iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 17h

What a book!

A book on a wooden table. It’s One day (when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable), everyone will have always been against this
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IOP Publishing @ioppublishing.bsky.social · 23h

A new study shows that our Solar System will fall apart sooner than previously predicted! Researchers now estimate that the outer planets of the Solar System will be thrown into disorder roughly one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf: ow.ly/He3l50ZV8ra #Astrophysics #Astronomy

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 19h

Fiona Oakes is one of the most selfless and honest people I’ve come across. What an absolute inspiration and legend.

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FediBoard Science @fediboard-science.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The truth is out there - but identifying signs of life in space involves an intense search for biosignatures within our solar system and beyond. However, developing sensitive yet compact technologies… #science #astrobiology #space

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A new electrical technique that could help identify biosignatures of life on other planets in compact, low-power hardware suitable for space missions

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘I like mathematics largely because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.’ (Bertrand Russell)

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well done. I can both points as well; an equal and opposite reaction would ideally somehow not involve violence, but aside from harsh language or an instantaneous education piece, I don’t know what that would entail. Ideally those “men” wouldn’t attack women in the first place.

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A kick in the bollocks always works! Sucks that you were harassed, but good that you dished out appropriate force to disincentivise them. The worrying question has always been: why do some men/boys think/do such things? The insidious rise of the “Manopshere” and incel misogyny is beyond awful.

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Leigh Fletcher @leighfletcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brilliant, #ESAJuice got itself an XKCD! #planetsci

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just 292 days until my deferred Gower Peninsula 50km. I’ve got a few half-marathons and 25km events planned beforehand to get me ready…

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

True. Everything is part of a damn subscription these days. Some of them even have the audacity to charge *even more* just to remove the ads they retrospectively add in, in case they didn’t make enough money. That’s why I hate commercial TV. Just the BBC and Netflix could be enough.

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OK, Black Mirror and Peep Show are also great.

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve seen quite a few on that list, but if I had to make one recommendation, it would be: “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. Larry David is amazing at creating hilariously really awkward comedy (my favourite genre). You’re welcome.

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ESA Technology @technology.esa.int · 24/09/2026

When a satellite runs out of fuel, its mission is over ❌⛽ That's why @esa.int is working towards a future where spacecraft can rendezvous, dock, refuel, repair, recalibrate and even be repurposed for new missions indefinitely: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel this sound, Coming up from the underground. We break it down, Coming up from the underground . youtu.be/Iv6tgrQ0Srk

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Deadly Guns - From The Underground (Rave Core)(Official Videoclip)

YouTube video by Deadly Guns

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In all the grandiose discussion about colonising Mars, I don't see much about how the soil is poisonous to us. This was only discovered in 2008. It contains perchlorates, which are environmental toxins here on Earth. Any human contact with Mars dust? Super-bad news in the long run. 1/

NASA image from the surface of Mars, showing its red dusty surface with rover tire-tracks running across it.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Being able to quickly recognize a real message from space and decide whether the pattern buried in the noise is a real message or nothing at all is an important challenge in SETI. planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/teaching-m...

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Teaching Machines to Recognize a Message From the Stars

John Elliott on The Technosignature Toolbox for IAUS404

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/09/2026

I said I'd do a thread about my new Space Science Reviews paper, so here it is! This is part of a collection of papers arising from a meeting at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in 2024: a workshop to better understand rocky extrasolar planets. A 🧵:

Interior structure models of Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, the Moon, and Io, all shown to scale and key elements labelled.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Save the date for Life and Space 2026 Tomasz Zajkowski and the Polish Astrobiology Society invite schoalrs globally to consider joining Life and Space 2026 (LAS26), the Society's international online astrobiology conference, taking place December 4–6, 2026. Full details at astrobio.pl/LAS26.

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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) @iacastrofisica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🔭 El Telescopio Nazionale Galileo celebra hoy en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos 30 años de ciencia, descubrimientos e innovación. Tres décadas estudiando el Universo desde La Palma y mirando hacia el futuro de la astronomía. 🌌 👉 ow.ly/goM950ZQ6No

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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

LPL alum honors Weird Al.

Newspaper screen shot of article, headline “UA grad helped name asteroid after Weird Al' Yankovic”

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For the 1st time, an extrasolar planet has left a radio fingerprint of its own, distinct from its star’s. 🔭 That fingerprint also tells us how strong its magnetic field is.⚛️ The planet is called β Pictoris b.🧪 Illustration Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) #planetsci #astronomy

Artist’s impression (not a photograph) of the young giant planet β Pictoris b. A large, banded gas world fills the foreground, lit in warm orange-reddish and brown, with a bright young star farther back against a starry sky.
Artwork from 2014, made for the first measurement of the planet’s spin, not for the radio detection.

Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1414a/

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

music.apple.com/gb/album/enj... All I ever wanted, All I ever needed Was here in my arms. Words are very so unnecessary, They can only do harm.

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Odyssey - Single by Romantik. on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 2 Songs

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Caltech IPAC @caltechipac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Huge congratulations to the NExScI team on launching AstroFetch! This new tool makes it easier than ever to query #exoplanet science data. 🔭 Give it a spin at exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu!

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Understood. So you didn't immediately change the title on all your bank cards, and subsequently always introduce yourself as the, "esteemed Dr Calhau"? 😉 Sounds like a Bond villain come to think of it...

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've seen others like yourself doubt if they should even use their pre-nominal title; it's the apex qualification that puts you in whatever the upper percentile is, so I'd be wearing that badge of honour like there's no tomorrow.

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Nick Offerman: PhD Doctor's Appointment Meme

ALT: Nick Offerman: PhD Doctor's Appointment Meme

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thanks for your insights. I assume most people feel the same, so the anxiety seems all the sillier - that's probably the best revelation. Practice, practice, practice in working the problem is essentially what CBT advocates extol anyway.

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