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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

our enemies are so well funded and organized, it physically pains me to think about it

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another museum in trouble

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If anyone is looking to better understand the horrific bigger picture around campus sexual violence, follow Dr. Bedera. I wish I could assign her book "On The Wrong Side" as homework to literally every single person in higher ed.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't recommend @nbedera.bsky.social's book 'On the Wrong Side' enough. I interviewed her in 2024, this part really stuck with me. Rapists often don't just not face consequences but reap benefits bc the school is so sorry for even investigating them/afraid of seeming 'biased':

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pleased to see I've gained a few more followers through my inclusion in a Bluesky starter pack, 'Scientists Who Write Science Books.' For my followers, check out this list & find your favorite scientist authors who you might not have known are here! go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey look. A good policy (actually just reverting to what we had before, but I’ll take the rare W).

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you see sketchy surges of votes, please tag us to investigate.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To quote one of the most useful posts in recent years, "in terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day"

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026

The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.

Ewan McGregor looking a lot like Alec Guinness

Hayden CHristiansen looking a lot like Dave Prowse

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BIG NEWS! I’m writing a book about the amazing processes of the deep Earth that shaped the surface as we know it. We’ll venture from the crust to the core, examining the surprising links that connect us to Earth’s deepest reaches. I’m so excited to dig in! ⚒️🧪🪨🌎🌋

Screenshot of book announcement reads: Science journalist Maya Wei-Haas, PhD's HOW EARTH
WORKS: THE HIDDEN MACHINE BENEATH OUR FEET, an adventure into the 12 geological processes that have turned this planet from a ball of rock into the most dynamic self-regulating system in the known universe, to Mo Crist at Bloomsbury, at auction, by Becky Sweren at Aevitas Creative Management (NA). Rights also to Sarah Rigby at Elliott & Thompson (UK). Rights:
efiles@aevitascreative.com

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Elwyn Rain @elwynrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Halite is back in the #MinCup26 ! A (sometime) blue beauty, very useful to humanity, and doing crazy things in techtonics ? Go vote for it !

Two woman in blue dresses cuddling on a branch covered by cristals

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can't believe it's capebulbul of making that expression

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OpenAI recently claimed to solve one of math’s biggest questions: the Navier-Stokes problem. But now three mathematicians have showed OpenAI’s work dodges the question rather than solving it.

scientificamerican.com

Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 7 It's blue skies ahead as multicoloured cubes of #Halite are up against the bubbly cool-toned #Chrysocolla. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of seafoam green minerals. One one side, translucent sea foam-green cubes on a crust of milky-white crystals. On the other, bobby aqua-green milky-translucent crystals perched on a grainy grassy-green base rock

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026

NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵

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Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States

A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's been so sad watching my alma mater in the last decade, especially as the Earth and atmospheric science department was eliminated. Nebraskans (and the world!) deserve long-term investment that builds great education and research in Nebraska.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For every one of these men who get a dramatic front page story, there are 25-50 postdocs who leave the country much less voluntarily.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

I'm of two minds about this information

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One again reminding you all that quartz is what preserved some of the oldest evidence of life on earth. Like the microbial filaments in this 3.2 billion year old microbial mat preserved in a silicified siltstone. Field of view is about 0.75 mm wide. #Geology #paleontology #Quartz #MinCup26

Microscope photo of white grey siltstone, with a band of dark grey to black filaments running through the middle.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

*thousands of people get fired and/or have their resources cut as a result of white supremacy* “People were really mean to me about my passive aggressive racism.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is eugenics

Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 17/09/2026

bro, if you really don’t wanna be doing science, let one of us precariously employed researchers have your job! you don’t have to do it if you don’t wanna!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The ONLY thing I want is for you to know. Oh, maybe you don't want to know? Bad news, buddy: I'm fundamentally incapable of shutting up.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It should be obvious, but talks about adapting to climate change or colonizing another planet often ignore that humans (and animals/plants that we love and love to eat) evolved to live on Earth in the climate we have today, and we built our infrastructure for today's climate. Everything else sucks.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

All ticketed passengers, please make you way to the gate; the flight will be D. Parton soon.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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Kim H @xchurchmouse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s so dumb because it’s inaccurate. It pandering to people who will never vote for you and it makes trans and intersex people less safe. There is no up side to these lazy and harmful answers. But I be transphobes and terfs love it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything

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Dr. Katie I. @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The 'initiatives' summarized: 1. Plagiarism machine/eugenics 2. Made-up stuff to funnel $ to pseudoscience/rich ppl 3. Stuff already funded by companies (i.e. funneling $$ to rich ppl) 4. Eugenics Fuckin hell.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The enshittification of the National Science Foundation will go down as one of the greatest moral injuries I've experienced in my career.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 10/09/2026

The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Graph showing students who never use AI scoring 505 on a "draft texts for writing assignments" task. As students use AI more, the score goes down, until students who use it daily score 480.

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Daniel S Helman, PhD @helmandaniel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core)

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

MIT is tired of all the attention Harvard gets with its astronomer

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Will the physics community come collect your guys? They're making an absolute mess over in geoscience and we don't really have the time to babysit.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"So go ahead and fail" is the key here GenAI enthusiasts don't just want to be able to play with their toys- they want us to reorder the world to ensure their success, and they hate that left to their own devices, they can and will fail

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this isn't how i wanted any of you to find out, but the chair and i are now in a committed long-distance relationship and it's convinced me I've discovered a new kind of physics.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think its kind of clear that beanie babies must in some sense "have the juice" solely because of how insane its made pretty much everybody.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Cloud-To-Butt browser extension alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration.

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dogs playing poker alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

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