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Chris Schaller

@hicommander.bsky.social
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Software Developer, Planetary Image Research Lab, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona - MRO/HiRISE • TGO/CaSSIS • Europa Clipper/EIS - he/him/his.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 2h
Today in space: The Hera spacecraft is about to perform a hard burn so it can meet up with asteroid Dimorphos. 4 years ago, NASA deliberately crashed a probe into Dimorphos. Starting next month, Hera will map the wreckage. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 1h
After Hera reaches Dimorphos on November 25, it will map the asteroid at 1-meter resolution, study its gravity & inner structure, deploy 2 cubesats, and test rendezvous techniques that could be crucial for deflecting or mining asteroids in the future. 🧪🔭 www.heramission.space
Hera will be humankind's first probe to closely investigate a binary asteroid system. It will find out more about this type of asteroid and explore asteroid deflection. This infographic describes the Hera mission from its lift off from Earth to the end of the nominal Hera mission at Didymos.

Along the way, Hera will carry out lots of science, including measuring the properties of the asteroid and investigating the crater left by DART crashing into the asteroid’s surface. It will also demonstrate some impressive new technologies.
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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 11h
💎 Here is the final art of all the minerals competing in the Mineral Cup 2026, at last. 🧵 #mincup26 #mincup #minerals #sciart
colourful illustration of 32 minerals competing in the 2026 mineral cup. they from deep red, greem, to blue, white and grey, as we have here rocks, crystals and metallic minerals. azurite, cuprite, quartz, talc, halite, vesuvianite, graphite, pyromorphite, julianite, andalusite are just some of the minerals that compose the list.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hot off the presses and many years in the making- what we know about Selk crater now… Looking forward to rendering it obsolete journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... 🧪🔭
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This checks out.
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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 09/10/2026
Looking for some interactive art for kids? This week's #SciArt feature is coloring sheets designed by Annyse Buxner. Annyse’s mother is Sanlyn Buxner, a PSI Senior Education and Communication Special and Senior Scientist. Download the full series: buff.ly/BiGtaKD
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
OMG the behind-the-scenes during the commercial break! (Sponsored by Caruso's!)
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's just one of the many qualities your friends enjoy about you.
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Excellent placement of "…yet"!
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sponsored by Caruso's!
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
SQUEEEEE!
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A lot of folks have been tagging this lately, which makes me think it’s needed, so: I made a list that can fulfill your scroll itch but will get you away from the main timeline. It’s silly or interesting bots/accounts and it has NO NEWS. You can follow it like a feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
See you
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another JuIcE-y xkcd 🤣 xkcd.com/3308/
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Juice
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
20— What? TWENTY YEARS AGO?! And that was season three?!?! I'm gonna have a little lie-down. Maybe not so little. Please don't tell me how old Babylon 5 is.
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes!
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My friend and HiRISE colleague Richard has a couple of poems in here.
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well that's my day shot, I guess!
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I knew what the record would show.
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@asrivkin.bsky.social I *know* you want to make the joke, and I will respect and cherish you either way.
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Gustavo Rinaldi @gusrinaldi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
☁️🐉 #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit #BRart #fantasyart
Drawing of a sorceress in silhouette holding a staff running towards a giant dragon hiding in the middle of a giant storm cloud.
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"If you get." Spin the wheel, no whammies, no whammies.
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hypnobarb
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ugh. I had to yield to a goddamned cybertruck today in the parking garage.
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KNAU Arizona Public Radio @knauazpubradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Flagstaff artist Chip Thomas is one of this year's MacArthur Fellows for his work confronting issues affecting Indigenous communities. We revisit a story about his 2026 art exhibit that reveals the history of Black lumberjacks in northern Arizona. buff.ly/2Omwl4A
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An art exhibit reveals the hidden history of northern Arizona’s Black lumberjacks
An art exhibit at Northern Arizona University explores the legacy of Black workers who helped cement the enduring western icon of the lumberjack in the region.
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KNAU Arizona Public Radio @knauazpubradio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Flagstaff public artist Chip Thomas is among this year’s group of 20 MacArthur Fellows who will receive the no-strings-attached $800,000 grant to further their work. buff.ly/w5NtRbO
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Flagstaff artist Chip Thomas awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
Flagstaff public artist Chip Thomas is among this year’s group of 20 MacArthur Fellows who will receive the no-strings-attached $800,000 grant to further their work.
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Angela Marusiak @planetaryquakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're sending another seismometer to the Moon! www.nasa.gov/news-release...
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NASA Adds New Science Investigations for Moon Base - NASA
Editor's note: This release was updated on Sept. 30, 2026, to correct the name of the DISCO payload.
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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Three books. Hundreds of drawings of dinosaurs. This collection of three books, full of my palaeoart work, is back in stock and can be found here: dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/1689...
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EX|TERRA - Complete Collection Dinosaur Books - Etsy
This Art & Photography Books item by DragonsofWales has 482 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from United Kingdom. Listed on Aug 27, 2026
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For context, that's a typical size of a jurassic pterosaur (juvenile) found in the fossil record
Small sparrow coloured pterosaur
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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 02/10/2026
For example. "[...] unless you are a user with lots of direct domain knowledge about a language packaging ecosystem who is reading the entire raw message log as it happens, muse will aggressively download random shit from the internet and execute it." (from @jo.nny.rip)
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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
Attached: 4 images So again, how could one end up with a compromised package on a muse instance? Wouldn't that have to be some sophisticated supply chain attack? Nope! Muse attempted to install packa...
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/
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The Job by Elizabeth Bear
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brainiac is coming…
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's always something good to read in Clarkesworld!
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy Anniversary!
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026
It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.
Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.
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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
anyone else feel like this
A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I believe the current NASA administrator has a private collection of jet fighters…
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This looks like something from one of the UA's many bioscience labs, to be honest. (Complimentary)
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
HiPOD: Offworld Cool This stunning dune field, almost 5 km (3 mi) across in the grayscale cutout, is located at the bottom of an unnamed impact crater. The dark spots are the result of sublimation of subsurface ice. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077332_2420 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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User Fiona Tribe (fionatribe.bsky.social) says: Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
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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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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good news / bad news: you still have time to write up that last-minute idea! (Or not. Sometimes enough is enough)
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026
We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW!! NGHI!!! VO!!! We are THRILLED to present an excerpt from @nghivo.bsky.social's next novel, a bloody Gilded Age gothic coming October 6th. Come check out The Scarlet Ball!
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Read an Excerpt From The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo - Reactor
An all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Toro.
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 29/09/2026
📹: Animals Asia
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 29/09/2026
Watch prog legend Rick Wakeman perform for an audience of 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam
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Rick Wakeman Performs For 150 Rescued Moon Bears: Watch
Things are generally quite difficult for the Asiatic black bear, sometimes known as the moon bear. The moon bear’s bile is used in some traditional Chinese medicines, and many of the animals are being...
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