Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026This is so Artistic 😊 253108241768
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Every social media post should be crafted as if the person you least want to read it, will. 2534
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialCharlie & Bogie Black Cats @charlieblackcat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Multitasking: Judging the human while I overlook the upstairs part of my kingdom. And with a slight turn to my right I have a bird's-eye view of the neighborhood. - Bogie 💜 🐈⬛ #Hedgewatch #CatsNoirFriday #CatsOfBluesky #AdoptDontShop 4403
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.social ദ്ദി(• ⩊ •マ - formerly known as Shadow 🏴 @shadow-at-home.bsky.social · 13/03/2026When Friday the 13th meets Cats Noir Friday! 🖤🐈⬛🖤 (Extra scary with sound on) 😸 #Friday13th #CatsNoirFriday 76710
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBlake Ushijima, Ph.D. @vibriosoup.bsky.social · 08/03/2026In just 5 days, we set up a massive experiment with >200 corals to test probiotics against SCTLD! With precise control over light, temp, and purified seawater, we’re ready to create solutions! Amazing teamwork between UNCW, Blue Indigo Foundation, Ecomares, UM Lowell, Croalina, and PIMS! 1029833
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialRobert Morton | Spies, Secrets & Thrillers @dukieboy2.bsky.social · 26/02/2026That’s a real dent in a long-running spy operation. Telecoms and government networks are prime targets, and cutting off infrastructure matters/ it breaks access, not just headlines. Quiet wins like this count. #CyberEspionage #NationalSecurity #google securitybrief.com.au/story/google...securitybrief.com.auGoogle disrupts China-linked cyber espionage on telecomsGoogle says it has crippled a China-linked cyber espionage group accused of hacking telecoms and governments in at least 42 countries. 781154333
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 26/02/2026They stood up for a lie. When Trump said, “The tariffs are paid for by foreign countries,” they rose and applauded. They know the data. About 96 percent of tariff costs are paid by American importers and consumers. You. Businesses. Higher prices. And still they clap.👏 135815
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialWild Image Photography 🇨🇦 @keepoffthegrass.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Apparently red and purple and blue are the rarest of northern lights as they take place 214km in the sky! Barrie, Ontario #nature #eastcoastkin #landscape #photography #night #northernlights #auroraborealis 211560171
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Most of the universe is far away, and looking at it carefully is hard. Looking at how it *changes over time*, at a swift and regular cadence, is harder still. Rubin Observatory is up and running now, and it's going to teach us so much. 49412
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 24/02/2026David Wallace on How to Start Your Own Academic Journal. In this case, Philosophy of Physics. qspace.fqxi.org/articles/283...qspace.fqxi.orgFQxI Article: How to Start Your Own Journal: Philosophy of PhysicsThe Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of science, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a dee... 0343
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialDictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 11/02/2026#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke... 223886814
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.social1980s Formula One On This Day @1980sf1otd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026#OnThisDay in 1981. At Kyalami, boycotted by the FISA teams & run as a Formula Libre event, Carlos Reutemann (Williams-Ford-FW07B) won the South African Grand Prix. Nelson Piquet was 2nd in a Brabham-Ford-BT49 & Elio de Angelis finished 3rd in his Lotus-Ford-81. © FOM 1323
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSTCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 02/02/2026#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch... 520980
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialMaggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026After yrs of planning & preparing, things didn't work @ the last minute. I deeply feel for these scientists. Our Antarctic project is smaller scale—but we faced continuous setbacks, from govt, Mother Nature, tech. We get so little time to do our work here; setbacks are heartbreaking #oceanography 🇦🇶🌊nytimes.comDeep Inside an Antarctic Glacier, a Mission Collapses at Its Final Step 18740124
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialJennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I was on the fringes of the skeptic community while all this shit was going down. Rebecca's is a righteous fury. 0345
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Mindscape Ask Me Anything | February 2026. I offer up some pretty spicy takes on computational functionalism, moral responsibility, and the metric system. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026... 10736
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialTheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Don Lemon "ransacked a church". Good and Pretti were "violent domestic terrorists", and somehow Obama joined forces with Cuba, China and Italy to rig the 2020 election. If only they treated actual problems with the gravity and seriousness they do with their lies... 243112432187
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialJennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Don Lemon’s Arrest Is a Five-Alarm Fire Moment slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comDon Lemon’s Arrest Is a Five-Alarm Fire MomentLate Thursday night, former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi. 13211
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialMark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026If only there were a constitutional amendment designed for the situation where your president has gone completely bat shit insane 😡 abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...abcnews.go.comTrump posts discredited conspiracy theories following seizure of 2020 ballots in GeorgiaIn the hours after FBI agents in Georgia seized 2020 election ballots, President Trump posted a series of thoroughly discredited conspiracy theories about the election. 1111836455
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time. 236119515850
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialNereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 27/01/2026🧵 Do you know the effect called cloud iridescence or irisation?🧪 When parts of clouds are thin and have similar size droplets, diffraction can make them shine with colours like a corona.🔭 In fact, the colours are essentially corona fragments. ⚛️ ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap14070... #sky #Nature 1/4 28923
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Here is a thread about tiny discrepancies, the marvelous predictive power of Quantum Electrodynamics, and the sort of immigrant success story that the current administration is doing everything in their power to eliminate. 🧪 ⚛️ 15927
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Selective silencing of the CDC: ~50% of surveillance databases have halted updates —87% of these were vaccine related www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... editorial www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... 8231129
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22/01/2026New results from DES, the Dark Energy Survey. (Not to be confused with DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument [which I always confuse].) No evidence here that the dark energy density is evolving with time. telescoper.blog/2026/01/22/d... 5347
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21/01/2026"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”scientificamerican.comNASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groupsThe U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year 76852476
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This graph makes me want to cry. 1513937
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This is the icy shore of Lake Michigan in Frankfort, MI from my visit in February of 2023. I am back from Arizona now and it's snowing to beat the band here right now so I thought I embrace that with a winter picture for you! 4645
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/01/2026🤣🤣 671301957993
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialNereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 16/01/2026🧵 Check out this stunning "Lunar Curve" (not a lunar analemma), by Giorgia Hofer! 🔭 It looks magical, with the #Moon tracing a path 🧪 over the mountains. Actually, it's a beautiful digital composite montage, not something you can actually see in real life. #sciart 1/5 321050
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I needed a break from the cold and snow of the Midwest and I think I found where the sun has been hiding: The desert in Arizona! I visited the Saguaro National Park this morning. The park is divided into two and this is the west portion that I’ve never been to. Simply beautiful! 6626
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialThe Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 07/01/2026Donald Trump's White House rewriting history with its new version of the events of January 6th is among the most troubling things that has happened in his first year back in the oval.mirror.co.ukTrump's unhinged latest- rewriting history with lies and taking Venezuela ship 74113
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 11/01/2026For the first 14 days of 2026 I will be taking you along with me on the Garfield Trail in Grant County, Indiana. Each day, a new statue! Stop 10 is Cool Cat Garfield outside the James Dean Museum in Fairmount, which is also the hometown of the legendary actor who died tragically in 1955 at age 24. 36110
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026For the first 14 days of 2026 I will be taking you along with me on the Garfield Trail in Grant County, Indiana. Each day, a new statue! Stop 7 is Duffer Garfield located at the Arbor Trace Golf Club in Marion. A duffer is an incompetent or stupid person. I guess Garfield doesn't golf very well! 2429
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 03/01/2026For the first 14 days of 2026 I will be taking you along with me on the Garfield Trail in Grant County, Indiana. Each day, a new statue! Stop #2 is Bookworm Garfield, inside the Marion Public Library. He was dressed for fall! (I was here in October.) Check back every day to see them all! 1547
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 09/01/2026For the first 14 days of 2026 I will be taking you along with me on the Garfield Trail in Grant County, Indiana. Each day, a new statue! Stop 8 is Worldly Cat Garfield, outside the library in Van Buren. Fun Fact: Weaver Popcorn hq is across the street, the largest bulk popcorn producer in the world! 0414
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I'm sharing my top 5 favorite photos of 2025 to end the year and this is #3 from The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas from my visit in November. Please check back every day and LIKE and REPOST my posts so others can find me too! 17210
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialGlen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 29/12/2025The Moon tonight here in Santa Barbara. #SantaBarbara #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography Camera settings: Canon T5i Sigma 150mm x 600mm Focal length: 600mm F-stop: f/10 Exposure time: 1/1000 ISO: 800 #Moon phase: Waxing 65% 242178150
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/12/2025One of the most important books I've read this year, from @adambecker.bsky.social. It's a devastating read at times—you'll find yourself shouting at the book "how can they be that goddamn crazy???!!!" But it's critical to realize that they are. 1219951
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Probably still time for last-minute Xmas shopping. 6413
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialMartin Bracken - FRAS -CitySpaceAstro @cityspaceastro.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Jupiter 90 minute time lapse using IR720 pass filter. C6 - ASI585MC #astronomy #astrophotography 914172436
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Mindscape Ask Me Anything | December 2025. A few personal-advice questions (which I'm not great at), and several people who want to imagine they could be Laplace's Demon. My advice is that you are not Laplace's Demon. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025... 4584
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Phil Anderson's "More Is Different" was not an anti-reductionist view! This is literally the first sentence of his paper. 3462
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Seems to be a losing battle to make people understand that Wheeler's "It from Bit" does not mean "reality is made of information" (it was about defending an epistemic view of quantum mechanics, where the wave function isn't real, only measurement outcomes are), and likewise... 7587
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 30/11/2025The idea of QFT was already around, of course, but Dirac and others had thought of the electron field ψ as a "relativistic wave function," not as a field to be quantized. It was Pauli & Weisskopf who set things straight once and for all. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...link.springer.comÜber die Quantisierung der skalaren relativistischen WellengleichungIn der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die konsequente Anwendung des Heisenberg-Pauli’schen Formalismus der Quantisierung der Wellenfelder auf die skalare relativistische Wellengleiehung für Mater... 2343
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 30/11/20251988 interview with physicist Victor Weisskopf. We overlapped at MIT when he was emeritus and I was a postdoc, but I never really chatted with him (because I'm an idiot). In 1934 he and Wolfgang Pauli wrote the first paper insisting that everything is quantum fields! www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZY...youtube.comConversations with History: Victor F. WeisskopfYouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV) 61079
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialCatherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya... 1554229848
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/11/2025"The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics," my lecture series for the Great Courses (24 half-hour lectures), is still available on Prime video for a few days! Tell your family that watching football on Thanksgiving is hopelessly uncool. www.amazon.com/gp/video/det... 511628
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialPedsHemeDoc @pedshemedoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful. Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms. This is dangerous & disappointing. 28686112433
Reposted by @charmstrange9.bsky.socialAndrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 23/11/2025RFK Jr unilaterally turned CDC into an anti-vaccine propaganda site. Do people forget that he has made millions of dollars demonizing vaccines and autism for the last 25 years? This is his business model. Watch: youtu.be/ZZCutMBhjpg?...youtu.beRemember when RFK Jr profited off the lie that vaccines cause autism? | excerpts from @WIREDYouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD 620157
