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Dan Roach 🛩️ FRAS 🔭 @dannydenfisch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Um, ok, this is possibly my best ever photo of the waning gibbous phase #Moon taken tonight in Rochdale, UK 96% illuminated. 30 seconds of video, stacked and then post processed on Lightroom. #astronomy #astrophotography 🧪 🔭

Close up of the moon on the terminator edge with crater details

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

High screen time can hurt children’s learning & language skills, study suggests. Effect of elevated screen exposure could be as significant as parental behaviour & premature birth. Higher screen time also linked to poorer language development. 🧪💻📱 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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High screen time can hurt children’s learning and language skills, study suggests

Effect of elevated screen exposure could be as significant as parental behaviour and premature birth, report says

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you don’t know, Daniel Pemberton is responsible for the amazing scores for Steve Jobs and Project Hail Mary. I’ve already been hearing buzz about this film for months, now.

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 24/09/2026

He knew. And he made damn sure every member of the press was present to record it.

A block of white text against a black background. Below that, an image of Barack Obama behind the podium in the White House briefing room acting like a normal, sane person who reads books.

The text reads:

Barack Obama's last press briefing as President:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you.
That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 20/09/2026

In celebration of everybody’s second favorite culturally appropriated Celtic holiday, I made a creepy pop playlist. It is not kids music, nor does it contain any monster-mashing or Michael Jackson. It’s actual good music, but with a slightly creepy vibe. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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Samhain Appropriation 2026 by B. on Apple Music

Playlist · 25 Songs

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 03/09/2026

Who are the construction companies who are just doing whatever Trump asks them to do??

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 01/09/2026

@archive.org I'm getting a 429 error on a snapshot I'm trying to access. Do you know what's going on?

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 14/08/2026

This article is pure art. Aside from being funny, it brilliantly illustrates my main assertion about the Odyssey, which is that the point of Nolan’s Odyssey was not to tell a good story, but to get people to TALK about the Odyssey. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...

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Opinion | Adieu, Odysseus. Enough Already. (Gift Article)

The attention to “The Odyssey” is as exhausting as its hero’s travels.

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 11/08/2026

#BlackBreastfeedingWeek is offering $500 and $1,000 scholarships to aspiring lactation professionals. Spread the word! 📆 Apps due Sunday August 16th! #BlackBreastfeedingWeek2026 #WeAllWeGot #BlackLactationProfessionals #BlackBreastfeeding #BlackDoula #BlackMidwife #IBCLC

Graphic promoting the 2026 Black Breastfeeding Week Lactation Scholarship. The $500 scholarship supports aspiring and current Black lactation consultants, certified lactation counselors, doulas, birth workers, peer counselors, and community breastfeeding advocates. Applications are due August 15 at 11:59 PM, with recipients announced during Black Breastfeeding Week 2026. The graphic includes two black-and-white photos of Black women, an “Apply Today” callout, a QR code, and sponsor logos.

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our colleague @mmbendixen.bsky.social’s traditional Reddit verification selfie! Featuring her rescue pup, Vader 🥹 Dr. Bendixen is a PhD/MSN/RN/IBCLC (Whew! 😅) who studies milk volume and microbiomes in NICU moms at UF College of Nursing! redd.it/1vbns0v 🧪 #wbw2026 #breastfeeding

A white woman with Titian hair and glasses holds a sign for the annual breastfeeding science Reddit AMA. Next to her is a black lab with adorable sad puppy eyes!

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 31/07/2026

Join us right now for a lactation science AMA on Reddit! redd.it/1vbns0v 🧪 🛟 #breastfeeding #wbw2026

I’m holding up a sign for our Reddit ama and wearing this year’s Indigenous Milk Medicine Week shirt

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 30/07/2026

TOMORROW! Join my colleagues and I on Reddit and ask us anything about human milk and lactation science! ⏰ Noon-5PM ET 🔗 Reddit.com/r/AskScience 🧪 🛟 🩺 #MedSky #MedEd #Tweetiatrician #PedSky #IBCLC #breastfeeding #MCH #DOHaD #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2026 #WBW2026 #WorldBreastfeedingWeek #LactSci

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 29/07/2026

Join us THIS Friday on Reddit (reddit.com/r/askscience) for a public Q&A on lactation science! 🧪 🛟 #BlueSci #breastfeeding #MCH #ChildHealth #DOHaD #maternalhealth #publichealth #lactsci #MedEd #MedSky #ITeachBio #SciComm

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 27/07/2026

In honor of #WBW2026, come ask my colleagues and I all of your burning questions about the science of human milk and breastfeeding! We will be taking questions all day Friday in r/AskScience on Reddit!

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 12/07/2026

Finally NPR has figured out what I truly care about

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’ve seen way, WAY too many people talk about “recent government disclosures” as if this shit is real. It is very concerning how poor Americans’ critical thinking skills are right now.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 July 10 (Year 2, Week 28) ❗️Reminder: OMB comment deadline is Monday 👍 Some good news in higher ed litigation for once (in Florida!) 👎 New Ed Dept regulatory agenda & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Year 2, Week 28

Jul 4-10, 2026 – possible worlds

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 10/07/2026

So I’ve been freebasing academia with terminal ADHD for about 16 years now, and have decided that since I will fail at pretty much everything I attempt, I wish to do so in the most spectacular way possible. I will now field your failure proposals. Remember there are no bad ideas in a brainstorm. 🧪

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Ryan Gosling The Fall Guy

Alt: Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy giving a double middle finger and a smirk to someone pointing a gun at him before falling backwards off a helicopter 100 feet in the air

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 08/07/2026

Villenueve and Sandgren omggg I recently saw both Blade Runner 2049 and First Man for the first time, and both were STUNNING. Ryan Gosling has unparalleled instincts. Although he should get Best Picture next year, I'm sure he'd be happy to lose it to these guys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndvq...

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Dune: Part Three | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Warner Bros.

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 08/07/2026

Apparently we paid $4.5 million in state tax credits to Philip Morris to build a tobacco plant in Aurora?? I didn’t vote for that. It astonishes me that tobacco companies are even allowed to continue existing. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/b... #publichealth #medsky #denver 🛟

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Tobacco Companies Are Cashing In on Zyn’s Unstoppable Popularity

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ESO @eso.org · 03/06/2026

Heading for the Carina Nebula 🚀 The massive stars in the interior of this cosmic bubble emit intense radiation that causes the surrounding gas to glow. By contrast, other regions of the nebula contain dark pillars of dust cloaking newborn stars. www.eso.org/public/news/eso1828 🔭 🧪

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 31/05/2026

I want Jennifer Welch’s prescription for the Democratic Party in the last few minutes of this episode injected into my veins megaphone.link/QCD5285903091

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This Is the Proof Trump Is in His Deathbed Confession Era by The Daily Beast Podcast

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I maintain a curated list of resources for scientific writers, and every now and again I remind you that it exists. And: if you know of a resource that should be on my list but isn't, suggest it please!

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Writing Resources

Writing is a huge part of any career in science, and for many writers – no, for most writers – it’s a daunting challenge. But it’s not a challenge that you have to tackle alone. That’s a lesson I w…

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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

REMINDER: Hantavirus is not new. The CDC has documented ~900 cases in the US since 1993, when tracking began. It is more common in the American West. If you see someone freaking out, they are not someone who knows much about zoonotic diseases, which are diseases spread between animals & humans. 🧪

A map from the CDC showing the cumulative number of Hantavirus cases by state up to the year 2023. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/data-research/cases/index.html

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Year of Space Facts: Week 18/52 🔭🧪🛰️ One of the youngest known main sequence stars is Omega Nebula's B111, which is just 10,000 years old! The oldest known star is HD 140283, aka the Methuselah Star, which is estimated to be about 14 billion years old. 📸 NASA/ESA/Hubble

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 09/05/2026

My sexuality is “Cross-dressing Ryan Gosling looking at Voyager 1-inspired scientific diagrams in an explicit reference to Carl Sagan” Fun fact: Ryan Gosling’s favorite book is actually Demon-Haunted World. 😍

Ryland Grace, viewed from the side, looking at a wall of golden plaques that are reminiscent of the golden records on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts. He’s just bent over to pick up something he dropped (because he is drunk), and he has paused halfway up after noticing the plaques. He wears chucks, Ilyukhina’s skirt, his knitted fox cardigan, and his mission cap worn sideways.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Colorized image of Mars captured by Psyche mission on May 3, 2026. The spacecraft is approaching the planet for a gravity assist on May 15 that will give it a boost in speed and adjust its trajectory toward asteroid Psyche for eventual arrival in 2029. science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪🔭 #Psyche

Observation acquired by the multispectral imager instrument’s panchromatic or broadband filter, with an exposure time of just 2 milliseconds. Even with this very short exposure time, the crescent is extremely bright and parts of the image are oversaturated. The light seen here is sunlight reflected off the surface of Mars and also scattered by dust particles in its atmosphere. Because the quantity of dust in the atmosphere can vary rapidly over time, the anticipated brightness of the crescent was hard to predict before this early image was acquired.

The dustiness of Mars leads to sunlight being scattered by its atmosphere, making the crescent appear to extend farther around the planet than if it had no atmosphere (as with our Moon).Of note, on the right side of the extended crescent, there appears to be a gap, which coincides with the planet’s icy north polar cap. The cap is currently in winter and mission specialists hypothesize that seasonal clouds and hazes may be forming in that region, possibly blocking the atmospheric dust’s ability to scatter sunlight like it does elsewhere around the planet.

The Psyche mission’s imager team will be acquiring, processing, and interpreting similar images in the lead-up to the close approach on May 15. The images are primarily designed to calibrate the cameras and to characterize their performance in flight as a practice run for the approach to asteroid Psyche in 2029.
Ref: PIA26750
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 09/05/2026

Knowing what you’re doing is like so overrated

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is not just the best image from Artemis II. It’s probably one of the most incredible images you will have seen since about 2004. (Bonus points if you can guess what dropped in 2004.) youtu.be/OdO_g1S_MBU?...

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NASA Didn't Even Know!!

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Go raibh an fórsa libh.... #maytheforth

Mise ag suí ar an gcloch ar a raibh Luke Skywalker ina radharc deiridh

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Quintin @quintingell.dftba.social · 10/04/2026

truly a shame that @drpepperofficial.bsky.social missed the opportunity to be the official sponsor of humanity’s relationship with the moon because DAMN this has been emotional

artemis II picture of earth “setting” behind the moon

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 04/05/2026

*pushes up glasses up nose* ACTUALLY, it was a chapter in his dissertation. The dissertation was titled “An Analysis of Water Based Assumptions and Recalibrations of Expectations of Evolutionary Models.” 🧪

A satirical story in The Times Higherb Education

Scientist condemned after calling leading scholar "a staggering waste of carbon" at UNESCO conference
The early-career molecular biologist reportedly made the remark while defending his controversial paper "The Goldilocks Zone Is For Idiots", sparking fresh debate over professionalism, academic freedom and personal attacks in scientific discourse.
By Joel Goscinsky 1 May

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This could be business casual if we even gave a shit

A bejeweled suit with a cape with pink lining

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

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Your Guide to NASA's Budget

How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 21/04/2026

Bye Felicia. Women consistently vote more than men. We’ll win without you. cawp.rutgers.edu/data/voters/...

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Voters - Gender Differences in Voter Registration and Turnout

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 20/04/2026

I hope you all have been enjoying my curated cacophony of boobscience, Tolkien lore, Project Hail Mary, and existential dread

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 17/04/2026

What's a moment from your life, out of context, that's straight from a movie? Once I partied all night in Nice with a friend of Bono’s and a 2 male models. We drank wine by the light of the moon over the Mediterranean. In the morning, she and I sat on a curb in Vieux Nice and a man handed us roses.

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 17/04/2026

The author of Project Hail Mary thinks he wrote an apolitical story. He is blatantly wrong, and the film proved him even wronger. Facts are neutral, sure. Science as an enterprise—who gets to pursue it, what studies get funded, how methodology is designed, and how findings are disseminated—is not.

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 15/04/2026

Interstellar < Gravity < Contact < Project Hail Mary Do not @ me about this unless you have seen all four

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