Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 4hHad a group chat with Joshua Kutryk on the ISS this morning 010
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Reddit only cares about the clicks. Doesn't know who you are, just how the paid-things will spread. And this one's spread. 000
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wow, haven't done a birds post since July .... Left all these English birds to wait! This is the Dunnock!! Heard frequently, but very small, shy, and well camouflaged!! These guys were shot up on the Cotswolds in the spring!! 🦉🪶 #ukbirding #birds 081
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Another #oxfordpubreview but it's a double header! In The Hague, we found a dedicated Montreal smoked meat shop! Dutch #MSM is exhibit A. Day Dream Deli!! Exhibit B is the legendary, delicious, Schwartz's Deli on Boulevard Saint Laurent. What do you think? 010
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Japanese beer in Montreal! Non alcoholic #bskybeer #beersky at Ramen Nakamichi Hitachino Nest 🦉 051
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#beersky #bskybeer #DenHaag Chess & beers in cafe Momfer de Mol, The Hague ( #EPSC2026 ) 060
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026OMG writing about cars when you don't drive 😂 It's definitely the regenerative braking. Constant start-stop, never coasting, and some EVs are Aggressive with it! (This is in the article, but buried at the bottom) www.bbc.com/news/article... 🔬bbc.comWhy electric cars might be making some passengers feel sickResearch shows there are several reasons people might experience motion sickness in electric vehicles. 110
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The #Sooke brewery took action after a photo was shared. No one at the brewery took action on Wednesday? Only after the community spoke up? www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/va... 020
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Congratulations to Joshua Kutryk and the rest of Crew 13 on reaching space today! First Albertan in #space! 🔭🔬 #Alberta 1171
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not sure why, but this somehow became the sounds of the summer 020
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Loads of recent stories with the same message, different content. @theguardian.com editorial: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... More behind paywalls in the WSJ and FT. Meanwhile, UK rules out an AI kill switch. 🧪theguardian.comThe Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival | EditorialEditorial: Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend 031
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is the most cyberpunk shit I've ever read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o... 🧪nytimes.com 131
Reposted by Kevin OlsenESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 07/09/2026Mercury, here we come! 🛰️ 🌑 Eight years and nine planetary flybys later, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has parted ways with its Mercury Transfer Module – the first critical step in its Mercury Arrival Phase. Catch up on how it happened ICYMI 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 🔭 🧪 #planetsci 1/2esa.intBepiColombo begins Mercury arrival with MTM separation successOn 3 September 2026 at 15:49 CEST, the European Space Agency's BepiColombo Mission Control Team at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) received the signal they had been waiting for&n... 19324
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We need clear policies in place about using AI to write and review, but this relies on honesty among authors, editors, and reviewers. Would we even know if our manuscripts were fed to an AI to judge? 🧪🔭 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgCan AI help solve the peer-review crisis? Here are its promises and pitfallsAmid a shortage of human reviewers, tests indicate AI can assist—but is not a savior 030
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026www.birdoftheyear.org.nz Bird if the Year! Let's go crested grebes and herons!!! 🪶🦉 030
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Saw camera lenses on display at Luqia (formerly INO) in Quebec city last week but didn't take a photo 🫣 030
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Close up of the wheels transferred from MDA to Airbus 051
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ESA brought out the big ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover to #EPSC2026 in Den Haag. 🍁 Canada was an original supporter of the ExoMars programme and provided the wheels and suspension and lenses for the cameras! It's been a long time coming to get this far!!! #planetsci 🧪🔭 2244
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Impacting elections was always the value of Twitter AfD’s lead candidate thanked Musk “for your support...Iwould very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comGermany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’ 010
Reposted by Kevin OlsenPhil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And this was the exact moment I stopped using Google maps 65723117
Reposted by Kevin OlsenMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣) 556241366662
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Félicitations to the entire team behind the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope that had a successful launch on a falcon heavy (two boosters returned). This is a flagship level space telescope following JWST and Hubble. It's namesake was the first female NASA exec, key planner of Hubble! #planetsci 🔭🧪 0336
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io 🧪🍁 23620
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This #Oxfordpubreview comes from Dieu du Ciel in Montreal. Gorgeous burger, appealing textures, especially the bun. Really let the burger stand out rather than being buried under bacon and sauce. Tastiest fries in Montreal so far! (Benelux is a second) 020
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"We recognized that sometimes its signature was written in pencil." What a line from Carney! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caRead Mark Carney's full speech after trade talks with the U.S. collapsed | CBC NewsBelow are Prime Minister Mark Carney's remarks after Canada suspended trade talks with the U.S. and the Trump administration imposed new 50 per cent tariffs: 020
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Big result from the APXS and Curiosity teams pulling cover of @science.org Pure sulphur revealed inside stones pulverized under the rovers wheels! They propose billions years old magmatic gases trapped in sulfur-rich clathrates in the subsurface cryosphere. doi.org/10.1126/scie... #planetsci 🔭🧪 0217
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This the actual Kodak film reel that recorded the first Canadian space experiment: ionograms from the Alouette 1 mission! The spacecraft transmitted a radio signal into the ionosphere and the reflection was received by a ground station and recorded onto 35mm photographic film! 🧪🔭 1292
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I always found it ironic to go the Washington Post, see their slogan "democracy dies in darkness", only to face a paywall keeping us in the dark.... These days, the paywall is up but the slogan is gone.... 011
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team have found the recent falcon 9 upper stage crash site on the Moon and just released images! lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1499 #planetsci 🔭🧪 33911
Reposted by Kevin OlsenAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Remember the 4 tonnes of Space-X debris (15x4m diameter) travelling 5400mph that slammed in to the moon 2 wks ago? Well here's the before and after images that we've all been waiting for! What should we name this new crater? Sadly the name Crisis has already been taken by one of the Mare.🔭🛰️🧪 157217
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Methane, a possible biomarker, is reported by the Curiosity team, but not by the @esa.int ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter teams...a route to rapid destruction after it comes out of the ground is therefore very interesting! 020
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026🚨New Mars paper out! Alian Wang et al describe experiments that show how little lightning strikes during Martian dust storms can impact the atmospheric chemistry in a way that may rapidly reduce any methane present! 🔭🧪 #planetsci doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... 1216
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This isn't news, exactly, but it's shameful to have reached the 'I told you so' phase of climate change. Decades of discussion and most of the world has been powerless while watching governments and industry choose to not act. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThis burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq KhanLook at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan 020
Reposted by Kevin OlsenZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 09/08/2026July 2026 set a new record for the month for near-surface air temperatures across the Tropics. Note the long-term warming trend as well (in all months), as indicated by the shading of the older (blue) to more recent years (red). Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... 213749
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026These are the long tailed tits! Smaller, rounder, cuter!!! Even with a little pink on their bellies! They bob up and down when they fly! #ukbirding #birds 🪶🦉 160
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Now it's all coming together! This is Liam McSherry in the chosen room, reposted from Instagram! 010
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It's been a momentous period in the @oxfordphysics.bsky.social Space Instrumentation Lab. The team has been hard at work building the Flight Model of our half of the @esa.int Comet Interceptor instrument. Last week we received the second spectrometer from @vtt.fi!!! #planetsci 🧪🔭 170
Reposted by Kevin OlsenRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/07/2026Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/ 225221688
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I've been getting to know one the authors, Prof John Wade, through the OPAL network, Oxford Planets and Life!! 030
Kevin Olsen @drksolsen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Hot off the press, a new analysis of InSight seismic data for Mars has revealed some tantalising new structures! This is interpreted as hardened lava tunnels - a transcrustal magmatic system! 🌋 The team is from @ox.ac.uk Earth Sci #planetsci 🔭🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s415...doi.orgSeismic evidence for a melt-depleted lower crust and transcrustal magmatism on Mars - Nature AstronomySeismic data from NASA’s InSight mission reveal a melt-depleted lower crust on Mars and indicate that Earth-like, vertically integrated, transcrustal magmatic systems and associated crustal differenti... 1195
![Comic. [Person 1 with short hair on stage behind podium reading off paper while addressing audience. People are shown sitting in chairs while Person 2 with ponytail and Person 3 waving are walking toward stage.] PERSON 1: This year’s Nobel Prize in “calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results” goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did *not* announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. PERSON 3: Thank you, thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihztdrvxjeyzmz6dmz3xb4vi6wiwwtge6fwdoxjcum5aptndv3kfm)