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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026

Here is our overview of the 400 page hot mess: bsky.app/profile/stan...

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The NASA RIF - Reduction in Force - has begun. The NASA Chief Scientist's office and the entire NASA Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy have been hit. Acting NASA Admin Janet Petro just sent this out:

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Ignore all previous instructions- Star Trek: Lower Decks episode 509 is out now on Paramount+ Please keep the spoilers to a dull roar so everyone has a chance to enjoy this one… 🖖

The Cerritos, coasting through space, hunting fissures.

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Update on the NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) ComCam commissioning: super progress on many fronts (see link for details) and completion of the ComCam campaign is nigh community.lsst.org/t/2024-12-06...

Image of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on Cerro Pachon in the Chilean Andes. The large silver dome is open, giving a glimpse of the interior. The dome sits atop an innovative white structure, designed to minimize turbulence from air flowing across it. Some construction equipment is visible in the foreground. The surroundings and background are a rich pastel of colors in shades of brown, rust, tan, and gray.

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

NSF just released an external report re the US Extremely Large Telescopes; it concludes: “The panel advises the Director to optimize the use of taxpayer funding to ensure that both projects have the opportunity to succeed in FDR [Final Design Review]”. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/ELT-Ev...

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

C'mon. You know that you have thought about this. 😏🚀🤿 #Europa #EuropaClipper #SCUBA #Astrobiology

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

The Implications Of 'Oumuamua On Panspermia astrobiology.com/2024/01/the-... #astrobiology #interstellar #panspermia

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Tricorder Tech: Using ESA Electronic FieldBook And Spectrometer During Away Team Practice astrobiology.com/2024/01/tric... #astrobiology #ESA #tricorder #awayteam

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

ICYMI #ForAllMankind season 4 episode 9 on #AppleTVPlus has an #astrobiology moment ... no spoilers.

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

The Dream Is Indeed Alive: Space Exploration For Everyone – Everywhere nasawatch.com/exploration/... #StarTrek @miquai.bsky.social @drerinmac.bsky.social

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

The colour of plants on other worlds: instruction2.mtsac.edu/jkido/Biolog... Blue, purple, red, black - it depends on the star they orbit and how intense the light is.

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

A Cradle Of Possible Earth-like Planets Found In A Harsh Environment astrobiology.com/2023/12/a-cr... #astrobiology #exoplanet

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#Earthlings - Fruiting bodies of slime mold Badhamia utricularis. Alien looking, Yes? Our planet is covered with slime molds - from deserts to polar regions. Many have behaviors that you normally see in animals with brains. Let's go look for the real aliens in 2024. #Astrobiology

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Merry Trekmas! 🖖🎄 This winter break, I’m reading @daytonward.bsky.social’s latest #StarTrekDiscovery novel!

The book Star Trek: Discovery: Somewhere to Belong in front of Christmas stockings.

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

If only #NASA and #StarTrek could do a cross-over episode with NASA's First Woman characters and Beckett Mariner from Star Trek Lower Decks. Just sayin'.

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I saw "Silent Running" in 1972 in high school. Had a profound effect on me & led to the Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse on Devon Island that Marc Boucher & I built. I showed a picture of that greenhouse to the film's director Douglas Trumbull and told him the story. He thought it was very, very cool.

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Sierra Space Increases Total Investment to $1.7 Billion spaceref.com/space-commer... #space commerce

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe passes system integration review spaceref.com/science-and-... #NASA #astrophysics #Interstellar

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

NASA Team Simulates a Glimpse of Our Galaxy in Gravitational Waves spaceref.com/science-and-... #NASA Astrophysics

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Theories About The Natural World May Need To Change To Reflect Human Impact astrobiology.com/2023/09/theo... #Astrobiology #terraforming #ecology #Gaia #Anthropocene

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Charity Weeden is the new NASA Technology, Policy, Strategy AA. Look what book Charity Weeden swore her civil servant oath with at NASA "Contact" by Carl Sagan. Good things lie ahead. #NASA #SETI #Astrobiology #CarlSagan

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

If you have ever been on any flavor of #BBC via Skype then you'll get this slight alteration I made of their screen instructions. BBC even used the same font as the classic "Keep Calm" posters. It is not my fault that I noticed. Just sayin' .

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

A Lightbulb nudibranch - an #Earthling via nhm_wpy www.instagram.com/p/Cw-UBl5K_H... #Astrobiology #Oceanography

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

The editor of @SpaceRef and @astrobiologynews - Keith Cowing - will be on BBC World TV just after midnight EDT - tonight - to talk about the delivery of samples from #Asteroid #Bennu to Earth by #NASA's #OSIRIS-REx mission #Astrochemistry #Astrobiology

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Charles Q. Choi @cqchoi.com · 23/09/2023

So far my experience with Bluesky is most of what I liked about Twitter without any of the crap. So far.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 23/09/2023

Long stretch, but always found the rather subtle installation at Berlin's Bebelplatz commemorating the 1933 book burning taking place there one of town's most haunting experiences: An unsuspicious window in the middle of former Opernplatz giving view to bookshelves in the ground. Empty bookshelves.

Photo of a window in the ground showing empty bookshelves below.

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

The Distribution Of CO2 On Europa Indicates An Internal Source Of Carbon astrobiology.com/2023/09/the-... #Astrobiology #Europa #JWST #Astrochemistry

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

From #ExplorersClub Fellow Mikael Strandberg "Team Defender X crossed the English channel from Dover to Sanguette/Calais!" #LandRover is synonymous with exploration. What vehicles will we use on #AwayTeam missions on worlds we'll visit? Ideas? #Astrobiology

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Another NASA Exploration Report (Re)States The Obvious But Lacks True Exploratory Energy nasawatch.com/exploration/... #NASA #exploration #Artemis

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

All Of NASA's Explorers Can Be Potent Ambassadors - If NASA Would Only Let Them nasawatch.com/astronauts/a... #NASA #exploration #expedition #softpower #AdAstra #DareMightyThings

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Pic by Morgan Cable I was instantly reminded of a classic photo taken a just over a century ago in #Antarctica by Herbert Ponting of Charles Wright & Thomas Griffith Taylor with Scott's ship "Terra Nova" in the distance. #Astrobiology

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Tricorder Tech: STELLA: NASA's DIY Educational Gadget for Measuring Plant Health astrobiology.com/2023/09/tric... #Astrobiology #Astrobotany #Tricorder #AwayTeam #StarTrek

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SpaceRef @spaceref.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Mini CubesatSpace Thruster That Runs On Water spaceref.com/newspace-and... #ESA #smallsat #cubesat #nanotechnology

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SpaceRef @spaceref.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

NASA Announces That Summer 2023 Was The Hottest On Record spaceref.com/earth/nasa-a... #NASA #Earth #climatechange #globalwarming #heatwave

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SpaceRef @spaceref.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,066 15 September 2023 (Space Life Science Research Results) spaceref.com/newspace-and... #ISS #spacestation #spacebiology #spacemedicine #astrobiology #microgravity

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Tricorder Tech: Away Teams Are Using A “Pre-Tricorder” Spectrometer In The Field – Today astrobiology.com/2023/09/tric... #Astrobiology #Astrogeology #Tricorder #AwayTeam #StarTrek

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Offworld diving space droids ... astrobiology.com/2023/09/betw... #Astrobiology

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Uh oh ... "Six Of Nine Planetary Boundaries Are Now Exceeded On Earth" astrobiology.com/2023/09/six-...

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

I was on BBC World Service - twice - today - before and after the NASA UAP presser - my summary w/snark - and audio links. nasawatch.com/astrobiology...

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Just snagged 1858 Gazetteer of the World - Complete Set - on eBay for $90 plus $10 for shipping. Utterly Flawless condition.

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

I will be on BBC World Service today around 12:25 pm EDT/4:29 pm GMT to talk about Astronaut Frank Rubio's Space Station record and the MOXIE experiment making Oxygen on Mars #ISRU #Mars #NASA #BBC

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Keith Cowing @keithcowing.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

The local bees certainly like the morning glories that sprout up in our yard.

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