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Joe Barry
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📚 Author: "Almost in Reach of Fame" (upcoming), Veteran 🇺🇸, Astronomer 🔭 www.joebarryauthor.com
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Excited to have my author's web page up! To learn more about my upcoming biography on Joseph B. Stewart, the "Forrest Gump" of nineteenth century America, visit: joebarryauthor.com

#skystorians #booksky #history #biographies 📚✍🏻
Part of me wishes he could lose some credentials, but that would probably backfire and make him a "free speech martyr." Problem is, 1/2 of the astronomy articles in my Apple News feed are on this "mystery" object. 😒
This Harvard *astronomer is too punch drunk on publicity and perhaps money to say anything else at this point. Whether he truly believes his nonsense or has become corrupted, the result is the same. I actually think we should ignore him. He should be consigned to the non-reputable clickbait farms.
Call me petty, that's fine, but I just enjoyed blocking a *certain #Harvard #astronomer on Substack, so I don't have to see his nonsense. And no, I'm not going to say his name. ✌🏻👽🛸 #astronomy #junkscience #misinformation
Harper Goff painting (1946) of John Wilkes Booth onstage Ford's Theatre with Joseph B. Stewart rushing to pursue the assassin. My upcoming book on Stewart reveals why he was the "Forrest Gump" of 19th century America.
#history #skystorians #biography #booksky
Good vaccine 💉 idea:
Consider looking for vaccine guidance from University Public-Health Schools / Institutes — examples: Yale School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Indeed! He went the extra yard, and he tends to do in his research!
Carbon over silicon.
#AI #art
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Bad science communication can be disastrous. But a typo clearly isn't as bad as fraud. Clearly, a scale is needed to resolve this ambiguity.

Thus, I here propose the Loeb Scale for scientific PR disasters.

It is NOT to be confused with the recently proposed Loeb Scale for interstellar objects. 🔭
The Loeb Scale for science PR disasters
Science miscommunication is dangerous. But how dangerous?
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In ordinary times, this would be leading news. Nonetheless, it's still an amazing development. Bravo to all involved, and let's get those samples home!

#astronomy #mars #marsrover #lifeonmars #NASA
The Perseverance has found compounds associated with life on Earth. But whether they indicate life on Mars awaits sample return.
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#astronomy #mars #perseverancerover #marsrover #lifeonmars
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#Skystorians Today is the anniversary of the Christiana Resistance. In 1851, a group of Black men and women defied the federal Fugitive Slave Act & fought back against kidnappers intent on enslaving them. Read about this prelude to the Civil War: lincolnconspirators.com/2018/06/03/f... 🗃️
“Freedom’s Battle at Christiana”
On September 11, 1851, the small town of Christiana, Pennsylvania, became the epicenter of an event that sent shock waves across the nation. Bloody conflict occurred, foretelling a national reckoni…
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As I used to hear in the military, "One person shits their pants, and we all have to wear diapers."
Interested in American #history? I am writing a #biography on Joseph B. Stewart, the "Forrest Gump" of the 19th century. He was the only person to get out of his seat and chase John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. Check out excerpt:
joebarryauthor.com/almost-in-re...

#booksky #skystorians #writers
Check out my website and you can sign up to receive occasional emails on the progress of my book.
Nonfiction: mostly nineteenth century American history, with focus on obscure people worth bringing back to light.
Interested in the Lincoln Assassination? Read "Will Research for Peanuts," my new piece on the enigmatic person who held Booth's horse. Thrilled to have Dave Taylor
@linconspirators.bsky.social publish this on his lincolnconspirators.com site!

#history #skystorians #writers #authors #blogs 💙📚✍🏻🎩
This here ... carbon over silicon.

#AI #ceo
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August 31, 1989: Stunning OGV (Orange, Green, Violet filter) color image of Neptune and Triton, taken as Voyager 2 departed the Neptune system.

➡️ www.flickr.com/photos/13216...

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Voyager-ISS/Justin Cowart

🔭 🧪 #histsci #planetsci #science
Thanks AC! My webpage has a sample prologue to give you more.
My happy place: digging through #history records for my upcoming biography on Joseph B. Stewart, the only man to give a sustained chase of Booth at Ford's Theatre. (Taken Friday at National Archives II in College Park, Maryland.)

#skystorians #booksky #biography #writers ✍🏻 💙📚