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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 1d

What do you mean I saw PLATO with my own eyes today?? 🫢🫨 #ESAopenday #exoplanet

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Narkosedoc @narkosedoc.bsky.social · 1d

Es gibt Einmalvapes mit Lithium-Ionen-Akkus.
Die kann man nicht wieder aufladen. Die werden nach Gebrauch weggeschmissen und landen im Restmüll oder im Wald.

Aber dem veganen Schnitzel, dem ham wa es so richtig gezeigt 💪🏻

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Pidgeon - The Mighty Croissant Bird @onefouronefive.bsky.social · 6d

Okay das ist witzig, wenn man das so visualisiert

Ein Kreisdiagramm. Steuerhinterziehung ist Blau markiert, und nimmt einen Großteil des Kreises ein. Sozialbetrug in Anführungszeichen ist Lila markiert, und praktisch nicht sichtbar. Jens Spahn ist orange markiert, und nimmt einen deutlich sichtbaren Bereich ein

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Ludmila Carone @exotides.bsky.social · 6h

Bin gerade in Paris. Und wie immer in Frankreich: wie geil sind bitte die Backwaren und wie günstig?

Komme mit 3 Stück Gebäck inklusive Stück Aprikosenkuchen aus der "Boulangerie Artisanal": 5, 70.

5,70! In Österreich wäre ich schon bei 10+Euro bei der Bäckerei.

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 12h

Thrilled to have two years' of work out, in a pair of papers led by @gradientrider.bsky.social and @maxecharles.bsky.social.

We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!

How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away

The only Australian hardware on board the legendary telescope is starting to fulfil its duties.

theconversation.com

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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 11h

Gibson et al. “TESS Discovers a Second System of Transiting Exocomets in the Extreme
Debris Disk of RZ Psc” showing 24 exocomet transits and the existence of a broken power law for the sizes of these exocomets, unlike Beta Pic’s exocomet distribution #exoplanet #astrodon #astrosci

TESS light curve of RZ Psc, showing several dog tooth-like dips indicating exocomet transits.

Plot os radius of exocomet versus cumulative number count - the RZ Psc shows a distinct change in slope at 2.5km, whilst the Beta Pic distribution from des Etangs shows a single straight power law.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23h

This is a really good chart for expressing federal research funding!

Uncle Sam is *very* interested in weapons, substantially interested in medicine (or was...), only somewhat interested in other science and almost not at all interested in arts or humanities.

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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 4d

How can we tell what's inside an #exoplanet? @timlichtenberg.bsky.social et al review how a planet's atmosphere interacts with its interior. Atmospheric observations can distinguish between lava worlds, water worlds, temperate surfaces or supercritical interiors. ☄️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Tim Lichtenberg @timlichtenberg.bsky.social · 1d

w/ Oli Shorttle, @johannateske.bsky.social & Eliza Kempton we reviewed our current understanding and prospects for peaking on the inside of small #exoplanets in "Constraining exoplanet interiors using observations of their atmospheres": www.science.org/stoken/autho... & arxiv.org/abs/2510.08844 🔭🧪⚒️☄️

Illustration of predicted interior structures of sub-Neptune exoplanets. Observed density and atmospheric constraints are interpreted in three scenarios, each with a gaseous envelope. Water worlds have a small metal core, rocky mantle, high-pressure ice layer, and possible liquid water ocean. Gas dwarfs have a larger metal core and a magma ocean. Global supercritical regimes have no clear boundaries between layers. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 2d

Since the US was the only country doing this at scale and noone else will even attempt to step in, the next decades will be interesting.

Emerging diseases need to be lucky only once. We have to be lucky all the time.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 3d

Die bisher umfassendste und quellenbelegte Darstellung von Mimikama.

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Sebastian Bohrn Mena @bohrn-mena.at · 3d

Mein Kommentar zu #Machado und dem #Friedensnobelpreis für sie hat für viel Aufsehen gesorgt. So viel, dass @mimikama.org mit Anfragen wegen eines Fakten-Checks überrannt wurde. Und das haben sie jetzt, wie immer, fantastisch gemacht:

www.mimikama.org/machado-frie...

Faktencheck: María Corina Machado – Nobelpreis & Rechtsaußen?

María Corina Machado erhielt den Friedensnobelpreis – doch ihre Nähe zu ultrarechten Netzwerken, marktradikalen Plänen und einem früheren Staatsstreich sorgt für heftige Kritik.

www.mimikama.org

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 4d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 25d

This got lost enough that I, at least, didn't see it. Tr*mp sues Penguin Random House for $15 billion for publishing a book that cast him in a negative light. Going after comedians is indeed terrifying. Going after publishers is at least equally terrifying.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Trump Sues Penguin Random House, ‘New York Times’ for $15 Billion

President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit accusing the New York Times and four of its reporters, as well as Penguin Random House, which published the book Lucky Loser, of trying to undermine his 2024...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Sean Raymond (planetplanet.net) @planetplanet.bsky.social · 4d

New animation of the ultimate engineered solar system for a talk I'm giving tomorrow at a sci-fi convention in Lithuania.

It has 400 rocky planets in the habitable zone of a single Sun-like star

It's perfectly stable (I simulated it out to about a billion years)

planetplanet.net/2017/05/03/t...

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Ludmila Carone @exotides.bsky.social · 4d

Surprisingly flowery walk to work today.

Überraschend viele Blumen auf dem Weg zur Arbeit.

Yellow house, red roof, sun in the back. Walnut tree in front as well as red and yellow flowers.

Yellow flowers growing high into the autumn blue sky with some haze.

Red and white flowers and a bare branch with ripe yellow apples.

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 4d

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Staff Scientist

About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 4d

Wenn ihr jetzt ernsthaft Donald Trump und den Friedensnobelpreis diskutiert, dann ist eure Lernkurve in Sachen rechtsextremer Diskursvernebelung erstaunlich flach.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10d

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 4d

Any Younger Dryas article in the popular press needs to be illustrated with an actual mountain avens (Dryas octopetala) instead of a comet.

This is little tundra flower is what the period is named for (they got to be really, really common during several cold periods after the last glacial maximum).

Two Dryas flowers, simple white flowers with 8 petals arranged in a circle around a center with many small anthers. A bee and a fly are crawling on one of the flowers. From Wikipedia.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 4d

Not as fun as the older version where you could not impose a force and subduction would self-initiate eventually, but still interesting....

Tectonic Explorer

tectonic-explorer.concord.org

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Ludmila Carone @exotides.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I get that. I am wondering who devises those courses?

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Ludmila Carone @exotides.bsky.social · 4d

I did magma flow simulations with different Reynolds numberand I loved it.

Couldn't bother to crawl thru nettles like 90% of the rest of class for non-geologists.

That reminds me, I have a geoscience computer lab course as a convener at next EGU in Vienna.

*funny how that happened?*

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 4d

My quoted tweet below was mocking RFK Jr. because he should know better as head of HHS and someone who claims to 'follow the science.' But also - I think this is a common misconception so I'm going to address it earnestly.

Why do we conduct research, if not to 'make proof?'

Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 4d

I, a scientist, definitely do studies to make proof.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 4d

There’s lots of crappy things going on right now.

Don’t forget there is also lots of good stuff going on across the world …. and even beyond! ☄️

Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 4d

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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