The very hungry caterbuilding

Whatever you think your Halloween home decor is doing. It ain't Halloweening HARD enough!

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: “Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL.” The Gemini South telescope is seen here with its louvers open to allow cool, stable air to flow through and around the observatory, improving observations. #astronomy International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Interested in fire suppression or forest history? If you're in ABQ tonight, stop by Bookworks to hear author Philip Conners read from "The Mountain Knows The Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary" bkwrks.com/event/2025-1...

1/ The 4MOST instrument installed on our VISTA telescope in Chile completed its first test observations. @4most-eu.bsky.social will help us unravel our galactic history, explore dark matter, and more. www.eso.org/public/annou... 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation 📷 AIP/A. Saviauk

Two fascinating OCEH Lab Talks this week 🌿 🗓️ Wed, Oct 22 Stuart Earle Strange – What is Anthropomorphism? How do human–macaque relations in Singapore reveal both the limits and possibilities of cooperation beyond the human? 👉 www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...

A small lizard basking in the sun #DragonTuesday #photo

Accompanied by the Moon, this Auxiliary Telescope at our Paranal Observatory in Chile is still closed up. But the observing will begin at nightfall! 🔭  📷 C. Stephan/ESO #Flashback

The personal space of animals should be respected. If you're approached by a friendly cat or dog, show it some love. If it's just sitting there quietly, say hello/wave but leave it alone.

It's that kind of Sunday

Frankie is late for #Caturday. He was enjoying his rights. 😉

Look at the magnificent doofuses.

Without downloading anything, post an image or gif of where you are mentally.

#OnThisDay Dedication of the NRAO - October 17, 1957. Hard to believe it's been 68 years! 👤 From left: Richard M. Emberson, Lloyd V. Berkner, G. A. Nay, John W. Findlay, Ned L. Ashton, David S. Heeschen, H. Hockenberry, with model of 140 Foot Telescope #OTD #FlashbackFriday #NRAO #RadioAstronomy

Eye on the southern sky 🌌 NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is like a cosmic watchtower, capturing the entire visible sky every few nights. Before, scientists would spend their careers looking for supernovae. But Rubin will accomplish in minutes or hours what used to take a lifetime! 🔭🧪

There are still some good things in this world. gizmodo.com/were-addicte...

Earlier I'd prepared two posts, but then we went on a walk and now I think these #autumn photos are way better for happiness 🤍🍂🏔️

This is genuinely cool👏

Big main character energy here from Gemini South. Sure, the telescope conducts world-class research and captures jaw-dropping images with its 8.1‑meter mirror… but honestly, it knows it’s photogenic too. #astronomy 📷: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Kwon O Chul

Good Morning Blusky!

Frankie #cat

Years ago someone wrote that Iran shouldn't have nuclear weapons while the US should because Iran couldn't be trusted to not use them to threaten other countries over, say, fishing rights. Now tariffs and visas aren't nukes, but........ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Visit our website and send feedback! #astronomy

On the way home I stopped at the Polish grocery, and bought a kebab from a Pakistani restaurant. This post has been brought to you by immigration.

👣🌾 Landscapes aren’t just made by humans. They’re shaped through relationships - with animals, plants, microbes, and even the soil beneath our feet. Meet the Multispecies Landscapes Lab, a group at OCEH exploring landscapes as more-than-human worlds. www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...

Say what you will about the movie 'Birdemic', but it's the reason I know about Half Moon Bay and its annual pumpkin festivities.

First plane of the 2025-2026 Austral summer season landed at #southpole today! Pic by SPT winterover Sim Bash. This flight is an KBA flight Bassler plane, which is just transiting through @NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole, on its way to an Italian base. #Antarctica @UChicago

10/13/25 9:30am Update: Not enough #snow for a measurement this morning because we only measure accumulation greater than 0.5 cm (0.2"). Something tells us we'll have enough within the next 24 hours though... #CAwx #CAwater

Happy #Caturday❣️

It should be obvious by now that what people really want is a new Automan.

Benji is Halloween ready 👻

Joy. I never stopped loving Big Wheels. The name and style has changed. We're still the same. Rolling and drifting.😍 Pedaling hard. 😆

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade. And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

Rolling into the weekend like a space shuttle wheel in a roll-on-rim test.

What would you do with a pound of scotch bonnets?

Picture of the #sunrise behind SPT and @BICEP_Keck in the Dark Sector from a few weeks ago by SPT winterover Sim Bash #southpole #Antarctica @NSF @doescience

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: In this long-exposure photo of Gemini North (½ of the International Gemini Observatory), the streaks of light to the left are satellites crossing the sky, identifiable by the breaks in the star trails. #astronomy Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard

Golden hour hits different above 2600 meters. ✨🌅 NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory basks in that sunset ✨glow✨ at its site on Cerro Pachón. And with over 300 clear nights on average per year here, that's a lot of sunset basking we get to do! 🔭🧪

My employer has designated tomorrow as 'Mental Health Awareness Day' which consists of a thirty minute wellness presentation which you have to be authorized by your manager to attend. Like what are we even doing?

Crossed paths with a bear ;)

For those of us that enjoy darkness, Daylight Saving Time is welcome. During summer we have to put up with that nonsense of the sun setting at like 9:30pm. Our time draws near, my brothers and sisters!

The Guardian of Wifi Router Admiral Smokey Periwinkle

@isispendragon.bsky.social I dreamt that Mantas climbed through my window to hang out with me and now I'm disappointed it didn't really happen😄

A week of creativity, history, and critical reflection at the OCEH Lab 🌿 Here’s what’s happening over the next few days 👇

A fish-eye image of a Unit Telescope of our VLT, as it sends lasers beams into the sky. These lasers create an artificial "guide star", used to correct observations for the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere 🔭 #flashback 📷 ESO/A. Ghizzi Panizza

Our winterovers are trying to find new ways to enjoy the still rising #sunrise. Here is a picture of them from last week trying to find some space for a lawn chair by the #southpole to catch some rays! @NSF

As far as low budget monster designs go, I think the one for The Brain From Planet Arous is kind of good. The movie's terrible, but John Agar gets out-acted by a dog so it has two things going for it.

Friday Mood. Coffee Time! ☕

Struggling with the productivity today (yawn).