Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 18hNihilism is all the rage these days. That movement has a bright future. Not that it matters. 000
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 19hIn Opinion Almost 70 years after its inception, “The Twilight Zone” remains incredibly relevant, Alan Sepinwall writes. It tackled “prejudice, creeping authoritarianism, the dangers of humans being replaced by technology and the peril of conformity as a societal ideal in ways that still resonate.”nyti.msOpinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Was a Warning America IgnoredWith “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality. 312622
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 21hMargaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.nyti.msMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has DiedMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 321930809
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"gadgetreview.comTrump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than StonehengeArizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026. 8620241248
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’ll bet Chekov didn’t have a bunch of stuff lying around his house that he didn’t know he was going to do with. 001
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Incredible story. And another huge example of why tenure protections for academics are important 28224
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldSeven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 29/08/2026i had a great time chatting with @sciam.bsky.social about CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS! we talked about the Vulcans, animal intelligence, and how astrobiology is the science that’s really 20 sciences in a trench coat 🦑 read here! ⬇️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/wher...scientificamerican.comWhere are all the aliens? A new book explores possible answersSeven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the astonishing science behind modern searches for alien life 084
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldMichael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgWorld’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particleIt’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say 331143276
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 27/08/2026We’re #hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's Education & Public Outreach team! 👩💻👨💻 You'll build interactive, data-driven web experiences that bring Rubin data and science to the world 🌌 👉 Learn more and apply soon: ow.ly/Jajv50ZFUQf 🧪🔭☄️ 13627
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I heard @johncusack.bsky.social talk about this on Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me Back in March and it sounded amazing! Ordered!! @petersagal.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldIEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 14/08/2026Astronomers still don’t know exactly what #darkmatter is, but they sure can detect it—and now so can you. Using a DIY pyramidal horn, an RTL-SDR, and some Excel curve fitting on hydrogen-line spectra, you can detect dark matter’s influence without ever leaving Earth. spectrum.ieee.org/dark-matter 0185
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Trust me, in context, this message from ChatGPT makes perfect sense 000
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7778532571
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldAndy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila 30785427
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldStony Brook University @stonybrooku.bsky.social · 23/07/2026SBU Professor John Pardon has been awarded the 2026 Fields Medal! The prestigious honor, widely considered one of the highest distinctions in mathematics, recognizes his extraordinary work solving problems in geometry and quantum physics. More: gosbu.co/4wQEUae 152
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association. 15568182026
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.static.klipy.comThe Blues Brothers: Classics Need To Be SavedALT: The Blues Brothers: Classics Need To Be Saved 000
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 15/07/2026Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026 211055347
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The problem with becoming an evil scientist is all the evil paperwork, teaching the evil classes, and all the evil grant proposals, but it gets easier once you have evil tenure. 140
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I’ve been playing around with different joke. 1. Sweet! 2. The Milkshakey-Way… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/s...nytimes.comA Sweet Surprise: Scientists Find Sugar Deep in Our Galaxy (Gift Article)It’s the first time a sugar molecule has been detected in interstellar space. The discovery provides tantalizing new clues into how life may have arisen on Earth. 031
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I'm sad to report that Mark Wise, theoretical physicist at Caltech, has passed away. He was my friend and collaborator, a giant of theoretical physics, and just one of my favorite people. RIP. www.pma.caltech.edu/people/mark-...pma.caltech.eduMark B. Wise - Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy 431227134
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldBen McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026PRE-ORDER to STREAM my movie about how crypto is dumb and bad NOW @: everyoneislying.com 30736172
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/07/2026He was playing the part of Ea-nāṣir in Aristophanes' long-lost play "The Copper Weasels" 731135
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Wonderful graphics! www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...washingtonpost.comA giant telescope goes on a decade-long search for dark matterAn observatory in Chile is taking a timelapse of the sky over the Southern Hemisphere to help scientists measure the properties of a mysterious cosmic force. 000
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 30/06/2026The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-... 3294138
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The era of the LSST has begun! www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-06...www6.slac.stanford.eduAction! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins capturing the greatest cosmic movie ever madeThe 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time has officially started, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics. 000
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I’m not in it for the money. I’m here to increase the entropy of the universe. 010
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Sidney Coleman’s 1975-76 quantum field theory course at Harvard, recorded on an old black and white tube video camera.m.youtube.comFull course: Quantum Field Theory by Sidney Coleman (1975) [Havard Physics 253] - YouTubeRecorded in 1975-1976. The videos shown here were transferred to DVD in 2007 straight from surviving VHS tapes, which were, in turn, copied from the original... 4225
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 11/06/2026First data from the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) neutrino experiment provide the most precise measurements of neutrino oscillation reported to date, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/43qxtKk ⚛️🧪 0113
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 06/06/2026It’s like the combination of a threat and the world‘s worst fortune cookie 000
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I'm just saying, whoever named them "flesh-eating screwworms" really hit it out of the park... 000
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldChris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 01/06/2026Half-price sale continues through June 7. 031
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldPaul Halpern @phalpern.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Announcing my new book THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE. Journey back in time and witness an epic struggle between two scientific geniuses over the very nature of reality. History of physics at its most riveting! Now available for preorder: greatatomdebate.com #Science #ScienceBook #Physics #PhysicsBook 1313645
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.” 223149972812
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Should we be concerned about the spike in prediction market bets on UFOs? (\joke) 000
Reposted by Bryan J. Fieldaric @aghastronaut.com · 17/05/2026Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication. 562962135
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I think we can all get on board with the new slopmaxxing trend... 000
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldThe Onion @theonion.com · 12/05/2026Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation 4468051680
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 11/05/2026As a card carrying xennial, it would be “smells like teen spirt,“ or “losing my religion,” “two princes,” “no rain,” “buddy holly,” or “loser.” 010
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldZen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 05/05/2026You can make a long, LONG list of technologies that were supposed to make stupid brick and mortar institutions of higher education obsolete. Printed books. Radio. Television. Personal computers. CD-ROMs. The Internet. MOOCs. Write the story once, and you can re-use it every five years! 12213
Bryan J. Field @bryanjfield.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Am I the only one who thinks Tom Servo is out running half-marathons in China? @bobservo.bsky.social @talkinghenry.bsky.social @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 15/04/2026🚨 Big news! NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first director and visionary, Tony Tyson, has been named to TIME's 2026 TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world! 🔭🧪 🔗: time.com/collection/1... 16310
Reposted by Bryan J. FieldAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,, 484108901