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Ruth Haveland
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Firefly geek, autistic, science addict, I don't suffer from mental health issues, I thoroughly enjoy them!
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Despite everything, the natural world remains magical. Today’s mail brought a much-needed reminder - the new Atlas Obscura Wild Life book!

I have a page in this on the Andaman Islands tool-wielding macaques, and there are >400 other pages filled with equally marvellous and inspiring quirk 🧪📚🐒🦊🪶
I’m holding a hardback book - Atlas Obscura Wild Life - with a cover painting of a colourful chameleon wrapped around the Earth. The authors are Cara Giaimo and Joshua Foer, and an inset describes the book as ‘an explorer’s guide to the world’s living wonders’ A photo of part of page 390 of the Atlas Obscura Wild Life book. The page is headed ‘Tool-using long-tailed macaques’ and describes the initial report of these animals by Alfred Carpenter in 1887
November 6, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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Today at the CERN seminar (webcast) Wenbin Qian of the LHCb collaboration will show the first evidence of CP violation in baryons. What's the matter? #thread below

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1441582/
November 5, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
Igneous geologists have plutonic friendships. I'll show myself out. #Dadjoke 🧪⚒️
October 27, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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minouette.bsky.social
For the #Spacetober prompt aeronautics: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008), known as Gold to her family, was a mathematician, aeronautical engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee “hidden figure” of the space race. 🧪🐡🧮👩🏽‍🔬 Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the 🧵1/n
Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.
October 27, 2024 at 1:53 PM
lorentzia.bsky.social
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October 26, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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My last observations yesterday night were of the Pleiades, M45. I got to extend my previous mosaic version to give the Pleiades, and the gorgeous reflection nebula (light scattered by dust) they produce, a bit more space. Brief thread: 1/ 🧪🔭
The Pleiades, blueish stars surrounded by dust clouds with an interesting structure, before a background (and possibly some foreground) of stars.
October 26, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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ananeurogeek.bsky.social
With Dr Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social
On #attachment shadow, mess in definitions and attachment #neurobollocks . A must-read for everyone interested in attachment theory.
#therapy #psychotherapy #neuroscience
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Attachment Shadow.
On the Barnum Effect, how the meaning of attachment concepts can get lost in translation, attachment neurobollocks, and, as a bonus: everything you ever wanted to know about attachment (but were afrai...
www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com
October 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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🧵1/2

The spectacular 2.5-mile tunnel that changed part of North Wales forever

www.dailypost.co.uk/news/spectac...
The spectacular 2.5-mile tunnel that changed part of North Wales forever
Building it was difficult and its survival has been just as epic
www.dailypost.co.uk
June 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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🧪 Hey #ScienceBluesky! Would you join an open science social media mirroring service? It would ensure that all your research-related posts were citeable & open access, regardless of source platform (X, Masto, Bsky,)!
🔄 RT if you’re interested!

For more context see -> osf.io/preprints/me...
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June 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Sally Ride’s 1977 letter to NASA fits in a single post:

"To whom it may concern,

I am a PhD candidate in astrophysics at Stanford University, and am interested in the space shuttle program. Please send me the forms necessary to apply as a 'mission specialist' candidate.

Thank you,
Sally Ride”
Handwritten letter to NASA from Sally Ride, on stationary from Stanford’s Institute for Plasma Research. The entire text of the letter is quoted in the post.
June 18, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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NGC 6188: Dragons of Ara - ©
Carlos Taylor

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- About Astronomy Picture Of the Day

#astrophotos

Maintained by @shinyakato.dev

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Do dragons fight on the altar of the sky? Although it might appear that way, these dragons are illusions made of thin gas and dust. The emission nebula NGC 6188, home to the glowing clouds, is found about 4,000 light years away near the edge of a large molecular cloud, unseen at visible wavelengths, in the southern constellation Ara (the Altar). Massive, young stars of the embedded Ara OB1 association were formed in that region only a few million years ago, sculpting the dark shapes and powering the nebular glow with stellar winds and intense ultraviolet radiation. The recent star formation itself was likely triggered by winds and supernova explosions from previous generations of massive stars, that swept up and compressed the molecular gas. This impressively detailed image spans over 2 degrees (four full Moons), corresponding to over 150 light years at the estimated distance of NGC 6188.
June 19, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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My astrolabe model is now ready for downloading & printing on light cardboard and transparent.
I provided designs for any integer northern latitude ranging 2-65°, and links to some manuals, if you want to learn to use this amazing instrument.

www.astrolabe-science.fr/maquette-ast...
Design for the front side of my astrolabe, with many arcs for the horizon, azimut, altitude and twilight. Above are some stars, the ecliptic and equator circles, and a ruler for the declination. Back side of my astrolabe: civil & zodiacal calendars, unequal hour lines, shadow squares, equation of time, and the alidade for measuring the altitude and equation of time. Photo of the back of my model.
June 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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stsci.edu
FS Tau was recently observed by Hubble, showing us the blue jets streaming out from the newly formed FS Tau B, the star on the far right that is hidden by a tiny vertical line of dust. The bright object in the center is two stars closely orbiting each other. Credit: NASA, ESA. 🔭 🧪
A bright, white point of light shines near center-right with diffraction spikes, surrounded by glowing orange-pink clouds. Another bright object, looking like a bright, vertical disk bisected by a dark cloud, sits just to the right of the main cloud and above and to the right of the bright-white star. It looks a little like a dark hotdog in a bright bun. A blue jet of material extends roughly throughout the center of the image, partially obscured by the clouds toward the middle. The background is largely black, with a few white and light orange orbs.
June 19, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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kellylepo.bsky.social
Here is one of the first new images Hubble has taken since transitioning to one-gyro mode and restarting science operations June 14. 🔭🧪

It features the lenticular galaxy NGC 1546, a member of the Dorado group of galaxies, about 58 million light years away.

hubblesite.org/contents/new...
At center is a lenticular galaxy, tilted so that the disk-like galaxy forms an oval shape. The galaxy's orientation gives us a good view of the dust lanes from slightly above and backlit by the galaxy's core. This dust absorbs light from the core, reddening it and making the dust appear rusty-brown. The core itself glows brightly in a yellowish light. Brilliant-blue regions sparkle through the dust. Several background galaxies also are visible, including an edge-on spiral to the left.
June 19, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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Voyager 1 is back up & science-ing on all four remaining instruments for the first time in more than 6 months yay 🧪🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/voya... by @meghanbartels.bsky.social
Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science Observations
NASA’s venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed normal science operations with all four functioning instruments for the first time in more than six months
www.scientificamerican.com
June 14, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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drkeithsmith.bsky.social
Michael Ravine builds imaging systems for space missions. He’s now been involved in ten Science covers. This is a fun interview!🔭🧪
www.science.org/content/blog...
Ten covers and counting: Michael Ravine shares his space imaging career
www.science.org
June 14, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! 🧪🐡🎢🧮 #histsci He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, & can not be derived from first priciples). It states that 2 bodies of different temperature 🧵1/n
Linocut print, 8”x10” on white washi paper, showing Maxwell’s demon in blue in a circle in the centre surrounded by red with the words “Maxwell’s” above and “Demon” below, arcing around the circle. My nimble-fingered demon resembles Maxwell, but with horns, extra-long fingers and enormous eyes to see and track particles and is using the cold blue region to warm the hot red region. In the blue region there are random slow moving particles denoted by dots with two tails. Carved into the red area are fast moving particles denoted by dots with three longer tail lines.
June 13, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Happy #FossilFriday! I just wrapped up a productive week working in the collections at the Iziko South African Museum, so in honor of that here’s a mount of a Permian pareiasaur called Bradysaurus that’s on display there. It’s covered in armor plates to defend against predators like gorgonopsids! 🧪⚒️
A mounted skeleton of Bradysaurus, an armored reptile from the Permian, on display at the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town, South Africa.
June 7, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
William Anders passed away earlier today. While orbiting with Borman and Lovell, he took the iconic Earthrise photo. No human had ever seen it before.

On the transmission he said "Oh my God, look at that picture over there! It's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"

🧪 🌕

Image: NASA
June 8, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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It's #WorldOceanDay! Unfortunately, the climate crisis continues and we are feeling it more than ever.
This year I've collected some thoughts from our wider research group about what "Ocean-Climate Action" means - hopefully soon we will see more action from those up top
#WOD24 #WOD2024
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“Ocean-climate action is about safeguarding our ocean from climate change impacts while harnessing the ocean's potential to combat climate change - a relationship vital for the health of our planet” - Beth Langley PhD student, University of Glasgow “Ocean-climate action means taking urgent steps to protect our oceans from climate change impacts. It’s about ensuring a healthy ocean for greater biodiversity and a healthy society” - Gina Kolzenburg Staff Scientist, Umeå University “Ocean-climate action is remembering how connected everýthing on Earth is – our impact on land, ocean or air has cascading consequences throughout the system” - Heidi Burdett Associate Professor, Umeå University “Ocean-climate action is remembering that the oceans control Earth’s climate so we cannot tackle climate change without protecting our oceans” - Nick Kamenos Professor, Umeå University
June 8, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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Happy World Oceans Day!
🌊🦑🐋🪼🪸🐙🦀🐠🐟🤿🧪
Held June 8th every year, the purpose of World Ocean Day is to raise awareness about human impacts on the ocean, mobilize citizen action, & unite the world in caring for & the sustainable management of the world's oceans.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
#envhist
World Oceans Day | United Nations
The oceans cover about two-thirds of the surface of the Earth and are the very foundations of life.
www.un.org
June 8, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Yesterday would have been the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, but oceanographers and our ability to make predictions called for a one-day delay. This ensured that the landings were a success. 🧪

#WorldWarTwo
The Man Who Delayed D-Day
The eminent oceanographer Walter Munk reflects on science and war.
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June 6, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Asian hornets survive UK winter for first time, DNA testing shows. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Asian Hornets survive UK winter for first time, DNA testing shows
The species poses a deadly threat to honey bees, master beekeeper Lynne Ingram tells the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 4, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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INCREDIBLE images from China's Chang’e 6 lander, which landed on the far side of the moon late on June 1 and lifted off in an ascent vehicle with the first lunar samples from the far side of the moon yesterday.

Image credit: CNSA

🧪🛰️🔭 #scicomm #womeninstem
the moon’s surface looking browinsh gray, not a lot of large rocks the moon’s surface looking browinsh gray, not a lot of large rocks A shot with the lander leg in the front and the moon’s surface A wide angle shot with the lander leg in the front and the moon in the distance
June 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM