Dr. Kelley Hess

One of the worst things about driving is other drivers. One of the best things about cycling is other cyclists.

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

We have awarded a new education grant through our STRIDE program. Space Science for Youth in South Africa is a professional development program for Girl Guides South Africa (GGSA) staff and volunteers. It is additionally funded by The Center for Radio Astronomy and Technologies, Rhodes University. 👩‍🔬

There is a compound word in Swedish for "moose accident"! "älgolycka" = älg (moose) + olycka (accident = unlucky = o + lycka).

Yeah, I was also hoping. Anyway, that would be great—would love to see a ringtail on a trampoline! Looking forward to your future contributions. :D

Full disclosure: dang, just read further down the comments and at least some of the videos are AI generated. 🫤

I wish there was a badger in this video so hard. 🦡🤣

UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

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... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪

If that’s the case, every trans woman must be better than some 95% (or more) of the cis men as well. Truly exceptional!

Sunset from an airplane off the south coast of Spain. The fuselage of a plane is seen against a relatively calm sea with the sun setting behind mountains on the coast.

A close up of the ocean in the previous image showing the super position of waves traveling from several different angles and with different length scales from peak to peak.

Flying to Tenerife for a PhD thesis defense tomorrow. Anyone else admire waves on the ocean from above and see a poorly calibrated radio image? No? Just me? So many baselines to go back and flag. 🤓

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Congrats to England, and to Sarina Weigman who is now 3 for 3 at the Euros! #weuro2025

Okay, let’s hope everybody practiced these beforehand this time. #weuro2025

Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.

poliisi.fi/-/helsingin-...

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!

Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”

Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

Cornell Dairy Bar FTW! Go Big Red!

The focus on the 1970s and 1980s is a historiographic choice.

I do want to point people to the achievements at the 95 Beijing Conference because in the decades that followed, governments around the world rolled out paid family leave policies and the outcomes in Beijing supported that process.

Nice paper. Also, excited to see folks & other projects using software I wrote! ☺️ If you like the images featured in the QP & want/need to make your own from radio/(sub)-mm spectral line data, I wrote a package to do it. It’s had a few recent upgrades: github.com/kmhess/SoFiA... Hess et al 2022.

Bonus football! #weuro2025

I’d really appreciate it if England didn’t leave us in such suspense again.

This is absurd.

The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.

But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.

I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding
If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)

People walk, cycle, sit, and dine along a temporarily car-free stretch of Meent in Rotterdam, which is lined with retail shopfronts, planter boxes filled with trees and flowers, terraces, bike parking, and benches.

People walk, cycle, sit, and dine along a temporarily car-free stretch of Meent in Rotterdam, which is lined with retail shopfronts, planter boxes filled with trees and flowers, terraces, bike parking, and benches.

People walk, cycle, sit, and dine along a temporarily car-free stretch of Meent in Rotterdam, which is lined with retail shopfronts, planter boxes filled with trees and flowers, terraces, bike parking, and benches.

People walk, cycle, sit, and dine along a temporarily car-free stretch of Meent in Rotterdam, which is lined with retail shopfronts, planter boxes filled with trees and flowers, terraces, bike parking, and benches.

This week, the City of Rotterdam began a car-free pilot along a section of Meent—the busy shopping and nightlife street—which will be closed to all motorised traffic for the rest of the summer. Only emergency services, cyclists, mopeds, delivery vehicles before 10:30, and pedestrians can access it.🧵

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I mean, good on the goalkeepers, but at this point in the tournament how has your team not just spent a whole half a practice taking penalty kicks? That was fairly dreadful.

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

Sweden-England bonus football!

Illustration reminiscent of Japanese rice art paintings featuring a person riding a fixed-gear bike skidding through a puddle.

Artist: NAGA

MATINEES ON THE MOUNTAIN | SAT JULY 26 @ 3PM
Join us for Contact—Carl Sagan’s epic tale of first contact starring Jodie Foster—as part of our hit summer screening series!
Make a day of it: lunch, explore, then movie magic above the city.
🎟 www.mtwilson.edu/movies/