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William G. Lamb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @astrolamb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sometimes I want to complain about the trains but then I remember Americans are on this website

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bin Day cometh.

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William G. Lamb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @astrolamb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just don't order the MAHA Blast...

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William G. Lamb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @astrolamb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I made it to the honorable mentions! I AM SO NASHVILLE 🤠 (…and I’m leaving in three weeks)

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Iain MacGilleBhràith @aeonmach.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Given they HAVE (surprisingly) included Welsh as being acceptable alongside English suggests this is sheer ignorance & stupidity driven by their core racism. *Or* they regard Irish as “foreign” and - common to Anglo-British views - Sc. Gaelic as being just a dialect thereof. Either way F. Off.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 13/07/2026

Celebrating Sam Neill and one of my fav movies: The Dish 📡 5 min scene from them playing cricket atop Murriyang (CSIRO Parkes radio telescope) to Apollo 11's lift off. They made this scene so well. The camera shot pauses on faces dramatically as the rocket launches. Gives me goosebumps still!

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"We're A Professional Unit!" | The Launch Of Apollo 11 | The Dish

YouTube video by Working Dog Productions

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

There is no America, only Zuul!

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As you boil in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses. Houses funded on the back of lies/misinformation they helped propagate.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The RAS is disappointed by the response to its request with the @iop.org for a full impact assessment of the proposed cuts to astronomy, particle physics and nuclear physics. RAS President @jim-wild.bsky.social said the reply from @ukri.org was "astoundingly complacent given what is at stake". ⤵️

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Fellows shall not act or fail to act in any way which would […] bring the Society into disrepute." But this morning ministers condemned Elon Musk FRS for enabling violence on the streets of Belfast. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Would the @royalsociety.org like to comment?

Extract from linked article reads:

"Violence in Belfast that forced families to flee their homes on Tuesday night was fuelled by online commentators who would struggle to find the city on the map, Northern Ireland’s justice minister has said.

The condemnation by Naomi Long came as a UK cabinet minister said that Elon Musk also had a responsibility “not to stoke grievance”. The billionaire owner of X had used his own account to share images of a horrific knife attack in Belfast on Monday and had amplified far-right messaging about it."

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/06/2026

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

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Tech Influence Watch

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

As part of the BiA x Astrobites collaboration for Black Space Week, Astrobites would like to highlight those in the BiA community who will be attending AAS and presenting! To be considered, please fill out the Google form linked in the QR code. 🔭 🌌

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Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A little under 3 weeks left for #BlackSpaceWeek2026!! We have so many exciting events lined up for you all, we can’t wait to see you there 🥰🥰 As always registration link is in the bio!

Black In Astro calendar describing a list of events for the week of Juneteenth (June 14-20). The backdrop is a dark purple with stars, a CD, and a cassette tape. The title of the flyer reads as follows: “Space Rhythms: Voices of a Shared Cosmos.” The events are then listed in chronological order with the dates going down vertically and to the right is the corresponding day of the week and a bullet point to summarize the event. From top to bottom, left to right, they read: June 14 Volume 1: Sunday #StellarSoundcheck. Social Media Roll Call, “Meet the Team” Virtual Mixer. June 15 Volume 2: Monday #BroadcastingtheStars. STEM Education and Outreach Panel. June 16 Volume 3: Tuesday #RaiseYourVoice. Policy and Advocacy Panel. June 17 Volume 4: Wednesday #CelestialCompositions. Undergraduate and Graduate Research Showcases. June 18 Volume 5: Thursday #CosmicRemix. Astro art competition and Fireside Chat with Shaniya Jarrett. June 19 Volume 6: Friday #UniversalAccess. Lets talk accessibility in science. June 20 Volume 7: Saturday #OutInOrbit. Perspectives of the Artemis generation and Sally’s Night.

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William G. Lamb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @astrolamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thinking of getting a pet as an academic? 🐈 🧪 🔭 I was interviewed by @keepitonthehdl.bsky.social for @nature.com about pet ownership as an academic. There's some great advice! A photo of WiggleWorm didn't make the final edit, so here he is for bluesky instead 😻 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A portrait of William sitting on a couch with a laptop. WiggleWorm, his orange cat, is curled up on his lap, between him and his laptop. WiggleWorm is looking directly at the laptop screen.

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If you work in a university, please consider signing this petition against the destruction of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham. I doubt it’ll do much good, but the staff deserve all the positive words they can get. nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...

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Save Nottingham Physics and Astronomy

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11/05/2026

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "AI art can fuck off"

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/01/2026

All three statements are true at the same time—

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Kirsten Amy @kirstenp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Evergreen headline.

Old BBC headline that reads: Baffling and concerning — what is wrong with England?

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Dr Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy #BlackHoleWeek! 🖤 My black hole chonk chart is back, now with real LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data ✨ More gravitational-wave detections are on the way, so this chart may need another update very soon. 😎 #BlackHoles #GravitationalWaves #SciComm @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social

An infographic titled “How BIG are the BLACK HOLES we find with GRAVITATIONAL WAVES?” by @astronerdika. The graphic is a playful “black hole chonk chart” showing black hole masses in units of solar masses, written as M☉, where M☉ means the mass of the Sun. The top half categorises black holes by mass, with each category shown as a curled-up black cat that grows larger from left to right.

The categories from left to right are:

1. “<5 M☉”

* Labeled “smol”
* Tiny curled-up black cat
* Arrow pointing left: “THIS WAY TO NEUTRON STARS”
* Example on the graph: “Big component of GW230529 ~3.6 M☉”

2. “~10 M☉”

* Labeled “basic”
* Small curled-up black cat
* Annotation: “LOTS OF BLACK HOLES” with an arrow pointing to this range
* The population curve rises steeply and peaks around here

3. “~35–45 M☉”

* Labeled “hefty”
* Larger curled-up black cat
* Sits near a smaller bump in the population curve

4. “>60 M☉”

* Labeled “chonky”
* Large curled-up black cat
* Nearby annotation: “FORBIDDEN TERRITORY? can these even be made from the collapse of star cores?!”
* Example: “Components of GW190521 ~85 M☉ + ~66 M☉”

5. “>100 M☉”

* Labeled “oh lawd”
* Very large curled-up black cat overlapping the panels
* Arrow pointing right: “THIS WAY TO INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLES”
* Example: “Components of GW231123 ~137 M☉ + ~103 M☉”

Below the categories is a graph of the inferred black hole population. The horizontal axis is labeled from 3 M☉ to 120 M☉. The vertical axis is labeled “log scale.” The population rises sharply around 5–10 M☉, peaks in the “basic” range, then declines toward higher masses, with a smaller bump around the “hefty” range. Dashed pale pink lines show an uncertainty band.

Text along the curve reads: “Real data from the LVK collaboration! Check out the paper: arXiv:2508.18083.” The style is hand-drawn, humorous, and inspired by the “Chonky Cat” meme.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🔥

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We asked Reform a very simple question three times. But they refused to answer.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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William G. Lamb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @astrolamb.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I've had this independently confirmed and it's really bad 🔭🧪

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 07/04/2026

so, uh, how we all doin

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Because of woke

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William G. Lamb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @astrolamb.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Bach o astronomi cymraeg yma 🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 03/03/2026

“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”. Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US... But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

“time to put on Gordon Lightfoot and get shit done” is a sentence I just said to myself

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/02/2026

put a Welsh folk back on the throne

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A bit of good news this week…Y’all may remember this graphic I made, showcasing what the President’s budget request would do to NASA’s science fleet (tldr it would decimate it). Well the house just passed a bill that soundly rejects these cuts, keeping NASA funding roughly the same as last year🧪🔭

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 23/12/2025

This week's cover story: The 2025 Nashvillians of the Year are the people behind Music City MigraWatch. These everyday citizens document ICE in their own communities.

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Nashvillians of the Year: Music City MigraWatch

Everyday citizens document ICE, warn neighbors in effort to resist mass deportations in their own communities

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William G. Lamb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @astrolamb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I'm very excited to announce our latest paper! 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2511.09659 We investigate the Gaussian assumption for an astrophysical gravitational wave background in a pulsar timing array 🌊 Note: our result can also be generalised to LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA and LISA astrophysical GWBs too! 🔭☄️🧪⚛️ (1/4)

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 14/11/2025

Astronomer here. Can confirm: Aliens are queer AF. 👽 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Me, taking a selfie holding up the peace sign with my fingers and wearing a tshirt that shows a ufo with beans coming out below it in pride colours

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Silly @texasdemocrats.bsky.social — y’all should know you’re only allowed to skip town to block votes when you’re covering up for powerful pedophile rings, not when you’re trying to save democracy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We’re starting to think it was never about protecting kids

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Paul Hayward @paulhayward.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/07/2025

ALL CAPS THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ... GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

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Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

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William G. Lamb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @astrolamb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I am one of those younger astronomers, lolololol 🌊

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Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Happy #BlackSpaceWeek to all those who celebrate!! As per usual, we’re starting off with our roll call. If you’re a Black person who does Space-related things, introduce yourself and tell us what cool things you do using the hashtag #BSW2025

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a cartoon character with a pirate hat says " roll call "

ALT: a cartoon character with a pirate hat says " roll call "

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 12/06/2025

Reporting by @astrobites.bsky.social on the impact of the proposed US budget on astronomy astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b... by @skylargrayson.bsky.social 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

"And you may not realize it, but many important astrophysics observatories and programs are funded not by NASA, but by the NSF. Figure 4 shows the cuts to some of the biggest. Of particular note is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which operates two locations in the U.S., one in Washington and the other in Louisiana. LIGO found the first detection of gravitational waves, opening up a whole new era of multi-messenger astronomy. This budget request would shut down one of these two locations, which drastically reduces the usefulness of the observatory. Having two detectors makes it much easier to separate out signals from the noise, and having more than one detector allows us to place the region in the sky where the signal could be coming from."

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...

Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The 2025 #NASA astrophysics senior review report is public. "Every mission received the highest possible rating for... scientific return", & are "producing important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner". Some important screenshots: assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/...

The Panel appreciates the significant budget uncertainties facing NASA, SMD, and APD. The Panel
recognizes the particular gravity of this report relative to those reports in the recent past. The Panel
nevertheless strongly believes that each mission under review continues to be capable of producing
important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner and would do so if allowed to continue
operations into the next extended mission cycle. This belief remains true if missions had to be extended
with reduced capability, reduced community resources, or both. Cuts to community resources or capabilities
will reduce the science output of these missions, but the missions remain viable and productive.
Furthermore, many of the most insightful science results arise from combining the observations of more than one mission in NASA’s fleet, leveraging complementary capabilities.

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