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22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 15h

Updated NOAA data to show visiting high school students the hurricane and wind patterns on our planetarium dome.

View of Earth over the pacific with wind pattern overlay.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bonkers: Sea levels are running 1.2ft above the late-20th century baseline in San Diego as sea surface temperatures are about 7°F warmer than normal. These highly anomalous ocean temperatures and heights will continue through winter along the California coast amid El Niño. #CAwx

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An absolute giant.

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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 06/10/2026

NEW: The contrasting colors in NGC 7129 show differences in temperatures detected by #NASAWebb. The gold cavity at the left is hottest due to the central star and other embedded stars. The clumpy, red matter is colder and represents jets from less mature protostars: news.stsci.edu/3U8T7Bz 🔭

$A young star cluster filled with many stars that display the Webb Telescope’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star, which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. There are several background galaxies strewn throughout the image/$

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just thinking of how San Diego is home to over 115,000 active duty service members.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can't stop looking at these rocks that Perseverance has been poring over the last few days. They remind me so much of rock on Earth where I find tiny fossils. To be clear, not saying that has anything at all to do with what we're seeing here, but these do look geologically interesting.

A robotic arm lowers science instruments down to rocks on a reddish desert floor.

Black-and-white closeup of complex structure in a rock with smaller rocks and minerals jumbled together.

Color closeup of complex structure in a rock with smaller rocks and minerals jumbled together.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Literally a mile from the beach.

Car dashboard showing temp of 102F (and NIN playing, of course)

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Too hot to walk these weasels today. Wish us luck.

Black and tan pup Amelia, on belly on beige carpet, looking up at the camera.

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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week’s image is of NGC 6164-5! Captured by Gemini South, this dramatic inverted S-shaped cloud is a nebula sculpted by gases ejected from the rapidly aging, massive star at its core. Check out the 🧵 for another paper. #Astronomy 📸 in thread

$An image of the emission nebula NGC 6164-5 set against a black, star-filled background. At the very center shines the exceptionally bright star HD 148937, radiating intense white and purple light. Surrounding the star is a thick, glowing bipolar cloud of gas and dust that forms an inverted S-shape with somewhat rectangular, rounded corners. The outer edges of these nebula lobes glow brightly in striking orange and reddish hues, especially along the top-right and bottom-left curves. The interior of the nebula, closer to the central star, features darker, heavily textured clouds in shades of deep red, brown, and purple. Several prominent stars with diffraction spikes and countless smaller, fainter stars are scattered throughout the surrounding space.$

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really miss downloading new images from Cassini everyday.

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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On Tuesday, researchers at UC Riverside, said they have modeled a nearby binary star system and found that it could potentially support an Earth-sized #exoplanet in a #habitable orbit. Read more: buff.ly/C1tCCs1 📸 NASA/ ESA/ CSA/ STScI/ Robert Hurt (Caltech/IPAC).

A foreground banded planet with 2 distant suns, one brighter.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was talking to my physics students about our lack of preparedness today: no or poor AC, single-paned windows, little insulation, etc... Older buildings will not be able to keep up with this new norm.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Grateful we at least have a wall unit, but this town is not ready for extended heat waves to become the new norm. Good luck to you!

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

San Diego will spend the first week of October under an extreme heat warning. I've received an email, a text, and a voicemail as warnings. Temps will be about 20F above the average, even here one mile from the Pacific,. This is going to be a rough week for a lot of people.

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NASA Webb Telescope @nasawebb.extwitter.link · 01/10/2026

They say planet formation’s a cruel endeavor Violent collisions, like that between a proto-Earth and a Mars-sized object named Theia 4.5 billion years ago, shaped our home planet. Webb is helping compare other young stellar systems to our own. t.co/Chc49miHrh 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4rL1UpN

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Sarah E Moran @offallingstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Still server issues. Now Laura Watkins (head of science policy at STScI) is saying new deadline tomorrow, Oct. 1st at 5pm EDT for all proposers.

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You might want to sit down for these... 5,014 days after it landed, the Curiosity rover sent back these absolutely stunning images of Mars. The rover's incredible team deserves some credit from NASA's bosses for their achievement. Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/Additional processing S Atkinson

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 19/09/2026

Did you see this really neat image from my thread yesterday? It was taken by AS Fruchter at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and is an H-alpha image (hydrogen gas emitting as the 21cm photon). Here is an updated, annotated version from me. We don't see the pulsar here, only the WD.

grainy image of the PSR J0437-4715 system creating a bow shock as it plows through the Galaxy. A red line is drawn between the pulsar and front of bow shock and annotated as being approx. 47 times the Sun-Neptune distance. The pulsar dot itself is annotated, noting that the pulsar and the white dwarf are only 1 million km apart. A nearby galaxy, RX J0437.4-4711 is also annotated.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 18/09/2026

Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location at the edge of our Milky Way. It contains two massive molecular clouds from which clusters of stars are actively forming, as captured in this #NASAWebb image: bit.ly/4fRIdZ4

A star-forming region. At center right is a compact star cluster composed of luminous red, blue, and white points of light. Faint jets with clumpy, diffuse material extend in various directions from the bright cluster. Above and to the right is a smaller cluster of stars. Translucent red wisps of material stretch across the scene. Background galaxies are scattered across this swath of space, appearing as small blue-white and orange-white dots or fuzzy, thin disks.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am so sorry for your loss.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From NASA The Moon’s got a big new crater! 🕳️ Spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the McGetchin crater formed when a rock as big as a six-story building crashed into the Moon. It’s 141 feet deep and wider than the length of two football fields. 🪨💥🌕 go.nasa.gov/3TzHqUf

Two images of a lunar landscape seen from above. The first image includes a circled dot, which is a new crater. The second image shows the same view before the new crater appeared.

A rugged, circular crater on the Moon seen from above. Rays of fresh, bright material ejected by the impact radiate out from the crater at the center of the frame.

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"...NSF was the largest federal funder of the physical sciences in higher education for all but one fiscal year since 2003." This is a huge blow to university-based physics & astronomy research. 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢

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The shrinking NSF support for the physical sciences

The agency has awarded fewer grants in the physical sciences this year than most years in its history.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026

#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc

$At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.$

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just to update this. The kidnapped driver was indeed a student. A member of our Haitian population, which ICE is targeting in its most recent terrorist activities.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nice photo but pretty easy to scroll past until you realize it was taken on Mars.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I maintain that Pluto is *too* interesting to be a planet.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the many things about Pluto that is more interesting to me than whether it's called a planet or not.

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Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Let's try this again, since I forgot I don't actually give my name on this account and not everyone knows me by my acafanmom username: I'm Lori (Hitchcock) Morimoto, I do media fan studies and dabble in Japanese popular culture. If you use any of my academic work on your syllabi, can you ping me?

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity 2026-09-10 Sol 5010: Mast Camera #Mastcam mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger

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ESO @eso.org · 09/09/2026

The heart of the scorpion 🦂 Join the trip to the iconic red supergiant star Antares, shining with a strong red tint at the centre of the constellation of Scorpius. Yet observations revealed something unexpected in its atmosphere. Discover more: www.eso.org/public/news/eso1726 🔭

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's been really exciting to work with @jayke.io, @gradientrider.bsky.social and the rest of this amazing team using JWST's AMI mode to find a fifth candidate planet in the classic HR 8799 system!

Figure from the paper, illustrating the orbits of all 4 previously known planets in HR 8799 and the putative fifth planet, closest to the star in orange.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Celebrating #StarTrek60 by watching my favorite episode. Yes, "Subspace Rhapsody," my beloved, I need you after this exhausting day. (When it becomes obvious the episode is a love song to Uhura, I always sob.) #StarTrek

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But honestly, mostly angry students.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It really, really is. Got some scared students now.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Being in downtown San Diego, city streets run through our campus, so the argument could be made that stopping the car was "off" campus. Still, the students are very upset.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Unmarked ICE vehicles stopped a car at my college, San Diego City College. Passenger (a student) fled to the safety of our buildings. The driver (possibly a student?) was kidnapped by ICE. Here is a statement from our chancellor. youtube.com/shorts/L1JSm... #AbolishICE

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090826 Chancellor ICE Response CITY Vertical

YouTube video by San Diego Community College District

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/09/2026

To shed light on an early stage of planet building in our solar system, Hubble and #NASAWebb examined Trans-Neptunian Objects—mysterious, frozen planetary building blocks that never formed into planets. This is the deepest such survey to date: news.stsci.edu/4zX3fgY 🔭

An illustration of a roughly spherical, rocky object against a black background speckled with distant, white stars. The rocky object is the color of red clay and is pockmarked with craters and other geological scars. At the bottom left corner of the illustration in gray lettering is the label “Artist’s Concept.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I want almost everything in this collaboration. OMG.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Seeing the same behavior here. Sigh!

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve had the other way around. Hmm.

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