Mrs. Whatsit

Few things are better indicators of the day than when you burn your tongue on hot coffee.

You will not have a good time here if you’re a transphobe.

You will be hunted for sport.

And I think that’s wonderful.

It’s because they all know it’s really Vance who’s running for President. They’re letting Trump fail in order to invoke the 25th amendment should he win.

The absolute unit sheep; an Exmoor Horn ram

look at this absolute unit

If you're mad about how schools keep banning books, you REALLY need to pay attention when it's time to vote for your local school board members, like right now! Maybe you don't feel like you have any power to influence national elections, but you can absolutely make a difference in your town.

NYAS Publications We conducted an international expert elicitation to assess 153 bat species in North America. We identified 102 experts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico who could evaluate species status, th....

Over half of North American bat species are at risk of extinction. 🧪 nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The comet about 20° above the horizon and just slightly to the right of an oil drilling platform in the Pacific Ocean

Probably my favorite shot of the comet tonight

It’s three weeks before the election and people likely feel that to do so would mean giving up on social media entirely. This isn’t a new scenario, Threads has actively thwarted and suspended accounts for months. No one jumped off the platform in protest then. Tech bros want to divide Democrats.

This is honestly an abomination. I have lots of other words for this which you can imagine for yourself. But it's absolutely unacceptable and it means it's entirely up to us to save ourselves. Find a way to help and pitch in.

MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020 YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare

Is it too late?? If you have the time, there are full lectures by Scott Hughes (my PhD advisor!) on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

YouTube video by Heights of Humanity Podcast Dark Matter, Galaxy Formation, Dark Energy & Advanced Cosmology | Dr. Mike Boylan-Kolchin

If you have 2+ hours to kill and *nothing* better to do — which I would find very hard to believe — you can listen to me droning on about dark matter and galaxy formation, new telescopes, and some related topics. 🧪

The universe is watching. :) Young planetary nebulae. (Photo by NASA)

I love that he’s honest about it. I need to search harder.

That’s cool. I guess I need to dig further on this. Tired of spending money on shoes where the heels fall apart.

Wrinkles reveal whether elephants are left- or right-trunked, study finds Humboldt University of Berlin research also shows Asian elephants have more wrinkles than African cousins

While humans are split between right-handers and left-handers, elephants have a preference for which side of their trunk they use. Now scientists have discovered it is possible to determine an elephant’s “trunkedness” by looking at its wrinkles. 🧪🐘
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Bring back the cobbler, please. It’s the second time my heel’s fallen off.

Portrait of Karl Schwarzschild in academic garb, undated photograph, Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, American Institute of Physics (repository.aip.org)

Karl Schwarzschild, the German physicist & astronomer who provided the 1st exact solution to #Einstein's field equations and whose name is now associated w/the radius of a black hole's event horizon, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #physics #OnThisDay🗃️📜

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a vaccine against the bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C.diff), that in preclinical studies, protected against succumbing from infection AND prevented recurring cases. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

This is so, so cool. I cannot wait for Rubin to begin observations! And as big as that mirror is, consider that the Giant Magellan Telescope will be made of *7* mirrors that are *each* that size, for a total diameter of 25.4 meters. In this rendering, people (lower left) look like tiny specks. 🧪

YouTube video by Kamala Harris Menace | Harris-Walz 2024

Harris campaign up with an ad about Trump sending testing equipment to his Kremlin BFF

youtu.be/CbblxOpQPSw

Something happened at the Kremlin.. what is the question..

Giving bluesky a go! To tell the void that my latest article, '"Mind" and "Mental": Extended, Pluralistic, Eliminated' was just accepted in Synthese, arguing we should get rid of the concept of mind and category mental because they are confused, confusing, and harmful philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24024/

An announcement reading “I’m taking part in Folktale Week Nov 18-24 2024” on top of my snowy owl and Aurora multimedia artwork. A linocut snowy owl swoops through the night sky with the northern lights lit from behind with coloured LEDs so there are swaths of green, red, purple and blue.

Come October and spooky season I find myself waiting in anticipation for @folktaleweek.bsky.social to announce their prompts! I’m looking forward to taking part and seeing my feed fill with art, inspired by daily prompts November 18 to 24, illustrating folktales, fairytales, myths, legends 🧵1/2

I Worked in Antarctica for Three Years. My Sexual Harasser Was Never Caught Hundreds of support staff keep Antarctic research stations running. For decades, workers including me have had little to no protection from sexual harassers and stalkers

We at Scientific American are delighted that this story just won a @sciencewriters.org award for commentary: www.scientificamerican.com/article/i-wo... 🧪

How Mark Zuckerberg went from liberal darling to phone calls with Trump The CEO, chairman, and controlling shareholder of Facebook’s parent company Meta says he wants to be ‘non-partisan’. But that’s not so easy when you’re a monarch in all but name, reports Io Dodds

Why Dems are getting kicked off Meta.

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My linocut portrait of Félicette, a Parisian stray tuxedo cat who was recruited into the French space program. It's printed by hand, in black ink on pearlescent Japanese paper, 6" x 8". She peers from the side of the image, facing the viewer with the electrode on her head, the Véronique rocket, paw print, her name and starry sky behind her.

For the 1st #Spacetober prompt launch vehicle I chose the original catstronaut Félicette, a Parisian stray tuxedo cat who was recruited into the French space program shown here with the Véronique AGI 47 sounding rocket launch vehicle which transported her to space. 🧪🐡🔭 #histsci The most successful 🧵

My linocut print of Lise Meitner holding her glasses in one hand, while leaning on the other, in silver ink. In red ink is a nuclear fission chain reaction shown with a single neutron (white ball with motion lines) emanating from her head towards a nucleus (conglomerate of red proton and white neutron balls) then an arrow to it fissioning (becoming split into two adjacent then two separate halves with extra free neutrons). These neutrons in turn all begin the same process with other nuclei and the chain reaction takes up the left side of the print next to Meitner.

When #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) explained nuclear fission she understood nothing was “lost” (today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt) despite the missing mass after the reaction. 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating elements beyond uranium. 🧵1/n

Project 2025 Plan for Trump Presidency Has Far-Reaching Threats to Science Project 2025 would jeopardize federal scientists’ independence and undermine their influence

Kenan Thompson at the DNC is a comedian but Project 2025 deadly serious: it "would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, technology and education." www.scientificamerican.com/article/proj...