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Fantastic to watch the live stream of ⁦‪Malika Booker‬⁩ dancing to receive her Doctorate ⁦‪at the Uni of Newcastle‬⁩ - we are so lucky to have her as a member of the Writing Squad’s Core Team!

unnnnbelievably hyped for project hail mary, I devoured that book faster than any other in my life and the trailer looks like everything I'd want from it. we got puppets. we got Ryland grace being a bit pathetic. we got cool unexplainable world ending problems. 9 months????? unbearable

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer

[Upcoming movie] Project Hail Mary (March 20, 2026): 🚨FIRST TRAILER 🚨

11.9 Light-years from home.
6th grade science teacher.
1 chance to save us all.

I've been waiting so long for this film. 🤗

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is seen with its dome open during First Look observation activities in April 2025. Messier 41, the Little Beehive Cluster, can be seen over the telescope in this telelens photo. Image released June 23, 2025.

Rubin with M41 during First Look Observations

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
noirlab.edu/public/image... @vrubinobs.bsky.social @noirlabastro.bsky.social #RubinFirstLook 🧪🔭

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are deep space nine and pronounced ahstuhkee oodlahnuhduh sawnaylah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

by far the best colour calibration screen is the one where it asks you to make the grey bits look grey. and I'm like. well compared to the rest of the screen they do. that's what we in the biz call colour relativity. does not solve the problem though

My favourite part of having multiple devices with screens is that none of them display colour accurately so I can never tell if the thing that looks fine on my drawing tablet is being misrepresented by my phone, my laptop, or, in fact, the drawing tablet. And colour calibration hasn't even helped!

A (terrible) comic. PANEL 1: Emma looks at her watch. “What! It’s JUNE 24th already?” PANEL 2: “That means it’s MAKE A TERRIBLE COMIC DAY! how does it sneak up on me every year?” PANEL 3: “participation is SIMPLE. just make a comic! It doesn’t have to be funny or insightful or beautiful or interesting. make something for the joy of making it and if you feel it going wrong just trust yourself and keep going!!!” PANEL 4: “make a comic and don’t stop until it’s made!” PANEL 5: “remember that ole MAKE A TERRIBLE COMIC DAY saying, ‘if you want to make something GREAT, you need to start by making something TERRIBLE.’” PANEL 6: “or the other saying, ‘YOUR PARTICIPATION IS COMPULSORY!’ Stop thinking and get to work!”

#makeaterriblecomicday2024
wow it’s that time of year again!

An illustration of the asteroid belt as a dense donut-shaped ring of yellow points with the Sun at the center. The background is black with hints of dark blue in the corners and small white pinprick stars sprinkled throughout. A small illustrated Earth sits to the left of the Sun, and a semi-opaque, cone-like teal triangle extends from Earth toward the right. The cone opens up to a mosaic of a couple dozen small, square-like shapes representing Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera’s detector area. The mosaic is overlaid onto a portion of the asteroid belt, and each tile represents a camera image that detects a group of asteroids.

In addition to these never-before-seen cosmic neighbors, Rubin detected another ~1800 previously-known asteroids, bringing the total detections to just under 4000 in just 10.5 hours!🔭🧪

In other words, over half of Rubin's first detections are new discoveries☄️

Commonwealth National Rail conductor starting her shift

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

A dark starfield is covered in galaxies. Many of them are surrounded by a faint halo of light - two blue spirals in the bottom right stand out.

We're celebrating today with the release of the first images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social. (Image credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory). This one, of part of the Virgo cluster, is my favourite.

they've changed the friendly fire point scoring from 20% to 75% so it should be more worthwhile this year!

finally finished my spreadsheet of all the thought bubble business cards we collected. call me the prompt spreadsheet maker 😎

Comic page depicting a person waking up inside a house carved into an asteroid, they get dressed as they are surrounded by stars. They leave their home followed by stars.

Morning on a moon 🌘

Really happy to be able to bring our micro-buraries back for 2025. Please share as much as possible, send to everyone you know and tell them to pass it on too!! Thank you!

Pre-order MODEL FIVE MURDER by Singaporean cartoonist @juangeedraws.bsky.social
ahead of the 6/25/25 release date and get a free 5”x7” limited edition Risograph print.

In the time it took for me to write this we achieved what I believe to be the first ever quintuple detector lock.

Mal Goes to War: A Novel Mal Goes to War: A Novel - Kindle edition by Ashton, Edward. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Mal Goes to War: A Novel.

Hey there, friends: one of my favorite sons is now on sale for a possibly limited time. Get 'em while you can:

www.amazon.com/Mal-Goes-War...

Something I noticed this series was that every plot point took a full 10 minutes whether or not it needed to. The last half hour of that episode was no different.

The artwork is split into 4 comics style panels, filled with orange and pink colours. the word 'Comic' appears in a speech balloon and 'Boom' in an explosion. On the top right are logos indicating the podcast is on Spotify and Apple podcasts. On the bottom left the logo indicating the podcast is sponsored by ALCS, the authors licensing and collecting society.

Comic Boom - The Comics in Education Podcast is back for a new season and I'm so pleased for the podcast to have a home on Bluesky. If you are into #comics #education #libraries #graphicnovels #podcasts Please listen, follow and share to get us kick started on this new platform💥www.comicboom.co.uk

i want to share a memory with you. a place from a long time ago.

Categories of exoplanets, split by how cool they are. From best to worst: 1) Proxima b. 2) Cool planet. 3) Random space rock. 4) Probably doesn't exist. 5) K2 18 b.

For now on I propose that instead of categorizing #exoplanets by their properties, we do it by how cool they are. I propose 5 categories. From best to worst: 1) Proxima b. 2) Cool planet. 3) Random space rock. 4) Probably doesn't exist. 5) K2 18 b. Simpler and 100% more judgemental. Win-win.

Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?"

Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.

I imagine fur getting caught in ports is a big issue...

If you want some fun uniforms I can offer you my main genre of OC: ppl in uniform (or cat in a cyberpunk lookin thing?)

the book has been on my radar for a few years because im ride or die for clone stories so im glad the film coming out got me to finally read it. another win for clone stories! more of those please. now the problem is finding the time to draw these guys so they'll get out of my head...

finally watched mickey17 (like 2 weeks after accidentally reading the whole book in a 12 hour period) and yeah yknow what definitely a banger of all time. keep putting mickey in situations im here for it (i sit visibly restraining myself from reading antimatter blues until my coursework is done)

Oh wow, this is *such* a cool concept - a 'game' procedurally generated from Wikipedia, in which you can literally traverse all of human knowledge and walk down rabbit holes

Every astronomer the first time they do reduce radio observations 🥴
#radioastronomy #astronomy