Lisa Will
@dustchick.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, educator, geek. She/her. Professor, Physics/Astronomy, San Diego City College. Resident Astronomer, Fleet Science Center.
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I have just learned that when they found out CDC's search tool was down, The Immunization Action Coalition put together a page with various search tools for vaccines, with different categories - could be useful to people:
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
Where To Get Vaccinated | Vaccine Information
Our curated list of links to help you locate vaccine centers by state, plus other tools to help you locate a vaccine resource near you.
www.vaccineinformation.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I have just learned that when they found out CDC's search tool was down, The Immunization Action Coalition put together a page with various search tools for vaccines, with different categories - could be useful to people:
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
It should be taboo. It's shameful. Our students deserve our subject matter expertise, instead of having their courses designed by tools trained on sub-Reddits and plagiarized works.
About 25 percent of faculty members have used AI to save time in creating more engaging in-class activities or generating quizzes and other assessments. Yet talking about AI use is taboo in some quarters. https://chroni.cl/4rjLxQp
Why Professors Are Using AI in Course Design
Some believe in the technology’s promises; others are simply desperate for help.
chroni.cl
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It should be taboo. It's shameful. Our students deserve our subject matter expertise, instead of having their courses designed by tools trained on sub-Reddits and plagiarized works.
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In October, we promised to donate 2% of our sales for the month to help San Diego County teachers build diverse classroom libraries for their students.
With schools being ground zero for book banning across the country, it's more important than ever for everyone-
With schools being ground zero for book banning across the country, it's more important than ever for everyone-
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
In October, we promised to donate 2% of our sales for the month to help San Diego County teachers build diverse classroom libraries for their students.
With schools being ground zero for book banning across the country, it's more important than ever for everyone-
With schools being ground zero for book banning across the country, it's more important than ever for everyone-
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
Our pups are heart-shatteringly adorable.
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Our pups are heart-shatteringly adorable.
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IF you are going share something about RFK Jr., this is the story to share. I don't really give a shit who the man fucks. He is killing us. His "work" results in death and suffering among children. He is the worst human ghoul.
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky
Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
IF you are going share something about RFK Jr., this is the story to share. I don't really give a shit who the man fucks. He is killing us. His "work" results in death and suffering among children. He is the worst human ghoul.
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky
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The organisers of the world's biggest planetary science conference are outlawing any DEI-related submissions because their lawyers are afraid they'll lose federal support.
They're losing the support of the planetary science community fucking fast.
www.science.org/content/arti...
They're losing the support of the planetary science community fucking fast.
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The organisers of the world's biggest planetary science conference are outlawing any DEI-related submissions because their lawyers are afraid they'll lose federal support.
They're losing the support of the planetary science community fucking fast.
www.science.org/content/arti...
They're losing the support of the planetary science community fucking fast.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Y’all have no idea the rage this little ball of fluff contains.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Y’all have no idea the rage this little ball of fluff contains.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Excited to now share this story! Papers accepted!
Apep is an awesome system, unlike any other we know about.
Two Wolf-Rayet systems orbited by a third supergiant. As all their winds collide, they form these beautiful structures that have now been observed with #JWST and ESO's VLT.
#SpaceAustralia
Apep is an awesome system, unlike any other we know about.
Two Wolf-Rayet systems orbited by a third supergiant. As all their winds collide, they form these beautiful structures that have now been observed with #JWST and ESO's VLT.
#SpaceAustralia
Two new papers have used data from JWST and ESO's VLT to help uncover new details of the chaos amongst the stars: Apep
@rami.spaceaustralia.com spoke with one of the paper's lead authors @astroryan.bsky.social about this incredible system.
www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-a...
#SpaceAustralia
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@rami.spaceaustralia.com spoke with one of the paper's lead authors @astroryan.bsky.social about this incredible system.
www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-a...
#SpaceAustralia
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Excited to now share this story! Papers accepted!
Apep is an awesome system, unlike any other we know about.
Two Wolf-Rayet systems orbited by a third supergiant. As all their winds collide, they form these beautiful structures that have now been observed with #JWST and ESO's VLT.
#SpaceAustralia
Apep is an awesome system, unlike any other we know about.
Two Wolf-Rayet systems orbited by a third supergiant. As all their winds collide, they form these beautiful structures that have now been observed with #JWST and ESO's VLT.
#SpaceAustralia
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Here are the #I/ATLAS releases from varied NASA/ESA missions. Having worked with such telescope & spacecraft data for 40 years, my perspective is: no surprises. It's a comet; its differences from Solar System comets are intriguing but every comet is different! science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Here are the #I/ATLAS releases from varied NASA/ESA missions. Having worked with such telescope & spacecraft data for 40 years, my perspective is: no surprises. It's a comet; its differences from Solar System comets are intriguing but every comet is different! science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
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Starting in one minute! Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS images to be shared by NASA. YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55S...
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Starting in one minute! Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS images to be shared by NASA. YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55S...
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Chaos! This *incredible* new #jwst image shows shells of dust emitted over the last 700 years by a system of 3 aging stars. The 2 main stars tear through space at an astonishing ~2000 MILES PER SECOND, whereas the 3rd star cuts through the dust like a knife. More: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Chaos! This *incredible* new #jwst image shows shells of dust emitted over the last 700 years by a system of 3 aging stars. The 2 main stars tear through space at an astonishing ~2000 MILES PER SECOND, whereas the 3rd star cuts through the dust like a knife. More: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Absolutely this.
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Absolutely this.
It’s the normalization of this behavior and the knowledge that there is a group of people out there that voted him precisely because he does behave like this.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It’s the normalization of this behavior and the knowledge that there is a group of people out there that voted him precisely because he does behave like this.
Somehow Co-Pilot became active in Outlook, and its autofill was slower than I can type. I had to disable it because it was forcing me to actually sit back and wait for the words I touch-typed to appear on the screen. And I don't even type very fast!
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Somehow Co-Pilot became active in Outlook, and its autofill was slower than I can type. I had to disable it because it was forcing me to actually sit back and wait for the words I touch-typed to appear on the screen. And I don't even type very fast!
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Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
wrd.cm
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
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I love when awards are voted on by kids because that's who my books are for and I'm too ethical to try to bribe them with pizza.
(Btw, I'm offering free school zoom visits for the rest of the year, no award competitions required.)
#kidlit #middlegrade
(Btw, I'm offering free school zoom visits for the rest of the year, no award competitions required.)
#kidlit #middlegrade
Authors, we are excited to include your books in our 26th Annual Troybery Award Program! Get the list at bit.ly/troybery26
@traceybaptiste.bsky.social @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social @alangratz.bsky.social @ravenaguron.bsky.social @aprilhenry.bsky.social @jodimeadows.bsky.social
@traceybaptiste.bsky.social @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social @alangratz.bsky.social @ravenaguron.bsky.social @aprilhenry.bsky.social @jodimeadows.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I love when awards are voted on by kids because that's who my books are for and I'm too ethical to try to bribe them with pizza.
(Btw, I'm offering free school zoom visits for the rest of the year, no award competitions required.)
#kidlit #middlegrade
(Btw, I'm offering free school zoom visits for the rest of the year, no award competitions required.)
#kidlit #middlegrade
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This intriguing picture by Stephen Kennedy shows a vast nebula complex recalling a shark, and so commonly referred to as the Shark Nebula.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23061...
It includes smaller dust nebulae such as LDN (Lynds Dark Nebula) 1235 and Van den Bergh 149 & 150.
🔭 🧪 #science
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This intriguing picture by Stephen Kennedy shows a vast nebula complex recalling a shark, and so commonly referred to as the Shark Nebula.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23061...
It includes smaller dust nebulae such as LDN (Lynds Dark Nebula) 1235 and Van den Bergh 149 & 150.
🔭 🧪 #science
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November 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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This intriguing picture by Stephen Kennedy shows a vast nebula complex recalling a shark, and so commonly referred to as the Shark Nebula.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23061...
It includes smaller dust nebulae such as LDN (Lynds Dark Nebula) 1235 and Van den Bergh 149 & 150.
🔭 🧪 #science
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This intriguing picture by Stephen Kennedy shows a vast nebula complex recalling a shark, and so commonly referred to as the Shark Nebula.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23061...
It includes smaller dust nebulae such as LDN (Lynds Dark Nebula) 1235 and Van den Bergh 149 & 150.
🔭 🧪 #science
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November 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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#3IATLAS update: we've just pinpointed the comet's path with 10 times more accuracy, using data from our #ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. 😎🧪🔭
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#3IATLAS update: we've just pinpointed the comet's path with 10 times more accuracy, using data from our #ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. 😎🧪🔭
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
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Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
Oh, hey, looked what arrived today! Can’t wait to read it. @peterclines.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Oh, hey, looked what arrived today! Can’t wait to read it. @peterclines.bsky.social