ok this is kind of out of my wheelhouse science-wise but what exactly is it about nebulae and other deep space objects that causes us to perceive them as beautiful? we didn’t evolve looking at anything like them (clouds maybe?), so like… what’s up with that?

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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last wk.

Next week, 8/5 at 7:00pm EDT, @bgsqd.bsky.social hosts a book launch for Seven Rasmussen's Cloudy with a Chance of Starships! Rasmussen will read, speak, and sign copies of their book, a tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. RSVP: buff.ly/9PTHong

The audio edition of @toomanyspectra.bsky.social's Cloudy with a Chance of Starships is now available! Listen to this entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence exclusively on Audible: buff.ly/qY7RJsk #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Space

STARSHIPS is for you! and your grandma! and your uncle who doesn’t believe in climate change! and even the curious middle-schooler in your life ✨

and the anthropic principle is coming up behind the Drake equation with a STEEL CHAIR

“Dr. Rasmussen? I did the [drake equation] math, and I don’t think we’re supposed to be here 😕” — concerned student this morning

HAPPY BOOK DAY TO ME 💞📚✨🥰

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · yesterday

@toomanyspectra.bsky.social's Cloudy with a Chance of Starships is an entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Out now! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 29 September UK pub | #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Science

butch on the train reading a blood-stained copy of bell hooks’ All About Love 🧐

and now: a break from your regularly scheduled astrophysics

I talked to Ceinna Danaé for her substack! check out my advice for outlining, how I transitioned from writing for fun to writing professionally, and what writing means to me. read here ⬇️✨📚 ceinnawritesfiction.substack.com/p/between-th...

between the drafts with Seven Rasmussen

no. 1 | science fiction writing | non-fiction publishing | the trellis outlining method | a story yet to be told 🪐

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begs the question: what is the “just right for” place?

don’t talk to me or my daughter ever again

The cited FREE downloadable RPG for planet formation and development looks like an awesome explainer about what we know or suspect right now about how our planet earth came to be and life grabbed hold. I'll be printing this out to bring to DragonCon.

Seven Machina Rasmussen@toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 3d ago

and did i mention that STARSHIPS has a free astrobiology RPG? use a single D20 to create a unique solar system and watch life face catastrophes from supernovae to supervolcanoes! can you get to first contact—and survive? www.sevenrasmussen.com/books

and did i mention that STARSHIPS has a free astrobiology RPG? use a single D20 to create a unique solar system and watch life face catastrophes from supernovae to supervolcanoes! can you get to first contact—and survive? www.sevenrasmussen.com/books

Are we alone in the universe? Catch the official #trailer for CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS

third person i’ve seen reading East of Eden on the train recently……. you guys ok??

i can’t believe every bar in mishawaka indiana can make you a midori sour and today i had a bartender in williamsburg look it up because she’d never heard of it

in nyc your local hair place will point you toward a nice salon in soho that will give you a really great haircut and perm then you’ll go home and learn your stylist who seemed oddly slightly familiar was on your favorite show as a child

entering my goddess of death era

instagram is so pissed off i have my location off. bc ill be like “let’s tag columbia in this picture” and it’ll be like oh?? so now you want location data? oooh i dunno, are you in Astoria? Forest Hills? new jersey? Atlanta? Spain? Low earth orbit? Jupiter? are you on jupiter bitch??

can any microbiologists answer this query i saw on twitter

every day at work i have lunch at this empty sushi place. i order my 3 for $15 lunch special, i sit, and i listen to the angriest woman ive ever heard in my life scold the pair of old men (smiling, unphased) who make the sushi for 30 minutes. this is the platonic ideal of lunch in new york city.

physicist here. it’s a common myth that the anti-horse moves backwards in time, which would theoretically account for the appearance of all horses in the universe. what we’re actually witnessing here is the three-dimensional projection of the fundamentally symmetric four-dimensional horse.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7d ago

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last wk.

Next week, 8/5 at 7:00pm EDT, @bgsqd.bsky.social hosts a book launch for Seven Rasmussen's Cloudy with a Chance of Starships! Rasmussen will read, speak, and sign copies of their book, a tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. RSVP: buff.ly/9PTHong

this #queer #neurodiverse science book has a queer neurodiverse narrator! AND the world’s most soothing australian accent! what are you waiting for?

Princeton Audio@princetonaudio.bsky.social · last wk.

@toomanyspectra.bsky.social's Cloudy with a Chance of Starships is an entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The audio edition, read by Katherine Littrell, will be available on Audible exclusively on August 4th: buff.ly/qY7RJsk

ok i think i need to start a thread where i keep all these organized: the definitive Books I See People Reading on the Train 1. September 2025

wow! it’s already time for the fifth edition of Books I See People Reading On The Train 📚✨

scientists studying the 1 train have announced a breakthrough in quantum physics, citing the discovery of a new phase of matter. the phenomenon, known as “superwet” is observed at rush hour densities with humidity levels in excess of 80%. “it’s nasty as hell,” reported one noticeably damp physicist.

wow what a great industrial shot. unfortunately someone has chosen to place a package of wet wipes 12 feet above the ground for some reason.