Space Coast Talon

The Same Place

Hi, Rob! *waves*

This gives me similar feelings to when AOC said do not use sour mix in your margs, respect yourself. That said, Jonagolds are great, but Jonathans are the OG king.

a message from the future

Wake up, babe, an extremely nerdy daily puzzle just dropped. Unlabeled #26 📉🫧📈📊 ✅2️⃣✅✅ Solved in 2 unlabeled.dev/2026-10-22?r...

Ain't no rule that says a skellington can't play basketball

The phenomenon of the horns extending beyond 180° was already noted by Johann Schröter in the late 18th century and was one of the first independent pieces of evidence for the existence of a dense atmosphere around Venus. Striking images like this one make it particularly clear. 🔭🧪⚛️ #sciart

Sage: To save the world from ruin, you must master all the elements. Hero: Yes! I will begin with the power of fire! Sage: (pulling out periodic table) Actually, let’s start with rhodium.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Women's work, of all kinds, is valued less in academia, esp. women of color. This is reflected in formal and informal evaluations, and in the gendered harassment from other faculty and from students that institutions can't be bothered to address. We don't protect what we don't value.

Just look at this li’l guy. I love how the shape of the brush is obviously a stiff circle, like the basic brush in a paint program. (It was probably, basically, a stick, dipped repeatedly in watery slip.) It’s easy to imagine and perform the set of strokes to draw himb.

🚨 Reminder: Jansky Fellowship Applications Due October 28, 2026! 🚨 🔗 science.nrao.edu/opportunitie... #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy

I'm looking for a new #postdoc to join Leicester's #planetsci atmospheres team, working with us on the treasure-trove of #JWST giant planet data to study atmospheric composition, weather, and variability. Deadline Nov 5th with a start date in early 2027. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

He's a military man. He wants a military meal. He wants his string beans to be quarantined. He likes a little fortress around his mashed potatoes so the meatloaf doesn't invade his mashed potatoes and cause mixing in his plate.

Process

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Planetary Rings Dynamicist: A small moon clears ring particles from its orbit by accretion—they accumulate at its equator, creating the moon's "flying-saucer-like" shape—and it also maintains the gap edges through gravitational "shepherding."

Ad astra, Margaret.... news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

juxtaposition

The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

Yet another thing that apparently lives on this planet. Not only does it branch off extra butts, but the way it reproduces is that branches grow their own eyes and swimming legs, break off, spawn, and then die. I look forward to @zefrank.bsky.social's treatment.

Me of yesterday: Okay, tomorrow after class I am going to have time to really dig in to my backlog and start getting caught up. Me of today: Class is over and I feel like I have a truck parked on my skull.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

For #spacetober_challenge day 2: galaxy - astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci