Space Coast Talon
@brashtech.bsky.social
Born to love 🪐, forced to live on 🌎. Professor of physics, knitter of things, drawer of earnest pictures, planetary astronomer.
Goal: Spiral back into control.
My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.
Goal: Spiral back into control.
My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.
My cool friend Susan, plus a desire to remove my funding of Spotify, plus a desire to listen to and know entire albums like one used to back in the day, are leading me to consider getting into vinyl. What do you all think?
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My cool friend Susan, plus a desire to remove my funding of Spotify, plus a desire to listen to and know entire albums like one used to back in the day, are leading me to consider getting into vinyl. What do you all think?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Something that does not turn out to work for me, a person with ADHD:
1) Sending me an email saying Come to Our Office and Pick Up This Important Paperwork.
2) Instead of trusting me to do this, walking up to me at a random time and place and handing me a Pile of Important Paperwork.
1) Sending me an email saying Come to Our Office and Pick Up This Important Paperwork.
2) Instead of trusting me to do this, walking up to me at a random time and place and handing me a Pile of Important Paperwork.
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Something that does not turn out to work for me, a person with ADHD:
1) Sending me an email saying Come to Our Office and Pick Up This Important Paperwork.
2) Instead of trusting me to do this, walking up to me at a random time and place and handing me a Pile of Important Paperwork.
1) Sending me an email saying Come to Our Office and Pick Up This Important Paperwork.
2) Instead of trusting me to do this, walking up to me at a random time and place and handing me a Pile of Important Paperwork.
This is what happens when we do not trust the expertise of other people. You are shocked that known anti-vax extremist RFK Jr is ABSOLUTELY IGNORANT in YOUR realm of expertise, but, what, do you think he's pretty well-informed about everything else? If only the other experts had warned you.
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is what happens when we do not trust the expertise of other people. You are shocked that known anti-vax extremist RFK Jr is ABSOLUTELY IGNORANT in YOUR realm of expertise, but, what, do you think he's pretty well-informed about everything else? If only the other experts had warned you.
Your moment of zen.
December 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Your moment of zen.
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ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
Starbucks workers are still on strike. DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE.
This is a stupidly easy way to make delicious fancy coffee. It's Korean. Look it up.
mykoreankitchen.com/dalgona-coff...
This is a stupidly easy way to make delicious fancy coffee. It's Korean. Look it up.
mykoreankitchen.com/dalgona-coff...
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Starbucks workers are still on strike. DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE.
This is a stupidly easy way to make delicious fancy coffee. It's Korean. Look it up.
mykoreankitchen.com/dalgona-coff...
This is a stupidly easy way to make delicious fancy coffee. It's Korean. Look it up.
mykoreankitchen.com/dalgona-coff...
You don't get to not have your acronym not match your name. You don't get to just drop some letters and rearrange the rest. You're not French.
www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
News Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Laboratory of the Rockies' | NREL
www.nrel.gov
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You don't get to not have your acronym not match your name. You don't get to just drop some letters and rearrange the rest. You're not French.
www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
Final conclusion from this semester's QM class:
We, each of us, have our own quantum-mechanical crosses to bear.
We, each of us, have our own quantum-mechanical crosses to bear.
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Final conclusion from this semester's QM class:
We, each of us, have our own quantum-mechanical crosses to bear.
We, each of us, have our own quantum-mechanical crosses to bear.
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Celebrate 100 years of anthropology at Beloit College!
Join us for the Winter Open House & Pop-up Gift Sale on Dec. 5, 4–7pm at the Logan Museum. Explore new exhibits, enjoy festive treats, and shop for globally inspired gifts. 🎁
Free + open to all!
Join us for the Winter Open House & Pop-up Gift Sale on Dec. 5, 4–7pm at the Logan Museum. Explore new exhibits, enjoy festive treats, and shop for globally inspired gifts. 🎁
Free + open to all!
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Celebrate 100 years of anthropology at Beloit College!
Join us for the Winter Open House & Pop-up Gift Sale on Dec. 5, 4–7pm at the Logan Museum. Explore new exhibits, enjoy festive treats, and shop for globally inspired gifts. 🎁
Free + open to all!
Join us for the Winter Open House & Pop-up Gift Sale on Dec. 5, 4–7pm at the Logan Museum. Explore new exhibits, enjoy festive treats, and shop for globally inspired gifts. 🎁
Free + open to all!
What if the real emissions reduction was the efficiency we made along the way?
Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.
Clean electrification is inevitable
Kingsmill Bond explains why the global march of "electrotech" has moved beyond the reach of US political interference.
www.volts.wtf
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
What if the real emissions reduction was the efficiency we made along the way?
No contract, no coffee! Don’t cross the picket line!!!
🗣️ ain't no power like the power of a union, cuz the power of a union won't stop!
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 AM
No contract, no coffee! Don’t cross the picket line!!!
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We have a garage now, and omg. But my younger self scraped. Oh how I scraped.
I have nothing against you or your regional culture but there is an unbreakable spiritual bond between anyone who has ever had to scrape ice off a windshield while hungover
the annual snowfall required for me to take your city seriously is like 11” minimum. nobody is using 300 days of sun to serve the lord
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We have a garage now, and omg. But my younger self scraped. Oh how I scraped.
Here’s Mark Kelly getting into a Northrup T-38 Falcon thats an actual jet not AI. Sharing this for no particular reason.
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Commander Mark Kelly the husband of Representative Gabrielle...
Commander Mark Kelly the husband of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, steps out of a T 38 jet aircraft during the crew arrival for the Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the international.....
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November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Here’s Mark Kelly getting into a Northrup T-38 Falcon thats an actual jet not AI. Sharing this for no particular reason.
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...
ESA's gonna kick NASA's ass.
🔭 The new @esa.int budget secured today is a big deal imho. +30% compared to the current budget with largest chunk going to space transportation ie 🚀. Science/astro is also getting a big bump, which DG Aschbacher called ”the backbone of the ESA programme”. Some funding optimism to close off 2025! 💫🥹
22.1 billion euros subscribed.
A record.
A first.
And a clear message that Europe is serious about space and that @esa.int is the agency it trusts to deliver.
A historic Ministerial. A united Europe. A stronger ESA.
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
A record.
A first.
And a clear message that Europe is serious about space and that @esa.int is the agency it trusts to deliver.
A historic Ministerial. A united Europe. A stronger ESA.
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
ESA's gonna kick NASA's ass.
The V Museum does amazing work educating about and celebrating women's bodies.
As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The V Museum does amazing work educating about and celebrating women's bodies.
Spooky… possibly how a society accustomed to expansion broke when their kids couldn’t just move onto unfarmed land next door like their parents had.
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Spooky… possibly how a society accustomed to expansion broke when their kids couldn’t just move onto unfarmed land next door like their parents had.
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Hedwig Kohn German Jewish physicist 1907 @ Universität Breslau, 2nd woman in physics dept. PhD 1913. Habilitation 1931 1 of only 3 women to earn it in physics in Germany b4 #WWII. Forced out of country by Nazi regime, cont academic career in US. d. #OTD 26 Nov 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_...
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hedwig Kohn German Jewish physicist 1907 @ Universität Breslau, 2nd woman in physics dept. PhD 1913. Habilitation 1931 1 of only 3 women to earn it in physics in Germany b4 #WWII. Forced out of country by Nazi regime, cont academic career in US. d. #OTD 26 Nov 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_...
Don’t cross the picket line!!!!
Starbucks workers are still out on ULP strike! Support us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS anywhere until the strike is resolved!! We’re fighting for fair union contracts with better pay, better hours, and an end to union-busting - learn more at the link in our bio! #tobeapartner
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Don’t cross the picket line!!!!
This patch on @jadettman.bsky.social‘s jeans is yet another in a long series of FUs to the 1st grade teacher who put a big red X on my worksheets and wrote “Color in one direction!”
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This patch on @jadettman.bsky.social‘s jeans is yet another in a long series of FUs to the 1st grade teacher who put a big red X on my worksheets and wrote “Color in one direction!”
Turns out this turkey was at Jan 6?
Pardoned Turkey Still Seeking Pardon from Hanging Out with Trump: tinyurl.com/4syd66vj
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Turns out this turkey was at Jan 6?
But at 65 C, it’s adios, amoebas.
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
But at 65 C, it’s adios, amoebas.
@jadettman.bsky.social , maybe this is a kind of RV lifestyle you could vibe with?
I think I want what we all want - peace, love, warmth, and an enchanted cottage that floats through the night, trading used books and black market rum with the wild folk of the wood.
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
@jadettman.bsky.social , maybe this is a kind of RV lifestyle you could vibe with?