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

The horror, the horror! www.tysto.com/ew1.htm #Politics #UsPol #WhiteHouse #EastWing

Juice will observe 3I/ATLAS from 2—25 November 2025, while the comet is near perihelion – its closest point to the Sun ☀️ That’s when comets are at their most active, often featuring a glowing coma around the nucleus and dramatic tails.

The horror, the horror! www.tysto.com/ew1.htm #Politics #UsPol #WhiteHouse #EastWing

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

Yet another outstanding image of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) by Petr Horálek taken on October 18, from the shore of Seč Lake, Czech Republic. The pic also captures the aurora caused by a G2 geomagnetic storm that day and the storm's effect on the comet's long ion tail. ☄️ www.petrhoralek.com #Astronomy

An intriguing hi-res photograph of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite with its 12m antenna fully unfurled in space. The pic was taken on Aug 21 by one of the earth observation satellites in the Vantor (formerly Maxar) Constellation. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #PlanetSci

Outstanding shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) with fine and sharp details of its wispy tail imaged by astro-photographers Michael Jäger and Gerald Rhemann on October 13. ☄️ How many galaxies can you spot in the starry background? Equipment: LRGB 8/1/1/1 min 11" RASA QHY 600 #Astronomy

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over Mt Shasta, California, beautifully captured by photographer Kenneth LeRose last night. ☄️ Kenneth LeRose's website - www.krlphoto.com/shop-art More on the comet at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1153... #Astronomy

An intriguing hi-res photograph of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite with its 12m antenna fully unfurled in space. The pic was taken on Aug 21 by one of the earth observation satellites in the Vantor (formerly Maxar) Constellation. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #PlanetSci

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) beautifully captured by astro-photographer Petr Horálek on October 9, from the shore of Seč Lake, Czech Republic. Check out his other works at www.petrhoralek.com Quiz: Was this photo taken before sunrise or after sunset? #Astronomy 1/n

The Nobel Prizes, 5 of 6 having so far gone to US based scientists, are a reminder of why we must stand up for science against this horrid administration. Here are some great Scientist Activists to follow. go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk

ESA today inaugurated a new 35-m deep space antenna at its New Norcia site, ~115 km north of Perth, Australia – the 4th of its kind for Estrack, ESA’s deep space tracking network. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1153... #Astronomy

Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream: The dose makes the poison. That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde. A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine. 1/

Mungo crater on asteroid Donaldjohanson is named after Lake Mungo, site of the oldest human fossils in Australia dated circa 42,000 BCE. The lake is the traditional land of the Paakantji, Ngylampaa and Mutthi Mutthi peoples. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1152... medium.com/teatime-hist... #Science

Asteroid Donaldjohanson just got some new names for its various surface features. The names were proposed by the NASA Lucy mission team to the IAU based on various paleoanthropological sites and discoveries. science.nasa.gov/solar-system... #PlanetSci

8 years ago OTD in 2017, the magnificent NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini mission ended with the spacecraft commanded into a fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGA... More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1152... #PlanetSci

Yes comets, including interstellar ones like 3I/ATLAS, grow tails as they get closer to the Sun. ☄️ Alien spaceships, not so much. 👽 Image taken on Aug 27 by the Gemini South Telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile. 😎 noirlab.edu/public/image... #Astronomy

Where is star cluster PISMIS-24, the subject of the stunning new image by the JWST, located? The following images show the location of PISMIS-24, zooming in from a view of the night sky into the central core of the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357). 🤩 More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1151... #Astronomy

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

Stunning images of a multi-ringed disk around the star WISPIT 2 and its embedded planet WISPIT 2b taken using the SPHERE extreme adaptive optics imager at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1151... #Astronomy #PlanetSci

JWST zooms into the heart of the beautiful Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302), a bipolar nebula 3,400 ly away. The MIRI instrument and its spectrometer were used at 5–28 µm wavelength to study the intricate structures surrounding its central star. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1151... #Astronomy

JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

SPHEREx and JWST reveal what comet 3I/ATLAS is… and isn’t Wonder what interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is all about? So did scientists working on SPHEREx and JWST. Hello, too much carbon dioxide, no aliens, and very little everything else. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #science #notaviloeb

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is slowly giving up its secrets. New JWST observations give a great view of its lopsided, dusty coma & show unusually high levels of carbon dioxide billowing off its nucleus. These are clues about how it formed in a star system far away. 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209

Erin has one heck of an outer wind max this morning – almost as strong as its inner eyewall, but a whopping 100 miles from its center. Pressures down to 948 mb. Tons of energy in this hurricane and a HUGE wave generator for the western Atlantic.