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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for highlighting these awesome events Kate! As a planetary scientist and Trekkie, it's so uplifting to have you and fellow trek cast mates continue to push for science funding and improving inclusion in the space sciences ♥️. Janeway really helped inspire me to get to where I am today.

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 15d

Mine is at 23, so it's seemingly moving along. I got my laptop into the queue too and that's at 53 mins :/

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 15d

Okay I'm finally in the queue to checkout!! Had to go on my cell signal not wifi

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 15d

YES

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 15d

🧪The NSF has made changes to the GRFP solicitation and eligibility TODAY that may change your eligibility! PLEASE read through the solicitation if you were planning to apply and speak to your mentors about the merits of applying: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 17d

..... what a weird thing for a dentist to say o-o. Mine keep asking how I still have my wisdom teeth.

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 19d

Don’t resubcribe to Disney just yet folks. PBS still needs help! NPR still needs help!

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 19d

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 19d

Oh no! I'm so so sorry to hear that Tessa 😰. I hope the treatment is successful and not too painful. Sending my love to you and your wife ♥️.

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · Sep 8

Love is real and it’s stored in two spacecraft observing the same moons 🩵. #EPSCDPS

Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · Sep 8

“The dream of synergistic Europa, Ganymede, and Jupiter System Science may yet come true” - big dreams from the Europa Clipper and ESA JUICE teams at #EPSCDPS

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’m also here at the meeting :)

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore.

There are so many histories of the future. Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...

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Jason Perry @volcanopele.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hey, everyone! The world maybe on fire, but Io is... also on Fire! But in a good way! And we have a new paper out in JGR - Planets (OPEN ACCESS) with all the goods about Juno's JunoCam observations of Io (more)

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

JunoCam Observations of Io

JunoCam imaged Io at scales as small as 1 km/pixel North polar region coverage was improved from previous missions New mountains and lava flows were identified

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · Aug 31

I want to touch it

Boris Behncke @borisetneo.bsky.social · Aug 30

How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ariel (nymph)

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · Aug 19

2Ariel (but this time it's the Tempest Ariel and not the poem one) or Juno for maximum confusion

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · Aug 18

Highly recommend this incredible series! One of my favorite reads of recent years for sure

Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · Aug 18

It's important to call out Indigenous wins when we see them. Congrats to @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social who just won the best series Hugo Award for the Between Earth and Sky series. BIPOC scifi is important and has things to say that we can all enjoy and benefit from. #IndigenousFuturisms #NativeSky

The covers of Black Sun, Fevered Star, and Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse.

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · Aug 15

Steve, your writing is on point lately with all of this!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Aug 14

Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 14

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr