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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 5h

Ladies and gentlemen, our NASA Administrator

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 5h

Stomiidae !!

Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 21h

If you like midwater zooms as much as I do, check out the #designingthefuture2 expedition! Stomiidae from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 454 #MarineLife

Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 16h

We are working remotely due to the "lapse in funding" and electricians just showed up in our server room on center to do some scheduled rewiring.

They are turning off the breakers in the service panel taking down racks of servers without a clean shutdown and killing our remote-access host.

a man in a shirt and tie is laughing in a kitchen with his hands in the air .

ALT: a man in a shirt and tie is laughing in a kitchen with his hands in the air .

media.tenor.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19h

Friends, please join me in welcoming the Manta Trust to Bluesky! They’ve left Twitter and are setting up shop here.

🧪🌎🦑🦈 #SciComm

Manta Trust @mantatrust.bsky.social · 21h

Some of our ocean’s most iconic species are vanishing — whale sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks, manta and devil rays.

Join us in calling for action. Sign the petition today: only.one/act/cites-2025

#CITESCoP20 #SaveTheMantas

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 1d

Archival research finds evidence that Shackleton was well aware of the weaknesses of Endurance even before his expedition set sail for Antarctica.

Why did Endurance sink? | Polar Record | Cambridge Core

Why did Endurance sink? - Volume 61

www.cambridge.org

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Richard L Pastore 📚🏳️‍🌈 @rlpastore.bsky.social · 1d

PreMed class:

Instructor: Now for your last and most critical assignment.

Tomorrow’s final exam will begin at 8:00AM and you must be there or you will be fined; however, we won’t start the exam for at least an hour. Just sit in the waiting room.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 2d

Priceless

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 3d

Some video of our recent #ARISS contact from station K6DUE, at the #NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, linking mission commander Zena Cardman on the #ISS with the crew of the #EVNAUTILUS in the mid-Pacific.

Ocean Exploration Trust @nautiluslive.org · 5d

During NA175 mapping the waters of the Central #Pacific, the team aboard #EVNautilus had the privilege of connecting with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #Astronaut (and #CorpsofExploration member) Zena Cardman on the #InternationalSpaceStation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=42-2...

From Space to Sea: A Conversation with an Astronaut | Nautilus Live

YouTube video by EVNautilus

www.youtube.com

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 3d

They found my Christmas lights.

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 5d

I always think of her as the British Margaret Dumont.

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 5d

Before Andrew, they frequently constructed homes in Florida without hurricane straps securing the roof. They were held on by gravity alone.

Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 5d

Mind the pedestrian, Richard!

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 6d

OK DC commuters. What are the yellow blooms along the shoulder of the BW parkway in the fall. Some sp. of Helianthus? #nativeplants

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 6d

Is this the Federal Government or the Sopranos?

Trump said he would be meeting with Vought, the head of the OMB, to see which programs Vought "recommends to be cut." The White House moved to pause or cancel billions in funding for projects in blue states on Wednesday, ramping up pressure on Dems.

Government shutdown live updates as funding impasse stretches into second day

The 2025 government shutdown entered its second day on Thursday with no signs of an imminent resolution. Follow live updates here.

www.cbsnews.com

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Richard L Pastore 📚🏳️‍🌈 @rlpastore.bsky.social · 7d

Well, it’s October.
🌱 #bloomscrolling

Yellow chrysanthemums are coming into bloom with about half fully open

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know - An incredibly rich man with his own spacecraft ? not very believable.

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 7d

I saw an animation of the two vortices off the US coast starting to Fugiwara and then they merged into one and jetted off the plot to the east. I thought at the time "that can't be good."

Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 7d

The Sirens are restless...

“Very Strange” – Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Behaving Unusually

Titan’s atmosphere tilts and shifts seasonally. The discovery shapes future exploration. Researchers at the University of Bristol have uncovered unusual behavior in Titan’s atmosphere for the first ti...

scitechdaily.com

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 8d

Either it was a typo or you don't even understand your own post. Try again.

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 8d

This is as effective as a sternly worded rebuke from Susan Collins. They are illegally implementing the PBR with no Congressional oversight, and folks are standing around taking pictures. Don't write reports, DO SOMETHING. We are being gutted here at NASA.

Senate Report: The Destruction of NASA's Mission

The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency

nasawatch.com

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Tommy Owens @tommyowens.bsky.social · 8d

Embarrassment requires self-awareness

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 11d

Sunset on Hurricane Humberto.

A Category 5 monster.

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planktonteuta.bsky.social @planktonteuta.bsky.social · 13d

🌊 some in situ PACE action. Our amazing teams supporting our lady up there .

Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 13d

During this cruise, we are working together with another #NASA team, merging out #PACE and #NIGHTBLUE projects interests. We are looking at the LIDAR data, comparing it to echosounder and net zooplankton data. Go #NASA teams!!

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Sang-Ki Lee @sklee621.bsky.social · 11d

By using CMIP6 projection, and a coastal hydrodynamic model, a new study found ~ 30cm increase in the coastal sea level along the US Gulf and East Coasts by 2050, which can be translated into an increase in sunny day flooding by 10 days per year. 🌊🧪 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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