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H. P. Read

@readhpr.bsky.social
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Mathematics educator, science geek, and avocational horn (and occasionally Wagner tuba) player. Secretly half-Vulcan. They/them

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Lee Draws Stuff @leedrawsstuff.bsky.social · 4h
Spocktober 2026 - Day 1 - The Cage Spock "I loved Spock." President Barack Obama, 27 February 2015 Read more on Patreon (leedrawsstuff) #spocktober #spocktober26 #startrek #spock #llap
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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a delightful thread and you should read it.
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From a billing statement for my American Express card: Summary of Change Effective February 1, 2027. Removal of Pay Over Time Travel. We are removing the Pay Over Time Travel feature from your Account. I had no idea the card could be used for time travel!
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/09/2026
Because I am an adult and totally know how to manage my time, I made a carousel quoting some of the best fat bear write-ups. Enjoy!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026
ATTENTION THE BEST THING ABOUT AUTUMN HAS FINALLY ARRIVED IT IS TIME FOR TINY DOGS IN TINY SWEATERS
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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy 118th birthday, spacetime. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity. Here is how he opened his address.
"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."
- Hermann Minkowski, 1908
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Happy International Observe the Moon Night! #Moon #astronomy
Image of the 60.8% illuminated waxing gibbous Moon, captured with Seestar S30 Pro.
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NASA Exoplanets @nasaexoplanets.extwitter.link · 18/09/2026
For as long as we’ve been looking to the sky, humans have been drawn to the Moon. By studying the Moon in many different forms of light we learn about its composition, surface conditions, and much more. Observe the Moon with us this weekend: t.co/nrybbPGcYn
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International Observe the Moon Night - NASA Science
You're invited! Each International Observe the Moon Night, people around the world celebrate lunar observation, science, exploration, arts, and culture.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 15/09/2026
For your Tuesday, here's a shot of deep, deep, deep space from JWST. Every bright, six-pointed feature is a star in the Milky Way. Everything else—even the smallest, faintest dots—are whole galaxies millions to *billions* of lightyears away.
A spiral galaxy sits in the centre of the image; smaller galaxies dot the scene, some resolved only a small, colourful smudges. The six-pointed features are stars in the Milky Way.
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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Whatever you're doing, please, just stop for a moment to imagine you're kneeling down on the surface of Mars and trailing your gloved fingers through this beautifully coloured grit covering the ground around you... (Curiosity image) NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson
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Eos @eos.org · 13/09/2026
As Pluto’s fall turns to winter, its atmosphere will thin out, and nitrogen will fall down like snow. A new analysis suggests the process may have started already. 🧪🪐 eos.org/articles/plu...
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Pluto’s Atmosphere May Be Collapsing - Eos
Don’t worry, it’s supposed to do that.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/09/2026
“these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods & ideas, & citing relevant previous work of others. … We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose.”
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DcaWedWAXv...
Via the_hindu on Instagram: How to live in the age of A.I., with cartoons showing examples including read slowly, make ugly things, avoid instant replies, trust your gut, and more.
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I had a beautiful clear, Moonless night last night and captured this image of the Andromeda Galaxy. This was about 180 ten-second exposures taken over a half hour. I've been waiting for Andromeda since I got my smart telescope in the spring, and it didn't disappoint.
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Staying up late for astronomy. M31 the Andromeda Galaxy. I've been waiting all summer for it to be in season. Captured with Seestar S30 Pro.
The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major spiral galaxy to our own, along with its two smaller satellite galaxies M32 and M110.
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TrekCulture @trekculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
60 Years of Star Trek in 60 Seconds #StarTrek #StarTrekDay #StarTrek60
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Lovely article about a 99-year-old retired math professor who recently published a major result. It's the story of mentorship and multi-generational collaboration. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I greatly enjoyed #StarTrekSNW #StrangeNewWorlds Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass. The over-the-top soap opera tropes made me laugh, it all made sense given who was behind it, and they used it to do some strong character work. And casting [redacted] as Dr. Chivers was brilliant.
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reconstruction of what insects sounded like in the Jurassic era. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/s...
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What Did Jurassic Forests Sound Like? Like This. (Gift Article)
Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape.
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My LEGO #StarTrek 60th Anniversary Bridge Set came yesterday!
The cover of the box containing the LEGO USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Bridge set, which also includes the transporter room. It has mini-figs of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu, Chekov, and Chapel, and lots of accessories such as tricorders and communicators.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026
Here's the thread I most often refer to!
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Attn @busterbnyc.bsky.social
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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Three years ago today, my food aversion cookbook and guide COLOR TASTE TEXTURE was released! I couldn’t be more proud of my book. The people who have reached out to me to share how it’s improved their lives have left me humbled and I only wish more of the folks who need it find it. Thanks everyone!
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Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Posting this again, because all the writers here say it's okay to do it (yay) and I'm SUPER proud of how this turned out. It's my first script for Ranking with Roddenberry and they did a fantastic job with it! (Anyone who knows me knows my heart was definitely in this one.) youtu.be/RYRP7tGBv90?...
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Ranking the Best Musical Moments in Star Trek
YouTube video by BEAM by Roddenberry
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Timelapse of last night's #LunarEclipse, taken with my Seestar S30 Pro. It runs from about a half hour before maximum eclipse (when the Moon first cleared the trees) and ends at the end of the partial eclipse, while the Moon was still within the penumbra. 🧵1/
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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tonite: we’ve got the final eclipse of the season and the last for 2026, with a deep partial lunar eclipse. The Americas will see the eclipse in it’s entirety, while Europe and Africa will see the eclipse at moonset, and the Pacific region will see it already underway at moonrise.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026
PS: Today is a very fine day to donate to the Imagination Library. imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Came out of the pizza place earlier this evening to this giant end-to-end rainbow.
End-to-end rainbow over a parking lot with trees in the distance. The ground is wet and there is a bit of blue sky peeking out from the clouds. Part of a secondary rainbow is visible above the primary rainbow.
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 12/08/2026
Those in the U.S. may only see a sliver of today's solar eclipse, but GOES-EAST gets a great view of the shadow as it crosses into Europe! 🌑
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1/ A lot is happening right now (as I'm sure your feed can attest to), and it can be hard to know what to focus on. So I've put together a few public health happenings that should be on your radar. First, the record-breaking Cyclospora outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce is coming to an end.
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Currently cloudy, might not get to see any of the partial solar eclipse. I was planning to capture a timelapse with my Seestar S30 Pro, but right now I have no view of the Sun.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Adds to list of hellscape syllabus content
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fresh local apples, kids. Paula Reds are pretty much the first ones to come in, and I always look for them in the store this time of year. It's one of the signs that fall is coming.
A bag of apples that are red with patches of green. The bag says Champlain Orchards, Vermont, and identifies the apples as Ecologically Grown Vermont Apples, Paula Red.
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Logistics, USS Enterprise @starfleetstagemgr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If your state has a primary today, GET OUT THERE AND VOTE. Most of the states today have at least one or two heavily contested AND IMPORTANT races. Primaries are the time to vote for who you really, really want. So go do it. That's all.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is a legitimate concern, and a major one.
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A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students (Gift Article)
As colleges and students embrace virtual classes, the ease of A.I. cheating is raising questions about the value of an online degree.
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Snow ❄️ @moonstag.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
the ds9 polycule
a bunch of floating heads of ds9 characters drawn in a cute style with lines between them explaining their relationships
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 05/08/2026
This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.
A swirling, complex view of yellow–orange–brown wisp-like features. The dark shape in the middle is a superposed outline of the island of Ireland to show scale.
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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Gorgeous new view from Curiosity, including the return of the glorious Clayborne Range (my nickname for the bright peaks on the skyline, honouring Red Mars' geologist Anne Clayborne, which I'll keep using until NASA adopts it or tells me to stop!) Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson
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Davidwhodat @davidwhodat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sums it up pretty damn well
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H. P. Read @readhpr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Signs of August: I had an anxiety dream about missing the first two days of classes because my phone was on Do Not Disturb and I didn't receive my time-to-go-to-class calendar notifications and I also had amnesia. This is my brain's way of telling me to start writing syllabi and doing some prep.
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Bill Buster @busterbnyc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Drink in some magical beauty. The ethereal loveliness of Claire De Lune by Debussy, animated by Disney studio, originally cut from Fantasia (1940) for length. It should have stayed in. The animation of the sky, the birds, the water is flawless. Hand drawn. youtu.be/NXAhuGLr5-M?...
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Clair de Lune (1940) HD
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. 

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
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J @jkmiami89.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
there literally are no good-faith concerns about trans girls participating in high school sports. it is children playing games with their friends, its about confidence and relationship-building. let kids play with their friends.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/07/2026
In light of the “good faith questions” discourse I just wanted to re-up @reveleth.com’s fascinating podcast about the complex (and frequently appalling) history and present of policing sexual biology in women’s sports.
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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Astronomy August 2026 2-Mercury greatest elongation (19ºW) 12-Total Solar Eclipse 12-Perseids peak 13-Moon occults Regulus 14-Mercury v M44 (dawn, 13ºW) 15-Venus greatest elongation (46ºE) 15- Mercury 30’ v Jupiter (13ºW) 16-Moon 1.8ºN of Venus 21-Moon occults Antares 28-Partial Lunar Eclipse
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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just... look... at... that... view. Panorama made from images taken on Mars by Perseverance just a few *hours* ago... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Additional processing: S Atkinson
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