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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, man! This is not the kind of historical artifact that should be just chopped up for firewood for the winter. If this facility closes, it should be properly evaluated before it changes hands.

Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 4h

Very sorry to see that the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute is up for sale. Anybody know someone with $30M? 🔭https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/1-Pari-Dr-Rosman-NC/37287415/?siteid=7049

Real estate listing, asking $30M for the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, a former NASA satellite tracking facility. The photo shows the site, with two prominent single dish radio telescopes and other cold-war era structures in the blue ridge mountains of western North Carolina.

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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 6h

¡Comenzando ahora! 7 pm AST y EDT. Link para entrar abajo

ecomadres.bsky.social @ecomadres.bsky.social · 1d

The injustice behind stronger hurricanes runs deeper than the storms themselves—exposing fragile grids, health risks, and energy inequities.

Join us tomorrow for #EcoMadresInvestigates (in Spanish) as we explore why clean, reliable energy is a public health necessity.

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EcoMadres Investiga: Huracanes, Salud y Justicia Energética · Moms Clean Air Force

Cada temporada de huracanes nos recuerda que las familias en Puerto Rico, Florida y a lo largo del Golfo están en la primera línea de la crisis climática. Detrás de cada tormenta hay historias de salu...

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 6h

Clouds whirl around each other off the California coast.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

Fantastic story by @pattynieberg.bsky.social that has a lot of wild turns. For one, the IRA (the Irish one not the US legislation) comes up.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 6h

The Army is buying 30 tons of powdered sugar to use in its smoke grenades trib.al/XAVV7pK

The Army is buying 30 tons of powdered sugar to use in its smoke grenades

The Army is buying 65,000 pounds of powdered sugar, a little-known but key ingredient in military smoke grenades for the battlefield.

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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 6h

Coast Guard and National Guard crews have now rescued 51 from Alaska floods trib.al/Bk2ULQq

Coast Guard and National Guard crews have now rescued 51 from Alaska floods

Roughly 90 members of Alaska Army and Air National Guard and Coast Guard units have scrambled to remote towns where homes have floated away.

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CSU Department of Atmospheric Science @csuatmossci.bsky.social · 7h

Congrats to Deztynee Bryan on your @ametsoc.org 2025 Graduate Fellowship! Bryan's research focuses on tropical cyclones: on understanding the microphysical and kinematic processes that influence their intensity and predictability, with an emphasis on utilizing airborne radar observations.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 13h

For your Wednesday, friends, have a deep-field image from #JWST taken late 2023 and early 2024.

The six-sided features are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else you see?

A galaxy.

A few bright, blueish star-shaped features are dotted throughout the scene. The remaining features are smaller, a little less bright, and of various shapes. The background is darkest black.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16h

This is 'Rakotzbrücke Devil’s Bridge', commissioned in 1860 in the German village of Kromlau in Gablenz on the estate of Friedrich Herrmann Rötschke, now a public park.

Its purpose is ornamental: to form a perfect circle with its own reflection when light & wind permit.

(📷: Dirk Förster, Flickr)

A high arched bridge at sunset or sunrise, with a rocky promontory rising from the water framed by the mirrored, circular arch of the bridge.
"A world of Lord of the Rings ...
Rakotzbrücke Kromlau im Rhododendronpark Kromlau im leichten Nebel."
CREDIT: Dirk Förster, Flickr

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

Not only has the US killed 27 people (by its figures, independent verification obviously being difficult), they haven't presented evidence or any real legal authority to justify this. Even as they formalized it under a task force.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Eos @eos.org · 1d

Double, double toil and trouble: As the climate warms, the oceans bubble. And those bubbles have a big impact on carbon storage, suggests new research.

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Read more in our October issue: bit.ly/Eos-Oct2025

More Bubbles Means More Variation in Ocean Carbon Storage - Eos

A new model accounting for the role of bubbles in air-sea gas exchanges suggests that ocean carbon uptake is more variable than previously thought.

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