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Research scientist @MIT working with @NASA to make Earth & space more accessible & engaging. Here for the science and games 🧪

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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 1h
had a great planning meeting today for our panel at @ieeevis.org on Visualization as a Foundational Act of Placemaking: Future Places and Alien Worlds #dataviz #astrosky #nasa #climate ieeevis.org/year/2026/pr...
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VIS Panels: Visualization as a Foundational Act of Placemaking: Future Places and Alien Worlds | IEEE VIS 2026
Welcome to IEEE VIS 2026, the premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 1h
On this day in science… Darwin has a day that isn’t so great
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Leave the world a little better
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you for making a fleece lined bed for me mom, but let me sleep in this crowded box on top of the packing material 🙄 #cats
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#astrosky #scicomm
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyone else coming?
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎁 get ready now everyone @petebouchard.bsky.social
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m calling this my 50s
Waterfall picture with the words
 It gets easier.
Eventually you just give up on your dreams, settle for what you have, and stop trying to be happy.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Alex Boreham @cyclonicwx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some crazy stuff going on with the warm pool right now. You can even see it in the raw temperature plot, reversing the usual vertical gradient. May see Nino 1+2 and Nino 3 warm even further as this surfaces
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ummm 😬 🫠
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎁 link please read and share #edusky #AI #academia
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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)
Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth 💣
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#science beware
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Details, details… they are just “fine intellectual dexterity”
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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
US GEO folks: Want to hear directly from the NSF program directors you know & love and have live questions answered? We’ve got you. Tune in to hear from us in Oceans (Oct 5) Earth (Oct 6) and Atmos/Geospce (Oct 27): www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...
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NSF GEO Atmospheric and Geospace, Earth, and Ocean Sciences Programs Virtual Office Hours
Join Program Officers across the NSF Directorate for Geosciences for office hours covering the three programs under the directorate's funding opportunity, NSF…
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😂 #science
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ummm #academic 👀 🤯 apple.news/AlRFdOq33QgC...
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Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed. — The Washington Post
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#dataviz 💩
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awesome. Just what #boston needs. Masshole sharks
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🤯
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HUGE astrobiology news!!!! 🦠 researchers found an amoeba that broke the heat record for complex life!!! it’s the first-known eukaryote that’s able to reproduce at 145°F (63°C), which is hotter than we thought complex cells could withstand!! THIS COULD HELP US WHEN SEARCHING FOR HABITABLE WORLDS!
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Shopify employees are producing unexamined emails and code with #AI and not taking responsibility for the sloppy output.” Researchers coined the term “workslop” for the phenomenon described: polished-looking AI output that ends up dragging down productivity because it needs revision.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pink noise... it's a (good) thing news.mit.edu/2026/pink-no...
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A burst of “pink noise” may lead to more restorative sleep
During sleep, exposure to short bursts of a staticky sound called “pink noise” can strengthen waves of cerebrospinal fluid, which clear debris from the brain, according to new research.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Does #science have a plan for how to undo/unwind this in the future? Or do researchers either pivot their #research or leave the country?
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This should impact our IrB and human subject trainings, and not in a good way #academic #medsky
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My dear friend @seislologist.bsky.social has launched a cool new earthquake app called Seismoscope! It’s fantastic for visualizations but has lots of other functionality as well. Check it out! (It’s free and available on iPhone and Android) apps.apple.com/us/app/seism...
Map of North and South America showing the location of earthquakes marked by symbols with different shapes and colors
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now taking train to DC moving forward… #boston better not get any ideas at Logan
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Peruvian pork chili with apples, lime, and sweet potato. #aipdiet 🌶️ 🍋‍🟩 🍠 🍎 😋
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Apple pie baked oatmeal (gluten free) for the coming fall week! #cooking
A pan with baked oatmeal with apples
And raisins
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reposting this would be very helpful. We're having a tough month at Skype a Scientist between much of my energy being devoted to Academy of Natural Sciences stuff. I need help!!
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The word “scrutiny” is doing a lot of work in this headline #science
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White House budget chief pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash — The Washington Post
Russell Vought argued the agency has been funding “woke” priorities and suggested the president create a commission to review grants from the National Institutes of Health.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“it remains unknown if the latest coronavirus poses any risk to humans….Experimental work is needed to address the zoonotic potential for the newly discovered Brazilian coronavirus to spread from bats to humans.” Awesome, the world doesn’t need a new novel virus 🦠 🦇 #medsky
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The angel 😇 😈 devil debate actually happens at the neuron level in your 🧠 brain #science
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#physics 💥
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Umm, how does this help the reproducibility crisis? #AI #Highered
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#highered #academic #AI
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#climate #scicomm
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Dan Meyer @ddmeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Last week, in fifth grade, the kids spent twenty minutes on two problems. If we only wanted kids to learn to get answers, yes, we could have done that MUCH faster. But here is what we learned BEYOND getting answers ...
An image showing how school teaches multiplication, through multiple methods and conceptual depth, and how edtech teaches multiplication, with just an answer input.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/09/2026
OpenAI's swarm of bots solved a math problem in less than four days that had stumped mathematicians for nearly a century. “We’re seeing how swiftly an entire field can be ravaged by AI,” one professor told Kai Williams:
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An Existential Crisis in Math
AI just solved one of the world’s hardest math problems.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Heat stroke causes severe impaired judgment & confusion, which is why it's important for parents, teachers, coaches, outdoor crew supervisors, drill sergeants, & others to be vigilant in watching for signs of heat stroke in people they supervise. It's hard to recognize heat stroke in yourself.
billfrist.substack.com
We Taught a Generation to Stop, Drop, and Roll. We Never Did the Same for Heat.
Extreme weather is reshaping the school day. Our schools need to change with it.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#astrosky
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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are looking for a Head of Observations to lead and shape the future of NCAS’s atmospheric measurement and observational science capability. Apply by 12 October 2026: ncas.ac.uk/job-opportun... #earth-science #SciComm 🧪
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Job Opportunity: Head of Observations - NCAS
We are looking for a Head of Observations to lead and shape the future of NCAS’s atmospheric measurement and observational science capability.
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#ocean
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#women #climate
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RachelBC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫 @rachelbc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#water 💦
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We take video games seriously. From Tetris to PONG, to theories on rules, play, and game design, here's some of the best scholarship to read this #VideoGamesDay 🎮 : mitpress.mit.edu/national-vid... @flantz.bsky.social @jaakkostenros.bsky.social @montola.bsky.social
Six book covers on a light blue background. Books included: "Bounce" by Carlin Wing, "The Rule Book" by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, "King PONG" by Raiford Guins, "The Beauty of Games" by Frank Lantz, "Soviet Blocks" by Julien Mailland, and "The Well-Played Game" by Bernard De Koven.
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