Newly published research suggests that skyglow is increasing around the world on average at a rate much higher than previously thought. Read more about how citizen-scientists contributed to this new understanding and what the results mean for efforts to reduce light pollution and bring back starry nights.

http://www.darkskyconsulting.com/blog/light-pollution-is-increasing-worldwide-at-an-alarming-rate

Please stop using “mom” as an example of an unsophisticated user of technology. This reinforces harmful stereotypes.

Instead, I suggest using “congressperson”.

Matt Gaetz went on MSNBC last night to claim he never begged Trump for a pardon. Riiiiight. 🙄

Watch Gaetz squirm as Ari Melber brings the instant video receipts rebutting his lie. The schadenfreude is real: https://www.comicsands.com/ari-melber-matt-gaetz-pardon-2659335236.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

LDN 1622: The Boogeyman Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Joshua Carter

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230125.html #APOD

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #HistoryRemix