E. Coli bacterium announces it is "proud" to be nominated to replace Makary, says it is "eager to continue Trump's regulatory agenda".

The Psyche mission to a metal asteroid 🤘 is passing by Mars later this week and is already taking extremely cool photos. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/psyche-pee... 🧪 🔭

Took down a post about Dems calling the GOP weird, since it was my recollection they stopped doing it months in advance of the election. Apparently Walz did for longer.

This has always bugged me. Always.

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

Ah, but I didn't see this until just now. OK, this is a good step.

This is extremely disappointing. I get that there's not mucn time but it seems like they should still be investigating every possible action.

I'll second this. I read this when it came out and it really does go through the steps. It's not terribly long either so it's quite the beach read.

The Moody Visible Light Portion of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Astronomers strike it rich with exoplanets: TEN THOUSAND new candidate alien worlds found! If confirmed they'll *more than double* the number known! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/astronomer... 🔭 🧪

I wrote some dumb jokes about one of the even dumber recent video game discourses. Excited for weird people online to be super normal about it.

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

My friend and colleague @amyshirateitel.bsky.social debunks the Apollo "UFO" footage. I laughed when I saw this part of the release, like Apollo images are secret or something. Also a lot of the other pix show sun glare reflected in the optics. Just silliness all around. youtube.com/shorts/qlKHG...

I hear cardinals in our trees all the time but they're a bit shy about being seen. It's nice to see this female grabbing some suet just now!

This is good (way better than the VA Speaker of the House conceding to the court).

Important to remember that the GOP has not cornered the market on boneheads

RFK Jr. is a lying evil quack and also a crackpot, and because of this *people will suffer and many will die*.

There will come a day on the internet when people will read the linked article before replying, but - oh wait, no, that day will never come.

A red-bellied woodpecker 1) decided it liked the suet I put out and b) decided it didn't like me taking its photo (maybe; I was pretty well hidden). Still, action shot!

If you are yelling "Pluto is a planet!" you are wrong. If you are yelling "Pluto isn't a planet!" you are wrong. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-p... 🔭 🧪

This is delightful and just what I needed today.

I just called my state legislator and senator urging them to find some way to work around this court order. If you live in Virginia, please do the same.

This would be the best solution for now, of course (until enough Dems are in power to overthrow ALL gerymandering). But the GOP is trying very, very hard to make it so that such a thing is impossible. It is not hopeless, but we have to do the work to get that blue wave.

I am very, very close to agreeing with this idea. The GOP declared war, and we cannot just let them cheat their way to a fascist state.

If you are yelling "Pluto is a planet!" you are wrong. If you are yelling "Pluto isn't a planet!" you are wrong. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-p... 🔭 🧪

Good morning! Remember, every day you wake up is one day closer to That Day.

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

They will stand in front of you and drive a dagger into your heart and say, "This administration has done more to reduce stabbings than any government in history."

What we did in Virginia needs to be done in every other state with a blue trifecta. We have to counteract the fascism of the GOP. And the very, *very* blatant racism.

Come hangout with me and these amazing panelists at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social June 1st 7:30pm 📚🧪 @sciam.bsky.social will be kicking off our first-ever Summer Reading Challenge 💫 www.eventbrite.com/e/scientific...

Hey, is that a brown dwarf in your pocket or are you the result of a bottom-up pebble accretion formation mechanism? badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/hey-is-tha... 🔭 🧪

It's #BlackHoleWeek, which is really just a cynical move by Big Black Hole to sell more black holes

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

I wonder what the overlap is with men who think they can score a point off of Serena Williams.

HERE IT IS! In August 2025, a massive landslide brought a big chunk of mountainside into the Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska, causing the second-largest tsunami ever recorded. My latest for @eos.org is the story of the forensic investigation, and why the culprit is climate change: 🧪

This horror has been known for a while; I wrote about it over a decade ago. This is one reason I say that antivax beliefs kill. Babies are dying because of it. RFK Jr. and the rest of his ilk in HHS are even more guilty. This *must* stop.

Oh wow, both Kelly and Emily? This should be a really fun event! Heartily endorse.

wait

I find the tau argument tiresome. One's better in some circumstances, the other's better in others. They're both fine, we use pi now, so why change? www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/is...

Emo is very clever, very intelligent, and very very funny. If you get the chance to see him, take it.

I love the metric system! But I have found a deeply embedded irony in it, because I am a millipedant. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-metric... [For premium subscribers only today!] 🧪 🔭

Happy Cinco de Mayo to those who celebrate

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

Please read this! Solar geo-engineering scares the crap out of me.

This may be anti-hot take, but dumping billion of tons of particles into the atmosphere to block the sun is maybe a bad idea, which is why I'm very worried some billionaire will want to do it. Words by me. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/dimming-th... 🧪

Won't you stop and take A little time out with me

Know your history, or be blessed to repeat it

ART002 on today of all days

Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too.