An amazing medieval library to distract one briefly from current news and marking - the magnificent Bodleian Library in Oxford (Picture taken at a recent visit) #Medievalsky

I was happy to see "The Road to the Spear" on the Hugo nominations list. I nominated it for short form, but with cancellation of the Wheel of Time, I wasn't sure it would get enough traction. Andor Season 2 is on the long form list as well. Nice! #WoTSkies

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Tomorrow's the day you get to learn who the finalists are for the 2026 Hugo Awards. Finalists will be announced tomorrow at 10 a.m. Pacific time on all LAcon social media channels.

Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/

Bro I'm not doing homework to watch a movie

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise. In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival. This is why sustained investment in science & research matters. tinyurl.com/f4n4anhk

Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #ArtSky #Museums #Prado Goya’s “Colossus” (1808) is a masterpiece of dread. A giant looms over a world in panic, embodying the terror of war. Is he protecting or destroying the people? It’s an enigma that continues to haunt us today. More in the ALT

Susan Polgar (b. #OTD 1969) was the first woman to earn the title of Grandmaster by satisfying the same requirements as male players, 1991. ♟️ World’s top-ranked female player, age 15 ♟️ Women’s World #Chess Champion, 1996–99 ♟️ 11 medals, Women’s Chess Olympiad #WomenInSTEM #ChessHistory (1/2)

Whatever you do,

Here's birthday boy Tim Curry on Broadway as Mozart in Amadeus. You might also recognize the gentleman to his right.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Chappell Roan's mother

Dogs just know a good person. I don't know how Prince Harry didn't just scoop that cutie up and take him home 😂🐶 #sussexsquad

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

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I want to own my stuff and not be tracked. I've gone back to buying my tv shows and movies.

"This has all happened before and will all happen again." #BSG

guys, this is how you lose the time war

Finally!! 🎶🎹

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Sad news. The music Moya Brennan made with Clannad got me through many late night study sessions during my university years, and still brings back so many memories. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

That is just beautiful. Some joy for those kids who’ve been through so much. #sussexsquad

Love all the smiles and warmth for and from Harry and Meghan. #sussexsquad

Lovely to see them out in the world and doing some good. #sussexsquad

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

I just saw somewhere something calling Joy Division's "Ceremony" a cover of a New Order song so officially the internet is fired and can come back when responsible humans are in charge

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Some signs of #spring around my neighborhood in Park Slope. #gardening🌱 #photography📸 #Brooklyn 🌷🪻🌸

Great Egret #juveniles begging to be fed! #Florida #BirdoftheDay #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #EastCoastKin #birds #baby

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.” Photo by Sandy Huffaker

The speed that Artemis II was traveling upon re-entry was like traveling from London to Los Angeles in less than 10 minutes. #NASA

Greetings from Houston.

Those four #Artemis astronauts went from weightlessness to a 3+G re-entry to splashdown and now they’ve been at 1G bobbing in the ocean for half an hour while they wait to get pulled out of their little tin can. I do not envy how their stomachs must be feeling right now. 😬

Steal her look

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Timeline cleanse!

This is Chewy. He loves to help his grandma garden. She can’t kneel down to dig holes anymore, but that’s his favorite part, so they're a perfect team. 14/10 (TT: chewythenewfie)

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

I really can't stop looking at this photo - We usually think of space as being entirely empty and dark, but our sun has a lot of dust around it, giving the moon this eerie backlit glow. And four people really have been there and witnessed this yesterday, absolutely blows my mind! #Artemis 🔭🧪

I can't stop staring at these photos. This is what Earthset looks like—our homeworld setting behind the Moon. And compare the dark, cratered surface of the Moon to the blue oceans and swirling clouds on our own planet. If there's a starker illustration of our lifegiving world, I've yet to see it.

Eclipsed Moon, with Venus, from #Artemis II. The subtle color in the corona is beautiful.

Full image plus another and an animated visualization here: images.nasa.gov/search?q=Art...

Because the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, if you build your habitat on some plot of near-side regolith you can put the little Earth anywhere in the sky you want & it’ll stay there, lazily meandering around just a little as the Moon wobbles in its orbit. A view of Earthset from #Artemis II.

Oh, wow. So many other worlds visible in the background of the Artemis II view from eclipse, peeking out of the haze of the solar corona. Thanks @tunctezel.bsky.social for labeling!

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

i feel like you all need this