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grb090423

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Interests: cosmology, astronomy, the sciences in general, wildlife.
Rusty polyglot. Slowly learning Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).
I informally tweet ESA news when I can.
GRB090423 was the furthest Gamma Ray Burst known to us back when I started on social media.
Both avatar and header images were taken by me.
I rarely boost images that don't have Alt Text.
I boost The Vagina Museum posts; please don't be offended... it's good to learn.
I always check your TL - If no posts, I don't follow back.

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tess_machling, to random

Ending an anxious week on a positive note - looks like we might be being taken seriously!

Woohooooo! 🙂

grb090423,
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@tess_machling

👏👏👍

markwitton, to random

For , speculative Cenozoic art at : a species adapted for grasslands (the "stilt tyrant") and high-latitude, cold environments ("tundra tyrant"). Fluffy as it is, please don't stroke the latter.
Hi-res and discussion at https://www.patreon.com/posts/children-of-re-x-88561232

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grb090423,
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@markwitton

Ohhh, I didn't realise that. Yes, I can picture myself taking one for a walk in the local park.

🦆🦖🙀
😂

RMTunion, to random

LAST CHANCE
The consultation closes today.
Don't delay, have your say.
bit.ly/saveticketoffices

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@RMTunion

Done 👍💪

@junesim63

futurebird, to random
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pea frogs in a pod

pea frogs hop
pea frogs hold
green pea frogs in a leaf
tucked into a fold

American Green Tree Frogs (Dryophytes cinereus), family Hylidae, New Orleans, LA, USA

photograph via: Harold's Plants

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@futurebird

Beautiful! 💕

@Edelruth

isomeme, (edited ) to random
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People seem to be settling on calling Elon Musk's social media dumpster fire "Xitter". I study classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and in the Spanish transliteration of that language, "x" is pronounced "sh" (so e.g. "xochitl" is approximately "SHOH-cheet"). It seems to me that this pronunciation is quite appropriate for use in "Xitter". Tezcatlipoca would approve. 🙃

grb090423,
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@isomeme

It applies in Portuguese too. It was the first thing that came to mind when I saw people calling it Xitter. So apt!

(European Portuguese btw, I don't know about in Brasil).

davidho, to random
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Cars, which kill millions of people worldwide every year, will be banned from the streets of Paris starting tomorrow.

Oh wait, I’m told they banned rental escooters, not cars.

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@davidho
🤦‍♀️

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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Last night's beautiful full Moon.
by me :)
(not saying my pic is beautiful, just that the Moon is!) XD

geomannie, to random
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Important Twitter thread from RBS England

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1696845799383003180.html

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@geomannie

Well put, RSPB. 👏👍

@peterbrown

jk, to random
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cool that in 2023 we have the technology for me to pull out my phone and point it up at the night sky and see labels for all the wonderful celestial objects out there right now such as STARLINK-3716, STARLINK-8755, STARLINK-1644, STARLINK-5244, STARLINK-6152, STARLINK-7361, STARLINK-1672, STARLINK-1739, STARLINK-5123, STARLINK-6321, STARLINK-7551, STARLINK-1540, STARLINK-1527, STARLINK-8223, STARLINK-2311, STARLINK-3080, STARLINK-3130, STARLINK-6581, STARLINK-8580, STARLINK-7001, STARLINK-5150,

grb090423,
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@jk

This is such a horribly sad toot.

And another 20-odd satellites of his were added over the weekend just passed with 40-odd more the week before.

He's doing so much damage.

paezha, to random
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Vote for fascists, expect misogyny and more generally the attitudes towards society that one would expect of cave-unbroken troglodytes.

grb090423,
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@paezha

🤦‍♀️😖😖😖

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to random
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Allow me this bit of self-adulation, but I think this is the first (and likely the last and only 😅 ) time my name is explicitly listed on Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6ntgen-Preis

[edit to add: the award is from last year, but the wikipedia entry is new to me :D]

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@vicgrinberg

👏👏👏👍🙂

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to random
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Am I sad to see astro folks move to bluesky? Yes I am.

But also at the moment I feel too burned by corporate stuff (like not just twitter, but also instagram, even for a simple private user who is interested exclusively in food pics and cute pet videos ...) to follow.

Not that it's perfect here, but I'll be sticking around for a while longer, I guess.

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@vicgrinberg

Same here 👍

elizabethtasker, to random
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I wore a mask for the first half of the conference last week, but with Sapporo going through a heat wave, the humidity was pretty high even inside. So… I masked less and less.

Now I have a 39C fever, a developing cough on an over-tight chest, headache and joint pains.

And… my friends… regrets.

Am now splashed on the sofa pondering the irony of getting sick while demonstrating the value of online virtual spaces.

(Covid antigen currently negative, but I guess may not stay that way.)

grb090423,
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@elizabethtasker

Coughs are just the worst! 😖

markmccaughrean, to random
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Note to media & journalist friends:

Giving endless uncritical column inches to the current Astronomical Charlatan-in-Chief to push their unfounded claims, to rubbish their professional critics, to play the martyr card, & to promote their books makes you complicit.

Helping delusional narcissists cash in on conspiracy theory nonsense further undermines the credibility & vital role of serious rational science in today’s society.

It’s not funny, it’s not entertainment – it’s dangerous. Stop it.

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@AlexSanterne
👍
@jaztrophysicist @Ruth_Mottram @markmccaughrean

grb090423,
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@markmccaughrean @mattkenworthy

😆 👏

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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It's Caturday!

I don't have a cat but a friend is cat-sitting today and sent me this pic, which I love!

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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Born today, 8th August 1948, Svetlana Savitskaya.

The first woman ever to perform an EVA - extra vehicular activity - and the second woman in space (Tereshkova being the first).

grb090423, to random
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Last night's Moon.
It was lovely. First time I've seen it for what feels like aeons! (There have been too many clouds.)

grb090423, to random
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I have seen lots of Red admirals on our buddleia. Nice timing for the Big Butterfly Count.

grb090423, to wildflowers
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Would anyone know what plant this is?

It's such a beautiful blue.

#wildflowers #plants #botany #BSBI #BloomScrolling

grb090423, to random
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It's NLC season!

As per Sky At Night Magazine: "June is the perfect month to watch out for shimmering noctilucent clouds. NLCs are seeded by fragmentary dust from meteor trails. Tiny ice crystals form around these particles when the mesosphere cools (which, rather counterintuitively, is during the summer). NLCs are typically visible 90–120 minutes after sunset, low above the northwest horizon, or a similar time before sunrise, low above the northeast horizon. See if you can spot them!"

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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I currently use Mastodon via a browser however I am considering using an app.

Any recommendations?

Boosts much appreciated.

(Edit: I neglected to mention it's for Android but thank you for your comments, Apple people 👍)

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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We HAVE to stop using plastics for every day things, especially foods.

"Recycled plastics... often contain higher levels of chemicals such as toxic flame retardants, benzene and other carcinogens, environmental pollutants including brominated and chlorinated dioxins, and numerous endocrine disruptors that can cause changes to the body’s natural hormone levels."

Please read this short article ⬇️

#Plastics #Pollution

https://mastodon.social/@DaveWhittle/110422412910448050

grb090423, to random
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This is an important wildlife wetlands site.

Developers cannot be allowed to turn it into a (yet another) golf course!

UK, please sign the petition.

We need our wildlife more than ever now.

https://mastodon.scot/@walkhighlands/110032663292104618

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