower cost than fossil fuels”
grist.org/energy/calif...
California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.
grist.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Fifth largest economy in the world.
"California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023"
"California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023"
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
January 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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I wrote about Trump’s inauguration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I wrote about Trump’s inauguration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
November 7, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
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Please stop marketing me products for “women on the go” — I’m ready for things for women on the stay. Women on the sit down. Women on the cozy bed with three beverages and strong wifi
November 5, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Please stop marketing me products for “women on the go” — I’m ready for things for women on the stay. Women on the sit down. Women on the cozy bed with three beverages and strong wifi