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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's so wild and wonderful that this robot has been wandering around Mars for FOURTEEN YEARS and we get to watch it trundle about and poke rocks and send home postcards. ❤️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA Science

While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times

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Jess Edwards @edwardsjk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you are attending #ISPEAnnual2026 this week, I'm happy to chat about this opportunity or answer any questions.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.

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Jess Edwards @edwardsjk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My least favorite type of missing data problem.

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Jess Edwards @edwardsjk.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Chapel Hill/Carrboro Cargo Bike People: is there a good local bike shop that works on e-cargo bikes? Currently stumped by an issue with my daily commuter.

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Jess Edwards @edwardsjk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

!!!!! Best news of 2025, easily. Even if it is just a maybe.

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

We have turned America into a parking lot—1.31 billion parking spots or 4.76 for every car, to be precise—and it has made us sick and poor. Public health policy has a real stake in parking policy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Parking and Public Health - Current Environmental Health Reports

Purpose of Review Parking is a ubiquitous feature of the built environment, but its implications for public health are under-examined. This narrative review synthesizes literature to describe pathways...

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Elizabeth Smith @instantsunrise.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

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Jess Edwards @edwardsjk.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Of course we are not supposed to obsess about the home stretch polling data, but… >90% hugely informative missing data about an election with enormous consequences? Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say I’m going to think about that a lot over the next 2 weeks.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

The Economist has published a deeply-researched story about car bloat -- and it's very, very damning. "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: www.economist.com/interactive/...

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