We're constantly told that women can never compete with men and yet Kelsey Pfendler is about to set the record for the fastest solo row from California to Hawaii, beating the men's record by a full week. What an incredible feat of athleticism, endurance, and grit.

⚽ #Goalquakes ⚽ Once again, our seismometers perfectly picked up the ⚽️jumping of the Belgian supporters ⚽️during that mad match, which ended 3–2 yesterday! ⬇️

The Trump administration has decided to move forward with closing USDA’s flagship campus, even after enormous public pushback. They just gave researchers until Sept 30 to clear out their labs. New by my for @science.org 🧪🪲🌎

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

One of the largest #sunspot groups of the current #solar cycle, AR4478, here as imaged today from Hoogstraten, #Belgium. It sits pretty much at the center of the solar disc at this moment. And it's really big, about 16 Earth diameters from side to side! 🧪 🔭 #astrophotography

If you didn’t know, former @sciam.bsky.social owner Springer Nature sold us just three days ahead of the tally of the vote to unionize. It resulted in layoffs, including 60% of the union’s organizing committee. We’re out here to fight, to keep doing vital science journalism.

Kenny Harris (American, b.1974) "Moka with Pink and Blue," 2023 Oil on panel 31 x 23 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Here it is, after years of having this shot in my head, chasing the murder the night before the full Moon: dozens of crows flying in front of the Moon, my first edit. 🪶

Two types of #clouds, dark ones in the foreground and bright ones in the background. The bright ones are #noctilucent clouds, near 80km high. This is around midnight from #Belgium. Clouds are illuminated by the Sun, not too far from the horizon this time of the year. 🧪 🔭

#noctilucent clouds are out tonight! (as seen from Belgium). Pics soon.

Faint display of noctilucent clouds in northwestern direction right now

Wow. This is my concern. Here, we can still trace the original paper by accessing the original print copy of the journal. As more and more journals are online only and as stacks disappear, 'glitches' or retractions with 404-errors mean we lose the ability to trace and track. It just disappears.

Massive #noctilucentclouds across the northern horizon currently. More entertaining than the football for a while... #stormhour

The heavy #thunderstorm hitting the #Netherlands today's evening, as seen from 100 km south. Here in Belgium we have a severe thunderstorm warning, we expect also heavy rain soon.

De Zon met een paar enorme vlekken vanmiddag, en vanavond lange schaduwstrepen, een enorme cumulus die voortijdig afvlakt (in een lucht vol zwaluwen) en een groeiende cumulus die boven een condensspoor van een vliegtuig uitgroeit. @leonoor.bsky.social @erwinharkink.bsky.social @miekeroth.com

Iran captain Mehdi Taremi slammed FIFA and President Gianni Infantino over what he called poor logistical support at the #FIFAWorldCup, describing the tournament as “unfair” and "a disaster."

www.science.org/content/arti... @mcnees.bsky.social check this shit out

#Landslides and #liquefaction from the 24 June 2026 "double tap" earthquakes in Venezuela, and some thoughts about helpful and more accurate ways for the media to report the news about this event. eos.org/thelandslide... #earthquake #terremoto #Venezuela #terremotoVenezuela

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

The latest weather report from Antwerp, Belgium

Better times at the Reflecting Pool. Everybody frolicking and splashing during a summer heat wave July 1970. Photo by Mike Lien.

Totally need this tee-shirt.

there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research

This is a handy page of past @agu.org meeting numbers! 2025: 21,059 Total Registrants, 6,800 Oral Presentations, and 12,504 Poster Presentations 2024: 31,756 Total Registrants 2023: 27,339 Attendees 2022: 23,636 Attendees 2021: 23,145 Attendees www.agu.org/annual-meeti...

This is such a bummer.

Yeah, fuck this. Our public money is essentially being diverted from science to supporting the stock prices of ruling party donors.

Cijfers over vroege hittegolven: record in zicht? @meteobe.bsky.social www.meteo.be/nl/info/nieu...

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Every woman you know has this rant on lock and ready to go and that we don't deploy it more is only bc it's another task & it's mostly easier to just buy the paper towels with a sigh and move on with your life.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Lesser-known-fact: the summer #solstice is a moment in time that delivers the longest day/shortest night in the North. At 9:24am (BST) the North Pole will be at its most-tilted towards the Sun. Me & the druids will be on #BBCR4 Broadcasting House later on to celebrate 🤗🔭🧪 📷: National Maritime Museum

Summer Solstice 2026 Days will indeed get shorter from tomorrow, although this does not mean that sunset will happen earlier tomorrow than it does today. In fact it is a little later. Nor does it mean that sunrise will happen later tomorrow; in fact it is a little earlier. The earliest sunrise was…

Because today is the June #solstice, here is my 2020 animated map of this solstice’s day-night cycle rendered using the Cahill–Concialdi map projection, which is my most favorite. Grab the file here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...

A pretty big bad #thunderstorm over whole Flanders in #Belgium rn.

'The Lights At Night' 7,283 images from 6 time-lapse sequences photographed by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir are repaired, remastered and retimed to create the video with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 4k full frame here... youtu.be/38YZk95M4fA

1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/

Juneteenth exists because America is exactly the place white people love to pretend it isn’t.

Walking around the #mountains I came across the rock that inspired #Magritte 's "Le Château des Pyrénées" #art

Cliff Stoll (kooky scientist, Cold War era hacker, klein bottles) published a 1995 essay and then a book claiming the web was overhyped and apparently it became known for being so wrong. But overall I think he really nailed it!!!!!

I'm a big Cliff Stoll fan and I like pretty much everything he does so feel free to take this wiht a grain of salt but I think his ted talk is best one I've ever seen!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8I...

Astronomy & Astrophysics has published a statement on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted technologies by authors in the journal. www.aanda.org/component/co...

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

#Venus almost occulted by the #Moon today, as seen from #Belgium. 🧪 🔭

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

New theoretical study of possible interiors of Uranus and Neptune, though the authors admit "magma" is a fraught term in this context (but props for ~correct colors to illustrate U&N outer atmospheres!) arxiv.org/abs/2606.18219 - my takeaway: we REALLY need a mission to one or both ice giants

Today's moonset. 🔭

Ancient star system Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster, a class that typically has one star population. It is a bulge fossil fragment: It has up to four generations of stars and maintains its separate identity in the Milky Way’s bulge: https://news.stsci.edu/43tOq6x #AAS248