Heading for the Carina Nebula 🚀 The massive stars in the interior of this cosmic bubble emit intense radiation that causes the surrounding gas to glow. By contrast, other regions of the nebula contain dark pillars of dust cloaking newborn stars. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1828/ 🔭 🧪

I want Jennifer Welch’s prescription for the Democratic Party in the last few minutes of this episode injected into my veins megaphone.link/QCD5285903091

I maintain a curated list of resources for scientific writers, and every now and again I remind you that it exists. And: if you know of a resource that should be on my list but isn't, suggest it please!

This fucking timeline.

REMINDER: Hantavirus is not new. The CDC has documented ~900 cases in the US since 1993, when tracking began. It is more common in the American West. If you see someone freaking out, they are not someone who knows much about zoonotic diseases, which are diseases spread between animals & humans. 🧪

Year of Space Facts: Week 18/52 🔭🧪🛰️ One of the youngest known main sequence stars is Omega Nebula's B111, which is just 10,000 years old! The oldest known star is HD 140283, aka the Methuselah Star, which is estimated to be about 14 billion years old. 📸 NASA/ESA/Hubble

My sexuality is “Cross-dressing Ryan Gosling looking at Voyager 1-inspired scientific diagrams in an explicit reference to Carl Sagan” Fun fact: Ryan Gosling’s favorite book is actually Demon-Haunted World. 😍

Colorized image of Mars captured by Psyche mission on May 3, 2026. The spacecraft is approaching the planet for a gravity assist on May 15 that will give it a boost in speed and adjust its trajectory toward asteroid Psyche for eventual arrival in 2029. science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪🔭 #Psyche

Knowing what you’re doing is like so overrated

This is not just the best image from Artemis II. It’s probably one of the most incredible images you will have seen since about 2004. (Bonus points if you can guess what dropped in 2004.) youtu.be/OdO_g1S_MBU?...

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Go raibh an fórsa libh.... #maytheforth

truly a shame that @drpepperofficial.bsky.social missed the opportunity to be the official sponsor of humanity’s relationship with the moon because DAMN this has been emotional

*pushes up glasses up nose* ACTUALLY, it was a chapter in his dissertation. The dissertation was titled “An Analysis of Water Based Assumptions and Recalibrations of Expectations of Evolutionary Models.” 🧪

This could be business casual if we even gave a shit

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

Bye Felicia. Women consistently vote more than men. We’ll win without you. cawp.rutgers.edu/data/voters/...

I hope you all have been enjoying my curated cacophony of boobscience, Tolkien lore, Project Hail Mary, and existential dread

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

What's a moment from your life, out of context, that's straight from a movie? Once I partied all night in Nice with a friend of Bono’s and a 2 male models. We drank wine by the light of the moon over the Mediterranean. In the morning, she and I sat on a curb in Vieux Nice and a man handed us roses.

The author of Project Hail Mary thinks he wrote an apolitical story. He is blatantly wrong, and the film proved him even wronger. Facts are neutral, sure. Science as an enterprise—who gets to pursue it, what studies get funded, how methodology is designed, and how findings are disseminated—is not.

Wow he is such a brilliant communicator

Interstellar < Gravity < Contact < Project Hail Mary Do not @ me about this unless you have seen all four

Right, except no one should be putting flags on the moon. The moon doesn’t belong to one country, it belongs to all of us. If were to visit the moon I would take down that flag and replace it with a tiny blue marble.

Hey @thebulletin.org this email could have been a Xanax

Life goal: treat everyone I love like I don’t know and don’t care what they have achieved.

Why should you care that Project Hail Mary hit its break even milestone this weekend? Because it means that: - science - practical effects - hope SELLS. variety.com/2026/film/bo... 🧪 #CosmicHope

Just so y’all know, I report people who spread conspiracy theories about elections. I know you think you’re helping, but what you don’t understand is how this plays right into Putin’s hands. Journalistic standards exist for a reason.

Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .

Science is good. We should fund it.

The Sloan Foundation has a $35,000 grant for fictional film projects featuring science. Deadline May 8th. You should be in the screenwriting phase. #SciFi #Filmmaking #Screenwriter sffilm.org/sloan-scienc...

@hankgreen.bsky.social and cybersecurity expert @sherridavidoff.bsky.social did a great explainer on Claude’s new Mythos model and its implications youtu.be/V6pgZKVcKpw?... 🧪

young April #grass green vigor meets blues weeping roots #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poetry #blueskypoets #nature #photography

Omg I love this fact.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

Reminder that SpaceX is on deck for Artemis III. They’re building a lander. bsky.app/profile/meid...

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Apparently Artemis is not the first time NASA has had toilet-related technical issues in space. youtube.com/shorts/ADfkI...

I want to grab every testosterone-obsessed manosphere bro and shake them and tell them this is the same guy. He wears a goofy fox sweater and cries no fewer than (I counted) nine times in this film.

Shoutout to this Artemis science team member who is all about that evidence-based life #StillCoviding #PublicHealth 🧪 🛟

This is amazing (on threads she admits to dying of embarrassment)

"Annie and I were arrested several times at the Nevada nuclear test site. We organized three of the largest acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against US nuclear testing…My point of view is that it’s just something you do as a citizen." -Carl Sagan, 1992 🧪 #BlueSci #Iran @standupforscience.net

Stocks soar on 2-week postponement of Armageddon.

In this urgent From the Prow, AGU President Brandon Jones decries the fiscal year 2027 President's Budget Request, which once again deals a heavy blow to funding for our federal science agencies along with drastic changes, including eliminating the U.S. Geological Survey’s Ecosystems Mission Area.

Recent research student question: "What does conducting this statistical test allow me to conclude beyond what I can see from the data visualization?" My heart! 🧪🪲💜 #HigherEd #TransdisciplinaryLearning