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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 2h

Baltimore marathon day is the best. Congrats to everyone who ran or volunteered!

A person in a white and multicolour unicorn blow-up costume standing on a grassy verge on the side of a street, holding a sign that reads “DON’T DIE”

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‘The dubious achievement of prediction markets is to have found a new way to exacerbate and exploit the simultaneously frantic and passive experience of the world that is a defining aspect of our age.’ @geoffmann.bsky.social in the new issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Geoff Mann · What’s the truth? Prediction Markets

The ‘truth’, to the extent that it is not known in advance by insiders or created by a trader to win their bet, is...

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15/10/2026

And yet gas-only cars constituted 77% of the new vehicle market in the US over that period. Has the US ever been this far behind the world average in new tech adoption for a major product type?

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

so good, and gone in 20 minutes!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Very sad to hear that Henk Spruit, a legend in all things magnetohydrodynamical, has passed away. Although he spent much of his career at MPA in Garching, he held a Professorship by Special Appointment at our institute for quite some time. A great scientist, lovely human and not a fan of shoes.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I hate supporting any animal farming knowing these practices, it becomes so hard to scrutinise every label and also not spend crazy $ on food every months (and yes, my diet is heavily plant-based)

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yes 100% and we have a whole policies group who are continually thinking about this & working on solutions.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Facebook reminded me of this meme

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The thing about Londoners is they stand, dripping in the nip after each shower, squeegeeing the shower screen to stop limescale build-up

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Pittsburgh! On Tues Oct 20 I'm at Carnegie Mellon giving the Carl & Amy Jones Lecture in Interdisciplinary Science. It will be about the Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics. Hope to see you there. www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...

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University Lecture Series with Sean Carroll

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Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The title says it all: arxiv.org/abs/2610.10834 Still in the peer review process but we* felt it Important to get this out there. Satellite companies are not complying with visual brightness limits. Our estimates are that it will get worse, especially at twilight. *I’m a minor part of “we” here

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Systematic non-compliance of satellite megaconstellations with IAU brightness limits

Satellite megaconstellations in low Earth orbit interfere with ground-based optical astronomy, but the scale of that interference has been hard to measure. Here we report an uncued photometric survey ...

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That's a beautiful furry family right there (fellow black shepherd owner here 🖤)

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A cheeky little espresso is my compromise

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2026

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Incredible! Congrats on the extremely large milestone @eso.org 👏🙌

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is it. The perfect skeet

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There are still plenty of people who talk about it that way!

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

so sorry. I went through this with my dad and it’s so hard.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

beautiful sunset in #Baltimore last night. not the best shot, but I love this view looking down E Lombard at Patterson Park.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 13/10/2026

📣 Launch announcement The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is set to launch on a H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center at 21:41 CEST on 19 October 2026 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

Infographic explaining the MMX mission (part 1) in the style of a comic strip. At the top we see several logos: ESA, JAXA, NASA, DLR and CNES. Below there are three panels showing a timeline of the mission: October 2026 launch, August 2027 arrival at Mars, September 2027 arrival at Phobos. Two other panels show the mission observing Phobos from orbit and scouting for a landing site for the rover and a sample retrieval sites, and the release of the Idefix rover.

Infographic explaining the MMX mission (part 2) in the style of a comic strip. Several panels show the mission collecting samples from Phobos, the return module separating from the exploration module, dropping a capsule over Australia and a scientist holding the samples. A last panel lists the scientific questions scientists hope to answer using the samples: 'Where did Mars's moons come from?', 'What can they tell us about habitability in the Solar System?', and 'How has Mars and its environment changed over time?'.

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Leigh Fletcher @leighfletcher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm looking for a new #postdoc to join Leicester's #planetsci atmospheres team, working with us on the treasure-trove of #JWST giant planet data to study atmospheric composition, weather, and variability. Deadline Nov 5th with a start date in early 2027. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

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Research Associate in Planetary Atmospheric Science in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team

View details and apply for this Research Associate in Planetary Atmospheric Science vacancy in Leicester. Infrared observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have rapidly become a corner...

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Anybody who does this deserves the outcome

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Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Chalmers University of Technology is hiring a new Director for Onsala Space Observatory! 🧪 🔭 📡 If you've got some street cred related to radio astronomy, astrophysics, geodesy, research infrastructures, or observatories, check it out! www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...

The Onsala twin 13 meter telescopes look to the right pointed to the sky. A white raydome sits in the background.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

yes I'd be interested in seeing the statistics on AI usage (though I don't know how many people will follow the disclosure guidance that was in the CfP); AND how it correlates with success rate. could certainly play a role in allowing people to produce text more efficiently.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Would be interesting to see the progression of this distribution across cycles

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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 12/10/2026

I do wonder what is driving this huge over subscription… is it the unique capabilities of JWST, a lack of other new facilities with enormous leaps in capability, or that JWST programs have the now rare benefit of coming with funding?

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

+1, multiple factors. and while writing a proposal is hard work, if you have proposals written from previous cycles, it is not hard to resubmit those with minor changes from the previous cycle. just from my own experience, resubmissions must be a big factor in the increasing numbers.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Oversubscription of 18:1" ☠️ And also: "Due to the increasing number of proposals, and with the goal of fairly distributing the review activity, JWST proposers may be expected to serve as reviewers in future cycles." #JWST 🔭 www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

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JWST Observers Break Another Record in Proposal Submissions

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Work must be right - and that means extreme care needs to be taken to make sure we are not wrong. If we are right, then we should be interesting! Otherwise what's the point? If we're doing something right and interesting, then there is space to be creative. Is the method novel? Is it fun?

Triangle with, from bottom to top, 'Right', 'Interesting', 'Creative', 'Fast'

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

aside from the moral aspect of using the platform, the engagement dropped hugely for me on x after Musk's takeover. it was the random porn showing up in my feed and replies that made it unusable. I would tweet during the day, and I can't have that showing up on any of my screens in my office.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After that experience (which came with a lukewarm cup of tea and 2 custard creams as my dinner, plus the patronizing) I started becoming a bit more selective about accepting invitations....

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

in the Q&A, I had a man explain to me that spectroscopy is not in fact the same as imaging, and had we fully considered this when designing MIRI?

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I remember one where I had entered the room, said hello, walked to the front, got my laptop out, and was standing at the front waiting for someone to come talk to me. They started discussing where the speaker was - I literally had to interrupt and tell them HI, YOUR SPEAKER, IT'S ME.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I did many astro club/pub science-type talks in my time in the UK, and while most were lovely, some had a shocking lack of basic common courtesy to someone who was volunteering their time to come talk to them!

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I try to live by that for sure - I still make time for some technical work and help get JWST programs ready for execution.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

also if you like working with people who are doing the day to day work in the organisation, that becomes more and more abstracted away the higher you go. But you get more of the spreadsheet and PowerPoint work

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So great to see friends meet friends!

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Right! See also: no shelters at the bus stop, just stand in the rain or blazing sun.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

100%! if you have to check a timetable for the buses and potentially wait 30-40 mins for a connection, they are not frequent enough for every day heavy use. similar situation for my Baltimore commute.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

good times incoming. thank you for your service!

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Feel free to come tell me if the rest of the piece is actually very good or whatever, I still won't read it but I'll happily be corrected.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm not going to read the whole thing or link to it, because it's The Atlantic, but imagine thinking a story about regretting not making more money off a sale of property is the right metaphor to talk about bodily consent and sexual assault.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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