Summer
@sumrtime.bsky.social
Huge fan of space, both personal and outer. I insist upon the view that ‘all is waves’.
Astrophysicist 💫
Scicommer ⚛️
Space Cadet 🚀
Lunatic 🌙
TBTL10 📻
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Astrophysicist 💫
Scicommer ⚛️
Space Cadet 🚀
Lunatic 🌙
TBTL10 📻
summerash.com
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Summer
@sumrtime.bsky.social
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Hi Bluesky friends! I've been MIA for a while, but I'm coming back because I have some fun news...
I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭
I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭
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If the wind only held
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If the wind only held
Can anyone read Russian?
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Can anyone read Russian?
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I often talk about “stitching” so I thought you might like to see one of my pieces. I am fascinated by moss, lichen and fungi so try to interpret what I see with stitches and beads.
#fiberart #embroidery
#fiberart #embroidery
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I often talk about “stitching” so I thought you might like to see one of my pieces. I am fascinated by moss, lichen and fungi so try to interpret what I see with stitches and beads.
#fiberart #embroidery
#fiberart #embroidery
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Amazing thread: every time we expand the range of what's possible for terrestrial extremophiles, the likelihood life exists elsewhere in the galaxy goes up for me.
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Amazing thread: every time we expand the range of what's possible for terrestrial extremophiles, the likelihood life exists elsewhere in the galaxy goes up for me.
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"Don't let them bury my story."
Rest in power to Viola Ford Fletcher, who spent years fighting for justice for all those harmed by the Tulsa Race Massacre—from 1921 to the present day.
We owe it to Fletcher to remember and to right these brutal wrongs.
Rest in power to Viola Ford Fletcher, who spent years fighting for justice for all those harmed by the Tulsa Race Massacre—from 1921 to the present day.
We owe it to Fletcher to remember and to right these brutal wrongs.
Viola Ford Fletcher, one of last survivors of Tulsa race massacre, dies aged 111
Fletcher spent years pushing for justice after deadly racial attack on thriving Black Oklahoma community in 1921
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Don't let them bury my story."
Rest in power to Viola Ford Fletcher, who spent years fighting for justice for all those harmed by the Tulsa Race Massacre—from 1921 to the present day.
We owe it to Fletcher to remember and to right these brutal wrongs.
Rest in power to Viola Ford Fletcher, who spent years fighting for justice for all those harmed by the Tulsa Race Massacre—from 1921 to the present day.
We owe it to Fletcher to remember and to right these brutal wrongs.
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The Large Hadron Collider has a new job. It’s being used to study how information flows through quantum systems — ideas that lie at the core of quantum computing. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine
The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Large Hadron Collider has a new job. It’s being used to study how information flows through quantum systems — ideas that lie at the core of quantum computing. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
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Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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What should we expect this flu season?
Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What should we expect this flu season?
Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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This has been a godsend.
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
udm14.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This has been a godsend.
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Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.
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Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
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Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.
Advocacy groups urge parents to avoid AI toys this holiday season
Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.
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This is bad. How can any university hire people, build facilities, make any plans, if the funding can be arbitrarily removed on a whim from an agency? This goes far beyond currently disfavored topics.
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.
On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows
Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.
www.statnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is bad. How can any university hire people, build facilities, make any plans, if the funding can be arbitrarily removed on a whim from an agency? This goes far beyond currently disfavored topics.
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Amen to this. 🙏
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Amen to this. 🙏
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“In America, we’re supposed to welcome the stranger, not hunt them,” ... He urged MAGA followers to turn off Fox News and realize they’re being lied to."
“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”
“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“In America, we’re supposed to welcome the stranger, not hunt them,” ... He urged MAGA followers to turn off Fox News and realize they’re being lied to."
“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”
“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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"usual suspects" lol
Despite all the evidence that this is your fairly typical comet (albeit extrasolar in nature), that hasn't stopped the usual suspects from speculating that it might be a spacecraft in disguise.
NASA really wants you to know that 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet
A rundown of what we know of the third extrasolar object we’ve identified.
arstechnica.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"usual suspects" lol