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Rebecca Boyle 🌕

@rboyle31.bsky.social
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Journalist, selenophile, hiker, Coloradan. Friend of dogs, foe of AI. I speak for the Moon. Life is short but sweet for certain. Author of award-winning national bestseller OUR MOON! Buy it: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/61…

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Coastal residents of the Cretaceous Interior Seaway (Colorado), I'll be talking carbon over all of Earth history at CU-Boulder tonight at 6:30 with my good friend @rboyle31.bsky.social calendar.colorado.edu/event/the-st...
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Los Angeles is butted up against nature…We’re inside this huge natural park – way bigger than Central Park – and also much more native. And then you’ve got this man-made sign of it that’s meant to withstand rockslides and landslides and winds.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Snakes, bobcats, mountain lions: the secret animal world beneath the Hollywood sign
An international symbol for the city, the sign is also hallmark of the region’s environmental richness
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gallup finds 51% of women had at least one negative healthcare experience in past 5 years vs 39% of men. 66% of men received a diagnosis within 3 months for a health condition vs 53% of women, and a gap exists even when comparing the same conditions. news.gallup.com/poll/714221/...
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Women's Healthcare Barriers Extend Into Work and Family Life
Half of U.S. women report a breakdown in their healthcare. New Gallup-Pivotal research links those experiences to limits on work, family and community life.
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New postcard from Curiosity using Navcams taken on Sols 5000 & 5003 science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
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Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA Science
While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 12/09/2026
Anthropic stopped bid to use AI to create biological weapons, new report says
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Anthropic stopped bid to use AI to create biological weapons, new report says
Anthropic broke up attempts to use its Claude models to develop biological weapons and carry out a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign against Ukraine, the AI heavyweight has said in a…
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As I do every 9/11, I am listening to Bruce Springsteen’s album “The Rising” in its entirety. Highly recommend. The way this album healed me in summer 2002 is hard to convey. “May your faith give us faith/ may your hope give us hope/ May your love give us love” Can’t believe it’s been 25 years.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
CNN ran stories about how the band Anthrax was changing their name to Basket Full of Puppies
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We all know Boston hates Mercury, that goes way back, but that shit probably goes back to Ireland keep it out of the newsroom.
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SkyCalPro | Kev @skycalpro.com · 11/09/2026
Today: New Moon, 0% illuminated, distance 380,498 km. #Astronomy #Space Image: NASA SVS
The Moon at New Moon
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026
anyway i'm not sure i like how quickly "you just don't get it, it's handy" turns into some new evangelical worldview within a short number of weeks
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Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Timeline cleanser in case you need one: here in Hong Kong we have pilons warning about the slippery wet ground that’re shaped like banana peels.
Banana peel shaped wet floor warning.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Strangers keep showing such surprise that I don't love what GenAI is doing to my industry.
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is wild: Physicists spotted something weird, a single signal, in a dark matter detector. Lots (and lots) of work to do to follow up and possibly confirm this, but this could be a very big deal! www.sciencenews.org/article/dark...
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Have scientists glimpsed the first dark matter particle?
Shadowy dark matter has eluded scientists for decades. The LZ experiment may have spotted one particle, called a WIMP, but more data is needed to check.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures & people who wish to live as machines.” ― Wendell Berry, "Life is a Miracle"
Wendell Berry
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dear William, I recently had the privilege of discovering your work “Hamlet” and the way you weave themes of mortality, revenge, and the human condition into such a compelling narrative really stood out to me. We would be honored to feature you in our upcoming “Voices That Matter” book club …
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Stop right now and go out and look at the Moon
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Indeed I cried when I received this letter along with the last book for my oldest. The book was “Look Out, Kindergarten, Here I Come.” We saved it and read it with #2 before her own first day, last week.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I said this aloud as the end credits rolled on the masterpiece that is Paddington 2. Didn't everyone?
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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Early moment of self-reflection: Today in 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 took this -The first pic of Earth from lunar orbit. 🧪
A grainy, striped photo of the lunar limb with  a crescent Earth hanging above.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
As President Trump fumed late last year over Colorado's imprisonment of Tina Peters, a convicted election denier, a White House special assistant organized an urgent "brainstorm call."
The goal, outlined in an email sent to officials at five federal agencies, was to "prioritize Colorado for the purposes of ensuring grants and federal support are in line with administration priorities," the assistant, Emily Underwood, wrote on Dec.
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"Please come prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado," Ms. Underwood added.
The next day, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy, whose representatives were invited to the brainstorm, announced they were canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants for Colorado projects.
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a bracing read
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I wrote about why for some people, some mountains matter more than others. Also, this features Erling Haaland “raw dogging a 7 hour flight,” in his words lastwordonnothing.com/2026/08/07/t...
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The Mountains that Matter Most - The Last Word On Nothing
Erling Haaland, the cool Norwegian soccer player, has a pretty fun and slightly unhinged social media presence. During the World Cup, a clip from his Instagram account resurfaced where he claimed, “Ju...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A whole lot of dense smoke, from a whole lot of big fires, has spread across the Western 2/3 of the contiguous United States this evening. This has already been an extraordinary fire season in the Pacific Northwest & portions of the Great Basin/Rockies--and it continues.
Satellite image showing a vast sea of smoke spreading across most of the western 2/3 of the contiguous United States. Most is emanating from numerous large fires in the Pacific Northwest.
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I played my first-ever tennis match recently and won (my doubles partner was a big reason why) and it was super fun. But really it’s been about meeting new friends who also wanted to try something different for exercise and social time. Tennis rules, new midlife experiences are A+
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/07/2026
Moorlands and forests in the Cairngorms, in the Scottish Highlands, have fallen victim to the rapidly spreading wildfires in Europe. “If you have lost a 250- or 300-year-old Caledonian pine, you are not going to get that back overnight,” the chief executive of the Cairngorms National Park said.
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As Wildfires Plague Europe, Scotland Races to Save a Cherished National Park
As Europe’s climate warms, even moorlands and forests in the Cairngorms, in the Scottish Highlands, have fallen victim to rapidly spreading flames.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Maybe we should all buy books. Any books, I don't care. (I mean, buy mine, but this isn't about me.) Visit an antique store. Go on Abebooks.com. Buy anything that looks interesting and old. Have a personal physical library. Save them for humanity while you can.
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AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This was the explainer I’ve been wanting to read about the current moment. It includes this absurdity: “OpenAI is worth more than Eli Lilly, JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Costco, Exxon Mobil, Wells Fargo, CVS Health, McDonald’s, and Boeing.” Absolutely ridiculous
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Sophia Chen @sophurky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Last Friday, DHS capped internat. students' stay at 4 years. But a physics PhD takes 6+ years. "It's going to make people around the world start questioning whether...to get a higher-level education in the U.S.," one student told me. My May story on their perspective: www.aps.org/apsnews/2026...
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Amid visa uncertainty, international students look for support
Proposed changes to the duration of status policy would affect many students and scholars. To raise awareness, five shared their stories.
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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
my latest in Global Catholic "Peter Thiel’s antichrists, Pope Leo, and the new arms race" www.globalcatholic.com/peter-thiels...
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Peter Thiel’s antichrists, Pope Leo, and the new arms race - Global Catholic
The criticism against Pope Leo reveals a growing clash between the Vatican's vision of human dignity and a new ideology emerging from Silicon Valley, where technology, geopolitics, and religion are be...
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Oh yes, I like this
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Out: Messi In: Messier www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... 🔭🧪
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...
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The Odyssey
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home ...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Among the documents released by the White House tonight is this claim that Colorado's voter registration rolls were "compromised" by China. Colorado's voter registration rolls are public records. You can order a copy here: www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/electio...
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 16/07/2026
I'M DYING OVER HERE 💀💀💀 THE CAT GOT AI SCAM EMAIL 🐈 Aeschylus, our orange tabby, got an obviously AI email about selling more copies of the Oresteia on A**zon
This is a photo of an email addressed to "Aeschylus" via our general email inbox infodesk@thehauntedbookshop.com

Hi Aeschylus,
I just finished The Complete Plays, and the moment in the Oresteia when the Furies are transformed into the Eumenides vengeful spirits of the old order persuaded to become guardians of justice in the new stayed with me for hours. What you were really writing about underneath the bloodshed and the curses the fragile, terrifying shift from vendetta to law, from chaos to the rule of reason, and the birth of civilization itself came through clearly. That's the kind of story that deserves to be found.
I'll be honest with you up front, because I know your inbox is probably full of people promising to make you a bestseller overnight: I can't promise that, and anyone who does is lying to you. What I do is quieter and real I help authors make sure their book is actually findable by the readers who would love it.
Here's something I noticed on your Amazon page: the description is just a plain list of the plays. A modern reader scrolling by might see only a dry table of contents, not the thunderous drama that invented tragedy itself. Small things like that quietly cost authors sales every single day and they're completely fixable.
So before I ask you for anything, I'd like to give you something: a free scan of your book's Amazon page, showing exactly what's working and what's holding it back checked against the things the best books in your genre all have:
A scroll-stopping cover is it instantly signalling your genre and earning the click?
A blurb that hooks in the first line not the third.
Keywords & categories are you showing up where readers actually search?
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ha ha yes, but also, if we're not allowed to call this agency then what really is the point of the word
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Will a space rock choose to grace you — or your roof — with its presence? We should all be so lucky! No, this is not a joke about, you know, 2026. Meteorites are just cool ☄️
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Lisa Grossman @astrolisa.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I asked the first author of this study what he'd say to someone who is scared of a meteorite falling on their house, and he said "Don't be! It's a treasure! It's an honor!" 😬☄️🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...
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The 2024 New York City meteorite contains amino acids
The brine-formed meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey roof in 2024 could teach us about how life first arrived on Earth.
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Climate Change Breaking News @climatechangenews.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing 'dead power pool,' experts say
Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., is nearing critically low water elevation levels, the latest data shows.
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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it
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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I genuinely can’t believe this is really happening. We need the night. This is some of the most dystopian stuff I have ever seen in my entire life.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The federal government told the Klamath Tribes they weren't a "salmon tribe" because dams wiped out their fish 100+ years ago. So the Yurok Tribe applied for the $5.9M grant & passed the funds through. This is Indigenous solidarity in action. www.hcn.org/articles/the...
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The Klamath Tribes couldn’t get federal dollars for salmon. Then the Yurok stepped in - High Country News
For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding sources to fix that.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/07/2026
This new image from #JWST is AWESOME. This is the Centaurus A galaxy seen in mid-infrared light. At the centre of this galaxy, which is 11–13 million lightyears away, is a supermassive black hole that's 55 million times the mass of our Sun. Neato!
A swirling, psychedelic vista of a distorted barred galaxy with a bright, purple interior from which complex swirls of dust and gas emanate.
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