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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 2d

The first exoplanet around a Sun-like star was discovered 30 years ago this month! Makes me think yet again of the AMAZING scrolly (published in 2013, pre-TESS spacecraft) by
@adambecker.bsky.social @peteraldhous.com & MacGregor Campbell at @newscientist.com freelanceastro.github.io/how-many-ear...

Looking up at the night sky, it's hard not to wonder how many other planets might be circling those pinpricks of light – and how many are home to beings gazing back at us.

Today, we are starting to get a handle on the number of roughly Earth-sized exoplanets that might be suitable for life.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 1d

"An investigation can live beyond what is published.”

Impact editors are combining audience strategy, community engagement, and product management to make sure journalism brings about meaningful change. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/impa...

“Impact editor” is a relatively new job, and it’s already changing

Newsrooms can try to define impact even at the beginning of the reporting process, impact editors say.

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 3d

Sign of the times

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 4d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 4d

That’s some good student reporting:

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 6d

Just a reminder that NWS is considered essential during a government shutdown. Meteorologists will still go to work, forecasts will still be made, watches and warnings will be issued, data will flow. We won’t be paid until the shutdown ends, but we’ll still protect life and property as always.

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 6d

RIP Jane Goodall, the ground-breaking conservationist who revolutionised study of great apes
www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live

The primatologist was a

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 6d

Remembering Jane Goodall (RIP): Watch "Jane," the Acclaimed National Geographic Documentary

Remembering Jane Goodall (RIP): Watch Jane, the Acclaimed National Geographic Documentary

Jane Goodall, the revered conservationist, passed away today at age 91. In her honor, we're featuring above a National Geographic documentary called Jane.

www.openculture.com

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 7d

Some timely reading ...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The Posse Comitatus Act Explained

The law generally prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

www.brennancenter.org

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 7d

Congrats to my former student @susien.bsky.social for investigating how a flawed estimation tool leads to victims of California wildfires being under-insured businessjournalism.org/2025/09/2025...

Public-health focused investigations take top awards in the 19th annual Barlett and Steele Awards | The Reynolds Center

Promoting the importance of business journalism among journalism students, giving journalists tools to improve their business coverage, and helping

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 9d

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 8d

I'm both intimidated and inspired by how good this is. (Oh, and he made the guitar he's playing here.)
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Dave Evans "Stagefright"

YouTube video by GtrWorkShp

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Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 10d

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 10d

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE

Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 10d

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 13d

RIP Danny. On so many of my favorite records www.music-news.com/news/UK/1844...

Legendary bassist and Pentangle founder Danny Thompson died aged 86

Danny Thompson, a cornerstone of British music and a globally revered acoustic bassist, passed away yesterday at his home in Rickmansworth.

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 13d

Oh no

Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 13d

Latest from our @insideclimatenews.org @grist.org @wbez.org collaboration on Chicago's lead water service lines
insideclimatenews.org/news/2209202...

Chicago Has Hundreds of Thousands of Toxic Lead Pipes—and Millions of Unspent Dollars to Replace Them - Inside Climate News

City officials on Monday said they plan to accelerate spending to replace lead service lines in 2026. The city also remains far behind telling Chicagoans of the health risks.

insideclimatenews.org

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 14d

Yes, great shame his career was cut short by the car accident. I hadn't realized he tuned as low as this.

Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 14d

Today, I have mostly been listening to John Renbourn. So I think tomorrow should be Bert Jansch.

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 14d

Narrator: No, it would not
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Chris Wright: nuclear fusion will soon power the world

AI will soon enable harnessing of the energy that powers the sun and stars, says Chris Wright

www.bbc.com

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 14d

Flight logs reveal ICE's use of Predator drones
www.404media.co/cbp-flew-dro...

CBP Flew Drones to Help ICE 50 Times in Last Year

The drone flight log data, which stretches from March 2024 to March 2025, shows CBP flying its drones to support ICE and other agencies. CBP maintains multiple Predator drones and flew them over the r...

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 15d

Google is on it

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 16d

Well, that one jolted me awake
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 20d

Great to see former BuzzFeed News colleagues teaming up on this!

Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 20d

NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk.

with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: Chaos Inside FEMA as Death Threats Distract from Hurricane Response

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