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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
For years, disruption has been portrayed as leadership. But moments like the Artemis II mission and governing wins are reminding people what competence actually feels like. Once voters start expecting real and valuable results again, politics changes. At this moment in America, that shift matters.
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The Hunger For Competence
Americans have been yearning for an end to the chaos. What we owe ourselves is something as bold and promising as a lunar mission.
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gracepeace @gracepeace.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
‪Prof. Eliot Jacobson‬ ‪@climatecasino.net‬ Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 16, 2026 ~ a hard wind "... we now need a 'Category 6' rating for hurricanes with winds of 193 mph (311 km/h) or greater, because global warming is expected to cause significant increases in maximum potential intensity."
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Global warming is making the strongest hurricanes stronger » Yale Climate Connections
Recent studies link human-caused warming to more powerful, more destructive storms worldwide.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/04/2026
Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier
Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own
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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Dr. Jennifer Krauel @freetailed.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Some more awesome news from New Jersey! WFP brings the juice 💪🏽💥
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Mejia wins NJ special election to replace Gov. Sherrill in Congress
The victory marks a rapid rise to power for a virtually unknown political figure in New Jersey.
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The patriarchy really has out done itself this week
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Well this is just adorable and touching 🥰🌕🌘 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Artemis commander tells BBC about moment crater named after his late wife
Reid Wiseman’s two daughters were in Nasa’s mission control room for the naming of the “Carroll” crater in honour of the commander’s late wife.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/04/2026
Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care. n.pr/4tgo2YS
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Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth
Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today. This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...
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Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I watched that cringe-filled moment. On behalf of the people who share this rock with you, we’re sorry that HE had to be a part of any of your historic journey.
A tweet featuring an astronaut inside a spacecraft, looking tired or resigned. Overlaid text jokes about being farther from Earth than any human before while still having to hear a particular voice.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get. Good for wildlife, too, when done properly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval
Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW: Raised voices by the community brought back Pride flags at Boston University, for now. The people have the power! www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
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Boston University removed Pride flags. Backlash forced its president to back off
President Melissa Gilliam called it a “pause,” not a reversal, after backlash spread across campus.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/04/2026
"To build the world we want to see, we must describe the world that exists now, as clearly as possible."
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We Need New Language For This Moment
We Need New Language for This Moment
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/04/2026
Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmo…
Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids
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JAKE REPUBLIC @jakerepublic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
MY CAT SUPPORTS HIS GAY DAD AND THE ENTIRE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/04/2026
Thank you everyone who has shared in the joy of this book release day with me. I went through some very hard times while I was writing this book and worried about how that imprinted on the work. To get this warm reception is a joy, and I hope the book gives people joy and a sense of possibility.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2026
I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This may be the best skeet in Bluesky history.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Have you ever seen something so perfect in your entire life? #nasa #artemis
A picture of our beautiful moon
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
My new book debuts today but my excitement about this has been eclipsed by getting an email from my friend in Tehran, who is alive!!!!! I’ve been terrified for weeks. Thank you, universe!!!
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.
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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
[four people on] a spaceship, orbiting around the moon, with millions watching from Earth, geeking out about science & space. Just imagine what we could do if we can galvanize that kind of ingenuity & collective action to solve our challenges here on Earth. 500womenscientists.org/updates/2026...
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The geeks win the week — 500 Women Scientists
The continuing aggression and violence by Israel across the Middle East has not only taken countless human lives, it has also imperiled the foundations of education, research, and scientific progress
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USFCOPHRocks! @natalieusfcoph.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
📢 In observance of Women’s Herstory Month, I wanna give a shout out to trailblazing women scientists. Know that we hear you and see you. Your. Voice. Matters. Who is your fave 👩🏿‍🔬 scientist? Peep this tribute vid. ⬇️ 👀 @aspph.bsky.social, @apha.org, @500womensci.bsky.social
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Niwot Ridge LTER @niwotridgelter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Come work with us! We're hiring summer field technicians to conduct ecology research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains! nwt.lternet.edu/news/apply-n... @official-bweems.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @fieldinclusive.bsky.social @geolatinas.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social #AISES #LGBTSTEM
View of Green Lakes Valley from Niwot Ridge.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It’s actually pretty fucked up that our tax dollars pay for the universal healthcare of our elected government officials who won’t pass universal healthcare…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/03/2026
You might know May Mailman as the woman who took on Harvard on behalf of the Trump administration. But Mailman, a Stephen Miller ally, is also the mastermind of Trump’s most sweeping anti-trans orders— an extraordinary effort to reshape our ideas about who and what men and women are.
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Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman"
May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I’m not surprised, but there are levels of depravity one never adjusts to. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...
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U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/03/2026
It’s weird how much it upsets people when I talk about how the American apparatus has had and continues to have a genocidal attitude toward Black people and its not because they’re upset about the genocidalism, it’s that they don’t want to confront their own normalization of anti-Black violence
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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We are being lied to, constantly, without account or accountability. It is our job to find and know the truth... #resist 500womenscientists.org/updates/2026...
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Its getting pretty dark out here — 500 Women Scientists
Photo Credit: Mason S. iNaturalist Have you ever watched a stand-up comedy special from 10, 15, 20 years ago and realize that the jokes still work, the political and social commentary is evergree...
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LizPu @dizlz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
50+ Groups Condemn Trump Admin for Trying to Sabotage Independent Probe of Alex Pretti Killing www.commondreams.org/news/alex-pr...
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50+ Groups Condemn Trump Admin for Trying to Sabotage Independent Probe of Alex Pretti Killing | Common Dreams
Trump administration accused of sabotaging investigation into killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Groups demand accountability and independent investigations.
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 25/02/2026
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
"The picture released Wednesday by the European Southern Observatory zeros in on a region of cold cosmic gases more than 650 light-years across. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers)." 🔭🧪
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Swirling beauty of the Milky Way galaxy's heart is captured in a new telescope picture
A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 25/02/2026
Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds
Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"the old conferences did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote... “The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry." #WomenInSTEM 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
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The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”
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The Verge @theverge.com · 25/02/2026
Over the past several weeks, as more and more Anthropic executives do interviews on a publicity blitz for Claude, one thing has gotten increasingly clear: Anthropic sure seems to think Claude is alive in some way, shape, or form. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: buff.ly/bfZY4DD
Verge headline: Does Anthropic think Claude is alive? Define ‘alive’
by Hayden Field

Illustration is a polygonal brain with lights shooting out of it, think like the galaxy brain meme
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."
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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“We have this narrative that explicit misogyny is something from the ’50s & ’60s...I think this made clear that explicit misogyny is still out there in science and in academia, it’s just perhaps behind closed doors.” #WomenInSTEM #MeToo 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
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The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/02/2026
HERO 🔥 And I don’t want to hear shit about a censure vote against this man. Rep. Al Greene was ejected from the State of the Union for the sign — “Black People Aren’t Apes.”
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 25/02/2026
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
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ASTRONAUTICAL @starwards.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
SCIENCE, BITCH! A research team led by the University of Waterloo is engineering hungry bacteria to literally eat tumours from the inside out. LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO
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Beating cancer by eating cancer
A research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing a novel tool to treat cancer by engineering hungry bacteria to literally eat tumours from the inside out. Bacteria spores enter the...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 25/02/2026
The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for @ncar-ucar.bsky.social It asks questions such as, who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs? Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab? If you have thoughts, send them to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
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NSF Intent to Restructure Critical Weather Infrastructure
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 25/02/2026
This administration continues its attack on the nation's scientific body, and the cost is our research, our health, and our lives. On March 7th we are rallying in Washington D.C. and nationwide to take back our science and we need YOU! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to learn more! (1/5🧵)
SCIENCE.
HASN'T.
CHANGED.
So why is the Trump administration changing policy?
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Harmful interactions in geoscience field settings are prevalent, and more action needs to be taken. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pervasive underreporting of harmful field interactions hampers intervention efforts - Nature Geoscience
Harmful interactions are prevalent in geoscience fieldwork but often go unreported, hindering efforts to build welcoming and collaborative field cultures.
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