Toby Rodel 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🦕🦖
@astrotobe.bsky.social
(They/Them)
PhD astronomer studying exoplanets at Queen’s University Belfast
Lover of dinosaurs
PhD astronomer studying exoplanets at Queen’s University Belfast
Lover of dinosaurs
How much did it take for Patrick Stewart to say “lewtenant” instead of “left tenant” on the set of Star Trek the next Generation.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
How much did it take for Patrick Stewart to say “lewtenant” instead of “left tenant” on the set of Star Trek the next Generation.
Damn right!
I do like a strong statement at the start of a talk. @exodransfield.bsky.social at the Oxford colloquium.
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Damn right!
When I was a kid I thought divorces involved a ceremony where you break up in a church in front of all your family and friends
October 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
When I was a kid I thought divorces involved a ceremony where you break up in a church in front of all your family and friends
I am begging, pleading for conference organisers to start including live captioning.
September 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am begging, pleading for conference organisers to start including live captioning.
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citing an exoplanet paper from 2010
August 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
citing an exoplanet paper from 2010
Plant based? Yeah they’re pretty cool I guess…
August 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Plant based? Yeah they’re pretty cool I guess…
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This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance
August 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance
How is the heat in Belfast more punishing than Albuquerque?!
August 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
How is the heat in Belfast more punishing than Albuquerque?!
Why is Walmart so expensive?!
August 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Why is Walmart so expensive?!
Grateful to whoever lit up a joint on my street because at least something is masking the smell of sun baked split rubbish bags
July 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Grateful to whoever lit up a joint on my street because at least something is masking the smell of sun baked split rubbish bags
It’s interesting comic book writers in the 50s wrote around superman coming from an inhospitable planet due to its “red sun” and being stronger from Earth’s “yellow sun”. Given all the current scientific debate about the (un)habitability of planets around red M dwarf stars.
July 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It’s interesting comic book writers in the 50s wrote around superman coming from an inhospitable planet due to its “red sun” and being stronger from Earth’s “yellow sun”. Given all the current scientific debate about the (un)habitability of planets around red M dwarf stars.
Praying for @davehone.bsky.social in this trying time with the two largest most recent paleomedia projects featuring spinosaurus as an aquatic pursuit predator
July 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Praying for @davehone.bsky.social in this trying time with the two largest most recent paleomedia projects featuring spinosaurus as an aquatic pursuit predator
If you can’t to the time (gestures to end credits of return of the king extended edition) don’t do the crime (gestures to myself)
July 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If you can’t to the time (gestures to end credits of return of the king extended edition) don’t do the crime (gestures to myself)
I want to go see superman this weekend but unfortunately, I live in Belfast
July 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I want to go see superman this weekend but unfortunately, I live in Belfast
Trigger warning for those of us in Academia.
The new Jurassic World film mentions the word “postdoc”
The new Jurassic World film mentions the word “postdoc”
July 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Trigger warning for those of us in Academia.
The new Jurassic World film mentions the word “postdoc”
The new Jurassic World film mentions the word “postdoc”
Anyone else ever have that experience where you slip in the bathtub or shower and are overcome with the feeling that in some parallel universe you didn’t catch yourself and your parallel universe housemates are about to find your naked pruning corpse? Embarrassing
June 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Anyone else ever have that experience where you slip in the bathtub or shower and are overcome with the feeling that in some parallel universe you didn’t catch yourself and your parallel universe housemates are about to find your naked pruning corpse? Embarrassing
Never let RTD cook again
Local nerd disappointed with doctor who!
I’m sorry though I absolutely hated that
I’m sorry though I absolutely hated that
May 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Never let RTD cook again
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[DOCTOR WHO SPOILER]
So Belinda got the worst on-screen companion-sendoff in the 62 year history of the show, right
So Belinda got the worst on-screen companion-sendoff in the 62 year history of the show, right
May 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
[DOCTOR WHO SPOILER]
So Belinda got the worst on-screen companion-sendoff in the 62 year history of the show, right
So Belinda got the worst on-screen companion-sendoff in the 62 year history of the show, right
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Apparently there's a new Doctor Who again.
May 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Apparently there's a new Doctor Who again.
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it’s so funny russ is the last true moffat shooter left. he was watching the wedding of river song like wow tv never gets better than this
May 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
it’s so funny russ is the last true moffat shooter left. he was watching the wedding of river song like wow tv never gets better than this
Local nerd disappointed with doctor who!
I’m sorry though I absolutely hated that
I’m sorry though I absolutely hated that
May 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Local nerd disappointed with doctor who!
I’m sorry though I absolutely hated that
I’m sorry though I absolutely hated that
If the walking with dinosaurs revival came out 5 years ago I would think it was the best thing ever. But I think Prehistoric planet has set the bar so high and WWD is falling short in most aspects.
May 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If the walking with dinosaurs revival came out 5 years ago I would think it was the best thing ever. But I think Prehistoric planet has set the bar so high and WWD is falling short in most aspects.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” I say missing 100% of the shots I do take
May 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” I say missing 100% of the shots I do take
This is a genuinely amazing discovery from the last week
It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion
Exoplanet found in odd perpendicular orbit to brown dwarf star pair
It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion
www.newscientist.com
April 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is a genuinely amazing discovery from the last week
This is about nothing in particular
a man says if i speak i am in big trouble in front of a wall of advertisements
ALT: a man says if i speak i am in big trouble in front of a wall of advertisements
media.tenor.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is about nothing in particular