Oh this is fantastic art using actual images from space missions. Jupiter and Io, Earth, and Mars.

Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition

If you time things just right, you can catch the bus

It was an honor and a delight to speak with Dr. Elizabeth Tasker (@elizabethtasker.bsky.social) about her career trajectory, Hayabusa2, the upcoming MMX mission, and The Planet Factory. The episode and transcript are available on our website, and streamable wherever you get your podcasts! 🚀🚀🚀

This piece is at the top spot of the movies section 👀

What's this I see before me? I'm running an online course on the Bronte Juvenilia for the Bronte Parsonage! Come join me! www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...

📢 #CFP: Space could be otherwise: imagining (new)space futures and their democratic alternative(s). Come and join us at @easst.bsky.social in Krakow (8–11 Sept) to discuss imaginaries of outer space and democratisation. #STS #SSOS DL: 9 March nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Paul Dirac's paper on quantum emission and absorption of radiation was submitted to the Royal Society #OTD in 1927. It advanced the first quantum mechanical theory of electrodynamics and is generally considered the birth of ✨Quantum Field Theory✨ 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article...

Via #NASA - Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal: ‘Go’ for Tanking. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

BLADE RUNNER design by Syd Mead.

Currently in Amtrak train purgatory so I figured I’d share two things that made me smile recently: a corporate mug floating around my parents’ kitchen from my dad’s office, and my Esselunga (Italian grocery store chain) generic notebook I’ve been using to keep track of my projects lately.

I didn't watch Schitt's Creek when it aired. Instead, I inhaled the whole series at the height of the pandemic, and Moira added so much light and levity to those dark and lonely days.

If you need a spot of joy on your timeline: last weekend before the storm hit New York, some friends and I hit the Rex’s Dino Store art installation at the Grand Army Plaza subway station and it was a DELIGHT.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college. History of Science Fiction in American Cinema; The Cold War and the Spy Novel; the Graphic Novel; Oceanography; Fencing

Last chance to take advantage of the Unwinnable year-end special subscription offer: sign up for $5, get all 24 issues from 2025. Ends tonight! Easily one whole day of distraction from doomscrolling. unwinnable.com/subscribe/ @unwinnable.com

Didn't realize this was still open, check it out, NYC!

I’ve got some very exciting news for both February and March & I cannot wait to share when everything is finalized. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️

Another exhibition I’m excited to see is Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture, also at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC through March 15th. 🤩 madmuseum.org/exhibition/d... Highlights include costumes from Black Panther, but all of it looks incredibly cool.

History of Science & Medicine friends: the Museum of Art and Design in NYC has an exhibition on “Designing Motherhood,” on view through March 15th. madmuseum.org/exhibition/d...

Chart of the Hand.⠀ ⠀ One of the many fantastic illustrations to be found in Dr Alesha Sivartha's enigmatic 1898 work titled The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man. More here: https://buff.ly/3a5TVea Prints to buy here: https://buff.ly/2QtNo5q

We're not anti-tech, we're anti-theft. If the future of “innovation” depends on stealing creators’ work without asking or paying, that’s not progress - it's stealing, and we shouldn’t accept it. #StealingIsntInnovation www.stealingisntinnovation.com/

📸 This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image reveals the intricacies of the Helix Nebula in stunning detail! 🧬 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Webb_reveals_Helix_Nebula_in_glistening_detail @science.esa.int @stsci.edu

alchemy is very easy: 1. get some lead 2. recreate the white-hot primordial soup from which we all spawned 3. profit!

As to snowy days in art, I've always loved the hill full of sledding children in Jacob Lawrence's 1943 painting "City College is Like a Beacon Over Harlem"

If you don't need to be on social media today, I would strongly recommend turning off auto play on videos and logging off of different platforms for several hours. Donating money to local organizations in Minneapolis will also feel better than doomscrolling.

About 273 million people — around 80% of the population of the contiguous U.S. — live in the areas expected to see freezing cold over the next seven days. Track the temperatures in your area here.

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

“Water is a beautiful, elegant system that consistently shows new, remarkable behavior,” a physical chemist said. “For something so simple, it has beautiful complexity.”

New episode out today! Join Emily & Alexa as they chat with @herbbaker.bsky.social whose career spanned five decades working with NASA. Herb shares incredible stories from his recent memoir, From Apollo to Artemis, and his work in the broader space community. www.artastra.space/episodes/nas...

The Drawing Center in NYC has an exhibition through Feb 1st inspired by UFOs and paranormal phenomena. 👽https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/voice-of-space?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “It’s an unfair world, child. Be glad you have friends.”

Anywho, the main truth I know is that there's ALWAYS something that can be done. Always. You just have to find the things you can do.

This unassuming announcement belies a huge victory. Welcome back IMLS.

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

IMLS which gives grants to libraries and museums in every state is back!

Yeah, I don't think enough people are aware that @evnarc.bsky.social, Eder Messias, and I put sky sharks in SAM WILSON: CAPTAIN AMERICA #5.

An exhibition called “Paws on Parchment” at the Walters in Baltimore explores explores the roles of cats in the Middle Ages. 🥹 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

I would like to bet a dollar that this is because the ultra-sophisticated DOGE AI flagged some phrase like "a diversity of offerings at the salad bar" in a budget.

Alert the dads!

Sotheby’s is selling an extensive archive of WWII campaign plans at the end of this month: www.sothebys.com/buy/72fddab0...

This is how they played The First of Us

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.” - John Lewis #RIP

Watch out for the ONE question where they try to trick you by putting "I want AI" as the bottom option where EVERY other question has "I don't want AI" at the bottom!

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Here are the brands and sizes recalled 👇🏻 this is a serious recall. please check your fridge if you buy these brands.

Operation: Mincemeat is my first Broadway outing of the year. I won the monthly draw again so I went with a friend who wanted to see it. Would love if it didn’t feel more relevant each time I’ve seen it. 🫠