Summer
@sumrtime.bsky.social
Huge fan of space, both personal and outer. I insist upon the view that ‘all is waves’.
Astrophysicist 💫
Scicommer ⚛️
Space Cadet 🚀
Lunatic 🌙
TBTL10 📻
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Astrophysicist 💫
Scicommer ⚛️
Space Cadet 🚀
Lunatic 🌙
TBTL10 📻
summerash.com
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Summer
@sumrtime.bsky.social
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Hi Bluesky friends! I've been MIA for a while, but I'm coming back because I have some fun news...
I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭
I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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What should we expect this flu season?
Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What should we expect this flu season?
Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie)
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This has been a godsend.
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
udm14.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This has been a godsend.
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Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.
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Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
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Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.
Advocacy groups urge parents to avoid AI toys this holiday season
Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.
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This is bad. How can any university hire people, build facilities, make any plans, if the funding can be arbitrarily removed on a whim from an agency? This goes far beyond currently disfavored topics.
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.
On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows
Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.
www.statnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is bad. How can any university hire people, build facilities, make any plans, if the funding can be arbitrarily removed on a whim from an agency? This goes far beyond currently disfavored topics.
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Amen to this. 🙏
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Amen to this. 🙏
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“In America, we’re supposed to welcome the stranger, not hunt them,” ... He urged MAGA followers to turn off Fox News and realize they’re being lied to."
“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”
“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“In America, we’re supposed to welcome the stranger, not hunt them,” ... He urged MAGA followers to turn off Fox News and realize they’re being lied to."
“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”
“Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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"usual suspects" lol
Despite all the evidence that this is your fairly typical comet (albeit extrasolar in nature), that hasn't stopped the usual suspects from speculating that it might be a spacecraft in disguise.
NASA really wants you to know that 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet
A rundown of what we know of the third extrasolar object we’ve identified.
arstechnica.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"usual suspects" lol
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my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
August 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
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To quote one of the extended project team members in the very early planning stages of this: "We're NASA. This is what we're supposed to do." Just matter-of-factly in a telecon trying figure out how do this…
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To quote one of the extended project team members in the very early planning stages of this: "We're NASA. This is what we're supposed to do." Just matter-of-factly in a telecon trying figure out how do this…
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Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
I'm a sucker for any and all orrery animations! 🤩 🔭
Our special November issue, celebrating 30 years of exoplanets, is now here! https://bit.ly/483MH9I
#astronomy #exoplanets
#astronomy #exoplanets
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm a sucker for any and all orrery animations! 🤩 🔭
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The CDC tracker now says 960+ people exposed to H5 (usually farmworkers) have been tested since March 2024. So 80 people were tested in the last few days, or the tracker wasn't updating for some time. (I'd guess the latter)
Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.
Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.
According to CDC's tracker, about 870 farmworkers had been tested for bird flu between March 2024 and March 2025. Another 10 were tested in April. Zero since then 🙃
See for yourself @waybackmachine.bsky.social www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/h5-...
See for yourself @waybackmachine.bsky.social www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/h5-...
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The CDC tracker now says 960+ people exposed to H5 (usually farmworkers) have been tested since March 2024. So 80 people were tested in the last few days, or the tracker wasn't updating for some time. (I'd guess the latter)
Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.
Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.
Today’s random find in the #ASPLibrary: a Russian book of Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 1994. 🔭
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Today’s random find in the #ASPLibrary: a Russian book of Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 1994. 🔭
I missed this news over the weekend. I'm so terribly sad that this world has lost such an incredible human and advocate for fellow humans.
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I missed this news over the weekend. I'm so terribly sad that this world has lost such an incredible human and advocate for fellow humans.
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
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Calendar tour!!
Don’t look at my office, I know it’s chaotic, don’t do it, don’t look, just look at the calendar! it’s very nice! it has animals on it and it helps me buy native plant seeds for my city, nothing to see on my walls.
Get a pretty calendar at squidfacts.net
Don’t look at my office, I know it’s chaotic, don’t do it, don’t look, just look at the calendar! it’s very nice! it has animals on it and it helps me buy native plant seeds for my city, nothing to see on my walls.
Get a pretty calendar at squidfacts.net
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Calendar tour!!
Don’t look at my office, I know it’s chaotic, don’t do it, don’t look, just look at the calendar! it’s very nice! it has animals on it and it helps me buy native plant seeds for my city, nothing to see on my walls.
Get a pretty calendar at squidfacts.net
Don’t look at my office, I know it’s chaotic, don’t do it, don’t look, just look at the calendar! it’s very nice! it has animals on it and it helps me buy native plant seeds for my city, nothing to see on my walls.
Get a pretty calendar at squidfacts.net