this thread about some truly cray cray stuff. come for Belarus insanity but stay for Zuck dipshittery.

🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5

1/8 #JWST found that the chemistry of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is strikingly different from any #comet formed in our Solar System. 🔭 Extremely high deuterium levels and unusual carbon ratios suggest a probable growth scenario dating back to 10–12 billion years.🧪⚛️ esawebb.org/news/weic2613/

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.  Spread the word. Stand up for science.

1/8 This JWST’s NIRCam and MIRI stunning image reveals different structural details of the Crab Nebula (NGC 1952). Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim (Princeton University) science.nasa.gov/missions/web... #galactic #universe #astronomy 🔭🧪⚛️

Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

I had some thoughts on the press coverage of the SpaceX IPO

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

🧵1/7 If you missed this major discovery: in 2023, scientists re-analyzing Cassini data found phosphorus — a key building block for life — in the subsurface ocean of #Enceladus, Saturn’s icy moon. 🔭🧪⚛️ One of the most important astrobiology findings in recent years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cracking up at this: imgur.com/gallery/gram...

Assuming 274 murders across 264 episodes and 12 seasons, and a population in Cabot Cove like Kennebunkport (3600), the homicide rate was 611 per 100,000, 13 times higher than the most murdery US city, New Orleans. Moreover, Poisson statistics demands 19 weeks where there would have been at least

In 1935, the US Congress created a new tax bracket that was designed to steeply increase the taxes paid by exactly one person.

What does he think of Republican candidates? “Sofa so good!”

🧵1/4 9 June, 1905: Einstein's seminal article on the photoelectric effect, received by "Annalen der Physik" March 18, was published. The article proposed the idea of light quanta, extending Planck's quanta to light itself.⚛️🔭🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #histsci #science #physics

One beep for racism, two beeps for corruption.

This is a fantastic success story that gives me hope for the future. The naysaying experts in the story are familiar from climate issues too: “the real solution is to stop making plastic (or CO2), so trying anything else doesn’t solve anything.” I’m glad this young inventor is smarter than them.

Merge two movies: Lambada, the Forbidden Planet

One of my scientific heroes!

Happy Pride Month to everyone who brings a little more color to our world 🏳️‍🌈🫶🏳️‍⚧️

Results are in from initial field trials of sea ice thickening in Canada & Norway. So does thickening work? In the strictest sense of the word, yes www.newscientist.com/article/2528...

Google is evil and they are spying on you all day, every day. They will sell your data to your future masters unless they are the future masters. This is for those who don’t want that: substack.com/@psychopete1...

“While experts had for decades tested and verified workable theories, residents and internet sleuths quickly dismissed them, leaving a mystery that lingered. Plus measles.”

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

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Cae un meteorito detrás de un volcán en erupción de la isla de Luzón (Filipinas), mientras se emite en directo por internet.

Hands up if you know what they're talking about.

An analysis of 141 films since 1919 finds geologists are usually portrayed as likable characters, though nearly a third of on-screen geologists die, most often by murder or geological events. doi.org/hb3tq4

DECONSTRUCCIÓN - La Alhambra. Espejo del Firmamento y Manuscrito Celeste. Por Rafael Pérez Gómez y Pablo Romero Küpfer, para el nº78 de nuestra Revista IAA (abril 2026) 👉 www.iaa.csic.es/deconstrucci...

¿Porqué las imágenes obtenidas por la nave Bepi Colombo en este tercer sobrevuelo a Mercurio no son tan bonitas? Vamos a explicar este nuevo sobrevuelo para ajustar la órbita final en torno a Mercurio.Vamos a mostrar imágenes obtenidas por la sonda Messenger en Mercurio.

🧵 10 May 1900: astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an example of pure love for #science, was born. "No idea should be suppressed. … And it applies to ideas that look like nonsense. We must not forget that some of the best ideas seemed like nonsense at first." 🔭 🧪 #histsci #WomenInStem #astronomy

There are two higher ed Bluskies right now:

New HR diagram mnemonic dropped: Very Bad Computer Program Gives Me Misinformation

Top 15 TV shows ever, gut instinct only, you say? Arrested Development 🍌 Community 🫟 Star Trek (TOS) 🖖 The Expanse 🚀 Moonlighting 🌙 MacGyver Sledgehammer Life on Earth with David Attenborough 🧬 Cosmos (OG) 🪐 Big Bang Theory ⚛️ Sherlock 🔎 Scrubs 👩‍⚕️ Schitt’s Creek The Good Place Futurama

O isotopes measured in an exoplanet! The authors find 16O/17O ~700-900 (1/3 solar) and 16O/18O ~250 (one-half solar) in H2O in a planet named "COCONUTS-2b" [Those wacky astronomers!], significantly higher than the stated interstellar values of 2005 and 557, from a 1999 paper. 1/6 🔭🧵

‘Refreezing the Arctic’ won a National Headliner Award 🙌 Big thanks to @pulitzercenter.org @jessicaaldred.bsky.social @mfischetti.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social 🙏 www.headlinerawards.org/2026/04/27/2...

“Not only did ASU allegedly not communicate to its academic community that their lectures would be spliced up and cannibalized by an AI platform, but the resulting modules are just bad.” #edusky #academic

El cometa 3I/ATLAS, descubierto el 1 de julio de 2025, es el tercer objeto interestelar conocido. Su actividad notable incluye una coma visible y pérdida de masa, comparable a otros cometas. Observaciones futuras revelarán más sobre su composición todoastronomia.net/2025/07/09/d...

Tres familias de TNOs Las observaciones del telescopio James Webb han revelado que los objetos transneptunianos se agrupan en tres categorías químicas: Bowl, Double Dip y Cliff, cada una con orígenes distintos en el disco protoplanetario. Esto sugiere que su composición refleja las condiciones de…

Un reciente estudio sobre la Luna ha revelado una enorme masa metálica a 300 kilómetros bajo la Cuenca Polo Sur-Aitken, resultado del impacto de un asteroide hace 4.000 millones de años. Este descubrimiento, logrado a través de datos de la misión GRAIL todoastronomia.net/2025/06/27/m...

Una Tierra orbitando una enana blanca Una investigación revela la existencia de un planeta de masa terrestre orbitando una enana blanca, que sobrevivió a la fase de gigante roja de su estrella. Este hallazgo, logrado mediante microlente gravitatoria, sugiere que la Tierra también podría evitar ser…

Sledgehammer was released 40 years ago today!

🧵1/5 Ever get that weirdly satisfying feeling when something finally goes way past its original plan? Well, #NewHorizons just did exactly that. After 20+ years since launch, it's now farther from Pluto than it was back in 2006. Really wild when you think about it.🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #Space

🧵1/5 For 170 years we thought there was a large inclined ring of young stars around the Sun.🔭 A new study using Gaia data shows instead that it doesn’t exist: Gould’s Belt is just a temporary alignment of a few star clusters.🧪⚛️ No ring, just a 3D asterism. arxiv.org/abs/2604.13225 #galactic

Elon hates NASA because its existence and success counters the myth that we need billionaires or a profit motivation to do cool things in space. Anyways, nationalize spacex.

IT'S APPOMATTOX DAY! Use that word, as I did, holding it up, on a busy streetcorner Only some MAGAPutinists get it. But their eyes widen in realization and fear. Good. We blue Americans are made of no lesser stuff than the blue heroes of Gettysburg.

I sat and I thought till my thinker was sore: If Venus is like Earth with mantle and core and similar size, yet in life is so poor, maybe, just maybe, “Earthlike” means something more…

Inspired by the launch of Artemis II? Join our impact flash observation project, where we'll be coordinating a search for meteoroid strikes on the Moon with the astronauts! science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie...