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The Bath Bomb Dealer 🛁 🫧 @jumpyjellybeanbathbombs.com · 06/10/2026

I have $10 spa packages available and ready to be shipped off. Not a single package is packed the same, these packages are packed with bath bombs, body butters, bath salts and so much more! ko-fi.com/s/a8937c38cf

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Assorted Mystery Box | bath bombs, soaps, body butters and more! - JumpyJellybean Bath Bombs's Ko-fi Shop

This mystery box is going to be different than our previous mystery boxes, not one box is going to be the same and they are going to be loaded with to...

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The Bath Bomb Dealer 🛁 🫧 @jumpyjellybeanbathbombs.com · 29/09/2026

Head over and get your orders in for a mystery box NOW and have it shipped tomorrow morning! Not a single package is packed the same, loaded with bath bombs, soaps, body butters and more! Goal is 2️⃣ spa packages today! 🛒 ko-fi.com/s/a8937c38cf

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Help me in congratulating Maddy! is an elementary school student and her goal in life is to become a herpetologist. #FindThatLizard Scholarship Recipient 2/4

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026

Day 5. Another 3.5 hours on the upper center & left of the nebula.

WIP painting of a nebula with orange swirls in the upper left and things that kind of looks like an orange chair in the middle on a dark blue background

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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour all of those impacted by residential schools and continue to advocate for decolonization, decriminalization and decarceration. This day serves as a reminder that the harm caused by residential schools is profound and persists in Canada. (1/4)

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interested by ISOs like 3I/ATLAS? PhD opportunity in interstellar object observations, here in New Zealand. Join our Ōtautahi-Oxford group & the NZ Gravity collaboration. Start by March 1. ☄️🔭

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PhD Scholarships – Statistics, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitational Wave Astronomy | New Zealand Gravity

About us The NZ Astrostatistics and General Relativity Group (NZ Gravity) is a cross-institutional research team spanning astrophysics, cosmology, ma...

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 23/08/2026

Hey Canada. Support Canadian artists.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/08/2026

The NSF Proposal is a not-so-sneaky attempt to implement Vought’s OMB Proposal before it’s finalized. Take action against the NSF Proposal; Leave your public comment: zurl.co/j2JCa Join us today at the NSF Rapid Response Workshop, 2-3PM ET: zurl.co/IXE9L

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

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NPR @npr.org · 01/08/2026

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.

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We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.

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Steph HM @starsteph93.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Same here, Kait!! ❤️❤️

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Be nice to insects. They don’t hate you. They’re just being insects.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

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ESO @eso.org · 09/07/2026

Could you move 3,500 tonnes by hand? 😲 You could if you were an engineer at the construction site of our ELT, carrying out rotation tests of the telescope’s structure. 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation 1/2

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I hate that this — urgent pleas to save prestigious departments from drastic cuts — is becoming a regular occurrence. A program like this takes decades to build and a few strokes of a pen to destroy.

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Save Sussex Physics

Save Sussex Physics - Open Letter

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I cannot get enough of these young Barn Swallows. They are excessively charming with their bright colors and tiny feet #birds 🌿

A dark blue and rust colored bird stands in a folded over green leaf. Its feet are tiny. It’s waiting for a food delivery.

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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

@alan678.bsky.social reminds that it's #PollinatorWeek and here's an Australian native Blue-banded Bee (Amegilla species) & its blue-banded bee butt at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens #ECK #Bees #Photography #Nikon #wildlifephotography #Flies #Insects #wildlife #naturephotography

A large bee cheekily peeks out from behind a set of small purple flowers as it hovers in mid-air against a green background of leaves.

A large bee racily shows off it blue-banded butt amid a set of small purple flowers as it hovers in mid-air against a green background of leaves.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Good morning! 🪶

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth! It costs 0$ to repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Galaxy and Moon Bunny Compression gloves

Galaxy and Moon Bunny Artist/Drawing Gloves

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Steph HM @starsteph93.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Snapped this pretty pic while flying over Las Vegas! Can you spot the planets???

Photo of the night sky above Las Vegas taken from the window seat of an airplane. Two bright planets can be seen above the horizon.

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ESO @eso.org · 16/06/2026

Taken before the completion of the observatory in 2013, this image succeeded in capturing the feeling of solitude experienced at the ALMA site, 5000 metres above sea level in the Chilean Andes. Read more: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1252a 🔭 #flashback 📷 ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)

Wide panoramic view of white radio antennas set against the red and brown peaks at sunset

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Dara Ojo captured this damselfly performing its morning ablutions. Note stiff hairs (setae) on the legs. The damselfly can't walk: the legs are used to trap bugs while flying. Damselflies spend 90-99% of their lives underwater as nymphs. (📷: Dara Ojo, @explorewithdara.bsky.social)

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

A photo looking down on an unusual bee clinging to a green shirt. The bee is a stout bee called a carpenter bee, but what’s unusual is that it is both male and female, known as a gynandromorph. In this particular species (Xylocopa sonorina), females are jet black and males are fuzzy orange. This one has an abdomen that is divided into four perfect quadrants, like a checkerboard, alternating orange and black. The thorax is mostly black but with some orange.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/06/2026

Science in under attack in America. Are you ready to #StandUpForScience ? Join the fight - Visit the link in our bio or this link to sign up to volunteer for Stand Up for Science: zurl.co/4e4IC #Volunteer #Science #OMB #Vought

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Dr. Craig DeForest ☀️ @craig.deforest.org · 20/05/2026

Holy cow! Feast your eyes a while, on this gorgeous solar spectrum by the Sol'Ex instrument (assembled by Váradi Nagy Pál). It extends to UV and IR as well as the visible band. Marvel at the F lines, the fine structure, the IR doublets and repeating lines, and the molecular bands. Wonderful! ☀️🧪⚛️🔭

A very broadband solar spectrum reveals the colors of UV, visible light, and infrared light that are missing from the solar spectrum. The spectrum was collected by the "Sol'Ex" instrument, and assembled by Váradi Nagy Pál.

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Martin Bourne 🏳️‍🌈 @astromartin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Multiple countries, same story. Someone is defunding astrophysics everywhere and no one will admit it. Visited ICRAR at UWA recently and it’s a similar story. Nowhere is safe 😢 #astro

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Morgan Dawn @morgandawn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

'a business will let every person in it die a terrible death if it makes the business profit. A household will spend it's last dollar to keep the people safe and healthy"

Kenny Jnani Hale
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Will reblog until my dying day, because every passing year shows in more graphic detail the tragic consequences of running a community like a for-profit business.

weaselle
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i've said it before and i'll say it again: what we want is for these things to be run like a HOUSEHOLD... a home. A household still has a budget and an income and resources to manage; all the moving parts are the same but the focus is different.

a business will let every person in it die a terrible death if it makes the business profit. A household will spend it's last dollar to keep the people in it safe and healthy.

A household will use money as a resource to add value to the lives of the people in the household. A business will use people as a resource to add monetary value to the business

We don't want a government run like a business, we want a country run like a household. Because we live here.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 27/05/2026

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

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New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

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Steph HM @starsteph93.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Yes!! I hope it helps and that stay safe and well ❤️❤️

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zoë hackshaw @theastrozo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Did you know that stars have fingerprints? To help you search for them (aka to view how different types of stars have characteristically different spectra in the Gaia RVS region) I created this visualization below, best viewed on desktop! zoehackshaw.github.io/kiel_explore... Happy exploring! 🧪🔭

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

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Dr Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy #BlackHoleWeek! 🖤 My black hole chonk chart is back, now with real LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data ✨ More gravitational-wave detections are on the way, so this chart may need another update very soon. 😎 #BlackHoles #GravitationalWaves #SciComm @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social

An infographic titled “How BIG are the BLACK HOLES we find with GRAVITATIONAL WAVES?” by @astronerdika. The graphic is a playful “black hole chonk chart” showing black hole masses in units of solar masses, written as M☉, where M☉ means the mass of the Sun. The top half categorises black holes by mass, with each category shown as a curled-up black cat that grows larger from left to right.

The categories from left to right are:

1. “<5 M☉”

* Labeled “smol”
* Tiny curled-up black cat
* Arrow pointing left: “THIS WAY TO NEUTRON STARS”
* Example on the graph: “Big component of GW230529 ~3.6 M☉”

2. “~10 M☉”

* Labeled “basic”
* Small curled-up black cat
* Annotation: “LOTS OF BLACK HOLES” with an arrow pointing to this range
* The population curve rises steeply and peaks around here

3. “~35–45 M☉”

* Labeled “hefty”
* Larger curled-up black cat
* Sits near a smaller bump in the population curve

4. “>60 M☉”

* Labeled “chonky”
* Large curled-up black cat
* Nearby annotation: “FORBIDDEN TERRITORY? can these even be made from the collapse of star cores?!”
* Example: “Components of GW190521 ~85 M☉ + ~66 M☉”

5. “>100 M☉”

* Labeled “oh lawd”
* Very large curled-up black cat overlapping the panels
* Arrow pointing right: “THIS WAY TO INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLES”
* Example: “Components of GW231123 ~137 M☉ + ~103 M☉”

Below the categories is a graph of the inferred black hole population. The horizontal axis is labeled from 3 M☉ to 120 M☉. The vertical axis is labeled “log scale.” The population rises sharply around 5–10 M☉, peaks in the “basic” range, then declines toward higher masses, with a smaller bump around the “hefty” range. Dashed pale pink lines show an uncertainty band.

Text along the curve reads: “Real data from the LVK collaboration! Check out the paper: arXiv:2508.18083.” The style is hand-drawn, humorous, and inspired by the “Chonky Cat” meme.

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

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Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

CTV News Regina - 04-11 Sask. grandma becomes TikTok star thanks to her cooking #saskatchewan

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The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My little art shop has a collection of landscape and nature drawings. All one of a kind originals at affordable prices for gifts. folksy.com/shops/thewee... #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Painting #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm

A photo collage of some of my artwork:
Butterfly fish, a landscape with blue hydrangea, avocet birds, a winter landscape with trees, a heron in flight and bluebells.

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

So many resources! But we can always have more! On blackwhiteandread.com, we now have resources for first gens like me (finding cfps & orgs), independent scholars (open access libraries/archives for unaffiliated researchers), job seekers, and public scholars looking to pitch work. Check it out!

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Resources
First Gen Academics
Independent Scholar Resources
Job Listing Sites
Pitchables

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