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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

DOGE’s federal property sell-off has accidentally revealed a CIA black site in Northern Virginia, according to Bloomberg.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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Hawaiʻi Pacific Parks Association @hawaiipacificparks.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Yooohooo national parks artsy folks: DEADLINE March 2nd, 2025! For July 2025 NATIONAL PARKS ARTS FOUNDATION #HALEAKALANATIONALPARK #ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ON MAUI $5,000 #stipend + 1 MONTH FREE #Housing Apply: nationalparksartsfoundation.submittable.com/submit #artistresidency #opportunity #artists

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“The workers had been fired as part of the Trump administration’s efforts, led by Elon Musk, to significantly downsize the federal government and cut costs. But the salaries of many of the fired F.D.A. staff members had been funded by fees companies pay the F.D.A., not taxpayer money.”

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F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers

The agency changed course just days after firing employees who oversee the safety of food and life-sustaining medical devices. Dozens of workers said they and others were back at work Monday.

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Fall leaves @fall28.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Rally 2/23/2025 Martin Luther king park downtown Rochester.

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Prof. Ghosty Neilsen @joeyneilsen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is devastating for our future. I would absolutely not be where I am now if it were not for my REU experiences. I gained friends and mentors who I am still close with 20+ years later. It colored my choices for grad school and my thesis project. I chose my career and field based on an REU. 🧪

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Not the BAD DOGE Act lmaoooooo

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 20/02/2025

We took the Rochester Police Dept to court over their failure to disclose police officer misconduct records - and won. In a landmark ruling from the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in NY, Rochester must now disclose ALL records related to police discipline and misconduct allegations.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

MTA to Feds: Drop dead

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/02/2025

The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned after declining to comply with a Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

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High-ranking D.C. federal prosecutor resigns in protest

The head of criminal prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday after refusing to comply with an order from the deputy attorney general’s office.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Apparently the gutting of the National Science Foundation is underway at the moment. "More to come." One can debate whether cuts are warranted, but the mindless, know-nothing fashion in which they are being carried out is inexcusable. This will damage US science for generations.

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Whoever did the colour and brightness tweaking for this JWST image deserves a prize for art. It's so beautiful it looks fake.... 🔭

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

sometimes I really do love Rochester :) <3

Screenshot of a post on X by Libs of TikTok, captioned "Spotted in Rochester, NY @NewYorkFBI". The photo shows a highway overpass with "WHO WILL KILL ELON" painted on the side.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Good. I'm not sure how this might affect any outcome, but it's good at least to see the Dems fighting back.

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Turns out I can't read and once I fixed all my mistakes force A is 10^-11 times smaller than force B. hurrah!

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

result I was hoping for: force A is < 1% of force B, meaning we can ignore annoying complicated physics result I got: force A is 10^11 times GREATER than force B

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

office so cold fingers might fall off

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

two more postdoc apps and I am done done done

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

new from me! We looked at very late time HST + JWST imaging of the exceptional GRB 221009A & see a break in the light curve + also see evidence for an additional component - maybe a light echo or a star cluster. 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663

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Late-time HST and JWST Observations of GRB 221009A: Evidence for a Break in the Light Curve at 50 Days

GRB 221009A is one of the brightest transients ever observed with the highest peak gamma-ray flux for a gamma-ray burst (GRB). A type Ic-BL supernova (SN), SN 2022xiw, was definitively detected in lat...

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

writing tex locally is 10x better than overleaf in every way, except for when you get to the co-author edits stage. fight me.

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hello new followers! I'm Kaila and I use population synthesis (simulating populations of 100s to 100s of 1000s of objects) to figure out why stars and black holes are misbehaving and what it means! I do a lot of coding, coffee drinking, and love to travel. Welcome!

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

IF YOU ARE GOING TO AAS the inauguration is on the 20th, AAS ends the 16th. DC is going to be overrun with Trump voters and news media starting the 18th/19th.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/11/2024

Here's the big Harris-Walz ballot cure phone bank. Ballot curing means you're calling voters who ALREADY VOTED but have something wrong with their ballot. A fantastic, high impact phone bank that helps make every vote count. Slots all day! DO IT!

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Harris-Walz Voter Protection Phone Bank · The Democratic National Committee

Call likely Democratic voters in battleground states with potential issues with their registration or ballots to ensure their votes are fairly counted! Every day, we strategize directly with state vot...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Do you remember that time there was a tape released that had Jeffrey Epstein saying Donald Trump was his best friend for ten years and that Trump liked to have sex with his friends' wives and then it didn't really have any impact? Yeah, that was yesterday.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

yes lets hear more about whether joe biden called them garbage

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

That this is coming from not a single writer, but the entire Haaretz editorial board, pubbed in both English and Hebrew, is a tremendous deal. (Yes, it’s later than many of us would wish and not using strong enough language yet AND STILL.) (Haaretz is in Israel what NYT was, well, once.)

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If it looks like ethnic cleansing, it probably is | Editorial

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Hold the phone. A white South African tried to exploit the labor of Black men under false pretenses with the assumption that he'd never be held legally accountable for such actions? No way.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Important note from one of the lawyers representing the nonprofit organizations that sued: There is same-day registration in Virginia, so, know what you need to bring with you, but even purged legal voters should be able to vote if they realize they were improperly purged.

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I am hopping mad. The Supreme Court issued an unreasoned order reinstating a purge in Virginia based on faulty evidence that was capturing known eligible U.S. voters.

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But folks need to channel their (correct) anger into action. These voters can vote by registering same day in Virginia. And that's why reforms like same day registration are so important.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/10/2024

If re-elected, Donald Trump has promised to end federal support for a clean energy transition and expand oil and gas production. He also said he would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and potentially go further. Read more: nyti.ms/4fHWSTV

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Absentee voters who haven't returned their ballots yet, returning in person at an official dropoff location may be your best bet now. Mailing with the USPS now risks your ballot not arriving by Election Day, which, in most states, would get your vote rejected www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...

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Voters are advised to return their ballots early because of mail delay concerns

Election officials are raising concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle this fall’s expected influx of election mail. But USPS say it’s ready to deliver the country’s ballots.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/10/2024

Kamala Harris will campaign on Tuesday at the park where Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to fight to overturn the 2020 election results. Her speech is designed to reach a slice of the electorate that may be "exhausted" by the Trump era's politics.

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Harris’s Closing Argument: Turn the Page on Trump, and Avert Chaos

In a speech in Washington where organizers are planning for up to 40,000 attendees, she will argue that she represents generational change. But her rival will remain at the spine of her case.

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

perhaps I am a Boomer™️, but when I was an undergrad we were zealous about keeping our housing/rideshare/gen info fb groups student only and chased out any parents posting on behalf of their kids. I'm in similar groups for my current uni and like 30% of posts are just parents talking to each other???

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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Tomorrow’s P1.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Ricky Martin shares the racist anti-Puerto Rico remarks from today’s Trump rally to his more than 18 million followers on Instagram. “This is what they think of us,” he wrote in Spanish. “Vote for Kamala Harris.”

Screenshot of Ricky Martin’s Instagram story

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

my friend and I had dinner at 5pm and I kinda understand my grandparents now because we're cozied up on the couch with love is blind and it's only 7:42pm and there's so much time to watch tv before bed

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The Undead for Progress @undead4progress.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Respect to Susan B. Anthony's grave in Mt. Hope cemetery in Rochester, and those who appreciate her. An Ofrenda in its own way. And beautiful in its own way.

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Bezos swore he wasn't going to interfere with WaPo when he purchased it in 2013

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

When we talk about members of different groups being held to different standards, this is what we mean. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Let’s review: First, Harris was criticized for not doing enough interviews — so she did multiple interviews, including with nontraditional media. She was criticized for not doing hostile interviews — so she went toe to toe with Bret Baier of Fox News. She was criticized as being comfortable only at scripted rallies — so she did unscripted events, such as the town hall on Wednesday. Along the way, she wiped the floor with Trump during their one televised debate.

Trump, meanwhile, stands before his MAGA crowds and spews nonstop lies, ominous threats, impossible promises and utter gibberish. His rhetoric is dismissed, or looked past, without first being interrogated.

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 24/10/2024

Supernova paper officially published and available in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society! academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/10/2024

Scoop: Beyoncé will appear with Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston Friday at a campaign rally, according to people familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview an appearance that hasn’t been publicly announced. Live updates:

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Election 2024 live updates: Harris to hold star-studded rally in Georgia; Trump in Arizona, Nevada

Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

So go check out the code & the paper, & if you need more info (or find a bug!) please reach out using GitHub Discussions or drop into our office hour (Fridays noon eastern)! Access link/info here: saavikford.wixsite.com/saavik/gener... /fin

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McFACTS | Things In Disks Yo N

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

As promised, McFACTS Paper I (the code paper) is out today on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2410.16515 🎉 Led by @bmckastro.bsky.social , we explain exactly what McFACTS (the 1st public open source pop synth code for the full AGN Channel!) is doing & why & give some example default outputs. 1/

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McFACTS I: Testing the LVK AGN channel with Monte Carlo For AGN Channel Testing & Simulation (McFACTS)

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are a promising source of the binary black hole (BBH) mergers observed in gravitational waves with LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK). Constraining the AGN channel allows us to limit ...

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I liked ONE post in German and now my entire discover feed is German tweets

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Kaila Nathaniel @spacekaila.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

People going to APS: have you tried submitting your abstract yet? I went to submit mine and got to the page where you list authors and I have 3 random (real) people attached. I can delete two, but the "first author" can't be deleted. My friend tried and has the same issue, with the same 3 people.

Screenshot of APS abstract submission process, on the page to add coauthors. 3 people are listed with their information blurred out. The top one has red text over the name saying "not me", the middle and bottom have red text over the name saying "no one I know".

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