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Stephanie Douglas @stephtdouglas.bsky.social · 19h

A) this is going to backfire and harm players & their families just like the Kraken's attempt three years ago B) this is somehow worse than when the only merch for women was pink and/or bedazzled. How did the league go backwards on this?

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Cobie Cipher Triangulation Agency @cobieef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A great article with receipts on what "protecting women's sports" actually amounts to.

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Eos @eos.org · 29/09/2026

NASA has ignored recommended funding levels for planetary research & analysis for 15 years, according to a new investigative report by Mark Sykes (@coop.planetary-research.org). And for FY2025, it hasn’t even spent 50% of what it budgeted for R&A. 🧪🪐🔭 eos.org/research-and...

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NASA has Underspent on Research and Analysis for 15 Years - Eos

Spending for NASA’s research and analysis programs has remained relatively flat for 15 years, ignoring recommendations from community-led decadal surveys and directives by Congress.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Per @chanda.blacksky.app: I would like it if scientists did not refer to their machine learning projects as "AI". Because it takes me a while to read through a paper and confirm that it is not about using text generator slop in place of actual science.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Nicole Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 29/09/2026

"Especially competitive..." Right because it was such a cakewalk before. Vought can go step on a thousand Legos...

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Stephanie Douglas @stephtdouglas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love that a PO told me this would be basically AAG when I asked a couple weeks ago 🙃 no I don't think that's true actually

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Stephanie Douglas @stephtdouglas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I definitely spent too long making these, but I'm excited to use them: name tags for celestial buddies so I can include them in a scaled Solar System walk 🌞🤓

Screenshot of two white pages. The left page has 9 tags outlined, while the right has two oversize and one regular. Each says "my name is planet name, if the Sun is the size of a basketball, then I'm this big:" followed by a circle of the appropriate size. Pluto, Charon, and Comet say "if the Sun is the size of a basketball, then I'm too small to see" plus an extra fact

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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Want a little distraction that can help me with a class demo in Intro Psych? Take a short (1-2 minute) color perception test at ismy.blue Then report your results in the google form below! I'll post a figure of results by gender and age later this week. 🙂 forms.gle/dPkMztpNLNQK...

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Is my blue your blue?

Test your color perception with this interactive test.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 17/09/2026

Please accept this perfect photo of Max hiding under the hallway runner from the rest of 2026 as my contribution towards your mental health for the day. Also, stand up, stretch, drink water, and maybe don’t step on the lump in the rug.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

… the greatest theft of labor in human history…….. *blinks Black / Indigenous / Guyanesely* Does at his mean everybody will admit that teh philosophy around AI is closer to slavery than just about “intellectual property” Or we gone keep making the American mistake

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

we gotta stop calling these this things “agents” because they only have as much *agency* as you permit them to have, either by instruction or by environment

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🥳 First-light doughnuts from the very recently launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! 🔭 Fear not - it will all look a lot prettier when focused!

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 15/09/2026

Friends! Friendos! Pals o' mine! Looking for someone whomst is an expert on the formation of the Moon and/or other early Solar System collisions! Is that you? (For an article, natch) 🧪🔭

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Stephanie Douglas @stephtdouglas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is one of many reasons I search Wikimedia commons for lecture images before I go to a generic search engine. There are at least some guardrails around what gets posted there

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fewer, larger grants means narrowing the scope of research to a few pre-selected topics. Fewer, larger grants means wasting talent and having fewer eyes on the problem. Fewer, larger grants means losing steady, reliable progress. Fewer, larger grants means more pressure and more failure.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For the record, "fewer larger grants" is the opposite of how to fund good research. Give a bunch of researchers financial stability and basic funding, without wasting their time on increasingly competitive applications and widening the have/have-not gap, and look how far we'll go.

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Stephanie Douglas @stephtdouglas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spent almost an hour drafting exam questions and then immediately managed to overwrite them

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you find yourself thinking MAHA has a point, stop and take a breath. Pipelines are insidious, reasonable-sounding, and tend to confirm gut feelings for a *reason*. We can fight for better systems w/o conceding ground to ppl who genuinely think there are categories of humans who should not exist

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/09/2026

It still persists to this day. Watch how any time some white guy is caught doing mass murder, the media say "ah, this isn't terrorism, just some disaffected white guy." The word "terrorist" is being taken to mean "someone Muslim and brown."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/09/2026

the thing about vocally refusing to vote all the time is that politicians will, entirely logically, write you off as “those people who refuse to ever vote”

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Doug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Save for a couple sprinters, everybody lost the race to the bus. Transit advocates were excited about that

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Stephanie Douglas @stephtdouglas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't think I have anything truly odd, but I did work on a Christmas tree lot for many years

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 07/09/2026

Getting a little nervous watching the AOC/MAHA backlash swing into "we must always trust the medical system" territory. Especially coming from folks who have never had to ask the medical system to give a shit about their ovaries being covered in cysts or endo scarring eating their intestines.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

However you feel about AOC it’s good for us to have a broader convo about how these MAHA people use keywords that you might agree with (pesticides! Chemicals! Safe food!) but the way they want to implement their ideas would kill the chronically ill, the disabled, the poor, and the marginalized.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have known many trans kids (and cis kids who needed procedures that would fall under "gender-affirming care"). None of them have suffered harmful consequences for getting the care they needed. The harmful consequence for having that care denied is frequently death.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good job, Seattle Times Editorial Board. Excluding trans girls from sports (or telling them they have to play with boys, which is the same thing) is ritual humiliation. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

IL 26-638 would send Washington back to the days of “femininity certificates,” when amateur women athletes, including Olympic athletes, had to carry proof that they had passed visual exams and chromosome testing that proved they were women. Under this proposed initiative, parents of girls as young as 12 could be subject to this violation of privacy.

The ballot initiative states that athletes “must provide, as part of the required routine sports physical examination, a health examination and consent form or other statement signed by the student’s personal healthcare provider that verifies the student’s biological sex, relying only on one or more of the following: The student’s reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”

Aside from the humiliation and violation of privacy, testing for genes and hormones isn’t cheap, which would keep girls without means out of competitive sports.

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Stephanie Douglas @stephtdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Lafayette Physics Department is hiring! We are looking for a Visiting Assistant Professor to start in January 2027. provost.lafayette.edu/2026-27-phys...

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2026-27 Physics Department, Visiting Assistant Professor · Provost · Lafayette College

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Here is another example of *automated cryptogyny*: LLM removed my co-authors, *three of whom were women*. Instead, LLM states I published the paper with a *man* with whom I co-authored *other* papers. 🧵

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In a "collaboration" (which we left), someone used an LLM to make a "summary" on topics for the project (without our consent) in which published research ideas from @olivia.science & me understandably popped up, but were credited to men, while our names showed up nowhere in the "summary". 🧵

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Using LLMs in science for “literature review” or “summarizing" is *automated cryptogyny* olivia.science/cryptogyny/ @olivia.science 🧵

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Cryptogyny

On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.

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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ahh, I'm seeing a lot of particle physicists riding into astronomy research, ready fix our field and solve all our science questions for us. I mean, how hard can astronomy be, right? Welcome in, dear.

1950s man comes home, where his wife and children are hiding behind the door holding carving knives. His wife is labelled "Systematic uncertainties" and his kids are labelled "Non-Gaussian Errors" and "Dust".

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/08/2026

Online mutual aid dares to ask “what if charity was distributed according to the recipients’ ability to accumulate clout and perform abjection on English language social media?”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

The reason you want an actual humanitarian aid system and *don’t* want to force everybody to rely on online mutual aid is because online mutual aid *forces people experiencing horrific trauma* to perform on the Internet for survival.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

we should remember that vocabulary control is a tried-and-true cult indoctrination technique — both as a way to divide members from outsiders and to demonstrate the cults' power over their members' reality — and insistence on using farcical "Lake America" type names should be seen in that light.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You ready to make Philadelphia a more biodiverse city?? Join us for volunteer nights of prepping packets of native plant seeds for free distribution across the city! Together we can make Philadelphia a better place to be a bird or bug 🪲 RSVP at Lu.ma/dgs (that stands for do good shit).

A pigeon holds a plant in his little beak and struts down the street with seeds falling from the plant. The words say "Native Plant Prep Party Sulimay's October 5 & 19 Nov 2 & 16
6:30-9pm 632 E Girard Ave Philadelphia, PA

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 27/08/2026

Particle Physics Equipment xkcd.com/3286/

Comic: Particle Physics Equipment by how much it sounds like an offering at a high-end spa in a sci-fi/fantasy novel. Line graph increasing to the right. Geiger counter, Cherenkov detector, Photomultiplier tube, linear accelerator, scintillation counter. [small gap] Ion chamber [small gap] Cyclotron [extremely large gap] Bubble chamber, cloud chamber.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/08/2026

I don't know what is going on with autocorrect, but it's very clear to me while doing a not-quite-final read through that the "correcting what you're typing while you're typing it" is introducing more errors, and more obviously wrong ones, than it ever catches.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"The couple, who are both 19, share a 3½-year-old son and welcomed a daughter in February, while the sailor was deployed." Christ. The military preys on vulnerable kids and treats them like cannon fodder.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Newborns cannot BE vaccinated for measles; they rely on herd immunity. I think I would fully lose my mind and go on a Godzilla rampage if my newborn died because anti-vaxxers decided their ableism was more important than babies living. This is so awful and my heart goes out to those parents 💔

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/08/2026

The US has built a mythology internally that relies on the entire world to sustain, but to admit this would be to shatter the narrative we have that We Are The Greatest and The Rest Of the World Needs Us And Sometimes We Deign To Help Them.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

LLMs are not remotely the same technology as machine learning applied to weather data. Nor is machine learning applied to weather data remotely the same thing as ensembles of physics-based general circulation models, which are what is actually used to make weather forecasts.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The fact that HBO compelled even this lukewarm non-apology out of one of the modern world's proudest and more powerful bigots means that her hatred is actually affecting their bottom line.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Excel: The cup is January 2nd.

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