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Addressing the problem of space junk effectively requires work across three fronts: technology, policy and philosophy. 🧪 🔭

I'm writing a news story about the global trade in fish maw (dried fish swim bladder) and it's important to me that You People are aware that there's a peer-reviewed study on this conservation issue called "Maw Money Maw Problems" conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

[politics understander just read the niemoller poem] oh hell yeah thats loads of people before they come for me that will buy loads of time , sick

None of the pictures I’ve seen have been what I would describe as “rad as fuck.”

You've Topped your last ZZ

It's taken me a long time to get comfortable wearing anything that makes me feel like people will notice it or will call attention to me. Now that I am? Totally worth it. You can do it. I believe in you.

As someone once trained in shoring for structural compromise (as part of urban search and rescue qualification) I'm pretty confident in saying this is *not* good, useful, or safe Dead Shore technique. It all looks a bit "non-union". Even if they were propping this while glue dries.. Oof.

Was feeling pretty lousy due some Life Events. Went to bed early and binge watched The Sandbaggers. Fell asleep feeling an entirely different kind of lousy. What a great show. I doubt anyone would have the bravery to make something like that now, they'd try and stuff it with tech and gunfights.

Good work NOAA researchers. Everybody else, take note: bsky.app/profile/jfoy...

As a child, I LOVED Julius Sumner Miller's Why Is It So? series for Australian television. It cemented my desire to become a scientist. 🧪

Very interested to learn of /r/poisonAI, a subreddit that is dedicated to gaming AI's tendency to scrape reddit, and has successfully tricked several search engines into reporting that JD Vance has died of rabies

[takes deep sniff] Ahhhhhhh, that is the smell of *EXCELLENCE*

I want to build one of these *so badly* now.

A civilian version of the “universal rover” - great clearance, highly effective at clambering over obstacles, and sporting a sturdy smooth hull for scraping over obstacles. Perfect regional microbus for your isolated rural communities

7.5. What a brutal event for the people of Venezuela. No one gets to pick and choose when events like this will happen. If any of my geo colleagues are able to speak to the kind of fault, the nature of what has happened, and what this will look like I'd sure appreciate it.

'But archaeology can be of the living, not just of the dead, and this means it's inextricably linked with the future'. 🧪 🏺 🔭

This absolutely goes off. I know Benson from "Breezin'" which is so slick, and classy, and so damn good. The guy's technique makes it sound so easy, but he's absolutely getting it all the way through that album. This, this is something else.

We're now at two independent lines of evidence for this being an ancient comet: our earlier chemodynamic work, and these lovely isotope studies. Very powerful ☄️

Some further comment from myself and other ISO researchers bsky.app/profile/davi...

Me: ...only if it comes from the SEMTEX region of France, yeah. Otherwise it's just sparkling Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine. But this is Spanish, you see. Manchego is more like TKX-50 in my opinion.. Airport security: (reaching under the table for the alarm button) you don't say..

"I'm calling the union"

Adaptive optics is an incredible technology. I'm still surprised at how well it can work. And the ESO implementation is particularly cool! The laser guide stars give them a calibration target generated in the upper atmosphere, allowing them to sense what's happening in the air column and adjust.

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Because the weather has been kind, tonight's dinner is a beautiful bunch of fresh pine mushrooms (saffron milk cap, Lactarius deliciosus) garlic, shallots, in a white wine cream sauce. Served on some fresh locally made fettuccine. It's good to be alive.

What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today is #ShowYourStripesDay 🔴🔵 The climate stripes originally created by Ed Hawkins represent how temperatures have changed over time. Here are the climate stripes from our three duty stations in Reading, UK, Bonn, Germany, and Bologna, Italy.

It is @inthesedeserts.bsky.social fault that I'm listening to New Miserable Experience in the kitchen tonight, and I thank him for it.

“One of the Socceroos in a green-and-gold jersey spotted my media accreditation lanyard, pulled me aside, grabbed my shoulders, and shouted, ‘This is phenomenal! Tell the world!’ before disappearing… this perfectly summed up the atmosphere of Vancouver’s downtown late in the afternoon.” #WorldCup

The only acceptable use of Claude

It's never too late to make the changes that bring about vibrant, livable, walkable, equitable cities. These are the places people live their lives, there are so many examples of how to make that enjoyable. Vancouver is a good one.

When I was a kid, my parents got me this big assortment of cassette tapes from De Anza College. Audio programs of stories in history, like nothing I'd ever heard. Listening to @patrickwyman.bsky.social "past lives" podcast brought back this familiar feeling, it's been really enjoyable.

Fellow mycology tragics, check this out! If I were to pick a field I could study outside of my own, I think mycology would be it. This looks so cool.

Neat. Do Deloitte next.

Many pro astrophysicists receive unsolicited letters from amateurs with new but subtly wrong physics theories, often about relativity and from retired engineers. This cute new paper is a perfect reply & I love how it uses cyclotrons & transponders & radar 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2605.21660

This is beautiful in a lot of ways to me.

Oh hey, just checking, is this good? I feel like this is the opposite of good.

I have cool friends, doing cool things! Like sending balloons up to the higher reaches of our atmosphere and taking photos of our home planet. Looking lovely over South Australia today!

Flew a high altitude research balloon today and the weather was beautiful. Max altitude 28,840m and the landing was perfect.

Image alt text: An image of the earth from 25km altitude. The image is cut diagonally by the horizon formed of the edge of earth atmosphere and space, the sky is very dark, almost black. There is a thin, foggy band of atmosphere the clouds and the terrain of South Australia.

Flew a high altitude research balloon today and the weather was beautiful. Max altitude 28,840m and the landing was perfect. cc @drspacejunk.bsky.social @rami.spaceaustralia.com and all my space people

Anyone who goes out in public and does this space data center crap should be forced to do a basic heat transfer calculation on video. For this Patrick guy, I might settle for forcing him how to explain how a Thermos works.

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

I was just packing up my office and found a couple spare "guard your yes with your life" stickers from @blackgirllostkeys.bsky.social I was grateful to find them, in the layers of documentary sediment that I'm sifting through. I'm glad to see she's here. That idea really helped me out.

No way, they're going to be legally responsible for their product? Like most companies that make real things are? (No, I am not expecting actual accountability, but it's a nice thought isn't it?)

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

Rocket engine exhaust, as well as the burnup of inactive satellites and rocket parts reentering Earth’s atmosphere, releases a suite of pollutants. New research from @eng.cam.ac.uk & TU Delft looks at just how much. eos.org/research-spo...