Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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ExoCTK v2026.7 and PandExo v2026.7 are now out! Highlights: • MIRI/LRS + NIRCam/DHS contamination support • Faster, more accurate NIRISS/SOSS contamination • New multistripe modes and MIRI/LRS subarrays in PandExo • Many fixes and improvements Check them out at exoctk.stsci.edu 🔭🪐 #exoplanet

My latest on the #wildfires burning across the Northern Hemisphere: time.com/article/2026... via TIME

What Happens When the World is on Fire

"From America to Algeria, dangerous blazes are occurring around the world, giving us a glimpse into an age ablaze," writes John Valliant.

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we have apparently truly reached proposal season time now. I got distracted from what I was doing and then yelled -- out loud, in my house, by myself -- "JWST!" to remind myself to get back on task...😅 #JWSTCycle6

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We have discovered a planet. It is a sphere free from heartache or heartache-- but with cats. It has clouds made of xenon. Do you want to sigh contentedly there?

@mayorq.bsky.social removing our bike lanes would set KC back years. I am now 100% blind in my right eye & I rely upon the Gillham Cycle Track as my one safe north south route. There are so few routes that are multiple miles long & protected. Let's not go back, let's continue to progress forward

Karly@karlycay.bsky.social · 3w ago

Two of the plans released for the downtown Royals stadium involve "reclaiming vehicular capacity" on streets with protected bike lanes, and removing crosswalks. Absolutely ridiculous, and dangerous. bikewalkkc.org/blog/2026/07...

I chatted with Laura about these things at How The Light Gets In in June, and I strongly recommend heeding what she has to say about them. She provides a deeply informed and considered voice on these subjects, of the kind we hear too little from.

John Carl Baker@johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 4w ago

Great interview with Laura Grego of @ucs.org - she gets into Elon Musk and space colonialism, which is 100% a conversation we should be having www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look. I've decided to make a thread here of some of the best ones I've found on walks. 1. JRR Tolkien's Psychedelic Lime Kiln.

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

I don’t like AI. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

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Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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The @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social has created a new fellowship scheme for instrumentation research in astronomy, called Astronova. A really good initiative for supporting early career researchers who work in technology development or instrument building 🔭 www.hsfoundation.org/programs/sci...

Astronova Fellowship

Launched in 2026, the Heising-Simons Foundation’s Astronomical Innovation (Astronova™) Fellowship provides support for promising postdoctoral scientists to revolutionize the fields of astronomy and as...

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If you want a steady rate of novel science, make room for the conversations

Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · last mo.

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

1/3 of the US Senate is older than Lindsay Graham.

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

Me, returning from a lovely 4-day vacation in Madeira after Exoplanets 6 in Porto: Look, I love you collaborators and great work, well done, but PLEASE STOP SENDING ME PAPER DRAFTS

Susana Barros opens this afternoon with preliminary results of the phase curve of WASP-103b These skeets are sponsored by @offallingstars.bsky.social who has poster green 90 and loves silicates #exoplanets6 #exo6

We're hiring a software developer! Help bring the next generation of coding practices and tools to the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and work with my team in sunny SoCal! Applications are due July 6th, please let me know if you have any questions! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...

ANOTHER JOB AD! #jobs #exoplanets #aas248 NExScI is advertising for a postdoc to come and join our fabulous team in sunny SoCal. The role involves both programmatic support and independent science research, so it's perfect for someone thinking about a career at NASA!!! aas.org/jobregister/...

Hello! We have a very-off-cycle postdoc fellowship at UC Santa Cruz. Open to any area of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Applications are due July 15th. It is funded by the Moore Foundation. Looking for someone to start Oct 1, 2026 (!, approx), see details below. aas.org/jobregister/...

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it

The prize for being the richest person in the world at the end of each calendar year should be 100% confiscation of all assets and living out the rest of your life in a dungeon. Good healthy reverse-incentive.

"While I may provide a few seconds of relief, if you’re searching for meaning and direction in your life, I’m sorry; I’m just a cute kitty stretching at your local bodega."

I Can’t Fix Your Life; I’m Just a Bodega Cat Stretching

“I can’t do anything about your unaffordable rent or exorbitant student loans; I have no expenses in my life. I live in a potato chip display and sleep twent...

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Highlighting my grad student Lori Huseby's paper with @offallingstars.bsky.social on UV irradiation of water world hazes. Exoplanets needs more lab work supporting spectral interpretation and this work helps with our understanding of what happens to photochemical hazes. arxiv.org/abs/2606.06691

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

Buffy: Lie to me. Giles: Yes. It’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and… everybody lives happily ever after.

Marcy@marcythewarrior.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...