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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's been a hard week, losing a good friend and 🔭 colleague. If you knew Ralph and want to read my loooong tribute I've posted it publicly on my (hardly used) Facebook page. www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/in...

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In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrophysicist (1964–2026)

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Cat has turned into a triffid ahead of #caturday

Photo of a super floofy orange cat on a light green sofa, caught cleaning herself so her tail is wrapped up around her in a way that she looks completely round.

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ESO @eso.org · 02/06/2026

Using our VLT and the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have measured the strength of #exoplanets ’ magnetic fields for the first time. These fields turned out to be comparable to those found in our Solar System. More: www.eso.org/public/news/eso2606 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets

An illustration of a planet orbiting a star. The star is a huge yellow sphere with a hot “bubbling” surface. The planet is a gas giant, completely covered with clouds that are smeared due to the planet’s fast winds. The planet is surrounded by a magnetic shield of sorts, depicted with blue lines curving away from the star

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So, Director of National Intelligence is apparently a part-time job with no previous experience required. Got it.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/01/2026

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fox continues to run these segments that seem like free ads for the candidates they are attacking Every one of these policies are broadly popular with voters

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Saying the obvious but 30C/86F in Amsterdam in May is not normal…

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I feel strongly about this, plus it's personal (Brexit has affected my family profoundly). This petition seems to be doing well, but could do with more shares and signatures if you're eligible (British Citizen or UK Resident) and feel strongly about this too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Starbucks is abruptly scrapping its AI inventory tool for repeatedly miscounting and mislabeling items, just months after rolling it out at stores nationwide. It's the latest warning that the widely-hyped "AI revolution" could be a bubble that's going to burst.

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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble

Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?

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ARAA @araa.at · 23/05/2026

ARAA will be marching Wednesday in protest. So many countries have destroyed higher education, we must fight against Austria going the same way. Come join us! 👊🏻 #UnisRetten

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Martin Bourne 🏳️‍🌈 @astromartin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Bill: “Dude, what if we pointed this giant dish at the cosmos?” Ted: “…most excellent.” and that is how the International Centre for Rad Astronomy Research was invented. 🤙📡 #astro

Building sign reading “International Centre for Rad Astronomy Research”. The “io” of “Radio” is missing

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thanks for totally derailing my brain @alexandermilas.bsky.social, for pointing me to the most terrifying project by this year's UK entry to Eurovision, where he made a Furby organ, I kid you not!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLB...

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THE FURBY ORGAN, A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MADE FROM FURBIES

YouTube video by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

IOP President Paul Howarth and I have today written to Science Minister Lord Vallance calling for a full impact assessment of proposed STFC cuts to particle physics, astronomy and nuclear (PPAN) research.

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Last week Thursday was my inaugural lecture here at @cambridgeastro.bsky.social (it's been a whirlwind with family in town so only posting about it now). The talk is about #blackholes 🧪🔭, pitched for non-experts, and you can follow it on Youtube (QR code on poster, or youtu.be/60hx7MXzxC4)!

Poster advertising the talk entitled "Staring into the heart of darkness: from theory to the direct imaging of black holes", with a photograph of me, a woman standing rather cheesily next to a telescope inside an observatory dome with wooden panelling. The yellow blocky script with my name is reminiscent of the Watchman comic :)

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

When you spend days making fancy new slides for a talk, only to have to cut them because the talk's already way too long....

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"You hear theyre using chickens as camera gimbals now?" "What?" "Chickens. Strap a camera onto their head. No shake. Chicken camera gimbals"

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Newest release of #Jupiter aurora from program 17408. Observation date 2025-10-17, but released a few days ago. www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop... Credit: Planetary Light Show

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It always throws me when I look at my French Vélib account and the page auto-translate to English helpfully also 'translates' my name:

Screen shot of account name showing "Will be Markoff" instead of Sera Markoff

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Amateur astronomers with telescopes equipped with video cameras are requested to look for impact flashes on the Moon tonight, to coordinate with #ArtemisII observations. Details here: www.geodes.umd.edu/impactflash

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Impact Flash! - GEODES: Geophysical Exploration of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Solar System

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

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Event Horizon Telescope @ehtelescope.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Unexpected EHT intern alert! This bird had gotten lost in the fog and appeared at the IRAM 30-m control room door- more than 1,500 meters above its usual habitat. After a brief "internship," it was safely released back into nature the next morning. #M87MOVIE

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

President Trump is threatening war crimes of horrific proportions against civilians. It’s deranged. This madness must stop.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached. When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?

Trump truth social post: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

The President is openly threatening massive escalation in Iran saying “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Congress needs to vote to put a stop to this. It is a constitutional duty to vote on war powers and both sides should demand this.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026

During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.

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Johanna Teske @johannateske.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Training the next generation of astronomers is critical to the future of our field. And building excitement about the practice of science by undertaking projects like this is a great way to ensure that curious-minded young learners can see themselves in astrophysics,” Ji concluded. 🫶🏻

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Anti-war demonstrations occurred all across Israel this evening. US media decided you really didn't need to know about them.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/04/2026

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

YouTube video by NASA

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/04/2026

Some of the imagery coming down from the Artemis II crew is breathtaking...

A crescent Earth against the black of space.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Mastcam mosaic captured two days ago by Curiosity, on her way up the slopes of Aeolis Mons 🔍 viewer.gigamacro.com/view/rXLf44E... Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk #Mars 🧪🔭

A rust toned mosaic capturing a number of Martian rocks, captured April 2, 2026 (Sol 4854)

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Separation of church and…oh nevermind

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026

✅ #Artemis II update: end of Flight Day 2, Orion is moving at 5632 km/h, 183 936 km from Earth and 244 298 km from the Moon. Taken by a camera on one of the European Service Module's solar arrays, the Moon at 250 735 km distance (pic: NASA). Graphic from nasa.gov/missions/art...

Taken by a camera on one of the European Service Module's solar arrays, white spacecraft, part of ESM and Adapter Module, with the Moon at 250 735 km distance (pic: NASA)

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is such an incredible photo of our planet, and drives home the need for us to protect this unique (so far) world (from ourselves)

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This should be an ad for almost any other OS

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Billy Bragg’s music was a big part of my teen years so seeing him live at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social march against the right, where he shouted out the bravery of my hometown Minneapolis, was incredibly meaningful ❤️💪

Photo of a stage with crowds and Billy Bragg performing, also projected on a larger screen.

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Black hole scientists against racism at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social March!

Photo of a group of smiling people in front of a large crowd at a big march against the right in London

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hope to see some other 🧪🔭 folk tomorrow in London!! I didn’t see an ‘academic bloc’ so we’re just winging it!

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

No one told me my room in Oxford came with roommates! I’ve named them Bob and Marge.

Photo of a substantial spider on the wall with slippers for scale.

Photo of another substantial spider hunkered down along the baseboard of a wall.

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