Meanwhile, my coworkers at @uahirise.bsky.social are always doing the coolest things, too. Sarah Sutton, part of "Team Lava," participates in field work and research at Fagradsfjall in Iceland and make comparisons to processes on Mars and the Moon: science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

Meanwhile the 12-disc "super deluxe" remaster of Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans has arrived. It's many different versions of the original four-piece double-album, and it's 10 hours 25 minutes long.

*hits blunt harder* Baseball= turn based Football = turn based Soccer= real time Hockey = real time Basketball = real time

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

This looks to be a great opportunity for instrument science/engineering folks!

Hey y'all. I'm hiring. Are you interested in building instruments for astrophysics? wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

Non-Biathlon Skier Would Also Like Gun

My hope is that whenever these “plans” come up people first think about the ethical and legal parameters here. He doesn’t own the moon nor does he own mars. He cannot simply do whatever he wants to any planetary body just because he’s bored. It’s a natural environment that we all share.

It's surreal that there are people out there who just don't know what books are *for.* Like, the point of writing and the point of reading are just completely lost on them. Their whole relationship with the written word is post-literacy garbage.

Measles outbreak in DC linked to anti-abortion March for Life www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

If you are doing a book a day you aren't even reading them

I'm going to win.

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. According to Cherokee belief, The name of a comet translates as "Fire Panther" because long ago, one once

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Super proud of all the early career folks busting their butts on Pandora!!!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Space is big and empty, but our Solar System has still played host to three visitors from other stars! They aren't spacecraft: they're comets and (maybe) an asteroid, and they tell us about distant star systems. Read more! 🧪🔭🐡

THEY CAME FROM OTHER STARS! A new all-ages comic by @makinaro.com and me about 3I/ATLAS, `Oumuamua, and Borisov: why they're exciting, and why they're both familiar and alien at the same time. www.snexplores.org/article/inte...

Once all of the other, uh, things are settled we really need a serious public health campaign around everything involved in being part of a society.

holy shit

The company that is supply many govt. agencies around the world with services like launch capabilities and internet services .... ...... is now the owner of the company that makes and distributes Child Sexual Assault Material.

The Artemis II wet dress rehearsal is underway! The countdown clock began Saturday at L-48 hours before the simulated launch window at 9 pm. Mon, Feb. 2. The test is expected to go until approximately 1 a.m. Feb. 3. Live views of Artemis II on the pad here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrP...

Right: here we go. Artemis II fueling wet dress rehearsal...www.youtube.com/live/5zDlM8d...

🔊 TONIGHT! A new episode of Make Some Noise launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Starring host Sam Reich, and guests: 📢 Jess McKenna 📢 Zach Reino 📢 @pftompkins.bsky.social

Microsoft has confirmed that they will hand over your encryption keys to authorities if they are handed a subpoena, and their forced online accounts give users no recourse. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare

I was thinking, a really good question to ask students to see if they understand how LLMs work would be to ask them how the “emergent consciousness” of Moltbook is possible. Because it’s utterly explicable, even predictable, if you understand what the technology does.

A year ago this week, an Executive Order came out on a Friday afternoon/evening that reduced all indirect costs rate recovery to 15% the following Monday. In this article I discuss what would have happened across the U.S. if this had not been halted. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Here is the paper:

There's some great #RadioAstronomy happening in Africa. The Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory hosts the largest (32m) steerable single dish antenna in Africa, and its right near the equator. It's been converted for science purposes from commerical purposes. arxiv.org/abs/2601.10784 🔭📡

is there a good non-annoying contemporary-ish book on fluid dynamics that doesn't cost over $100?

Sort of bird-like… Or maybe a pteranodon from the side. (But of a mood right now to think more about birds.)

HiPOD: Impact-Related Flows and Deposits The science goal is to observe how surface flow patterns in the area vary with distance from the crater. This is one of several flow feature observations suggested in the vicinity of Canala Crater. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076555_2050 #Mars #science

"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Nine DAs are coalescing to work on prosecuting federal agents for 'overreach': —L. Krasner in Philly —J. Creuzot in Dallas —M. Moriarty in Minneapolis —L. Conover in Tucson —S. Descano in Fairfax (VA) —R. Fatehi in Norfolk (VA) —S. Morales in Portsmouth (VA) —P. Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington (VA)

We're gunna need a new type of rehab for Ai-ddicts.

May I suggest that we take our science to the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences meeting? The DPS never lost focus on inclusivity and advocacy. If we move there together, we can update and expand the community of science focus. aas.org/meetings/58t...

This Saturday at Beaverton City Library downtown, several horror authors are gathering to tell chilling tales and sell scary books. That's right, it's the COLD Themed Horror Reading brought to you by the HWA Oregon Chapter: beavertonlibrary.org/Calendar.asp...

I just… Letting fundamentally uncritical, uncareful, unserious, willfully ignorant people introduce "Gen AI" into the federal regulatory workflow for *Anything* is a terrible fucking idea with high potential for returning extremely negative chaos, but for Transportation in particular??? Holy shit.

I now 100% understand the banning of Thinking Machines in Dune.

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

Ahu Tiiko is coming to retail! If you review roleplaying games and would like a free advance copy, please use this form to request one. We are only shipping to the US and CA. Please use this link: forms.gle/1KS1VHCpvBzF... #ttrpg #rpg #tabletop #NativeSky #games

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Artemis II is at the pad! This is a huge, huge milestone for this mission, this team, and the Agency that I'm proud and privileged to be a part of. While you're enjoying looking at the rocket I’m here to make you a SCIENCE thread! 🧪🔭⚒️🛰️🌔🪐🪨🩸 #planetsci 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

It gets much, much better! Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today at 16:24:26 UTC. Incredible imagery! I've uploaded the full capture to @soaratlas.bsky.social: soaratlas.com/maps/140457