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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 06/10/2026

Spark Space is a community center in Gaza that serves displaced youth with resources and classes, and our donations help them stay active as a critical community resource. Donate weekly/monthly if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...

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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 05/10/2026

A weirdly large amount of people have decided to ask me why I'm wearing a mask in public spaces lately, which has led me to adopt a new strategy I like to call Obvious Lies

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 05/10/2026

Every time I lose access to my fridge (yes, it happened again) I feel like the "do not become addicted to water" scene from Mad Max Fury Road

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KNAU Arizona Public Radio @knauazpubradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Flagstaff artist Chip Thomas is one of this year's MacArthur Fellows for his work confronting issues affecting Indigenous communities. We revisit a story about his 2026 art exhibit that reveals the history of Black lumberjacks in northern Arizona. buff.ly/2Omwl4A

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An art exhibit reveals the hidden history of northern Arizona’s Black lumberjacks

An art exhibit at Northern Arizona University explores the legacy of Black workers who helped cement the enduring western icon of the lumberjack in the region.

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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's October 4th -- the Sputnik satellite was flung into orbit 69 years ago today, beginning the age of space exploration. I dug into the Russian archives and got some documents on its creation. Check it out if you're interested.....

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 04/10/2026

A very happy 69th anniversary to Sputnik, which launched on this day in 1957!!

Picture that the post author took of the Sputnik model at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow in 2016.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 04/10/2026

Misread a student's poor handwriting of "planetary formation" as "planetary feminism" and almost started a whole new field of discourse that even bluesky isn't ready for

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The system that many of you on here are upholding and also pretending that people actually use does not exist. Most people do not voluntarily engage the U.S. criminal punishment system in general. So the question should be: what else should be on offer? That's not the question asked online.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Grateful to @amylittlefield.bsky.social for writing a short zine re: her book Killers of Roe that we were able to share with all teach-in participants yesterday. I am linking the PDF here for others who might want to read it: drive.google.com/file/d/1NKVy...

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Killers of Roe_9.17.26.pdf

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 04/10/2026

Spark Space provides internet to freelancers to connect to remote work and rebuild their careers, while also offering community classes and spaces for students to study. Help support their work by kicking in $5 or $10, and doing so weekly if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...

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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 04/10/2026

It's Saturday night, time to post a thread of my all-time favorite live music performances, starting with the iconic Fleetwood Mac performance of Tusk with the USC marching band: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrRV...

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Fleetwood Mac "The Dance" TUSK

YouTube video by evie1942

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 03/10/2026

I may have peaked with my slide design here

The four galilean satellites lined up to scale by size, from Ganymede, the largest, on the left to Europa, the smallest, on the right. They are lined up so that they overlap slightly. This is derived from a lovely image from the planetary society. In front of the satellites is the text: Galilean Satellites. It is, of course, in hot pink barbie font.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 03/10/2026

Spark Space has done so much for their community, including providing free space for students to study, in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable. They continue on with our help! Help support their work by kicking in $5 or $10, and doing so weekly if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...

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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The new book I co-edited with @juliango.bsky.social, IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF POLICING, is now shipping from @dukepress.bsky.social. Order your copy here: dukeupress.edu/imperial-ent...

Cover of Imperial Entanglements of Policing (red with black netting and white letters)

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 03/10/2026

Wild Friday night plans of doing a panel about Pluto for 100 Hours of Astronomy. Tune in if you're interested: www.youtube.com/live/nPul2Wr...

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Pluto: From discovery to rediscovery

YouTube video by IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 02/10/2026

Explaining to my boss that I need to WFH some days because occasionally standing up and belting Stan Rogers songs makes me more productive

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the second fiscal year in a row, NASA awarded ~20% fewer grants than the recent historical average. That's about 500 fewer grants going out to scientists around the country.

Line chart showing the running sum of new grant awards in FY 2026 compared to the average between 2021-2025, which is about 20% higher.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 02/10/2026

Working on slides for my planetary geology class and am once again going through my pictures of Apollo astronauts making what I can only describe as "the fuckboy face."

Gene Cernan from Apollo 17 covered in lunar dirt and half-undressed from the EVA suit. The slightly blurry focus plus the dirt plus his facial expression gives the impression that he is about to send a "you up?" text.

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Planetary Crater Consortium @planetarycraters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Crater Fact Friday ☄️ DID YOU KNOW ☄️ that Meteor Crater in Arizona is one of the best-preserved impact craters on Earth? During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA astronauts trained in the crater to prepare for the Apollo missions to the Moon, and ongoing field training for astronauts continues to this day.

Meteor Crater, Arizona in plan view. The crater is ~1 km across and slightly polygonal. Layers of exposed limestone and sandstone are visible just beneath the crater rim, as are large stone blocks excavated by the impact. From NASA Earth Observatory

Eugene Shoemaker training astronauts at Meteor Crater, Arizona, in the 1960s.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 30/09/2026

Got paid for a side gig today and sent the money to Spark Space - they’re on the ground doing the work to sustain a safe space for their community, and we can help them stay open:

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 01/10/2026

Almost there to keep a community center in Gaza open another week 💛 Spark serves displaced youth with resources and classes so they can rebuild their lives. This, too, is life-preserving. Our ask? Click “weekly/monthly" on something SMALL. 237/300 by Sunday. chuffed.org/project/spar...

An artistic banner with an illustration of a white clay lamp with a yellow flame, against a deep magenta background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amirite tho

White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite

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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: A new NASA directive calls for relaxing “planetary protection” regulations to facilitate and modernize future missions to the Red Planet. Some experts say the move is savvy; others call it “idiocy.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

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NASA directive might increase the odds of contaminating Mars

The new push loosens U.S. regulations for sterilizing spacecraft bound for the Red Planet and calls for modernizing the science of “planetary protection”

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 01/10/2026

It is Thursday once again! Which means it's time for the The Search for Planet 9, my radio show, coming up at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET! Get ready for some fun electronica, and some fundraising as we try to keep the station going: 1190.radio

Graphic that reads: The Search for Planet 9, 1 pm MT on Thursdays. Listen at 1190.radio

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Bruce Macintosh @bmacastro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This graph represents probably more than a hundred thousand hours of work by our community. Every year when I look at it I think our current proposal model is broken.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 01/10/2026

Everyone needs to remember skull asteroid!!!

Radar image of skull asteroid 2015 TB145. Looks remarkably like a skull

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 01/10/2026

My students' second midterm is on October 29.... need to think of a spooky planetary science exam question

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s October 1st

David Lynch. Next to him is a graphic with a Halloween jack-o-lantern and the text, “Devil’s Night.”

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 01/10/2026

Watched a full hour of orientation videos for work and I’m going to turn into the joke-[remembers what I just learned] do yoga and try exercise

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Google Earth's historical satellite view is an amazing research tool. Here's the much-contested and dangerous Rubaya Mine in eastern Congo in 2010 and 2025:

Satellite view of Rubaya in 2010: a patchwork of small green and brown farm fields on rolling hills, with a winding road, a small village, and only a tiny patch of exposed soil at lower right.

Satellite view of Rubaya, DR Congo, in 2025: a large bare, orange-and-tan scar of open-pit mining cuts through green hills, with eroded gullies radiating outward and a village at upper left.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saturn: July 2, 2014 - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/nWLXBi

This is a true color view of Saturn. Saturn's north polar hexagon stands out prominently while the rings encircle the planet.

This composite is made of images that were taken by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on July 02, 2014 and received on Earth July 03, 2014. The camera was pointing toward SATURN at approximately 1,815,382 miles (2,921,574 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the red, green, and blue filters.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans
about.me/valerieklavans

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 30/09/2026

Got paid for a side gig today and sent the money to Spark Space - they’re on the ground doing the work to sustain a safe space for their community, and we can help them stay open:

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seems like fewer, but larger, nuclear reactors would be more efficient but YOLO. In any case, the USA currently has fewer than 100 (96 in March) nuclear reactors operating so this literally a proposed 5x increase in nuclear reactors. On public land. For a bubble.

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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what about in the ground

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/09/2026

Youth opened Spark to bring hope to the community. And hope is not an abstract feeling. A "weekly/monthly” five enables this community center to stay open and support displaced youth to learn skills and reconstruct their lives, careers, futures. 91/300 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/spar...

An artistic banner with an illustration of a sunflower on a deep pink background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

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Eos @eos.org · 29/09/2026

NASA has ignored recommended funding levels for planetary research & analysis for 15 years, according to a new investigative report by Mark Sykes (@coop.planetary-research.org). And for FY2025, it hasn’t even spent 50% of what it budgeted for R&A. 🧪🪐🔭 eos.org/research-and...

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NASA has Underspent on Research and Analysis for 15 Years - Eos

Spending for NASA’s research and analysis programs has remained relatively flat for 15 years, ignoring recommendations from community-led decadal surveys and directives by Congress.

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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 29/09/2026

feels like a good time to recirculate my story about the ubiquity of rape culture, unfortunately

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It's everywhere

Rape culture, Cyberpunk 2077, and would-be Senators

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026

I love how every year at least one paper comes out with a completely new way to explain the differences in Saturn's mid-sized moons, and everyone just has to go

Guy throwing up his hands saying "I guess!"

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

I haven't had anything to add re: Cornell, because I don't think anyone wants to use this space to reckon with the fact that none of these systems are meant to help you, unless you are a university seeking to minimize your legal exposure. It's not fair to ask strangers to reckon with that here.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026

Working on my Mars slides for class, which means it's time to bring back my favorite slide I've ever made:

The "we're so back/it's so over meme" that has been edited so the x-axis is time from 1960 through 2040. The plot oscillates semi-sinusoidally between positive (we're so back) and negative (it's so over). It's labeled Mars Exploration Timeline.

The start of the timeline is small oscillations close to zero. These are labeled: first Soviet attempts (note: none of the Soviet attempts worked but they sure tried). The steep positive peak next to it, we're back, is labeled Viking landers. Then a massive negative, it's so over, is labeled: everyone crashes in the 90s. Look up Mars exploration to learn more about this. Then an even larger positive spike, we're so back, is for Curiosity and the other Mars rovers. Then a positive/negative combined spike is labeled Mars 2020 (for various reasons). Then a last negative, it's over (real) is labeled Mars Sample Return. This is accurate.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026

It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 28/09/2026

CHOOSE HOPE 💚 I'll be real. The reason I'm running this membership drive for the giving circle is that every family is facing an emergency, and support is down by 35%. Views on this post are down by the same amount. Read this. Just a 5. Make it recurring: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A colorful graphic with text: what can 5 dollars do if you click weekly or monthly? Ensure a lifeline for 6 families and a displacement camp of 15 more. On the side are three coffee cups arranged in a cycle, labeled small, steady, sustainable. in the center is the word 'survival.'

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026

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