This is an absolutely heartbreaking story of ICE deportations out of St. Louis. @gillianbrockell.com @atrupar.com @motherjones.com @propublica.org @indivisible.org @rbreich.bsky.social www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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This film looks like it’ll be amazing, this is a great video with someone passionate and caring about their work (and in a world buried under ai slop this is worth noting), but man alive I feel like there’s a nominative determinism going on with her name youtu.be/bM5_ddYRqYY?...

Meet Tilly Fidler | Life at LAIKA

YouTube video by LAIKA Studios

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When violence expert Bandy Lee publicly warned that Donald Trump likely presented a danger to the nation’s health, she was ostracized by the psychiatric community. It turns out she was right.

The psychiatrist who warned us that Donald Trump would unleash violence was absolutely right

The vindication of Bandy Lee.

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Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

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Science is good. We should fund it.

Oh my. This is what the Artemis II astronauts saw yesterday when the Moon eclipsed the Sun. #NoWords #ShouldHaveSentAPoet

Earth and Moon captured by an Artemis II crew member through a window of the Orion spacecraft, with a Nikon D5 camera, on the third day of the mission. Credit: NASA. 🌍 flic.kr/p/2s5Hk3B 🌕 flic.kr/p/2s5FiiE 🔭🧪 #Artemis

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

If asked i would say that the Rosetta images of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are tied with those of Satrun by Cassini as the most dramatic and incredible of a solar system object ever returned via spacecraft. Just look at the mood here.

Hourly Cosmos@hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 7mo ago

67P Rosetta NavCam 4 November 2014 vc - From 2di7 & titanio44 - https://flic.kr/p/pG4UiC

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

been waiting for someone to take this on and pleased it is Joel!

Barton Gellman@bartongellman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you're looking for a great read on the state of our space programs -- Moon, Mars, asteroids, robot probes, and don't forget the Oort Cloud -- check out this gem from @joelachenbach.bsky.social: slate.com/technology/2...

The world's largest neutrino detector has just begun operations in Jiangmen, China. 🧪🔭 english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas...

Amazing technology from the 1930's in the Yates Hoist room. These giant pulleys, originally built for the Homestake Mine. The Sanford Lab repurposed them to transport scientists and engineers to build the DUNE Science experiment more than a mile underground via the headframe.(photo 3) #physpics25

This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen re: city history/digital history resources. 58k photos of properties across Kansas City from a 1940 assessment program. www.kc1940.org

Remnants of another time

With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months and will be presenting at the conference. This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵

Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s... Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3y ago

Very cool (and potentially exciting) result! And a good reminder that if (/when?) extraterrestrial life is discovered, it will most likely be just like this: a weird chemical balance in an exoplanet atmosphere, seen via some wiggly lines in a spectrum, subject to extensive expert debate. 👽🧪

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever read about and I’m really proud of @stlcitysc.com for being the first MLS & US pro sports team to offer this. Innovating the accessibility game to the max. #AllForCITY

St Louis CITY SC@stlcitysc.com · last yr.

The beautiful game is for 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 ✨ Last Saturday, St. Louis CITY SC became the first MLS team to test touch2see’s assistive technology for the visually impaired. Just the latest way Energizer Park is making soccer more accessible to ALL fans.

Thunder snow in St. Charles. It’s gettin real now! #stlwx

A sample of the first 3D #photogrammetry scan I’ve done as part of my coursework with CyArk and the heritage documentation grant I received. The building is a reconstruction of Borromeo Church from 1791 in St. Charles, MO. Each little white triangle in the image is where I took the photo from.

The guidebook writer Rick Steves believes in the transformative power of travel. “I want to go home a little bit different, a little less afraid, a little more thankful, a little better citizen of the planet.” Read or listen to more on The Interview. nyti.ms/3ZApmZi

Perseverance has reached the rim of Jezero Crater!

Sometimes I think, "Compared to geological time, living things exist for only little blinks," but other times I think, "actually, life is one continuous chemical chain that first formed billions of years ago and every mountain range that existed back then has long since crumbled away to dust."

“Lead with empathy.” An excellent video out about cryptocurrency scams, and the methods are alarming and lean into social engineering hard. People are getting taken in subtle ways for lots of money. Absolutely worth a watch. By Christophe Haubursin youtu.be/1QhMqoTNSl8?...

I tracked down my WhatsApp crypto scammers

YouTube video by Christophe

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Here’s a visualization of all the curse words in real time, which is oddly satisfying: swearsky.bagpuss.org

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Bluesky profanity, as it happens

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