Sophie Eden
@sophieastro.bsky.social
radio astronomer (just about!)
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These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior.
We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.
We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.
There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints.
youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...
youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...
KCRCC Town Hall in Coeur d'Alene Idaho woman illegally detained
YouTube video by Devin Prewett
youtube.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior.
We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.
We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.
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Wow…I had to double, triple check to make sure this tweet from Senator Smith was real.
Rare to see a US Senator tweet like this.
Not complaining, just surprising.
Rare to see a US Senator tweet like this.
Not complaining, just surprising.
February 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Wow…I had to double, triple check to make sure this tweet from Senator Smith was real.
Rare to see a US Senator tweet like this.
Not complaining, just surprising.
Rare to see a US Senator tweet like this.
Not complaining, just surprising.
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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD
ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
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It's hard to laugh at it but a kind of bleakly funny throughline in all this is that it's being overseen by people who 1) have never had any kind of real job, 2) don't know what these particular jobs are or might entail and haven't asked, and 3) are absolutely convinced that they are fake.
BREAKING: As Elon Musk said on X would be happening, I can now report that all federal employees are receiving an email directing them to provide “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week.”
It directs them not to send any classified information and is due by 11:59p Monday.
It directs them not to send any classified information and is due by 11:59p Monday.
February 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
It's hard to laugh at it but a kind of bleakly funny throughline in all this is that it's being overseen by people who 1) have never had any kind of real job, 2) don't know what these particular jobs are or might entail and haven't asked, and 3) are absolutely convinced that they are fake.
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When people want to talk to me about the backlash against US higher ed but don't want to mention racism, this is one of the key reasons I become very annoyed
(Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)
(Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)
February 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
When people want to talk to me about the backlash against US higher ed but don't want to mention racism, this is one of the key reasons I become very annoyed
(Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)
(Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)
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☄️ 🔭 The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 2.8% to 0.16%.
Thanks to new observations, Earth is now at the edge of our shrinking ‘uncertainty window.’
If this trend continues, the risk may soon reach 0%.
Thanks to new observations, Earth is now at the edge of our shrinking ‘uncertainty window.’
If this trend continues, the risk may soon reach 0%.
February 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
☄️ 🔭 The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 2.8% to 0.16%.
Thanks to new observations, Earth is now at the edge of our shrinking ‘uncertainty window.’
If this trend continues, the risk may soon reach 0%.
Thanks to new observations, Earth is now at the edge of our shrinking ‘uncertainty window.’
If this trend continues, the risk may soon reach 0%.
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📸 Check out our week in images 17-21 February 2025 ➡️ www.esa.int/.../Week_in_...
February 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📸 Check out our week in images 17-21 February 2025 ➡️ www.esa.int/.../Week_in_...
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DOGE has spent $40 million in one month
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
DOGE has spent $40 million in one month
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This was another interesting tidbit:
February 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This was another interesting tidbit:
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Our LSST Camera team has been busy!
Last week, after weeks of prep, the team moved Rubin's car-sized camera and installed on in the "camera rotator" that will connect it to the telescope.
This is the first time the camera has been physically connected to part of the telescope!
🔭🧪
Last week, after weeks of prep, the team moved Rubin's car-sized camera and installed on in the "camera rotator" that will connect it to the telescope.
This is the first time the camera has been physically connected to part of the telescope!
🔭🧪
February 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Our LSST Camera team has been busy!
Last week, after weeks of prep, the team moved Rubin's car-sized camera and installed on in the "camera rotator" that will connect it to the telescope.
This is the first time the camera has been physically connected to part of the telescope!
🔭🧪
Last week, after weeks of prep, the team moved Rubin's car-sized camera and installed on in the "camera rotator" that will connect it to the telescope.
This is the first time the camera has been physically connected to part of the telescope!
🔭🧪
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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.
February 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.
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This is a shocking thing from AI discourse online.
People say to me "AI is the only thing helping me learn physics, I can't follow the textbooks. I know it's wrong a lot though."
Babe, you have not learned physics.
You used a garbage tool and now you think you know something. Which is worse!!
People say to me "AI is the only thing helping me learn physics, I can't follow the textbooks. I know it's wrong a lot though."
Babe, you have not learned physics.
You used a garbage tool and now you think you know something. Which is worse!!
Just a reminder, if you come into my mentions to tell me that you use AI despite knowing that it (a) was created by stealing the work of me and all my friends, (b) is destroying the planet, (c) can’t do shit without significant errors…
February 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is a shocking thing from AI discourse online.
People say to me "AI is the only thing helping me learn physics, I can't follow the textbooks. I know it's wrong a lot though."
Babe, you have not learned physics.
You used a garbage tool and now you think you know something. Which is worse!!
People say to me "AI is the only thing helping me learn physics, I can't follow the textbooks. I know it's wrong a lot though."
Babe, you have not learned physics.
You used a garbage tool and now you think you know something. Which is worse!!
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#Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very odd celestial couple.
The pair consists of a hot star, more than 10 times larger than our Sun & a small compact white dwarf, with a mass similar to our star.
Find out more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪 #extragalactic
#highenergyastro
The pair consists of a hot star, more than 10 times larger than our Sun & a small compact white dwarf, with a mass similar to our star.
Find out more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪 #extragalactic
#highenergyastro
Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple
Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way to explore how massive stars interact and evolve, confirming the unique ...
www.esa.int
February 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very odd celestial couple.
The pair consists of a hot star, more than 10 times larger than our Sun & a small compact white dwarf, with a mass similar to our star.
Find out more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪 #extragalactic
#highenergyastro
The pair consists of a hot star, more than 10 times larger than our Sun & a small compact white dwarf, with a mass similar to our star.
Find out more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪 #extragalactic
#highenergyastro
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NEWS: Like a galactic disco ball, the black hole at the center of our galaxy is putting on a light show! The disk of hot gas surrounding the black hole is emitting infrared flickers and bright flares that #NASAWebb has studied in detail: webbtelescope.pub/40Zh1yO 🔭 🧪
February 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NEWS: Like a galactic disco ball, the black hole at the center of our galaxy is putting on a light show! The disk of hot gas surrounding the black hole is emitting infrared flickers and bright flares that #NASAWebb has studied in detail: webbtelescope.pub/40Zh1yO 🔭 🧪
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Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.
After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts | CNN
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despit...
www.cnn.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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A lesson Australian Labor, UK Labor, and US Democrats desperately need to learn
Merz is not making the mistake the Dutch center-right made in 2023: he’s finishing the campaign by attacking the far right, not legitimating it in a futile effort to draw away its voters (that ends up just increasing its vote share) on.ft.com/4jZiTQR
Mainstream politicians target far-right candidate in fiery German election debate
Co-leader of Alternative for Germany becomes focus in four-way televised debate a week before national polls
on.ft.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A lesson Australian Labor, UK Labor, and US Democrats desperately need to learn
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Musk is literally harming science in the US and his rhetoric across social media has literally harmed trust in science from vaccine, to climate change, to disability and LGBTQ+ rights.
True objectivity is not staying out of politics. It’s about having facts informing your choices.
True objectivity is not staying out of politics. It’s about having facts informing your choices.
Opinion: If the Royal Society expels Elon Musk, it could harm trust in science.
Scientists might achieve more for the public by staying out of politics, writes Fiona Fox.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Scientists might achieve more for the public by staying out of politics, writes Fiona Fox.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
If the Royal Society expels Musk, it could harm trust in science - Research Professional News
Scientists might achieve more for the public by staying out of politics, writes Fiona Fox
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Musk is literally harming science in the US and his rhetoric across social media has literally harmed trust in science from vaccine, to climate change, to disability and LGBTQ+ rights.
True objectivity is not staying out of politics. It’s about having facts informing your choices.
True objectivity is not staying out of politics. It’s about having facts informing your choices.
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It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent.
Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
February 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent.
Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
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UK folks, sign this petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations
We want the government to:
Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).
Cap all donations ...
petition.parliament.uk
February 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
UK folks, sign this petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
February 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
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Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.
February 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.