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When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien beings don’t “speak” in any sense we understand? 🧪 🔭
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Learn more: www.seti.org/news/do-alie...
Do Aliens Speak Physics? And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
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November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien beings don’t “speak” in any sense we understand? 🧪 🔭
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/do-alie...
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/do-alie...
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#PPOD: This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and was part of the mission's first public data release on July 2, 2025. 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
July 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#PPOD: This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and was part of the mission's first public data release on July 2, 2025. 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
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Proposed cuts to the NASA budget are the largest in the agency’s history. If approved, major programs to study exoplanets and to bring samples back from Mars would be cancelled. This week, we look at “NASA Under the Axe” bigpicturescience.org/episodes/nas...
May 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Proposed cuts to the NASA budget are the largest in the agency’s history. If approved, major programs to study exoplanets and to bring samples back from Mars would be cancelled. This week, we look at “NASA Under the Axe” bigpicturescience.org/episodes/nas...
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Local coverage of grant losses with my Division Chief @ucsfprevention.bsky.social
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UCSF researchers lose grant money
Cuts made by DOGE are starting to hit higher education. Millions of dollars in grants are being pulled from places like San Jose State University, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.
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April 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Local coverage of grant losses with my Division Chief @ucsfprevention.bsky.social
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/u...
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/u...
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Interior Department workers essential drilling, baby, drilling are exempt from voluntary staff reductions. So are firefighters and HR staff.
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Workers Focused on Energy Exempt from Interior Staff Reductions
Wildland firefighters, cybersecurity, and some energy-related permitting positions are exempt from the Interior Department’s voluntary early retirement and separation incentive offers it began giving ...
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March 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Interior Department workers essential drilling, baby, drilling are exempt from voluntary staff reductions. So are firefighters and HR staff.
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
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Two preventable diseases, one viral, one bacterial, are resurging. The anti-vax movement fuels measles outbreaks in the U.S., and author John Green writes about the biggest infectious killer globally: tuberculosis. buff.ly/aE3d0Gp
March 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Two preventable diseases, one viral, one bacterial, are resurging. The anti-vax movement fuels measles outbreaks in the U.S., and author John Green writes about the biggest infectious killer globally: tuberculosis. buff.ly/aE3d0Gp
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#PPOD: In the center of this wide-field image from JWST is Uranus, one of the ringed planets of our solar system. That's an amazing capture, and it would be extraordinary on its own... 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
February 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#PPOD: In the center of this wide-field image from JWST is Uranus, one of the ringed planets of our solar system. That's an amazing capture, and it would be extraordinary on its own... 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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Last weekend, we honored anti-gay preacher Anita Bryant on National Pie Day by canonizing Tom Higgins, the gay activist who pied her face in 77. We made it official, and now Tom shall forever be known as Saint Banana Cream Comeuppance, Patron Saint of Slapstick Justice. Then, we ate pie.
January 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Last weekend, we honored anti-gay preacher Anita Bryant on National Pie Day by canonizing Tom Higgins, the gay activist who pied her face in 77. We made it official, and now Tom shall forever be known as Saint Banana Cream Comeuppance, Patron Saint of Slapstick Justice. Then, we ate pie.
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Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.