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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 9h

Pretty sure this was in a Bob's Burgers episode...

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It's International Save the Vaquita Day! Scientists & conservationists are coming together to give a live, free symposium on all things vaquita at vaquita.day ! Come learn about the latest in vaquita news, research, and policy! I will be making an appearance to talk about #SaveTheVaquita Week too!

International Save the Vaquita Day is October 10th 9-noon PDT! Live event with updates about everything vaquita! Watch live at vaquita.day or twitch.tv/porpoiseorg

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Calling all artists, streamers, and citizens of the internet! #SavetheVaquita Week is Oct 11-17th, and you can help! With fewer than 20 left, these little porpoises are almost gone and hardly anyone knows about them. Let's change that by flooding the web with vaquita content! Share and read on! +

Save the Vaquita Week October 11-17th 2026
With fewer than 20 estimated remaining, the vaquita is the most endangered marine
mammal on the planet. Found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, this little porpoise
is a relative of whales & dolphins and is the smallest of the cetaceans.

Vaquita are accidentally caught in illegal gillnets set for the totoaba fish, and they
sadly drown as bycatch. Fishermen seek out the totoaba for it's swim bladder
which is valued at many thousands of dollars in illegal markets.

Without intervention, the vaquita will soon be gone.

But you can help!

For one week, the goal is to flood the internet
with vaquita content. Use #SaveTheVaquita to
share art, videos, streams, and more on any
platform. If we all do a little, it adds up to a lot!

Image of Vaquita and calf in lower right by CassWArt

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Nerduino @nerduino.space · 09/10/2026

Live on Twitch chatting space, science and rabbit holes. twitch.tv/nerduino. #space #nasa #science #scientist #astronomy

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 08/10/2026

Occurred to me that I have to apologize to Ridley Scott. In the 2012 film Prometheus we're introduced to Rafe Millburn, aka "The Most Unbelievably Stupid Biologist Ever", and it makes WAAYYY more sense now that we know he probably got his bio degree from some LLM. Truly a man ahead of his time. 👨‍🔬🧪

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 08/10/2026

I rarely do this, but I'd like to ask your guys' help. I'm the President of HSP, UC Riverside's premiere student rocketry team. We're a donor-funded org: we don't charge our students dues to participate. Any support you can give would be tremendously appreciated. www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

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Your gift is an easy way to have a significant impact on the future of BCOE students!

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/10/2026

Seeing the Moon Jupiter occultation is at 3 AM my time after being up until 5 AM for three days in a row collecting data on Saturn. Uh, no. I'm going to sleep. Yes - I realize that's only like 1 1/2 hours away. Shutup.

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Monsters Inc Boo Tired

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/10/2026

Amateur astronomer doing public outreach locally and online at Twitch.tv as part of a growing STEM community there. Focusing lately on planetary imaging, especially in regards to monitoring for Lunar and Jovian impacts.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/10/2026

And of course, a new 'Mantis Shrimp composite' of all the above wavelengths! 🔭 🦐

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/10/2026

Man I really dislike the Bsky image compression... anyway here's images in non-visible wavelengths of UV, NIR, and Ch4 from last night.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/10/2026

Welp I can delete all other Saturn data for this year because last night while streaming on Twitch we had a couple hour patch of dry and relatively calm air which allowed me to capture this stunning image near opposition! EdgeHD C9.25 QHY5III-678M Chroma 31mm filters #astrophotography #astronomy

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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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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 04/10/2026

You know what's the worst thing about Bsky? Seeing everyone reactions and takes BEFORE you see what the hell even caused the ruckus.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 04/10/2026

Something something 'material conditions'. - some old German dude over a millennium ago.

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Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex-ulmus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 04/10/2026

Looks like we're about to get hit with a nice negative Bz!

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 03/10/2026

Saturn tonight in UV, RGB, Ch4, and this beautiful composite! @nerozzi.it

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oct. 1, 1847, Nantucket (MA). That evening, 29-year-old #MariaMitchell went to the roof of their home above the Pacific Bank. With a small 2-inch telescope she spotted a fuzzy object 5° above Polaris, the North Star. It wasn't on the charts. It was moving. A telescopic #comet. 🔭🧪⚛️ #HistSci

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apart from not calling it Skynet to get the #AI vibe across, I propose instead Super Hyper Intelligence Technology The acronym speaks for itself. 🙂

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 01/10/2026

Do we really not have TLEs yet? I would have assumed there would have been amateur sightings by now.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 01/10/2026

My first thought was Jared being a try hard and using this as an excuse to get some personal flight time that money can't [normally] buy. Also the cost to get her back to a safe operational level? Holy fuck. Maybe Jared preparing for the end of human space flight at NASA post ISS?

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think this is a very educational and enlightening article: arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

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NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?

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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 29/09/2026

Are you looking to apply for the Astronomy PhD program at the University of Washington this cycle? Please look at our website and see the new Expression of Interest form!! astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

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Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington

The Department of Astronomy is accepting applications to our graduate program for Fall 2027 admissions.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 29/09/2026

Oh come on, we're on V3 and can match the existing Falcon Heavy payload to LEO with a less reliable and more expensive design! What's not to love?! V4 will completely solve all the fundamental architecture issues! Trust bro! 😆 Seriously though I love reading these old forward thinking proposals.

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🌏️ Only 2 days left to help Launch the Search! MARBLE is the SETI Institute's own science payload — our instrument, our questions. It flies to lunar orbit and looks back at the whole disk of Earth, measuring our own living planet the way we'll one day measure another. 🧪 🔭

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

Got my COVID-19 and Flu shots for FREE! Now how long before the 6G nanobot upgrades kick in? 💉🦠

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

Surely this article can't be generating THAT much traffic? Seems pretty niche.

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey folks—this is doing really well—more than 90% raised!!! But they aren’t there yet! Can you help save the grave of the man who 1st recognized light is an electromagnetic wave??? It’s more than a little shocking this is down to private fundraising, but with your help, it will get done!!!

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

Very odd, but I’m sure it will still be used to get funding awarded by the DoD to some defence contractor. What do you think? Legitimate leak of intel info without divulging sources and methods Propaganda? Market manipulation?

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

Now academic paper mills and predatory publishers are big problem, and not linking to the paper is bad journalism. Did a search and I believe this is the paper referenced; onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/... It makes the same claim with zero sourcing but says they did a computer simulation. 🤔

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

Hmm true. So digging further, everything about this seems sus. When I did a search of the research paper ‘quote’ in the article I only got 2 other results from news articles published around the same time. Each sourcing SCMP. There is mention of “International Journal of Aerospace Engineering”.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

This is the source that articles cites at the bottom - english.spacechina.com/n17212/c4252...

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

Finally catching up on the match tonight against LA Galaxy and man we got robbed @coloradorapidssc.bsky.social 🤦 ⚽

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