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Ludmila Carone
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My goodness: It's full of planets!

European in Graz.

Often to be found at Space Research Institute at Graz!

(Yes, Graz hosts the Austrian Space Research Institute. It's awesome, check it out!)
(Ja, Graz hat die Weltraumforschung und sie ist toll)
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Soweit ich einen historischen Überblick habe, gab es in der gesamten Geschichte der Menschheit noch nie einen großen Krieg, bei dem die Angegriffenen ihren Angreifer freiwillig mit enormen Geldsummen unterstützten, so wie die EU das seit 2022 mit Russland praktiziert.
December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Übrigens ist bald Weihnachten. 😁
Und ich weiß, ihr seid alle in Panik, weil es nie genug gute Geschenke gibt.

Die Lösung: das wissenschaftliche online-Whiskytasting. 😊 Am 6. Februar.
Wir schicken die Whiskys und ein Glas, und ihr hört dann den Vortrag und trinkt.

www.spektrum.de/lp/Online-Wh...
Online Whisky Tasting
www.spektrum.de
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Vanity Fair hat ein großes Porträt über Trumps innersten Kreis gemacht. Und es ist eine Meisterklasse wie man soetwas machen kann. Zum Text gibt’s viel zu sagen, aber am beachtlichsten sind die Fotos von Christopher Anderson.

Da sind so viele Ebenen drin, wow. Jedes Detail gewollt.
December 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Heute ist ein guter Tag in Ostösterreich um zu lernen was Nebelleuchten sind. Zu viele Autofahrer glauben sie sind die Hobbits im Elbenumhanh vor dem Morannon. Sie sind unsichtbar, wenn sie mit ihren weißen und grauen Autos durch den Nebel fahren.
Nebelleuchten sind unsere Freunde.
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Wow, can't Denmark do here something? B/c this shit is evil.
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Ja das. Wenn die Apotheken schließen müssen, fällt ein großer Teil der Notfallversorgung ersatzlos weg.

Und das belastet dann die restliche Infrastruktur noch mehr. Nicht gut.
Apotheken haben Fachpersonal, hohe Personalkosten, Mieten, gehen in Vorleistung, bedienen nachts, an Wochenenden und Feiertagen, machen Blister für Altenheime und Pflegedienste.

Onlineapotheken haben das alles nicht.

Die Apotheken werden gerade vor den Bus geworfen!🙋‍♀️
December 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The Donation of Constantine: A Medieval Forgery That Shaped Church Power www.medievalists.net/2025/12/dona...
The Donation of Constantine: A Medieval Forgery That Shaped Church Power - Medievalists.net
How a medieval forgery known as the Donation of Constantine shaped Church power, papal authority, and medieval ideas of truth and legitimacy.
www.medievalists.net
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Grausamkeit und/oder Gefühskälte bei sich und den Wählern bedienen.
"Auf die rund 5,5 Millionen Menschen, die Bürgergeld beziehen, kommen damit deutlich verschärfte Regeln zu."

"Ursprünglich vor allem seitens der Union erhoffte großen Einsparungen werden durch die angestrebte Reform nicht erwartet."

Also was ist die Rechtfertigung?
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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This is an absolutely amazing system, and I'm still kind of suprised that it doesn't get as much recognition as it should - look at that tidal distortion!
Due to proximity to the pulsar's gravitational influence, the shape of the exoplanet is like a lemon!

The great thing is that #JWST doesn't see the pulsar, so this is a nice way to study the pure signature of pulsar planets.

The pre-print was out a few months ago, but paper has just been accepted.
👀👀👀👀

Super neat preprint! 📡🔭

A rare, hot-Jupiter exoplanet orbits the pulsar PSR J2322-2650.

Astronomers used #JWST to observe it across the full orbit, and found its atmosphere rich in carbon AND it having a strong westward wind! 🤯

ping: @aussiastronomer.bsky.social!

arxiv.org/abs/2509.04558
December 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Any Aussie historians who can tell us what happened to him?
Don't steal pies this Christmas.
December 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Also, a very interesting and unusual way to visualize average temperatures.
I'm certain we're already passed 1.5C & just waiting for the running Avg to catch up.

I share @leonsimons.com view that it's patiently stupid to be looking through the rear view mirror

The climate science community needs to up its game

This exellent graph is from @reescreverem1.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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1/3 Here is one of several flyovers our digital terrain model group created from a DTM of our 100,000th observation of Mars!
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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As James says, this isn't even about climate.

It's about all the tools, platforms, models, datasets we use to study and forecast weather and understand how it impacts people, too.
These people are nuts. NCAR developed the GPS dropsonde, which revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated remote sensing platforms, as documented in over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last 25 years. And that’s just one of NCAR’s countless advances.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Good reasons, but one of the biggest reasons is simply that it is way, way, way, way too expensive to go to these giant conferences. #AGU25 registration was $793 early bird for an academic - I'm only in NOLA because I could drive and stay somewhere cheap!

My grant money is better spent elsewhere!
Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Scientists skip key US meetings — and seize on smaller alternatives
Researchers are devising creative ways to get together as Trump’s policies curb travel to US gatherings.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Menschen, ihr müsst nicht menstruieren wenn ihr nicht wollt. Nehmt die Pille durch oder gönnt Euch Gestagen.

Als Teenager bin vor Schmerzen am Wegesrand im Dorf kollabiert. Ein Autofahrer hat mich dort gefunden und zum Dorfarzt gefahren. Er musste mir 2 Spritzen geben, bevor der Krampf aufhörte.
Schwöre, seit ich nicht mehr menstruiere (nehme ne Gestagenpille (deswegen kein Thrombosekram usw), die den Eisprung aussetzt), ist mein Leben ein anderes. Davor einfach alles (Endometriose etc) so schlimm, dass ich nur ~10 Tage im Monat was machen konnte. An ~12-13 Tagen Schmerzmittel genommen.
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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For very hot exoplanets, people can now see how much of each element is there in the atmosphere and compare it to that of the star. In this case (WASP-189b), the rock-forming elements are like that of the star, as expected. The volatile elements (C,O) are lower.
Sanchez+ arxiv.org/abs/2512.10904
🧪🔭🪐
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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This is not encouraging.

My thoughts are with the MAVEN science and engineering teams as they work to restore contact with, and control of, the spacecraft.

science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/...
NASA Continues MAVEN Spacecraft Recontact Efforts - NASA Science
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission team, in partnership with the agency’s Deep Space Network, continues recovery activities after
science.nasa.gov
December 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Oh this is very clever. Perspective effects play a bigger role in astronomy than you might think at first.

Astrobites, BTW, writes about journal papers at a moderately technical level. It's a great resource for undergrad/grad students, or high school students who are into the science.
From Sandy Chiu: Cosmic rays don’t always reveal their origins honestly—magnetic fields can create “mirage halos” that look like real gamma-ray sources. New simulations show how a single pulsar can masquerade as three, reshaping how we interpret TeV observations. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/12/13/o...
How One Pulsar Can Look Like Three: Cosmic-Ray Mirage Halos in the Gamma-Ray Sky
Cosmic rays don’t always reveal their origins honestly—magnetic fields can bend their paths and create “mirage halos” that look like real gamma-ray sources. New simulations show how a single pulsar ca...
astrobites.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Dr. Victoria Meadows leads the massively interdisciplinary NASA Virtual Planetary Laboratory, which she started in 2001 with the goal of developing a scientific foundation for the search for habitability and life beyond the Solar System. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#Exoplanets #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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My undergrad "Planetary Astrophysics" textbook is getting closer to the finish line. Does anyone know of a figure that shows (ideally) a low-res and higher-res spectrum over the same wavelength range for a *directly imaged exoplanet*? Thanks!
December 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM