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mgarraha.bsky.social
Amateur classical musician and astronomer. Advocate for year-round standard time.
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Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees www.alxnow.com/2025/06/24/r...

UPDATE- this went really well! Here are a few notes on how I set up and did meetings with staffers in case it's helpful to anyone! 🧵 🔭🧪🎢

Ditch Daylight Saving Time. I would rather be woken by the sun than be kept up at night by it.

In the past month, these potentially hazardous asteroids were recovered, improving our estimates of their orbits: 2014 WD7, 2016 TZ17, 2016 WJ7, 2016 XC18. Additional observations of 2019 WJ5 were found in archive data.

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

If you thought the picture we posted yesterday was good...just check out this timelapse of the same storm! 🤯 Video courtesy of Mesonet technician Steve Thompson (taken Sunday, May 18 near Freedom, OK). #okwx #okmesonet

duolingo recently declared they are now an AI-first company. well, here at The Museum of English Rural Life, we pride ourselves in being EI-first. EI EI O