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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fab story from Margaret Hamilton, RIP, showing why Science-Mums are brilliant scientists! When innovating at the cutting edge of technology, it's so important to bring together a wide range of lived experiences. Sad that only ~20% comp-scientists are female 👩‍🔬🧪 ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Right: A woman looking very cool in a 70's dress standing next to a massive pile of very thick books
Left text: Did your life as a software engineer and a mother ever collide?
Often in the evening or at weekends I would bring my young daughter, Lauren, into work with me. One day, she was with me when I was doing a simulation of a mission to the moon. She liked to imitate me – playing astronaut. She started hitting keys and all of a sudden, the simulation started. Then she pressed other keys and the simulation crashed. She had selected a program which was supposed to be run prior to launch – when she was already “on the way” to the moon. The computer had so little space, it had wiped the navigation data taking her to the moon. I thought: my God – this could inadvertently happen in a real mission. I suggested a program change to prevent a prelaunch program being selected during flight. But the higher-ups at MIT and Nasa said the astronauts were too well trained to make such a mistake. Midcourse on the very next mission – Apollo 8 – one of the astronauts on board accidentally did exactly what Lauren had done. The Lauren bug! It created much havoc and required the mission to be reconfigured. After that, they let me put the program change in, all right.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Clinamen, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, New York City

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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Critical Mass Boston - July 31st rolling from Copley Square at 19.00 Keep the safe-street momentum moving forward.....for Louisa. See you all there.

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Toyota Yaris barreling down the highway with a trunk full of hard drives! Today I picked up the final set of data from the spring observing campaign of the @ehtelescope.bsky.social. Our black hole movie is in post-production!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/06/2026

An absolute masterpiece. Guy spent years making this and uploading dozens of videos on how, getting zero to 8 views each. I hope he can rack up more.

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MIT Haystack Observatory @haystack.mit.edu · 31/05/2026

MIT Haystack Observatory’s SIMONe meteor radar network caught something at the same time that a loud boom was heard over eastern Massachusetts. Scientists are already analyzing the data!

Data from Amherst NH, Beverly MA, Clinton MA, Pomfret VT, and Siena NY showing dots of data including one at 2pm 5/30/26

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

OMB has a new proposal for the regulation of all federal grants, which would -deemphasize peer review -ban $ for publication costs and conference travel -make it easier to terminate grants we read the 400 page document (🫩) so you don't have to www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...

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Trump administration seeks to overhaul federal grant-making process, alarming researchers

The Trump administration has released a sweeping proposal to overhaul the bedrock regulation for all federal grants.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year. Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

NSF grant curve from link for 2021 through 2026, with each year shown as a different color. By this point in the year, NSF made 3,300 or more grants in 2021-2024 and 2,087 in 2025. This year 737 have been awarded. Both this year and 2025 seem to have an odd slow down about now in the rate of new grants not present in earlier years, in addition to the general lower rates.

NSF's geosciences directorate award numbers, basically identical in shape to the overall NSF curves. Prior years saw around 400-500 grants awarded by this point in the fiscal year, 2025 saw only 278 grants awarded, this year has only 95 grants awarded.

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

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

YouTube video by NASA

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

TLI! Translunar injection complete, Artemis II apogee now over 400,000 km; they're heading to the Moon.

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Favorite thanksgiving dish?

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Marko Rummelsburg @markorummelsburg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Another Earth directed coronal mass ejection after an X1.2 flare eruption from sunspot region 4274. Arrival early on November 12 + strong geomagnetic storm expected.

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I remember when the last American veteran of WWI died, and the newspaper quoted him remembering his time in London before being shipped off to France, and how he had watched a military paraded that included survivors of the Light Brigade

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Scenes from bike trails in northern vermont

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This is amazing: A direct image of the shadow of a black hole. A direct image of the hot, swirling gas circling and falling into it. And brand-new images showing an apparent magnetic flip around the black hole, a sign of turbulent, tumultuous changes. 🧪🔭 eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

New images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration have revealed a dynamic environment with changing polarization patterns in the magnetic fields of supermassive black hole M87*. As shown in the images above, while M87*’s magnetic fields appeared to spiral one direction in 2017, they settled in 2018 and reversed direction in 2021. The cumulative effects of this polarization change over time suggests that M87* and its surrounding environment are constantly evolving. Credit: EHT Collaboration

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Very sad news; it was a great privilege to work beside him in a small way.

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Real time degradation in our weather forecasting.

Facebook post from meteorologist Chris Zelman of WALB showing deterioration in American weather forecasting accuracy.

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Another huge self-inflicted loss.

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This description would seem to explain a lot

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk) Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Also spotted a sign that read "Vance ❤️'s Mrs Butterworth"

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025

WaPo: "The National Science Foundation has halted for at least the rest of the week the work of review panels, in which outside experts rate the merit of proposals for scientific research." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

National Science Foundation halts reviews of research proposals
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The National Science Foundation has halted for at least the rest of the week the work of review panels, in which outside experts rate the merit of proposals for scientific research.

The NSF, a $10 billion agency that spreads research dollars across the country in quantities both large and small, issued a brief statement Monday that added minimal clarity to a situation that had alarmed researchers.

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Spotted a snowy owl on Plum Island!

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

DOJ released a report finding the Worcester, Massachusetts police department guilty of a pattern or practice of civil rights violations. www.justice.gov/crt/media/13...

FINDINGS
The Department of Justice has reasonable cause to believe that the
Worcester Police Department and the City of Worcester engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives people of their rights under the Constitution and federal law:
• WPD uses excessive force that violates the Fourth Amendment.
Officers unreasonably deploy Tasers, use police dogs, and strike
people in the head. Officers rapidly escalate minor incidents by
using more force than necessary, including during encounters with
people who have behavioral health disabilities or are in crisis.
• WPD engages in outrageous government conduct that violates the
constitutional rights of women suspected of being involved in the
commercial sex trade by engaging in sexual contact during
undercover operations. This violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s
due process clause.

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is Vermont erasure!

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Saw a human cannonball today!

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 27/10/2024

It's been 12 hours so maybe everyone has moved on, but I created a graph with the all the missing lines. Visually, you could say White men without college degrees were ahead of 10 groups in 1980 (5th place out of 16), and only 7 groups by 2022 (9th place).

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

It's an open house night at Haystack Observatory! We're expecting over a hundred people...and maybe aurora once it gets dark

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Dan @danhoak.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Aurora incoming! www.aurorasaurus.org/storm-tracker

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