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Current situation with our old Mr. Zach.

Old Zach, curled and snoring.

Three months after launch, Europa Clipper hardware checkouts are going well. Lots to do before the spacecraft's Mars flyby on March 1! www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

Seattle Humane is expecting to put up for adoption more than 60 pets from the Los Angeles area next week.

Mindscape 301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability. If we're all just vectors in a huge dataset, might as well turn it to our advantage. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

NEWS: #NASAWebb is helping connect the dots! 🔴 A team of astronomers scoured multiple Webb surveys to assemble a large sample of “little red dots”—intriguing objects that mostly existed during the first 1.5 billion years after the big bang: bit.ly/4j9SVtm #AAS245 🔭 🧪

With the old man. Oh yeah, and the cat. (Our Zach is 20)

The sleeping Zach #cats

Woodworker Builds a Windmill That Was Originally Designed by Leonardo da Vinci laughingsquid.com/da-vinci-win...

The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

It feels like people do not fully understand how much life changed for our species between 1900 and 2000. I still struggle to comprehend it. These events are 66 years apart.

this is probably one of my favorite pictures in astronomy

The Ring Nebula looks like a portal - James Webb Space Telescope

Ye old sheet of laser light.

Beauty in a tiny incandescent bulb.

Nebula NGC 5189 captured by Hubble

Just our old sleeping Zach. #cats

the aurora from space 🌌

A rose made of galaxies..

I suspect partisan split on trust in science is a matter of positive feedback. One side doesn't like what science is saying (climate, vaccines), so they attack it. Scientists argue back. Partisans react defensively, giving their side more reason to attack science. Repeat. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

At @npr.org's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me in Seattle's Paramount Theater.

A first post. Hello world. And cats...