I just found out there is a BEAUTIFUL senior cat named MRS. DOUBTFIRE up for adoption in Centre County, Pennsylvania! So, of course, I had to spread the word. If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home! centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt

💻[email protected] 🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793 MELIA can live with cats, no dogs. She needs a patient, loving human who can train and be her forever. She needs a calm adult only home. 3.5 years old. Around 50 pounds. Over 800 days 😢

Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now

I feel both seen and attacked.

Friends, I hate to ask but I need some help please 🙏 I urgently need a new temp quarantine space. If you have a little extra would you consider donating toward heavy-duty cages? Thank you for considering! donorbox.org/ccn-quaranti... (Also check out my new logo! 🤩🥳) 1/🧵

What a universe. Sometimes I feel it's good that we really don't matter to it (and also good that it matters to us).

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Hi, it's me again I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders. Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them Get one at Squidfacts.net!

4/ Summers is welcome to publish papers via peer review like anyone else. He should not be a leader of the profession, given plums such as invited publications, lectures, made integral to programmatic policy statements, etc. Doing so implies that gross sexism is regarded as triviality.

The fact that Larry Summers was able to continue having a prominent career despite explicit bias toward women and Black folks (can't bring myself to imagine being a Black woman in his orbit) AND being a shitty economist to boot has enraged me for decades. Hope this finally puts him where he belongs.

Oh *fuck* this. Other 👏 economists 👏 are 👏 available!

Thinking this morning about the fun “national debate” Larry Summers started in 2005 when I was a 16 year old aspiring to a STEM career…turns out he was personally, actively undermining women in STEM by sexually harassing them and chitchatting about it with his best pal Epstein…

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

This video unexpectedly brought me to tears. We live on such a beautiful planet filled with such joyous creatures

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name. Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event. Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Do you know a high school student who is interested in astrophysics? Here is a list of 10 Astrophysics Summer Programs for High School Students! See horizoninspires.com/blog/astroph... for more details.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

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Oh do fuck off with this bullshit. You couldn’t think of *any other* politician’s financial entanglements to investigate? Really?

Our local animal shelter just put out an urgent request for food for the Pet Food Bank. If you have a local pet food bank please help people feed their pets during this challenging time ❤️

Teen Vogue rising after the 2016 election and dying after the 2024 election doesn't even feel like a metaphor as much as a microcosm of what is happening all over places that were once strong areas of resistance.

November is Adopt A Senior Pet Month. Flower, age 15, is here to remind you that seniors are cute, have love to give, can learn your routine and would appreciate safe retirement. Kittens are cute too, but give a home to a senior. Adopt the Seniors ! #cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato

I'm so happy that my favorite knitted #JWST sock design is back in stock 🤩 Inspired by the first Deep Field image released by the telescope ✨ sciencesocks.co/products/jws... 🧪🐡🔭🎨

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

Where can lefties improve? I think knowledge about Christian nationalism is a big gap with progressives, lefties, socialists, etc. This is a problem because it means that people aren't always strategizing around the opposition we actually face. Here are my recs for self-ed 🧵

Sophie & Gizmo’s foster needs to step back soon — these two sweethearts need new foster or adoptive homes ASAP. They make the perfect pair, but together or apart, they’re ready for love 📩 [email protected] #AdoptDontShop #RescueCats

(Hi friends, I am in need of a little help financially in the wake of some health issues that have affected my ability to work recently.)

Authoritarians create imaginary enemies and bring us into unnecessary wars so they can consolidate power domestically and stay in office forever.

This is Pringle. He was found as a stray with a dislocated femur and severely damaged hip socket. Despite being in a lot of pain, he just wants to kiss everyone he meets. He needs surgery to repair his hip, then he can focus on giving out smooches. You can help him below ❤️‍🩹 15outof10.org/pringle

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

Soooooo….guess it’s finally time to go full Ubuntu…

We're getting ready for Saturday's #NoKings protests! Join us in #LexingtonMA in the morning and on the Boston Common in the afternoon.

"The secret sauce has been poured down the drain," says David Draper, former Deputy Chief Scientist of NASA, over the recent firing or departure of 1000s of NASA employees, which will be catastrophic for the legacy of the US🇺🇸😖🚀 www.planetary.org/articles/400... h/t @floragraham.bsky.social 🧪

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW! The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...

Oh no. It me.

Whether the Library of Alexandria was burned by design or was collateral damage, burn it did nevertheless.

So my buddy Carlota, who is taking over Dogskull Patch, has a group of feral cats to deal. She’s been trapping and neutering as possible, but one sweetheart named Big Daddy showed up on the porch limping. Some asshole shot him. She’s raising money for his amputation and care. gofund.me/3b6cf293e

Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!

Fluffy is 10 and has the most magnificent whiskers I've ever seen. She is loving and cuddly and she loves to chatter at birds out the window. She is at Richmond Animal Control and in search of a loving home. To sweeten the deal, these whiskers probably come with TEN WISHES!

Yeah, roast the Chicago School, Pope Leo! (Not a sentence I ever imagined writing…but not mad at it)

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Don’t threaten me with a good time

I increasingly hate interacting with substack links because of the way it tries to force me to use the app and subscribe and agh I just want to read but anyway here is a piece that is correct about Ezra Klein open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵