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K. Schmahl

@kschmahl.bsky.social
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San Jose, CA, USA

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 👏 arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
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K. Schmahl @kschmahl.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
From Southern Fried Science: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:" Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...
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“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant
My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
“Escaping the responsibilities for proper responses could serve as the very definition of Trumpism. It exists to deny the high-minded and bring its ruination.” Here’s a profound take on an anti-profound presidency: open.substack.com/pub/nealgabl...
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The Little Discussed Secret to Trump's Ruination of America
Years ago – twenty-seven to be exact – I wrote a smallish book titled Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, in which I argued that the most powerful force of the then-late-twentieth cen...
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patrick6669.bsky.social @patrick6669.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Ice kidnapping isn't enough for them. Now they want death.
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
What’s the “fastest” aurora you have ever seen?
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burnzz @13urnzz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
#RockinTuesday #photography Red Canyon, one early September morning. #Utah
A red sandstone butte dominates layers of flora - trees, bushes, shrubs under a mostly clear sky
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” -Proverbs 14:31
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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
For those who say “Illegal is illegal.” On this Juneteenth, remember: slavery was once legal. Harboring a fugitive enslaved person? Illegal. Black freedom? Illegal. “Illegal is illegal” has always been used to defend injustice. Legality ≠ morality. Justice calls us higher.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It’s such a harmful Christian theology that looks at wars and famine and says, “this might be the fulfillment of End Times prophecies!” and “Jesus might be retuning soon!” instead of “look at how much people are suffering!” and “how can we stop this injustice?”
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 13/04/2025
An answer to this puzzle could open the path to variations that could save a lot of lives. 🧪
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We May Finally Understand Many Cancers' Weak Point As Long-Standing Mystery Solved
Experimental drugs have shown some effectiveness at shutting the crucial gene down, but not knowing how they work has prevented us from improving them.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated a deal to stop Iran's nuclear program. Trump, having inherited a vastly improved situation with Iran, deliberately tore it up. The fact that they are now on the verge of having nuclear weapons is entirely his fault.
A chart of Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium, which climbs from 2008 to 2015 when JCPOA is signed and then drops to near nothing... until Donald Trump withdraws from JCPOA and it climbs again.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 30/03/2025
These planet-forming rings of dust and gas are a lot smaller than we thought. 🔭
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"We've Been Wrong For A Long Time": Protoplanetary Disks Are Much Smaller Than We Thought
A new study could help explain our gas giants, and distinct lack of super-Earths.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is how you do it
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 26/03/2025
billboard outside atlanta, brought to you by the canadian govt.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 26/03/2025
a strategy of full denial works better in a fragmented media environment.. @gzeromedia.com
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have worked with many untenured staff scientists & PIs at NIH. They are incredible colleagues who chose science in public service over more lucrative careers. Devaluing their commitment & professionalism is among the most cruel aspects of the DOGE purge www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 28/02/2025
A volcano erupted in Central America tens of thousands of years ago, creating an explosion so enormous that scientists believed it triggered prolonged enough global cooling to kick off an ice age. 🌋🧪 www.iflscience.com/one-of-earth...
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One Of Earth’s Largest Known Supereruptions Dramatically Altered The Climate 79,500 Years Ago
But ice core analysis has revealed surprising insights as to how quickly the planet bounced back.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 28/02/2025
The Alpha Centauri system is getting closer to the Sun, but its vanguard of rocks is already here. 🔭🧪☄️ www.iflscience.com/interstellar...
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Interstellar Meteors Might Be Coming To Earth From Our Neighboring Star System
The Alpha Centauri system is getting closer to the Sun, but its vanguard of rocks is already here.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/02/2025
Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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Meg K. 🌊🏔️❄️ @c2snow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science. Entire NIH departments will have no leaders. World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators. Is this what they want? Chaos? Destruction?
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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K. Schmahl @kschmahl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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The search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has resumed once again
After 11 years of the plane's untraceable disappearance, authorities have announced that the search is back on.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty. They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment. That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT. 👁️❤️🐶🐕
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Me: Hey can you do your dishes My roommate The Buddha: Perhaps your problem is not my dishes but your attachment to a clean sink Me: Alright man
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
When I was in high school, the guidance counselor used to speak really scornfully about easy electives like "underwater basket weaving" but I have contemplated this for 35 years, and I still think underwater basket weaving sounds really hard.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 29/11/2024
"Due to their unprecedented nature, these heat waves are usually linked to very severe health impacts, and can be disastrous for agriculture, vegetation and infrastructure. We’re not built for them, and we might not be able to adapt fast enough." www.iflscience.com/unexplained-...
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Unexplained And Deadly Heat Wave Hotspots Are Showing Up Across The Planet
As the planet warms up thanks to climate change, some of us are at more risk than others.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Wow. Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior five years after a devastating fire: apnews.com/article/pari...
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Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire
After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 29/11/2024
Multiple results suggest that something unusual is afoot when it comes to the Milky Way’s satellites, the smaller galaxies that orbit our own. www.iflscience.com/the-milky-wa... 🔭🧪
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The Milky Way Is An Absolute Weirdo Among Its Peers
New studies suggest that our galaxy evolved differently and is doing something peculiar to its surroundings.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
To be clear, since some have asked, these are all photos of clouds that I have personally taken (some which required considerable time and effort to seek out, though others were decidedly more opportunistic!).
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 28/11/2024
57 years ago today, Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, revolutionzing our knowledge of the vast universe around us! Here is our interview with Professor Bell Burnell from 2022🔭🧪🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFbt...
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The Woman Who Discovered Pulsars
YouTube video by IFLScience
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 28/11/2024
Several glitches have taken place over the last year too, with Voyager 1 sending back nonsense for six months before NASA was able to sort the issue. In the latest error to hit the probe, on October 19 it stopped sending signals back to Earth at all. 🧪🔭 www.iflscience.com/beating-the-...
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Beating The Ever-Growing Odds, Voyager 1 Phones Home From 24.9 Billion Kilometers Away
There's life in the old dog yet.
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health: Vaccines Antibiotics & antimicrobials Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene Food safety & fortification innovations Modern agriculture methods Public health education campaigns 1/
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Dr. Brian Goldman ER MD and Broadcaster @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...
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Study confirms face masks' effectiveness in reducing disease transmission, calls for improved public understanding
Researchers reviewed the benefits, practicalities, and harms of masks and masking, finding that masks are effective in reducing respiratory disease transmission despite some adverse effects, and empha...
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Twin Jet Nebula from Hubble
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