Putting the Secret Service's nonsense framing aside, it's a pretty cool discovery. Those black boxes are SIM gateways which you plug sim cards into and they act like virtual cell phones. They then route the access over the internet so people can use the sim cards from anywhere in the world.🧵 1/3

I feel ya, little sunflower. I feel ya. 😂

Wife: That cast iron skillet you left by the sink left a rust stain on the white counter top. Me: Hmm...we need a chelator. Wife: a key-what? Me: opens fridge and grabs lemon juice. "The juice contains citric acid that will...." Wife: Just do your thing. 😁 #Chemsky

Sigh, first pic for me from that feed. 🙁

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100% myself. 😊

As a long time follower of this experiment, the engineering and physics involved has always astounded and delighted me. Great thread. #LIGO #Astrophysics #Astronomy

As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava. But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking. My take @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

The forthcoming book 'Butterfly: Exploring the World of Lepidoptera' celebrates 4,000 years of these distinctive winged creatures and our enduring fascination throughout art history and science. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/butt...

Wild mirage of moonset as viewed from the International Space Station. By astronaut Zena Cardman The distortion and colors are caused by atmospheric refraction and Rayleigh scattering​ x.com/zenanaut/sta...

Today is the peak of Atlantic hurricane season. And yet, there's not even a hint of a hurricane anywhere in sight. What gives? Some cool weather stuff here: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/atla...

Texting with wife who is more than halfway through Tour de Mt. Blanc with her crew. She mentioned meeting some other hikers. Me: Be careful. Her: Why Me: Bad things happen when you find a stranger in the Alps Her: I don’t know what that means but I sense you have been waiting to use it

There not much about this I don’t love #chemsky.

It's a NEW feature

I forgot to share the finished box! Not sure if I'll be making more like this, but I do like how it turned out. 🧶

Friday Jam. Gangstagrass What I am #Music #FridayJam #Gangstagrass open.spotify.com/track/7ueylF...

Astrophysicist Dr. Jaqueline Hewitt, known for pioneering work on gravitational lensing, was born #OTD in 1958. In 1987 she led the team of observers at the Very Large Array that discovered the first "Einstein ring." (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Images: Hewitt et al, Nature 333, 537 (1988)

I understand odds so I know how unlikely it is that I would win. That being said I occasionally buy a single $2 ticket. My criteria is that the jackpot has to be closer to $1B. My risk ($2) is fixed but I’m maximizing my potential reward vs that risk. 😄

The newest version of my favorite little product is more egalitarian than ever Digital files for the Gigasaurus are up at keithdecent.com for the super low price of: Pay what you want The price is a donation to my whole enterprise. You can do what you want with it, just credit me #3dprint #bsnm 🧶

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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of August!

So it begins. #PumkinSpice

Random bird feather seen on the front porch this morning. It’s only about 7cm long. maybe a tail feather from a red-bellied woodpecker. #birds #feathers

Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.

Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent six years planning a perfectly aligned shot of the Moon with Turin’s Basilica of Superga and Monviso. Weather delays thwarted annual chances until December 2023, when a crescent Moon with visible da Vinci glow completed his long-envisioned composition

Storm systems on Jupiter, NASA Juno Perijove 38. flic.kr/p/2mNqMpK

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Katherine Johnson passed away in 2020, at the age of 101. Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program. (11/11) Credit: Steve Breen Source: @sandiegouniontribune.com

Proud supervisor moment: #LeidenObservatory graduate student Richelle van Capelleveen led one of two papers on our discovery of WISPIT 2b#LeidenObservatory a 5 Jupiter mass exoplanet clearing a path in a circumstellar disk. Laird Close and his team saw it in H-alpha, indicating gas accretion #astrodon 🔭 🧪

so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know - my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal - he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not) - he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog - he is not a dog - I do not get seizures

Life is good

Whoa! I peer in the maw Bright with energy extreme Magnetism rules! #Astrophysics #Astronomy

Here is one of the pencil pouches in my blue Endless Knot print fabric with black cactus leather. #CelticArt #CelticDesign #PenCase #PenPouch #PencilCase #PencilPouch #Stationery #BioMaterial

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

Today is my birthday! Could you, please, share my art, it is the best gift an artist can get 💖

AOL debuted the service in 1991. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.

After years of searching, astronomers have found strong evidence of a planet around Alpha Centauri, a near-twin of our Sun in the nearest neighboring star system. This would also be the closest exoplanet ever observed directly. 🧪🔭 webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

An incredible sight as two waterspouts become one off the coast of Italy this week.

6. Weapon of Choice, Fatboy Slim (2000). I first saw this video while flipping through static-filled channels on a 13 inch TV and thought I was hallucinating. Simple and brilliant. youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8?...

"Spicy autocomplete" is such a good descriptor for the stochastic parrot that are LLM generative "AIs".

Dang, now I got that line stuck on repeat in my head. 🎵😆

Cool image, but at fist glance I thought is was a stick figure running while having gloomy thoughts. 😜

Early universe’s ‘little red dots’ may be black hole stars | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🔭🧪 @science.org

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

Your Nature Photos Are Doing More Science Than You Think gizmodo.com/your-nature-...

🔭 Fireball over Cape San Blas Image Credit & Copyright: Jason Rice apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25072...

Random photo from my phone just to break the gloominess

It's #NationalIceCreamDay! Discover how science shapes the smooth, creamy texture of ice cream in this infographic: www.compoundchem.com/2015/07/14/i... #ChemSky 🧪

I think it's done! Going to wait till tomorrow to decide. 🧶