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Chara @astrochara.bsky.social · 1h

Planetes’s anime was awesome. Starting with it then reading the manga right after to switch from a exciting conclusion to a solemn reflection was also a wonderful experience.

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OtakuNoCreepo 🎃 @wessoman.bsky.social · 18h

Above all else, watch Planetes. Always a classic.

PLANETES

(Picture of a man in an orange spacesuit attempting to intercept a loose bolt in earth orbital space)

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Tom Watson @guitarwatson.bsky.social · 22h

Great work by my friend @kenjenkinsny.bsky.social. More public officials should stand up the way Ken has in Westchester.

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 9d

While Goodall received her PhD in the 1960s, it was not until the 2000s that Ugandan Emily Otali became the first African woman to complete a PhD on chimpanzee behavior. The networks that facilitated European and North Americans researchers impeded the same opportunities for Africans (9/10)

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 9d

When Goodall began her research in 1960, she was not alone in the forest, but accompanied by game scouts in her fieldwork—Adolf, Saulo, David, and Marcel—and back at camp she and her mother had the company of a local cook and his family. She would have relied heavily on their local knowledge (6/10)

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 9d

What the narrative leaves out is the contributions of the local Tanzanians who assisted and facilitated Goodall's early research, as well as preceding and concurrent research. Nat Geo created a story about a lone white woman alone with chimpanzees, erasing the Africans that were beside her (3/10)

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 9d

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

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Curious Owl @curiousowldev.bsky.social · 21h

Added a new rotor part to my spaceship-building game. This lets you build ships with rotating thrusters for vertical takeoffs! #gamedev

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 9d

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

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Rosanna Landis Weaver @landisweaver.bsky.social · 26d

I recall a wise person saying that the reason the tech bros had so much confidence in AI wasn't that they understood tech so well, it was that they understood humans so little. I keep thinking about that.

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Andrés Diplotti @diplotti.com · 26d

Annatar says people without rings of power will be at a disadvantage in the future

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 12d

There is apparently a leaked document planning a monstrous colonial abomination for Palestine disguised as reconstruction, which would be led by Tony Blair and Trump's son-in-law. What the actual fuck...

Postwar Gaza authority potentially led by Tony Blair ‘would sideline Palestinians’

Draft plan’s critics say it hands power to international figures and splits Gaza from Palestinian Authority in West Bank

www.theguardian.com

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 1d

New unified model of equatorial winds on giant planets helps to explain some of the zonal wind observations 🔭 I and my colleagues have made for Neptune and Uranus over the past few decades - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

From gas to ice giants: A unified mechanism for equatorial jets

A bifurcation in equatorial jet formation can explain the differences between the gas and ice giants.

www.science.org

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

LPSC is already in a state that's unsafe for large portions of the community, and now the conference itself is erasing traces of marginalized groups and efforts to make the field better. We could let them know how much we dislike those choices! We could demand our scientific organizations help us!

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Tod Lauer @todlauer.bsky.social · 5d

The effort put into understanding 3I/Atlas has been spectacular, imaginative, professional and well-organized. Planetary scientists don't need Avi Loeb put in charge of an international directorate to tell them how to do their jobs.

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Salt-less @nnnhan99.bsky.social · Aug 31

#ririrart #ほしまちぎゃらりー ✨⭐️✨

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5d

Well I propose that the United Nations name ME the Director General of Dark Energy Studies and gift ME 500 hours of over-subscribed telescope time a year, if this is how we're doing things now.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 5d

This is complete and utter pompous bullshit. It's telling that of the people proposing it wants to anoint themselves director general when every one of his claims of having discovered technosignature interstellar objects has been debunked by the planetary community. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01405

arxiv.org

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BlaParky @blaparky.bsky.social · 5d

#青ペン
#Artnose #ririkart
#はじめ武勇伝 #らでん似絵
#HOLOctober Day 6: Traditional

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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 5d

If anyone from the UN wants to talk, here’s a nice summary. The astronomy community does NOT endorse this proposal, just take it from one of THE EXPERTS on ISOs with Rubin. Meg (and many others) has helped the community plan for +10yrs for these kinds of studies.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 5d

I'll for global coordination for ISO follow-up, but it's telling that no one who's actually coordinating follow-up was actually asked to participate in this proposal or thought of to be even suggested as names on committees in this proposal

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 5d

This is complete and utter pompous bullshit. It's telling that of the people proposing it wants to anoint themselves director general when every one of his claims of having discovered technosignature interstellar objects has been debunked by the planetary community. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01405

arxiv.org

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ゆじゅぴー @yujup.bsky.social · 6d

skeb、一覧で見るとだいぶ華やかになってきたなと…いつもありがとうございます

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もあいぞう @moaizou514.bsky.social · 7d

#東方project　#東方LW　#古明地こいし
巷で話題の黒こいしちゃん

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 7d

guy from Mars

Digital illustration showing various doodles of a guy with pale skin, ginger hair, and yellow eyes. In one of the doodles he's shown eating a sandwich. Next to the sandwich is some text reading: "Sandwich featuring GMO-derived bread, cheese derived from cultured milk, and cultured GMO ham."

In the background is a coloured heightmap of the western region of Hellas Planitia, with the lowest sections coloured blue to represent water. Surrounding the water is a haze of green, pressumably representing flora coverage.

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 7d

The government may be shut down, but that won't stop our Save NASA Science Day of Action. Nearly 300 advocates are joining me here in D.C. on Monday to #SaveNASAScience

More: planetary.org/dayofaction

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 8d

A few hours ago, Comet 3I/ATLAS passed about 28 million km from Mars.

This was the best opportunity we'll have to image the interstellar visitor from spacecraft.

When those data are available, I'll share them!

A screenshot from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, showing the relative positions of 3I/ATLAS and Mars as of about 1700 Central time today.

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