@markpopinchalk.bsky.social
Astrophysics postdoc at AMNH | writer for @astrobites.bsky.social | planetarium presenter | Likes ultimate frisbee, volleyball, and all kinds of games. He/Him
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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03.12.2025 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I did something very similar for my latest YT vid!
bsky.app/profile/mark...
Full vid! youtu.be/TWNM-XZ1bes
24.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1Horseshoe Crabs are a Galactic Species! 🧪🔭
24.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3*this paper slaps* i think to myself, before looking at the author list and realizing I'm on it 😅
19.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bitcoin now consuming as much energy as the entire country of Pakistan.
That seems bad.
Full Episode 1 here!
youtu.be/TbPcN67Sar4
For the second time this season, the Betelgeuse system has thrown me through my desk.
Very proud of Season 1 of Science Tonight! 🧪🔭
My late night science comedy talkshow has its Season 1 Finale tonight! Tickets for livestream or IRL available below! 🧪🔭
www.caveat.nyc/events/nycf-...
Full video here!
youtu.be/TWNM-XZ1bes
After seeing them live in Brooklyn, I went to @amnh.org to find some fossil Horseshoe Crabs! 🧪🔭
07.11.2025 20:31 — 👍 64 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 2
Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...
I used astronomy to explain how impressive the Horseshoe Crab fossil record is! 🧪🔭
youtu.be/TWNM-XZ1bes
“The human body is able to do some incredible things if you consume enough lead,” said the secretary of health and human services
29.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 3790 🔁 680 💬 147 📌 78“any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature.”
My heart and mind leans absolutely to the same conclusions. A great article that I wish all Human Earthlings could have the opportunity to read and understand 💚 Thanks @miquai.bsky.social.
A brown dwarf that made headlines for showing signs of auroral activity is back in JWST’s sights — and it’s now doubly interesting. aasnova.org/2025/10/17/a... 🔭🧪
17.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 46 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0gonna drag my butt on everything now
10.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0And tickets for the season finale on 11/11 (IRL or Livestream) are available here!
www.caveat.nyc/events/nycf-...
This is from season 1 episode 1, which you can watch in it's entirety here!
youtu.be/TbPcN67Sar4
Oops! My science comedy talkshow got political! 🧪
10.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 39 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0To be clear, they will 'make the proof' that Tylenol causes autism by controlling who does the studies and who reports the results.
They have built a mechanism to 'make the proof' for whatever they want so say. About protestors, about elections, about immigrants.
We have to keep speaking truth.
My high school student tried to sneak in a 6-7 joke into our programming 101, and when I did the hand gestures he declared "He's locked in!"
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Full sketch here! Season finale on 11/11, tickets for livestream and IRL!
youtu.be/UL9GFepHvxE
The AI reporter finally reveals why they are drinking so much water! 🧪
08.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0None of us should feel exempt or invulnerable, because if they can do this to our neighbors, they can come for us, too. That said, those of us who are not presently among those being targeted should not focus on our own fear and vulnerability. We should support those in the immediate path of harm.
02.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 411 🔁 149 💬 4 📌 3I'm adjuncting again this semester and we've finally reached the star unit AND I'M SO EXCITED!
02.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They let me on CNN
01.10.2025 17:55 — 👍 1126 🔁 187 💬 47 📌 13
Full sketch here!
youtu.be/UL9GFepHvxE
the AI reporter we were forced to integrate sure is thirsty 🧪
01.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
