Shanil Virani
@shanilv.ca
🏆 Award-winning astronomer, passionate science educator, & creator of 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 — a podcast sharing the wonders of #science with everyone.
📷 Co-author of 𝙳𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜, a photobook on #lightpollution.
🎓 @uwaterloo.ca & @yale.edu alum 🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸
📷 Co-author of 𝙳𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜, a photobook on #lightpollution.
🎓 @uwaterloo.ca & @yale.edu alum 🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸
Reposted by Shanil Virani
Also, he relentlessly advocated for science AND rationality. Anyway, the linked essay is good and short, please read it!
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Also, he relentlessly advocated for science AND rationality. Anyway, the linked essay is good and short, please read it!
Reposted by Shanil Virani
A beautiful tribute. Sagan's greatest gift was showing that science wasn't just a collection of facts but a deeply human endeavor that fuels our sense of wonder. His mission to make the complex understandable is a huge inspiration. "The candle in the dark" is the perfect description.
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A beautiful tribute. Sagan's greatest gift was showing that science wasn't just a collection of facts but a deeply human endeavor that fuels our sense of wonder. His mission to make the complex understandable is a huge inspiration. "The candle in the dark" is the perfect description.
Jaykie Funez-Andrade is being detained at the Rockingham County Jail with NO pending criminal charges as a "courtesy" to #ICE.
Injustice here is injustice everywhere.
Sheriff Hutcheson’s email (Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, VA):
Bhutcheson@rockinghamcountyva.gov
phone number: 540-564-3800.
Injustice here is injustice everywhere.
Sheriff Hutcheson’s email (Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, VA):
Bhutcheson@rockinghamcountyva.gov
phone number: 540-564-3800.
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Jaykie Funez-Andrade is being detained at the Rockingham County Jail with NO pending criminal charges as a "courtesy" to #ICE.
Injustice here is injustice everywhere.
Sheriff Hutcheson’s email (Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, VA):
Bhutcheson@rockinghamcountyva.gov
phone number: 540-564-3800.
Injustice here is injustice everywhere.
Sheriff Hutcheson’s email (Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, VA):
Bhutcheson@rockinghamcountyva.gov
phone number: 540-564-3800.
For all those #Christian #evangelicals who voted for this hate & evil, hear the screams of agony from a daughter. Hear it again. How would #Jesus react? He’d be comforting that child. He taught love not hate. Humility not hubris. Forgiveness not vengeance. Peace not violence. What did you choose? 💔
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
For all those #Christian #evangelicals who voted for this hate & evil, hear the screams of agony from a daughter. Hear it again. How would #Jesus react? He’d be comforting that child. He taught love not hate. Humility not hubris. Forgiveness not vengeance. Peace not violence. What did you choose? 💔