Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...

You're laughing? They had to call an Italian BMT to the scene, and you're laughing?

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This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪

"The government shouldn't operate missions, they should purchase science data from missions operated by private companies" is the techbro equivalent of "The government shouldn't help the poor, that should come from churches and charities", and then people don't get help from churches and charities.

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🌕💥 DOUBLE LUNAR IMPACT! Two asteroids slammed into the Moon last week—both caught by Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii. Traveling at 60,000 mph, the space rocks left fresh craters in the lunar soil, a reminder our serene neighbor is constantly under fire. 🔗

“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

my name is ozymandias, king of kings. ask your doctor if looking upon my works is right for you.

For your own personal use. Don't thank me, thank @barbylon.bsky.social. Or, thank both of us if you must.

Waiting patiently for someone to make and point to the 3-page PDF that we all want to print out and post outside our offices/breakrooms/etc.

I'm SCREAMING this is the funniest thing he's ever done what a metaphor you couldn't script this

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Don't cross the picket line--no reading Science News today! These journalists deserve a fair contract that recognizes the value they bring to the company.

<Lin Manuel Miranda wakes up from a fevered dream and fumbles for his phone>

here ya go

🚀 Held under the Africa–EU Space Partnership Programme, a Global Gateway flagship funded by the European Commission and co‑implemented by ESA and AfSA, the training marked a growing strategic and educational collaboration. 🤝 @ec.europa.eu

🎓 From 7–10 October, 30 young engineers from 24 nationalities, including 13 participants from Africa, gathered at the ESA Education Training and Learning Facility in ESEC‑Galaxia, Belgium, to build capacity and a shared future in space. ✨ @fr.esa.int @nl.esa.int @education.esa.int

🌍 Together with the African Space Agency #AfSA we have taken another significant step in strengthening cooperation between Europe and Africa in space by jointly supporting the Space Systems Engineering Training Course. 🛰️ 🔗 www.esa.int/Education/ES...

You know how people (jokingly?) look back and say the Cubs winning the 2016 World Series was what threw our timeline off into the dark one we've found ourselves in? I'm hoping that a few years from now we'll be able to look back and point to this year's Game 3 as what set us right.

democrats are having such a good night that the polls here just closed and they’re already calling it lol

I sure am enjoying No Kings 3 tonight.

Attn @realhopejahren.bsky.social

Tony the Tiger knows all too well where this could lead.

Reminder !! MLB season is over but baseball season is very much not. Plenty of winter ball already underway and available to watch, including LIDOM on MLB dot tv!! Baseball is the best and there’s always more to watch! Serie del Caribe will take us right up to Spring Training

Science!

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And there are still some people that think that Daisuke Matsuzaka's gyro ball was fake. bsky.app/profile/moll...

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Hell, it doesn't even need to be an American rich person.

IT guy at the Prado this morning quietly changing their password to "Louvre" from "Prado".

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Joe DiMaggio from the Mr Coffee commercials.

I'm very excited to announce `usaspending-orm` a new Python library to ease access to data from the USASpending API. Available now on PyPI and GitHub. Repo link in thread.

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself. Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.

OK, meanwhile the next time anyone tells me that I'm "unorganized and unprofessional", I'm pulling this out.

You may say I'm a baseball fan But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us Because the World Series on Bluesky was a lot of fun

If you think there was a lot of baseball talk last night, that’s because there was A LOT of baseball talk last night Green line below shows activity during the game, vs. the day before (yellow) and last week (blue). The peaks are 66% higher than normal We have the juice

For @theguardian.com: If this is what a broken sport feels like, don’t fix it. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

cWPA, for the tyros out there, is Championship Win Probability Added: a play's percentage change in a team's probability of winning the World Series. In over a century's worth of World Series play, 3 of the 12 wildest swings, and 2 of the top 5, occurred last night over a span of about an hour.

Well, pitchers and catchers report in about 100 days.

Whew. Congrats to the Dodgers fans, condolences to the Blue Jays fans. Great World Series, it was everything that I could have asked for (given that my team wasn't in it).

Here we go, me hearties. Three outs to glory.

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guy on the left: how I thought my night was gonna go guy on the right: this game