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The Venusian Chronicles astrobiology.com/2025/02/the-... #astrobiology #Venus

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Hey 🚀 I’m in an emergency. Pls share I’m $-10 in the negatives and I don’t get paid till next week from this new aerospace job. This is for me and my toddler and so my sugar doesn’t drop. Please help if you can. My v e n m o is : @astrotoya My c a s h a p p : $astrotoya or PayPal.me/toyamck

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Chicago elders and ancestors. I’m leading an intergenerational embroidery program starting Wednesday at Art On Sedgwick for After School Matters. It’s free. You should sign up! Me and teens and embroidery and you = epic. Spread the word? www.eventbrite.com/e/strands-of...

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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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You can watch it here via @sophontrack.bsky.social rumble.com/v6nm6n9-bbc-...

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“What have I done wrong? I’ve advocated for people who have been harmed, and now I’ve been harmed in the process” Women at a top London university face disciplinary action after criticising the university for keeping a predatory professor in post: goodlaw.social/hcu5

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Just played this. I died of fatal scandal on day 21 but I had -2 stress at the end so I assume I was high as fuck and did something notorious.

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With the world seemingly falling apart with <waves hands at everything> some good news: it won't literally be falling apart in 2032. The latest data from Asteroid #2024YR4 ☄️ has reduced the chances of impact to 1-in-370. Bruce Willis, you can stand down. 🧪🔭 ℹ️: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/detai...

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

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What are we looking at? 📡 Check out NRAO's Mission Control Feature to see what's being observed by the Very Large Array and ALMA Observatory in real time: public.nrao.edu/explore/miss... * Current VLA Observation: eDisk: Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks * #RadioAstronomy #Astronomy

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Probationaries who have been illegally fired: this article contains information about which law firm to contact in order to join the class action suit. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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Internship Opportunity – NASA Astrobiology Strategy Student Historian astrobiology.com/2025/02/inte... #astrobiology #NASA #history #internship

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Milestone reached! We've finally determined the intensity of the Wow! Signal—one of its long-standing mysteries. Previous estimates were 54 Jy or 212 Jy. This new finding is just one of the key insights we’ll present in our upcoming paper, #AreciboWow II. #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #SETI

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I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.

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The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

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The new 40-meter Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT), located near Chiang Mai, Thailand. L band (1–1.8 GHz) observations have started, additional bands will be added gradually. 🔭📡🧪 #RadioAstronomy www.narit.or.th/en/observato...

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Thrilled to say that the Royal School of Needlework is hosting its first ever academic conference, in conjunction with @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social! Here is the call for papers for “Stitched Together,” which will be held on 21-22 August at Hampton Court Palace. Please share!

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And, if you're wondering why I'm putting myself thorough this, I'm fundraising for Doctors in Distress. Post pandemic, a lot of doctors struggle with mental illness due to job pressure. My wife is one of them. So, this is for her and the many in her position. www.justgiving.com/page/eamonn-...

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Paul Atreides doth go to a Frensshe bakerye to picke up breade. Upon arriving at the Frensshe bakerye, Paul Atreides doth fynde that the Frensshe bakeres have lefte a box for hym. Paul Atreides asketh: "What ys yn the box?" And the Frensshe bakeres responde: "Pain."

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I am recruiting for postdoctoral and technician positions at UCSD. If anyone with relevant skills/interests has lost funding due to the anti-DEI jihad or the NIH purge, I’m open to discussion of ways we can try to help out.

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Measuring the Distances to Asteroids from One Observatory in One Night with Upcoming All-Sky Telescopes (Fernandes et al submitted) arxiv.org/abs/2502.07881

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There is still a chance to sign this letter if you agree that Elon Musk is no longer deserving of FRS of Royal Society due to his aberrant behaviour

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🔴 Tune in live to @esa.int to hear the latest updates on the Fly! Feasibility Study, with member of the European Astronaut Reserve John McFall! 👇 The Fly! study is understanding spaceflight for an astronaut like John with a physical disability. 👨‍🚀 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV

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“It’s the first time astronomy at this energy is possible,” says Paschal Coyle of KM3NeT. 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw... List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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Critical scientific documents go missing from NASA-backed lunar community website https://jatan.space/scientific-documents-go-missing-from-nasa-lunar-community-website/

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Happy International Women & Girls in Science Day 2025 #WomenInScience #womeninSTEM #IDWGS

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On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

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In Belfast on Feb 18? Come join us for Astronomy on Tap, a NI Science Festival astronomy event at Lavery's Pub. Cost: Free (but you need to reserve one of the free tickets for a spot). There's a great lineup. I'll be talking about small rocks of some kind. nisciencefestival.com/events/astro...

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Fantastic discovery of an Einstein ring inside a nearby galaxy by Euclid. Commentary from @stephenserjeant.bsky.social included. 🔭🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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New post! Today in my #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog, I'm taking a look at some of the more ambitious transport networks in science fiction, featuring transatlantic tunnels, monorails and more. Comments always welcome. www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/a_journey_too/

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Scientists have put together a group letter sites.google.com/view/space-s... "To NASA leadership and our elected representatives: We write as members of the space science community who are dismayed by the impact of recent events on taxpayer-funded, NASA-supported science, missions, and communities."

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Art show I'm in www.ft.com/content/a970...

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🔭 !!

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Space Science is for Everyone "We ask that all those in decision-making positions unequivocally condemn and act to reverse recent attacks on scientific integrity, federal grant funding for scientific research, and initiatives that broaden public participation...." sites.google.com/view/space-s...

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I am composing my overture, and I am thinking about how the asteroids were formed.

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Even the regulators are now admitting (in terms) that what's going on in Welsh universities is completely barmy. Small countries above all need their unis - this is undermining decades in which Welsh national feeling has grown, and policy evolved. Crazy. www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/univers...

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The next EVN seminar, "Reinventing SETI", will be given by JBCA Director, Prof. Michael Garrett. 🗓 Scheduled for Wednesday 5 February 2025, at 11:00 CET (10.00 GMT). 🔗 For more info on the EVN seminars and how to join click here: www.evlbi.org/evn-seminars #SeminarsEVN #EVNJIVE

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PRESS RELEASE: A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh set out to answer a simple question: If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology similar to ours, would they be able to detect Earth and evidence of humanity? If so, what signals would they detect, and from how far away? 🧪 👩‍🔬

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We are performing one of the largest surveys for technosignatures in the Galaxy. Our recent paper is available on Arxiv. arxiv.org/abs/2501.17997 This was work where a significant portion was led by undergraduate students. #SETI #astronomy #supercomputing

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Let’s try something. We here at @altnih4science.bsky.social want to boost descriptions of NIH-funded science. If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost. We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪

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They said don’t make science political But now scientists aren’t getting paid They said don’t make science political But now we’re backing up our data in fear of losing access to servers They said don’t make science political But now our colleagues fear coming to work…

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As SKA construction gathers momentum, it’s also time for a new Director-General at the top of SKAO. That’s a really exciting job for someone. recruitment.skao.int/vacancy/dire...

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