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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/03/2024

Chandra, the space-based observatory that brings us incredible x-ray images of the most extreme environments in the cosmos, is at risk of cancellation. It’ll be a huge loss to astronomy if the mission ends prematurely for budget reasons. Go to www.savechandra.org to find out how to help #SaveChandra

A ghostly-looking image of powerful jets of radiation coming from a galaxy. (This is Chandra’s view of the galaxy Centaurus A.) There are wispy blue bubbles in the upper left and lower right and a bright blue jet of radiation emanating from the center of the image up to the upper left.

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Eileen Meyer @eileen-meyer-astro.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Please call your senators and ask them to *restore full operations funding* for the Chandra X-ray observatory! I really believe NASA has simply made a mistake here and cannot realize that the arguments put forward for decommissioning it were just /wrong/. www.savechandra.org

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Prof. Ghosty Neilsen @joeyneilsen.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

University email: STUDENT has requested that you write a letter of recommendation on their behalf. Me: Ok. Which dept? Uni: Me: Uhh.... When is this due? Uni: By the deadline. Me: Which is...? Uni: Is this student (A) the best student you ever worked with or (B) the worst? 🧪🎢 #AcademicChatter

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

GREAT NEWS! From the latest JAXA briefing: Solar panels deployed, nominal voltage seen, sun acquired, initializing thrusters and reaction wheels. XRISM LAUNCH SUCCESS!!! Congratulations JAXA

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Eileen Meyer @eileen-meyer-astro.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

That was fun, I know nothing about animals, and I will never get it in 5 guesses again... 🦋 Animal #36 🐹 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟥🟥🟨🟥🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Scientist? ✔️ New to BlueSky? ✔️ Wanna get your posts seen by people in your field? ✔️ Check out this list of 42 science-related feeds 👇 You can add specific feeds to your timeline to see their posts, and you can include your own posts in a feed by including a feed-specific tag. #AcademicSky 🧪

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Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 2452,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfhpnnst6flqway4eaeqzj2a/feed/for-science">What's Science</a...

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

In which I show that there's no evidence that the inventors of the alphabet could actually read. www.asor.org/anetoday/202.... Instead a remarkable "working misunderstanding" led to the alphabet's rise, much as with the invention of Greek script. ClassicsBluesky

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Who Really Invented the Alphabet?

Who really invented the alphabet? Although we are still uncertain about precisely where the world’s most influential communication system came from, we know more than we did 20 years ago.

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Eileen Meyer @eileen-meyer-astro.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Real truth: I never really used twitter except to find other astronomers excited about things like the HST proposal deadline. But I am reformed and ready to do this thing.

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