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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 19h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How beautiful is Helsinki’s central library, Oodi?

A long building with gently curving wood panelling across the front that twists above the entrance to provide cover above glass doors. The plaza in front is almost empty. Blue sky above.

Under the wood panneling in front of the entrance. Looking along the glass doors which reflect the fall colored trees in the park across.

Under the wood panelling in front of the glass entrance. The wood twists along the length of the building until it meets the ground.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GBG —> HEL It’s definitely Fall in Finland.

View over yellow trees and some farmland from a few hundred feet above ground out an airplane window and just below fluffy loose clouds that fill the sky to the horizon.

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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 10/09/2026

My company, Million Concepts, wrote and maintains the software that makes the decorrelation stretch (DCS) images from the Mars rover cameras, like the one in the article. It's open source and anybody can use it. On anything. It doesn't have to be space pictures!

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marslab/marslab/imgops/render.py at main · MillionConcepts/marslab

A home for Python utilities useful for working with observational data of Mars, especially multispectral image data. - MillionConcepts/marslab

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My first trip to LOFAR 2.0! The Swedish LOFAR station was upgraded about a month ago. Looks the same as it did before but you can *feel* the broader bandwidth. Must be the blue sky.

A green field full of vertical poles supported by perpendicular wires (the low frequency array), and in the background a large grid of low to the ground antenna covered by black tarp (the high frequency array). To the left of the electronics container.

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 23/09/2026

Hi Colorado peeps! Did you know there are multiple terrible ballot measures on the docket for November, but especially two anti-trans measures that need you to VOTE NO on. No on 134 - bullshit anti-trans sports ban No on 135 - bullshit anti-trans medical ban

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Brandt Gaches @brandt-gaches.space · 18/09/2026

*Job hire announcement*: I'm hiring a postdoc in my group! The postdoc will work on a project to use molecular dynamics to build the first atomistic view of the chemistry of icy grains following heavy-ion impact. Ad: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Deadline: Nov 15, 2026 Start: Mar 1, 2027

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New press release, "154 MSEK: Onsala Space Observatory wins Sweden’s biggest science infrastructure grant". www.chalmers.se/en/current/n... Supporting new receiver development for ALMA, strengthening contributions to SKA, EVN, LOFAR, ALMA, and keeping OSO at the forefront of radio astronomy. 🧪 🔭 📡

Onsala Space Observatory viewed from above. Image is of a rocky coastline intermixed with fields and trees. Three large radio telescopes and a ray dome are illuminated by the to the east (right).

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Curious if you get any replies and would love to hear about such a document! 🔭 🧪

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Voted in my first Swedish election this weekend (regional and municipal). Hooray being able to vote where I pay taxes and for proportional representation!

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy anniversary to us! Just upped our coffee game.

Cardboard box, just before (actually after) the unboxing. Box has a black silhouette graphic of a coffee grinder and says Fellow Ode Brew Grinder. 64 mm Gen 2 brew burrs

Photo of the grinder on the counter. The front has a dial with values 1 to 11 (is this Spinal Tap?). The inside of the bean reservoir cap has recommend ranges of settings for different methods of coffee preparation.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It should be unimaginable that in 2025 alone, seven former NFL players under 48 died as a result of suicide. That is an unforgivable figure the football industrial complex is entirely responsible for. And yet, nothing material changes. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

theguardian.com

CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching

A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gothenburg Trail Run 12 km today! 4/147 women; 18/283 overall. Interestingly, more women than men in this distance trail race. It was expensive for an event that was also closer to 11.5 km (and the “premium” race t-shirt price was ridiculous), but they had really nice post race falafel wraps.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 1: It's carbonate-vs-carbonate with copper-rich #Azurite against zinc-rich #Smithsonite. Which has your vote? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of bright blue azurite and peach-colored smithsonite crystals.

The azurite forms clusters of round nodules with a matte, almost velvety-looking texture.

The smithsonite crystals are mostly discs with parallelogram faces. There are some black and gold-colores minerals mixed in.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 30/08/2026

Are you awake? 🥱 NASA Live coverage of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch starts at 6:20 a.m.! Launch is scheduled for 7:26 a.m. You have time to make coffee. ☕ #NASARoman 🔭 🚀

nasa.gov

NASA Live - NASA

NASA live: Follow live television broadcasts on NASA+, the agency's streaming service, and NASA's social media channels with this schedule of upcoming live events including news briefings, launches and landings.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oooh, a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket

A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2026". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup26."

The starting matches are, in chronological order in pairs from top to bottom alternating from left to right each match:
Azurite vs Smithsonite
Erythrite vs Skutterudite
Sphalerite vs Anorthite
Bournonite vs Vesuvianite
Cuprite vs Orpiment
Quartz vs Asagiite
Monazite-(Ce) vs Andalusite
Stichtite vs Talc
Hafnon vs Putnisite
Pyromorphite vs Gypsum
Calcite vs Julienite
Pyrrhotite vs Cylindrite
Arsenopyrite vs Halite
Riebeckite vs Gadolinite-(Y)
Chrysocolla vs Xocolatlite
Cassiterite vs Graphite

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This incredible piece of crop art (made entirely of seeds and grains like wheat, amaranth, barley, etc.) from the MN State Fair has been circulating a lot. The artist's statement, and the Picasso that inspired her, are important additional context.

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there
was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics
of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own
resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” Jennifer Nelson

The piece is made entirely out of crop seeds (rice, amaranth, wheat, etc.) glued to a board; its center is a resistance loon and the figures all around are based on Picasso's cubist style. One carries a sign that say ICE OUT. Alex Pretti and Renee Good are also depicted.

Picasso's "Guernica" -- a large, cubist representation of the horror of war occupation with figures stretched in every direction

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Okay chat, I have a new goal: run a qualifying time for the NYC marathon before the end of the year so I can run it with a friend in 2027. The lucky qualifying marathon: Spijkenisse in 13 weeks! Why: it’s in a country I will be in between 12 weeks from now and 31 Dec. Should be fun! :D

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

404media.co

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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David 🇨🇦 @dibiaaa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For the people in Toronto. 😞 bsky.app/profile/sund...

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#ResistanceRoots Mareta Nelle West was born on this day in 1915 in Elk City, Okla. She was the first female astrogeologist, known for choosing the landing site for Apollo 11. She transformed a workaround she developed to overcome gender bias into a unique ability to map the surface of the Moon. /1

Mareta Nelle West. She navigated the gender bias of her era not with outward anger or subversion, but with emotional stoicism, professional warmth and a positive outlook on life. Those who knew her often noted her bright demeanor. To preserve her happiness, West became a master of compartmentalizing her professional struggles away from her passion for science. By keeping her eyes fixed on the grand, timeless scale of the Earth and the Moon, the temporary social biases of mid-century America seemed small and manageable. She maintained a joyful demeanor because she felt lucky to spend her brief “instant” in time charting the solar system.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Spent the last 3 days hiking around Karven and Roltdalen National Park in Norway, near Trondheim. Tested out a new Hilleberg Gallo tent (it’s great), and saw loads of reindeer, in addition to the incredible scenery. 🏕️ 1/n

A tent pitched above the tree line. The front outer tent is unzipped revealing the inner tent. To the right a winter trail marker (pole with a red “x”) is visible to the right. A backpack and trekking poles lie on the ground in front. Green hills with low ground cover extend rinto the distance.

View of a broad Norwegian valley. In the foreground is a summer trail marker: a small stone with a red “T”. A hiker walks away down the path with a blue backpack and hiking poles.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Driving through Värmland, Dalarna, Härjedaland, Jämtland on the way to still greater adventures. Seen: 1 moose, 2 ptarmigans, 27 reindeer, the only identified post-glacial meteorite crater in Sweden (Torkratern; 2000 years old; there should be 40-50), and beautiful landscape.

Standing on the path around the edge of a 2000 year old crater in the middle of a sparse pine forest/heath. There’s a pile of large cracked (bed?)rocks in the center. It’s 40 m in diameter and 5 m deep.

A scenic view across heath, meadows, tundra, to distant mountains in the middle afternoon. The colors of vegetation vary from green to yellow to purple.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We have a new Dr! Last week Dr Clara C. de la Casa defended her PhD thesis, Environmentally-Driven Galaxy Evolution and Cluster Assembly from a Multi-Phase View of the Bayronic Cycle in the Hydra I Cluster. The committee also awarded her a Cum Laude distinction. I’m a very proud supervisor! 🧪🔭📡

The cover of “Environmentally-Driven Galaxy Evolution and Cluster Assembly from a Multi-Phase View of the Bayronic Cycle in the Hydra I Cluster” by Clara Cabanillas de la Casa. It features 3 galaxies with the background image in Halpha, purple contours for the atomic HI, and orange contours for the molecular CO gas.

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UIS Observatory @uisobservatory.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I think this is a great point. Debugging is an important skill with lots of applications and you don’t develop it as well if you are always asking someone or something else to find the solution for you. I tell students struggling up to but not over the point of frustration is part of learning.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The narrow streets of Granada, Spain were as enchanting as always this week.

View of Albaicín from the road down the Alhambra. Tall dark cypress trees rise between a sea of sandy tile roofs and white painted houses.

A cypress tree on the side of shallow pedestrian steps with a view of the old city of Granada with the churches rising above the rooftops.

A narrow passage between houses. On either side are white wall with plants on the ledges. Straight ahead a shallow descending stairs and a view across to the Alhambra.

A narrow walking street with a white and black mosaic in stones on the ground. On either side rise three story apartment buildings painted in bright colors: yellow, blue, red.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

. @ryanairofficial.bsky.social, where the “express bag drop” is a 45 minute queue and the employees are ruder than the passengers waiting in it.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Job alert: the Spanish SKA Regional Center (espSRC) is looking for a System/IT engineer with experience in computer system administration and cloud services to be the sysadmin of the espSRC computing cluster. Deadline Sept 20: amiga.iaa.csic.es/job-offers/s... 🧪 🔭 📡 Can confirm: Granada is amazing.

amiga.iaa.csic.es

Sysadmin – Systems and Distributed Computing Engineer for the Spanish SKA Regional Centre (IAA-CSIC, Granada) – AMIGA WEB

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Think of all the awesome science-ing we could do with an extra £20M......🧪

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just heard UKRI is cutting all funding to eMERLIN array, Jodrell Bank & the historic UNESCO Lovell Telescope (pictured) in addition to other cuts in radio... This just as radio astro around the world is growing! Shockingly shortsighted to harm the UK’s own community. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 😤

The 250 ft (76 m) Lovell telescope points straight up in the parked position. The structure which supports the dish and the altitude track are very geometrically pleasing. People around the bottom show its ginormous scale. The telescope sits in a field at low light against a partly cloudy sky.

The Lovell telescope observing in an early Dec morning, with the dish illuminated by light yellow glow of sunlight. The dish is reflected in a reflecting pool in front of a building. The sky is a stunning clear blue.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 25/07/2026

Based on current information, the Cebreros station appears to have remained unharmed. My deepest thanks go to the Spanish emergency services whose efforts helped protect the site as wildfires approached. Left: 24 July 19:57, Right: 25 July 07:54

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UIS Observatory @uisobservatory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Two years ago, we made a clip about the Geology of Alpe d'Huez! Enjoy today's climb!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026

9. By supporting universities, they support the human capital development that flows into the commercial sector and generates the growth and innovation that has been a massive boon for US commerce. This plan undercuts that role, with disastrous consequences that will ricochet for years to come.

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Bet the WRU are furious 😁

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’m headed to Granada for my student’s PhD thesis defense on Monday (yay!), but I might be flying into the Sahara desert today. 😳 😷

View of the horizon from an airplane window with the engine visible at the bottom. Although out of focus, the atmosphere has a strong transition from blue above to very dusty brown below which obscures features on the ground.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Shout out to @wisespace.bsky.social who gave me an invite to bluer skies.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/07/2026

The anti trans crowd was outraged by this study because it included clinicians who actually practice gender affirming care. Yet another systematic review that follows Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Utah, and Louisiana that finds this care is safe and effective with rare regret.

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AstroArxiv @astroarxiv.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The size of the HI disk across different environments: isolated, compact groups, clusters, and pairs. R. Ianjamasimanana et. al. arxiv.org/abs/2607.16467

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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Status: recovering from vacation.

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’ve been less excited for bonus soccer. But not often.

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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Look, it's been a while since I wrote thousands of words on some dumb American soccer thing. So I decided to research & write the definitive story of Striker, the most beloved mascot in World Cup history. Not that anybody asked for it. On @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

theguardian.com

Move over Soccerey Bally: how Striker the dog became a 1994 World Cup hero

The tournament’s mascot came to herald the ubiquitous, commercial aims of a growing international spectacle

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