NASA has set a target date for the ISS Crew-11’s early return to earth, due to the medical issue with one of the crew members. Undocking: 5 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14. Splashdown: 3:40 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, off the coast of CA. www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces...

NASA is postponing tomorrow's scheduled ISS spacewalk because of "a medical concern" with one astronaut. www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces...

Chang'e-3 lander on the Moon just turned on again 📡〰️calling home and in command lock with groundstation! Sun's elevation at Chang'e-3 landing site in Mare Imbrium is 20°. Landing date was 14th December 2013. #HNY2026

Check out these beautiful macro photographs of Slime Moulds by Barry Webb at www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro... Additional links - Fungi: www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro... Instagram: www.instagram.com/barrywebbima... Slime mould info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mo #Nature

Trump: The FBI Informant Who Did Not Bark. A key email from Epstein’s estate, in combination with statements by Trump ally House Speaker Mike Johnson, shows it is highly likely that Trump was an FBI informant in the sex abuse investigation into Epstein. bit.ly/44OKNct

This is lemon-shaped exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b orbiting a pulsar every 7.75h. It's atmosphere contains He, C2 and C3, but little H, O or N. The pulsar contains 1.4 Suns crushed into a 10-20 km sphere, rotates every 3.33 ms and deforms the planet. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157... #Astronomy

This is lemon-shaped exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b orbiting a pulsar every 7.75h. It's atmosphere contains He, C2 and C3, but little H, O or N. The pulsar contains 1.4 Suns crushed into a 10-20 km sphere, rotates every 3.33 ms and deforms the planet. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157... #Astronomy

If Trump was 100% guilty before any of the Epstein files were released, now he’s closer to 600%, 700%, even 800% guilty. MAGA math works both ways.

Join the funny and clever threads on James Bond. 🤣 bsky.app/profile/tren...

Researchers using the JWST have confirmed the first supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole (~7.8 bly away) ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157... #Astronomy

This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

Starlink failure at 418 km altitude - loss of comms, venting of propulsion tank, rapid orbit decay by ~4 km and release of "a small number of trackable low relative velocity objects" (aka space debris). ISS not at risk from the tumbling satellite. What about untrackable debris? Risk to other sats?

A week ago, I wrote that Democrats flipped 21% of all state legislative seats held by the GOP that were in play this year. Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none. This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025. boltsmag.org/legislative-...

Chances are excellent for some good aurora viewing tonight in the upper- and mid-latitudes, esp. in the latter half of the night in Canada and northern U.S. states, due to the anticipated passage of the CME from 06 December. Keep those cameras handy! www.swpc.noaa.gov #Astronomy

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question: Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital? Start with Part 1 here:

Time, on avg, runs 477 μs/day (4.4 seconds/25y) faster on Mars relative to Earth, according to physicists at NIST, thanks to Einstein's theory of general relativity and the gravitational effects from its celestial neighbors. www.nist.gov/news-events/... fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1156... #Astronomy

The M8.1 solar flare that erupted from region 4299 at 2039 UTC yesterday resulted in an earth-directed full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME is expected to impact Earth early to midday UTC on Tue 09 December, with G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storming and auroras. www.swpc.noaa.gov #Astronomy

Vint Cerf says there are 7 phases of the #Internet, and we’re right in the middle right now. What’s coming next? spectrum.ieee.org/history-of-i...

1st quarter-final of ✨ #planetaryScience image of 2025✨ This round features Mars 🧪⚛️ 🗳️ Voting ends on Monday, Dec. 9, at 3 p.m. UTC/4 p.m. CET/10 a.m. EST/7 a.m. PST/midnight JST. Here are the four quarter finalists 🔽

Here is a stunning image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, taken on Dec. 2 by astrophotographers Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger, showing the comet's long wispy plasma tail in full glory and a dusty anti-tail. www.facebook.com/groups/22700... #Astronomy 1/n

Almost forgot! 28 November = special day! It's the day (1967) that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell confirmed pulsars! We've only known about them for <60 years. Had a chat with 👑 JBB about this earlier this year 👇 www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte... 🔭 #SpaceAustralia 📸 Uni. of Cambridge

This Randall Munroe's @xkcd.com strip will make you cry, smile and feel inspired. xkcd.com/3172/ Randall’s fiancée, now wife, was diagnosed with cancer in 2010. This is the story of their fight with cancer. 15 years later, there is no sign of cancer and the couple is happily getting old. 1/n

This Randall Munroe's @xkcd.com strip will make you cry, smile and feel inspired. xkcd.com/3172/ Randall’s fiancée, now wife, was diagnosed with cancer in 2010. This is the story of their fight with cancer. 15 years later, there is no sign of cancer and the couple is happily getting old. 1/n

More elections are already around the corner, mere days. And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida. And that's just the tip of a busy election month. My new guide, just out:

Here are a couple of spectacular images of comets, taken in October from the International Space Station. The first one is Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) seen through Earth's shimmering aurora lights. eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... #Astronomy

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

A massive global study links Fibromyalgia to 26 genes associated with the central nervous system. Beyond its diagnostic implications, the study opens new therapeutic avenues. www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Health

Lots of good #aurora sightings tonight in North America and Europe. Caused by Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) on Nov 9 and 10. A stronger X.1 solar flare occurred today at 1004 UTC from solar region 4274, which should arrive Wednesday around 19:00 UTC. Search aurora for pics. www.swpc.noaa.gov

“These people are not working on genetic diseases,” said a director at the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California. “They are either lying, delusional, or both." www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...

My new book will be out in early December 2025 via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

Prof. Peter Coviello - "Every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite? It’s a storied gambit of the right at its most grimly predictable." lithub.com/maybe-dont-t... 1/

What we know, 3pm on Wednesday: [In 4 parts] —CA's Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems gain leg seats in VA & NJ —Dems win NJ & VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Happy World Jellyfish Day! 🪼🪼 Jellyfish are invertebrates, not fish. Jellyfish go back over 500 million years. There are over 2,000 known species of jellyfish. One species of jellyfish possesses a property like no other animal - immortality! ... Much more at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154... #Science

Check out this hilarious series of Halloween Costume ideas from the Newsom Press Office. 🎃🦇🤣 #UsPol #Halloween

NOAA’s hurricane research division staff has been cut from 52 in 2020 to 28 in 2025, almost a 50% cut. They’ve resorted to using volunteers to man the critical radar and dropsonde stations on Hurricane Hunter flights. Senseless cuts in an era of climate change making the strongest storms stronger.

Another artistic image of comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) taken by Alan Dyer from southern Alberta. Alan is an astrophotographer, lecturer, planetarium producer and author of the eBook "How to Photograph and Process Nightscapes and Time-Lapses." Check out his other works at www.amazingsky.com #Astronomy

#ResistanceRoots #ResistanceEarth Today in history, 1948: Dense smog claims 11 elderly victims in Donora, Pa. Fog had trapped toxic pollutants from a zinc smelting plant close to the ground, making thousands sick. The tragedy led to the passage of the 1955 Clean Air Act. /1

mRNA vaccines and cancer. #Cancer #Vaccines 🧪 #Scicomm knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Lots of animals eat poisonous plants and critters and survive. How do they do it? I looked into this mystery in my latest for @knowablemag.bsky.social: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

OTD on Oct 29, 1969, ARPANET was born, which led to the development of today's Internet. At 10:30 pm PST, SRI programmer Bill Duvall and UCLA student programmer Charley Kline made the first successful host-to-host login connection. 👏 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET #History

OTD on Oct 29, 1969, ARPANET was born, which led to the development of today's Internet. At 10:30 pm PST, SRI programmer Bill Duvall and UCLA student programmer Charley Kline made the first successful host-to-host login connection. 👏 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET #History

The horror of the night sky being destroyed by Starlink (and other LEO) satellites. Still from time-lapse video of comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) by Michael Jäger and Gerald Rhemann. Video at spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... Cleaned up images at skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/10/ #Astronomy #Comet

One more outstanding and artistic shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) by astro-photographer Marina Prol from the Canary Islands, taken on October 25. ☄️ www.marinaprol.com/astroandnigh... Credit: Marina Prol #Astronomy

An eerie starry view from the eye of Hurricane #Melissa taken last night by meteorologist Matthew Cappucci onboard a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft. The Lockheed P-3 Orion (tail N42RF) took off from Lakeland Linder Intl Airport east of Tampa. 🌀 Credit: Matthew Cappucci and Alina Cooper

"No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good. And in doing so, we can make City Hall a place from which New Yorkers expect change, not failure."

Good evening from Queens. New York is not for sale.

Another fabulous shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over Suotojärvi Lake, Sweden, by Petr Horálek, with the colorful Aurora Borealis lighting up the sky. More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154... #Astronomy

Overnight, Hurricane #Melissa, now sporting a distinct eye, grew from Cat 1 (90 mph wind speeds) to Cat 4 (140 mph). Landfall in Jamaica - Tuesday morning. Catastrophic amounts of rain, 40+ inches in some areas in Jamaica, storm surges, life-threatening flooding and landslides. www.nhc.noaa.gov

Many spacecraft will get a chance to observe Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. ESA Juice will collect imaging and spectral data from ~0.4 AU distance. NASA Europa Clipper can potentially sample the plasma and dust tail from ~1 AU away. fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1153... arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15768 #Astronomy