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grb090423, 46 minutes ago to random

I honestly can't wait for the LISA observatory to launch.

Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date.

#ESA #JWST #Galaxy #merger

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_detects_most_distant_black_hole_merger_to_date

amydiehl, 1 hour ago to random

I was excited to read this study until I got to the sample...all men. So while the headline generalizes the findings, they actually have no idea about how exercise changes saturated fat metabolism in women because they did not study women. When reading studies, always look at the sample. Even today women are being excluded from health studies.
https://gizmodo.com/exercise-changes-saturated-fat-metabolism-study-1851481654

ricardojmv, 2 hours ago to random Portuguese

Bom dia! 🕺

markmccaughrean, 9 hours ago to random

I’ve lived the last fifteen years in The Netherlands & although I doubtless have a limited & biased view, I’ve been happy with what has seemed broadly to be a progressive, tolerant, & environmentally-conscious society.

I guess this new centre- & far-right government coalition is about to trash all of that with its reactionary populist bullshit 🤮

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/new-dutch-coalition-aims-to-reintroduce-80mph-limit-in-cull-of-climate-goals

RickiTarr, 17 hours ago (edited 17 hours ago) to random

What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

sundogplanets, 20 hours ago to random

I am definitely very very ready to go home and not be in a big city anymore. I know at least one person at the conference who has tested positive for covid, and I hope hope HOPE that my careful masking and eating outdoors has been enough to avoid catching it. Ugh I never want to go to a conference again.

I slept badly again. Time to venture out and find food and immune-boosting vitamins and coffee, then 3+ interviews and maybe I'll actually get to watch a few conference talks today...

Pepijn, 23 hours ago to random

There's so many little things the new #Dutch xenophobic rightwing / anti-environment government will make worse.

Here's one most people will have missed:

In the early 2000 my "farmer" classmates got diesel cars as their first vehicle. They'd fill it up with "red diesel", a very cheap (no sales & excise tax) fuel legally only to be used in farm vehicles.

Despite stern warnings only one of them ever had its fuel checked. He received a small fine.

1/3

#rodediesel #klimaat #nederland #politiek

carlysagan, 1 day ago to random

“Starlink precipitation” should not be allowable as a term - I’m sorry, what?!

vicgrinberg, 1 day ago to random

Just stumbled over this lovely article about my friend Erin and her work to decipher the timing of #BlackHoles!

▶️ https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-see-black-holes-in-detail-she-uses-echoes-like-a-bat-20240212/

(May possibly give some background context on our recent paper on Cyg X-1 that I posted about yesterday and that Erin was also part of the team for 😊)

#astrodon

markmccaughrean, 1 day ago to random

Ouch 😬

Fingers crossed for my friends in the ESA #BepiColombo mission operations team & colleagues from industry as they work to restore the solar electric propulsion system to full power 🤞

The SEP system is critical to adjust Bepi’s trajectory between the various Mercury flybys, slowing the spacecraft down ahead of entry into orbit around this enigmatic innermost planet in December 2025.

#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Glitch_on_BepiColombo_work_ongoing_to_restore_spacecraft_to_full_thrust

grb090423, 1 day ago to space

Can't help but wonder how SOHO survived!

SOHO’s view of the 11 May 2024 solar storm.

#ESA #NASA #SOHO #SolarWind #ElectromagneticRadiation

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/05/SOHO_s_view_of_the_11_May_2024_solar_storm

StillIRise1963, 1 day ago to random

The Orcas are our friends.

vagina_museum, 1 day ago to random

In May 1988, legislation passed in the UK "prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities. It was in effect for a decade and a half, with massive impact on the LGBT+ community. This is a brief history of Section 28.

elizabethtasker, 1 day ago to astrophotography

The International Astronomical Union (#IAU) are hosting an #astrophotography gallery in #VR! The event is on May 27 from 11am - 12:30pm UTC and May 28 from 8pm - 9:30pm UTC, and showcases astronomical photographs captured with a smartphone 📱🌌

The event is being held in spatial.io, which is accessible from a VR headset (Quest), or just from your computer browser (i.e. no headset needed).

This is a super cool event and y’all gotta go!

Link to (free) tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/iauofficeforastronomyoutreach/1230291

grb090423, 1 day ago to wildlife

OH heard a lot of grunting outside our kitchen window in the middle of the night. On looking to see, turns out it was two hedgehogs "very much in love" 😄💕

Seems there might be a family of hedgehogs soon 🤗

#Hedgehogs #Wildlife #NoMowMay #LogPiles #Hedgerows

annalena, 1 day ago to random French

Bonjour le monde des réseaux libres !

Je débarque un peu honteuse d'avoir laissé traîner pendant des années le "rejoindre Mastodon" de ma liste de tâches. Il est temps de faire mon #introduction

Ici, je vais principalement parler de climat, de gaz fossile (toujours faussement présenté comme une énergie de transition 🙄), de Total, Engie et de transition juste de l'industrie pétro-gazière —> surprise, c'est mon travail de mener des campagnes sur ces sujets pour les Amis de la Terre ;)

Et puis j'ai aussi envie de parler de militantisme soutenable, d'intersectionnalité des luttes...

Hâte de découvrir plus Mastodon et toutes les personnes à y suivre !

astroptere, 2 days ago to random

Today it was bittersweet to say goodbye to our dear Europa #Clipper #spacecraft before it leaves for Cape Canaveral! We’ll be close to each other again for our last System Test in July at KSC, but sadly we probably won’t have a good view of it like we did today! 🚀

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sundogplanets, 7 days ago to random

I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)