Huei Sears, PhD 🌟

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bumblebees comprehend time !!!!!!!!!!! truly amazing

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science is so cool

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whales know vowels !!!! science is so cool

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An infographic showing how different aurora colors are produced by different gasses at various altitudes in the atmosphere.

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.

Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.

Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.

truly stunning

large 20-foot tall concrete lined sewer tunnel. in the distance three people stand with head lamps on their hard hats, looking toward the camera as they stand in ankle-deep water.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

The human capacity for wonder and awe should be treated as the precious gift it is.

Big Jeopardy run by an @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social member!
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Still image pulled from a video showing the irregular, small moon Phobos passing in front of the Sun. Phobos is covering a portion of the lower right. There are some sunspots to the left of Phobos.

#PPOD: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. It’s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI 🧪 🔭

looooove this

go work with Carl !!

why do electric cars sound like their engine is a case of harmonicas

rumors 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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L-O-V-E

everyone knows this... but i bet u haven't listened to it in a while.... still v good

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Sharon was, to my great benefit, my boss, teacher, and mentor. And goddamn could she write. This lede!

🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.

📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...

#sciencepolicy #saveNASA

AoT Philly on Nov 20 ! hope u can attend !! 🔭☄️🧪

Northern New Mexican scenery

Northern New Mexican scenery

Northern New Mexican scenery

Northern New Mexican scenery

The postdoctoral job ad for the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Theoretical Astrophysics is live! Come join us in beautiful northern New Mexico. aas.org/jobregister/...

I Got You

this is fun -- a beachy, light, jazzy tune in the vibe of "this will be" by Natalie Cole

open.spotify.com/track/6sg8wL...

A close up of a diner menu section titled “Juices.” The three drinks in this section are “espresso, cappuccino,” and “flavored cappuccino.”

i love Italian juices

Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years. The ini...

100!!!

That’s So True

i truly am obsessed with this song; it’s gone multi-platinum in my house 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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An extremely luminous flare recorded from a supermassive black hole - Nature Astronomy An extreme flare has been seen from a supermassive black hole at redshift z = 2.6. First detected in 2018, it is 30 times brighter than similar events. The most likely cause is the shredding of a star of 30 solar masses or more.

One of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week was published in @natastron.nature.com. You can read 'An extremely luminous flare recorded from a supermassive black hole' here: spklr.io/63326BzNWs

🔭 #astronomy #astro

it’s working now — thanks !!

A spider web over a stream reflecting sunlight in a rainbow.

The Veil Nebula through an astrophotography telescope.

At work, I was invited to present my passions to another department for their monthly wellness mtg.

“I’ve never seen so many beautiful bugs!”
“Inspired to sit by my garden.”
“I want up live life with more ‘open eyes.’”

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Remember, these are the same thing, just arranged differently:

I'm not saying this to be a doomer! I'm saying that we could much more effectively support each other right now if we all quit the pretense that things are business as usual. I love doing science, but I love people more - and so should we all.

They're tearing Goddard apart for scraps and I'm supposed to write as many proposals as I can to scramble for a fraction of the money NASA has left? Depressing, degrading, and dehumanizing in a time when the future of planetary science can be measured in the number of people it leaves behind.

Space Telescope Live Explore official, up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming investigations by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

Does anyone know why @stsci.edu Live isn't updating for HST? I would assume something related to the shutdown, but it looks live for JWST. 🔭

spacetelescopelive.org/hubble