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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics) @chrisbecke.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. You can see the cloud bands of Jupiter as it is covered by the moon! #jupiter #moon #occultation

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 3h

"The Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, opening 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, destructive timber harvest and energy development." Today is the last day for public comment. Weigh in: defenders.org/roadless-rule

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The Roadless Rule

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 3h

Some planetary systems survive close stellar encounters. Others lose every planet. 🪐 Dr. Jeremy Webb explores the fate of planetary systems in stellar clusters with Dr. Moiya McTier on the SETI Institute podcast. Listen: sites.libsyn.com/462636/life-... 🧪 🔭

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 2h

🔎📷 Want to identify wildlife in camera trap images in #Python? Learn to download & classify images with {galah-python} + {speciesnet}, a deep-learning model for wildlife image classification, in a new ALA Labs guest post by Renuka Sharma & Xiang Zhao labs.ala.org.au/posts/2026-0... #pydata #ML 🧪🌏

An image of a feral pig in Australia in a forest area. The pig has patchy dark brown/grey patches and white patches. The background is full of luscious green foliage and brown leaf litter. The pig is outlined by a red square, identifying its location in the photo, along with text that identifies that this is an animal and that it is possibly a 'wild boar'

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6h

Olivia C. caught baby elephant "Matope" at the Dallas Zoo having the time of his life. His name means "muddy water" in Swahili. A classic case of nominative determinism: a water-loving elephant named Muddy Waters. Matope reminds you to hydrate. Mother Mlilo is there to make SURE you do. ❤️🫂🐘

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 2h

Active (black) and inactive (gray) USGS stream gaging sites in Nebraska. Based on an example in dataRetrieval R package document. To be clear, not a reflection of recent cuts. Most of the inactive sites were used in short-term studies, as long ago as the 1950s. But imagine if they were all active...

Map of points in the shape of Nebraska, with many gray, or inactive, stream gaging sites along all the river systems, and a much smaller set of black, or active, sites.

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 7h

Natural Chimneys is such a compelling place: "tower karst" (à la southern Thailand or Guilin, China) in the heart of Augusta County, Virginia. ⚒️

Aerial view of a cluster of multiple limestone turrets, with forest behind and mowed grass (& a fence) in the foreground.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 5h

Sunset photoshoot with these white-faced ibises! Despite the moderately-terrifying red eyes, these birds are stunning when the sun hits their iridescent feathers just right. #Birds #Photography

A white-faced ibis wading in shallow water among large green lily pads. The bird features a long, downward-curving beak, dark plumage on its head and neck, and iridescent green and golden-bronze feathers covering its back and wings under warm sunlight.

A white-faced ibis wading in shallow water with its beak open as it tosses food(?) in the air. The bird features a long, downward-curving beak, dark plumage on its head and neck, and iridescent green and golden-bronze feathers covering its back and wings under warm sunlight.

A white-faced ibis wading in shallow water as it picks up food(?) out of the water, with the water still dripping from the end of its beak. The bird features a long, downward-curving beak, dark plumage on its head and neck, and iridescent green and golden-bronze feathers covering its back and wings under warm sunlight.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 2h

“It’s not just that debtors cannot afford the new plans they are being forced to choose from, it’s that the entire loan apparatus that would allow them to make this painful choice has broken down and is, at the moment, beyond repair.”

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve been thinking about how AI could be the end of curated software, open or closed. If folks are going to lean into “AI, can you make me an image editing package like Adobe?” or more simply, “AI, can you overlay these two images?” the quality of output will plummet or always be like 70ish percent.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 9h

HiRISE 3D: Irregular Structures The aim of this image is to study cell-shaped structures on the surface of a debris-covered glacier to investigate if they are linked to an interaction between the ejecta and the ice. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_09346…

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 16h

Sicilian (Etna) basalt is also used in the building. The whole surface is coated with a wash that has oxidised the surface producing a skim of red ochre. I love this building and it’s the future! Build with stone! #urbangeology

View looking up the north side of the building which shows the minimal finish on the blocks. Some beams have been honed to a smooth surface, others still show the channels cut to house the explosives used to split block in the quarry. Half way up the building is a beam with minimal dressing.

Another vertical perspective looking up the building.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 16h

The building is constructed from beams of larvikite, a monzonite from southern Norway which is more familiar as decorative cladding because of its iridescent feldspars. However it has a compressive strength 3x that of concrete. This is the 1st building to use larvikite structurally in 100 years

Close up of the larvikite. A coarse grained intrusive igneous rock composed of blocky perthite feldspars with interstitial magic phase. The surface is stained red with ochre.

Some of the blocks show nice detailing with a design of scrolls and curlicues in very shallow relief

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 11h

California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”

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Fury in California after Trump suggests Iran could ‘take out’ L.A. or San Diego

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 11h

HiPOD: Streamlined Landforms These streamlined landforms adjacent to Shalbatana Vallis show multiple levels of fluvial dissection. An outflow channel carved by massive floods of escaping groundwater, Shalbatana Vallis is over 1300 km long (808 miles). uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077332_1895

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 11h

Literal actual constitutional definition of treason.

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 11h

Until you passed out from lack of oxygen. :) What people say about ‘smelling the Moon’ is fine dust particles lifted off lunar rock samples after exposure to Earth air or in the case of Apollo astronauts whatever ‘air’ mix they had on the lander.

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 11h

The Moon Exosphere (if you want to call that ‘air’) is composed of hydrogen, argon, neon, some sodium, and other traces. All of those are odorless. Sodium can produce a smell like ozone if exposed to water. If you breathed pure ‘concentrated’ Moon ‘air’ it would probably smell like nothing.

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Parag @parag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dark shark nebula in Cepheus at 650 LY away. Two beautiful reflection nebulae, lots of dark dust and a nice spiral galaxy. This image has everything! It is a stack of 80 three-minute exposures taken with William Optics UltraCat 108 attached to ASI2600MC-Duo. 🔭 🧪

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 05/10/2026

While mountains give us high-altitude dark skies, they disrupt smooth airflow, forcing the air to break into turbulent pockets. This atmospheric jitter is called "seeing." NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory was intentionally built where coastal airflow passes smoothly over the ridge. 🔭🧪

Observatory perched atop a rocky mountain with layered hills fading into the distance under a golden sunset sky.

Sunset casting warm orange light over high desert mountains with an observatory perched on a ridge at left.

Rubin Observatory perched atop its mountain summit site on Cerro Pachón. The observatory is boot-shaped at lower left with long white service building extending left and silver dome sticking up. The dome's vertical slit is open, revealing the telescope in the blackness within. The night sky is peppered with the pinpricks of stars. The Little Beehive Cluster of stars is a denser collection of pinpricks to the upper right of the observatory.

Illustration showing smooth ocean air flowing over a mountain, with turbulence forming on the mountain's opposite side. Two insets show the impact of turbulence on an image of a star: without turbulence the star is sharp, while with turbulence it's blurred. Text reads "A site chosen for steady air. Smooth, stable air flows in from the ocean..then gets disrupted by mountains, creating turbulence."

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"PIs: when do you want students to reach out about postdoc position requests?" *eyes the time-since-PhD requirements of fellowships steadily decreasing* Once they graduate kindergarten.

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NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Prairie Dog Town, Devils Tower National Monument #NPS #NationalParkService #DevilsTower

This webcam updates every 30 seconds to show a still image of live conditions at the park. Keep up with our bustling prairie dog town. Watch the dogs scurry from burrow to burrow, barking and evading predators. If you're lucky, you may catch a fox strolling by.

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1970: PBS began broadcasting on American television, and it became known for various programs, notably the children’s shows Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (starring Fred Rogers).

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Classic 80s PBS Logo Animation

Alt: Classic 80s PBS Logo Animation

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Myanmar's, "civil war did not begin because of rare earths. Reducing it to a mining war would be false. But when a mineral can finance armed forces, sustain administrations, and control borders, geology begins to extend politics by other means." www.pressenza.com/2026/10/rohi...

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Rohingya — Myanmar and the Rare Earth

Rohingyas, critical minerals, and a war in which the ground is worth more than those who live on it. “When a land contains strategic minerals, its

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Roman for Scientists @nancyromansci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎉Spotlight on PI-led Cycle 1 Survey – Roman-Kepler Legacy Survey! High-res imaging of the Kepler field: 200k targets, 4k candidate planet hosts & ~17M disk stars 🔭 Goal: uncover binary hosts, refine host demographics, and boost stellar astrophysics 🔗 bit.ly/3VK9HIg

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Brynn Paulsen, PhD @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 Researchers in the Boulder/Denver area: I'm building a photo library of real researchers at work & looking for volunteers! If you're a grad student, postdoc, faculty member or research scientist, I'll take professional-quality photos of you - for free. Interested? DM me! @standupforscience.net

five photos showing researchers fitting and using an EEG cap in a laboratory. Text reads: “Are you a researcher in Boulder/Denver? Would you be interested in (free) photos of you at work? DM me! Or email: brynn@standupforscience.net.”

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The Irish Heritage School @irishheritage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Landscape assessment – it IS all about the rock! Every landscape assessment should start with the bedrock – it is the skeleton of the environment and has a major influence on everything above it, including human settlement. Click the QR code #studyabroad #studyinireland #heritage #geology

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A few months, I got asked to do something amazing… 🖖 youtu.be/QCOwkvwYmmY?...

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THOSE WHO LOOK UP: A New Roddenberry Limited Interview Series

YouTube video by BEAM by Roddenberry

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Atelopus barbotini the purple pink toads: #AGoodPlace

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/10/2026

Astronomy news for spooky season: a zombie planet orbiting a dead (but still hostile) star. Evidence suggests the following: Star dies, expels outer layers, becomes white dwarf. Gas giant forms from the debris. White dwarf is now blasting planet with radiation, shearing off some of its atmosphere.

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Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case - NASA Science

New analysis of archival Hubble data points to the possibility of "dead" white dwarf stars hosting second-generation planetary systems.

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 05/10/2026

WCK is on the ground in Kharkiv after today's Russian attack. Bombs struck a residential area, killing at least 5 people and injuring dozens. Our teams are at the site, serving meals and snacks to impacted residents and rescue crews working through the destruction. #ChefsForUkraine

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 12yo likes specificity so it declaring this Ctenophore Day Pacific Sea Gooseberry Appreciation Day! Little Pleurobrachia bachei are shimmering transparent comb jellies like grape-sized spheres with a pair of ~14 cm long feathery tentacles and live along the west coast of North America.

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Sea Gooseberry - vic high

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hiring: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Geochemistry #postdoc #geochemistry #geosciences

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pteraster, Anemone, Paper Nautilus shell, Fkytrap anemone, Bryozoans?,Sponge, Sea Star, Plinthaster @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 966 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #rivers #dataviz #hydrology

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Rowena Lohman @rowenalohman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And look! There is even some interesting postseismic perhaps downdip? This is just from the browse images available at ASF - original data is much higher res. Offset from coseismic is not image misreg - see how other features are aligned.

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Rowena Lohman @rowenalohman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks to Francisco Delgado (fdelgadodelapuente.github.io) for alerting me to how well this M5.5 earthquake in Peru shows up in NISAR data. Event page: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... This is the automatically produced GUNW (id in followup)

NISAR interferogram with rainbow colormap (sorry) over the magnitude 5.5 Huamancaca Chico, Peru, earthquake, overlain in Google Earth. The earthquake shows up as a series of clear fringes in the upper part of the image, covering about 5-10 km. There is also a 70 mile (sorry) scale bar, and the Google Earth watermark.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You are looking at the dunes of Endurance Crater on #Mars, in this approximate true-color panoramic camera image, highlighting the reddish-colored dust present there. What a fascinating geological phenomenon! science.nasa.gov/resource/end... 🔭🧪⚛️ #planetsci #HistSci

You are looking at the dunes of Endurance Crater, in this approximate true-color panoramic camera image, highlighting the warm reddish and golden dust present there. The dunes show sinuous sand formations that extend to heights of less than a meter.
Fine ripples texture the slopes, and the nearest sand in the foreground looks granular and close.

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How more horrible can MK get? Clearly a lot more.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I continue to think that being “too big to fail” is **exactly** their plan for how to navigate the coming crash, and it’s why they’re pushing so hard to get everybody using pricy commercial AI products all the time for everything, even in cases where there is a clear downside (ie, education)

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Becky Lomax @beckyjlomax.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Arizona's Chiricahua is almost the 64th national park--passing Congress and now awaiting executive approval. It's full of nature's artistry: eroded rock columns, towers, pinnacles, and mind-blowing balanced rocks. Chiricahua National Monument #nationalparks #geology #arizona #rocks #parkchat

A slope of yellow grasses and green bushes rises to a lineup of tall rock columns rising into the blue sky streaked with clouds.

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