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Summary of evidence from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Conference on ‘#LightPollution and its impacts’: https://ras.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-05/RAS LP Conference 2025.pdf -> Artificial light a 'pollutant' to humans, nature and astronomy: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/artificial-light-pollutant-humans-nature-and-astronomy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
ShunGu:
🎵 Bow Wow
#ShunGu
https://cosmic-compositions.bandcamp.com/track/bow-wow

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Beth Ditto:
🎵 In And Out
#NowPlaying #BethDitto
https://open.spotify.com/track/21Ca8qgNqwQoMQ9pJHfDyo

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

I spotted this settee in a national trust place yesterday https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/446444
The pattern on the cushions is something called 'flame stitch' or Bargello

Experimental Demonstration of Gravitational Impact on the Speed of Light / Exploring the gravito-optic effect for gravity sensing applications: #Gravitation

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Cosmic Analog Ensemble:
🎵 Recto
#CosmicAnalogEnsemble
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/recto
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mL1QOY3or1KFNKdgnDKmh

JWST Reveals How #BlackHoles are Fed - Kiloparsec-scale Multiphase Filaments Feed Subkiloparsec Circumnuclear Disks: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae81ae -> UK researcher helps solve longstanding black hole mystery / How do supermassive black holes 'feed' themselves? https://research.uky.edu/news/uk-researcher-helps-solve-longstanding-black-hole-mystery / https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/07/09/how-do-supermassive-black-holes-feed-themselves

Direct detections of white dwarfs in four WD dM post-common envelope binaries within 20 pc: #WhiteDwarfs hiding under our noses: https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/dead-stars-in-our-cosmic-backyard/ - Warwick astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found four new ‘local’ stars, showing us we can still find surprises in the nearby region of space that we thought we knew so well.