Blue the Science Dude
@science-dude.bsky.social
Science communicator, Irish banjo player, and defender of reason and equality.
Bravos Blue Origin! New Glenn had a good day. Nailed booster landing... Next milestone, sending the twin Red and Blue ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars. Nice to see some good news.
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Bravos Blue Origin! New Glenn had a good day. Nailed booster landing... Next milestone, sending the twin Red and Blue ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars. Nice to see some good news.
Ice-nine of Cat's Cradle fame? How about Ice XXI! Sure, at 2 gigapascals (about 30,000 lbs per sq inch) for a mere microsecond (1 millionth of a second). So much more to learn about this deceptively simple molecule! @newswise.bsky.social 🧪
www.newswise.com/articles/wor...
www.newswise.com/articles/wor...
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ice-nine of Cat's Cradle fame? How about Ice XXI! Sure, at 2 gigapascals (about 30,000 lbs per sq inch) for a mere microsecond (1 millionth of a second). So much more to learn about this deceptively simple molecule! @newswise.bsky.social 🧪
www.newswise.com/articles/wor...
www.newswise.com/articles/wor...
COVID-19 vaccines save lives, but evidence is mounting that vaccines also protect against heart disease. A study in Nature Communications again shows lower rates of heart attacks and strokes after the first dose. Infections increase those risks. RFK Jr is a prat. 🧪🩺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
COVID-19 vaccines save lives, but evidence is mounting that vaccines also protect against heart disease. A study in Nature Communications again shows lower rates of heart attacks and strokes after the first dose. Infections increase those risks. RFK Jr is a prat. 🧪🩺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inflation, the theory the infant universe went from miniscule to ginormous in tiny fractions of a second. New research suggests it may actually have been immersed in a hot bath of elementary particles. A testable “warm inflation” scenario. 🧪
go.aps.org/4qoeTfW
go.aps.org/4qoeTfW
![FIG. 1. The predictions of warm inflation with the SM for a
F1:2 quartic inflaton potential. The allowed 68% and 95% contour
F1:3 regions correspond to the constraints from the combined analysis
F1:4 of Planck [5] and BICEP/Keck [6] data. Proposed and upcoming
F1:5 CMB experiments will improve this bound by about a factor of 4
F1:6 (AliCPT [51,52], Simons Observatory [53], and Simons Array
F1:7 [54]) to 20 (LiteBIRD [55] and CMB-S4 [56]).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ular7g76g77f74pv3yud4jb6/bafkreicp4pmzfbu3kbbklj63rgbgfvvql3q3imilkpaqf6lodqftjv3yge@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Inflation, the theory the infant universe went from miniscule to ginormous in tiny fractions of a second. New research suggests it may actually have been immersed in a hot bath of elementary particles. A testable “warm inflation” scenario. 🧪
go.aps.org/4qoeTfW
go.aps.org/4qoeTfW
Interferometry, the interference patterns of light waves, is already used in astrophysics in radio telescopes and gravitational wave detectors. Existing technology might also detect the elusive “graviton,” the particle theorized to carry the gravitational force. 🧪🔭 res.cloudinary.com/apsphysics/i...
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Interferometry, the interference patterns of light waves, is already used in astrophysics in radio telescopes and gravitational wave detectors. Existing technology might also detect the elusive “graviton,” the particle theorized to carry the gravitational force. 🧪🔭 res.cloudinary.com/apsphysics/i...
Sucks that U.S. science is getting the “East Wing” treatment.
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sucks that U.S. science is getting the “East Wing” treatment.
The whole universe displayed in a logarithmic map spanning about 20 orders of magnitude. On the left, Earth-sized scales to the largest cosmic distances on the right. (Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi). 🧪🔭 Tip-o-the-hat to @startswithabang.bsky.social medium.com/starts-with-...
September 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The whole universe displayed in a logarithmic map spanning about 20 orders of magnitude. On the left, Earth-sized scales to the largest cosmic distances on the right. (Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi). 🧪🔭 Tip-o-the-hat to @startswithabang.bsky.social medium.com/starts-with-...
Stepping away from existential dread, more amazing findings from pristine bits of Bennu that were returned to Earth: it is made of fragments from a larger body destroyed by a collision in the asteroid belt -- some of the material likely originated beyond our solar system. Fund Science. 🧪🔭
August 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Stepping away from existential dread, more amazing findings from pristine bits of Bennu that were returned to Earth: it is made of fragments from a larger body destroyed by a collision in the asteroid belt -- some of the material likely originated beyond our solar system. Fund Science. 🧪🔭
I may have gotten a little carried away on my recent screed to my congressional representative…
August 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I may have gotten a little carried away on my recent screed to my congressional representative…
I had the pleasure of visiting the construction site of the Rubin Telescope over the years. I was gobsmacked by the images. But, Rubin is not about single evocative images. It will image the entire sky every 3-4 nights, making an HD video of the universe as it evolves. THAT is the value of #NSF.🧪🔭
June 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I had the pleasure of visiting the construction site of the Rubin Telescope over the years. I was gobsmacked by the images. But, Rubin is not about single evocative images. It will image the entire sky every 3-4 nights, making an HD video of the universe as it evolves. THAT is the value of #NSF.🧪🔭
Catching the sunset at the NSF funded Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 10 years ago today. Don’t let the Sun set on NSF-funded discovery. #NSF 🧪🔭
June 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Catching the sunset at the NSF funded Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 10 years ago today. Don’t let the Sun set on NSF-funded discovery. #NSF 🧪🔭
Williamsburg having a HUGE turnout! #nokings #nomorekings
June 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Williamsburg having a HUGE turnout! #nokings #nomorekings
Happy Pride Month.
June 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Happy Pride Month.
Pro-Life…styles of the Rich and Famous.
May 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Pro-Life…styles of the Rich and Famous.
Have been considering AI of late.
My conjecture: “Intelligence is programmable. Consciousness is emergent.”
But emergent from what?
Possibly collapsing wave functions on the quantum scale. Thoughts?
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My conjecture: “Intelligence is programmable. Consciousness is emergent.”
But emergent from what?
Possibly collapsing wave functions on the quantum scale. Thoughts?
🧪
May 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Have been considering AI of late.
My conjecture: “Intelligence is programmable. Consciousness is emergent.”
But emergent from what?
Possibly collapsing wave functions on the quantum scale. Thoughts?
🧪
My conjecture: “Intelligence is programmable. Consciousness is emergent.”
But emergent from what?
Possibly collapsing wave functions on the quantum scale. Thoughts?
🧪
“When Harley Was One” or AI can be an a-hole. Science can’t predict when AI goes from informative to misleading, wrong, or even dangerous. Is a proposed Jekyll-Hyde model of AI the secret “formula?” www.newswise.com/articles/new... 🧪
May 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“When Harley Was One” or AI can be an a-hole. Science can’t predict when AI goes from informative to misleading, wrong, or even dangerous. Is a proposed Jekyll-Hyde model of AI the secret “formula?” www.newswise.com/articles/new... 🧪
So I took a mental-health break from social media for a few weeks (moving into a new home, and all). I naively thought "it's got to get better!" Then Innovation Suicide Friday hit. 40 years of my life communicating the value of science. Time to show the true meaning of a "Mad Scientist!"
May 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
So I took a mental-health break from social media for a few weeks (moving into a new home, and all). I naively thought "it's got to get better!" Then Innovation Suicide Friday hit. 40 years of my life communicating the value of science. Time to show the true meaning of a "Mad Scientist!"
Nitrous oxide (aka laughing gas) provides wonderful relief from dental anxiety. New research also suggests it has quick, lasting benefits for those with treatment-resistant depression. Unless you’re Frank Booth in “Blue Velvet.” 🧪 @newswise.bsky.social www.newswise.com/articles/und...
April 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Nitrous oxide (aka laughing gas) provides wonderful relief from dental anxiety. New research also suggests it has quick, lasting benefits for those with treatment-resistant depression. Unless you’re Frank Booth in “Blue Velvet.” 🧪 @newswise.bsky.social www.newswise.com/articles/und...
An image of the Voyager 1 radio transmitter (sending a feeble 22 watts signal: refrigerator lightbulb power) taken by the @thenrao.bsky.social VLBA 12 years ago after it "officially" exited the solar system (re: Ed Stone) 11.5 billion miles from Earth. Resolution? Sub-milliarsecond.
March 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
An image of the Voyager 1 radio transmitter (sending a feeble 22 watts signal: refrigerator lightbulb power) taken by the @thenrao.bsky.social VLBA 12 years ago after it "officially" exited the solar system (re: Ed Stone) 11.5 billion miles from Earth. Resolution? Sub-milliarsecond.
This is where Neil Armstrong and ‘Buzz’ Aldrin trained under simulated 1/6 gravity at NASA Langley. The “Gantry.” 🧪🔭
March 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is where Neil Armstrong and ‘Buzz’ Aldrin trained under simulated 1/6 gravity at NASA Langley. The “Gantry.” 🧪🔭
The “Moon Tree” planted at NASA Langley, dedicated today. The seed from which this tree grew was flown around the Moon on Artemis I. It joins the Moon Trees from seeds flown on Apollo 14. 🧪🔭
March 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The “Moon Tree” planted at NASA Langley, dedicated today. The seed from which this tree grew was flown around the Moon on Artemis I. It joins the Moon Trees from seeds flown on Apollo 14. 🧪🔭