active trace of my proximal juxtaposition can't help but want to resolve this to the northwest

Photonic Aperature. Eyes are optical portals. Prof J.: "We consume photons into the container of our skulls, yet have no known photonic emission property." S⁺: Perhaps photons are the darkness displaced by light? R⁺: Photons as gauge of lights' after math?

Scientists Map 110 Quadrillion km of Underground Fungal Networks… A billion Times The Distance From Earth to the Sun! Earth’s Vast Underground “Carbon Superhighway” A groundbreaking new study published today in the journal Science has revealed, for the first time, the global scale of one of Earth’s most important but hidden biological infrastructures: the networks of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. These thread-like fungal structures, known as hyphae, form symbiotic partnerships with roughly 70% of land plant species—including major crops like wheat, corn, and rice. In exchange for sugars from the plants, the fungi deliver essential nutrients (such as phosphorus and nitrogen) and water, while also playing a massive role in storing carbon underground. Mind-Boggling Scale Using data from more than 16,000 soil cores worldwide, machine-learning models, and high-resolution robotic imaging of fungal hyphae, researchers estimated: •Total length: ~110 quadrillion kilometers (1.10 × 10¹⁷ km) of living hyphae in the top 15 cm of global soils—enough to stretch nearly a billion times the distance from Earth to the Sun (or about 10% of the diameter of the Milky Way if laid out in space). •Biomass: ~300 megatons of carbon, equivalent to 4–6 times the biomass of all humans on Earth. •These networks move about 1 billion metric tons of carbon per year into soils, acting as a critical “carbon circulatory system” that helps regulate the planet’s climate. Densities are highest in grasslands, with notable hotspots in places like the Sudd wetlands in Africa and the Everglades. The “Wood Wide Web” at Planetary Scale This research builds on the popular “Wood Wide Web” concept, where fungi connect plants in shared resource networks. The new global maps (available for exploration via the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, or SPUN) show these connections operating at an ecosystem-wide level, supporting plant health, resilience to drought and disease, and food security. These fungi are vital allies in the fight against climate change and for sustainable agriculture. However, they face threats from soil disturbance (like tillage), pesticides, and land-use changes. The study also highlights gaps in sampling, particularly in undersampled ecosystems that need further research. Read the full research paper (paywalled, but abstract freely available): science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… 
Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks Explore interactive maps and learn more at SPUN.earth. This discovery underscores how much of Earth’s life-support systems remain invisible to the naked eye yet operate on a truly planetary scale. Protecting these underground networks could be one of the most effective ways to sustain healthy soils, productive crops, and a stable climate.

Long post, but this one is important to me so I hope you stick it out! In January I reached out to Artemis II Commander @astro_reid with a simple ask- was he open to capturing the moon like I do for my colorful moon photos during the flyby? He humbly agreed, and we worked out a plan to incorporate into the photos captured as the crew approached the moon. The premise was simple- just capture enough photos in a burst to allow for image stacking to improve image fidelity, potentially to reveal color no human has ever captured. What he brought back was nothing short of magnificent. When I initially stacked the raw photos, it exceeded my expectations by far. The color came right out of the seemingly gray images, and showed details I've never seen before. It's possible nobody has. The lack of atmosphere meant a lot of color normally absorbed and scattered was present, so even the "near side" features looked exotic and unfamiliar. This view of the moon from an alien perspective made the usually-familiar lunar surface fresh and exciting, and the color we were able to resolve gave us valuable insight to the complex geological history of it's battered surface. Then, I faced a bit of a moral dilemma. I wanted people to be able to own these images in print- but I wouldn't feel right to profit off of them. As an active NASA astronaut, Reid certainly can't. He took these photos as part of a taxpayer-funded mission. If I couldn't split profits with him I didn't see a way to do this ethically, so I decided to release the images initially with no print offering, despite many requests!  Then, it clicked. After doing some research- I decided that I should do a print sale where the profits go 100% to charity. That way I can make prints available, do some good in the world, and it doesn't feel like an ethical conflict. ​I'm pleased to share my first EVER entirely-for-charity print release. ​ At the end of this sale all proceeds with be donated to UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. It feels fitting. I will follow up in a future post with a receipt from the donation, so you know how much we were able to donate. When I released this to my email subscribers only, we were already able to raise around $15k. Amazing! The limited edition fine art print is now publicly available, you can grab one of them at the link in my bio (also linked further in the thread) for a short time. Thank you for helping me do something good with my platform. Seriously... it feels amazing.

humanity started with fire. post-humanity will start with fusion.

$20 billion is a bargain price for a moon base and you know it (for the cost of one California high speed rail system we could build 11 moon bases)

The tiniest sliver of the moon, only 1.5% illuminated, that I have ever captured. Half Moon Bay, 8:10 pm, 3/19/2026

I love California, 4th generation born, but as our G says, it's a total shit show 😂: youtu.be/9UbA1uIb0O4?si=FA0d…

been calling this wwIII by all metrics for more than 2 years. "World War is a large-scale military conflict that involves most of the world's most powerful nations and spans multiple continents or oceans. The wars involve the mobilization...resources populations." i'll wait

Here's the aftermath of an X-class solar flare, with the Earth for scale. Captured from my backyard in Arizona.

I'll never get tired of capturing the details on the moon.

when/if your baby brother or sister is sick with alcoholism no 2 ways about it, it hurts REALLY bad doesn't matter if it does, it only matters how you deal/ cope/ process the pain only love prevails just love

god, the moon last night at Goat Rock, Sonoma Coast

hey I know that everything feels bleak and barfy right now, but if it helps a little, please remember that sea stars can regenerate a lost limb and sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes and all houseflies buzz in the key of F and otters hold hands while they sleep and penguins propose with a pebble and everything around us is actually quite magical all of the time too

the victim manufacturing machine sure is busy rn

You can walk into almost any classroom and hear detailed timelines about Rome, Greece, or medieval Europe. But ask how many people can name the major ancient centers of North America…. Cahokia, Poverty Point, Newark, Spiro and most can’t name even one. This continent built massive ceremonial landscapes, ran long-distance trade across thousands of miles, and supported cities larger than many European capitals of the same eras. The history was never missing. It just wasn’t emphasized.

life's too short to pretend dwelling in the extreme left or right will be fruitful for anyone

DEVELOPING: you have 12 minutes to escape the permanent underclass

🧠 The hard problem of Science. Although the goalpost seems constantly moving away from our cognitive grasp, and there’s still disagreement about how to define the core concept of consciousness, whether it really exists, whether a science of consciousness is possible or not; under a general consensus of the neuroscientists community, it seems that a collective hard-won legitimacy has been gained regarding this delicate topic over the past 30 years. Physics has a lot to say about consciousness, it doesn’t rests solely on inferences about things we cannot see, thanks to massive advances in neuroimaging and connectomics there are important results to show for it. 🔗 scientificamerican.com/artic…

The Axioverse. The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle whose existence was postulated in order to explain why certain subatomic reactions appear to violate basic symmetry constraints, in particular symmetry in time and the CP problem in QCD. If axions exist, the field generated by this boson would influence the behavior of electric and magnetic fields. An oscillating axions scalar field would be provoking a tiny electric perturbation oscillating at the same frequency in any region of space giving rise to the so-called axiverse. In the linked article the latest research on axion-magnetic resonance. 🔗 arxiv.org/html/2408.11103v2

Effective technique to reduce #graphene into a conductive printed film with optimal tensile strength. By using a mix of nitrogen-doped graphite oxide as starting synthesis, termed Dense-Block reduced Graphite Oxide (DB-rGtO), it’s here described a process to aggregate the wonder carbon mesh in form of ink with desired degree of viscosity, flowability and resistance to deformation for a suitable applications across various printed flexible electronics and devices. With a system of quantified polarized light microscopy the material is deposited uniformly without the use of other chemical additives. 🔗 researchgate.net/publication…