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Burr Ito

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Geophysicist | Astrophysicist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium. Fluid Dynamics of Rotation | Helio/Asteroseismology | Planetary Fluid Cores. Mostly pics of clouds and timelapses. All media by me. He/him.

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Burr Ito @ututuy.org · Nov 20

The #core of the #Earth spins around a slightly different axis compared to the #mantle. In this animation we start in a space frame and switch gradually to the frame spinning with the mantle. In that frame the core appears to wobble. The mantle precesses and the core, being fluid, lags a bit. 🧪 🔭

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Hewlett Packard @hardpaella.bsky.social · 10d

No les había compartido por acá 'FUTURO PERFECTO'. Obra de Mona Herbe, para la Bienal de arte de Bogotá y de la cual hice parte como Productor técnico y como artista.
Vayan a verla al Museo de Artes Escénicas de la Jorge Tadeo Lozano, de lunes a viernes de 10am a 6pm y sábados de 10am a 4pm.

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Camarade Romain @redblueblur25.bsky.social · 1d

For your personal use : THE GUY

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Oct 1

Text message screenshot:

Hey can I have the guy
I'm mad at someone

Yes hold on

Image of a dude made out of emojis jacking off and presenting a middle finger

here you go

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 1d

A sorry record. This is one reason I don’t care for the Nobel prizes. Three others being:

1) promotes a “great man” view of scientific progress, whereas science is best understood and celebrated as a collective, community activity.
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Graph showing the low and declining percentage of physics Nobel prizes awarded to women. 2.18% as of 2025, despite the fact that 15% of physics phds have been awarded to women over the last 50 years.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Aad Brinkman 🍉 🟥 @aadbrinkman.bsky.social · 3d

Massaal Rode Lijn-protest in Amsterdam, organisatie schat 250.000 betogers - nos.nl/l/2585280

Zonder Prinsenvlaggen, zonder Hitlergroeten, zonder gezichtsbedekking, zonder geweld.

Massaal Rode Lijn-protest in Amsterdam, organisatie schat 250.000 betogers

De demonstranten eisen actie van de regering tegen Israël. Amsterdam is volgestroomd met mensen in rode kleding en met rode paraplu's.

nos.nl

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Burr Ito @ututuy.org · 3d

#SilentSunday

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Belgian Climate Centre @climatecentrebe.bsky.social · 4d

Do climate marches have impact? Science says yes. They move politicians, shift media coverage, and influence votes. Speaking of action: Brussels climate march Sunday:
👉 coalitionclimat.be/marche-climat
🔗 Study: doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101498

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Dr. Evan J. Gowan @evangowan.bsky.social · 5d

For no reason at all, I wanted to point out that Fediscience is a great, independent social media network for scientists. We have some nice conversations there! fediscience.org/about

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phylan @phylan.website · 6d

the bors "I think we should improve society somewhat" cartoon except society is replaced with "bsky" and "and yet you participate in it!" is replaced with "WAFFLES"

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 8d

People always say "stop doomscrolling," nobody ever says "stop the Doom"

Doesn't even cross their minds.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 7d

🆕 The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable 🪐

On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Scientific illustration showing a cross-section of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It features three labelled layers: An ice shell at the top, with visible cracks releasing jets of water vapour into space; an ocean in the middle, depicted as a large body of water beneath the ice; a rocky core at the bottom, shown emitting heat that may drive the jets. In the background, Saturn and its rings are visible in space.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 7d

This is such an important point. All these AI companies present a false image of benevolence. It is a deeply narcissistic industry

Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 8d

If they really cared about accelerating scientific research they'd be pouring all their time and resources into fighting the Trump admin's gargantuan cuts to public education and research grants

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scare-ah 🕸️ @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 22d

“the kind of beauty you have to pretend not to see”

Seth Landman
in Diagram

APPEAL
Seth Landman
I said yes but I felt this no in me
I heard a train and it was gone
I was waiting to talk and a voice said are you ok
I said yes
but there was a crying buzzing
I am not I said
and I explained the train and the hills behind it subtle nature painting everlasting love pouring rain blurring the world sometimes it is so clear you ask
how many things are living in the fields I am all alone here
I explained how everyone is
and there was so much concern and crickets everywhere in Kansas City and Northampton, Massachusetts in the air in the folds of travel passing a flask
in the white noise of the river at night
I made a shape with my hands approximating the action of a popping seed a fern that folds
the kind of beauty you have to pretend not to see hold your hand out move your feet
everything is equalizing in the fields in the cellar settling in blood
I'm not really here right now though I remember it was nice to walk with you
hmmm
it's so quiet out here tonight
did I fail you in some way
I asked

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Harold Tobin @haroldtobin.bsky.social · 10d

Yokonami melange, a paleo-megathrust, and so, so much chert, near Kure, Shikoku Island, Japan

Two geologists pointing out enormous coastal outcrops of steeply-dipping ribbon chert.

Closer view of the folded and steeply dipping cherts, with two geologists standing on outcrop.

Down-looking view of block-in-matrix melange of scaly mudstones with sandstone blocks.

Outcrop photo of brittle fault rocks at the top of the Yokonami melange, with pencil for scale. This has been interpreted as a fossil plate boundary fault zone.

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Ludmila Carone @exotides.bsky.social · 10d

I'm begging ppl to read, actually read. Yeah, Orwell comes to mind but holy shit.

There is a reasom that these shitheads defund sociologists, political scientists and historians. They would tell them a lot about their terrible phantasies.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

“If we cannot even in principle be free from external manipulation and anti-scientific claims — and instead remain passive … and welcome corrosive industry frames into our computer systems, our scientific literature, and our classrooms — then we have failed as scientists and as educators.”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 10d

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 10d

""Llegué a Bogotá. Ya no tengo visa para viajar a EE.UU. No me importa", reaccionó el presidente colombiano. "La sede de Naciones Unidas no puede continuar en Nueva York", agregó."

Petro responde a EE.UU. que la retirada de su visa viola el derecho internacional y las normas de inmunidad de la ONU

"Llegué a Bogotá. Ya no tengo visa para viajar a EE.UU. No me importa", reaccionó el presidente colombiano. "La sede de Naciones Unidas no puede continuar en Nueva York", agregó. EE.UU. dice que instó...

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Daniel Borrero @dbphys.bsky.social · 11d

Complete warzone over here in #Portland!

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 13d

🌀The stratospheric polar vortex is a belt of high-speed cyclonic winds around 12-20km high over the poles. When temperatures in the stratosphere – which contains the ozone layer – start rising in the southern spring, the ozone hole over the Antarctic grows.

2025 ozone: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 15d

Oh did you guys think the rapture thing didn’t pan out? No no it happened. It’s only 144,000 people. You… you didn’t think you’d KNOW any of the 144,000 most morally upright people in the world did you

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Christoph Schmidt @christophschmidt.bsky.social · 15d

Berend Vonk in @trouw.nl, woensdag.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 15d

Wait a minute.

Why aren't we celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's dissertation.

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Burr Ito @ututuy.org · 15d

Long way home