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Refuse to obey illegal orders.

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The Bubble Nebula NGC 7635 in the constellation Cassiopeia at a distance of 7100 light years. The bubble is created by a hot young star causing the surrounding gasses to glow. This is a multi-spectral narrow band photograph where Hydrogen are reds, and Oxygen are blues. #astronomy #astrophotography

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🕷️ Brazil's rainforests are home to incredible jumping spiders (Salticidae)! These tiny acrobats have the best vision of any spider, can leap 50x their body length, and perform elaborate courtship dances. With 600+ species, they're the largest spider family on Earth. 🧪

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🆕 The five ways that Europe’s latest weather satellite will change how we forecast severe weather 👇 @eumetsat.int @metoffice.gov.uk @knmi.nl @meteofrance.com @wmo-global.bsky.social @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social @esaearth.esa.int @ecmwf.int

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Scientific progress depends on inclusion. This #PrideMonth, AGU President Brandon Jones reflects on why building a welcoming and inclusive scientific community is essential for the future of science. #AGU #PrideMonth #InclusiveScience

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The Moon passed between trees giving me just enough time to frame, focus, and image. This is the largest gibbous moon I can fit on my APC size frame with the Meade 8" SCT. I will have to use my full frame mirrorless camera to fit the full moon. Image used 80 of the best 300 frames. #astrophotography

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If only we were as tough on people who steal millions as we are on people who steal tins of beans.

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#kitten #booksky

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🧪🇨🇭 The Birch Glacier collapsed last week and erased the village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley. 300 lives were saved by geologists that predicted the catastrophe and suggested the evacuation of the village. That is what tax-funded science gets you. #ScienceSavesLives #ScientistHeroes

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🧵 This is a solar prominence! Using the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at Big Bear Solar Observatory and the new coronal adaptive optics system Cona, a team of scientists has observed the solar corona in unprecedented details. ➡️ nso.edu/press-releas... 🔭 🧪 #science #stellarastro ⚛️

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22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

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Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1. (Thread) 1/

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And now for something completely different.. Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck 1862-1946 Finnish modernist known for realist works, self-portraits, landscapes, still lifes. Her work evolved dramatically, from realism & plein air to portraits & still life Finnish-Girl reading 1904 gouache paint on paper

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Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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These are a couple of native species I grow in my yard instead of the grass that was there when we arrived. 🧪🐡 This is a hard carved, hand printed Lino print with collaged Japanese washi papers of a clump of black-eyed susans (Rudbeckia hirta) with a cone flower (Echinacea) and a monarch butterfly.

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Researchers have developed a new, targeted means of inserting entire genes into human DNA. The new tool is called evoCAST and uses a CRISPR complex and transposase enzyme to insert whole genes into human DNA at targeted locations. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky🧪 #biosky

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you guys ever wonder if we’re in the twilight zone

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Nature reports on Michael Running Wolf’s work leading artificial-intelligence initiatives to revive lost languages and empower Indigenous people. 🏺 🧪

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Kids find things.

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🧬🧠 NRTIs may lower Alzheimer's risk A new study finds people taking nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) - used for HIV & hepatitis B - had lower Alzheimer's rates, likely by blocking inflammasome activation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/alz.... #Alzheimers #SciComm 🧪

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#Aigne In this region there is Neolithic evidence and evidence that pre-human ancestors have inhabited what is now France since 1.6 million years ago. Taken in #France in 2025 by #©SteveC #Photography #notAI

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"I don’t know if I’m extremely sensitive or life is unbearable.” Vincent Van Gogh

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You've seen countless pics of them but have you ever wondered just what exactly is a galaxy? Astronomers have wondered that too, and it's not so easy to define. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🔭 🧪

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This was posted by a FB friend of mine. See how easy it is.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Just a neverending cavalcade of stupid

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Beautiful image by Robert Fesen & collaborators showing a Wolf-Rayet star (WR8) -- a massive star violently letting go its outer layer (blue) against a background of glowing gas. #astronomy #astroedu #astrophotography #space #spacephotography #astroimages #sciencephotos #spacephotos #astrophotos

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Force of nature 🐺

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