Fine green fellow in the garden this morning. Looking for a place to call for the ladies. 🦎 #photography #lizards

Just published online: a blog post with the first findings from my January research trip to Jacksonville, Florida. This is the unexpected location of a remarkable "new" astronomical compendium by the 16th-century London maker Humfrey Cole. More to follow.... scientificinstrumentsociety.org/blog/

At this time of year, the rising sun shines through the helical gaps in Lu:ní Oni:-kǫ, the Twisted Old Tree on Occoneechee Mountain in Hillsborough, North Carolina. #tree #nature #photography #forest #naturephotography

New design, got tired of roommates flexible measuring tape being loose everywhere lol. Print in place captured bearing allows for rotation of the inside ring, and lid, separate from outside base and ring.

Look, let's get this straight, once and for all. It's DUCK TAPE 🦆, not duct tape. I brought RECEIPTS. Modern duck tape is cloth-backed, polyurethane coated, with a pressure-sensitive adhesive & a distinctive silvery color from a powdered aluminum pigment. But duck tape is much older...

Seattle duty-free airport store with a ranch dressing display front and center

#PPOD: Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn's main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn's B ring, casting long shadows on the ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft two weeks before the planet's August 2009 equinox. 🧪 🔭 🪐

Step out to walk the dog and found Venus and the star Regulus, from the constellation Leo, paired in the night sky. #Astronomy #astrophotography

Maine officials search the rocky beach for a new senate candidate. They find an unconscious man clad in tattered rags washed upon the shore. The sea provides for Maine, it always does

Good Morning! Tree on the morning walk. The fallen flowers carpeting the ground first caught my eye. #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

Happy 4th everyone. 🎆🎇🇺🇸 Just a little laser project I made many years ago when I first got started laser crafting. #ForthofJuly #Laserengraving

20 years ago today, I launched aboard Discovery on STS-121, the only shuttle mission ever to launch on July 4th. Pretty good way to spend Independence Day. Proud of everyone who made that mission happen and still proud of what this country can do when we invest in exploration.

For the 4th of July I made a french cleat box with a hot dog on it. #woodworking

A dessert for your holiday menu: Reflecting Pool Jello. 🇺🇸 💚

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

The sun setting just over the USS North Carolina ♥️

Stupidest times. We live in the stupidest of times.

Found this awesome tree this morning. 😁 #Moon #astrophotography #photography

At first I thought this was a failed 3D print and then I realized this tiny bee was still working on it. 🐝🌻😁. #Bees #flowers #3Dprinting

Well, shit.

I stole this from the Worldcup subreddit because it makes a very good point.

💛 cutest sleeping bumblebutt ever 🌿💛💛🖤💛🐝🖤💛💛🐝

Wow, super cool!

Marchi et al. report results from the the flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson (DJ) by the Lucy spacecraft. They find DJ has a bi-lobed shape and is in a tumbling spin. The crater density is consistent with an age of about 150 million years. ☄️🔭 #planetsci www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

LOVE a good science explanation. 👏

Political cartoonists are better than mainstream media

The super thin waxing crescent moon is currently in close conjunction to Venus. Jupiter and Mercury should also be visible if your location and weather conditions allow. #astronomy #astrophotography

The world is weird and wonderful

Was disappointed to miss the closest approach of Venus and Jupiter last week. The weather did not cooperate. 🙁 Got a clear night last night. All the planets are higher in the sky compared to my last picture on the 2nd, the sky is darker so they do stand out more. 😄 #astronomy #astrophotography

It’s forbidden jump rope time #ILwx #WXsky

Look at this excellent photo. This crab is known as the Sponge Crab (Sphaerodromia brizops), and it has a little helmet that looks like it is a character from Masters of the Universe. It's also known for its habit of wearing marine invertebrates like a hat.

Planetary Science xkcd.com/3255/

Venus and Jupiter in the post-sunset sky, from 9500 feet over southern Ontario.

On a telecon now for the MAVEN mission; NASA is officially ending efforts to contact the spacecraft and winding down the mission.

A very vocal mockingbird greets the morning sun.🌞 #photography #birds

@huubeggen.bsky.social I managed to pick up Mercury at my location right at the tree line. (The valley to the right of the house peak). Probably about another 30 min to full night. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Happy Pride Month. Live long and prosper. #pride #startrek

Irony doesn’t get any more fucking delicious than this.

Planets Jupiter (at left), Venus (at right) and stars Pollux and Castor in Gemini (at top) tonight.

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Who needs AI? A human froze this perfect moment in time

🔭 NGC 3660 and Burçin's Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, El Sauce Obs. ap260526

Just a reminder that for all the talk of how LLMs are creating new legal challenges, everything old is new again: law.justia.com/cases/federa...

isaiprofitable.com Should have bought some Nvidia stock. 🙃 #AI

Spotted a young fox on my morning dog walk. Dove down into the storm drain when we got close. Pretty sure this is the same fox I saw last week about 4 blocks away. It dove down a storm drain then as well. #Foxes

You don't need a bell on your bike . 🤣😍

This is *extremely good* 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 The #SpaceX IPO is a massive, grifting house of cards, built on sand. For months now there has been the inflating of the hype but it’s all to create smoke and mirrors about this utter BS. Anyone considering investing in the SpaceX IPO should watch this!

A weevil with a pseudoscorpion attached to its front leg, hitching a ride. Pseudoscorpions will often use other insects as Ubers to carry them around the forest, a commensal relationship called phoresis. It was exciting to see this in action. #invert El Septimo Paraiso Lodge, Ecuador

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Incredible drone footage! ⚒️🧪