Nobody names a classification scale after themselves. The scientific equivalent of slapping your name on the Kennedy Center. How about a scale for hijacking a truly interesting scientific story for misleading, self aggrandizing ends? Call it ”Likelihood Of Ego Boost”. The real “LOEB Scale” 🧪🔭💫🛸🤷

The "alt" accounts are almost universally bad. Ranging from people doing cosplay to out and out grifters.

Some of my personal highlights from 2025! I fall more deeply in love with color every year. ❤️ [ #art ]

Not the IAEA logo in the corner 💀

One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

Don we now our gay apparel 🎄 [ #art #characters #coyote-and-badger ]

I woke up this morning and first thing I heard was a family member ranting about the gold standard from the other room 💀

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

I have increased in age 🎉

Lost RTG stories are always wild. I think the most cursed is the time some Georgian hunters found some warm metal equipment in the woods and decided to curl up for the night. Surprise mega radiation poisoning courtesy of some old Soviet RTGs.

I dread the day my old prescriptions start to run out and I have to actually find a new psychiatrist

Happy anniversary to The Expanse, one of the (if not THE) greatest scifi TV shows ever! The first episode aired OTD in 2015. @abraham.bsky.social, congrats. 😀

Oh this is very clever. Perspective effects play a bigger role in astronomy than you might think at first. Astrobites, BTW, writes about journal papers at a moderately technical level. It's a great resource for undergrad/grad students, or high school students who are into the science.

I really want some #40k material or even minis focused on naval (water, not space) combat. I know there is some lore for orks having boats but not a lot. It would be such a wide open concept space for some cool new vehicles.

Makes the sound of a Christmas ornament falling across the house much more interesting

Fig necrons vs orkeos

Wondering if there were some weird bsky algorithm changes recently or I have just been posting more? I seem to get more annoying / offensive random posts lately. Maybe it's cause I responded to some stupid takes a while back and now the algo is set to try and make me engage with people?

One of my favorite galaxies

Nature research paper: Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy go.nature.com/3Kxp5m8

Reckless, self-centered, and dangerous. Astrophysicists owe it to everyone to understand the implications of our words and actions on the world, and Avi Loeb is not holding up our end of the deal.

Maybe a hot take, but presenting chiropracty, homeopathy, etc as anything besides a purely religious practice should probably be a crime. At best it is dangerously misguided, at worst it is malicious fraud.

god I wish family relationships were easier to manage

The thing about being an US born person of immigrant extraction who has also lived in a couple of other countries and traveled to a bunch more is... I can be both very clear eyed in the way the US sucks while also being aware of how other countries use the USA's failings to distract from their own.

Visiting Griffith Observatory and I immediately saw a yote :3

Ouch

Get this man a bishop hat and some robes

People watch Star Trek and want the warp drive or the replicator, sure those are cool but no. I want the tricorder. A handheld universal scanner would be absolutely game changing for basically every field of science and a lot of industry.

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

Imagine being alone under a sky like this

Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry. 1/? ⚛️🔭🧪 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

It's actually amazing how well trust in science has held up (scientists are still more trusted than every profession in the US except the military!) given the huge amount of money and effort that's been spent trying to delegitimize it.

A little yote

This is not what the problem is. We have many excellent, talented, engaging science communicators. Their reach is deliberately truncated by the social media companies, and billionaire-owned news outlets do not platform them.

🚨HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨 1/n www.oregonlive.com/travel/2024/...

Golden field 🌾 YCH for Robin

Also "stem" is very much not a monolith and honestly isn't that useful a classification outside education. I think in general tech and engineering have very different professional cultures vs the sciences or math.

Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship? 🧵 🧪🔭🛸 (1/7)

The USA is closed for science.

𝘈𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶

Fall Portland is pretty

Reposting this since midnight viewership may have been low. Really good space.com investigation of what's happening at Goddard, including destruction of science labs and spacecraft test equipment, way beyond just the layoffs.

US spends more on R&D than the next 16 OECD countries *combined*. And those countries are, you know, already having trouble paying to support all their own highly talented researchers.

The fun part of this is trying to guess what venue posted this. These days it could be anyone, except maybe The Onion. (and yes, I read the ALT text)

Hazy Blue 🌥️ — for CosmicYote

I keep forgetting to post this wonderful profile pic I got from @wryote.bsky.social :3

A stick, hanging in mid-air? What's going on? Hazel glue fungus! Keeping a dead twig attached to a living stem allows the glue fungus to break it down without competition from the many other fungi that work at ground level. Nature is *so* amazing!

something from stream, 5x7, $111 if you want it!

As it turns out, coyotes are good climbers. They loped up and down these limestone cliffs like they were mountain goats. #mammals 🌿