Dr. Teddy Kareta
@teddykareta.bsky.social
planetary astronomer by day, also by night
asst. prof. @ villanova, movie buff, he/they, 🏳️🌈
https://tkareta.github.io/, formerly lowell obs., uaz
asst. prof. @ villanova, movie buff, he/they, 🏳️🌈
https://tkareta.github.io/, formerly lowell obs., uaz
every couple of years I bump into a new movie with a relatively small udo kier part and am blown away again -- first "blade", then "my own private idaho", most recently "suspiria". what a talented guy he was, and what a bummer.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
every couple of years I bump into a new movie with a relatively small udo kier part and am blown away again -- first "blade", then "my own private idaho", most recently "suspiria". what a talented guy he was, and what a bummer.
rare bit of good news on this dreary Sunday morning
plumassun.org/2025/11/22/w...
plumassun.org/2025/11/22/w...
Washoe Tribe to acquire 10,000 acres in largest Sierra Nevada land return | The Plumas Sun
The California Wildlife Conservation Board voted Nov. 20 to grant $5.5 million to the Wášiw-šiw Land Trust to support the purchase of 10,274 acres in the
plumassun.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
rare bit of good news on this dreary Sunday morning
plumassun.org/2025/11/22/w...
plumassun.org/2025/11/22/w...
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This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🧪 ✏️ Apply for the 2026 Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Internship with @science.org! 🧪 ✏️
This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
asked my students about how they thought astronomers should search for aliens & after the discussion subsided I said "let me prove there's life outside this classroom" and turned on this radio I built that I had hidden under the podium as an intro to SETI. a stupid gag that went off really well.
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
asked my students about how they thought astronomers should search for aliens & after the discussion subsided I said "let me prove there's life outside this classroom" and turned on this radio I built that I had hidden under the podium as an intro to SETI. a stupid gag that went off really well.
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An article from Science about the changes LPSC has made to its abstract submission process. As my colleague @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social states, "This is censorship". www.science.org/content/arti...
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
An article from Science about the changes LPSC has made to its abstract submission process. As my colleague @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social states, "This is censorship". www.science.org/content/arti...
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Here’s an annotated version of our comet image.
We also want to thank our downlink and uplink teams who spent a huge amount of time working on this. Our camera was not designed to image interstellar objects 19 million miles away, but their hard work and planning paid off.
We also want to thank our downlink and uplink teams who spent a huge amount of time working on this. Our camera was not designed to image interstellar objects 19 million miles away, but their hard work and planning paid off.
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Here’s an annotated version of our comet image.
We also want to thank our downlink and uplink teams who spent a huge amount of time working on this. Our camera was not designed to image interstellar objects 19 million miles away, but their hard work and planning paid off.
We also want to thank our downlink and uplink teams who spent a huge amount of time working on this. Our camera was not designed to image interstellar objects 19 million miles away, but their hard work and planning paid off.
quoted a bit in this CNN article about 3I, but here's what I really wanted to say: my god, I've published worse-looking comet data than what HiRISE just got on an interstellar object. they're taking good data on interstellar comets from the planet mars. holy shit.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/s...
NASA missions captures images as an interstellar comet zips by Mars | CNN
Multiple NASA missions captured images as an interstellar comet zoomed by Mars in October.
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
quoted a bit in this CNN article about 3I, but here's what I really wanted to say: my god, I've published worse-looking comet data than what HiRISE just got on an interstellar object. they're taking good data on interstellar comets from the planet mars. holy shit.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/s...
if I were convinced that a comet was an alien space ship, I would start most of my blog posts with a reminder to my audience that I am humble and my opponents are basically all automatons. this is a normal way to start an argument and will help me convince the naysayers of the flaws in their logic.
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
if I were convinced that a comet was an alien space ship, I would start most of my blog posts with a reminder to my audience that I am humble and my opponents are basically all automatons. this is a normal way to start an argument and will help me convince the naysayers of the flaws in their logic.
huge news for all of you comet composition nerds out there: according to this new ATel by Ganesh et al., C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is another NH2-dominated comet like Machholz (!) or Yanaka (!!)
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
huge news for all of you comet composition nerds out there: according to this new ATel by Ganesh et al., C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is another NH2-dominated comet like Machholz (!) or Yanaka (!!)
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More than 34 million passengers climbed aboard Amtrak trains during Fiscal Year 2025, the railroad announced on November 18, a new record for “America’s Railroad” and a 5.1 percent increase over the previous year railfan.com/amtrak-break...
Amtrak Breaks Ridership, Revenue Records
More than 34 million passengers climbed aboard Amtrak trains during Fiscal Year 2025, the railroad announced on November 18.
railfan.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
More than 34 million passengers climbed aboard Amtrak trains during Fiscal Year 2025, the railroad announced on November 18, a new record for “America’s Railroad” and a 5.1 percent increase over the previous year railfan.com/amtrak-break...
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I know it’s hard. But you can’t possibly go to an academic conference that imposes restrictions on freedom of speech like this.
Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I know it’s hard. But you can’t possibly go to an academic conference that imposes restrictions on freedom of speech like this.
who has grilled me about whether or not I'm a part of the secret illuminati deep state conspiracy to hide the truth about 3I/ATLAS being a spaceship: a running tally
- my barber (nice guy)
- my stepsister (100% giving me shit)
- several of my students (mostly giving me shit)
- my barber (nice guy)
- my stepsister (100% giving me shit)
- several of my students (mostly giving me shit)
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
who has grilled me about whether or not I'm a part of the secret illuminati deep state conspiracy to hide the truth about 3I/ATLAS being a spaceship: a running tally
- my barber (nice guy)
- my stepsister (100% giving me shit)
- several of my students (mostly giving me shit)
- my barber (nice guy)
- my stepsister (100% giving me shit)
- several of my students (mostly giving me shit)
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Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
talking about the challenges in identifying robust biosignatures on exoplanets today in my 'life in the universe' class
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
talking about the challenges in identifying robust biosignatures on exoplanets today in my 'life in the universe' class
one of the students in my gen-ed astronomy class came up to me and told me excitedly that they'd already signed up for my class next semester and were looking forward to it -- an extremely sweet little gesture -- and I didn't even cry! not even a little!
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
one of the students in my gen-ed astronomy class came up to me and told me excitedly that they'd already signed up for my class next semester and were looking forward to it -- an extremely sweet little gesture -- and I didn't even cry! not even a little!
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Not impeaching and removing every official involved with this remains one of the biggest failures of constitutional governance ever, and there is a direct line from that to where we sit today.
#OtD 6 Nov 1986 the Iran-Contra scandal — where the US sold arms to Iran to fund right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua — began to break. Acting Pres Ronald Reagan said the revelations had "no foundation", which turned out to be a lie stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1065...
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Not impeaching and removing every official involved with this remains one of the biggest failures of constitutional governance ever, and there is a direct line from that to where we sit today.
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Strange Tales 72, 1959. Art by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Strange Tales 72, 1959. Art by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
it's venus week in my "life in the universe" class so I'm getting ready to push this class fully off the rails (e.g., attempting to get a bunch of business majors to care about D/H ratios and phosphine and the weird ultraviolet absorbers in its atmosphere)
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's venus week in my "life in the universe" class so I'm getting ready to push this class fully off the rails (e.g., attempting to get a bunch of business majors to care about D/H ratios and phosphine and the weird ultraviolet absorbers in its atmosphere)
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some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
happy slippery rail season to all regional rail riders who celebrate
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
happy slippery rail season to all regional rail riders who celebrate