My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.
Rose Atkinson
@solarwindstream.bsky.social
4th year PhD student in space plasma physics, QMUL || Mapping Foreshock ULF Waves
YAY!!!!! FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, FOR THE RAINFOREST, FOR THE CLIMATE, FOR BRAZIL, FOR THE WORLD!
Brazil runoff live updates: Flávio Bolsonaro calls for election results to be ‘annulled’ after historic loss to Lula
Leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated the far-right senator and was elected president of Brazil for a fourth non-consecutive term
theguardian.com
Here we see really gorgeous multi-colored aurora happening in Alkeevsky, Tatarstan, Russia. The geomagnetic latitude-equivalent of this in North America is around New York City, Boise or Chicago.
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4w ago"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
something is only a “culture war issue” to you if you think it’s not about you; otherwise it’s just “politics” or (maybe) “life”
An asteroid killed the dinosaurs because they didn’t have a space agency – so ESA’s Hera asteroid mission has a dino mascot (also aboard the spacecraft in real life!). But our dino needs a name – that’s where you come in! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Happy 60th birthday, Star Trek 🖖🏻 My parents got me into physics, and Star Trek got me into space.
I have colleagues who use LLMs to find papers to study and cite and (while there are studies showing that those searches can build biases in) I’m sure they can often find work otherwise overlooked. But their architecture also inherently includes remixing without attribution. We should be vigilant.
This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 2mo agoPart of research is wandering in the literature and making unexpected connections, finding the questions you didn’t know to ask. I don’t see a good way to do that while relying mainly on LLMs to do literature searches.
Nature is amazing. Watching the end-of-summer migration of Volvos to National Trust properties and garden centres around the UK.
A rare snowy day for the ELT ❄️ Two weeks ago northern Chile was affected by severe weather. It caused damage to several cities and brought snow to our observatories, leaving stunning imagery like this drone video of our Extremely Large Telescope. 🔭 1/2
p.s. "Radical gender ideology" lines up pretty well with science as in biological sex is determined by many factors and sex/gender is not two airtight boxes from which no one can or should stray. The pretense that we have gender ideology and they don't is also cracked.
Trump’s “Gender Ideology” Attacks Are Following a Global Movement
In Europe and Latin America, the concept has been used to demand and justify far-reaching attacks on women’s rights and LGBTQ rights.
carnegieendowment.org
A front-row seat to satellite reentry. 🛰️ ESA scientists will fly out on two airborne observation campaigns over the Pacific Ocean to capture the targeted reentries of our final Cluster satellites, Samba and Tango.
Air pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o
For World Space Week 2026, we're teaming up with Pokémon to unite space exploration and a universe of imagination. More to come soon. ⚡https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Branding_and_Partnerships/ESA_and_Pokemon_team_up_to_celebrate_World_Space_Week #WorldSpaceWeek2026 #PokemonxESA
Long time no update — I wrote a paper in my postdoc! Turbulence saves you money (through space weather forecasting)! doi.org/10.1029/2026...
Beyond Mean Solar Wind Conditions: Turbulence‐Aware Forecasting of the AE Index
Including solar wind turbulence parameters improves short-term forecasts of auroral electrojet index compared to models using average conditions alone Improved forecasts reduce false alarms and b...
doi.org
Rare violet aurora seen near Denali National Park in Alaska in April.
🐠'' Yes, #Nature is transgender too! Between fish, fluidity and finding myself as a trans marine biologist!''🐠 Micah Reismann shares their reflections and personal journey of self-discovery through the lens of nature. 👉 Read the full article in our latest #GeoLog post: egu.eu/834SR0
reading a book allows you to access the actual thoughts of dead authors. but what if AI allowed you to read things which dead authors did not say?!