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I was on the @physicsworld.bsky.social podcast last week talking about my visit to CERN earlier this year. You can listen to me enthuse about it here physicsworld.com/a/exploring-... but if you're more into photos and vibes, this thread has you covered. 1/n 🧪⚛️

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It's actually 77 hadrons at the LHC. A short thread 🧵⚛️ www.koppenburg.ch/particles.html

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For #printPromptMonday prompt “flipped” I am sharing my portrait of #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if flipped in the mirror)! 🧪🐡🎢👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci In my print on 🧵

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This spring, cicada Brood XIV will emerge in the eastern US! This is the second-largest periodical cicada emergence on the planet (after Brood XIX, which emerged last year). Expect to see them in parts of the following states from May to June in 2025: KY, TN, IN, OH, WV, GA, NC, MD, PA, NY, MA.

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Okay, nerds, buckle in! It's time for some SCIENCE. Back in the late 1960s, a scientist got some government funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Atomic Energy Commission to look for interesting bacteria living in extreme environments. 1/x

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🏺🦣🧪 A cool skull but I'm going to add nuance. Toothlessness alone doesn't imply food provision. 100% gummy bonobos, our closest primate relations, cope OK. But in hominins, esp. from 500 ka, systematic butchery & transport of prey points to group food sharing, making such care more likely.

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Manufacturing feed for global aquaculture has a far greater impact on #MarineLife and land use than we’ve been led to believe. In my first scientific paper, we reassess these impacts: 🌏🧵 w/ Jennifer Jacquet, Patricia Majluf, & @matthewhayek.bsky.social open access: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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One consequence of the resistance to established science is the way it forces scientists and journalists to re-prove and remind people of what is true. NPR has a story noting why measles are a big deal: It's one of the most contagious diseases on Earth. loom.ly/WMZO9pw

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Y’all, Doug Jones is with us on BlueSky and he has some advice for Democrats in DC. Watch and give him a follow. “Go to where people are. Have testimony from folks being affected by these cuts …all politics is personal and how it affects individual people.” @dougjones.bsky.social

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@deliciousalex.bsky.social: Let’s do this, America! Things don’t happen overnight. Find some activist organizations that you feel comfortable with. Here’s just a few: @resist.bot @indivisiblevent.bsky.social @demcastusa.bsky.social @roganslist.bsky.social We’ve got the power!

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oh hell yeah

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Bricks from ancient Mesopotamia may seem boring, but there is more to them than mud and straw. A short thread on some fun facts about bricks in ancient Mesopotamia from my book, Between Two Rivers.

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Every act of resistance is the silver lining

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i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

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Most galaxies don’t have rings, M94 has two. Its bright inner ring likely formed from a rotating bar of stars, triggering star formation. But the faint, complex outer ring? A mystery. M94 sits 15M light-years away in Canes Venatici. Credit: Brian Brennan, #NASA 🔭 #Space #Astronomy

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Blue Ghost is on the Moon! Images are coming in now from what appears to be the first fully successful commercial lunar lander. Over the next 2 weeks, it will drill, study lunar dust, and observe an eclipse of the Sun...by the Earth. 🧪🔭 fireflyspace.com/news/firefly...

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It’s important for folks in their 40s/50s/60s to realize that some of us should get a measles booster. I did a few years ago

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Almost time for some more Jupiter! Juno is approaching for Perijove 70 on March 4th eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...

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Tiger #Beetle season is approaching! Here’s a Blowout Tiger Beetle in eastern #Colorado. A blowout is a depression in a sandy habitat created by wind. These beetles hang out in those depressions.

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The barycenter--the balance point between the Sun & the planets--depends on the solar system's configuration. For the past few years, with big planets gathered to one side, we've been fairly far out of balance. Not saying it's a metaphor, just reporting. 🧪🔭 www.skymarvels.com/gallery/Vid%...

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1/n 🧵 Just released: Phobos and Deimos crossing paths Full size: flic.kr/p/2pgqKkU Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY (Potato1 & Potato2) @esa.int Mars Express HRSC 30/8/2024 Latest data release available from today on: psa.esa.int

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Go Clipper!!

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Antimatter is cool and it's a real thing. I used to work on an experiment where we collided protons with antiprotons to make top-antitop quark pairs (among other things). ⚛️

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What makes Rubin different? In the '90s, scientists began designing an ambitious survey that would cover the visible sky repeatedly & quickly. It would unlock discovery potential across astronomy & astrophysics. The problem? A capable telescope didn't exist. 🔭🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUwV...

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The Andromeda galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to our own, and it is fucking HUGE About three degrees across, it's ~6 times wider than the Moon in our sky. If it were considerably brighter than it really is, we would be treated to a celestial view like this:

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The first crocus of the season. Just a single lonely one on my whole walk. But soon... 🌿

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Happy #fungifriday #photography #fungifriends #mushroom

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A new image from JWST, showing the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2283 in all its infrared glory. The galaxy is approximately 57,000 lightyears (ly) across, and located 48 million ly away. This image is a combination of frames taken by JWST's mid- and near-IR instruments. Credit: ESA/NASA/CSA/A. Leroy

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مبـارك عليـكم شهـر رمضان 🌙 Happy Ramadan to those who observe and celebrate 🌙

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Golden-crowned Kinglet this morning, hunting for insects near the ground. #birds #nature

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Looking around for good things... This is intriguing tech: A new, color-corrected flat lens, 10 centimeters wide but just 2.4 microns thick. Opens the door to a much wider range of flat, lightweight optics. 🧪🔭 www.azooptics.com/News.aspx?ne...

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He did not bend his neck

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🦎Greater earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus). Max. size males 181 mm (7.1"), females 143 mm (5.6"). Has no external ear openings. This is practical when burrowing in sand. Found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by George82 on Pixabay

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With the end of the month, #CrabAZ is truly over. I hope they helped distract you. As @upulie.bsky.social requested a megathread, I made a carcinization tracker, labeling featured genera (living in plaintext, fossil in italic). Megathread follows, now back to your irregularly scheduled crabs! 🦀🧪🦑

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I think I’ve expressed my love of Edward Steed’s work a few times now.

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An unamused Burrowing Owl, Salton Sea, California. #birds #owls #nature

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We interrupt your doom-scrolling for some important spring news: The cherry tree in the Bik sideyard has started blooming Enjoy these lovely cherry blossoms.

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Sol 4458 MAHLI image of rock following the use of the DRT brush to clear the dust. Check out the little circular bits… Taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover. flic.kr/p/2qPaKYX

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thinking about how beautiful the jwst photo of uranus and its moons is again

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Corkscrew Hazel catkins, just opened. #flowers #flowerreport #garden #photography #eastcoastkin

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If dogs were scientists, the whole table would be green. 🔭

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⚛️🧪What is a measurement? A tricky question, especially in our #quantum world. As a first step, here's a way to think about it: a sketch of a simple measurement device in a simple quantum setting, one that we can use in future in more complex situations. profmattstrassler.com/2025/02/27/w...

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VIRTUE v2.2.0 is online! This is a free particle collider display for desktop and VR I've been working on for a while, please check it out! 🧪⚛️ store.steampowered.com/app/2728380/...

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