Sian Ford
@sianford.bsky.social
Post Graduate Researcher with Northumbria University | Software Test Analyst for Sage | Pro-European cat- and dog-loving space nerd
🤣The likeness is uncanny🤣
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🤣The likeness is uncanny🤣
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
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The XRISM satellite has detected the x-ray glow of Comet 3I/ATLAS. This is the first time anyone has managed to obseve x-ray emission from an interstellar comet!
(FYI: X-rays result from the comet interacting with the solar wind. No spaceships required.) 🔭🧪
www.xrism.jaxa.jp/en/topics/ne...
(FYI: X-rays result from the comet interacting with the solar wind. No spaceships required.) 🔭🧪
www.xrism.jaxa.jp/en/topics/ne...
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The XRISM satellite has detected the x-ray glow of Comet 3I/ATLAS. This is the first time anyone has managed to obseve x-ray emission from an interstellar comet!
(FYI: X-rays result from the comet interacting with the solar wind. No spaceships required.) 🔭🧪
www.xrism.jaxa.jp/en/topics/ne...
(FYI: X-rays result from the comet interacting with the solar wind. No spaceships required.) 🔭🧪
www.xrism.jaxa.jp/en/topics/ne...
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Trump reminds me of my nan when she'd say: "What? I wasn't asleep, I was just resting my eyes!" Only my nan wasn't a megalomaniac adjudicated sex pest.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Trump reminds me of my nan when she'd say: "What? I wasn't asleep, I was just resting my eyes!" Only my nan wasn't a megalomaniac adjudicated sex pest.
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Farage maintains he has only ever been racist in a respectful way.
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Farage maintains he has only ever been racist in a respectful way.
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Rachel Reeves: “We are freezing Russian assets and let me be clear I don’t actually mean the honorable member for Clacton.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Rachel Reeves: “We are freezing Russian assets and let me be clear I don’t actually mean the honorable member for Clacton.”
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If you need proof that when Reform UK politicians wave the 🇬🇧Union Flag🇬🇧, it's not patriotism, it's just manipulation.
The Reform Party leader, waving the Union Jack in this photo was literally a Russian Spy.
The Reform Party leader, waving the Union Jack in this photo was literally a Russian Spy.
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
If you need proof that when Reform UK politicians wave the 🇬🇧Union Flag🇬🇧, it's not patriotism, it's just manipulation.
The Reform Party leader, waving the Union Jack in this photo was literally a Russian Spy.
The Reform Party leader, waving the Union Jack in this photo was literally a Russian Spy.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.
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About 30 vultures just flew overhead, circling as they headed south. I assume they're looking for the GOP politicians who lost yesterday.
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
About 30 vultures just flew overhead, circling as they headed south. I assume they're looking for the GOP politicians who lost yesterday.
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Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
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The mystery of medical diagnosis!
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
Oh my, such amazing words. It’s a shame that those who really need to hear them won’t, or they won’t care if they do.
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Oh my, such amazing words. It’s a shame that those who really need to hear them won’t, or they won’t care if they do.
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Nigel Farage hopes that Jaguar Land Rover will "go bust" because... they made a supposedly "woke" ad.
This would cost 11,000 British jobs.
Plastic patriot.
This would cost 11,000 British jobs.
Plastic patriot.
November 22, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Nigel Farage hopes that Jaguar Land Rover will "go bust" because... they made a supposedly "woke" ad.
This would cost 11,000 British jobs.
Plastic patriot.
This would cost 11,000 British jobs.
Plastic patriot.