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Patrick Vallely

@pjvphotography.bsky.social

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Ph.D. astrophysicist turned data scientist and Seattle-based photographer. Mostly into nature and astrophotography these days, but sometimes I take pictures for NASCAR. 🔗: https://www.pjvphotography.com/

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Oct 17

Howdy, new folks! 👋🏻

I’m a former astrophysicist turned photographer, and I like to take lots of pictures of lots of different things.

Volcanic steam and passing clouds glow orange in reflected lava glow from Kīlauea as the Southern Cross shines overhead

An aerial view of enormous cracks in the one of the glaciers in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Star trails swirl over a heavily wooded beachfront in Olympic National Park

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 3h

Feels like this is an obvious regulatory need regardless of any impact it might have on an economic sector

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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 3h

Small paintings of birds (and one red squirrel, in a tiny oak frame. These are made in watercolor, with a bit of colored pencil. Size is 10 x 10 cm (3.9" x 3.9")
Get them while they´re hot! 😃

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4h

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 13h

Meeting of the Minds ⚔️

Love the energy of these guys, even if they’re still a little small to really challenge the big boys when push comes to shove.

🏷️: 📸🐡🌿🦊

Tight crop of two smaller bull elk locking antlers and staring down one another. Rain drops are visible falling behind them, and the foreground is a sheet of out of focus greenery.

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Shawn Thomas Photography @understudy77.bsky.social · 1d

I have a thing for glowing wings.
@nikonusa @nikonoutdoors
#birds #osprey #raptor #birdofprey #wildlifephotography #flightshot #bird_brilliance #raptorshots #birdlovers #naturephotography #birdsofnorthamerica

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprisingly the pinnacle of album analysis came from an anonymous Swiftie’s Reddit post

Contextualizing the critical response to The Life of a Showgirl

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 2d

Where do these feelings come from
Fragile and soft like butterfly wings
A surrounding warmth in the cool night air
That whispers of bigger things
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"Heart's Light"
#Watercolor #dragons #fantasyart #art

Watercolor painting of a feathered dragon with a glowing red hard held suspended between its two front claws. It has feathered wings that curve forward, lit up by the glow of the heart. Text in lower left reads kamakru.com. Artist signature in lower right Katie Croonenberghs 2021

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 2d

goals tbh

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

One of this year's Nobel winners might not know he has won.

Fred Ramsdell was among those honored Monday with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine, but he's currently "living his best life" on an "off the grid" hiking foray and it appears no one can contact him

u.afp.com/Smfh

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 2d

What do you think the word “EXCLUSIVE” means in this context…?

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3d

"What advice would you give early career writers?"

*most lofty authorly voice* Well as we all know, it is important for an artisan to use the finest tools, and store them in the finest receptacles