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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 1d

Like a haiku, Sarah. All had been said.

Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 1d

This triggered a core memory of a road trip with my very young kids, where we would go around and add a sentence to a story in turn. I started with “once upon a time there was a little girl.” Which was serenely followed by a lispy little kid voice adding on their part: “And she was eaten by wolves.”

Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 1d

It's like one of those camp games where everyone gets to say a word.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 7d

“‘My building is shaking. So, I'm like, “What is that?” Then I look out the window, it's a Blackhawk helicopter,’ said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.”

Raiding a Chicago apartment building from above as if they were on a mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Absolutely demented.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 15d

One useful metric is whether you think the paper as published could lead a future grad student down an unfortunate path (ie, not reproducible or internally self-consistent, doesn’t engage with relevant literature or alternatives, doesn’t fully acknowledge uncertainties and limitations).

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 22d

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration.

It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

AAUP-UC-Trump Lawsuit -- Uploaded by Jaweed Kaleem of the Los Angeles Times

www.documentcloud.org

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MAST - Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes @mast-news.bsky.social · 23d

New HLSP: New optical high-resolution images and point source photometry for unusual, disturbed, and/or interacting galaxies from the Arp (1966) and Arp & Madore (1987) catalogs, from an HST SNAP program (PI @dalcantonjd.bsky.social), are now available at MAST. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/hags 🔭

A sample black-and-white negative image showing two disturbed spiral galaxies, with prominent star forming regions and dust lanes, for the system AM1914-603 from the Arp & Madore (1987) catalog. The image was originally taken in the F606W filter with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks Chris! It’s pretty much the paper version of a classic rock radio station. Hopefully the kids will discover that they’re actually bangers.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 27d

Trust me, the 3Gb PDF is worth it.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 27d

ARP! ARP! ARP! ☄️🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2509.09011

Interacting galaxies from the Arp-Madore catalog, viewed with the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 31

And was that guy you?

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is his time.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 30

Seattle’s response to an anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist church event scheduled for later today. “240 kazoos provided.”

Poster on a flagpole with a picture of Chappell Roan, announcing a mass kazoo performance: “DO YOU LOVE
Chappell Roan?
JOIN US
Aug. 30 5PM at Gas Works Park For the WORLD'S LARGEST
Kazoo Performance of
PINK PONY CLUB
240 KAZOOS PROVIDED”

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 28

I had forgotten about the hats! bsky.app/profile/infe...

INFERNAL CHILDREN @infernalchildren.bsky.social · Aug 28

"check it out yall, got a new hat! i call it salmon hat lolo-- hold up gotta fuck up this yacht"

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hanging with our pals and babies, occasionally sinking yachts for funsies?

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 26

Baked goods, but you can choose your preferred, quantified proportion of frosting. #EatingMyFeelings

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Aug 25

call us old fashioned but, this account finds newsom's "check out my rock-hard AI nipples. they're absolutely glistening" platform less inspirational than pritz's "you fascists bring that shit here and I will personally fuck your asses up."

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 23

I probably need to do a run of “This chihuahua bites fascists” t-shirts.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 23

Have some Zipper.

Very tiny big-eared chihuahua, alert and enjoying lap time on an outdoor bar patio.

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 23

It could be a toupee thing. Dangerous stuff.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · Aug 14

CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation

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IAU Office of Astronomy for Education @astro4edu.bsky.social · Aug 14

Galactic bubbles like never before! @eric-koch.bsky.social introduced BubbleZoo, a citizen science project cataloging JWST’s mesmerizing voids in galaxies, at the JWST session on galaxies at the 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop! 🔭 #astroedu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=726s...

Blowing Bubbles in Galaxies - A Zoo of Bubbles from JWST: E. Koch at the OAE’s 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop

YouTube video by IAU Office of Astronomy for Education

www.youtube.com

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 13

Which is further located in what originated explicitly as a white ethnostate…

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 13

Here’s a good resource: depts.washington.edu/civilr/segre...

Seattle's Race and Segregation Story in Maps 1920-2020 - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

depts.washington.edu

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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s also built on horrific redlining that restricted black residents to a very small area of the city, which has since gentrified and pushed out long term residents.

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