Sara Pritchard
@sarabpritchard.bsky.social
Forthcoming book! Transforming Night https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295755267/transforming-night/
#SkyStorian #STS #EnvHist #histtech #envirotech #histsci
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice #CriticalDarkSkyStudies
#SkyStorian #STS #EnvHist #histtech #envirotech #histsci
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice #CriticalDarkSkyStudies
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Such a bittersweet #Sciku by Scott Edgar, the contrast in scales so powerful and thought-provoking:
Through interstellar
Space to us then getting lost
In yellow street lamps
#ScienceHaiku #SciComm #SciArt #Starlight #LightPollution
thescikuproject.com/2025/11/12/m...
Through interstellar
Space to us then getting lost
In yellow street lamps
#ScienceHaiku #SciComm #SciArt #Starlight #LightPollution
thescikuproject.com/2025/11/12/m...
Message Lost by Scott Edgar - The Sciku Project
Through interstellar // Space to us then getting lost // In yellow street lamps - Visit The Sciku Project to learn more about Scott's starlight sciku!
thescikuproject.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Such a bittersweet #Sciku by Scott Edgar, the contrast in scales so powerful and thought-provoking:
Through interstellar
Space to us then getting lost
In yellow street lamps
#ScienceHaiku #SciComm #SciArt #Starlight #LightPollution
thescikuproject.com/2025/11/12/m...
Through interstellar
Space to us then getting lost
In yellow street lamps
#ScienceHaiku #SciComm #SciArt #Starlight #LightPollution
thescikuproject.com/2025/11/12/m...
Don't miss the ALT text.
Here's an idea!
Karoline Leavitt (age 29) should do the press conferences with her husband (age 60), just to remind Americans that there's nothing creepy at all about this, nothing creepy at all, nothing creepy
Karoline Leavitt (age 29) should do the press conferences with her husband (age 60), just to remind Americans that there's nothing creepy at all about this, nothing creepy at all, nothing creepy
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Don't miss the ALT text.
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Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? ⚗️🤖💉
The @royalsocietypublishing.org #NotesAndRecord Essay Award is open for entries until 28 February 2026.
To find out more, visit: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...
The @royalsocietypublishing.org #NotesAndRecord Essay Award is open for entries until 28 February 2026.
To find out more, visit: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? ⚗️🤖💉
The @royalsocietypublishing.org #NotesAndRecord Essay Award is open for entries until 28 February 2026.
To find out more, visit: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...
The @royalsocietypublishing.org #NotesAndRecord Essay Award is open for entries until 28 February 2026.
To find out more, visit: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...
Ah ha ha ha
Sigh.
Ithaca isn't far from southern Ontario.
Sigh.
Ithaca isn't far from southern Ontario.
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ah ha ha ha
Sigh.
Ithaca isn't far from southern Ontario.
Sigh.
Ithaca isn't far from southern Ontario.
I've been thinking abt this the past 24 hrs in light of Franklin/Twain quote, 3/2 people can keep a secret if 2/1 are dead.
Demonstrating the vast conspiracy, complicity for over a decade.
Demonstrating the vast conspiracy, complicity for over a decade.
You gotta leak that shit
Career death and crime aside, you gotta leak that shit
The idea that *one* person lacks that courage isn’t weird to me
The idea that *nobody* did? What the fuck
Career death and crime aside, you gotta leak that shit
The idea that *one* person lacks that courage isn’t weird to me
The idea that *nobody* did? What the fuck
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I've been thinking abt this the past 24 hrs in light of Franklin/Twain quote, 3/2 people can keep a secret if 2/1 are dead.
Demonstrating the vast conspiracy, complicity for over a decade.
Demonstrating the vast conspiracy, complicity for over a decade.
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I am watching the news unfold today and thinking of every survivor whose trauma is being reactivated. It’s a lot to take in. I am a former rape crisis counselor and I am having a hard time with it all.
So I wrote.
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
So I wrote.
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
For survivors, today
Today, the living victims of Jeffrey Epstein are likely feeling a whole lot of feelings.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I am watching the news unfold today and thinking of every survivor whose trauma is being reactivated. It’s a lot to take in. I am a former rape crisis counselor and I am having a hard time with it all.
So I wrote.
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
So I wrote.
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
🧵, extraordinary, poetic, wrenching ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾
I want to uplift the women hearing in these stories the echoes of their own, the many countless women who have been survivors because the world decided that they were expendable because all women & girls are expendable if a man might be inconvenienced by them & all of our bodies are free game.
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
🧵, extraordinary, poetic, wrenching ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾
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Stop using the language of the rapist.
It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.
It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Stop using the language of the rapist.
It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.
It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.
But her emails.
But her laugh.
But her laugh.
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
But her emails.
But her laugh.
But her laugh.
Easily? Never quite that straightforward, but still.
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night ##Darkness
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night ##Darkness
Light pollution: The silent threat to the planet that's easily solved https://phys.org/news/2025-11-pollution-silent-threat-planet-easily.html
Light pollution: The silent threat to the planet that's easily solved
New research has revealed for the first time the full extent of how "Artificial Light At Night" (ALAN) is increasing carbon released by plants and animals across continents—without any increase in the carbon they absorb. The result is reduced carbon storage in ecosystems—which has major implications for climate models and global carbon budgets.
phys.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Easily? Never quite that straightforward, but still.
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night ##Darkness
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night ##Darkness
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Instead of writing “Please do not cite or circulate without author’s permission” on my conference papers, I’m just going to put “DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT” at the top
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Instead of writing “Please do not cite or circulate without author’s permission” on my conference papers, I’m just going to put “DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT” at the top
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everyone living around light pollution and clouds right now:
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
everyone living around light pollution and clouds right now:
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#Timelapse of lots of red #aurora looking west from northern Vulcan County. Normally, this view would be dominated by the distant light dome from the City of Calgary’s #lightpollution. #astronomy
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
#Timelapse of lots of red #aurora looking west from northern Vulcan County. Normally, this view would be dominated by the distant light dome from the City of Calgary’s #lightpollution. #astronomy
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One thing we don't talk about enough is how much time is lost to racism. In the last 2 weeks, between the Time editors & responding to this Indie play about the "conflict" in Gaza (she did not in fact lose my email) I have spent approx 2.5 days.
Separate from how that fatigue shapes other days.
Separate from how that fatigue shapes other days.
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
One thing we don't talk about enough is how much time is lost to racism. In the last 2 weeks, between the Time editors & responding to this Indie play about the "conflict" in Gaza (she did not in fact lose my email) I have spent approx 2.5 days.
Separate from how that fatigue shapes other days.
Separate from how that fatigue shapes other days.
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards.
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards.
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
Read the replies
This is going to gut
Families
Small entrepreneurs
Non profits
Arts organizations
Increase
Illness, untreated chronic and acute conditions, death rates, especially for most vulnerable
Pressure on ERs
Bankruptcies
Homelessness
Poverty
.
.
.
This is going to gut
Families
Small entrepreneurs
Non profits
Arts organizations
Increase
Illness, untreated chronic and acute conditions, death rates, especially for most vulnerable
Pressure on ERs
Bankruptcies
Homelessness
Poverty
.
.
.
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Read the replies
This is going to gut
Families
Small entrepreneurs
Non profits
Arts organizations
Increase
Illness, untreated chronic and acute conditions, death rates, especially for most vulnerable
Pressure on ERs
Bankruptcies
Homelessness
Poverty
.
.
.
This is going to gut
Families
Small entrepreneurs
Non profits
Arts organizations
Increase
Illness, untreated chronic and acute conditions, death rates, especially for most vulnerable
Pressure on ERs
Bankruptcies
Homelessness
Poverty
.
.
.
Dear millions of Americans,
Friends, I'm looking to speak with people who are upset about the Democrats' shutdown deal and who can speak about how increasing healthcare costs will impact them. If that's you, I can be reached via DM or at [email protected]. We can also protect people's identities as needed.
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Dear millions of Americans,
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Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
Dear future historians (and planetary citizens),
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
The NASA Technical Report Server is not being updated due to funding cuts. This is a disaster. 🧪 🔭
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Dear future historians (and planetary citizens),
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
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It'll be okay, little buddies
Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It'll be okay, little buddies
I wish I had a dollar for every time @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was right.
Actually, I don't, but you know what I mean.
Actually, I don't, but you know what I mean.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I wish I had a dollar for every time @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was right.
Actually, I don't, but you know what I mean.
Actually, I don't, but you know what I mean.
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Claude Francis Barry’s paintings of WW1 are amongst the most accomplished of his works, with his images of searchlights across London being the most evocative - here (1918) he used small concentrated dots of colour to create an atmospheric haze of light.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Claude Francis Barry’s paintings of WW1 are amongst the most accomplished of his works, with his images of searchlights across London being the most evocative - here (1918) he used small concentrated dots of colour to create an atmospheric haze of light.
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AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Flew Charlottesville to Charlotte last week low enough they didn’t even pressurize the cabin
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Flew Charlottesville to Charlotte last week low enough they didn’t even pressurize the cabin