Split image: Main photo — black-and-white portrait of young Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, smiling broadly in front of the large lattice structure at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (SW of Cambridge in the UK). Inset (left) — color portrait of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell today, short graying hair, glasses, and a warm smile, wearing a blue jacket.

#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵...

The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.

theconversation.com/fifty-years-...

#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect

Yes! Why is a motorbike permitted to be louder than a goods train? And why do shitbox ICE car owners think that making them louder is a good idea?
It's all just bringing attention to substandard performance from obsolete and inferior technology.

Robert Reich A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich

31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.

I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

Ounka—

“In Israel, your ID card dictates your destiny. A Jewish citizen gets rights, protection, and subsidies. A Palestinian citizen gets racism, home demolitions, and political exclusion.

“𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦.”

Tyler: IPA Ideological Laundromat:

“Mining’s stranglehold nurtured by Institute of Public Affairs. IPA isn’t a think tank. The IPA is an ideological laundromat, taking fossil fuel money in one end and producing climate denial, anti-renewable propaganda, and pro-coal talking points out the other.”

Someone needs to tell the nutter brigade that HPV vaccine massively reduces the risk of penile cancer too.

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Modern batteries outlast the cars they are in. They are not scrapped, and are in high demand as stationary energy storage.
When they do reach their end of life, over 99% of the metals in them can be recovered.

"unethical working conditions utilized to make these batteries".
The factories are almost 100% robotic. No child labor there.
Materials used in the majority of battery chemistries today are readily available and do not use expensive and hard to find materials that historically used child labor.

Photo of the Walkley Awards Instagram page announcing Mean Streak by Rick Morton as the winner of the Walkley Book Award.

I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.

YouTube video by The West Report Australia’s 2.4 Billion Nauru Scam | The West Report

Not quite as low as 'Children Overboard' but shades of. We unpack the Nauru deal, which is turning out to be an epic, inhumane and costly stuff-up
#auspol
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Trump appears determined to add war criminal to his list of criminal convictions.

Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe claims University of Adelaide gave her immunity from complaints by pro-choice campaigners The university, which employs Howe as a law professor, states that it ‘considers each matter on its merits’

How can it be acceptable for a person with so little respect for the law, for people in general,and distressed pregnant women in particular,as well as a complete disregard for biology,to work as a 'lecturer' in anything whatsoever.
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Single frame. Barnaby exiting a room from which a leg kicks, a hand flipping the bird, another throwing a tomato, an akubra hat and a beetroot flying, and “BUGGER OFF!” and “GOOD RIDDANCE!” Barnaby in melodramatic pose looking back says “Don’t try to beg me - I’ve made up my mind.” In front of him, Pauline Hanson in burqa (dress, legs and high heels showing) arms outstretched, saying “COME TO MAMA!” - eclipsed by Gina Rinehart behind her, long white dress, same pose also saying “COME TO MAMA!”

Barnaby out.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Another thing: if we've only managed to cut real emissions by 4% since 2005, how do you think we're getting the rest of the way to 62-70% by 2035 with the same weak policies?
The land-use accounting tricks that got us to -28% aren't yielding any more.

Hiring people with a history of murdering women, children, babies, the aged and the infirm as immigration "police" and letting them roam the streets armed and masked.
This is not an accident. Gaza is starting to look like a pilot project for bigger things.

Roadkill. Definitely roadkill.

And they have made holding a sign they don't like a criminal act.
Those who make the laws can make anything they don't like illegal.

I fact checked this. It didn’t sound reasonable at first glance. Sadly it’s true.

Amazing to watch ALP becoming an anti-intellectual, anti-education, anti-science, anti-R&D, anti-worker party that discourages dissent or questioning of the status quo. The Light on the Hill has become a guttering candle.

The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.

Trump speaks as if he thinks he is a king, and treachery is defined as anything that questions his orders.
Amazing that the Constitutional Originalists and Rule of Law Republicans have enabled this corruption and treachery against democratic government and the rule of law with barely a whimper.

Excellent work senator!
If only we had a NACC with half the spine our independent and minor party senators have shown.

Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy.

That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.

The IDF didn't just strike near a hospital. They systematically targeted and destroyed the equipment at the only cancer treatment facility in all of Gaza.

Let's be perfectly clear about the depths of evil we are witnessing. This is your US tax dollars at work.

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.

Trump will do everything in his power to reverse this. He would be very uncomfortable with the idea that presidents can be jailed for criminal activity whilst they are in power.