There are two weeks to go in the fundraising campaign for the Natural History Society of Maryland's new shark science and conservation exhibit, and we have to raise about $1,400 more. Please consider chipping in to help. Thank you! www.southernfriedscience.com/help-support... #SciComm 🧪🦑🌎

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Izquierda Derecha, by Juan Genovés, 1967, 📸 via @beysicc

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

recently v into this album open.spotify.com/album/6lauK4...

Per NGS: "Eagles defensive tackle Jordan Davis, who blocked a potential game-winning field goal and returned it for a touchdown as time expired, reached a top speed of 18.59 mph on the return, the fastest speed by a player over 330 pounds since at least 2017."

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The world's largest neutrino detector has just begun operations in Jiangmen, China. 🧪🔭 english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas...

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Also to clarify, the cost is $100K per year of the visa, so it is actually $300K for a 3-year visa. As postdocs cost about $100K/year, this fee doubles the cost of postdocs on H1-B visas.

🔭🧪☄️ I don’t fully understand nor appreciate this result, but it seems exciting! “If confirmed, the discovery of cosmological parity violation is a clear sign of new physics beyond the standard model of elementary particles and fields and will have a revolutionary impact on[…] fundamental physics.”

Crowd gathers in Seal Beach to watch rehabilitated sea turtle released to the ocean

life feels like this rn open.spotify.com/track/6KsjZG...

US immigration: Harjit Kaur's ICE arrest stirs Sikh community

In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round the internet of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland. Photoshop trickery? The bizarre truth: - yes, everyone really saw these - no, they're not faked or manmade - they absolutely don't exist. 1/

i was v honored to give a seminar at the @amnh.org yesterday on my GRB + SN Ia research. They let me tour the museum after too and ah ah ah !!!!!! what a fantastic place !!!!!!!!!!!!

An amusing footnote in a preprint: "for brevity, we refer to this as the Ravasio Line, following the established tradition in our field [gamma-ray bursts] of naming things after Italians." ☄️ #HighEnergyAstro arxiv.org/abs/2410.00286

Satellite tracking of whale sharks off the coast of western Australia shows how oil and gas platforms influence the movements of these gentle giants.

was v excited to see work by @danmil.bsky.social (+ many others!) featured at the @amnh.org today !!

the horrors persist, but this 5 flute concerto is nice, and if you look at the album artwork from afar, it looks like a toadstool mushroom cabin for a small fairy and that's a very nice ambiance to imagine while listening to this open.spotify.com/track/3utHPU...

streaming ‘reputation’ today…. what a good album

AAS/APS have set up a new site to submit comment on the proposed change to F + J visas. Currently students are approved for the duration of their program, but this change would require them to pay a fee + apply for an extension to graduate. Open until Sept 29! ☄️🧪🔭 takeaction.aps.org/lp/wl01cnyf/

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‘THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT’ has won the Emmy for Best Talk Series See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25

Erin Doherty has won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series for ‘ADOLESCENCE’ See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25

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so so well deserved

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Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jefferson-Wooden scorched down the track in 10.61 seconds, the fourth fastest time in history. She got out of the blocks fast and never relinquished her lead, opening up a sizeable gap over her competitors by the finish line at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo: https://cnn.it/42pMNGD

beautiful quote from Mark at the end of the article: “I’m interested in creating questions in science that someone hasn’t thought to answer yet.”

Research in Scientific Reports suggests that blue-throated macaws can learn new actions by watching other macaws interact. The study indicates that this approach to learning is not exclusive to humans. go.nature.com/4g8p43m 🧪

🚨 new article for astrobites! 🚨 today we’re talking about inclusive teaching practices in the physics classroom: what are they? are professors implementing them as well as they think they are? why are they reluctant to implement more? give it a read and lmk your thoughts in the comments! 👩🏼‍💻💬

every time you’re about to make a half-formed argument online, ask yourself: is there a chore I should be doing instead

science and technology is so cool

Camera traps show a jaguar swam 🏊‍♂️ at least 1.3 kilometres - and possibly 2.3 kilometres - to reach an island in central Brazil 🧪 That's by far the longest any jaguar has been recorded swimming, but there is reason to think they swim even further www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

Absolutely stunning observations. Progress in the last few years has been amazing, never have we had such wonderful astronomical data

I didn't know a lot of this about Einstein -- v much worth the read!

this is also a Sigrid fan account; I woke up with the chorus of this song stuck in my head open.spotify.com/track/09K39p...

amazing poem amazing arrangement amazing choir amazing melody truly one of my favorite songs open.spotify.com/track/4NWeKf...

Hubble and Pan-STARRS image of Arp 6, also known as NGC 2537 or the Bear’s Paw Galaxy. The horseshoe structure may be the result of a shockwave from a nuclear starburst. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Dalcanton, Judy Schmidt, PanSTARRS Source

NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!

this has been nice to listen to today www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEP5...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Conservation is a universal priority across belief systems, and it's time for our policies to reflect that. 🌲🌊🪸

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