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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The craziest compound-impurity story I’ve ever heard:

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Stander

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 06/09/2026

Trevor is a regular contributor to a lot of planetary science and an excellent example of how the professional-amateur astronomy community can work with the professional astronomy community for the purpose of science! 🔭

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Chromantasy- book genre about dragons doing liquid chromatography

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 06/08/2026

Thinking about the *multiple* (more than 7) recent conversations I’ve had with men who find interactions with LLM’s delightful and enjoyable and who joke about the flattery ans obsequiousness but clearly enjoy it I hate these conversations. Also: zero similar conversations with women.

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's always telling to see how so few men amplify my posts about women in science, even though (does a quick analysis) about 60% of my followers are male

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ich hadde an Odyssey joke but it got turned arounde

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Tiffany C. Graham @bluenote123.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s rape. www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...

Quote from a paragraph in the attached article.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today I fixed a plumbing leak in my lab with a $3 part and my team was surprised. Why didn’t I call the landlord (lol)? And where did I learn to do that? A surprising amount of chemistry lab work is just plumbing. Sure, sometimes its gas or vacuum, but it’s all pipes and pumps and valves, really.

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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I genuinely can’t believe this is really happening. We need the night. This is some of the most dystopian stuff I have ever seen in my entire life.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Yeah, it's a real shock. What is remarkable is that 4 is the total number, it's not just domestic, it's international as well. This will (I predict) have unusual impact of global academia as well.

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

okay this was the real point of the trip and ive been practicing for weeks and weeks AND I FUCKIN DID I DID IT I DID IT just hand developed this shit TODAY fuckin ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY ON FILM MOTHERFUCKER fucking KODAK T-MAX 400 hell yesssssssssss 🔭

very clear Milky Way above a blurry tree

andromeda galaxy and its satellite and you can even see the dust lanes brooo

big dusty beautiful close crop of Milky Way detail with a longer focal length than other image

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(starhag) @gwenforr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Best I managed to get of the Lunar occultation of Venus yesterday. Missed the key moments due to clouds and fighting with gear. It looked sooo much better in the eyepiece of my other telescope. I could see Venus fully resolved, and lunar surface details more clearly.

Image of the planet Venus, seen as a small bright gibbous shape, very close to the right of the face of the moon, seen as a pale blue arc spanning the left side of the frame, both against a moderately darker blue background.

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 19/05/2026

People are tired of Democrats who campaign against corporate greed, then protect billionaire interests behind closed doors. Case in point: Delaware Democrats helped pass a billionaire-backed bill shielding ultra-rich CEOs like Elon Musk. So now we’re running to replace them.

Working Families Party endorses Shay Frisby, District 5; Shane Darby, District 1; Adriana Bohm, District 1; Pamela Salaam, District 16; Rae Krantz, District 6; Will Imbrie-Moor, District 19. Delaware September Primary.

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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The ChemScrapes Chess Set #chemsky #chemchat #chess

cartoon drawing of a chess set. All the pawns are atomes with their electron clouds, castles are beakers, knights are horses with SOMOs on them (fronteir MOs). bishops are volumetric flasks, king is NMR, queen is free energy.

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Linn Boldt-Christmas @nplinnspace.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🔭 A cautionary tale for undergrads (and above!) using AI for #astro plots: our BSc student wanted to make a "quick" HR diagram showcasing M-dwarfs & thought some chatbot could make one and... well... ...extra credits are now offered to students who can correctly find all errors on cursedHR.png 🫠 🧪

A pathetic attempt by AI sloppery to make a HR diagram, generated by one of our BSc student, and shared here with their permission. Honestly, I can't even begin to explain all the deviations. Imagine a normal HR diagram but one that appears to you in a fever dream. It gets so much worse the longer you look at it. WHY IS THIS ALLOWED TO EXIST AAAAA

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David Nash @dpnash1.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Nice night of amateur observing from Portland, Oregon. Jupiter, high in the western sky early in the evening, was one of the most spectacular objects in the sky tonight. Other pretty things: the first quarter Moon, a bunch of pretty double stars, and the giant star cluster Messier 3.

The author’s 12.5”/32 cm Dobsonian reflector, aimed at Jupiter, which is visible just above the end of the scope. A house with rainbow lights is visible in the background.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We're just brain-nuking a generation of junior coders. Some of the senior ones too, though when it all goes to shit maybe they'll still remember their old skills? Maybe something interesting will come of it, like new languages. But it's going to be brutal. All that education and potential wasted.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 22/04/2026

Out: the doomscroll. In: coming together to elect local leaders that actually care about us, our neighbors, and our planet.

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Amy N-K @aankphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

In the garden today. 💐💕

White tulip (with fading grape hyacinths in the background).

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Random student question I got today: What is your favorite unit? What is everyone's favorite unit of measurement?

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 12/04/2026

There’s no way to couch this: Vance is getting pillowried during negotiations in the former Ottoman Empire sofar.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 11/04/2026

SPLASHDOWN!!! Y'all, we just watched people go to the Moon AND BACK!

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Good lord, I swear I have to do this every three goddamn months: if you’re sharing the r slur just to show everyone some dickhead used it, all you’re doing is sharing the r slur. Fucking blur that shit if you must share, and if you’re doing alt text as you should be, say r slur and not the word.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/03/2026

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

Comic. Planets and Bright Stars Identification Chart. [Bright glowing dots over black background with labels underneath: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Sirius, Procyon, Antares, Altair, Betelgeuse, Vega, Polaris]

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

astronomy is so funny because it's this fairly niche interest for a small community of nerds and also it's 99.9999% of everything that exists

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

TESS confirms what we saw with Kepler and K2 - on average, ***every single small red star has a planet around it***! And a short-period one at that (<30 days). And you know what the galaxy is mostly made of? Small red stars. PLANETS. PLANETS EVERYWHERE!!! Happy weekend pondering that, everyone.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I don't think anyone pretending there isn't an effort underway by Republicans to eradicate trans people from public life can be taken seriously at this point.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

In astrophysics, yes, but in planetary science, no!

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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The force that teargassed workers, families, children, and elders who were peacefully protesting is the same force that has kidnapped sick kids and murdered two Minneapolis neighbors on our streets. We can’t appeal to the moral conscience of a system that has none. We have to win.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

*cough* A little bit of extra info to add here: There's only one transit, so the true period is unknown. It could be anywhere between 300 and 550 days. This is an exciting candidate! But (a) we don't know if it's real, and (b) we don't know what its temperature is if it IS real.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/01/2026

If I see you use this word, I'll block you. If you use it "satirically" I'll block you. Using it at all today is a really fine test of character. I've had some of my books edited because I used it twenty years ago and I'm ashamed today of having used it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

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The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I still can’t believe Steve is gone. Though I feel like he would be tickled by the fact that after all these years, in recent weeks, I FINALLY started getting into the Grateful Dead.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yes, the autistic Barbie is not perfect. Yes, it only includes one specific iteration of autism. But the way to get better representation of autistic girls (who get overlooked) is by starting somewhere and building on that. And if it sells, that encourages more www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

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Autistic Barbie sparks debate over what representation should look like

Mattel's new Barbie with autism has garnered mixed feelings from people within the autism community. Why?

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/01/2026

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

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Amy N-K @aankphd.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Today, I’m being reminded that my pride has a cost. I didn’t want to inconvenience anyone or ask for what I really needed, and I’m completely wiped out a day later. Silly, perhaps… but sometimes I just want to feel normal and easy-going.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Block the absolute shit out of this nazi filth. Do it with an ancient curse on your lips, with black lightning coursing through your blocking finger. Or just do it the regular way. Point being: block ‘em.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I realize this is probably pedantic, but I wish Democratic leaders would stop telling people to be "peaceful", and instead use the phrase "non-violent." When people are getting maimed and murdered, we're definitely beyond "peaceful."

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