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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 2h

New #CoolWorlds video about that DM claim! Thrilled to have a dark matter physicist, Kaliroe Pappas, help me write this one. youtu.be/FR-3cPMMEEQ?...

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Did We Finally Detect Dark Matter Directly?

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it’s very likely we’ll see companions to isolated planetary mass objects (IPMOs) in the coming years and it raises the question what the hell to call them. The current IAU definition makes it clear that IPMOs are not “planets” and suggest “sub-brown dwarfs” (arxiv.org/pdf/2203.09520)

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Dave. Anti-Fascist As Feck. 🇺🇦 @daveafaf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is an insightful and terrifying summary of where the tech-bros are leading us from @davidkipping.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpF...

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Dissolved

YouTube video by Cool Worlds

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

22 years of Roman. It may outlast us all.

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The most sensitive search for exomoons ever - moons 2.5x smaller than Europa are excluded! And around a temperate Earth-sized planet to boot. What’s really neat is that, for the first time, we can confidently say another Earth does not enjoy total Solar eclipses. arxiv.org/abs/2609.05301

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denkraumverzerrung @denkraumverzerrung.de · 24/08/2026

"However, no IAU definition of exomoon exists, but the need will likely grow as companions are inevitably found in conditions foreign to that observed in the solar system."

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I get that 2TFA is useful but it's out of control. I'm under a constant siege of login challenges, messages and emailed codes in a typical day now.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A particle made of force? Chinese researchers claim they've definitively detected a "glueball"--a particle of bound gluons, which carry the strong force. Gluons bind together protons & neutrons, but they can also stick to each other. No ordinary matter required. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

The Beijing Spectrometer III has provided evidence for glueballs, which are made almost entirely of force-carrying particles.

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New podcast (solo) episode: We Need to Talk About That "First Exomoon" Discovery. Featuring views of Alice Zurlo, Kevin Luhman, @chrislintott.bsky.social, @jradavenport.com and @trentdupuy.bsky.social youtu.be/YGKrb3FAdM0

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We Need to Talk About That "First Exomoon" Discovery

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

YouTube is really having a moment about AI. There is enormous anti-AI sentiment and yet simultaneously widespread AI use at various levels. I don’t think academia has quite had that moment yet, but it mirrors YT with AI-slop papers, reviews, proposals, etc and anecdotally ubiquitous use.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I find myself confused here. The new object is in orbit around a star. It’s a planet, not a moon. The fact that that star is in orbit around another star seems neither here nor there. 🔭

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Why I don't think CD-35 2722B has an "exomoon"...

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Prices keeps rising. When will this AI-driven age of abundance manifest? The problem I see is that heavily indebted governments (basically all of them) would oppose abundance as it’s deflationary. They want to inflate away their debt. Because we borrowed so much, we’re trapped with rising prices.

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A fun conversation with my colleague Janna Levin!

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We don’t need to politicize astronomical bodies

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Are folks excited about SpudCell? Whilst an impressive technical feat, I have to question how much precisely engineered cells reveal about the natural propensity for abiogenesis. Of course it does guide us about the minimal set needed for life, but that feels like a much smaller prize.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/06/2026

At the end of the day, this visualization shows what's driving the rising risk of these dangerous heat waves. It's the human-caused burning of fossil fuels and the resulting increase in greenhouse gases. That's it. More climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through May 2026. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 432 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1940 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 340 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA GML. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Sarah Rugheimer is the bee's knees when it comes to explaining the realities, prospects, hopes and dreams of searching for life out there in the cosmos. This one will be worth a watch for sure. #FellowEdinburghFaculty 🔭👩‍🔬

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Finding it hard to sleep in since I changed my alarm… youtu.be/enYdAxVcNZA?...

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YOUR NEW MORNING ALARM

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Ask Claude literally any question… “That is an excellent and sharp question.”

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A bizarre thing I’ve noticed being back in the UK this year is that drivers are quite happy to turn into a sideroad at full speed when a pedestrian is halfway through crossing it & fully expect that pedestrian to stop in their tracks to avoid being run over. NY drivers are way more pedestrian aware.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Feels like we’re heading into civilization burn out

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Economically, do we have any evidence AI is increasing GDP? It seems the only thing it’s achieved is inflationary, on energy prices and RAM especially.

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I feel like each week I’m getting disturbed by another crisis or imminent one. Wars, famines, housing, energy, health care, inflation, government debt, nukes, jobs - do a deep dive on any of these and it’s bloody awful.

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What do you consider to be the best acting moment in the history of Star Trek? I’ll start.

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Star Trek Mind Blown Reaction Meme

ALT: Star Trek Mind Blown Reaction Meme

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The staggering size of the Universe is in itself perplexing. It’s outrageously large, indeed it almost feels unnecessarily large.

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Paul Gilster @gilster.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Przybylski’s Star may be the strangest object we've yet observed. Is it a technosignature? Very short-lived ultra-heavy elements like actinium, plutonium show up here. How? What is making these reactions on a stellar surface? Sagan had a thought on this. www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/05/15/p...

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Przybylski’s Star: Still Bizarre After All These Years | Centauri Dreams

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I think my greatest flaw as a science communicator is that I’m simply more interested in research. There’s a ton of stuff I know I should do, optimizing thumbnails, hiring producers, diving into YT analytics and just churning out more content, but I’m constantly called to research…

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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @andysaunders-1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is incredible. The new NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs. I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us: Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms and dancing aurora!

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

With the two-hour marathon now broken, I wondered: how fast could humans ultimately run a marathon? Between a simple exponential and a stretched exponential model, the latter is favored implying humans could run 1h47m (!) one day (assuming same rules/no cheating).

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I have a big new research paper on an epidemic problem we don’t discuss enough in astrobiology. Currently in review but I couldn’t wait to share so here is the video, paper should land on the arXiv next few days. youtu.be/u3HLrDkMRXY

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Why We Might NEVER Detect Alien Life

YouTube video by Cool Worlds

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