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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 26/09/2026

1 + 1 = 1 confirmed, checkmate Conceptual James

Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is about the best I could do through clouds tonight, but I hope you all enjoyed tonight’s lunar eclipse! f/2.8 Takahashi Epsilon 180ED at 500mm focal length. 5s exposure through clouds. #lunareclipse 🔭🧪

Lunar eclipse (through clouds) at 500mm focal length

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Andreas Fischer @afischer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We’re back from Spain and I’ve finally had a chance to look through my photos of the total solar #eclipse. We were able to watch the eclipse perfectly from south-east of León – at the edge of a sunflower field. What an experience! #Sonnenfinsternis #astrophotography 🔭

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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🔭🧪 -- should have included them first time around

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Morning all. After yesterday's exciting event, I put together a small montage as a record of UK's 90+ eclipse. Thanks for the perfect weather. Now back to Earth 🤩 #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Do you know an incoming @sfuscience.bsky.social student who could use a confidence boost in math? 🍎 ♾️ We have a workshop just for them: Math Prep for Science Students. August 24-28 at SFU Burnaby. Sign up here: continuing-education.sfu.ca/search/publi...

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Amazing experience to see the total eclipse from the coast of Spain 🌑🥹 I was worried about the weather but we got lucky 🤩

Selfie of a couple with eclipse glasses and the sun still shining bright in their faces

Photo of total solar eclipse with the sun in a clear sky over the ocean with a bit of foreground land. The sun is black in center with bright corona.

Solar eclipse just after totality with the “diamond ring” effect. The landscape is the same as in the previous photo with clear sky, ocean, and a bit of foreground land but there’s bright sun reflecting on the water this time.

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today's 91% partial Solar Eclipse in London thanks to a perfect sky. Videos to come. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com

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Marty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 12/08/2026

Eclipse from Ibiza. The most incredible thing to experience.

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Naztronomy @naztronomy.com · 12/08/2026

Sun Funnel redone with a frosted and gray shower curtain. Better contrast and I can see a bunch of sunspots! See video: youtu.be/eYQj2g1aOd4 If you are in the #Boston #Cambridge area, come join me at the CPL O'Neill branch at 1 pm today! #astronomy #solareclipse #telescope

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

ICYMI: @eisensteinium.bsky.social recently wrote this great piece in @nature.com about virtual cell laboratories: integrations of mechanistic simulations and artificial intelligence for rapid virtual experiments for complex biological systems. (1/4) 🧪 #DigitalTwins www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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‘Virtual cells’ aim to turn raw data into predictive models of biology

Simulations of biological systems could transform biomedical research, but researchers are still learning how to reproduce life’s complexity without drowning in data.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Live from the backyard: Veil Nebula (a supernova remnant), single 5 min exposure on my 80mm travel scope. Ionized hydrogen (red) and oxygen (green) make a beautiful arc, part of a broader formation called the Cygnus Loop. One of my favs! 🔭🧪

Veil Nebula in dual narrowband. 5 min exposure

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I just heard the official news: the Indiana Commission for Higher Education has approved IU Luddy's new B.S. in Biomedical Engineering! Way to go, everyone! This was my last major project as associate dean (see link below), so I'm thrilled to see the official green light! (1/2) #AcademicLeadership

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My Last day as Associate Dean

Today is my last day as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. As my three year...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 18/07/2026

In just ten minutes at the airport I’ve seen multiple Purdue ads. Multiple Taylor U. ads. Multiple Ivy Tech ads. Zero from IU. Pam pays her comms + marketing team multiple millions of dollars a year. To apparently choose to lose the race in a very visible location.

Sign at Indianapolis Airport promoting Purdue University

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Huh, how *do* you degrease an airfryer .... dammit!

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

1/11 In late June 2026, a paper in Nature by Labini & Galoppo using data from the DESI project claimed to have found anisotropy (directional differences) in the #Universe on scales up to 1 gigaparsec (about 3.26 billion ly). 🔭 This would have challenged the standard ΛCDM model.⚛️ 🧪 #cosmology

This is a slice from DESI’s large 3D map of the Universe. You can see galaxies and quasars as bright points spread above and below the Milky Way. Earth sits in the center of the view. A black area blocks the light from behind our own galaxy. The small inset shows the web-like pattern of galaxies and voids. The farthest light we see here left its source 11 billion years ago.
Credit: Claire Lamman / DESI collaboration.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is huge! Triple Negative Breast Cancers (TNBCs) are aggressive & disproportionately strike younger women. Historically, TNBCs have limited treatment options. Trodelvy, which targets Trop-2 is now approved in the US for first line treatment of metastatic TNBC. 🧪 www.gilead.com/news/news-de...

U.S. FDA Approves
Trodelvy® for First-Line Treatment of Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

- Trodelvy is a New Backbone Therapy and the Only Approved ADC in First-Line mTNBC Across
PD-L1 Status -

- Approval Builds on Trodelvy's Leadership in Second-Line mTNBC and Pre-Treated
HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer with More than 75,000 Patients Treated Globally -

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The OMB rule should be the most talked about topic right now. Why? It codifies political interference in all fundamental aspects of scientific discovery. We would not have Wegovy, Ozempic, Herceptin, Tamoxifen or other drugs if science was censored. 🧪 27unihted.substack.com/p/how-to-sto...

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Political control of NIH is about to become the law, but you can stop it

Read our short guide on the "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," learn how you can leave an effective comment, and other actions you can take

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wow! Blast from the past! While cleaning some boxes, I found a 1999 letter admitting me to the PhD program at the Cornell Center for Applied Mathematics, signed by none other than @stevenstrogatz.com as Director of Graduate Studies. I stupidly didn’t take them up on their offer to visit. :-/

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today is my last day as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at IU Luddy. As my three years draw to a close, I find myself with more thoughts than the character limit, so I wrote a short article. :-) #assdean #leadership #academia #education www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-las...

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My Last day as Associate Dean

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"Everything" is one of the comics that will be included in the "Parenting " SMBC comic collection that is currently available on Kickstarter! KICKSTARTER ◆ www.kickstarter.com/projects/wei...

Part 1/4 of an 8-panel SMBC comic. This first part has 2 panels. A man is describing how he often imagines meeting a great person from centuries past to explain modern science to them. He explains that is would be a thrill to see the face of Galileo or Newton or Faraday of Mendeleev or Curie or Darwin or Archimedes as they learned what we know now. Both panels shows the man in the imaginary scenario he is describing.

Part 2/4 of an 8-panel SMBC comic. This second part has 2 panels. The man says he then remembers that no one has yet to live long past a century, and that all those people are dead, unrecoverable. Beyond the read of technology, no matter it's sophistication. This disappointment is shown in the image by having the line of past scholars turn to shadows behind the man.

Part 3/4 of an 8-panel SMBC comic. This third part has 2 panels. The man then realizes that his young child is no different than the first human.

Part 4/4 of an 8-panel SMBC comic. This final part has 2 panels. He lifts his baby, looking at him. The narration says "you aren't 200 of 2,000 years old. You are 200,000 years old. And I will show you EVERYTHING." The final panel shows the man carrying his baby to look at planes as he explains how they work.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Congress passed a budget that rejected cuts to the #NIH, NSF, NASA, DOE. However, OMB (i.e. Russel Vought) stalled in releasing funds. As of Mar 24, the NIH has only rewarded 15% of its $47B budget. PhD programs are shrinking. China & India will dominate. 🧪 universitybusiness.com/research-cut...

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Research cuts are now having a chilling effect on academia

Universities are feeling the effects of delayed research funding even after lawmakers rejected deep proposed cuts in fiscal year 2026.

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This administration is making health scientists a non-sustainable career. #NIH #academicmedicine

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Samantha L Wilson, PhD @samanthalwilson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Timeline cleanse! Is there anything better than a corgi in a car?

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

My thoughts on Director Bhattacharya's Fireside Chat at the NAM workshop (a long 🧵) Overall (1) He clarified what he said that NIH is doing with regard to improving replication. While these are concrete steps, they seem either naive or dependent of unproven technology. Time will tell. 1/30

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

The UK/Europe edition of The Edge of Space-Time has landed in New Hampshire!! It's very pretty!! Out May 7 from @canongate.co.uk -- preorder now! And yes, North Americans, you can collect them all :-D 💙📚 buythebook.online/edge-of-spac...

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Testing a new Zwo AM3N mount—part of an 80mm APO travel setup. So far, guiding looks good! For reference, I have a ~2”/px imaging scale. 🔭

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Rebecca Bekker @rebeccabekker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🎉 The SMB #MathOnco Subgroup is launching its inaugural Early Career Awards! Grad student or postdoc presenting at #ECMTB2026 / #SMB2026 in Graz? Apply by April 30th! 🔗 smb.org/call-for-award-nominations/

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Mathematical Oncology - Call for Award Nominations

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman

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Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Continued 2: EF: Intuitive modeling of cell dynamics in tumor immunotherapy. With @mathcancer.bsky.social #STAGE www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-86…

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Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Now: @fertiglab.bsky.social (EF): Forecasting tumor-immune dynamics in pancreatic cancer #STAGE

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein. The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude” www.science.org/content/arti...

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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein

The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up. Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on “the ground” is deeply misguided.

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Carlos Pérez-González @cperez-gonzalez.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Interested in doing a PhD in tumor mechanobiology? At Université Paris-Saclay, the upcoming PhD selection process is open, and I’m looking to put forward a candidate to join my lab. If you’re excited about uncovering how mechanical signals regulate tumor progression, please get in touch!

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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The first version of FigTree was released nearly 20 years ago and it is still widely used (including by me). But there are currently 85 issues on the GitHub repo (github.com/rambaut/figt...) and some of them I don’t really like the look of.

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Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/figtree - rambaut/figtree

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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Can astronomical imaging be more sensitive, with no additional observations? Guo et al. apply machine learning to the co-addition (stacking) of multiple exposures. For stacks of 8 JWST NIRCam exposures, the detection limit improves by 1 magnitude. ☄️🔭 #astrocode www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 20/02/2026

Continue to stay where you are, Bloomington. Behemoth of a supercell. Rotation should be directly over downtown now (7:11 pm)

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@cody.im hail and strong (northbound) winds at campus east or northeast of tornado, so there's that CCW rotation. Heading to basement

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 20/02/2026

I see it on radar now. Tornado on the ground, west side of town. Bloomington, safe place, now.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 19/02/2026

Strongest circulation is now passing by the airport. Again, Bloomington, safe place. No obvious tornado but only takes a minute or so for one to pop out.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 19/02/2026

Our tornado warning should be coming soon. More details once that happens.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I already reposted this earlier, but wanted to highlight the contributions of our @stsci.edu postdoc Pierluigi Rinaldi who is going hard after these LRDs & doing awesome work. His paper on Virgil is based in-part on our MIRI deep imaging survey, MIDIS, find it here: scixplorer.org/abs/2025ApJ.... 🔭

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Deciphering the Nature of Virgil: An Obscured Active Galactic Nucleus Lurking within an Apparently Normal Lyα Emitter during Cosmic Reionization

We present a comprehensive analysis of the MIRI Extremely Red Object Virgil, a Lyα emitter at z<SUB>spec</SUB> = 6.6379 ± 0.0035 with the photometric properties of a Little Red Dot. Leveraging new JWS...

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