Kim Bakkers
@kimmb.bsky.social
Freelance Translator | German & Spanish into English | Marketing + Science & Tech translations | Interested in astronomy, astrobiology, genealogy, art + photography
http://www.kbtranslations.co.uk
http://www.kbtranslations.co.uk
Just opened a packet of After Eights.
On the back there's a joyless reminder that 2 mints equals 1 serving.
For an ant maybe.
Two mints is just the beginning.
On the back there's a joyless reminder that 2 mints equals 1 serving.
For an ant maybe.
Two mints is just the beginning.
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Just opened a packet of After Eights.
On the back there's a joyless reminder that 2 mints equals 1 serving.
For an ant maybe.
Two mints is just the beginning.
On the back there's a joyless reminder that 2 mints equals 1 serving.
For an ant maybe.
Two mints is just the beginning.
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After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
christinapagel.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
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“Dutch Courage” study wins the Ig Nobel Prize
uni-freiburg.de/en/dutch-cou...
"[..] they investigated whether a small amount of alcohol can improve pronunciation in a foreign language."
#ignobelprize #language #langsky
uni-freiburg.de/en/dutch-cou...
"[..] they investigated whether a small amount of alcohol can improve pronunciation in a foreign language."
#ignobelprize #language #langsky
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“Dutch Courage” study wins the Ig Nobel Prize
uni-freiburg.de/en/dutch-cou...
"[..] they investigated whether a small amount of alcohol can improve pronunciation in a foreign language."
#ignobelprize #language #langsky
uni-freiburg.de/en/dutch-cou...
"[..] they investigated whether a small amount of alcohol can improve pronunciation in a foreign language."
#ignobelprize #language #langsky
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A Deep SETI Search For Technosignatures in the TRAPPIST-1 System with FAST
astrobiology.com/2025/09/a-de... #astrobiology #exoplanet #astronomy #SETI
astrobiology.com/2025/09/a-de... #astrobiology #exoplanet #astronomy #SETI
A Deep SETI Search For Technosignatures In The TRAPPIST-1 System With FAST - Astrobiology
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is one of its five key science ob...
astrobiology.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A Deep SETI Search For Technosignatures in the TRAPPIST-1 System with FAST
astrobiology.com/2025/09/a-de... #astrobiology #exoplanet #astronomy #SETI
astrobiology.com/2025/09/a-de... #astrobiology #exoplanet #astronomy #SETI
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After nearly a decade of saying which JWST result I was most excited about, it's here:
JWST SPECTRA OF THE HABITABLE TRAPPIST-1 PLANETS!
TRAPPIST-1 E!!!
IT'S ... A FLAT LINE!
BUT NOT AS FLAT AS IT COULD BE!?
IS THERE AN ATMOSPHERE?!?!?
WE STILL DON'T KNOWWWWW.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
JWST SPECTRA OF THE HABITABLE TRAPPIST-1 PLANETS!
TRAPPIST-1 E!!!
IT'S ... A FLAT LINE!
BUT NOT AS FLAT AS IT COULD BE!?
IS THERE AN ATMOSPHERE?!?!?
WE STILL DON'T KNOWWWWW.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
Hopeful Hint of an Earthlike Atmosphere on a Distant Planet
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
After nearly a decade of saying which JWST result I was most excited about, it's here:
JWST SPECTRA OF THE HABITABLE TRAPPIST-1 PLANETS!
TRAPPIST-1 E!!!
IT'S ... A FLAT LINE!
BUT NOT AS FLAT AS IT COULD BE!?
IS THERE AN ATMOSPHERE?!?!?
WE STILL DON'T KNOWWWWW.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
JWST SPECTRA OF THE HABITABLE TRAPPIST-1 PLANETS!
TRAPPIST-1 E!!!
IT'S ... A FLAT LINE!
BUT NOT AS FLAT AS IT COULD BE!?
IS THERE AN ATMOSPHERE?!?!?
WE STILL DON'T KNOWWWWW.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
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Thanks for sharing this Vijaya Nath
September 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Thanks for sharing this Vijaya Nath
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📣LEASE or BUY air purifiers for your school!
✨ Schools can now get clean air in every classroom with our new monthly subscription plan – £0.70 per pupil/month for a school of 15 classrooms.
Get in touch: sales@airbon.co.uk
👉 bit.ly/3UPil4Q
✨ Schools can now get clean air in every classroom with our new monthly subscription plan – £0.70 per pupil/month for a school of 15 classrooms.
Get in touch: sales@airbon.co.uk
👉 bit.ly/3UPil4Q
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
📣LEASE or BUY air purifiers for your school!
✨ Schools can now get clean air in every classroom with our new monthly subscription plan – £0.70 per pupil/month for a school of 15 classrooms.
Get in touch: sales@airbon.co.uk
👉 bit.ly/3UPil4Q
✨ Schools can now get clean air in every classroom with our new monthly subscription plan – £0.70 per pupil/month for a school of 15 classrooms.
Get in touch: sales@airbon.co.uk
👉 bit.ly/3UPil4Q
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Pretty striking for the BMJ to run this piece.
“[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”
“[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Pretty striking for the BMJ to run this piece.
“[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”
“[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”
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Don't forget to look up tonight! 👁️ 🌃
The annual Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak, with the ideal time to see it from midnight until 5.30am tomorrow.
⤵️
The annual Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak, with the ideal time to see it from midnight until 5.30am tomorrow.
⤵️
August 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Don't forget to look up tonight! 👁️ 🌃
The annual Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak, with the ideal time to see it from midnight until 5.30am tomorrow.
⤵️
The annual Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak, with the ideal time to see it from midnight until 5.30am tomorrow.
⤵️
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How Airports Could Help Aliens Spot Earth
astrobiology.com/2025/07/how-... #astrobiology #SETI #Technosignatures
astrobiology.com/2025/07/how-... #astrobiology #SETI #Technosignatures
How Airports Could Help Aliens Spot Earth - Astrobiology
Radar systems used by civilian airports and military operations are inadvertently revealing our existence to potential advanced alien civilisations, new research shows.
astrobiology.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
How Airports Could Help Aliens Spot Earth
astrobiology.com/2025/07/how-... #astrobiology #SETI #Technosignatures
astrobiology.com/2025/07/how-... #astrobiology #SETI #Technosignatures
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#AI systems are built on English – but not the kind most of the world speaks
theconversation.com/ai-systems-a...
via @theconversation.com
#english #language #langsky
theconversation.com/ai-systems-a...
via @theconversation.com
#english #language #langsky
AI systems are built on English – but not the kind most of the world speaks
AI models too often produce a monolithic version of English that erases variation.
theconversation.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
#AI systems are built on English – but not the kind most of the world speaks
theconversation.com/ai-systems-a...
via @theconversation.com
#english #language #langsky
theconversation.com/ai-systems-a...
via @theconversation.com
#english #language #langsky
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Astrobiologically Interesting Stars Within 10 Parsecs Of The Sun
astrobiology.com/2025/05/astr... #astrobiology #astronomy #stellarcartography
astrobiology.com/2025/05/astr... #astrobiology #astronomy #stellarcartography
Astrobiologically Interesting Stars Within 10 Parsecs Of The Sun - Astrobiology
The existence of life based on carbon chemistry and water oceans relies upon planetary properties, chiefly climate stability, and stellar properties, such as mass, age, metallicity and Galactic orbits...
astrobiology.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Astrobiologically Interesting Stars Within 10 Parsecs Of The Sun
astrobiology.com/2025/05/astr... #astrobiology #astronomy #stellarcartography
astrobiology.com/2025/05/astr... #astrobiology #astronomy #stellarcartography
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Right, everyone! On WEDNESDAY I am giving the last of my @greshamcollege.bsky.social lectures, a story of golden mirrors & little red dots. Free tickets in person or online here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/new...
A New Sky
The JWST is the most expensive and powerful telescope astronomers have ever constructed. Its launch in 2021 started a new phase in our exploration of the cosmos, with the observatory's golden mirrors ...
www.gresham.ac.uk
May 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Right, everyone! On WEDNESDAY I am giving the last of my @greshamcollege.bsky.social lectures, a story of golden mirrors & little red dots. Free tickets in person or online here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/new...
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Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."
An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...
farmingdale-observer.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
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Is Artificial Intelligence The Great Filter That Makes Advanced Technical Civilisations Rare In The Universe?
astrobiology.com/2024/04/is-a... #astrobiology #evolution #SETI #AI
astrobiology.com/2024/04/is-a... #astrobiology #evolution #SETI #AI
Is Artificial Intelligence The Great Filter That Makes Advanced Technical Civilisations Rare In The Universe? - Astrobiology
This study examines the hypothesis that the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence
astrobiology.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Is Artificial Intelligence The Great Filter That Makes Advanced Technical Civilisations Rare In The Universe?
astrobiology.com/2024/04/is-a... #astrobiology #evolution #SETI #AI
astrobiology.com/2024/04/is-a... #astrobiology #evolution #SETI #AI
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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Saliva testing makes diagnostics cheaper faster and easier.
Spit science: why saliva is a great way to detect disease
Saliva testing makes diagnostics cheaper faster and easier.
tcnv.link
May 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Saliva testing makes diagnostics cheaper faster and easier.
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Extraterrestrial tongues - Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages
aeon.co/essays/why-a... #SETI #Astrobiology
aeon.co/essays/why-a... #SETI #Astrobiology
Why alien languages could be far stranger than we imagine | Aeon Essays
Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages
aeon.co
May 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Extraterrestrial tongues - Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages
aeon.co/essays/why-a... #SETI #Astrobiology
aeon.co/essays/why-a... #SETI #Astrobiology
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We're delighted to bring you 1.7m Guernsey records, online for the very first time, offering an unprecedented glimpse into British life under Nazi rule - in collaboration with the Bailiwick of Guernsey Digitisation Partnership.
Find out more about this groundbreaking project ⤵️
bit.ly/4j8KAFV
Find out more about this groundbreaking project ⤵️
bit.ly/4j8KAFV
April 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We're delighted to bring you 1.7m Guernsey records, online for the very first time, offering an unprecedented glimpse into British life under Nazi rule - in collaboration with the Bailiwick of Guernsey Digitisation Partnership.
Find out more about this groundbreaking project ⤵️
bit.ly/4j8KAFV
Find out more about this groundbreaking project ⤵️
bit.ly/4j8KAFV
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Dragonfly Astrobiology Mission Passes Critical Design Review
astrobiology.com/2025/04/drag... #astrobiology #Titan #Dragonfly #NASA
astrobiology.com/2025/04/drag... #astrobiology #Titan #Dragonfly #NASA
Dragonfly Astrobiology Mission Passes Critical Design Review - Astrobiology
NASA’s Dragonfly, the first rotorcraft designed for science exploration on another planet, has passed its Critical Design Review.
astrobiology.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Dragonfly Astrobiology Mission Passes Critical Design Review
astrobiology.com/2025/04/drag... #astrobiology #Titan #Dragonfly #NASA
astrobiology.com/2025/04/drag... #astrobiology #Titan #Dragonfly #NASA
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Colon cancer is on the rise around the world. This new report concludes that early-life exposure to gut bacteria that produces colibactin, which is mutagenic, may be contributing
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Geographic and age variations in mutational processes in colorectal cancer - Nature
Nature - Geographic and age variations in mutational processes in colorectal cancer
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Colon cancer is on the rise around the world. This new report concludes that early-life exposure to gut bacteria that produces colibactin, which is mutagenic, may be contributing
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The editor of Astrobiology.com & NASAWatch.com - Keith Cowing will be on Bloomberg Radio & YouTube between 12:20-12:35 pm EDT today to talk about the discovery of a biosignature in the atmosphere of a planet in another solar system. Proof of life? No. Interesting? Yes. Very. #astrobiology #astronomy
April 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The editor of Astrobiology.com & NASAWatch.com - Keith Cowing will be on Bloomberg Radio & YouTube between 12:20-12:35 pm EDT today to talk about the discovery of a biosignature in the atmosphere of a planet in another solar system. Proof of life? No. Interesting? Yes. Very. #astrobiology #astronomy
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⚫️💥 From boring to bursting - a giant black hole named Ansky has woken up with repetitive, extremely powerful X-ray bursts.
Puzzled scientists are on the case, monitoring Ansky with ESA's XMM-Newton and other telescopes.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪
Puzzled scientists are on the case, monitoring Ansky with ESA's XMM-Newton and other telescopes.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪
April 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
⚫️💥 From boring to bursting - a giant black hole named Ansky has woken up with repetitive, extremely powerful X-ray bursts.
Puzzled scientists are on the case, monitoring Ansky with ESA's XMM-Newton and other telescopes.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪
Puzzled scientists are on the case, monitoring Ansky with ESA's XMM-Newton and other telescopes.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪
Last week we did Crunchie and Galaxy bars in pancakes 🥞. This week it's Wispa Gold. This is a definite winner.
March 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Last week we did Crunchie and Galaxy bars in pancakes 🥞. This week it's Wispa Gold. This is a definite winner.
Why is it that the cake mixture tastes nicer than the baked cake. I always think it's a shame to bake it off.
March 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Why is it that the cake mixture tastes nicer than the baked cake. I always think it's a shame to bake it off.