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nadiaalbelushi

@nadiaalbelushi@mastodon.social

Half British, half Kuwaiti. Multiracial. Female. 34 years old. Married. Physician.

Love interactive 3D scientific visualizations & simulations, maps, exoplanets, & astronomy/astrophysics/planetarium software.

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nadiaalbelushi, to bluesky
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Here's an interesting fact. I've been on since August 2023. I have 300 posts over there, almost all of which are related to science. I only have 29/30 followers there. By contrast, I've been on for only a few days, have posted 37 times, and already have 47 followers. Either I'm terrible at communication, or Bluesky is a dead undiscoverable platform. Or maybe both. Could be an algorithmic issue, or it could be that Bsky has the worst search engine (plus no hashtags).

nadiaalbelushi, to space
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Hypothetical visualizations of 900 known rocky and icy exoplanets by Halcyon Maps:

Link: https://www.halcyonmaps.com/terrestrial-exoplanets/

nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon
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I've been on for only a few days and I already feel less anxiety/stress over here than on twitter/X. I love the fact that both Mastodon and are overall leftist/left-wing. I'm so glad the future of social media is decentralized (e.g. , ATProto, Nostr, etc.).

Twitter was never a healthy place with all its silly algorithms and encouragement of confrontations. I don't know which platform US society mostly resembles, but I hope it eventually resembles Mastodon, etc.

nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon
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    On , a biologist can post something about biology and get engagements from non-biologists. Their post could also trend for the day and be widely received by people of all different walks of life. On Bluesky this CANNOT possibly happen. Everyone is in their own closed-membership algorithmic bubble/feed where only the same large accounts are amplified. You can't break through these barriers. It's a rerun of what led to twitter's demise. It's not "new " at all.

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    I spent a week on doing a social experiment. It was an exercise in depression. is the best new , by far. On Bsky, nobody uses the search function or hashtags like to discover posts. You're stuck to one science feed that's a closed-membership algorithmic coffin that only boosts large long-established accounts. It felt like I was in solitary confinement. You're forced to play the "social ladder" game, which encourages twitter-style toxicity.

    nadiaalbelushi, to Ukraine
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    's interview was beyond embarrassing, to be honest. Basically his entire argument is that historically belonged to .

    By his own logic, Russia and Ukraine should both be part of Iran because the ancient Scythians (an Iranic people) lived there thousands of years ago, long before the arrival of the Slavic peoples.

    This is exactly why I hope we erase natl borders one day and become one global federation. This planet doesn't belong to anyone. We're just guests here.

    nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon
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    So I've been on for nearly 10 days and I'm absolutely loving it. Far better place than , which is now just a Nazi website, to be honest. I love that this place is overall left-leaning, albeit there is a bit of cognitive dissonance with respect to some users who appear left-leaning until, Allah/God forbid, you mention .

    Anyway, there's just one thing I've noticed so far. I'm kinda embarrassed to ask but... Where are all the Black people? Any Mideasterners here too? 😕

    nadiaalbelushi, to tech
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    Honestly, I had no idea DuckDuckGo had its own web browser lol. This article reminded me to try out DuckDuckGo's search engine again, and compare its search results with those of Google Search. I was actually surprised to find out that DuckDuckGo churned out way better search results. I'm definitely gonna use it instead of Google from now on.

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/duckduckgo-adds-cross-device-password-and-bookmark-syncing/

    nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon
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    I don't know why people on twitter/X used to complain that is confusing. I've been here for nearly a whole day and it feels easy and very immersive. I can even communicate with users from other websites provided these websites use . And unlike twitter/X, I don't need to worry about getting stalked and harassed by regime-paid Saudis, Turks and Azerbaijanis who hate my critical views about their dictatorial countries. Can't believe I was missing this experience before.

    nadiaalbelushi, to Israel
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    How many people even know that helped Azerbaijan commit genocide against the Armenian Christians of Nagorno-Karabakh just weeks before the October 7 attack by ?

    The people of / are not the only victims of Israeli crimes. Israel literally has the blood of innocent Armenian Christians, Yemenis, Lebanese people, Kurds and Sahrawis on its hands.

    is ironically the country that's protecting the Armenian Christians.

    https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-09-27/ty-article-opinion/israels-fingerprints-are-all-over-the-ethnic-cleansing-in-nagorno-karabakh/0000018a-d331-d13d-a98f-dbb5028e0000

    nadiaalbelushi, to news
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    A terrorist attack carried out by ISIS resulted in the killing of at least 30 civilians in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Balochistan is a region that stretches from southwest Pakistan all the way to southeast Iran. My father's ancestors were from Iranian Balochistan (hence "Al-Belushi"). For decades, Pakistan has propped up terrorist groups like the Taliban in Afghanistan. The shortsighted policy was bound to backfire. Turkey should take note. Sigh...

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pakistan-election-explosion-blast-imran-khan-kmqkt8tbr

    nadiaalbelushi, to space
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    An amateur astronomer by the name of Melina Thévenot has managed to process a number of images that were taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope of wide-orbit planetary-mass objects (i.e. exoplanets) orbiting around their host stars.

    This is her website: https://isolatedplanetsarchive.wordpress.com/

    nadiaalbelushi, to america
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    How to fix the crisis and stop illegal to / once and for all:

    1. Stop overthrowing, sanctioning and destroying democratically-elected Latin American countries.

    2. Invest money in Latin America so the people there don't feel they have no choice but to flee to the .

    3. Raise the minimum wage and punish capitalists for hiring low-wage workers, many of whom are desperate illegal immigrants who are being exploited.

    Neither nor would do this.

    nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon
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    I'd like to thank Space Karen for suspending me from his so-called "free speech platform" for daring to defend Armenians against genocide at the hands of the dictatorial Azerbaijani regime. If he hadn't suspended me, then I would've probably never moved to / and / ATProto, and would've never seen the good side of humanity on the .

    There's no anxiety here. This is what should've always been.

    https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol

    nadiaalbelushi, to fediverse
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    So I just came across this super-cool website called alphaXiv:

    https://alphaxiv.org/

    It's basically a message board where you can find any specific scientific arXiv paper that you're looking for & ask questions or post comments about the paper in question. You can also highlight the specific area in the paper that you wish to ask about or comment on. The authors of that arXiv paper could then reply to you.

    Pretty neat. 🤓

    Now imagine if we can make it part of the .

    nadiaalbelushi, to Astronomy
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    A Century of Sky, Digitized
    The Harvard College Observatory’s glass plates, which record a century of changes in the sky, has now been converted into digital form.

    https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/a-century-of-sky-digitized/

    dasch.cfa.harvard.edu
    starglass.cfa.harvard.edu

    nadiaalbelushi, to Astronomy
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    WorldWide Telescope is an visualization that acts as both an interactive planetarium & sky atlas. It's free & ( ). It also includes a 3D mode where you can fly to the solar system planets & even zoom out of the solar system & Milky Way galaxy & see a 3D map of all the galaxies in the "known" universe. That said, it's mostly used for zoomable astronomical surveys & images. You can zoom into distant protoplanetary disks, etc.

    https://aasnova.org/2017/10/13/worldwide-telescope-hits-the-web/

    nadiaalbelushi, to lotr
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    You've gotta hand it to the wicked Wahhabi dictators of Saudi Arabia for managing to transform the holy Islamic city of Mecca into a hybrid real-life version of #LOTR's Minas Morgul & Mordor. I'm not sure that's how non-Muslims will be convinced that #Islam is the "true religion" lol. Ah yes, who doesn't wanna join Sauron's faith? The Wahhabi/Saudi monarchy razed down literally every historical site in Mecca, only to replace them with this alien monstrosity:

    #Movies #Art #Religion #Architecture

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    nadiaalbelushi, to Russia
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    Two things mustn't be allowed to happen:

    1. mustn't be allowed to redraw 's borders.
    2. mustn't be allowed to take / or expel the Palestinians from their lands.

    If the US/West fail to stop these 2 things, then the right of conquest, which became illegal after the end of WW2 according to UN intl law, will be normalized again. And if that happens, then the world will head towards WW3. It'll encourage copycats to do the same thing.

    nadiaalbelushi, to Astronomy
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    My dream is to see a detailed, multi-pixel image of an exoplanet in my lifetime. A Solar Gravity Lens telescope could achieve that. If only America/NASA would finance such a project. An SGL telescope would be situated somewhere near the edge of the solar system, specifically where an Einstein ring is formed around the sun. This ring could be deconstructed to recover images of distant celestial bodies/exoplanets.

    https://phys.org/news/2022-05-scientists-gravity-telescope-image-exoplanets.html

    nadiaalbelushi, to Europe
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    Just how serious is / the about defeating Putin in & pushing back to the UN-recognized 1991 borders? The Europeans are still buying Russian oil & gas via Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, which isn't really oil- or gas-rich, is simply reexporting Russian energy to the EU. To make matters worse, Azerbaijan is ruled by a -style genocidal dictator who wants to invade & annex neighboring Armenia.

    Europe is propping up these regimes.

    https://www.civilnet.am/en/news/680193/russia-appears-to-bypass-oil-sanctions-via-azerbaijan-petrostrategies/

    nadiaalbelushi, to Ukraine
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    On the occasion of the Armenian remembrance day, let us not forget that , , , , Pakistan, Georgia, the , and / the are ALL guilty of helping Azerbaijan commit genocide against Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenian Christians in 2020-2023.

    Israeli, Turkish and Ukrainian weapons were delivered to Azerbaijan via Georgia. Moscow greenlighted it to punish Armenia, and the West made sure its Israeli and Turkish allies got away with it.

    nadiaalbelushi, to Israel
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    America's sending billions of dollars to so that it could continue its against / under the guise of fighting .

    It wants the world to respect 's territorial integrity, yet it sends billions of dollars to Taiwan, a territory that is part of according to international law.

    It wants the world to stand up against , yet it aids and abets genocidal wars.

    No one buys the West's deception any more.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/us-house-approves-61bn-aid-ukraine

    nadiaalbelushi, to science
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    Has anyone else noticed that racialists tend to draw false parallels between DNA/genes & computer code/programs? They're not the same. They mistakenly see genes/DNA as fatalistic or strongly deterministic. There's no gene for becoming a musician. We're not "commanded" to do anything.

    A few articles/papers I highly recommend reading:

    1. https://phys.org/news/2020-04-dna-life-bookjust-jumbled-ingredients.html

    2. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00327-x

    3. https://medium.com/the-philipendium/is-dna-like-a-blueprint-a-computer-program-or-a-list-of-ingredients-1484b34a9121

    4. https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1747-5341-1-9

    5. https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/you-are-not-an-algorithm

    nadiaalbelushi,
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    I cannot overstate how dangerous it is to compare DNA/genes to computer code/programs, especially since the comparison is wrong (and is used by racialists).

    Your DNA doesn't carry specific instructions. It's more like a recipe list. Almost all physical and behavioral traits are either moderately or weakly determined by genes---not strongly. We're not commanded to carry out specific actions either, nor are we programmed to execute certain tasks.

    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dna-is-not-a-blueprint/

    nadiaalbelushi, to news
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    Ever heard of terminal tourism?

    I consider myself a terminal tourist lol. Basically, it's when people hang out at airport terminals even if they're not traveling. I used to do that a lot in Malta during my med school years. Used to spend hours at the observation deck, and would sometimes even eat and study there. Also used to do it a lot in Qatar. Apparently it has become a thing in America too. I used to think I was the only one who did this. 😅

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/10/03/airport-day-passes-orlando-seattle-new-orleans/

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