Steph HM
starsteph93.bsky.social
Steph HM
@starsteph93.bsky.social
Astronomer focused on Galactic archaeology, Muay Thai enthusiast and lover of bees
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them

A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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A soft winter landscape, a lovely gift idea for the holiday season. It is the low price of just £35. Visit my shop today to find out more...
folksy.com/find/item/85...

#Landscape #Winter #Frost #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #Christmas #ChristmasGifts #bsnm
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Everyone's favourite mushrooms. The classic red and white fairy toadstool, Fly agaric. This original drawing is available to buy on Folksy...
folksy.com/items/8550150

#Mushrooms #FlyAgaric #MUshroomArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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This is one of my larger pieces, A4 size, an oil pastel painting. Would make a splendid gift for someone special...
folksy.com/items/8558965

#Landscape #Winter #Forest #OriginalArt #Drawing #PastelPainting #OilPastels #PastelArt #Painting #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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MSF has resumed activities in #Gaza City after being forced to suspend our operations on Sept. 24 amid the intensified Israeli offensive.

We’ve reopened our wound care clinic and treated over 640 patients so far, most with trauma-related injuries.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
October 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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A piece on how widespread AI use is driving unthinking wasteful consumption.

Crucially tho, the latter half focuses on how we still have the power to resist, to embrace the human passions of creation.

And how we can make submitting to the machine, deeply uncool.
YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨

Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces.

There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities.

This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff.

I am outraged, and you should be, too.
Palestine: MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City has forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend essential medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating sec...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca
September 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Go to grad school, where work-life balance is so bad that people need to make the case for having super normal relaxing hobbies
Career Advice | A Case for Pleasure Reading in Grad School

Reading for pleasure is an indispensable part of scholarly formation, Victoria McGovern writes. https://bit.ly/4mWwJ7M

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
September 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Spent another therapeutic hour with the bees this morning. Getting a glimpse of the inner workings of the hive, spotting the Queen and watching new bees hatch is salve for the soul. Spent a good 5 minutes watching a gal groom her little face. The drought in the UK has hit our bees hard though.😭🥰🐝
August 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1919. During her long career she helped originate the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, discovered the most distant astronomical object known at the time, and helped develop instruments for the Hubble Space Telescope.

#WomenInSTEM #Space
August 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
He's charged
August 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.

If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗

ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Magnificent Airshrimp sipping some wild bergamot at sunset.

Hummingbird Clearwing Moths are a species of day flying sphinx moth. They are able to hover like hummingbirds while feeding on flowers and most active during the hottest part of the day.
(Hemaris thysbe) PA #inverts
July 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Loch Hourn from Glac nan Sgadan #Knoydart #Scotland #Highlands damianshields.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Speaking at @nam25-durham.bsky.social NAM 2025 Durham: Eugene Vasiliev on "Distribution Function-based dynamical modelling of stellar systems". Eugene has published in #MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... "Dear Magellanic Clouds, welcome back!" This is Fig. 8: @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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“When we begin to live like wildflowers, we put so much of our hearts into blossoming even in the most hostile surroundings.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya
July 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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apologies for spamming your feed with random shitposts today but if you're in the US please boost this thing I quoted
Are there any folks in science journalism space in NY, or the US in general who would be interested in doing a story on the Paleontological Research Institution? They are one of the 10 largest fossil museums in the US and desperately need ~1-2million dollars by December to pay off their mortgage 🧪
July 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P.

The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice.

The dots moving in the background are stars.
May 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM