Darkness News Update

We underestimate just how many gas stations like this will die with electrified public transit and support for active roadways.

Women on the moon posters - Kronecker Wallis A Map of Overlooked Genius The Moon’s surface contains over 9,000 named features—craters, valleys, mountains, and maria. Yet fewer than 1% honor women’s contributions to science, mathematics, and spac...

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Updating my business cards.

calling on @darkskyintl.bsky.social to condemn DHS' infrastructure bullshit

have you ever met a scientist? they love letting people know stuff.

Reminder: Do Not F*ck with The Moon.

Space debris, shark hormones, newts, wildcat behaviours, and good news from the paranal observatory YouTube video by The Lighting Bulletin

Space debris, shark hormones, newts, wildcat behaviours, and good news from the paranal observatory

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Restoring darkness might be on hiatus, but Scott Wachter is back on the job with #lightpollution news over The Lighting Bulletin

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have we considered replacing starlink with a series of sheds?

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...

"During last year’s Starship launches, the FAA was under pressure to fulfill a dual mandate: to regulate and promote the commercial space industry while keeping the flying public safe"

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Musk's AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualized images of women and children Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent.

Highlights from this episode:

Human Rights
Toads
Orbital Debris
Chronomedicine

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Starlink Rival Launches Its Largest Satellite Yet for Space-Based Cellular Network AST SpaceMobile wants to launch up to 60 of its satellites in 2026.

SpaceMobile Launches Even Bigger Low Orbit Data Network

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Thanks. I hate it.

In a tumultuous year, US health policy has been dramatically reshaped under RFK Jr. President Donald Trump’s second term has brought major changes to the Department of Health and Human Services. Health Secretary Robert F.

In the first year of President Trump’s second term, some of the most polarizing changes have taken place within the Department of Health and Human Services, where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has openly rebuffed the medical establishment as he converts the ideas of his MAHA movement into public policy.

Georgia has its first ‘Bird City.' Here's how it protects winged residents. On a pond just over a mile from downtown Decatur, a group of Canada geese enjoyed the final hours of...

Decatur is GA First Bird City

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Title granted by the American Bird Conservancy and Environmental for the Americas after a suite of conservation and lighting projects.

News from Low Orbit

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#loworbit #spacejunk #radioastronomy #environmentalnews #lightpollution

14.5% of images from Kunlun station are contaminated, exceeding Hubble's design tolerance over four times and ACS/WFC baselines by 45% and threatening humanity’s ultimate window to the universe, immediate space traffic control is needed to improve the space environment.

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let people know the science centre needs to be saved www.savesciencecentre.com/signtheletter
#toronto #ontario #ontariosciencecentre

I mean.

are there other reasons?

Happy 14th Anniversary to this video.

Historical behavioural data disentangle evolutionary and environmental drivers of recent declines in insect attraction to light Abstract. Entomologists monitor insect population trends by surveying individuals attracted to artificial lights at night with the assumption that flight-t

It's so Bright Out at Night Entomologists Shouldn't Use Light Traps

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Survey efforts are losing out to visual clutter.

#entomology #lightpollution

There are always people trying to argue that misinformation doesn’t matter.

But every time I read the news there is some horrific story or policy grounded in false beliefs that have been circulating online.

*rereads*
Sports headline.

Call off the alarms.

Dillon takes first steps toward DarkSky certification A DarkSky certification mentor spoke to the Dillon Town Council at a Dec. 16 work session about what it would take for the town to become DarkSky certified.  Mark Laurin, also known as Astro Mark,...

Dillon, CO Town Council Hears Dark SKy Certification Proposal.

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The town is already halfway through a full cutoff street light switch.

the idea of cutting lighting overall is increasingly popular among the urban french, and combined with russian energy sanctions more locales have adopted late night street light reductions or resident controlled lighting through the Allume ma Rue App.

Oh shit!
The thing we said was going to happen happened.

#spacejunk

Obviously, density is always going to be an issue but LUCI's plan is working to make for better cities energydigital.com/smart-energy...

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Dim light at night disrupts the sleep-wake cycle and exacerbates abnormal EEG activity in Cntnap2 knockout mice: implications for autism spectrum disorders - Molecular Autism Molecular Autism - Epilepsy is a common comorbidity in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Many patients with epilepsy as well as ASD experience disruptions in their sleep-wake cycle...

Dim light at night leads to "abnormal" events in the electroencephalogram of mice

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New issues related to ALAN specifically concern epileptics and those with ASD.