Kyle

There's something satisfying about sawing through a sink trap I've hated for a decade and replacing it in under 15 minutes.

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

This new, shocking action by the US Administration just one part of a portfolio of severe taxes and restrictions on high-skill immigration to the United States. The resulting blow to our ability to attract global talent, and thus for the US economy to innovate & grow, will be terrible & permanent.

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

Fifty years ago today. The first clear image of the surface of Mars ever taken, acquired by the Viking 1 lander in an expansive, flat plain called Chryse Planitia.

🛰️ Our European Service Module has successfully separated from Orion's crew module! 🚀 After propelling the spacecraft over 1 million km in deep space, it will now burn up in Earth's atmosphere, as the astronauts continue their journey home 🌍

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Some good news from space, as the NASA-ISRO NISAR mission publishes its first synthetic aperture radar images of Earth. This spacecraft has a heckin' big antenna (a dish 12 meters across) for bouncing L- and S-band (25- and 10-cm) radio waves off the surface www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-is...

Good luck, babe 😆

My friend's book debuts today, available via ebook or paperback! Check it out!

I am *so* excited to see this mission launch! Earlier this year I spoke with several #NISAR scientists about how this satellite is going to change the game, and it really is going to be a data powerhouse for understanding the Earth system. 🧪🛰️❄️🌳 eos.org/articles/tra...

Liftoff! The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission has launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. #NISAR will scan the entire globe twice every 12 days to measure changes in Earth’s ecosystems, cryosphere, and land surface. “It’s orbiting magic.” —Alex Gardner, NASAJPL eos.org/articles/tra...

I've been waiting for #NISAR to launch for many years... looking forward to what it can provide the world of earth observation! Have a safe ride uphill!

I remember reading about comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter in the newspaper and seeing clips on the news. (I may still have some of those articles in my scrapbook!) Absolutely wild to see an impact scar on Jupiter the size of the Earth!

#asteroid #Apophis, at naked-eye brightness (mag 3.1) races across Barcelona's night sky on the evening of Friday, April 13, 2029 as it comes closer to Earth than our geosynchronous satellites.

“Do you know of any challenge in the history of humankind that was successfully overcome that began with pessimism and defeatism? There isn’t. So optimism is a choice.” — Christiana Figueres, who knows what it looks like to tackle seemingly impossible challenge – and succeed!

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the engulfment of a planet by its star – thought to be the first observation of its kind! Read more 👉 esawebb.org/images/plane... 🔭 🧪

Magnifiques aurores filmées depuis l'ISS par l'astronaute Don Pettit

Who do you really trust to carry the next message in a bottle? And will anyone be left listening when it comes back?

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

#TourESO 📹🔴 Only 5 minutes left until we embark on a virtual tour of ESO's La Silla Observatory! Are you joining us? 🙂 Streamed here https://buff.ly/3EYIpFH 📷 Y. Beletsky/ESO

I've told this story about my early education on fascism before but not on Bluesky. I vividly recall doing a project in school about history. Maybe I wanted to do the Korean War because I was a big MASH fan. That I don't recall. My physics teacher arranged for me to do a live interview... 🧵

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

A nice piece on PRI and the Museum of the Earth by a current Cornell student who has been touched by PRI's work. See related link in the first comment. cornellsun.com/2025/01/20/g...

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

I thought this art was excellent... even better that it's from an @rittigers.bsky.social artist! Fantastic work, @dirtmossart.bsky.social ! #agu24

I presented my #AGU24 talk this morning and wanted to summarize my take homes. 20 yrs ago I created the Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX) to experimentally push hydrology into wetter and drier modes. CO2 emissions are remarkable stable while CH4 is very high with flooding. 1/

I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it. Today is as good as any day to return to it.

Permafrost contains 50% of all the soil carbon found on Earth (upper 3 meters). We need to keep that carbon in the ground. Fast permafrost facts to kick off the Permafrost Carbon Network meeting.

Patiently awaiting the launch of Sentinel-1C... Sentinel-1A is getting lonely up there! #sentinel1

For the scientists and researchers out there: the call to put science aboard our IIAS research spaceflight with Virgin Galactic is now open - check it out! 🚀✨️ astronauticsinstitute.org/wp-content/u... We are also holding a community Q&A Dec 18 @ 0900 PST - sign up here: forms.gle/Uh7tSqCzaSXK...

Oh, this? Just sunlight reflecting off a lake. A lake of liquid methane. On an icy world 1.4 billion kilometres away.

Time for a fresh start.