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#TourESO 📹🔴 Only 5 minutes left until we embark on a virtual tour of ESO's La Silla Observatory! Are you joining us? 🙂 Streamed here https://buff.ly/3EYIpFH 📷 Y. Beletsky/ESO

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I've told this story about my early education on fascism before but not on Bluesky. I vividly recall doing a project in school about history. Maybe I wanted to do the Korean War because I was a big MASH fan. That I don't recall. My physics teacher arranged for me to do a live interview... 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

submitted 14 days ago • 548 comments

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

submitted 14 days ago • 912 comments

Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough

submitted 15 days ago • 292 comments

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

submitted 22 days ago • 647 comments

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

submitted 32 days ago • 203 comments

A nice piece on PRI and the Museum of the Earth by a current Cornell student who has been touched by PRI's work. See related link in the first comment. cornellsun.com/2025/01/20/g...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

submitted 34 days ago • 472 comments

My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

submitted 60 days ago • 129 comments

I thought this art was excellent... even better that it's from an @rittigers.bsky.social artist! Fantastic work, @dirtmossart.bsky.social ! #agu24

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

I presented my #AGU24 talk this morning and wanted to summarize my take homes. 20 yrs ago I created the Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX) to experimentally push hydrology into wetter and drier modes. CO2 emissions are remarkable stable while CH4 is very high with flooding. 1/

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it. Today is as good as any day to return to it.

submitted 76 days ago • 16 comments

Some of the nice things about #AGU24 being local are that I don't have to book a hotel, can still see family, etc. They're also the most challenging things. 75% of what I want to see is first thing in the morning, while I'm still getting my family going for the day and riding the Metro downtown.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Permafrost contains 50% of all the soil carbon found on Earth (upper 3 meters). We need to keep that carbon in the ground. Fast permafrost facts to kick off the Permafrost Carbon Network meeting.

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Patiently awaiting the launch of Sentinel-1C... Sentinel-1A is getting lonely up there! #sentinel1

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For the scientists and researchers out there: the call to put science aboard our IIAS research spaceflight with Virgin Galactic is now open - check it out! 🚀✨️ astronauticsinstitute.org/wp-content/u... We are also holding a community Q&A Dec 18 @ 0900 PST - sign up here: forms.gle/Uh7tSqCzaSXK...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, this? Just sunlight reflecting off a lake. A lake of liquid methane. On an icy world 1.4 billion kilometres away.

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

Time for a fresh start.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments