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Amata
@amatajo.bsky.social
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Classical & film music, science communication, translating books, singing, writing lyrics.

I love astronomy, books, mountains, playing the piano, creative writing, learning languages and everything tea. Nice to meet you 😊

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Amata @amatajo.bsky.social · Nov 20
Our new song 🎼
#UNICEF #SupportUNICEF #StopWar #Children
Amata & Marek Papaj - The broken heart of [...]
YouTube video by Slav Media
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ria.ie
Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.

The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.

In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
January 17, 2026 at 11:11 AM
amatajo.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1617...
Can Religion Give You PTSD?
Meet the “exvangelicals” seeking therapy for religious trauma.
newrepublic.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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vivacharity.bsky.social
Ricky Gervais has donated almost £2.5 million from his Mortality stand-up tour to animal charities! 😍

What a hero for the animals! 🐾 🙌

#rickygervais
December 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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astrokatie.com
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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elsa-euclid.bsky.social
Beautiful comparison of @ec-euclid.bsky.social's infrared view of an interstellar dark cloud, compared to what we see in optical light 🧪🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlmQ...
Infrared vs Optical: Euclid reveals what lies within and behind the Dark Cloud
YouTube video by Euclid Consortium
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November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
amatajo.bsky.social
www.eso.org/public/news/...
Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection
Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For ...
www.eso.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
I recommend everyone watches this
September 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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stephenserjeant.bsky.social
I'm glad to read this. About time. Also I don't understand why he was made FRS in the first place. He's not a scientist and he's not an engineer. He's a business leader who pontificates wildly on scientific subjects in which he knows next to nothing and his DOGE has actively damaged US science. 🔭🧪
jamesrball.com James Ball @jamesrball.com · Sep 17
Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...
Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk
One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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donald-tusk.bsky.social
Narasta fala prorosyjskich nastrojów i niechęci do walczącej Ukrainy, kreowanych przez Kreml na bazie autentycznych lęków i emocji. Rolą polityków jest zatrzymanie tej fali, nie płynięcie na niej. To test na patriotyzm i dojrzałość całej polskiej klasy politycznej.
September 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Closing in on half a million avoidable deaths. A historic legacy of indifference to human suffering.
September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
amatajo.bsky.social
My songs: tinyurl.com/4r64yyps
Amata - Nebula
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
amatajo.bsky.social
Magnets Could Become the Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors
When Einstein's predicted ripples in spacetime pass through magnetic fields, they cause the current carrying wires to dance at the gravitational wave frequency, creating potentially detectable electri...
www.universetoday.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
amatajo.bsky.social
The UK film and TV industry has been in a rough spot for a while now and with Trump slapping tariffs on international films, it honestly feels like things could fall apart completely.
So many jobs and projects are already hanging by a thread. This could be the final blow...
Fears Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry
Union warns 100% levy could be ‘knockout blow’ and urges ministers to defend sector and those who work in it
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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science.esa.int
Happy anniversary, Hubble! 🎂

Celebrate 35 years since this NASA/ESA space telescope was launched into orbit with four anniversary images! They roam from the planet Mars to dramatic images of stellar birth and death to a neighbouring galaxy.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

#Hubble35 🔭 🧪
Two views of planet Mars on a black background of space observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. At left, text: December 28, 2024 20:00 UT. At right, text: December 29, 2024 13:18 UT. In both images, its atmosphere is clear and the surface appears detailed. Most of the planet is shades of orange. At left, the brightest orange area appears in the left half. At right, the brightest orange area is centered and takes on the rough shape of a sleeping mask. In both views, darker surface features are noticeable on the lower half of the planet. These have a mix of orange, blue, and gray hues. At the top and bottom, white regions mark the planet’s polar caps. The entire limb of the planet, its visible edge, has a blue hue. The blue doesn’t form an even circle at the edges, and appears thinner toward the left and right, and thicker in some areas. The planetary nebula NGC 2899 is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its edges pointed up, but its edge-on central torus is semi-transparent in the middle. The top and bottom edges are thick and orange. The center is semi-transparent blue and green. The wider central region looks roughly like a moth, also filled with semi-transparent blue and green. There are two pinpoint-like white stars with diffraction spikes toward the center. Immediately below them, slightly toward the right, is a smaller blue orb, a central star. The next layer of gas and dust is whiter, with some thicker pillars that look like they are rising up at bottom center. The colour fades into reds and purples, and then to orange. A tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a V extends from just below top left all the way down to the lower right corner and back up toward the top right. It looks like thick smoke that has billowed out irregularly, thicker along the line from top left to bottom right, and looser on the piece that goes toward the top right. Behind the dark gray on the left side, from the bottom left to top center, there is dust that looks like arced claw marks that appears in light orange and yellow. The background at top left is hazier and some blues are covered in semi-transparent orange wisps, which makes sections take on green hues. In the bottom right, the background is bluer. There are a few bright red and purple stars scattered along the right half, most toward the bottom. The largest star is at right-center, just at the edge. It is red and has four diffraction spikes. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 observed by the Hubble Space Telescope takes up the majority of the view. At its center is a milky yellow, flattened oval that extends bottom left to top. Within the oval is a bright central region that looks circular, with the very center the brightest. In the bright central region is what looks like a bar, extending from top left to bottom right. Around this is a thick swath of blue stars speckled with white regions. Multiple arms wrap up and around in a counterclockwise direction, becoming fainter the farther out they are. Both the white core and the spiral arms are intertwined with dark streaks of dust. The background of space is black. Thousands of distant galaxies in an array of colors are speckled throughout.
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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supernovae.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy
Astronomers discover doomed pair of spiraling stars on our cosmic doorstep University of Warwick ...

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-doomed-pair-spiraling-stars.html

#Astronomy

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Astronomers discover doomed pair of spiraling stars on our cosmic doorstep
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky.
phys.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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benwikler.bsky.social
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
amatajo.bsky.social
ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Violent supernovae 'triggered at least two Earth extinctions'
drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the ...
ras.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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beatgrrrl.bsky.social
Meta doesn't want you to know about Sarah Wynn-Williams book Careless People. So much so they got the courts involved so she can't promote herself. Would be a shame if a bunch of people not tied up in court promoted it for her…
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
bookshop.org
March 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
amatajo.bsky.social
Zapraszam do artykułu na temat książki, której tłumaczenie powierzyło mi TNSA.
tnsa.pl/wprowadzenie...
Wprowadzenie do książki „Mężczyźni, którzy gwałcą”
Książka „Mężczyźni, którzy gwałcą”, choć ma już prawie pół wieku, nadal jest aktualna. Najnowsze badanie przeprowadzone na reprezentatywnej próbie mieszkanek Unii Europejskiej wskazuje, że blisko jedn...
tnsa.pl
March 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
amatajo.bsky.social
Support Ukraine, not Trump. Join the World Vs Trump letter: action.eko.org/a/world-lead...
World leaders: stand up to Trump
Trump and Vance just orchestrated one of the most shameful moments in US history, live on TV.They tried to intimidate the man fighting to save his country from Russian annihilation, tried to humiliate
action.eko.org
March 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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donald-tusk.bsky.social
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
amatajo.bsky.social
Clown 🤡
JUST IN: Trump Has Shock Response To Question About 'Dictator' Label For Zelensky: 'Did I Say That?'
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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February 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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radek-sikorski.bsky.social
Ukraine is not, as the Russian ambassador said, a "project."
Its statehood is older than Muscovy’s.
It has been a member of the US longer than Russia.
It has a language, an identity and its own aspirations.

youtu.be/p4JFNtlxz9k
Radosław Sikorski: Ukraine is not a "project", UN General Assembly, New York 24.02.2025
YouTube video by Radosław Sikorski - kanał oficjalny
youtu.be
February 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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charlieangus104.bsky.social
Donald Trump is threatening our democratic right and values.
The boycott grows and goes international.
Everyone can play their part.
February 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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snowdenbishop.bsky.social
“In Donald Trump’s predatory world view, the mighty are free to use their power to: destroy anyone, redraw the map, and commit crimes against humanity with immunity. A new dark age is falling across the globe.”
@geoffypjohnston.bsky.social
Well said. A worthy read.👇
www.thewhig.com/opinion/amer...
America has gone rogue
The United States has gone rogue, embarking on an imperialist quest to annex sovereign foreign lands ...
www.thewhig.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM