Pat Lillich @quietlynow.bsky.social

sculptor, photographer, enthusiastic but ineffectual gardener.. cameras include Canon, Olympus and OM

Picture of the century. 😍

📷 credit: Science Tube
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Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com
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Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social
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Science is good. We should fund it.
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www.biographic.com/a-precarious-perch/
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com
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New NASA 'Earthset' photo from Artemis II echoes Apollo 8's iconic 'Earthrise' in historic lunar flyby aje.news/xeitb1
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social
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Just crazy that this is the background for possible Armageddon.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social
7d
California election experts sound alarm as rate of rejected ballots quadruples. | LA Times www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-04/california-election-experts-sound-alarm-as-rejected-ballots-quadruple
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Bill Sugden @billsugden.bsky.social
7d
Norway is powered by 99% renewable electricity
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social
8d
Arson: “At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely”
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
9d
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
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Fazia Rizvi @faziarizvi.bsky.social
9d
OMG, this awful regime wants to drill in CHACO CANYON.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social
10d
Ever wondered why North is at the top of our maps?

If you're assuming there are logical, scientific, Nature-driven reasons for it - yeah, me too.

In fact, they're often whimsical, arbitrary or just plain ridiculous!

Hold onto your hat. This may turn your world upside-down.

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This is a Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appreciation post. That is all! 💕🙏
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com
11d
NOW IS THE TIME FOR GIANT BUGGES

WE HAVE THE OXYGEN

WE CAN REBUILD THEM
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Arilin Thorferra @giants-club.net
12d
Starting this Trans Day of Visibility, I'm raising money for the Transgender Law Center! Let's spread this around furry Bluesky and Mastodon—this is a cause we need to show up for. Any amount helps!
fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/TLC2026/ArilinThorferra
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social
12d
More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
12d
You might forward this story to every Marine you know.
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Amy @amylibrarian.bsky.social
13d
Happy to see that @hcrichardson.bsky.social mentioned my colleague's Save our Signs (saveoursigns.org) actions in response to attempts to erase American history.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-28-2026
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social
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This is such a fun program. Go birding, raise funds, earn rewards, protect birds. Can’t wait! #Birdathon50 #BirdingForConservation #birds
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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social
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Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social
16d
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with concentration camps and ethic cleansing.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com
16d
Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents.
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#HistorySky
#AcademicSky
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Interesting way to contribute
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social
17d
FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social
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Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com
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A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
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@alexjungle.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen just announced that his band will be doing a tour in effort to fight back against Donald Trump's authoritarian overreach. The Boss is back! Great. Bring down the ICE
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com
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I still can’t believe this is real. Trump is giving a French company $1 billion in our taxpayer funds to scrap their wind farms.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com
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Four doses of an experimental vaccine to protect against Lyme disease reduced the number of tick-borne infections by more than 70 percent, according to Pfizer and Valneva.

If successful, it could become the only Lyme disease vaccine available for people.
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