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Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) began disintegrating after its close approach to the Sun on January 13, 2025. Intense heat caused the nucleus to break apart, as shown in a six-day sequence recorded by astronomer Lionel Majzik in Chile. 1/ #CometATLAS #Astronomy #Science

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alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

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BepiColombo’s 6th Mercury flyby movie now online at youtu.be/Drh5agiQYzE?... Watch carefully and you will spot the planet reflected in the solar array too. This is the final visit to Mercury before we get into orbit on November 2026.

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Dear Tech Companies, No. We don't want "A.I." anything. We don't want A.I. social media "friends." We don't want A.I.-generated news reporters or anchors. We don't want A.I. to curate our music or make our movies. We REALLY don't want A.I. put in charge of our insurance claims or kids' education.

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Just out of curiosity, how exactly do we expect to build less violent societies whilst simultaneously daily participating in eternal systematic violence on a gargantuan scale? Credit: Graham 🏴 Use ALT @Son_of_Space

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Cave Paintings depicting life historically Check alt text for details of each image

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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

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$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

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Check out this amazing resource from the folks at MIT's Radium Age series: www.hilobrow.com/tag/radium-a...

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My new year’s resolution generator for @theguardian.com. Let me know what you get!

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This Saturday! The Trans Nerd Meet Up welcomes everyone who self identifies as gender non-conforming and likes to geek out about anything. Zeitgeist SF from 12:30 until whenever 🏳️‍⚧️🚀

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Y'all know my jam is "women accomplishing things and not getting the credit" (see: my book, Uncredited: www.infinite-women.com/books/). So Eunice Foote was talking about this in the 1850s, but John Tyndall got the credit for figuring out three years later than Foote - www.audubon.org/news/the-fem...

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Hey, heads up! apnews.com/article/publ...

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Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar: Finding the perfect tree topper can sometimes be a challenge, but this one looks lovely! #birds #wildlife

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Preston Sturges's THE PALM BEACH STORY premiered this week in 1942 w/ some great advice from the Wienie King: “Someday you’ll wake up and find everything behind ya. Gives ya quite a turn. Makes ya sorry for a few of the things you didn’t do while you still could." #FilmSky

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Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby is flawless. A lean, mean, no-word-wasted, flawless horror book. Gold standard. Top tier.

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Today's lesson discusses the American health care system for those in countries where their system provides care for free or reasonable fees. 👇

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This is a Rugosa horned coral, Heliophyllum, from the Devonian Hungry Hollow Mb. near Arkona, Ontario. This is another fossil that tells a story of its life. The coral was damaged, maybe buried in a storm, and two new coral buds started to grow. #FossilFriday

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We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

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Preorder now! Robert Bloch's first novel, THE SCARF (1947), a noir psychological thriller about a man with an irresistible urge to kill, strangling victims with a red scarf. It's the clear precursor to his more famous PSYCHO, and a good, disturbing read: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-scarf-19...

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When Avon reprinted Robert Bloch's THE SCARF, a 1940s noir novel about a serial killer who strangles women with a scarf, they weirdly added "... OF PASSION" to the title, which I guess is sort of like when you add "... in bed" to the end of fortune cookie messages?

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This hit my weak point for massive damage

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If you're a graduate student (a) interested in video games and (b) looking for a PhD program in media studies ... I'd love to talk! My lab (Newhouse Interaction Lab, #nhixlab) has been working w/Atari on a series of playtesting studies. Come work with us? newhouse.syracuse.edu/academics/ma...

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This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.

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Walking and biking for transportation means we can pause to notice and appreciate the golden carpet of leaves at the very end of fall. 🍂

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Preach!

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Thanks for noticing.

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Sometimes, fantastic arts organizations pop up in the most unexpected places! wegaarts.org

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wegafilm2024.eventive.org/welcome

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I wasn't a band or theater kid, but I was a book kid and I think that still counts for something here.

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One of the best parts of Twitter was seeing so many local African voices sharing authentic perspectives. On Bluesky, though, African content seems to be dominated by Western academics. How long until more local voices are thriving here.

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Libraries are precious and beautiful and must be defended

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Wednesday is the screening of Psycho out in Weyauwega, the little Wisconsin farming town where Robert Bloch wrote the novel that Hitchcock ran with. Come on out! wegafilm2024.eventive.org/welcome

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I had a great time tonight with the good folks of Winchester Academy out in Waupaca, WI. My subject? Robert Bloch, of course! www.winchesterwaupaca.org

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These new editions of the Robert Bloch books from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social look super nice. The Opener of the Way The Night of the Ripper

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Just trying to process Tuesday, and Sara Teasdale won't stop whispering to me... There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound... poets.org/poem/there-w...

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Anyway, global average temperatures are still hanging out at or above the already-absurd 2023 record, this will almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded.

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I'll be at Winchester Academy in Waupaca on Monday, November 11, to talk about Psycho and my favorite Wisconsin author, Robert Bloch. Hope to see yiu there! www.winchesterwaupaca.org

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Doing some REH Scholarship this morning.

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Watched an interesting episode of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR. An adaptation by Robert Bloch of Patricia Highsmith’s “This Sweet Sickness” starring Dean Stockwell and Susan Oliver.

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One of William Friedkin's earliest directing credits was the 1965 series finale of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR. "Off Season" starring John Gavin and written by Robert Bloch is a violent episode with a startlingly bleak conclusion. Shades of the brilliance to come.

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One of the good things about having a fairly extensive library is when you read a letter from H.P. Lovecraft to Clack Ashton Smith about something HPL told Robert Bloch, you can go look up the letter to Bloch and read that too.

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BTD - Robert Bloch - Author of PSYCHO and countless other pulp fiction frights

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Halloween mood, old timey-style: I strongly recommend the short stories of Ray Russell, The Feast at the Abbey by Robert Bloch (written when he was only 17!), and The Loved Dead by C.M. Eddy.

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And we're off, with installment 174 in our tour: it's another William Castle special from 1964, with Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor in the Robert Bloch-written...THE NIGHT WALKER!

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