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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s Return-of-the-King-soundtrack-writing-music time!

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The sci-fi/fantasy Discourse I wish I’d see is why the hell is Survivor back in print?? I think Butler was pretty clear during her lifetime it was not her wish, she’s not been gone that long!

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s under 100F and that means soup season is here

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you’re at a university and have the day off today, consider seeing if you have a UCW other other labor union chapter that’s wall to wall!

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Shouted like it was sports and the cats ran away!! (Whoops)

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form goes to Murderbot: “All Systems Red”, written by Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, directed by Roseanne Liang, based on the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Apple TV).

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me: Huh, I wonder how Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher writes books that I like every single time, so well??!! Watching the Hugo Awards Ceremony at @laworldcon.bsky.social : Ohh yeah it's animal facts brain wavelength

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/08/2026

It went like this: Editor: so what's the next book? Me: I didn't know, maybe the moon turns to cheese? Editor: (Long existential sigh) Fine.

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Official Babylon 5 YouTube Channel (yes, there is one!) has started posting full episodes of B5, starting with the Pilot, called "The Gathering." If you haven't seen B5, go check it out. Premiering in 1994, B5 was a prototype for today's Prestige TV formula. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGVW...

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The Gathering (Pilot) | Babylon 5 FULL EPISODE

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How your email finds me this Friday: *second disk of the Return of the King soundtrack before the eagles arrive*

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@planetarysociety.bsky.social has a website that makes submitting an OMB comment easy! I made the point that we already have National Academy documents about how to improve the NASA grant ecosystem, and that my local economy benefits from the coffee I buy with my grant-supported salary.

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Advocacy Action Center

The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 10/07/2026

How do you pick a landing site before you know how you’re going to land? The scientists behind NASA’s latest Moon missions are working on just that. aasnova.org/2026/07/10/p... 🔭🧪

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Putting the Landing Site Before the Lander

How do you pick a landing site before you know how you're going to land? The scientists behind NASA's latest Moon missions are working on just that.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

One reason why research libraries should keep hard copies of journals #histSTM

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The end of Enterprise meant I had the room in my brain to finally search for a new show and accidentally watched an episode of Who (2005) on SciFi Channel and the rest is history

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

What a day to have finally been reunited with my Voyager DVDs from high school!

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Apropos of nothing specific today, thinking about how WASPs would fly P51s when their regular duty service pilots refused and complained, in addition to whatever other aircraft needed ferrying

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’m now being served ULA YouTube ads which is marginally better than ASU ads (you already got me!) Though trust me when a project needs a launch provider it’s not gonna be a secret!! Let me watch Sam Reich’s Last Meal in peace!

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Your institution should have more control of your LMS than this *send*

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The HiRISE team notes the passing of two esteemed friends and colleagues: Deputy Principal Investigator emerita Candice Hansen-Koharcheck and Co-Investigator Paul Geissler. More about Candice: www.psi.edu/staff/profil... More about Paul: www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Nahla Ake is convincingly how one might be after three centuries of dealing with undergraduates.

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barbylon @barbylon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hi there, I'm Barbara and I work on the Artemis II Lunar Science team. I'll be here for a couple hours while watching the preparations for launch and happy to take your questions! www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

And instead speaking of good science fiction, the best post-war monster movie in English is getting a reissue on physical media!

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Picking who cries in The Martian is politics my dude! (I will let this go perhaps never because if he’s trying to be ‘factual’, I know the people he’s trying to write about and they don’t act that way!)

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/03/2026

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

First Tucson Festival of Books in years and I’m overhearing so much genre-on-genre fiction violence

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It was 20 years ago today... The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars with the best camera ever sent to another planet: HiRISE! A massive thanks to all our team @uarizona.bsky.social , JPL and @baesystems.com who keep this adventure going on strong. 😃 #uahirise

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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives

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James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It took a lot of work at both JPL and HQ to make it happen this year. For relevant, interested folks, please apply! I’m one of the science mentors. Feel free to ask questions!

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

What’s important is I *found* an email and data file from 2021 and the paper will be done this year! What’s unimportant is the year this project started and how many institutions myself and a coauthor have been at during it! It’s fine!!

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Sometimes I rewatch movies and realize “oh thats why I’m that way”: Star Trek VI Undiscovered Country

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14/02/2026

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Except, you know, nothing is higher stakes than teaching.

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This essay is probably already getting ratio’d, but I’d like to join by staring into the camera Office-style from the American Southwest: canals and big roads exist outside of Rome and capital E empires, my buddies!

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

No one: Me: How many artworks about the Navier-Stokes equations is too many? Other innocent people, just looking for pretty prints, maybe some nice animal linocuts… Me: Let me try to tell you about fluid dynamics and partial differential equations…

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sometimes all you need to see is Jeffery Wright and Daniel Craig in a movie together again

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I’m looking for a post doc! Come join us at ASU! apply.interfolio.com/176300

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

like yes he’ll snap at you if you break his concentration or you’re doing an important job badly; but one thing I think both Rathbone and Cumberbatch leaned on a little too heavily for my liking in different ways is that he was also sometimes a jerk TO THE CLIENT, and that I think I object to

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2025

Article. I can read faster than any YouTuber can speak, even with the playback speed cranked up to comical levels. THAT SAID, article writers these days need fucking EDITORS they spend whole paragraphs FAFFING ABOUT before they get to the point IT'S CALLED THE INVERTED FUCKING PYRAMID MY DUDES

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Science friends! If you could go back in time and tell your first year self one piece of advice about doing STEM at the graduate level, what would it be?

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Lots of love for our new episode and for its subject, Ursula Le Guin. Many thanks to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social for his insights and sharing his passion for Earthsea with us (and you). Andy, Una, Tess and Nicky x open.spotify.com/episode/0sc5...

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The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Glad to hear that Sanctuary Moon is called a planet in its theme song! That alternate future? universe? has the same problems we do with calling everything roughly spherical a planet!

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Margaret Landis @mlandis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The niche problem of the podcast you’re listening to saying the composter Haydn’s name like the planetarium in NYC, I don’t know podcasts can jump scare you

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