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costal,

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light rain,

fish,

siblinghood,

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on,

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restoration,

on my mind,

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29.84Inhg,

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29.75Inhg,

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75F,

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us,

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clouds,

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INCREDIBLE,

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climate whiplash,

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uncontained,

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vultures soaring,

quiet,

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adaptation,

suspicion,

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air quality alert,

inversion layer,

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1.5°C,

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loss,

fire,

climate reality,

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bright,

underground,

hum of seeds,

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hotter,

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2025-06-12 09:30:03

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-12 08:51:34

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Fully sunny, 18.8 Celsius, 1025kPa, wind: variable.

2025-06-12 08:16:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-12 09:06:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-12 10:24:00

Asmit Rai Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-06-11 22:35:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-11 23:17:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-12 07:19:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-11 22:36:57

Bidston Observatory, Wirral, UK

A warm and sticky day on Bidston Hill, with high clouds and wind moving in at dusk. I finally got the bits for a V-Dipole antenna and it felt nice to observe a passing satellite with an antenna in my hands. I also felt a little sad knowing that NOAA18 had stopped signalling last week, so was galvanised to connect with 19 at last! More to come...

2025-06-11 22:35:11

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-11 22:40:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CY)

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-11 19:43:49

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-11 19:44:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-11 08:45:00

Zack Wettstein (US)

Seattle, United States

2025-06-11 11:11:00

Gilboa, New York (US)

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-11 21:36:00

Oppressive Heat Project (KH)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-11 10:51:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-11 19:37:00

Jo Pollitt Rumen Rachev

Perth , Australia

2025-06-11 12:33:00

Hospitalfield (UK)

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-11 11:01:03

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

A large number of flying insects gathered around the antenna during this sounding, as Typhoon warplanes roared overhead. A collision of scales and contexts and modes of thinking and being in the atmosphere - as a critical medium of life, as a territory to be contested and controlled, as a domain to be observed and quantified, measured and modelled.

2025-06-11 08:03:00

Iterable pueyrredon (AR)

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-11 09:56:43

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-11 11:01:06

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-11 12:07:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-11 08:16:21

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-10 23:08:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-11 09:19:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-10 22:31:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-10 23:30:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-11 07:54:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-10 20:49:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-10 22:53:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-10 22:03:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-10 11:25:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-10 21:49:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-10 11:03:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-10 08:54:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-10 12:50:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-10 12:46:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-10 11:13:45

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-10 12:20:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-10 08:42:26

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 23:21:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-09 23:00:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-09 22:55:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-09 23:43:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-09 20:16:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-09 21:16:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-09 23:50:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-09 21:19:59

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 23:06:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-09 18:56:22

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 22:15:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-09 11:08:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-09 11:26:27

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 09:08:33

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 09:12:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-09 09:09:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-09 08:30:05

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Fully cloudy, 15.9 Celsius, 1024kPa, Wind: 12.6km/h from NW.

2025-06-09 09:44:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-09 10:43:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-08 23:08:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-08 23:56:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-08 23:48:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-08 19:46:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-08 21:43:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-08 21:32:31

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 19:22:20

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 19:23:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-08 20:20:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-08 11:54:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-06 13:03:24

Sasha Engelmann Soph Dyer

under the magnolia tree, Ciutadella Park, Barcelona, Spain

For open-weather, there is a politics to building and maintaining infrastructure to listen to systems at the threshold of transformation. In the long tradition of radio amateurs, cyberfeminists, and anticolonial practitioners, we feel that it is our responsibility to develop literacies with systems that capture and represent our planet – so that we are able to name and the violence they enact, as well as recognise their alternative meanings and potential openings for interventions or imagining otherwise. For NOAA-18’s decommissioning, the collective was in Barcelona, Spain. We rushed from our lunch break to nearby Ciutadella Park and tuned to the satellite’s transmission for one last time.

2025-06-08 11:39:07

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 12:40:55

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunny,, 29.4 Celsius, 1013kPa, Wind: 2.1km/h from West.

2025-06-08 11:43:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-08 09:34:43

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 08:56:18

Lajosmizse, Hungary

2025-06-08 09:56:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-08 07:16:39

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunny, 20 Celsius. Wind 8.2km/h, from NW.

2025-06-08 08:21:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-07 22:14:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-08 10:56:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-08 07:33:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-07 23:18:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-07 21:45:06

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 19:48:30

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 21:59:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-07 19:18:02

Next to Sejong Arts Center, Sejong City, South Korea, South Korea

A cool summer evening. I felt a sense of excitement and wonder as I held the antenna under the sky, listening to signals from space. This was my first solo attempt before joining this project with my students next week — I’m thrilled to start this journey together!

2025-06-07 11:33:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-07 08:32:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-07 08:29:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-07 18:53:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-07 11:51:49

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 08:08:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-07 11:52:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-07 08:21:38

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 09:27:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-07 10:09:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-07 07:42:35

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunny. 24 Celsius degrees.

2025-06-07 11:19:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

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