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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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grb090423, to wildlife
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OH heard a lot of grunting outside our kitchen window in the middle of the night. On looking to see, turns out it was two hedgehogs "very much in love" 😄💕

Seems there might be a family of hedgehogs soon 🤗

grb090423, to random
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Sometimes, on a whim, I'll check the AuroraWatch UK app... it invariably says No Significant Activity. This makes me chuckle as it reminds me of the Australian comedy show No Activity.

18+ fkamiah17, (edited ) to art
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Looks like he's drenched in the blood of the anachronistic Empire his unearned privilege is built on to me, and posing in front of the bonfire his government has made of the country.

grb090423,
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@fkamiah17

Excellent description!

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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On the 76th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, it is all happening again. Except this time it’s much worse; Israel is much more brutal.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/15/israels-war-on-gaza-live-new-nakba-as-hundreds-of-thousands-flee-attacks

grb090423,
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@pvonhellermannn

How can a people live like this?!

How can the UK and US enable this?!

(Sorry. Rhetorical questions.
I do struggle to understand though.)

astroptere, to random
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Today it was bittersweet to say goodbye to our dear Europa before it leaves for Cape Canaveral! We’ll be close to each other again for our last System Test in July at KSC, but sadly we probably won’t have a good view of it like we did today! 🚀

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grb090423,
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@astroptere

👏👍🙂

Not long now until launch?

sundogplanets, to random
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Oh no I'm on national news again...?

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4226867

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

Good! This news needs to be worldwide.

I hope SpaceX and other private space agencies are heavily fined each time a piece of their debris makes it back to Earth.

elizabethtasker, to random
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I’m having to join the morning push into Yokohama and was not expecting the trains to be as crushed as central Tokyo.

I was not correct about that assumption! I am now Elizabeth in 2D.

grb090423,
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@elizabethtasker

Oof! This brings back memories of commuting into London 😖

Hope you're ok and not too grossed out by others' armpits!

trefle, to random
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J'ai découvert Alice Munro sur le tard, il y a une dizaine d'années. Je venais de devenir mère et sa façon de raconter les femmes, les filles, les mères, l'ambiguïté des sentiments, tput ça en quelques lignes, j'ai trouvé ça incroyable. Avec Doris Lessing, c'était une de mes autrices préférées. RIP

(Si ce n'est pas déjà fait, jetez-vous sur dance of the happy shades)

grb090423,
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@trefle

Merci pour le heads up 👍👍

grb090423, to random
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Marina Hyde at her finest.

I detest both Brand and Grylls but I enjoyed this article very much.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/14/russell-brand-baptised-thames-sins-washed-away-criminal-allegations

sundogplanets, to random
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Here's my interview from this morning on my local CBC radio station talking about SpaceX space junk discovered by a farmer in his field in Saskatchewan: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-66-the-morning-edition-sask/clip/16067265-sask.-farmer-finds-space-junk-field

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

Good interview and you made great points. I hope some government officials were listening and are now thinking "we can't have another country dumping their space junk on us!"

(Canadians seem such lovely people!)

JamieDay, to random
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Worlds largest Sitka Spruce, ~1000 years old

grb090423,
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@JamieDay

Wonderful tree!

I hope you hugged it.

jknodlseder, to Astro
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Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/science/astronomy-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r00.47cK.ul5-x_7IYEtI&smid=url-share

grb090423,
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@jknodlseder

Excellent article.

ec_euclid, to Blog
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What is #ESAEuclid? It's a physics experiment and an #ESA space mission 🛰️ - but foremost it's a project imagined, designed, built, and operated by more than 2000 scientists, engineers, and technicians 👩‍🔬 👨‍💻 👩‍🔧.

We are now starting a series of #blog-posts showcasing a cross-section of the people behind #Euclid

First up:

Valeria Pettorino, ESA Euclid Project Scientist

https://www.euclid-ec.org/portraits-of-euclideans-valeria-pettorino

and

Virginia Ajani, Scientist in the Interscience Task Force for Likelihood

https://www.euclid-ec.org/portraits-of-euclideans-virginia-ajani

grb090423,
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@ec_euclid

Such a good article!

I liked the response to this question, particularly the logic of the final two sentences:

"What should you probably have learned sooner?

I did my best to learn as much as I could, proactively taking training on management, communication, science diplomacy, data science, and all the skills which I felt were needed to fulfil my role. I am OK with what I learned and when I learned it, and also with what I didn’t learn yet. We can’t do everything."

astro_jcm, to Astro
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This image perfectly conveys just how huge the 100-m dish of the Green Bank Telescope is. I had the chance to visit it a few years ago, back when I lived in the US, and the view from the receiver room is stunning. Although I must admit that looking down through the mesh floor was... "an experience" 😵‍💫 😅

https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/ants-on-a-plate/

📷 B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF

#astrodon #astronomy #science #engineering

grb090423,
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@astro_jcm

Mesh floor?! Gulp!

IGarcinMarrou, to lacabine French
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14 - Pâtisserie

Prunes de l’automne, dénoyautées, congelées à plat… décongelées et hop :)

grb090423,
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@IGarcinMarrou

😋 😋

grb090423,
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@IGarcinMarrou

et pourquoi pas? 😄 😋

_timemit_, to random
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A now sadly departed aged Birch , Storm Arwen did for her.
#thicktrunktuesday

grb090423,
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@_timemit_

What a beauty!

I hope it's still there though, even if lying down and no longer a living entity. It remains a home to many species and the rotting wood is a lifeline too.
Guessing it's been cut up though, as too often happens.

grb090423,
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@_timemit_

That's excellent news! 👍🙂

sundogplanets, to random
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Oh dear lord is it actually still Monday? I had so many good conversations today with old friends and collaborators, and yelled about satellites to a room full of astronomers to try to encourage them to take action, and didn't completely melt down in a big city.

Almost have a public website ready to go with more satellite regulation advocacy info, hopefully will get it (at least bare bones version) before my public talk tomorrow!!

Mundane observation about Toronto: SO much falafel.

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets

It sounds like you're getting so much done and that's a very good thing 👍👏

Looking forward to the website.

(Being in Toronto will make getting home all the more special 💕)

Chrislintott, to random
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A short piece on the aurora by me on the LRB blog, featuring a snowy trip to Finland. https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/tractor-beams

grb090423, (edited )
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@Chrislintott

As I'm unable to Quote Post this, I'll just say here that this article is worth reading.

If you're a little put out that you missed the aurora display on Saturday, it's worth noting that "Exact timing and strength of [aurora] is hard to predict, but their frequency follows the eleven-year cycle of solar activity... As we head into the period of solar maximum predicted for the next year or so, such events should be common."

If you haven't already, DL an aurora app now.

grb090423, (edited )
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@rdviii @Chrislintott

The one I use is really for the UK (AuroraWatch UK), but I'd imagine there's others for countries worldwide 👍

It's worth a look on wherever you get your apps from.

ricardojmv, to random Portuguese
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Dar uma cabeçada num bidão de ferro numa segunda de manhã não dá com nada. A sorte é que tenho a cabeça dura e a hemorragia estancou relativamente rápido. 🤕

grb090423,
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@ricardojmv

😯😯😯

TatianaIlyina, to random
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An incomplete list of inappropriate comments I received from my male colleagues recently:

  • You look furious.
  • You have a quiet voice. A woman from Ukraine in our department also has a quiet voice.
  • You look nervous.
  • You gave me an angry look at the elevator and I didn't dare to discuss a project with you.
  • You are so modest.
  • You don't have to get so confrontational.

They reduce our professional interactions to an imaginary emotional state of mine.

Do men talk like this to each other?

grb090423,
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@TatianaIlyina

Apparently it seems so.

🤦‍♀️

grb090423,
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@TatianaIlyina @DebR

Yes. Good idea. They need to know they're doing it and it's not acceptable.

nickbwalking, to UKpolitics
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The Telegraph running a story about a Lib Dem candidate being deselected for his "Christian beliefs" without stating which beliefs in particular got him into trouble. (To save you looking, it's the homophobia and transphobia, not the Sermon on the Mount)
https://archive.ph/BeAUj

grb090423,
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@nickbwalking

Ahh, the Telegraph... as trustworthy as the Daily Mail.

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