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Justin Walsh
@jstpwalsh.bsky.social
Impossible archaeologist (space/Everest), space hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA)
I was never encouraged to do this; I came up with it on my own. Asked students to use an LLM to research something they already knew well, so they could spot problems. They were horrified. It was the only semester I haven't received an AI-generated assignment. 🤷🏻♂️
Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2h agoThinking back to how instructors were encouraged to come up with exercises that had students using AI to recognize the limits of AI. This was in effect a tactic to bring AI into the classroom, even the classroom of an instructor skeptical of AI. Such cynical pedagogy.
When Jessica Watkins arrives at ISS, it'll be the second time 5 women are on space stations at the same time (Lai Ka-ying is currently on Tiangong). The first time was October 2022. This isn't the record due to the (notorious?) NS-31 mission that coincided with 3 women on space stations in 2025.
Jonathan Serrie@jonathanserrie.bsky.social · 2h agoAn oxidizer leak on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system will delay the planned Sept. 12 launch of the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. NASA says the leak was detected during standard prelaunch spacecraft processing. New date TBD following more tests. | Image: NASA
U.S. Rep. George Whitesides (D-CA) raises questions and concerns about President Trump’s efforts to create a U.S. Space Academy | Screenshots: gtwhitesides/X
There's going to be a time - there just *has to* be a time - when whatever toponyms this weirdo invents will become nothing more than termini ante quem for a period of American lunacy.
Climatologist49@climatologist49.bsky.social · yesterday😠
Space data centers being a thing essentially requires you to hit a 5 way parlay on: SpaceX actually cuts launch costs by 1-2 OOMs, AI has infinite returns to scale, terrestrial permitting issues are unsurmountable, chip production is no longer a constraint, and rad hardening/cooling in space is easy
There's going to be a time - there just *has to* be a time - when whatever toponyms this weirdo invents will become nothing more than termini ante quem for a period of American lunacy.
Climatologist49@climatologist49.bsky.social · yesterday😠
New from #archaeologyimpossible: the networks of climbing Mt. Everest https://archaeologyimpossible.github.io/updates.html#2026-08-25-networks #everest #chomolungma #sagarmatha #networks #dh
*Another* European regional museum suffers a theft of major gold items this summer
Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 3d ago🏺🧪
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Okay, we all get the ridiculous emails begging us to submit our work to a fake journal or conference only tangentially related to our research. But even by those standards, this is really half-assed...
Marge Schott was a five-tool bigot who would have thrived in any era: defector.com/marge-schott...
Marge Schott Was A Five-Tool Bigot Who Would Have Thrived In Any Era | Defector
It’s nearly impossible to relay a single fact about former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott that does not stop an unfamiliar recipient dead in their tracks. For example: This is just a small…
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Just published, me discussing the life of first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the @historyextra.bsky.social podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Yuri Gagarin: life of the week
Podcast Episode · HistoryExtra podcast · 10 August · 43min
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One of these is going to be shot down by the DHS laser
KTLA 5@ktla.com · 5d agoCheck out the aircraft that will provide air taxi service for LA28 Olympics
Shouldn't be a huge issue then because people send human remains through the mail ALL THE EFFING TIME. Ask me how I know.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 5d agoIn its new rule to implement Trump’s anti-mail voting order, the United States Postal Service compared mail ballots to fake bombs and human and animal remains. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The Trump-endorsed IndyCar race on the DC streets into a great unintentional advertisement for the effectiveness of raised crosswalks as a traffic calming measure
An object with the designation Sar2901 (for discoverer Krisztián Sárneczky) is in a temporary orbit around Earth: groups.io/g/mpml/topic.... It is probably space junk, having previously been near Earth in 1970 April. But it does not seem to match any of the missing pieces of Apollo 13?
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Never before have I been moved to give money to charity, sign a petition, or have an opinion, but when I heard about the plight of Adolph Calipers my heart was moved
I think I've discovered the most frustrating glitch a mobile phone can have: doing absolutely everything except receiving text messages with 2FA codes
Ngl there's something hilarious about econ being taken down alongside the rest of us
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · last wk.Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
Zero new archaeology grants this year. 🏺🧪🫠
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · last wk.Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
The early astronauts ate cubed food to protect against crumbs. The next generation of space explorers will eat cubes as an innovative snack. And you can, too... Read more at collectSPACE: www.collectspace.com/news/news-08...
Space Snacks for sale, inspired by ESA-funded astronaut food study
A European Space Agency (ESA) research project has resulted in the launch of a new market for space commercialization: snacks. Space Snacks from the Lithuanian company UAB Geld Baltic are freeze-dried...
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Again, I ask (while trying to cut, erm, 400 words from a proposal)
Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2w agoI just want one of those sabbatical fellowships they hand to you on a platter. why is that so difficult?
My favorite Soviet space dog is ZIB. Wikipedia: "Bobik ran away during a walk before the flight, but a replacement named ZIB (ЗИБ, a Russian acronym for "Substitute for Missing Bobik", "Замена Исчезнувшему Бобику" Zamena Ischeznuvshemu Bobiku),
gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w agoPoor Laika the dog had been sent with no hope of return in 1957. Then in 1961, Gagarin orbited earth. In 1968 this craft (Zond 5) carried tortoises, fruit flies, & worms. We were so horrified that the Soviets had sent living things so far and succeeded, we launched Apollo 8 three months later.
Nobody ask what happened to HAM (his name was an acronym) after he died.
gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w agoOh for sure! We sent many. Fruit flies, rhesus monkeys who died of suffocation, then mice, then Able and Baker (Able died on the journey; Baker survived), and then Ham the chimpanzee who had been taught to operate controls and performed tasks on the flight. Ham lived until 1983.
So, lettuce on ISS or whatever, but CHECK OUT JESSICA MEIR'S SPACE APRON www.instagram.com/p/DcJeCliDhhy/
astro_anil on Instagram: "Chez ISS - Cooking on space station with Jessica and AnilOn this episode we give you farm to table, simple, and delicious. This Kal…"
Chez ISS - Cooking on space station with Jessica and AnilOn this episode we give you farm to table, simple, and delicious. This Kale and Wasabi Mustard was grown on @iss over one month. We harvested several leaves and put them to the test. It might be the best meal we have cooked so far. Thanks to the @nasa veggie team for guiding us through the growth process and providing simple skills that could help provide food for future space travel. Mark Watney would be proud.
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I just want one of those sabbatical fellowships they hand to you on a platter. why is that so difficult?
The attempts to strip birthright citizenship & amend the Constitution by fiat is about subordination: to create a permanent underclass/caste of people without access to rights, protections, privileges, living in the shadows & ripe for exploitation. Plus making POC all suspects of illegality.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w agoI think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.