Dr Alfredo Carpineti
@drcarpineti.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | He/him | opinions are my own
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For the last seven months, Chris and I have worked on creating a limited series to tackle the topic of dark skies and light pollution, and why you should care about it.
We couldn’t be prouder. The first episode is now out on all your favourite podcast apps
www.theastroholic.co.uk/blog/fading-...
We couldn’t be prouder. The first episode is now out on all your favourite podcast apps
www.theastroholic.co.uk/blog/fading-...
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hello marine biology bsky, does anyone know the orcas' phone numbers
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
hello marine biology bsky, does anyone know the orcas' phone numbers
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“The Fall Of Icarus”: You Have Never Seen An Astrophotography Picture Like This!
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“The Fall Of Icarus”: You Have Never Seen An Astrophotography Picture Like This!
This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“The Fall Of Icarus”: You Have Never Seen An Astrophotography Picture Like This!
www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-...
www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-...
Lads, I am happy to lead you into temptation for free without having to burn the rainforest and poison water reservoirs.
DMs are open
DMs are open
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Lads, I am happy to lead you into temptation for free without having to burn the rainforest and poison water reservoirs.
DMs are open
DMs are open
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Mayor Pete has the right to marry because the gay men and lesbians who came before him fought for it. It was a movement based our identities in the plural sense as LGBTQ Americans. Pander somewhere else fella.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Mayor Pete has the right to marry because the gay men and lesbians who came before him fought for it. It was a movement based our identities in the plural sense as LGBTQ Americans. Pander somewhere else fella.
In what the kids are calling "a mood", Comet K1 ATLAS survives its closest encounter to the Sun just to fall apart a month later... 🔭🧪
www.iflscience.com/we-jinxed-it...
www.iflscience.com/we-jinxed-it...
We Jinxed It – Golden Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) Has Now Broken Into Pieces
We spoke too soon, and now the other ATLAS comet is in pieces.
www.iflscience.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In what the kids are calling "a mood", Comet K1 ATLAS survives its closest encounter to the Sun just to fall apart a month later... 🔭🧪
www.iflscience.com/we-jinxed-it...
www.iflscience.com/we-jinxed-it...
When you are sleepy, but need to stay alert since you saw packets of cheese being put away in the fridge!
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
When you are sleepy, but need to stay alert since you saw packets of cheese being put away in the fridge!
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When you really need to listen to Indigenous peoples: “We can’t eat money… We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.” An exemplar of #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
When you really need to listen to Indigenous peoples: “We can’t eat money… We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.” An exemplar of #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs.
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Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
How your emails find me this morning
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
How your emails find me this morning
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You left out the furry
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
You left out the furry
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unironically huge if true
Oo! Interesting #GravitationalWave candidate #S251112cm potentially from a *subsolar* mass source
If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses
False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬
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If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses
False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬
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November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
unironically huge if true
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“I have decided that Feynman would have done what I did.. and I am therefore content.. no matter what..:)“
— Lawrence Krauss
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— Lawrence Krauss
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November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“I have decided that Feynman would have done what I did.. and I am therefore content.. no matter what..:)“
— Lawrence Krauss
🧪⚛️
— Lawrence Krauss
🧪⚛️
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TODAY @ 16:00 CET - How can scientist respond to increasingly authoritarian governments?
Hosted by myself + policy officer Zsanett Papp, in this @egu.eu webinar Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.bsky.social ) explores how scientists can respond & safeguard themselves
More: www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
Hosted by myself + policy officer Zsanett Papp, in this @egu.eu webinar Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.bsky.social ) explores how scientists can respond & safeguard themselves
More: www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
How Scientists Can Respond To Autocratisation
<p>We live in an era of democratic backsliding and autocratisation, in which science is increasingly under politically-motivated attack. This webinar will provide an overview of how scientists can res...
www.egu.eu
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
TODAY @ 16:00 CET - How can scientist respond to increasingly authoritarian governments?
Hosted by myself + policy officer Zsanett Papp, in this @egu.eu webinar Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.bsky.social ) explores how scientists can respond & safeguard themselves
More: www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
Hosted by myself + policy officer Zsanett Papp, in this @egu.eu webinar Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.bsky.social ) explores how scientists can respond & safeguard themselves
More: www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
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Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
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Always worth bringing back up that a big part of why evopsych became such a thing was that Jeffrey Epstein was bankrolling it through academic donations
Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
It seems like all of the rich and powerful people around him patronizingly tolerated the race science stuff (“he has such an inquisitive and childlike mind”) in order to get access to his harem of underage sex slaves
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Always worth bringing back up that a big part of why evopsych became such a thing was that Jeffrey Epstein was bankrolling it through academic donations
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Castle Rock v. Gonzales is, no joke, my Roman Empire.
Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice.
It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.
Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice.
It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.
In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Castle Rock v. Gonzales is, no joke, my Roman Empire.
Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice.
It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.
Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice.
It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.
Has anything evolved in Australia that is not deadly or terrifying or both?
"Drop Crocs": Australia Once Had Ancient Crocs That Climbed Trees To Jump On Their Prey
www.iflscience.com/drop-crocs-a...
www.iflscience.com/drop-crocs-a...
What’s Scarier Than Drop Bears? Drop Crocs, And Australia Had Them Once
If you think Australia’s animal life is wacky today, you should have seen it more than 4 million years ago.
www.iflscience.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Has anything evolved in Australia that is not deadly or terrifying or both?
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news blitzes like this are rough on survivors, be mindful of how you talk about this stuff. and please remember that the victims exist and should be a part of these conversations and at the front of our minds when having them.
1. i hope something comes of the epstein thing for the sake of the victims
2. i'm sensibly skeptical
3. i'm a little put off by how giddy everyone is in a way that has nothing to do with the victims
4. no one with history should see phrases like "child rape" this often
5. idek what to mute
2. i'm sensibly skeptical
3. i'm a little put off by how giddy everyone is in a way that has nothing to do with the victims
4. no one with history should see phrases like "child rape" this often
5. idek what to mute
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
news blitzes like this are rough on survivors, be mindful of how you talk about this stuff. and please remember that the victims exist and should be a part of these conversations and at the front of our minds when having them.
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Calling all #DoctorWho fans!
Join PEARL MACKIE for The Show People Podcast LIVE, recorded at the Two Brewers tomorrow, Wednesday 12th November 2025.
Tickets only £15 and all profits support @queertheatreuk.bsky.social.
Book via the link in my bio.
Join PEARL MACKIE for The Show People Podcast LIVE, recorded at the Two Brewers tomorrow, Wednesday 12th November 2025.
Tickets only £15 and all profits support @queertheatreuk.bsky.social.
Book via the link in my bio.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Calling all #DoctorWho fans!
Join PEARL MACKIE for The Show People Podcast LIVE, recorded at the Two Brewers tomorrow, Wednesday 12th November 2025.
Tickets only £15 and all profits support @queertheatreuk.bsky.social.
Book via the link in my bio.
Join PEARL MACKIE for The Show People Podcast LIVE, recorded at the Two Brewers tomorrow, Wednesday 12th November 2025.
Tickets only £15 and all profits support @queertheatreuk.bsky.social.
Book via the link in my bio.
The fae would have such an easy time to trap me.
Was on an easy hiking trail and there was sign to a path going deeper into the woods, leading to a well said to have magical properties!
Was on an easy hiking trail and there was sign to a path going deeper into the woods, leading to a well said to have magical properties!
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The fae would have such an easy time to trap me.
Was on an easy hiking trail and there was sign to a path going deeper into the woods, leading to a well said to have magical properties!
Was on an easy hiking trail and there was sign to a path going deeper into the woods, leading to a well said to have magical properties!
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Found a butterfly in my accommodation so I carefully picked it and took it outside, only for a crow to immediately fly down and snatch it midair 😱
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Found a butterfly in my accommodation so I carefully picked it and took it outside, only for a crow to immediately fly down and snatch it midair 😱
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Long shot, but are there any observational radio astronomers out there (preferably someone who specializes in spectral line studies of comets/Solar System bodies) I could chat to about the latest 3I/ATLAS observations here? #astronomy #3iatlas #journorequest www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17473
ATel #17473: Detection of 1665/1667 MHz OH absorption in 3I/ATLAS
ATel On
www.astronomerstelegram.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Long shot, but are there any observational radio astronomers out there (preferably someone who specializes in spectral line studies of comets/Solar System bodies) I could chat to about the latest 3I/ATLAS observations here? #astronomy #3iatlas #journorequest www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17473