Katrina 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 🇺🇦 🇦🇫 *No DM’s*

Prime Minister
No more oil and gas pipelines! We must keep carbon in the ground and invest in renewables
This government is completely abandoning our climate and Paris agreement goals in favour of short term economic benefits

Awww I love this

Red glowing aurora in a starry sky

Near the Utah/Wyoming border now

The making and remaking of Marie Curie The famous physicist's legacy looms large 150 years after her birth

Happy 158th Birthday, Marie Skłodowska Curie! She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive the honor twice.

In 2017, #ScienceBooks toured the dynamics that established her as "the most iconic of all female scientists." https://scim.ag/47tkKYA

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

The irony of white Australians complaining about immigrants.

Alberta is run by anti science alt-right eugenicists

If you are in Alberta and looking to pre-order your flu and Covid vaccines, here is the hard to find link: bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

Hi @drspacejunk.bsky.social
My space colonization paper finally made it across the finish line
😆✨
Thank you again for your support while I was writing it; felt great to cite scientists like you, Carl Sagan etc

No wonder the Air Canada flight attendants have issued a strike notice - they only get paid while the plane is in the air?!

N.L. tourists, government scrambling as Air Canada strike looms | CBC News The N.L. government says an Air Canada disruption could be 'catastrophic' to the local economy and tourism industry during the province's busiest tourism season.

This strike must be averted. We finally have a booming tourism year because of the US and Air Canada punches itself in the face. Pay them.

While we’re still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like it’s nothing.

There are examples over the past year or two of independents winning seats in federal elections, outing high profile politicians, and affecting the balance of power.
They are usually women taking on the men, usually grassroots
Eg in Australia the so-called “teals” www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04...

Advance Polls are now open in Battle River-Crowfoot! #GetOutAndVote

This is #OurHomeOurRiding in #BattleRiverCrowfoot

#Newfoundland

No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.

What you see are the raised mounds of the abandoned sod houses.
The archaeologists determined the purpose of them.
The first North American forge, the leaders house, the woman’s house, the blacksmith’s house etc.
Remnants of lamps, looms, needles etc are in the museum onsite
There is fresh water.

Norse sailors would sail from Greenland to this area - their boats are a whole other level of technology - because of the access to food.
They were after Vineland. 🍇
Seals, cod etc were in the waters outside the settlement as the Indigenous people already knew (and the settlers after them)

Our guide, Matt (rocking his Viking-esque beard), gave a wonderful tour of the site.
Yes you see the actual sites where the sod houses were (and filled in to protect the archaeological site), and also the reconstructed sod houses with staff in roles of Norse settlers

Ok.
Enough.
Onto the Norse.
A short drive from St. Anthony is the world’s first #Unesco world heritage site- L’anse aux Meadows.

whc.unesco.org/en/list/4

Continuing our drive north we arrived (after too short a time in Gros Morne) in St Anthony.
Stayed in BnB by highway being fixed up and run by a local; saw icebergs from his place and it’s so beautiful drinking coffee from the dining room I totally foregave the Bates motel vibe- unconventional 💕✨

..drove north from Deer Lake to Gros Morne. Hiked - not as much as I wanted because I was sick. But visited the Tablelands trail, on Earth’s mantle!
It’s eerie there; nothing grows due to the chemistry in the soil
But across the valley green forest

Iceberg seen from shore (really zoomed)

So last week, my partner and I were in beautiful #Newfoundland for only one short week. We flew into St Johns (loved it; so windy! So hilly! Boats, sea air, friendly people), flew a short domestic flight on PAL airlines to Deer Lake (stayed on a farm - gazed at the Milky Way at night), then

And yes, for my US friends, there were Europeans in North America long before Columbus (~1000CE)

And yes, before this Eurocentric glorification of colonialism, Indigenous people had been living in North America for thousands of years prior; various First Nations groups interacted with the Norse

Now, Norse culture has been co-opted by the far right of late, but for a long time I was fascinated by journeys of ancient mariners
Eg
Polynesians (who many thousands of years ago navigated southern oceans to populate the South Pacific), & the Norse who navigated between Europe, Greenland & Canada

But had to take a break because between two jobs, divorce and helping with carework of my Mum in Australia (and navigating a new relationship with my partner in the US), life was just too much.
But archaeology has been there; I hope to return to uni one day.
In the meantime, #VIKINGS!

Story time of my visit to L’anse aux Meadows last week.
#Canada
#anthropology
My profession is as an RMT
I have a lifelong interest in humans past, present and future. I graduated from #YorkU last year with an honours degree in Social Anthropology- was accepted (+fully paid) Masters

Here’s a picture of Gros Morne
Where I was last week
Sigh
So beautiful