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🚨 My department is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Remote Sensing!!! And we're very interested in getting great candidates in lunar and planetary science! Geological Science at UF has been a vibrant and supportive place to work! Come work with me! #PlanetSci 🧪🔭⚒️

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4h

I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense

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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 18h

I don't even know what to say anymore. I just really hope that people take the time to vote in this election. Because America is running out of time.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

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TruePlayer💫 @trueplayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

About sums it up!

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 28/09/2026

Got to meet my favorite author tonight, Emily St. John Mandel (@emilymandel.bsky.social), after she took part in a great conversation with Lauren Groff (@legroff.bsky.social)! Mandel’s are the novels I go back to again and again. Looking forward to reading my signed copy of her latest, Exit Party!

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 27/09/2026

Not sure if the #Dolphins will keep this up in the second half, but despite some continuing young team issues, they’ve shown a lot of improvement in a bunch of areas over the first two weeks in the first 30 against the Chiefs. Promising. #FinsUp

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 23/09/2026

Don’t worry, we remember. Jolly/Graham 2026!!!

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 21/09/2026

I’m old enough to remember Pat White who was similar size and playing style, and on the last play of Pat White’s very short career I thought I saw a man die on the football field. So naw dawg. Drafting Trinidad would be Trinibad

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 18/09/2026

Dan Campbell was so red during that sideline interview he looked like a reverse Violet Beauregard. It’s like he went into the football chocolate factory, but instead of treats everything was just a fucking holding penalty. #nfl #lions #tnf

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 18/09/2026

Barenaked Ladies sound f’ing awful #Bills #TNF

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 13/09/2026

Gonna try to get #followjosh trending!

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 12/09/2026

🇮🇹 🇺🇸 Decided to make a Sunday* Gravy today! 10lbs of tomatoes from my garden and 3 pounds of animal from the local farmers market to make meatballs! 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I understand completely the idea of "the lesser of two evils". For the 4,566,721st time, we are asking that the lesser of two evils be even less evil ffs.

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NASA Artemis @artemis.extwitter.link · 10/09/2026

Cementing their names in history. The Artemis III crew is leaving their mark — literally. The astronauts recently signed their names on the hardware that will be inside their Orion spacecraft during their low Earth orbit mission, launching in 2027.

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 11/09/2026

I was in second or third period sophomore Spanish class when the announcement about a plane hitting the WTC came over the PA. TVs went on and everyone across the school watched. Except for my algebra teacher a period later, who, as the towers burned, turned off the TV and tried to teach us proofs.

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Eos @eos.org · 07/09/2026

#Monazite helps preserve microfossils so well you can even see their wee cell structures a billion years later. It’s got our vote in this #MinCup26 matchup. eos.org/articles/pal...

Smooth, weathered rock slabs with grey inclusions that hide ancient microfossils

Series of microscopic images of single-celled microfossils

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 07/09/2026

We had a beautiful view of Venus tonight at sunset while a thunderstorm rolled in…

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm going for Asagiite today. I love quartz, we all do, but it's time to show some love to the minerals that we don't see everywhere!

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 06/09/2026

Said Ron DeSantis aides have a huge mental disconnect between the importance of declaring early and the importance of not being an insufferable twat that people hate once they know anything at all about them.

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 03/09/2026

🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️💀🪦

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Intergalactic The Departed Maybe

ALT: Intergalactic The Departed Maybe

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

Three thoughts on this news item: 1. It's just one data point and not at a level of statistical significance for certainty. 2. Octavia Butler said count on the surprises, and this may turn out to be one of them! 3. Made possible by a global team using funding infrastructure that Trump is destroying.

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Have scientists glimpsed the first dark matter particle?

Shadowy dark matter has eluded scientists for decades. The LZ experiment may have spotted one particle, called a WIMP, but more data is needed to check.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/09/2026

Jets Hope To Sell More Merchandise With New ‘Philadelphia Eagles’–Themed Jerseys theonion.com/jets-hope-to-sell-more…

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 1: It's carbonate-vs-carbonate with copper-rich #Azurite against zinc-rich #Smithsonite. Which has your vote? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of bright blue azurite and peach-colored smithsonite crystals.

The azurite forms clusters of round nodules with a matte, almost velvety-looking texture.

The smithsonite crystals are mostly discs with parallelogram faces. There are some black and gold-colores minerals mixed in.

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: An asthmatic deadbeat dad tries to get revenge on his estranged son and his friends after they burned down his house.

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 27/08/2026

A helpful reminder you can wear ✌️❤️🇨🇦 peacelovecanada.ca/products/gre...

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 27/08/2026

(Movie announcer voice) “But this time, she’s out… for revenge!”

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Making university faculty sit in their offices from 8 am to 5 pm every day, 5 days a week, is insane and serves no conceivable academic purpose. The fact that admins and even *staff* are exempt from this absurd requirement shows the real goal is to make tenured faculty quit.

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 26/08/2026

Current status of the 7 year old:

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Steve Elardo @steve-elardo.com · 25/08/2026

Another one across the finish line! Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Liz Pesar! Liz defended her PhD today, which consisted of three projects examining iron isotopic variability on three different planetary bodies! Pictured: Liz in her natural habitat, watching columns drip in the UF clean lab.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

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