iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Venus setting behind the Rocky Mountains tonight. Good night friends.

City lights in the middle ground. Silhouette of the mountains against a darkening sky behind, with Venus, a small point of light, not far above in the center of the image.

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

getting some practice with the planetarium

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Mercury over crescent moon (1.43 days old, 2.2% illuminated) #photography #night

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The last sentence of the mimesis section is a very cool idea

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My favorite bird photo to date. 4 Harlequin Ducks (2 male, 2 female), Great Black-backed Gull, 2 American Herring Gulls in flight. 11/24, #Acadia National Park. #photography #birding #seabirds

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

11/11/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

stepping out at 0230 to get
the measure of the stars

very still - very clear
massive, furious

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Naztronomy @naztronomy.com · 07/11/2025

The Crescent Nebula taken over 5 minutes in June and July. This time, I caught a hint of the Soap Bubble! The starless version shows it more clearly. Higher res version on astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/ni99aj #astronomy #astrophotography #space #Nebula

Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, taken over 5 nights and processed in Siril and Pixinsight.

Starless version of the Crescent Nebula which shows the soap bubble a little bit better.

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Can I share this curious bit of Faroese art factoid. The first Faroese artist Díðrikur á Skarvanesi died in obscurity, but his illustration of Faroese breeding birds (approx 1830s) is truly unique and (mayb biased) but I think this great skua is particularly beautiful 🌍🧪 #ornithology #teamskua #art

Photograph of painting by Díðrikur á Skarvanesi depicting most of the Faroese breeding birds. Painted approximately in 1830. His paintings are now on display in the national museum and were discovered long after his death.

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

a wonderful little PBS documentary on dark skies in the @appmtnclub.bsky.social's 100-Mile Wilderness, featuring a couple of people I volunteer with at Dark Sky Maine www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ybl...

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Maine’s Dark Sky | Windows to the Wild

YouTube video by New Hampshire PBS

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This is amazing, and beautifully illustrated too. I love the genre of storytelling that focuses on the lives of individual animals.

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I'm drowning in a sea of thinkpieces on AI, but I really liked this one, on how big databases tend to homogenize knowledge, effacing traditional and indigenous ways of thinking. Reminds me of Lyotard's ideas about how the criterion for knowledge in postmodernity becomes efficiency rather than truth.

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Also: journalists, writers, philosophers, and others working at the nature-society interface 👇

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I wrote a piece for the Oxford Literary Review's online supplement on the cultural significance of darkness and how our relationship to the night has changed in modern times—from theology and poetry to the Copernican Revolution and the proliferation of light pollution in the contemporary world.

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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

From @auralflaneur.bsky.social - what can Foucault's prison activism and Derrida's anti-Apartheid advocacy tell us about lived experience testimony in the fight to abolish modern day slavery? olrsupplement.com/2025/09/19/l...

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Lived Experience Testimony and Engaged Intellectuals - The OLR Supplement

Re-thinks the practice and policy surrounding lived experience testimony, drawing on Foucault and Derrida's activism

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

in Acadia National Park Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, instax film #photography #instantfilm #hiking #nationalparks

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

rocks, trees, #ICM lights a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, digital double exposure, instax film scan, cropped #photography #abstract #instantfilm

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🧵 On 14 July 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announced to have detected GW231123, a gravitational wave signal generated by the merger of the two most massive black holes ever observed. With masses of approximately 100 and 140 times that of the Sun, these cosmic giants 🔭 🧪 #cosmology

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

ghost trees Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, digital double exposure, instax film #photography #nature #instantfilm

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

July 5 - 6 is World Firefly Day! Like a lot of insects fireflies are threatened by our actions. 🧪🐡Check out fireflyersinternational.net to find out how you can help gather data on these magical animals & help scientists track their populations. My #linocut print shows 3 fireflies (Photinus pyralis,

My linocut showing 3 fireflies in green grass against a dark blue starry sky. Each firefly has orange on its upper body and its lower body is surrounded by a globe of light to show it is glowing, printed in glow in the dark ink.

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

3.2-second exposure of lights reflected in water, looks like mountains Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4 #photography #ICM

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Interesting stuff. I wonder what a similar study might show with regard to how artificial lighting practices driven by social and economic demands in urban areas have affected nocturnal evolutionary trends over the last century or two.

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Alastair Williams @alastairwilliams.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The solar eclipse of 1869, photographed by Henry Morton and published in the first ever edition of Nature. #history #historyofastronomy #photography #space

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Yang Hui He speculated that AI might come to act like a math-oracle, but mathematicians would still be needed to figure out which statements the "oracle" proclaimed were actually important -- and explain that to people too.

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

For the scientifically minded, here is the study discussed in the article. It shows that the night sky got on average almost 10% brighter per year from 2011 to 2022... #astronomy #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars from 2011 to 2022

Observations of the night sky by citizen scientists show that it is rapidly getting brighter due to light pollution.

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This 2023 article opens by citing Henry W. Longfellow: "There is no light in earth or heaven / But the cold light of stars." Longfellow's nights in 19th-century Boston would have been full of stars, but now many of them are disappearing. @darkskyintl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Light pollution rapidly reducing number of stars visible to naked eye, study finds

Research suggests if trend continues, view of Orion’s belt will disappear due to glow from artificial lighting

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Kate @pocketseeds.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Finally got my workspace up and running in the new house! Making some test prints with the new setup. #cyanotype #joshuatree #altprocess

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Did something just hit Saturn? Possibly! 🔭 earthsky.org/space/did-sp...

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Did something just hit Saturn? See the image here!

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

some pink moss at Acadia National Park Sony a6300, Samyang 12mm f/2, instax film #photography #instantfilm #hiking #nationalparks

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John Jarosz @thejohnjarosz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

#BlueSkyArtShow #sideways Up the side of the mountain at the Bristlecone Pine Forest in CA #photography #travelphotography #largeformat 4x5 Ektachrome #california #landscapephotography

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Holga Pics @holgapics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Dragons (Wyrm) Head #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #polaroid i-2 ##instantphotography #Rhossili #cutuppolaroid #walk #polaroiditype #blackandwhitephotography www.visitwales.com/attraction/h...

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Andrew Kingston @andrewkingstons.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

one third of humanity can't see the Milky Way www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Sony a6300, Samyang 12mm f/2.0 #photography #astrophotography #savethenight #darksky

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Jim Rohan @jimrohanjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"Last of the Trees". An image from my "Film is Dead" zine and previous photo exhibit in NYC. "Film is Dead" was (and still is) all about making images with fifty or sixty year old film. In the last few years, I've somehow managed to grow older than the film. 😉 #filmphotography #expiredfilm

Black and white square image. Storm damaged trees, bare or nearly bare, sit along the edge of an eroding cliff. The image shows several defects from using ill-stored film that was about sixty years old.

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