Artemis II Earthset: a sequence of 59 images captured with the Nikon Z9 #Artemis 🧪🔭

A century ago during the 1920s, America experienced what the historian Merle Curti aptly called a "cult of prosperity," an era that -- just like our own -- conflated "rich and powerful" with "brilliant and wise" I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I bet it worked out great for everyone back then.

this morning’s baby frog tour around the tadpolery

MAY • DAY maydaystrong.org 🇺🇸 NO work 🇺🇸 NO school 🇺🇸 NO shopping BEING LOUD TOGETHER— for our loved ones & neighbors! 💖 to celebrate we’re doing #ArtBites with @bitememedusa.bsky.social — because ART IS PROTEST! www.twitch.tv/mellemony 🔥🌈🌤️💙🔥🌈🌤️💙🔥🌈🌤️💙

We played #adorableadventures, chatted pig science, and played more Saros with eclipse science! Thank you @bitgamey.bsky.social @emi_kiko @hogan698.bsky.social @pyrokittytavern.bsky.social @gmrkitty.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @onlythomwilltell 1/2

The official date was yesterday, but we're observing World Tapir Day on today's stream! Join us for a discussion of these wonderfully peculiar animals (so skillfully illustrated in the quoted post), and a celebration of their evolutionary history @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

One of the best I've ever seen! Absolutely eye popping cabinet sized highly UV reactive blue Red Fox Agate from Patagonia. 📷 The Mineral Collective #minerals #geology

Huge thanks to @helenpearson.bsky.social for joining me on Twitch yesterday to talk about her amazing journey in science communication and her new book Beyond Belief - available for preorder now and published tomorrow! The vod is up! www.twitch.tv/videos/27575... #science #stem #scicomm

🧵1/9 Recently released maps are showing “interstellar glaciers” inside the Milky Way. NASA’s SPHEREx mission has created wide IR maps of vast clouds of frozen water, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide spread across hundreds of light-years. It’s mind-blowing.🔭🧪⚛️ www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/interst...

I made a smol fren today

Sol 1841: Left Mastcam-Z Camera, imaged at 13:47:41.178 (local mean solar time), image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Chasing sunsets!  Over 70% complete, our ELT is glowing in the sunset light of the Chilean Atacama Desert, surrounded by massive cranes hard at work to get this telescope up and running. 1/2 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

Got out for a long solo ride today, and whewww did I need that.

The average American has three friends.

Even though I know better, I still want to check under there for bugs.

I was trying to figure out who this woman posing in front of the Tucson Ring meteorite was and eventually found it’s Mrs. James M. Underhill of Utah. Don’t know her actual name of course because this was 1939

Metalworking in the shop today. What am I making? Come find out! I'm live on Twitch, come hang out! www.twitch.tv/hogan698?sr=a

I have other socials too

Cat Cam is up while I'm at work, and the sNews segment will start at 8am when I get home. Chaos follows. I'm live on Twitch, come hang out! www.twitch.tv/hogan698?sr=a

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.” This is why we should fund science. 🧪

The silly joy of a new author who has been handed the proof copies of her debut book 📖 My little book is jam packed with magical wonder that I experience when I spend time in nature. "The Life Affirming Magic of Birds" released 8th May 2025 📚 Published by Quarto

This little paperback takes flight next month! You can preorder now! Please order through your local indie bookshop ❤️ Thank you to Robin, Mary, Nick, Caroline and Miranda for providing such beautiful quotes for the cover 📚 #Preorder #Book #TLAMOB #Author

Thank you for the fun IRL stream! We explored the tulips and dinosaurs at arrow head farmstead, chatting science and enjoying a gorgeous day. Thank you @k3lsb3lls.bsky.social @hogan698.bsky.social @zaraondemand.bsky.social for the raids! We passed the love to @bitgamey.bsky.social

Thank you for the fun SciAnts News Friday! We chatted 3 new species of monitor lizards and stentor geometry preferences! Thank you @hogan698.bsky.social @ursulamojo @spicedeliastrations @mister__brain @zeldasauce.bsky.social @petradactyl.bsky.social for the raids! We passed the love to @tergus86!

We need more of this sort of informative, yet heartfelt, commentary around #DeepSeaMining Few people have the experience of @drandrewthaler.bsky.social - so worth paying attention to the conclusions news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...

Just for fun….

If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious. Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.

Repeating "Oh no. Toilet" to myself all day.

#BirdOfTheDay #Reflections Or a Reflect-shadow? Song Sparrow #birds #becurious

Today in History: April 14th 1865: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next morning.

Every year since 1994 crime has gone down and every year Americans think it is worse than last year which explains why rural MAGA grandmas think their favorite grandchild will be murdered if she moves to the city.

Here we go again with an o7 to Marine Insight for putting how much this fuckin thing costs right in the headline so I don't have to even look it up

“When the very rich so controlled the means of communication that it would be almost impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions and so democracy would then be broken…” - attributed to Albert Einstein We have been here before, and we know what to do. RESIST!

We chatted growing meats in the lab! Thank you @hogan698.bsky.social @onlythomwilltell @uacnj.bsky.social @KORG_xACEx @LilaRoseLive @astrocanuck.bsky.social @rinus_leatherworks @ivan_neo @melissaindenile.bsky.social @LostVikingMetal for the raids! We passed the love to @mopgarden.bsky.social

Quand tu passes un peu vite sur le ralentisseur

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

The Integrity spacecraft just entered the lunar gravitational sphere of influence, at 0438 UTC Apr 6. Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen are now the 25th to 28th humans to have left terrestrial space.

But Bluesky is an echo chamber

hey geologists and paleo folks, what’s up with this rock we found

Hope you had a great weekend. Help yourself to this Easter bunny being chased by an aardvark. #MosaicMonday

The terrorists that attacked Iran have just bombed one of the most elite scientific institutions in the Middle East, Iran’s Sharif University of Technology in the heart of Tehran. Not a military target, they are repeatedly going after schools and medical facilities just like in Palestine.

"Tonight, I'll be wearing slightly mismatched cufflinks as a subtle and polite objection to the administration's assault on the First Amendment."

Lobster fishermen are using sensors on their traps to collect temperature, dissolved oxygen, and soon salinity data on the changing ocean environment. These data are valuable to scientists studying climate change and help fishermen make informed decisions about where to fish.

The Moon through the window #ArtemisII 🧪

The 12yo has declared it Sea Pig Awareness Day! Scotoplanes spp. are rotund, pinkish sea cucumbers who apparently “snuffle across the seafloor to find tasty morsels in the mud” and give taxi rides to king crabs for mysterious reasons.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Something fun I just learned: The screenwriter for Miss Congeniality didn't like the original music they had for the pageant anthem, so he asked his 5 year old son to write a new one. The producers unknowingly chose it for the film. You can hear it in this clip: youtu.be/Kf0tmg27pWA?...

Your federal government on Trumpism: "More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May 2025, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program... "Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure..." www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...