I think about this story every day.

Thomas Lumley@tslumley.bsky.social · 20h ago

"Mei’s parents say that they were never told that death was even possible due to the treatment, and that’s just irresponsible, since a first-in-human intervention of this sort is always going to run that risk. " www.science.org/content/blog...

Fallen down the rabbit hole of the existence of malware for TempleOS: github.com/dc5411/Heretic

GitHub - dc5411/Heretic: An educational ransomware poc for TempleOS

An educational ransomware poc for TempleOS. Contribute to dc5411/Heretic development by creating an account on GitHub.

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If you don’t have glasses you can easily make a pinhole projector with cardboard or use a colander (don’t look at the sun through a colander). To know how much eclipse you’re getting I use this app aas.org/press/americ...

It’s one week until the eclipse! You’ve still got time to sort out your glasses! Many good brands available, just make sure they have the ISO 12312-2 international safety standard! www.theastroholic.co.uk/august-solar...

August Solar Eclipse Prep!

On August 12, 2026, Iceland and Spain will experience a total eclipse of the Sun. I have been asked by a few people for advice and suggestions about glasses and locations for the eclipse, so here are ...

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Can you help by sharing or chipping in a few pounds/dollars/euro etc? Reading for pleasure is in real trouble and one of the blockers is access to recent, relevant books for kids that aren't tatty. If they can raise 1k euro they can get a book for every kid in the school #Booksky #KidLit

AineMcCaul ✍🏼@ainemccaul.bsky.social · yesterday

I've set up a fundraiser to help stock my kid's school with new library books. These aren't text books but books the children can read for pleasure. Maybe you aren't in a position to donate right now but, if not, could you please help by sharing? Thank you! #speirgorm #BookSky gofund.me/55e46e8ca

Well, bit disappointing - though expected - not to be able to see the rocket impact #moon #spacesky

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Something really beautiful about how launches and impacts bring people together. I know a lot of things suck right now, but space is cool.

I don't know if anyone else is live streaming the impact (it's not like a rocket launch, we'd be lucky to see that plume as Einstein crater is hard to see) but this astronomer is streaming using a Celestron RASA 8-inch telescope 🧪 🔭

LIVE: SpaceX Falcon 9 Crashing Into The MOON!

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Hello lovely people! Does anybody have a photograph of a partial solar eclipse viewed through a colander that they would be prepared to let me use please? Ping me here or drop me an email if you can help. Thanks! 🌞

Oh this is really tough, I have so many cheeses I love...but I gotta say, pepperjack is my favourite :D #CheeseSky

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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There is currently a public consultation open until 18th August on #CarersAllowance. It's currently £86.45 per week. Many carers are forced to give up work when a family member gets ill. Caring can be 24/7. You can't live on £85 pw. For a full time carer, CA should be set at minimum wage.

Carer's Allowance: call for evidence

This call for evidence is being administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to gather information and views to build on the Department’s existing evidence. What we hear will help shape ...

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Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · last wk.

Didn’t learn about “compassion fatigue” til I was an adult. It’s not a moral failing but a perfectly normal response to the role of being a carer. You really do need to take care of yourself too. This goes out to all my friends who are finding themselves with new caring duties in middle age

Having read both the "public health needs MAHA" article and the public rebuttals to it, I am just generally disappointed by the quality of argumentation and engagement here

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Happy this is out! Edited by Alan Love @mcps-philsci.bsky.social and Chris Donohue, this is a gem in history, philosophy, and sociology of the life sciences #philsci. The workshop supporting this volume was the most exciting intellectual event I have ever participated in. Honored to be in it!

A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy

Think of all the awesome science-ing we could do with an extra £20M......🧪

Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · last wk.

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

If you're a freelancer working in heritage, you're going to want to come to this! We're setting up a branch of @prospectunion.bsky.social, and this is our first meeting, open to members and non-members. This Thursday, online from 12-1. Register for a link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

It's the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon!(July 26 – August 7, 1971). This is the video taken of the ascent vehicle leaving the Moon, from a camera placed on the rover parked a distance away. The rover is heritage-listed in the state of Washington. 🧪 🏺

Apollo 15: Ascent in real time

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This will be a very visible retrenchment of the UK for international science and space audiences. Also of note is the UK’s withdrawal of contributions from the Hawai’i and Chile telescopes.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last wk.

The UK's whole science, research and universities 'strategy' is basically 'drive the country off a cliff'. Not even worth arguing about any more. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Honestly a lot of the AI stuff feels like "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge" with a veneer of technological superiority and a streak of resentment against the expert class. I think AI is often competent but *not* omniscient. There's a place to say that I want to check its output for myself.

Sunday listening: Cobalt, a gorgeous EP from Meaningful Stone #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8OZ...

[Full Album] 김뜻돌 (Meaningful Stone) - COBALT / 앨범 전곡 듣기

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Supposedly Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living* *though that only shows up in Plato's Apology, so who knows. Chronic pain has left me with a *lot* of time to examine my own life. Real monkey's paw energy

I hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it.

fighting for my right to party- uh, have functioning software [I realise that is antipartying. such is the life of a tester sometimes]

Incredible achievement. The Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-2 has arrived in close proximity to the asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a 'quasi-satellite' of Earth. It will collect samples from this asteroid and return with them to Earth next year. Kamo'oalewa was once part of our Moon.

Andrew Jones@andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · last mo.

Tianwen-2 had arrived. Here's asteroid Kamo'oalewa seen from 20 km away www.xinhuanet.com/20260706/eb8...

Catching up on the Vanderbilt Report. I really *am* surprised to see Peter Boghossian and Sean Wilentz collaborating on the same report, ngl

this song is on repeat for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLET...

忘れたくないこと

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