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Calvin Gluck

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Interests: #Space #Science #ScienceFiction #STEAM #ClimateChange He/Him/His I mostly post quotes from articles I read. See links below for my other accounts used for other […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ gluck.cc/@calvin, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 04/10/2026
Silence #SilentSunday #Photography #Sea
A sandy beach with a tree on the left side. The tree is tall and has green leaves. The beach is surrounded by the ocean. The ocean is blue and there are rocks in the water. There’s peace, silence and it’s warm. Both outside and inside.
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
[Your Aging Brain Isn't Forgetting – It's Optimizing For Passing On Information, Study Finds] “Prevailing theories of cognitive aging depict late life as a period of compensatory decline – an effort to preserve performance despite progressive neural deterioration,” … "We propose instead that […]
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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
The global bivalve trade is growing almost 10% a year. Challenges include harmful algae, pollution, invasive predators, and diseases, but overall, bivalves are a highly sustainable source of protein! Check the Monterey Seafood Guide to be sure, but many bivalve fisheries worldwide are stable and […]
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
[Study suggests potential health implications of sea spray in coastal areas] “Living near the ocean, particularly within 5 km, is increasingly linked to public health benefits. … The air in coastal environments is enriched with sea spray aerosols (SSA) that are generated by wave action and […]
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
[Meditation has potentially dangerous unintended affects] “ … meditation, a multibillion-dollar industry that is promoted as a treatment for anxiety, chronic pain, alcohol abuse, addiction, and many other ailments, can sometimes, for some people, cause severe and lasting side effects […]
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
[The UN Environment Programme issued a bleak report] “ … governments' current policies should push temperatures to 2.6 C (4.7 F) above pre-industrial levels by 2100. … the U.N. said it wants policymakers to "prepare for and navigate a future'' in which the globe crosses that limit and then […]
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Calvin in Oregon @oregon.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
The West Coast Railroaders Group was operating Speeder Excursions for the public from the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad station in Garibaldi, Oregon. We got to ride a speeder around the bay (Miami Cove) and back. This was a rare opportunity that I wanted to take […] [Original post on gluck.cc]
Four railroad speeders sit on tracks, with a person sitting in the yellow speeder, and people standing next to a red and two orange speeders.Danae has red hair, sunglasses and a grin. Calvin is wearing a beige baseball cap with “FiFi” and the B-29 bomber on it. Two railroad speeders are visible in the background. sitting on tracks, with a two people standing next to the yellow speeder, and a red speeder further back.Barbara Danae and Calvin are seated in the speeder, wearing safety vests and smiling for the camera.Calvin, Danae and Barbara smile for a photo with the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad station at Garibaldi in the background. Three railroad speeders (orange, yellow, and orange) are sitting on tracks in the background and the red railroad shed is also seen in the background.
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
[You can now search and sort through your observations on the iNaturalist app!] “Use the magnifying glass icon to search your observations and species sightings! … You can tap the new search icon in the top right of your "Me" page of the app and look up any taxon. Your observations and species […]
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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Over the last few years, a meme has been growing on Reddit, Tiktok and elsewhere that bivalves have a decentralized enough immune system that they count as vegan. I am not vegan, and I think bivalves are an excellent, sustainable food source, but I am trying to fight this misconception because […]
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Mark Ingalls 🎃👻🧙‍♂️ @ingalls.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
New article: Not just water - Earth's land also rises and falls with the tide ingallswx.com/2026/08/20/not-just-w… #geology #geophysics #tide
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
[I’m having fun participating in citizen science with the iNaturalist apps and web site] I’ve begun participating in citizen science projects by using the iNaturalist application to log my observations of life near the Oregon coast. By taking photos of plants, animals, shells, tracks and other […]
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
RE: union.place/@ufwupdates/11704491485… Reading the law in Washington state, it looks like employers are required to take measures to control exposure above AQI of 100, but there doesn't seem to be a maximum threshold. For reference AQI of 200 is "Very Unhealthy" > EPA's risk […]
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Curtis Smith @curtisysmith.denton.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
#SilentSunday #Photography
A dark blacktop road runs through fields of red, green and amber as it leads straight into a thunderstorm
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Starship Flight 13 aborted at booster ignition at 2245:29 UTC. No launch occurred, scrub for today, safe engine shutdown.
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
[“In one to two hundred years, our agriculture will look very different”] “The fact that plants convert less than 1% of solar energy into edible calories presents a major limitation for crop yields … Robert Jinkerson, … has figured out a way to grow plants in the dark. … At its core are two […]
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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This #ReflectOrbital announcement feels like May 2019 when Sp@ceX launched 60 test sats. Astro+light pollution Shitter blew up before my eyes. And I had narrative arc of my book #TransformingNight 💡🛰 Meanwhile, my #HSS2026 talk is "Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Global and Planetary"
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Unlike the more penetrating radiation from fissionables, this tritium beta radiation cannot penetrate human skin. You could hold this satellite in your hand with zero risk. Don't lick the tritium supply though, you should avoid ingesting the beta emitter. (3/n))
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
One of the most interesting payloads on the recent Transporter 17 launch is BOHR, from Miami-based City Labs. It is a 1U cubesat with a tritium battery. The mildly radioactive tritium (12 yr half life) spits out energetic electrons which hit a semiconductor target. (1/n)
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Torifune is about 450m across with a mass of 180 million tonnes; Kamo'oalewa is about 20m across with a mass of only 7000 tonnes.
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Calvin in Oregon @oregon.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
#CoastWatch offers opportunities to learn about shoreline ecology and contribute to coastal research and conservation by adopting a mile of the Oregon coast. This is my first report for mile 244 of the #OregonCoast […]
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
[Please think carefully about the the effects of fireworks displays on wildlife before you participate] "The shock of fireworks can cause wildlife to flee, ending up in unexpected areas or roadways, flying into buildings and other obstacles, and even abandoning nests, leaving young vulnerable […]
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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
In response to Trump's 2025 "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order, the NOAA shut down the Climate.gov website. Former staffers have now set up a nonprofit to provide reliable climate information in its stead. Here's more. flip.it/mNCHRu #TrumpAdministration #Climate #Science
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Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information
Built by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov, the new nonprofit resource is supported in part by more than 2,500 small donations from people who want reliable climate science information to remain accessible. Climate.us today launched the full version of its new independent, nonprofit climate information website, creating a public-backed home for trusted climate science at a time when access to federal climate resources has become increasingly vulnerable to disruption.
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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
In case you needed some cooling news... www.science.org/content/article/doz…
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Myth of SpaceX
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.
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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
Meanwhile, doing a stupid but necessary test with my 3D printed Seestar lens hood. Despite many user requests ZWO has not added an option in the Seestar app to have the telescope remain open when it finishes a scheduled imaging plan. It will always close the arm […] [Original post on aus.social]
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We're scratching our heads to understand what the story is behind this unexpectedly-orbital launch
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
CURVEBALL is the codename for a rocket mission launched from Virginia on Jun 11; it was announced as a suborbital reentry test of a hypersonic military test vehicle, but then US Space Force cataloged the two upper stages of the rocket as being in a low Earth orbit.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Based on the orbital parameters released on space-track.org I mocked up a TLE for the CURVEBALL objects. Another possibility for the mission is that the payload completed most of an orbit and was recovered over the Western US, e.g. at the Utah Test and Training Range
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
[GPS Precision At Risk Due To Climate Change Affect] “An accelerating, increasingly unpredictable rate of rotational change — driven by variable ice melt rather than the steady lunar tidal deceleration — raises the precision demands on these corrections. Spacecraft navigation is particularly […]
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
Scrub. No RUD today. Try again tomorrow.
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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
Definitely up to something...
Photo of a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo perched in a tree. They have their back to the photographer but are turning their head to look over their shoulder at them.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Object 69094 (2025-135BX) based on TLE analysis appears to have come off W-4. It is probably too early to conclude it is the reentry vehicle, with a failed deorbit burn, but I look forward to an update from Varda.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Update: it now seems that at least TWO objects were cataloged from the May 10 event, 69093 and 69094, in similar orbits.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026
Feeling extremely discouraged about many things that are going extremely badly (especially in orbit). But there are still baby goats, so yay.
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Paul Hammond @paulhammond51.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026
Meanwhile on Mars: For those that have been following along. After several days of robotic arm gymnastics, the slab of rock that was stuck on Curiosity Rover's drill bit has finally been liberated. Animated HazCam GIF from Sol 4883 (April 2, 2026) Shows a pair […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 28/04/2026
Happy with my quote here: “While NASA administrators are free to wax nostalgic for the days when Pluto was a planet ...scientists working in the field will continue to try to explain and classify objects in the solar system in the way that actually helps us understand the world in which we live.”
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Jared Isaacman thinks Pluto should be a planet again. Here’s what the experts say
The celestial body’s status as the solar system's ninth planet was withdrawn in 2006. Now some experts say we might want to reconsider
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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 24/04/2026
So SpaceX is not in a great place now, but I think the biggest part of this that I see as an alarm bell is how prior to their merger with XAi they already had more than 20 Billion in debt www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
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Exclusive: SpaceX refinanced debt with stopgap $20 billion loan before IPO filing
Elon Musk's SpaceX took out a $20 billion bridge loan last month to refinance much of its existing debt ​ahead of its blockbuster U.S. initial public offering, according to a ‌regulatory filing.
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
[AMOC is significantly more likely to collapse than thought] “This is an important and very concerning result. It shows that the ‘pessimistic’ models, which show a strong weakening of the Amoc by 2100, are, unfortunately, the realistic ones, in that they agree better with observational data. … […]
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Latest #Artemis image to drop is my newest favourite! "A New View of the Moon" ICONIC! 🔭🧪 📷: NASA images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
Earth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface. Hertzsprung Basin appears as two subtle concentric rings, which are interrupted by Vavilov, a younger crater superimposed over the older structure. The lines of indentations are secondary crater chains formed by ejecta from the massive impact that created Orientale. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Solar eclipse viewing - IN SPACE!!!! 🤩 #Artemis 📷: NASA ℹ️: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
The Artemis II crew – Mission Specialist Christina Koch (top left), Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (bottom left), Commander Reid Wiseman (bottom right), and Pilot Victor Glover (top right) – uses eclipse viewers, identical to what NASA produced for the 2023 annular eclipse and 2024 total solar eclipse, to protect their eyes at key moments during the solar eclipse they experienced during their lunar flyby. This was the first use of eclipse glasses at the Moon to safely view a solar eclipse.aptured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.
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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026
I love all bivalves. But I have to admit that zebra and quagga mussels are pretty sinister. They are in the same genus, native to the Caspian Sea, and have completely re-engineered the Great Lakes since they invaded in the 80s via ship ballast water. They eat all […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]
A native freshwater mussel encrusted by dozens of striped tiny zebra mussels. Photo from Minnesota DNR
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Integrity made its closest approach to the Moon, altitude 6543 km, at 2300:46 UTC Apr 6. Its furthest distance from Earth, 413149 km from the geocenter was at 2302:51 UTC.
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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 06/04/2026
Carroll ♥️
A photo of the lunar surface showing the crater soon to be named Carroll, in honor of Reid Wiseman's late wife.
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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026
[Artemis II Laser Communications is capable of 260 Mbps, 4K from the Moon] “ The Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) will enable Orion to send back video and high-resolution images. … At 260 megabits per second, O2O is capable of sending down 4K high-definition video from the […]
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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
Nice to see Gil Scott-Heron and his piece "Whitey on the Moon" get some recognition courtesy of astronaut Victor Glover and today's #Artemis launch. www.space.com/space-exploration/art… #NASA #Space #SpokenWord #Poetry #Jazz #Apollo
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NASA's Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover listens to 'Whitey on the Moon' every Monday. This is why.
"It ain't about racism. It's about the human condition."
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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Amazing stat from space debris expert Hugh Lewis: if SpaceX launches 1 million orbital data centre satellites it will have to perform 1 billion collision avoidance manoeuvres every year, or one manoeuvre every 0.03 seconds
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
I’m very disappointed in US cable news networks’ limited coverage of the Artemis II return to the Moon mission. BBC News has provided non-stop coverage with Astronaut Tim Peake assisting, while MS NOW, FOX News and CNN each only provided a few minutes of mission coverage per hour. #NASA #CSA […]
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Calvin Gluck @calvin.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
#NASA Artemis II launch to the #Moon is holding at T-0:10:00 due to technical difficulties. www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo?si… #Artemis #ArtemisII #Artemis2
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