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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Massive protests taking place right now in Chicago against Trump this evening.

Keep it up!

Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 2d

Just learned that @emilymandel.bsky.social’s next book has a release date a year from now and that’s TOO FAR AWAY and the synopsis sounds F’ING AWESOME and I can’t wait.

If you haven’t read these books GO READ THESE BOOKS!!!

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 6d

AGV-1?!?!?! Whooooaaaa. Old school

a man in a hooded jacket is standing in front of a group of people .

ALT: a man in a hooded jacket is standing in front of a group of people .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 6d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 10d

Hey Farmers. You Voted for This.

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 10d

Jets D is pure, unadulterated cheeks

Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 10d

Just as the run game appears, Waller comes out looking like Tony Gonzalez, and the D remembers turnovers exist, Tyreek’s leg explodes. gdi

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11d

If you don’t teach your students your subject, you’re not doing your job.

If you teach your students to ask AI first, you’re ensuring they’ll never be *needed* for any job.

You’re also guaranteeing that knowledge of your subject slowly dies.

Asking ChatGPT is gaining neither knowledge nor skills.

matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 11d

If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.

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UF Geology @ufgeology.bsky.social · 20d

New research from a team including UF Geology Prof. Courtney Sprain published in @commsearth.nature.com shows that when the dinosaurs went extinct, the landscape responded to their absence, and quickly!
⚒️🧪

When dinosaurs vanished, forests flourished and rivers calmed down

The sudden disappearance of large herbivores transformed landscapes after the asteroid impact.

news.ufl.edu

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 22d

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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 23d

It's national voter registration day today, and please register to vote. Today, as a new American I registered for the first time ever.

Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

vote.gov

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Jason Keeler @chasinjason.bsky.social · 24d

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is proposing to eliminate the entire Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. I strongly encourage you to voice opposition to this cut at the appropriate link in the thread below. More details are available here: budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...

Proposed Budget Reductions | Budget Process | Nebraska

budgetprocess.unl.edu

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 25d

So everyone getting fired Friday, or….

Also time to start watching college QBs
#Dolphins

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 25d

The most Tua ending to this game possible. Ross needs to fire everyone after the blowout that’s coming Thursday and starting scouting QBs

Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 28d

Unbelievably, embarrassingly bad take. WOW. We should NEVER celebrate violence, and that’s true with Kirk, but nor should we whitewash the toxic filth he believed and advocated, or how he did it.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 28d

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 28d

This song is hittin' harder today...

"Terror's the product ya push
Well I'm a truth addict, oh shit I gotta headrush
Sheep tremble and here come the votes
Thrown from the throat, new cages and scapegoats"

Rage Against The Machine - Vietnow (Audio)

YouTube video by RATMVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29d

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 29d

On the same day that Maga activist Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah, two high school students were shot in Colorado.

There is NO excuse for gun violence in our country. I am praying for gun control NOW: an Assault Weapons Ban and Universal Background Checks immediately!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29d

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29d

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29d

Quick friendly reminder that Bluesky is entirely fucking public and you should post accordingly!

Heads on straight, gang!

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29d

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 29d

Just saying, I appreciate the journalists pushing back as much as they did in the NASA press conference today. Lots of hammering on the "but how are you going to do science if you're slashing the budget right and left?" in the questions. Well done ✊

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 29d

Duffy says today's announcement is consistent with "the president's vision and mission of continuing science to support human exploration beyond Earth."

Fact check: this administration has proposed canceling Mars sample return.

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