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Flight Software Workshop @flightsoftware.org · 5d

Registration is now open for the 2026 Flight Software Workshop, which will be in person at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Both in-person attendance and remote viewing is available. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-fligh...

2026 Flight Software Workshop

Join us for the 19th Annual Flight Software Workshop (FSW 2026) hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 5d

Check your weather forecast and plan your nap schedule for some skywatching--the recently discovered Comet Lemmon is approaching perihelion just as the Orionids meteor shower is peaking! 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Look Up for a Rare Comet and Meteor Show

A comet visible to the naked eye will make its closest approach to Earth on October 21

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James Curbo @curbo.org · 8d

I'm almost through getting my D.Eng and it's been great. (I defend in the spring) Can't recommend it enough if you have a supportive employer!

Johns Hopkins Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social · 8d

Did you know? You can earn your doctorate while you work, as a research collaboration between your employer and Hopkins Engineering. Learn more at our next info session, Wed, Oct 22. Register: applygrad.jhu.edu/register/?id...

Doctor of Engineering Information Session - October

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James Curbo @curbo.org · 15d

Having applied more traditional denoising/convolution algorithms to my own amateur astronomy images - this is amazing work!

Johns Hopkins Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social · 15d

Earth-bound telescopes can see much more of the sky than space telescopes, but the photos are blurry & noisy. Until now: @johnshopkinsams.bsky.social Assoc Prof Tamás Budavári's new algorithm removes atmospheric interference for clear views of faraway galaxies. engineering.jhu.edu/news/sharper...

Set of Hyper Suprime-Cam i-band exposures showing different levels of atmospheric blur and noise across multiple astronomical images. The bottom-right panels display the corresponding point-spread functions used for image restoration, while gray bands indicate chip gaps where data are missing.

Side by side photo comparison of galaxies taken without (blurry) and with (sharper) processing from the ImageMM algorithm

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James Curbo @curbo.org · 18d

Very excited to actually be able to attend this in person for the first time!

Flight Software Workshop @flightsoftware.org · 18d

We are pleased to announce the 2026 Flight Software Workshop, which will be in person at @jhuapl.bsky.social . Save the date and join us March 23, 2026 to March 26, 2026 for a week of flight software discussion. We are now accepting abstracts. flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW...

Flight Software Workshop

Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software

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James Curbo @curbo.org · 18d

Guest lecturing tonight at JHU SAIS as part of the Space Force program!

The Intersection of Space Systems Engineering and International Public Policy - Space Cybersecurity

A view up the middle of a building from the bottom

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Johns Hopkins APL @jhuapl.bsky.social · 18d

APL’s BAS/CS framework is helping secure critical infrastructure by standardizing alerts across cybersecurity systems and vendors. The system is already in use by military operators. https://jhuapl.link/f47

Standardizing Cyber Analytics to Secure Critical Infrastructure

A Johns Hopkins APL team has developed a framework for standardizing alerts transmitted by cybersecurity systems defending critical infrastructure, dramatically improving the efficiency with which the...

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 22d

The real space war is being fought in cyberspace

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Rachel Rizzo @rachelrizzo.bsky.social · 29d

Most of the time I write about foreign policy. Sometimes I write about Washington, DC and the relentless progressional climb to nowhere.

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DC: the City of Fractal Success

On the professional climb to nowhere

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Johns Hopkins APL @jhuapl.bsky.social · Sep 24

NASA’s IMAP mission lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 at 7:30 a.m. EDT. Led by Princeton and operated by APL, IMAP will explore the heliosphere and provide critical data for space weather forecasting, which will help protect spacecraft, satellites and human explorers. https://jhuapl.link/d11

NASA Launches IMAP Mission to Study the Heliosphere and Better Understand Space Weather

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:30 a.m. EDT.

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · Sep 22

Security researchers located 37 separate “easy to exploit” vulnerabilities in #NASA’s core Flight System, which would have enabled them to hack into satellites. It’s time for the #space industry to up its #cybersecurity game.
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · Sep 21

ARCHIVE UP of this year's Bike MS fundraising stream, featuring @vinnycaravella.bsky.social, a fake plane crash, and... actually DOING things in Star Citizen??!

Donations still open at blinkingguy.com!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3AV...

I'm participating in Bike MS: Waves to Wine 2025!

I’m participating in Bike MS: Waves to Wine 2025 to raise funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Nearly one million people in the US are living with the challenges and uncertainty of mult...

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NPR @npr.org · Sep 16

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · Sep 5

CONTACT (backyard radio telescope part II)

YouTube video by Angela Collier

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Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun · Sep 5

If you haven't already, I'd love it if you checked out Dual Boot Diaries, a new podcast I started with my pal @adampatrickmurray.bsky.social. It's about us learning to use Linux instead of Windows:

Check Out Our New Linux Podcast!

YouTube video by PCWorld

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · Sep 3

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

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"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Scott Tilley @coastal8049.bsky.social · Sep 3

Receiving a lot of questions about my S-band station I use for #Artemis monitoring.

I'll describe the system and at the end will be a link to where I posted some helpful information about the system.

I can't personally answer everyone but this thread should help.
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Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun · Aug 29

The first full episode of Dual Boot Diaries is up now. We talk about how our installs went, dip a bit into dual booting, and share our first thoughts about our new OSes of choice:

Episode 1: Linux Installation & First Reactions

Podcast Episode · Dual Boot Diaries · 08/29/2025 · 1h 7m

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James Curbo @curbo.org · Aug 29

My daughter was up early the other day so I took her out to see a lovely view of Venus and Jupiter in the predawn sky.

A view of the morning sky with clouds, stars, Venus and Jupiter.

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Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun · Aug 28

I can’t believe Windows 95 is 30 years old. For me, it marks the beginning of the modern computer age and the dawn of the real Internet. We talked about it on this week’s Tech Pod!

301: Will Ruined the Internet | Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Right smack dab on its 30th birthday, we're here this week to celebrate three decades of Windows 95 with a wide-ranging conversation about what might still be the most hyped computing product in histo...

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James Curbo @curbo.org · Aug 25

So much nostalgia here. I was in high school when Windows 95 came out.

Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun · Aug 24

Happy Birthday Windows 95!

301: Will Ruined the Internet | Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Right smack dab on its 30th birthday, we're here this week to celebrate three decades of Windows 95 with a wide-ranging conversation about what might still be the most hyped computing product in histo...

techpod.content.town

James Curbo @curbo.org · Aug 24

Glorious winter is returning, that's what. #snowbros

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Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun · Aug 22

I've started a new podcast! I'm doing a limited-run series with @adampatrickmurray.bsky.social about switching from Windows to Linux called Dual Boot Diaries. You can find it on Apple Music, Spotify, Pocketcasts, and anywhere podcasts are found, but also on YouTube as a video...

What is Dual Boot Diaries? | Dual Boot Diaries ep. 0

YouTube video by The Full Nerd Network

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James Curbo @curbo.org · Aug 20

Maybe something with scientific computing. There are tons of use cases for machine learning for science that are not LLMs.

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Johns Hopkins Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social · Aug 12

In the Magazine: Students learning how things DON'T work. With his class exploring historical catastrophes like Chernobyl and Apollo 13, Prof Jim Bellingham is teaching future engineers to lead through crises. engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/inq...

When the Going Gets Tough - Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine

By exploring historical catastrophes, students learn to lead.

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