RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪
@rachelbc.bsky.social
Research scientist @MIT working with @NASA to make Earth & space more accessible & engaging through #dataviz #UX #design & digital media #XR
How is packing going?
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
How is packing going?
Reposted by RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
I feel this deeply. Enshittification…but in a narrative and animated form
Y'all mind if I complain for 15 minutes?
YouTube video by JaidenAnimations
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November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I feel this deeply. Enshittification…but in a narrative and animated form
Piece of forearm 😂
![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Piece of forearm 😂
Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming.
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Eating the Ocean
How underwater factory farms are reshaping our food system.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
What’s hard in today’s world is that as more and more of your friends and family have to deal with more difficulties in their life (job, expenses, medical, etc), you have less capacity in your support network to help. Who wants to bother someone when they are also stressed? And so you feel alone…
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
What’s hard in today’s world is that as more and more of your friends and family have to deal with more difficulties in their life (job, expenses, medical, etc), you have less capacity in your support network to help. Who wants to bother someone when they are also stressed? And so you feel alone…
I think we are going to have PJ days ahead on flights, if my feed is any indication
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I think we are going to have PJ days ahead on flights, if my feed is any indication
Today’s xkcd really hits home as a cancer survivor who just passed six years NED. Please check it out…
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Today’s xkcd really hits home as a cancer survivor who just passed six years NED. Please check it out…
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
Just a moment of magic as the white wine deglazes the stock veggies and becomes a syrup. Sending good smell… 🥕 🧅 🌿
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Just a moment of magic as the white wine deglazes the stock veggies and becomes a syrup. Sending good smell… 🥕 🧅 🌿
Rural US is about to get much sicker 🤒
Immigrants make up ~quarter of the country's doctors. In rural communities, in primary care & specialties like oncology, foreign-born doctors account for ~ HALF of the workforce. other countries are taking advantage by promising stable grant funding abroad.
Immigrants make up ~quarter of the country's doctors. In rural communities, in primary care & specialties like oncology, foreign-born doctors account for ~ HALF of the workforce. other countries are taking advantage by promising stable grant funding abroad.
Deeply upsetting but not surprising:
“policies defunding everything from scientific research to public health have damaged the U.S.'s reputation to the point where she hears from hospitals and universities that top international talent are no longer interested in coming to America” 🧪
“policies defunding everything from scientific research to public health have damaged the U.S.'s reputation to the point where she hears from hospitals and universities that top international talent are no longer interested in coming to America” 🧪
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rural US is about to get much sicker 🤒
Immigrants make up ~quarter of the country's doctors. In rural communities, in primary care & specialties like oncology, foreign-born doctors account for ~ HALF of the workforce. other countries are taking advantage by promising stable grant funding abroad.
Immigrants make up ~quarter of the country's doctors. In rural communities, in primary care & specialties like oncology, foreign-born doctors account for ~ HALF of the workforce. other countries are taking advantage by promising stable grant funding abroad.
In addition to this excellent point, it is also a travesty that this much meat will go to waste with the number of people who are hungry in this world.
Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
www.vox.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
In addition to this excellent point, it is also a travesty that this much meat will go to waste with the number of people who are hungry in this world.
fun for color geeks like me #dataviz
If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
fun for color geeks like me #dataviz
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Some of the nation’s biggest banks were scrambling on Saturday night to assess the fallout from a large-scale hack of a vendor whose compromise could expose sensitive customer data.
A Swath of Bank Customer Data Was Hacked. The F.B.I. Is Investigating.
SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
1/6
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
graphics.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Every year I gather all my Thanksgiving recipes & make new shopping & timing lists for dinner. But I finally put it in a single doc that I can just use annually. If you want access, let me know. Here’s the menu:
Roast turkey w/ garlic herb butter
Mashed potatoes & gravy
Green bean casserole
Etc…
Roast turkey w/ garlic herb butter
Mashed potatoes & gravy
Green bean casserole
Etc…
a woman is holding a dead chicken over a cutting board
ALT: a woman is holding a dead chicken over a cutting board
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Every year I gather all my Thanksgiving recipes & make new shopping & timing lists for dinner. But I finally put it in a single doc that I can just use annually. If you want access, let me know. Here’s the menu:
Roast turkey w/ garlic herb butter
Mashed potatoes & gravy
Green bean casserole
Etc…
Roast turkey w/ garlic herb butter
Mashed potatoes & gravy
Green bean casserole
Etc…
What?! Does this also happen to google docs?
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
What?! Does this also happen to google docs?
This change in professional degree categories will hurt college loans for these fields too 😡 👇🏻
ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This change in professional degree categories will hurt college loans for these fields too 😡 👇🏻
Should “Week” be “Weak” in this headline from @forbes.com ?
Target said it doesn’t think holiday sales will be enough to turn around a tough year.
Target Predicting Week Holiday Sales As Consumer Angst Weighs On Season
Target said it doesn’t think holiday sales will be enough to turn around a tough year.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Should “Week” be “Weak” in this headline from @forbes.com ?
Brilliant
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Brilliant
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Hi freelancers, I just posted a call for pitches for @technologyreview.com's upcoming print issue. The theme is Nature. Pitch deadline is December 5. More info here! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#writingopportunity | Rachel Courtland
#WritingOpportunity: MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for an upcoming print issue. The theme is Nature.
We're looking for pitches for longer pieces: narrative features, compelling investigati...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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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 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM