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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 6h

It was walmart pizza made in the toaster oven 😂

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 9h

Dinner tonight is much more respectable than last night

A bowl with roasted zucchini and yellow squash and a southwestern flavored chicken, black beans, and rice bake covered in cheese and sliced green onions

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 14h

Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!

US Astronomy Graduate Admissions, AY 2025-2026

docs.google.com

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 18h

They are handy for that!

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

Yum! That reminds me that I have some chicken tenders in the freezer that I don’t love and maybe they’d be better doused in marinara with some pasta…

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

Yup

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

Wine wouldn’t been a nice touch

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

I needed to eat a vegetable and that’s what I came up with in the last 2 minutes of the pizza cooking 🤷‍♀️

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

It’s far too floppy a pizza to eat any other way 😂 (it’s actually pretty decent though)

Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

Having a real gourmet meal over here (Walmart pizza and microwaved frozen peas)

A plate with a square of pepperoni pizza next to a small dish with green peas in it

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry for your loss 💔 being able to say goodbye at home while they’re still comfortable makes a big difference but it’s so heartbreaking

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

I must admit I sometimes use my doorbell camera to make sure delivery folks have driven away before retrieving things just to be sure to avoid interactions 😂

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

Are things good right now? No. But are there signs of better days ahead? Also no. Still, we know that it's all going to hold together one way or another, that we'll emerge from this better than we were, right? Yeah, no, probably not.

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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 1d

The Tucson City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing the Trump administration's proposed compact with the University of Arizona. "Tucson's future depends on protecting that freedom to learn, to question, to innovate without fear of political pressure."
tucson.com/news/local/g...

'Capitulation is not in Tucson's nature': City Council opposes Trump compact

The Tucson City Council passed a resolution Wednesday night opposing the Trump administration's "compact" sent to the University of Arizona last week.

tucson.com

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 1d

It isn’t a proper workday until your officemate bunny kicks your arm for moving too much and interrupting his snuggles

Gus & Echo @katskitties.bsky.social · 1d

Echo is side eyeing Gus *hard* to prove she’s the good kitty who is letting human get some work done instead of grabbing her typing arm with claws and teeth

Echo is on the table in the office. She looks elegant with her front legs stretched out in front of her. She’s eyeing the desk

Gus is in the process of grabbing human’s arm with all four paws. Moment earlier he was also laying teeth on human

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 3d

😹😹

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 3d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington

The Department of Astronomy has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. General Information for applying to UW Astronomy Graduate Program. Applications must be submitted using ...

astro.washington.edu

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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 3d

The University of Arizona's faculty senate has voted to ask the UA president to reject the Trump administration's proposed compact. It's among an accumulation of voices who say not to be tempted by the good things in the compact due to its more fundamental threats.
tucson.com/news/local/e...

U of A Faculty Senate opposes Trump compact; provost says no decision yet

The University of Arizona Faculty Senate approved a resolution calling on the UA to reject the White House’s compact requiring ideological, political and financial commitments in return for federal fu...

tucson.com

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3d

Do this! Bookshop.org is good stuff.

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 4d

The whitest! He cleaned them on top of the puzzle just to make sure they shine!

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 4d

Such a helper

Gus is sprawled across my in-progress puzzle. The puzzle is much more askew than it was before he flopped down

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 4d

Denying 810,000+ Arizonans our representation in Congress.

Darin Self @darinself.com · 4d

I know we're all focused on the actions of a unbridled executive...but another major danger right now is that the Speaker of the House is refusing to sit a duly elected representative.

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 4d

Updating this chart because the prior version is out of date. With Mike Johnson refusing to convene the House, the soonest Democrat Adelita Grijalva can get sworn in—and provide the 218th signature to force a vote on the Epstein files—is now three weeks after winning the #AZ07 special election.

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 4d

I'd take it one step further--in order to do our jobs* we need Avi Loeb to _not_ be put in charge of an international directorate.

*ok, yes, this is a necessary condition but alone it's not a sufficient one

Tod Lauer @todlauer.bsky.social · 4d

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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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 4d

It remains way past time for the arXiv to stop accepting submissions involving Avi Loeb.

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 4d

You know which field of endeavor doesn't get 500 hours of guaranteed, uncompeted characterization time annually on fancy telescopes? Planetary defense. And this is despite asteroids hitting the Earth being an actual, you know, thing.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 4d

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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