Dr Alastair Bruce
@spacedoot.bsky.social
Astronomer. Science Communicator. Planetarium Manager. Fond of all things up. Rather fond of what's down too...
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Last chance to co-sign our proposal to save the swifts before MSPs vote later today!
It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick.
Show your support here ✍️👇
greens.scot/saveourswifts
It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick.
Show your support here ✍️👇
greens.scot/saveourswifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts -
greens.scot
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Last chance to co-sign our proposal to save the swifts before MSPs vote later today!
It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick.
Show your support here ✍️👇
greens.scot/saveourswifts
It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick.
Show your support here ✍️👇
greens.scot/saveourswifts
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Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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More and more people from every corner of the country are joining the @scottishgreens.org
We’re welcoming members from Shetland to Stranraer every day and we're very close to hitting record membership numbers.
We’re seeing what happens when you inject hope into politics!
members.greens.scot/join
We’re welcoming members from Shetland to Stranraer every day and we're very close to hitting record membership numbers.
We’re seeing what happens when you inject hope into politics!
members.greens.scot/join
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
More and more people from every corner of the country are joining the @scottishgreens.org
We’re welcoming members from Shetland to Stranraer every day and we're very close to hitting record membership numbers.
We’re seeing what happens when you inject hope into politics!
members.greens.scot/join
We’re welcoming members from Shetland to Stranraer every day and we're very close to hitting record membership numbers.
We’re seeing what happens when you inject hope into politics!
members.greens.scot/join
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Huge.
And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Under-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Huge.
And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The Scottish Greens stand with trans people this week, next week and always. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Scottish Greens stand with trans people this week, next week and always. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Welcome to all our new members! 👋
Welcome to all our new members! 👋
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Welcome to all our new members! 👋
Welcome to all our new members! 👋
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Something extraordinary is happening.
+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.
@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.
@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Something extraordinary is happening.
+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.
@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.
@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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🚨New poll for @scotnational.bsky.social has the @scottishgreens.org in SECOND place!
Our message is cutting through. Scotland can be a fairer, greener place if we fix the systems rigged by the super-rich.
Join our movement to help turn record polls into real votes!
👉 greens.scot/join
Our message is cutting through. Scotland can be a fairer, greener place if we fix the systems rigged by the super-rich.
Join our movement to help turn record polls into real votes!
👉 greens.scot/join
September 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🚨New poll for @scotnational.bsky.social has the @scottishgreens.org in SECOND place!
Our message is cutting through. Scotland can be a fairer, greener place if we fix the systems rigged by the super-rich.
Join our movement to help turn record polls into real votes!
👉 greens.scot/join
Our message is cutting through. Scotland can be a fairer, greener place if we fix the systems rigged by the super-rich.
Join our movement to help turn record polls into real votes!
👉 greens.scot/join
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This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature.
All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...
All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...
Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds
Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30x30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas
share.google
September 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature.
All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...
All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...
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Telling it like it is, and cutting through.
September 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Telling it like it is, and cutting through.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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I’ve joined @ecotalk.bsky.social as their new Chief Ecologist , working to rewild , replant and reintroduce some incredible native species into sites across the UK . You can support British wildlife too , just switch your SIM to Ecotalk– where profits go to nature , not shareholders ! #ad
July 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I’ve joined @ecotalk.bsky.social as their new Chief Ecologist , working to rewild , replant and reintroduce some incredible native species into sites across the UK . You can support British wildlife too , just switch your SIM to Ecotalk– where profits go to nature , not shareholders ! #ad
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🔊New post-nominal alert:
Prof. Catherine Heymans FLS 😊
Dark Matter; Dark Energy; Galaxies; #Cosmology; Comedy; the Hubble, Rubin and Euclid Telescopes; #SciComm; Long Covid; Virtual Realities; @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and I talked about it all!
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔭🧪👩🔬
Prof. Catherine Heymans FLS 😊
Dark Matter; Dark Energy; Galaxies; #Cosmology; Comedy; the Hubble, Rubin and Euclid Telescopes; #SciComm; Long Covid; Virtual Realities; @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and I talked about it all!
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔭🧪👩🔬
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🔊New post-nominal alert:
Prof. Catherine Heymans FLS 😊
Dark Matter; Dark Energy; Galaxies; #Cosmology; Comedy; the Hubble, Rubin and Euclid Telescopes; #SciComm; Long Covid; Virtual Realities; @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and I talked about it all!
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔭🧪👩🔬
Prof. Catherine Heymans FLS 😊
Dark Matter; Dark Energy; Galaxies; #Cosmology; Comedy; the Hubble, Rubin and Euclid Telescopes; #SciComm; Long Covid; Virtual Realities; @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and I talked about it all!
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔭🧪👩🔬
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Sending love and solidarity to trans people everywhere.
We will always fight to protect human rights, dignity and respect for all people. We stand with the trans community today, tomorrow and always.
We will always fight to protect human rights, dignity and respect for all people. We stand with the trans community today, tomorrow and always.
April 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Sending love and solidarity to trans people everywhere.
We will always fight to protect human rights, dignity and respect for all people. We stand with the trans community today, tomorrow and always.
We will always fight to protect human rights, dignity and respect for all people. We stand with the trans community today, tomorrow and always.
Clouds outside, live stream at the front, simulated view at the back 🤩
The cosmic ballet goes on 😋
The cosmic ballet goes on 😋
March 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Clouds outside, live stream at the front, simulated view at the back 🤩
The cosmic ballet goes on 😋
The cosmic ballet goes on 😋
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Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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Our Hera spacecraft science team, including Dr Brian May of Queen, were amazed as the first images came in from the spacecraft's gravity-assist flyby of Mars and martian moon Deimos - see why here: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Our Hera spacecraft science team, including Dr Brian May of Queen, were amazed as the first images came in from the spacecraft's gravity-assist flyby of Mars and martian moon Deimos - see why here: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
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That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned.
We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures.
Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post!
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures.
Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post!
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
March 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned.
We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures.
Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post!
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures.
Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post!
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now.
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
March 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now.
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
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This is a veeryyyy good 3 minute explainer of how much power a data center consumes, visualised using Lego.
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
Amazing demonstration of data centre electricity use in Ireland - RTE, 2001
YouTube video by Ketan Joshi
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is a veeryyyy good 3 minute explainer of how much power a data center consumes, visualised using Lego.
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
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"We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths"
The great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social dropping truth bombs on this weeks show. Check it out (and please subscribe) ✊️
youtu.be/l5_jS5SQfDQ?...
The great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social dropping truth bombs on this weeks show. Check it out (and please subscribe) ✊️
youtu.be/l5_jS5SQfDQ?...
#71 - George Monbiot - How we beat The Invisible Doctrine
YouTube video by The James Kennedy Podcast
youtu.be
February 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths"
The great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social dropping truth bombs on this weeks show. Check it out (and please subscribe) ✊️
youtu.be/l5_jS5SQfDQ?...
The great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social dropping truth bombs on this weeks show. Check it out (and please subscribe) ✊️
youtu.be/l5_jS5SQfDQ?...
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Annual release of millions of non-native gamebirds for shooting? Sure, no problem, no licences/permission required, fill yer boots, do what you like.
Carefully managed & licensed reintroduction of a native species? Not if its got sharp claws and teeth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carefully managed & licensed reintroduction of a native species? Not if its got sharp claws and teeth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
John Swinney rules out reintroduction of lynx to Scotland
The first minister tells farmers that no carnivorous species will be reintroduced under his government.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Annual release of millions of non-native gamebirds for shooting? Sure, no problem, no licences/permission required, fill yer boots, do what you like.
Carefully managed & licensed reintroduction of a native species? Not if its got sharp claws and teeth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carefully managed & licensed reintroduction of a native species? Not if its got sharp claws and teeth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Are you ready to chase the Moon? 🌖 #NationalAstronomyWeek begins tomorrow, 1st February! You can find out more about how to get involved and an exciting line-up of events across the UK at astronomyweek.org.uk. However, whilst us Earthlings gaze up at the Moon, Euclid won't be joining us... (1/4)
January 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Are you ready to chase the Moon? 🌖 #NationalAstronomyWeek begins tomorrow, 1st February! You can find out more about how to get involved and an exciting line-up of events across the UK at astronomyweek.org.uk. However, whilst us Earthlings gaze up at the Moon, Euclid won't be joining us... (1/4)