This day 57 years ago. Earthrise. A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface. That's us. That's home.

Sorry Spinal Tap, but...

"The Reindeer. The Spice. There must be a relationship!"

kessler syndrome kessler synDROME *banging table* KESSler synDROME KESSLER SYNDROME

"But if you talk about the Epstein Files Don't you know that you can count me out ... ... in."

Not too late to snap up those stocking stuffers, folks

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨 We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026. This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces. (1/2)

Ooooo this is a really good one!

I am at poster #2596 with a 3D-printed Pluto! Drop by and talk about the complex tectonics 🛰 #AGU2025

Today I achieved the completion my 61st orbit of Sol, a new record for me! I had a nice relaxing day at home, and we laid in a feast to watch the New York Rangers game with, including pizza, tasty beers, and wrapped up with ice cream cake!

Go see @geophyswags.bsky.social talk tomorrow morning!

Could someone fix that "scrivener's error" in the 2nd amendment so that we can actually regulate the ownership of firearms? Thanks in advance.

I've had my eye on this print for a long time. I just took the plunge and ordered it, tariffs be damned! As someone who explores planets for a living (albeit from the comfort of a home office), and who named one of his sons Brendan, I will hang this in my exploration center with great satisfaction!

Great article about NASA's next planetary defense mission. Planetary defense has a lot of interlocking parts, and all the DARTs we can build won't help if we don't have the Rubin Observatories and NEO Surveyors (and their predecessors and successors) to find problem objects before they find us.

My editor asked me to turn this into a column. Never skeet. www.ms.now/opinion/oliv...

So I'm doing some poking around the literature, and the following mind-blorb spews out effortlessly based on a paper's title: Lunar Pit Morphology the new mythology look deep inside empty 😁😂🤣

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

watching a commercial for a drug called “cobenfy” makes me realize we could crowdsource the end of Big Pharma advertising by listing every possible syllable mashup and mocking it before it can be trademarked. Cobenfy—for when Pablux isn’t enough.

OMG WTF this is what’s happening to all of us!!

Today's Deadline Threat Level is: Onerous. At least it's not "Hair on Fire", like it was on Friday*. *The day after Thanksgiving Friday 🙄

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I like my odds!

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

Lizard gets why The Last Jedi was a TERRIBLE movie!

Give me a ping, Charlie Brown. One ping only, please.

Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly, Charlie Brown?

Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI” when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI

If you're wondering what it looks like to take a run down the new track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, here's a POV run courtesy of IBSF! Curves: 1. Stries 2. Verzi 3. Sento 4-6. Labirinti 7. Belvedere 8. Lago Bandion 9. K2 10. Antelao 11. Cristallo 12-13. Chicane 14. Tofana 15. Anpezo 16. Arrivo

“Challenging scientific orthodoxy” is valorizing language. It suggests bold, innovative, out of the box thinking, not a self-obsessed crackpot operating with no scientific legitimacy whatsoever.

Yes, Outlook Auto-fill, I must inform my colleagues that I'll be having hemorrhoid replacement surgery next month. I need some new high-potency hemorrhoids to replace my worn-down ones. 😑

#NameThatFoodTruck - Naan Alignment Pact

Honored to be a part of this year’s group! Here’s hoping I can stick around and do some more science worth watching 😊

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

Irresponsible on the DM's part, but tracks. As for the “watchers,” some enthusiasts have critical-thinking skills. Others don’t, and shoddy SciComms needs sources/useful idiots. Don't be a "shoot first, ask questions later" poster. Leave analysis to experts like @geophysichick.bsky.social, please.

Speaking of bad science in media (and I am using the term "media" pretty loosely here), allow me to use The Daily Mail as evidence of why you should get your science information from reputable agencies rather than crap websites. I'm not going to link the article, but it looks like this: 1/n

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Hmmm, looks like something momentous is about to happen...

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I agree with Phil that this something to be proud of!

Here with my homegirl Toph at the Prerelease Sealed Deck (MY JAM!) Event for the new Magic the Gathering set featuring Avatar: the Last Airbender! Live now at Champion Cards & Gaming in scenic Red Oaks Mill, Town of Poughkeepsie!

MY GOD, STOP FETISHIZING PAPERS PUBLISHED IN NATURE ARRRRGGGHHH

I did see an ICE goon lower his mask, hyperextend his jaw, and eat a guinea pig whole

Avi Loeb really is the Dr. Oz of astronomy now. Impressive CV but full of pseudoscience so no one in the field likes him any more. 🔭

BAR-DOWN BICYCLE KICK GOAL IN A SNOWSTORM!!! This game is BONKERS and is still going on (on FS2).

Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō. A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.

Tag urself I’m Makin’ Rocks!

Tracy Morgan as Henry Clerval and Kim Kardashian as Elizabeth and together they try to sue for power of attorney over Victor’s estate