Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

What would happen to a gaseous exoplanet if it was struck by a protoplanet? Recent research suggests that it would ring like a bell, and that just maybe, we’d be able to observe this ringing back on Earth. aasnova.org/2025/10/24/p... 🔭🧪

"wow, they look" is an all-timer. I am in tears.

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

"Food stored in plastic inevitably will contain microplastics" 🌎 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎 www.opb.org/article/2025...

This is the Western Alaska animal nonprofit working to rescue the pets in Kipnuk. The residents of Kipnuk are under a mandatory evac order but can not bring their pets with them. Supporting this group will help with charter aircraft, etc. www.bethelfriendsofcanines.com

Migration is still light along the Pacific Flyway. Get updates on local bird migration: birdcast.info/migration-to.... (See also alt text.) Be a bird hero: dim or turn off unnecessary lighting from 11 pm-6 am every night and treat your windows. Learn more: www.stopbirdcollisions.org? #birds 🌎

It's a really incredible article, great read.

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

The insanity of Highway 12 on the NC Outer Banks the last 2 days (NCDOT). Just 1 shot of their webcam every hour.

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. Read more: www.google.com/url?q=https:...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Before rudders, ships used a single large oar to steer themselves. Usually that oar was placed on the right side. This came to mean the steering side, or 'steorbord' in Old English This is how starboard came to mean the right side of a ship! #etymology

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺

Really good story

"The more I think about history, ancient or modern, the more ironical all human affairs seem." Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

This may be the best response to much of the junk science being pushed by the trumpies in the US. 🧪🌎🐟⚒️ #TeamFish

Fascinating thread! Evolution is such an amazing mechanism that uses small changes to create incredible complexity.

You'll put down strangers, Kill them, cut their throats, possess their houses, And lead the majesty of law in line, To slip him like a hound.

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Really good article. I've read a little bit about the history, but this is the most comprehensive I'veseen, and has additional reading. Now I have to go listen to some music!

One of my rare, true heroes. Let her message of hope and solutions make us think: What can I do? What do I need vs what do I want? How can I lead a #sustainable life?Thank You #JaneGoodall 🌍 apple.news/Apm7hekQWQXy...

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Some rare and remarkable processes are taking place this week, that we are not likely to observe for a long time! These 2 Atlantic hurricanes are closer than any since at least the 1960s. They are now connected - in each other’s orbit, pivoting. Follow along 1/

Maps are so cool!

I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this: everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r... It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

The Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud as seen by JWST's MIRI camera. Art.

if you want to hear it with the original audio instaed of the music, I downloaded this from the EcoWatch Discovery Mauritius Instagram page directly. if you want to share it please credit them

We have so many bumbles after years of planting native flowers for 3 season bloom. Also have about half acre of woods behind for nesting. Planting for pollinators pays off, native bees do 95%+ of our veg garden pollination

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

If you're online enough to understand this... (I am apparently too online)

We have a handy chart...

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

It is incredible that we are now able to look at black holes, and even note changes over time!

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible. The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image. blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: These images show disks of gas, dust, and other materials orbiting young stars. The disks may eventually coalesce into newborn planets. #astronomy @aura-astronomy.bsky.social International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Esposito (UC Berkeley)

Amid the angst about the state of the media, a reminder that Bolts and our ability to produce the work you love thrives on your support. (And if Bolts is not your cup of tea... find another independent media to support!)

Scientists report the world’s oldest mummies in Southeast Asia, bodies smoke-dried and crouch-buried up to 12,000 years ago. www.sciencenews.org/article/olde... phys.org/news/2025-09... Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #Archaeology #Anthropology #SoutheastAsia ⚒️🧪

This is what the surface of a comet looks like. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by ESA's Rosetta mission from an altitude of 16 km.

I got yer timeline cleanse right here, folks. A whole clutch of teeny tiny snapping turtle behbehs emerged one at a time from their underground nest and crossed the gravel road while I and a couple other humans watched and made sure they were safe from anyone else coming along.

What do you see in the light from planet TRAPPIST-1 e? Signs of alien life? Not yet... Take a look for yourself at real data in the James Webb Space Telescope graph, and read more about it below! 🔭

Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise 1. This is sand dot com Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes (this is one I did) thisissand.com

Blue Ridge Parkway 9/7/25

🔭 Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning Image Credit: NASA, Expedition 73, Nicole Ayers apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

I think we should be building systems that complement people; systems that do well the things that people do poorly; systems that make individuals and organizations more effective and more humane. 3/