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"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." 🌌
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🔭SciMel @scimel.bsky.social · Aug 22
Social media untethered since Elon took over but finally taking the leap to bluer skies! 🚀
scimel.bsky.social
What a truly horrendous day for America.
January 3, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
This admission alone would be sufficient for a war crimes conviction. He’s just openly bragging about launching a war of aggression and plunder. bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 11d
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Just saying out loud that I remember this morning when they were saying that they weren’t going to do anything besides the Maduro kidnapping

Before they announced they were also going to run the entire country

I remember a few hours ago
January 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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astronomay.bsky.social
She's extra helpful today 🙄
The view is from the floor looking up at the ceiling. Walls with wallpaper are visible , and in the center of the frame a ladder rises up from the floor. Penny, a tortie kitten, is perched on the top rung of the ladder looking towards the walls. Her light brown chin is visible.
January 3, 2026 at 6:40 PM
scimel.bsky.social
Enough!!
October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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planetaryartist.com
Huzzah, it’s #PortfolioDay !

I’m Danielle and I paint and illustrate spacecraft, planets, and interesting landscapes in watercolor and ink. Fond of ink textures and pointillism. No AI here, just space and rocks/geology. 🪐🪨🚀

Prints and originals available at planetaryartist.com

Thanks for looking!
DUST OF OSIRIS by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting of the top-down view of the opened sample return capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. Circular sections and hexagonal bolts are seen among the rocky material in the middle ring, framed by lotus flower motifs and patterned circles with geometric ink designs drawn in an ancient Egyptian style with gold accents. A ring of painted turquoise, lapis and carnelian rectangles accented with gold surrounds the inkwork. Inspired by the decorative motifs of Tutankhamen’s treasures, and the Art Deco-tinged Egyptian Revival movement that arose from the discovery of said treasures. DIANA PIERCES THE AZURE SKY by Danielle Rose Baker. An ink illustration of a Saturn V rocket and launch tower during the launch of Apollo IV. The top two-thirds is a roiling sky of clouds rendered in blue, dark teal and navy inks, some with shimmering effects. Outlined against this, the launch tower is seen in shades of brown-orange. The rocket is bathed in warm light and yellow-tinged exhaust expands below, with dark shapes outlining the base of the launch pad. HUES OF VENUS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent false-color watercolor painting on black paper of the cloudy atmosphere of Venus as seen by the JAXA Atatsuki spacecraft in 2020. In this view, the clouds are seen in swirls and ribbons of gold and dark blue, combining to blue-grays. UBEHEBE CRATER by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of Ubehebe Crater at Death Valley National Park. An explosive volcanic crater dusted with snow against an overcast sky. The crater wall has many layers, in shades of brown, tan and orange. The foreground is darker brown, with lighter splotches of snow.
October 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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samillingworth.com
🏭 When oversight stops, pollution rises

During the 2018–19 US government shutdown, coal plants released more soot when EPA monitoring paused, showing firms cut corners when checks lapse.

🔗 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#AirQuality #SciComm 🧪
Monitoring and Enforcement and Environmental Compliance: Power Plant Emissions During the 2018–19 Federal Government Shutdown | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: Vol...
Abstract We show that firms strategically reduce their compliance effort when monitoring and enforcement unexpectedly decline in the short run. We use the Environmental Protection Agency’s furlough du...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
scimel.bsky.social
AstroToya must have forgotten to pick up food when she was at the grocery store this morning.

If only @safety.bsky.app would do something about this scam. Well meaning people are giving her their money.
A child in a shopping cart from AstroToya's Instagram 2 hours ago AstroToya asks if anyone can help her get lunch because she hasn't eaten in days. #scicomm
October 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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scifri.bsky.social
Researchers used near-infrared photography to study 2,300-year-old tattoos of wild animals—not on cave walls, but inked on the arms of a mummified woman.
An Archaeologist And A Tattoo Artist Decipher Ancient Ink
Archaeologists are taking another look at tattoos on preserved corpses and verifying ancient techniques with modern tattoo artists.
buff.ly
September 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
scimel.bsky.social
AstroToya is simply shameless! I donated to her myself many moons ago and it's horrifying to see the grift!
September 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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samillingworth.com
🧠 AI and learning

A new study explains why real learning needs effort: if AI does the hard work, students may feel they’ve learned but build weaker skills long-term.

🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...

#SciComm #Education 🧪 #AI #GenAI
How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard
Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive science shows that learning is like a workout.
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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marspidermonkey.bsky.social
I’m doing a series of book reviews on Instagram, and debating doing them here… would anyone be interested? I feel like they might make for some length threads so I’m on the fence… #booksky #scicomm
Pile of books on colorful table, including “An Immense World” by Ed Yong, “Finding the Mother Tree” by Suzanne Simard, “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Fresh Banana Leaves” by Jessica Hernandez, “When the Earth was Green, by Riley Black, “The Chimpanzee Whisperer” by Stanyi Nywandi. Pile of books on colorful coffee table, with “Undrowned” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “The Breath of a Whale” by Leigh Calvez, “Fathoms” by Rebecca Giggs, “The Life and Death of Monterey Bay” by Stephen Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka, and “The Sounds of Life” by Karen Bakker. Pile of books on colorful table, including “Apes on the Edge” by Jill Pruetz, “Feminism in the Wild” by Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, “Chimpanzee Memoirs” by Steve Ross and Lydia Hopper, “Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers” by Mike Shanahan, “The Spirit of the Rainforest” by Rosa Vasquez Espinoza, and “Walking with Gorillas” by Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka. Boxer mix with his muzzle in front of stack of books.
September 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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nws.noaa.gov
Space weather is a two-sided coin: it creates beautiful auroras, but it can also jeopardize the technologies we rely on daily. See all the impacts of space weather at weather.gov/safety.
Space weather impacts: Aurora (northern lights). GPS. Satellites. Communications. Human space exploration. Aviation. Electric Power.
September 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
scimel.bsky.social
I doubt it!!
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Sep 15
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a
September 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Oh man, thank you CNN.

It's been a heck of a day and I really needed the laugh.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Sep 15
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a
September 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
scimel.bsky.social
Unbelievable! I have never seen such a dedicated scam as Astrotoya!
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
scimel.bsky.social
You mustn't apologize for furry friend joy!
lowqualityfacts.bsky.social Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · Sep 13
I apologize for my lack of shirt but Fishy decided to hang out on my lap for the first time ever and it was too joyous of an occasion not to share.
Me on the couch with a tuxedo cat on my lap, he's looking at the camera. Me on the couch with a tuxedo cat on my lap, he's looking up at me.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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setiinstitute.bsky.social
@chenoachem.bsky.social is a project scientist at the SETI Institute with joint appointments at Breakthrough Initiatives, the University of New Mexico, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens #SometimesAliens
Text: #notjustaliens. Chenoa Tremblay, Radio Astronomy / Astrochemistry. Background: Starry night sky. Inset: Photo of Chenoa Tremblay. Text: Dr. Chenoa Tremblay is a project scientist at the SETI Institute with joint appointments at Breakthrough Initiatives, the University of New Mexico, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Background: Starry night sky with graphics of a star and exoplanets in front of it. Text: At the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, she leads a team that processes radio astronomy data in real time, simultaneously with standard telescope operations. Background: Starry night sky with graphics of a star and exoplanets. SETI Institute logo. Graphics: (top) Black hole. (bottom) radio telescope dishes at the Allen Telescope Array. Background: Starry night sky.
September 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
"My highest calling is not persuasion. I am not interested in persuading people necessarily. I am interested in good policy. I am interested in saving people's lives. I want to create arguments that create movement," says @anamariecox.bsky.social, discussing the discourse around Kirk's killing.
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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hisiheyah.bsky.social
Third and last of the comics about the ocean I made with @NPR this summer! One of the best things about working on this series was learning about scientists such as Dawn Wright, whose team maps the ocean floor.

Full comic: www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

#scicomm #sciencecomics #comics #STEMcomics
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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cogneuronews.bsky.social
Just a whiff of certain smells can instantly take me back to my childhood... Read a new Q&A with Joan Tarrida Vidal about the lasting cognitive effects of smell:
#scicomm #neuroscience #science
The Lasting Cognitive Effect of Smell on Memory
Researchers, exploring what happens in the brain after exposure to certain smells, found that that even brief odor cues have a lasting effect
www.cogneurosociety.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
scimel.bsky.social
Couldn't get a covid jab because I am under 65. Even pre-existing conditions can't get around the rule! Shameful!
September 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM