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One day a year when I’ll wear some color

Beach Art. 🐚 🌿

The incredible @lottelydia.bsky.social giving a masterclass on the reality of free speech and cancel culture at #Humanists2025 👏🏻👏🏻

TFW it's 105° F in the shade. 🪶

Glad I could spread the word about the attacks on US science to a global group (esp since unfortunately attacks on universities are a problem worldwide). Talked about what's happening, the importance of still asking important research questions, and how to move forward. More at rdcu.be/emD0Z

Nature's unusual beauty...

Good morning ☀️. The magnificent Eastern Sierras.

Being in the US today feels special #ica25 More than 2,000 #NoKings protests planned across the country. The Economist front cover from months ago resonates. Peaceful protest is a constitutional right. Say No to authoritarianism and corruption

The Autocrat's parade, by @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Super nice Day 2 edition of #RunningWithPresidents #ica25 Many new and old friends 🏃🏼 ☀️ 😎 Third round Sunday 630 ⏰ 😃

Unfortunately this isn't true

I was literally just told: "Don't put any more books up in that room! That stack of books is out of control!" What a thing to say to someone! smh...

Squirrel of the Day for June 14, 2025 wonders what the hell you hoomins are doing down there #sqrlpix

Sometimes you fly above the canopy in the forestry patches, sometimes you fly above cities, sometimes you reach orbit!... and that was a sleep longer than 15 min D:< good dammit!

when we talked to attorney @clayjak.substack.com on our podcast, he warned that the practice of federal enforcement agents entering areas and attacking people without any identification would inspire and enable this exact thing www.liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswe...

I don't really see that anything has changed. They're still admitting they're exploring "Gen AI technology in the context of our work to come up with solutions for how to better surface and organize expertise on the site" and they're required to make a demo for Google.

A clumpy galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the AEGIS survey. It is at redshift 0.85 (lookback time 7.29 billion years) with coordinates (214.32177, 52.48789). 133 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

"But the fault, instead, lies squarely with those responsible for driving this moral panic. The mainstream media has delivered the Republicans a win in a multidecade long propaganda war against academia, one that began with William F Buckley in the 1950s"

It's shut the fuck up Friday, Saturday, Sunday ...

A man and his coffee☕

Bare-throated Tiger Heron Intensity...

The “online monkey torture video” arrests just keep coming arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

A Crater Enlarged by the Sublimation of Ice This image covers part of the ejecta from an impact crater to the west in Utopia Planitia. The ejecta lobes have morphologies suggesting icy flow. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_06... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

I adore today’s #DailyAntiFascJam. It starts by reminding us to vote for the “ones [you] love but [you] don’t know yet” and ends in a gut-wrenching way, with more empathy than I’ve ever mustered. Happy Pride, loves 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/2Bamys... YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=k8iq...

Even as of two hours ago it was still looking stormy for this morning’s parade, but the bad weather keeps getting pushed back. Thanks Zeus I knew you’d support your own!

If you (like me) are pulling together a reading pile to lose yourself in this summer, let me remind you of this terrific starter pack. go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN

Proud Canada Goose parent swimming across the pond with its new family. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada May 2025 📷 #birds #goose #CANG #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

The eye of a catalpa ....

Bullfrog (not even a Prince!) of the day! Saturday, 14 June 2025

You know when people see more obscure Pride flags and assume it’s a country flag? I was reading about mountaineering last night and Pride’s on my mind this weekend so I saw this image and went “oh I don’t know that Pride flag” but it’s Estonia pride.

Hi friends- if you are out protesting today please check the air quality and consider masking up. Smells like burned Canadian trees in Baltimore today :(

It was so wonderful to hear @drkatedevlin.bsky.social sharing her insights on A.I. with Claudia Aradau, Andrew West and Ian Dunt #Humanist2025

But of course, this will turn into a mothers' problem. Rather than regulating the vehicles, we'll end up blaming moms if their kids get hit. Since, obviously, those kids shouldn't have been crossing the street alone. 🙄

Sea to sky For when you need to breathe...

In all six tests of self-driving mode, the car "blew through school bus stop signs at full speed, running over the manikins and driving off — completing a hit-and-run."

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That was…. a lot of helicopters flying over. Very low. Huh.

#Proust2025

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.059 (lookback time 819.8 million years) with coordinates (168.22115, 27.49398). 33 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Joy

Sometimes the world leaves you no choice but to write poetry.

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Two-toed Sloth Be willing to see the world differently...

No Kings. Good morning everyone.

As trans people are being kicked out of the military and blacklisted, white supremacists in the military are encouraged to illegally detain civilians. This is fascism, fully formed now.

this is the most dangerous shit I have ever seen sold as a product that wasn’t an AR-15

Be assured, light is always shining, and it will find its way through...

Headlines matter. And this is *not* a good headline NY Times! #ica25

Don't rush past the quiet and delicate moments...

Hungry Bacteria Hunt Their Neighbors With Tiny, Poison-Tipped Harpoons www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

reality of the information ecosystem in 2025

Golden-naped Woodpecker Not sure this branch is big enough...

It’s funny that abrasive argumentation is seen as evidence of uniformity of thought, rather than as a bunch of people who disagree abrasively. fortune.com/2025/06/12/b... Bluesky is backfiring. Mark Cuban says the 'lack of diversity of thought' is actually pushing users back to X | Fortune

If you excuse me, I am going to sleep another 15 minutes as the birds just came to my window to sing! To the garden 🌊!

Beneath the blaze of twilight's flame. The sea and sky forget their name. Clouds like fire and waves that sigh. A lighthouse winks where dark dreams lie. The rocks hold tales of time’s slow kiss. A moment caught in nature’s bliss. The world exhales in hues of gold. A silent story, fierce and bold.

Essay | "It was not until the 19th century that the Renaissance became the name of an historical era. The origins of modernity became a puzzle; the 'Renaissance' was a potential solution." chroni.cl/45SWpfC

Uniquely three...

A merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the CANDELS-GOODS survey. It is at redshift 0.75 (lookback time 6.78 billion years) with coordinates (53.02014, -27.75511). 73 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo CANDELS.🔭

Curiosity squelched the squirrel...

Because yellow...

In science - and in everything probably - you need to have skin the game. Thank you guys for the reminder 😊

Good Saturday morning Wishing you a day of new possibilities and wider perspectives...

Great Blue Heron. #Birds #photography #nature #GreatBlueHeron #Herons #ArdeaHerodias

aaaand I first read this six years ago and my husband and I still call a shower a drippini

Final panel... Tracy Northrup, Lorenzo Maccone, Gerd Leuchs, Roman Schnabel, Peter Zoller. #Helgoland2025

A clumpy galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey. It is at redshift unknown (lookback time unknown) with coordinates (53.33901, -27.80155). 134 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Two weeks left to apply!

Final talk! (Before the closing panel) #Helgoland2025

The Astronomy feeds stopped showing new posts for a little while, one of our servers had a hiccup ☹️ 🔭 It should be catching up on posts again now though and should be through the last 24 hours in an hour or two =)

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.82 (lookback time 7.14 billion years) with coordinates (150.37241, 2.74151). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Super excited for the inaugural TARMAC symposium (Teaching of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) #sarmac2025 First is Nicole Sugden on how she uses reflective e-portfolios as an assessment tool. 1/

I've posted some concerns about this article here: pubpeer.com/publications...

😁Open to offers. (But I did speak (briefly) to the BBC radio folks while I'm here.)

Much anticipation for this, though Jian-Wei couldn't come in person and his talk is pre-recorded.

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More than 30,000 lightning strikes recorded overnight. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stickle Tarn

🔊Calling #Edinburgh! One of the world's largest telescopes twinned with the world's biggest camera is about to embark on a 10yr mission to survey the Universe! Join us in Dynamic Earth's Planetarium as we unveil the 1st Rubin images🥳🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🗓️: 23rd Jun@15:30-17:00 £5🎟️ dynamicearth.org.uk/event/rubin-...

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.36 (lookback time 4.09 billion years) with coordinates (150.21398, 2.73339). 54 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Really important comment from Margaret. This is happening again and again, and it is dismaying, craven, and pathetic. Since when did it become OK for scientists to overlook evidence pertinent to the issue in question?

Next up: Nathalie de Leon #Helgoland2025

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.41 (lookback time 4.51 billion years) with coordinates (150.77553, 1.81447). 49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Surviving a plane crash is Woke

Australian of the Year (and really good guy!) on my flight!

Of all the nice reviews we've had to our podcast, this was the one that made me truly feel "mission accomplished" 🥹

Last day of #Helgoland2025, and Rainer Blatt is telling us about this field, in which he has been a pioneer.

Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :) @ozmathpsych.bsky.social

There’s something wonderful about watching aircraft take off — like it’s kinda exhilarating. It’s a big, heavy metal tube with wings, carrying hundreds of people, sucking air into its engines to ignite fuel that causes thrust to defy the Earth’s gravity and make long distance travel quicker.

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.83 (lookback time 7.19 billion years) with coordinates (150.46437, 2.42558). 52 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Sorry if you’ve been expecting some grand, eloquent statement from me about what’s going on in the world because I have some internet followers. But for the record, fuck fascisim & genocide!

wow. Look at Kyiv railway station. Thanks Yaroslava for showing us how life goes on in Ukraine

After an extremely busy couple of days …. Feels like the trip has now finally begun! LFG!

'The Forest of Dreams' is one of my favourite places in Adelaide. The artist was inspired by a quote by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard: 'The continuous passage from the real to the imaginary'.

A clumpy galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GOODS-N-FULLDEPTH survey. It is at redshift 1.43 (lookback time 9.35 billion years) with coordinates (189.05173, 62.24409). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Daily reminder: #RunningWithPresidents Departing Hyatt Regency ⏰ Saturday morning 630 Start the #ica25 day with a fun and social 5k run 🏃🏼 ☀️ ☕️ 🏔️ 📸 from this morning

Mucosal vaccines, the new hope for future infectious disease prevention! Scientists call for action of mucosal immunity research, aiming to block pathogens at the mucosal layer, creating a new chapter for infectious disease defense. #TIC2025 Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I was in line with my brother at a coffee shop in Austin (Flipnotics), telling him about this great chocolate banana milkshake they made. I was really talking it up. We ordered then stepped aside. The girl behind us told the cashier she also wanted to try the milkshake and it was Minnie Driver.

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.039 (lookback time 549.7 million years) with coordinates (127.42232, 30.68798). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

Had to say bye to my little mate and it was hard. Left him lots of treats and toys for when he gets back at end of day!

Please read the post here, for once I have a bit of faith in humanity restored 🧪