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Where is everybody – Fermi; being inclusive means we’re not excluding and “everything is habitat” – me
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alancolquhoun.bsky.social
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Why Authoritarians Fear Common Knowledge
An excerpt from Steven Pinker’s new book “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…”
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November 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...
I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media
The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F
www.stopthepresses.news
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
srothermel.bsky.social
Sunsets in south central Florida.
October 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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A new study led by @ethz.ch researchers,published in @nature.com, concludes that half the increase in global heat wave intensity in the industrial era can be traced to emissions from just 180 fossil fuel and cement producers. bit.ly/46cKGIS h/t @anthropocenemag.bsky.social
Heat waves aren’t just natural disasters. Study finds hidden fingerprints on our hottest days.
By connecting individual companies’ emissions to hundreds of heat waves, scientists show how a few producers bear outsized responsibility for worsening climate extremes.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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rigb.org
Is the Moon further from Earth than you pictured it? 🌕

Anu Ojha from @ukspaceagency.bsky.social helps us visualise just how far the Moon is from our planet, which isn't always evident from textbook diagrams that are not to scale.

Watch the full talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=7kCdY8o8cFI&t=7s
March 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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pauleric70.bsky.social
crazy Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob : 20 Opera Singers singing from apartment windows in Paris ! ⚜️💙⚜️👏⚜️💙⚜️

Lead singer: mickeycallisto
Lead guitar: Olly Pearson
Pop choir: DDKN sisters, sone_sings and colinesicre
Counter-tenor solo: michaelkonesaki
September 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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jonsson-niedziolka.pl
A very thoughtful editorial from Netz Arroyo with the oddly specific title "Thriving as a Sensor Scientist in Times of Uncertainty". It really should be thriving as a scientist, or maybe even as a person.
#chemsky 🧪

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August 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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hookean.bsky.social
For over 700 demonstrations of Physics concepts, sorted by topic, visit my youtube channel 😊
#PhysicsEd
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪

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Hookean Physics
The aim of this channel is to promote Physics teaching tips and provide stimulating clips for use in class.
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August 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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alancolquhoun.bsky.social
Genuine disagreement over truth implies externalism.

Contention about the truth of propositions requires thoughts to be grounded in real, external properties that exist independently of subjective attitudes or beliefs.
December 18, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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saralea.bsky.social
Team USA brought home gold for the 57th International Chemistry Olympiad. They received their medals during a closing ceremony held on Sunday.

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@cenmag.bsky.social @acs.org
Team USA brings home gold at 57th International Chemistry Olympiad
All 4 team members received a gold medal during a closing ceremony on July 13
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July 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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charlesgaba.com
📣 Now that the #MAGAMurderBill is back at the House, I'm completely updating my House District-level healthcare enrollment pie charts w/the latest data, 2024 partisan lean & the population at risk of losing healthcare coverage highlighted.

Next up: #ARKANSAS:

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House District Enrollment: Arkansas (now w/high-def PDFs!)
Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
Map of Ecosystems of North America Completed!

@natureserve.bsky.social has released a first-of-its-kind map of ecosystems across the conterminous U.S. & nearby regions w/ a level of detail & consistency not previously available.
🧪 🌎 #GISchat
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International Vegetation Classification Groups v1.0
This layer presents information on the distribution of International Vegetation Classification (IVC) Groups for North America.
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June 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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unclespaceghost.bsky.social
That idea, at least, appears to be in motion:
Independent US vaccine body is planned after RFK Jr’s mass firing of CDC advisory panel
“High level” discussions are underway to establish an independent US vaccine committee following the dismissal of 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory committee on i...
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June 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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owldaily.bsky.social
Caught in a perfect moment – the intensity and beauty of this creature in flight. Simply breathtaking. Photo by ©markian.b
ID: Burrowing owl.
More owl: ohmywild.com
A Burrowing Owl in mid-flight, wings arched in a dramatic curve, staring directly at the camera with piercing yellow eyes, against a blurred green and golden field background during golden hour.
June 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com
New blog + video about why I've spent the last 4 years w/ @galacticpolymath.com trying to connect academia to K-12 & how we're threatened by cuts at NSF🧪.

We need more #openaccess curriculum for all! #SaveNSF #EduSky
www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/the-bac...
The Backstory: Connecting academia to K-12 and making it all free — Galactic Polymath
Since founding Galactic Polymath (GP), one of my biggest surprises has been how we’ve all accepted the idea that knowledge should be paid for. We’ve bought the multibillion dollar education publishing...
www.galacticpolymath.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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julieelliott.bsky.social
During the NSF GAGE/SAGE meeting this week, @earthscope.org is having an artist create visual notes. It is fun and provides a different perspective on the science and discussion. Here are a couple from the Subduction Zone Science session this morning and Natural Hazards panel this evening. ⚒️🧪
Poster with "Subduction Zone Science: Deployments, Hazards, Imaging" at the top. Through the poster, there are highlighted issues important to subduction zone science including Slip Deficit, Uncertainty in coupling due to data distribution (with sketch of person looking puzzled), Variations in sediment thickness could contribute to segmentation (with drawing of layers of sediments), Alaska Peninsula Subduction Zone - large earthquakes (with sketch of people falling and being alarmed on either side of a moving fault), and New Data (with graphs labeled 1200 stations and slow slip events). Poster with Geophysical Insights into Natural Disasters written in the middle. Around the edges are issues important to hazard evaluation such as Open Science (with pictures of people with open heads with lightbulbs and gears), Cite (carefully read & cite/credit funders/attribute) illustrated with a giant eye, Machine Learning accompanied by sketch of mountain undergoing an earthquake and graphs, Share Enthusiasm with people holding up stars, Accessible Data (open! easy! fast!), Cloud Archives illustrated with a cloud raining down bits of data, and Rapid Availability of Data illustrated with graphs showing a volcano, storm, and earthquake with word bubbles saying seismic event, acoustic sensing, predict, assess disasters, and better response.
May 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
srothermel.bsky.social
There's hope (let's support these young people): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
Two-Student Team Stuns the Competition at U.S. Constitution Contest (Gift Article)
Matthew Meyers and Colin Williams of Oregon won first place at the national U.S. Constitution Team competition. Then came the recount that threatened to unravel their achievement.
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April 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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alancolquhoun.bsky.social
Good to hear @mrjamesob.bsky.social focussing today on the intractibility of Trump's ego
If an innocent party is facing an adversary who's fundamentally nonrational (Trump’s ego) or malevolent (Putin’s sadism) then the optimal strategy can't rely on normative tools of diplomacy/ reasoned negotiation
April 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Trump's Threats to the Constitution Are Happening in Real Time, Not (Just) in a Third Term

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Trump's Threats to the Constitution Are Happening in Real Time, Not (Just) in a Third Term - emptywheel
Trump managed to hijack any discussion of the many things he did to solidify authoritarian power last week by getting everyone to talk about a hypothetical assault on democracy that remains several ye...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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hausfath.bsky.social
Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors.

As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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geo-j.bsky.social
Lots of talk about political maneuvering, reports, confirmations. Maybe Dems should resort to putting out a clear message about how we will benefit the lives of Americans.

We need to accept most people have zero interest in 4 more years of political war.

We have to offer more than hating Trump.
January 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM