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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 10d

On its birthday, share one image from your favorite #TNG episode.

Picard playing an end-blown flute in his darkened quarters on the Enterprise in his duty uniform.

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NOAA @noaa.gov · 22d

Countdown to launch: NOAA’s #SWFOL1 #Satellite #Observatory

Safeguarding society, a million miles from home ...

Scheduled for September 23, 2025, from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

--> Bookmark: noaa.gov/SWFOL1

An artist's rendering of NOAA's SWFO-L1 satellite in space orbit next to a image of the sun producing a coronal mass ejection. Earth is seen in the far distance. Image credit: NOAA Satellites.

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Sep 2

For me growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness the answer would have been All, including birthdays, and I’ll be obligated to explain to everyone how each holiday specifically offends Jehovah.

Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Aug 31

I think every day should be Star Trek Day!

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Space Sciences Laboratory @ucbssl.bsky.social · Aug 28

Big thank you to Lara Waldrop for the talk at SSL. Lara leads the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory. It will orbit the Sun to capture UV images of Earth’s exosphere. SSL built many of the instruments and will contribute to the research and operate the spacecraft.

Lara Waldrop PhD of the University of Illinois at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Aug 7

NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will launch next month! Check out our latest video about the mission profiling its leader, Dr. Lara Waldrop.
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Meet Dr. Lara Waldrop: NASA Scientist Leading a Deep Space Mission to Study Earth’s Outer Atmosphere

YouTube video by Multiverse UCB

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Aug 6

We put rooftop solar on our home 3 years ago. It generates more electricity annually than we use (including electric car charging and air conditioning).

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Jul 17

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is preparing to launch this fall. This exciting new mission will journey a million miles from home to study Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere. We’re premiering a new video about the mission on YouTube today.
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NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Mission Will Reveal Earth’s Invisible Halo from Space

YouTube video by Multiverse UCB

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Jul 10

This always bugged me too. She did not start the war. If her mutiny had succeeded, she might have averted it.

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Jun 22

Same

Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Jun 22

I just wanna write about astronomy and talk about Star Trek and make high-level puns and post fun photos but instead we have secret police and federally sponsored kidnappings and horrifically repressive legislation jammed through and oh yeah also a massively illegal war in the Middle East.

Dammit.

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Apr 27

Oh you know…life

It’s pretty chill here. Very diverse communities.

Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Apr 26

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Apr 17

I honestly can’t stop thinking about this RFK speech. A lot of the outrage around it is focused on pointing out that it’s not true.

But so fucking what if it was? Do people whose bodies don’t work not deserve to exist in society? If all these things were true for a person are they less worthy?

"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize we are doing this to our children."

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · Apr 12

I will say to you what I say to my students.

We know the climate is changing, we know why it is changing and that we are the cause, we know what we need to do.

We. Just. Need. To. Do. It. (3/)

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Apr 9

He solves the paradox in a few different ways: great filter, galactic quarantine, simulation…

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Apr 5

Rose, I missed this news last month and I’m so sorry for you.

If you want a thought partner to help brainstorm pathways from here, I’d be happy to chat. Been trying to figure things out myself…

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · Mar 29

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Mar 19

Many do! On my iPhone it’s an accessibility function. When I triple-press the side button it activates. Very useful for preserving my night vision when working in the planetarium.

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · Mar 8

I was honored to speak at the Stand Up for Science March in Berkeley yesterday. The text of my remarks is in the photos. I hope this momentum continues.

Let there be light.

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