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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

1.5 hour timelapse of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha. I set this up quite late in the day and the Sun was pretty quiet so I was surprised how much evolution is visible in the prominences, granulation and the active region. I'll have to try more of this. Video is set to loop forwards, then in reverse 🔭

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Been imaging Saturn while its rings are nearly edge-on and tried some infrared filters. At this 889nm methane band, Saturn strongly absorbs light, whereas its rings scatter equally across wavelengths. Also a good visual demo of how astronomers measure exoplanet atmospheres! 🔭🧪 #astrophotography

Three images of Saturn from top to bottom: First, a standard RGB color image showing the rings nearly edge-on at about a 30 degree angle. Middle, a black and white image similar to above, but a little sharper taken with a filter that allows only wavelengths longer than 850nm. Lastly, at bottom, the rings seen as starkly white and the planet dark. This is a very narrow wavelength range of about 20nm centered on 889nm where methane absorbs light, making Saturn itself appear dark and the rings bright.

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

And as a bonus, here's a false-color composite of the same. Blue is mapped to all of visible, green is infrared beyond 850nm, and red is the methane band at 889nm. 🔭 #astrophotography #saturn

An azure planet on a stark black background with neon orange-pink rings seen nearly edge-on.

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gully @gully.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Yall check this out, it’s the top coolest thing I’ve seen in a while, closed form autodiffable representation of optical interferometry, enormously powerful. Yes!!

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Happy Pub Day to Earth and Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi 🥳 Earth and Earth-like Planets is officially out for publication! 🧡 All pre-orders will be shipped as soon as possible.📦 If you haven't ordered your copy yet, you can purchase one here: www.abodepress.com/product-page...

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Super happy about this paper today led by the brilliant @astroshashank.bsky.social - equations and information theory about what an interferometer really encodes about a stellar surface.

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 01/10/2025

Another tour de force from @astroshashank.bsky.social. Mapping stellar surfaces helps us understand that star’s planets, since the planets are illuminated by splotchy stars. 🧪🔭 Somebody hire @astroshashank.bsky.social!

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

New paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry? This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Reposting for the #astro feed! 🔭

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

An ant? No, an ant-mimic spider (Myrmarachnae). These are from the family Salticidae (jumping spiders) and you can see it in their big binocular front eyes. Although they have 8 legs they often wave their front two like antennae just to get in character. #bugsky #spidersky 🌿

A semi-front view of what looks like an ant on a piece of wood against a dark background. Closer inspection reveals the "ant" has two large binocular eyes and 8 legs--this is a spider from the jumping spider family

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I've had the privilege of reading these stories and I really loved its incisive read on the desi diaspora. If you like flash fic along with a dose of magical realism, preorder this book! And I may be biased but it's a great title and cover art too! #booksky #reading

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Hi yall this is a collection I worked so hard on & I'm so so grateful to Abode & to the editor Diamond & to my cover artist (chaoberries on IG!) It really came together so beautifully and I hope desi diaspora (esp if you grew up in the 2000s!) resonates w these quiet but contemplative stories 💜

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Earth and Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi is the eighth (and final) chapbook in Abode's 2024-2025 lineup and is officially available for pre-order! All orders will be shipped by early October. Preorder now: www.abodepress.com/shop

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Earth & Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi | Abode Press

Earth and Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi is the eigth (and final) chapbook in Abode's 2024-2025 lineup and is officially available for pre-order! All orders will be shipped by early October.…

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We're excited to share the cover of Earth and Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi! Earth & Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi is a collection of imaginative short stories following Indian American children, teens, and young adults as they come of age in a country that often alienates them.

Graphic depicting the cover of Earth and Earth-like Planets. The cover is purple with a planet and stars in the background, in the foreground a white teapot pours light brown tea into a teacup. In the right hand corner of the graphic it reads "coming October 1st".

Graphic with a description of the chapbook Earth and Earth-like Planets (which is included in the caption) as well as a link to preorder at abodepress.com/shop

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If I had a chapbook coming out that I wrotevwhile bedbound to cope with feeling disconnected from my culture bc im queer and disabled but I transmuted it into a bunch of flash surreal coming of age stories abt indian american kids who struggle with fitting in would anyone care

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

First time capturing this in a comic to raise awareness about my chronic illness (severe M.E.) 💗🥹 please read it took a month and I drew it with my fingers on my phone horizontal and bedbound 😭 (1/2)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

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Eric Horwitz @ericsandwich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

this is truly a legendary night for New York City. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social stared down every media outlet, every mainstream democrat politician, and more money than god and not only won but completely trounced the opposition. There's still hard work left to do but tonight is for celebration

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

FUCK the fascist Islamophobic nytimes and CONGRATULATIONS TO ZOHRAN MAMDANI

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Tomorrow is ours if we want it. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Jackie @jackief.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Getting rid of all the funding for Jobcorps is beyond evil

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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

My dad used to work with those kids at JobCorps, those kids had things rough even with the structure JobCorps provided…now that the guardrails for them are gone, there’s a lot of kids who become even more vulnerable

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Daddy. @oooohmandy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We’re not angry enough about JobCorps being shut down

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Bernard Taylor @bernardtaylorforfl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The job corps program was a vital program in my community that helped change the lives of lots of young people. It’s unfortunate that it will no longer be there as a resource for these children. #jobcorps

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

if you know something related to a post its good manners to check if it hasnt been posted 20 to 30 times already in the replies

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hello sharks today I have a question. How do you stop the phenomenon where you hate your work the most right when it's about to be published

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It's M.E. awareness day! Myalgic encephalomyelitis has one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease, yet most people have never heard of it. I've spent the last two years bedridden w very severe M.E. Most of us are bedbound/housebound. Rt for awareness please 💙

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

AR (active region) 4079 on the Sun with Earth superimposed for scale. Trying out my hand at hydrogen-alpha solar #astrophotography Taken with AT111mm refractor, Daystar Quark chromosphere and ZWO ASI715mc 🔭

Fiery red image with filamentary structures all around. Dark spot above center showing a dark umbra and a slightly lighter penumbra. Superimposed photo of the Earth, around the same size perhaps a little smaller than the spot

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Personally...I think Andrea's essay is a beautiful argument for encouraging diasporic writers to brave the chance of being misunderstood...I also think as an essay that's specifically lauding Vuong's *improvement* it seems to have caused a more critical discourse...in light of NEA cuts..idk abt that

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Now the problem is when your favorite poem u ever read is the kind that got a knock on the author's door, and if you try to look up a single line of it, you'll get a knock on your door. Iykyk, so can u send me the poem if u recognize what I'm asking for

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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"Zando plans to elevate the impact of Tin House’s existing, illustrious backlist, activating Zando’s own robust publishing infrastructure to enhance sales, marketing, and distribution efficiencies for Tin House titles." Wtfff

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Attention med students! Want to learn more about ME/CFS, Long Covid, & other infection-associated chronic conditions? Head over to Reddit and ask questions about our Anki deck available on IACCs until 5 pm ET today. Flashcards are available to use now! www.reddit.com/r/medicalsch... #MedStudent

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The time has come for everyone to write to the WSJ and ask that Sadanand Dhume be immediately relieved of a position he is patently unqualified to hold. That op-ed about Partition as a model is beyond disgraceful, it is offensive af

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Also a good reminder that long period gas giants rotate--this is about a third of a full day on Jupiter (9.9 hours). As a result of this rapid rotation, Jupiter is about 7% oblate, and Saturn about 10%. In a transiting exoplanet this should detectable from a JWST transmission spectrum! 🪐🧪🔭

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Why is this website Twitter for LinkedIn. Anyway that's ok

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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Jupiter rotation timelapse with lo (and shadow) transit! Taken Feb 8th from my backyard. Went out at 5 min intervals to capture a video. From each of these, the best 10% were stacked to produce a single frame (lucky imaging). 🔭C9.25, 📷 QHYII1585C #jupiter #astrophotography #astronomy

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Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

One sad thing that I think no one considers when it comes to AI is that for many housebound disabled people, we only have digital access to the outside world. With the prevalence of AI, we now have no idea whether the world we're being presented with is real or not.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

all you people who told us to calm down can go fuck yourselves

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 28/01/2025

I don't really wanna see the first I came poem because we heard warnings from living and breathing trans people, immigrants, unions, disabled people, BIPOC people... If you need the poem now then like idk dude, all the people in the poem have been talking

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The most frustrating thing is people are just going along with illegal orders. Don't DO that! Like the person who was fired without whom there is no quorum and whose term doesn't end til '28 should not be considered fired and everybody should stand by her.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Don’t go along with illegal orders. Don’t preemptively do things like taking pronouns out of your email signature and disbanding everything that might be construed as DEI. Make them stop you

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