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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 22h

"Sizzling" isn't really a word you ever want to see in your weather forecast

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Sean Richards | Toitū Te Tiriti | they/she @ordinarystarman.com · 23/09/2026

can't believe I get to say this, but I'm now officially Dr Sean Richards! I got profiled by the University website on my journey -- "from gamer to stargazer", and being the first Sāmoan physicist from the University of Auckland. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026...

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From gamer to stargazer: first Sāmoan astrophysicist graduates with PhD – University of Auckland

Dr Sean Richards' research helps astronomers more accurately model the formation of neutron stars and other extreme cosmic phenomena.

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New source for FREE online physics simulations. These look perfect for teaching intro physics. 🎢 ⚛️ 🍎

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Best Physics Simulations for Education

Free interactive tools for learning physics. Perfect for students and teachers.

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

I'm not a video person*, but since I can post videos now, here's my cat singing a little song ✨ *Ironic for someone with a film degree, I know

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An auroral spiral shimmering on the horizin just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An incredible auroral display in Beaver, Alaska, filmed in real-time (NOT sped up) and NOT AI (never will post AI aurora content on my pages). This display occured when I was helping with a NASA sounding rocket mission earlier this year.

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

He's about to interrupt your talk with more of a meow than a question

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My first day with him and my last day with him. He just showed up one day and instantly wanted to be my best friend. I'm gonna be talking about him a lot because he was the main character of my life (I'm obviously just the supporting act) and it still feels so, so deeply unfair that he's gone.

The same orange cat, older and thinner, sitting and looking up

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We said goodbye to the absolute sweetest guy today. My heart got ripped from my chest and things will never be the same again.

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Dr Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

OTD 11 years ago we discovered an event that birthed a whole new field of astronomy ✨ Happy Birthday #GW150914! 🥳 #GravitationalWaves #BlackHoles

Image of Figure 1 of the discovery paper showing an eight panel plot with 2 columns and 4 rows. Each row shows the observed gravitational wave signal over time, reconstructed signal against waveform template over time, the residual over time and frequency time graph showing the signal amplitude in colour map. Each column shows the signal observed in each of the LIGO detectors.

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Time we spent

Wastwater, Lake District
27mm, f/8.0, 1/80 sec

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The fired result 🔥 Congrats Malik! @blackinastro.bsky.social

Teapot featuring orange and blue Hot Jupiter over turquoise landscape with an astronaut peering out of their campsite

Teapot featuring orange and blue Hot Jupiter over turquoise landscape with an astronaut peering out of their campsite (left)

Teapot featuring orange and blue Hot Jupiter over turquoise landscape with an astronaut peering out of their campsite (right detail)

Teapot featuring orange and blue Hot Jupiter over turquoise landscape with an astronaut peering out of their campsite (detail of astronaut)

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

Call for independent Max Planck Research Groups

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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hopefully today you caught wind of the exciting possible dark matter detection at the LZ experiment. But what’s dark matter again? What’s LZ? What does all of this mean??? 1/10 ⚛️🧪

A large silver vat inside a white room, with lighting from the ground suggesting the apparatus is underground.

By Gigaparsec at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34640832

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can do simple and detailed! 🧪🔭🐡

A retro "visit LIGO Hanford" poster showing a car along an arm of the LIGO Hanford interferometer, with mountains in the background

A realistic digital painting of a sunset with a LIGO Hanford arm in the foreground

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The Art of Planetary Science @artofptys.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

TAPS is now on Bluesky! We are excited to announce that TAPS is back for 2027! Submissions are open now. TAPS 2027 will feature both data art and fine art with this year’s theme being “As We Float on By: 50 Golden Years of Voyager”

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I recently discovered Magnitudle and I'm very proud of how close I got on this one

A screenshot from a game where you have to adjust the size of Saturn compared to the size of Earth. The score is 100/100, off by 0%

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Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 31/08/2026

I couldn't *NOT* draw the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on launch day, right? I had to! #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #vector #art

Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope drawing

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m just a girl asking you to pls buy my art, this time it’s beautiful goldleafed glicee prints of my piece Psychedelica. Won’t lie I’m in an extended health crisis and this would be helping me out a lot. I have two for $40 + shipping

Illustration on watercolor paper of a strange figure made of leaves behind datura flowers wrapped with mushrooms and thorns in front of a golden circle which is gold leafed. The gold leaf is mixed tones of gold leaf. There are numerous spiral accents and it has been hatched shaded and the figure has three eyes

Close up showing some of the details in the strange eyes and the iridescence of the gold leaf

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The little dopamine rush from citations has convinced me that they're just social media likes for academics

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was a supporter of Willa B. Farms, an animal rescue in Old Hickory, TN. I hope you will consider a donation in her memory. 💔 www.willabfarms.com/donate

Photo from the 1970s of the most radiant and wonderful Dolly Parton, smiling brilliantly and holding a tiny orange tabby kitten up to her cheek.

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Dr Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

GW170817 gets the limelight because we got lucky* and saw it's electromagnetic counterpart. But #GW190425 is a pair of neutron stars that really puzzled us because their total mass was much larger than ones we see in our galaxy! #NeutronStarWeek 📸 arXiv:2001.01761 @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social

Plot comparing the total mass of GW190425 with known binary neutron stars in the Milky Way. The 10 Galactic systems cluster between about 2.5 and 2.9 solar masses, shown by a grey histogram, dashed black distribution, and green individual measurements. GW190425 lies well above them at roughly 3.4 solar masses. This is figure 5 from arXiv:2001.01761

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faith 🗡🦋 @rythulia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY! ✨ if i could humbly request a share of my art, it would be the best gift ever 💖

a pixel art piece featuring a cloudscape at nighttime. the sky is filled with clouds of various colours: pink, yellow, cyan, blue and dark blue. a half moon is partly covered behind one of the blue clouds, reflecting its light onto them. the black sky is also filled with stars. the scene is meant to evoke a sense of peace, wonder and nostalgia

pixel art featuring a trail going off into the distance. the brown trail goes through a grassy field filled with flowers of various colours (yellow, pink, red and white). in the distance there are some green hills. the blue sky is filled with a giant white cloud, with some light coming from the top left. the text in the middle of the sky reads: “bloom at your own pace”

pixel art of space featuring a blue nebula surrounded by blue stars and a blue planet at the top right. a shooting star is also visible

pixel art featuring a sunset scene. the sun setting on some hills behind a body of water. the water is of a clear blue colour. the sky’s colours are red, purple and dark blue, while the hills are silhouette black. purple clouds make up the skyline

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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft....

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Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost

Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 11/08/2026

From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical illustration, bioart to space imagery, explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack. 150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡. (And no AI!) go.bsky.app/DygrEnH

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Dr. Sarah Biddle Leslie (they/she) @extragalactic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Tarantula's Heart (May 2026) [acrylic on canvas]. I started working on this piece in August 2025. It was inspired by the JWST NIRCam image mosaic of the Tarantula Nebula's star-forming region. I have changed the colour palette to show more pinks and purples. 🐡🔭🎨

Canvas hanging on a wall with the label Tarantula's Heart. Vivid colours on a black background show the nebula.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

⭐️ Restock & Commissions Announcement ⭐️ August 15th, 10am PT Mark your calendars, it's gonna be a good sized drop. Plus, commissions opening! Hanging Planters are now a custom option!! Amyraehill.com/commissions Stay tuned for the full listing preview 🌝

Collage of pottery featuring plates, cups, mugs, jars, and a hanging planter. Designs include Mars, the Moon, Milky Way, rovers, astronauts, and an astronaut vessel.

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Einstein Telescope @einsteintelescope.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The first joint ET-LISA Synergy Project is bringing together 40+ scientists to build shared code for joint gravitational-wave analyses. Combining observations across different frequency bands will reveal more about the early Universe than either detector alone. 🔗https://lnkd.in/ds5puvMb

Corner plot and posterior distributions comparing parameter estimation from LISA alone, the Einstein Telescope (ET) alone, and a joint LISA+ET analysis. Blue represents LISA, orange ET, and green the combined analysis. The joint LISA+ET results show substantially narrower posterior distributions for several parameters, illustrating the improved precision achieved through multiband gravitational-wave observations.

Conceptual illustration of joint LISA and Einstein Telescope observations of a binary black hole system. Three LISA spacecraft form a triangular laser interferometer in space above Earth, while gravitational-wave ripples extend toward the underground Einstein Telescope facility below the surface. Two black circles represent the binary source. The text “LISA × ET” appears prominently at the top.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

Story time! Six years ago, my first book, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), came out. It was fun to write! I got to share all my cosmology fun facts and dig deep into all the ways the universe might end. I had SO much fun with it, I thought, "maybe I should write another book?" 1/?

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Casually googling "Heimlich maneuver for cats" while I watch my cat funnel food into his mouth like he's an excavator

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 06/08/2026

I completed two coasters for our local coaster show, both Project Hail Mary themed. And here they are!

A Moment by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting in iridescent watercolors of astronaut Ryland Grace floating beside a particle collector in front of planet Adrian, a swirl of greens and oranges.

Believe in the Hail Mary by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting in iridescent watercolors of the ship Hail Mary basking in the red swirls of the Petrova Line.

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Escape Pod Isle of Lewis f/16.0 1/13 sec

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The milky way and Mobius Arch - Alabama Hills, eastern Sierra/Owen's Valley, CA, a few weeks ago.

A photo of the milky way behind a granite arch. The milky way is trending to the upper left and part of it can be seen through the arch

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 04/08/2026

For World Space Week 2026, we're teaming up with Pokémon to unite space exploration and a universe of imagination. More to come soon. ⚡https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Branding_and_Partnerships/ESA_and_Pokemon_team_up_to_celebrate_World_Space_Week #WorldSpaceWeek2026 #PokemonxESA

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Views of Assynt

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A late #Caturday timeline cleanse, here's 10 seconds or so of blissed-out Kittywampus. : )

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Alec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Desperate times for Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts, its building up for sale on the open market. A few names I've seen there or its predecessor Third Eye Centre: Anthony Braxton, Keith Tippett, Peter Brötzmann, Fred Frith. Legendary. Sign the petition www.change.org/p/save-the-c...

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Sign the Petition

Save the CCA: Keep 350 Sauchiehall Street as a Public Cultural Asset

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Alec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Noctilucent clouds seen out the skylight last night #noctilucentclouds #astronomy #glasgow

Darkening sky with the luminous, silvery tracery of noctilucent clouds mostly lower, near the horizon. Chimney pots and rooflines of nearby houses at the bottom and some sunset orange glow

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Steve Paluch @brewcitychaser.com · 28/07/2026

Time lapse video of the gnarly shelf cloud that rolled in off of Lake Michigan earlier today as recorded from the top of Chicago's skyline #ilwx

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Scissor-tailed flycatcher parents landing atop the tree housing their nest with three fledglings inside. I've been chasing a shot of these elegant #birds like this for a while. #photography

A male and female scissor-tailed flycatcher immediately next to one another attempt to land on the two bare twigs at the very top of a tree. The birds both have their wings spread wide open, with their exceptionally long tail feathers forked outward into 'v' shapes. The birds have a white head/body, black and white tail feathers, and orange-red accents under their wings. The background is simply blue sky.

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's always a good work day when I get to make a lot of figures (♥️ you matplotlib)

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Astronomer Vera Rubin was born #OTD in 1928. Her work on galactic rotation curves became one of the main pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter and she deserved a Nobel Prize for it. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Vassar College / Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Black and white photo of a young Vera Rubin – likely in her teens or twenties – looking through the eyepiece of a long telescope. She wears a blouse or dress with short sleeves and a grid print. Her wavy hair is shoulder length, and there is a wall behind her composed of two-by-fours and wood boards. Her right hand touches the eyepiece, and her left hand is turning a small adjustment knob on the side of the telescope.

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