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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · Jul 17

Bio in comments, sporadically appended -

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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 2h

After more than 30 years, a key medical tracking system now lists Gulf War Illness as a formal diagnosis in international medical practice. trib.al/TZDulj3

Long-dismissed 'Gulf War Illness' finally recognized with international medical code

After more than 30 years, a key medical tracking system now lists Gulf War Illness as a formal diagnosis in international medical practice.

trib.al

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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 3h

Delano, CA

Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 4h

This is getting more dangerous & stupid.

Adam Schiff posts on X/Twitter -
"Tomorrow, I, along with @SenTimKaine will be forcing a vote to block President Trump’s use of our Armed Forces to conduct strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea.

Congress has not authorized these strikes. They are illegal and risk dragging America into another war."
Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia replies (translated from Spanish to English)
"Senator Adam Shiff is right.

I'm currently in a meeting with European governments, and I'll say the same thing.

A new war zone has opened up: the Caribbean.

Evidence shows that the last boat bombed was Colombian, with Colombian citizens inside. I hope their families come forward and file complaints.

There isn't a war against smuggling; it's a war for oil, and the world must stop it.

The aggression is against all of Latin America and the Caribbean. "

Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 4h

Cool photos!

Good detail.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 13h

#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day

NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula

Credit: Nevenka Blagovic Horvat & Miroslav Horvat

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🧪🔭

Located only 8,000 light years away, the Wizard nebula, featured here, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star-forming region spans 100 about light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. The Wizard Nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.

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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 6h

Better late than never.

My cousin suffered for years from this.

Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 6h

Wow

Geology @geologytime.bsky.social · 6h

MOST unusual, sharply color-zoned slice of amethyst from a bizarre stalactitic growth. This was found in India

Photo: Rob Lavinsky Cc

#minerals #crystals

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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 6h

Wait, I've seen this!

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a courtroom .

Alt: a solicitor (attorney) in a suit and tie is standing in a courtroom from the movie Castle - "It's the vibe and, uh... no that's it. It's the vibe."

media.tenor.com

Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 7h

This is encouraging news.

Fuck cancer.

Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 8h

A newly identified protein, KCTD10, helps prevent DNA damage during cell division and may offer a promising target for developing future cancer therapies. doi.org/g955nx

'Traffic controller' protein that protects DNA discovered, and it may help kill cancer cells

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell division—a discovery that could lead to new cancer therapies, according to a study published in Nature.

medicalxpress.com

Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 7h

Nice ear to the skies.

Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 8h

European Space Agency inaugurates deep space antenna in Australia

🔭🧪 @science.esa.int @operations.esa.int @esa.int
www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

European Space Agency inaugurates deep space antenna in Australia

The European Space Agency (ESA) has expanded its capability to communicate with scientific, exploration and space safety missions across our Solar System with the inauguration of a new 35-m diameter d...

www.csiro.au

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Eos @eos.org · 9h

Congratulations to atmospheric scientist & AGU Member Ángel F. Adames-Corraliza on being selected as a MacArthur Fellow!

www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

In 2018, he also received @agu.org's James R. Holton Award for his study of the Madden-Julian Oscillation!

eos.org/agu-news/ada...

Well done!

Ángel F. Adames Corraliza

Advancing understanding of the forces that drive tropical weather patterns.

www.macfound.org

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Eos @eos.org · 10h

Scientific research and the platforms to share it are facing mounting financial challenges. Your support is more important than ever. Please make your recurring, tax-deductible donation to sustain ethical and accurate science journalism at Eos.

bit.ly/SupportEos

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 11h

Spectacular imagery of Typhoon Halong, churning to the south of Japan.

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kosmi.bsky.social @kosmi.bsky.social · 15h

Typhoon Halong as seen today by Sentinel-3.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 16h

“A Logic Named Joe”

camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/r...

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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 13h

Fascinating interview with the Nobel Prize in Medicine about paleogenetics.

Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit

english.elpais.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

projects.propublica.org

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 1d

A little bit of the "green flash" captured during Sunday night's sunset

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kosmi.bsky.social @kosmi.bsky.social · 1d

Penguin colony [ No. 25 ].

Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Oct. 5, 2025.

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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 1d

Good point - the physical infrastructure requires the legal infrastructure.

It'll take a coalition to bring something like this together.

Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 1d

Having a large fleet of scientific spacecraft out in the solar system gives us many more ways to study unanticipated phenomena like this.

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 1d

Civil infrastructure can lead on this - build it, and they will come. Start small, then reclaim lanes from cars-only as e-bikes prove more practical in urban settings.

Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge deal - solid lubricants like these can find service outside of agriculture as well.

Displacing plastics from food use can minimize harm in multiple ways.

Hope this is available commercially as soon as possible.

Plant-based lubricant outperforms talc and microplastics, offering a nontoxic alternative for seed dispersal

Researchers have developed a new class of nontoxic, biodegradable solid lubricants that can be used to facilitate seed dispersal using modern farming equipment, with the goal of replacing existing lub...

phys.org

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

Dinosaurs got bone cancer, which means we can study TUMOR FOSSILS.

I've since read about some other dinos species with evidence of tumors, but I still suspect there was something about hadrosaurs that made them prone to it.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Mar 15

One of the amazing things about science is we will never run out of mysteries.

Take "Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500", which performed a survey of 10,000 dinosaur fossils for evidence of tumors in the bone.

I was prepared for yes, no, but what I wasn't prepared for was:
"only in hadrosaurs."

It's a black and white paper header for a short communication, and I've copied the text below. Please stop reading if you don't want the literal copy to be read to you.
"Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500
DOI 10.1007/s00114-003-0473-9
SHORT COMMUNICATION
B. M. Rothschild · D. H. Tanke · M. Helbling ·
L. D. Martin
Epidemiologic study of tumors in dinosaurs
Received: 16 June 2003 / Accepted: 29 August 2003 / Published online: 14 October 2003 Springer-Verlag 2003"

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 2d

The swirling center of Hurricane Priscilla, seen this afternoon by GOES-18.

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