The tech giant said people can opt out - but privacy campaigners called it a "recipe for disaster".

Source: Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics

Cottonwood Fire Chars Utah
The blaze burned more than 150 square miles and swept through parts of a ski resort.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/cottonwood-fire-chars-utah/

No tropical cyclones as of Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:20:10 GMT

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Prestige, Career Paths, and Job Satisfaction Among Recent Philosophy PhDs (guest post)

Philosophy PhDs whose family backgrounds are higher in socioeconomic status are more likely to earn their doctorates from more prestigious programs. The graduates of more prestigious PhD programs are more likely to prefer academic employment to non-academic employment, and to obtain it. Those are among the several findings shared in this guest post by Kino Zhao, assistant professor of philosophy at Simon Fraser University and one of the co-directors of the Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA) project. The analysis is based on information in the APDA database and responses to its 2025 survey. (A version of this post appears at The APDA Blog.) Prestige, Career Paths, and Job Satisfaction Among Recent Philosophy PhDs by Kino Zhao In an earlier post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings reported some findings concerning career paths of philosophy PhDs that was based on data collected from program websites and other online sources. In this post, I discuss some findings on academic vs non-academic career paths that are based on both the APDA database and the 2025 survey. Description of Data I draw on two different data sources for this analysis. The first, I will call Coded Data, is a dataset we maintain by manually tracking down placement data on graduates from 150 English-speaking philosophy PhD programs (using a combination of department placement pages and internet searches, and input from program representatives and the individuals themselves). This dataset is not anonymous to APDA personnel or program representatives (names are removed for the broader public), but it only contains what is publicly available such as one’s employing institution and job title, alongside names and basic contact information (email). Everyone from this dataset for whom we can find contact information is invited to participate in the survey we conduct every two years, resulting in what I will call Survey Data. The survey data is anonymous. It asks respondents to report things like whether they are satisfied with their current employment without providing us a way of knowing who their employers are (for obvious reasons). For a more comprehensive overview of the methodology behind these two datasets, see this methodology paper. For this analysis, I am only looking at people who graduated in the year 2015 or after. All incomplete entries are dropped. Table 1. Coded Data: Facts..

The post Prestige, Career Paths, and Job Satisfaction Among Recent Philosophy PhDs (guest post) first appeared on Daily Nous.

https://dailynous.com/2026/07/07/prestige-career-paths-and-job-satisfaction-among-recent-philosophy-phds-guest-post/

To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely shaped galaxy Centaurus A, the site of a cosmic collision 2 billion years ago.

Source: James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birthday with stunning image of a galaxy crash site

The impact screen time is having on younger children.

Source: Tech Life

Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.

Source: Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought  

'Project Hail Mary' blasted off onto Prime Video starting on July 3.

Source: 'Project Hail Mary' is finally streaming Amazon Prime Video, and we can't wait to watch it again

NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge
NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as NASA Goddard’s Area 400, is now part of the largest block of unfragmented forest between […]
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-transfers-hundred-acre-wood-to-patuxent-research-refuge/

The Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September for a new role.

Source: Artemis 2's Jeremy Hansen stepping down from active astronaut duty after epic moon mission

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes from Hibernation in Good Health
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed New Horizons, […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/new-horizons/nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-wakes-from-hibernation-in-good-health/

No single agency — not even NASA — can develop all the technologies and systems needed for sustained Mars settlement.

Source: How public-private partnerships can turn Mars into an economic frontier (Op-Ed)

Artemis II Crew and Apollo 14 Moon Tree
In this photograph, the Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on June 25, 2026. This tree is a second-generation Apollo Moon tree of the loblolly pine species. The original Apollo Moon trees were grown from seeds carried aboard […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-ii-crew-and-apollo-14-moon-tree/

China's Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa.

Source: China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa

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July 2026 Satellite Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/july-2026-satellite-puzzler/

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA's commercial moon landers for its Artemis program.

Source: 'That's going to come back and bite us': Former NASA chief questions Artemis moon lander plans

NASA astronaut Chris Williams recently flexed his muscles for a photo while on a spacewalk with fellow astronaut Jessica Meir.

Source: Astronaut flexes his muscles mid-spacewalk | Space photo of the day for July 7, 2026

While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space rock in case of trouble.

Source: Chinese scientists find the best way to nuke an asteroid on its way to impact Earth

A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and operated spacecraft to harness nuclear energy in orbit.

Source: SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite

George Hardy is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can't possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realize they must become the detectives. As they follow the clues and investigate human suspects, they prove that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers.

Source: The Sheep Detectives Blu-ray and DVD release date set for Tuesday August 25, 2026

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer atmosphere, providing a new clue to the mystery of the Sun's corona is so hot.

Source: The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surface. Scientists may finally know why

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