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vicgrinberg

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vicgrinberg, to random
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Wir haben nicht zu wenig Wohnraum, er ist nur verdammt falsch verteilt:

▶️ https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2024-05/wohnungsgroesse-flaeche-vergleich-durchschnitt-miete-eigentum 🔒

(Und ja, ich sage es als jemand, die überdurchschnittlich viel Fläche hat. I'm part of the problem.)

vicgrinberg,
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@publixpace danke, super spannende Ansätze da!

vicgrinberg,
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@schnedan danke für die Bestätigung des Problems.

vicgrinberg, to random
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ESA Director of Science Town Hall

astronomerritt, to random
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Impulse-booked myself and the partner a holiday in Crete next May.

They're fully on board but slightly bewildered at the speed with which I arranged everything.

vicgrinberg,
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@astronomerritt oh, enjoy! I really loved it there (been for a conference 6 or 7 years ag, stayed extra to explore) 💚 Such an amazing place!

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to random
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"Ability to determine which questions are or are not meaningless is an epistemological privilege few (if any) other modes of inquiry have" .

Astronomy on Tap Leiden talk by Subodh Patil with @vaurora!

#AboutToday

vicgrinberg,
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@schnedan 😊

vicgrinberg,
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@wcbdata @vaurora Hm, there also used to be astronomy on tap events in Boston, but I guess not for a while 😞

vicgrinberg, to random
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Repotted some plants. Have now two of the hedgehog aloe; once the baby has good roots, I'll start looking into finding it a new home.

vicgrinberg, to random
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Fuuuuck... Not unexpected by now, but fuck:

[German] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/entsetzen-ueber-schuesse-auf-juedische-grundschule-in-toronto-19744287.html

[English] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/police-suspects-gunfire-jewish-girls-school-1.7215118

vicgrinberg, to random
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The terrible thing about home improvement stores is that you go in to get one thing (in this case: paper nursery pots) and end up with a ton more. And I on purpose did not go to a garden centre, which would have turned worse 😬

vicgrinberg,
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@annemartine I've got some seeds from my aloe and from another succulent and I want to try whether they'll work! Also I've got a mother of thousands and can't bring it over rmy heart to just throw away all the baby plants...

vicgrinberg,
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@schnedan it does help that I don't have a car 😂 and also needed to get some groceries with my bike after that...

vicgrinberg, to random
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Took the pretty hard decision to step back from the steering group of Astronomers for Planet Earth this week - I've, realistically seen, not been able to put in my weight for the last two years or so. And I don't see it becoming better as much as I hoped it would. Hard to let go - it grew up from an idea some of us had on twitter (during an in person conference!) and look at how much folks do now with it! But it's time to give it to folks who will actually invest more time than I.

vicgrinberg,
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@venite thank you 💚 I also need to change the framing in my head - it feels like I failed, but I helped create something useful and now better folks are taking over. And some of the folks who started it continue. And I'll be able to contribute, in ways that are better suited to me at this point of my life than organising.

vicgrinberg, to random
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Ufff, no astro here (Dutch Summit grants):

▶️ https://www.nwo.nl/nieuws/van-quantum-tot-klimaat-vijf-teams-van-topwetenschappers-ontvangen-summit-grant

(Obviously, I'm not involved - can't as working for an intergovernmental organisation; but I would have wished it for the folks in NL...)

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to random
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Guter Artikel mit spannenden Denkansätzen woher das antisemitische Denken kommt:

▶️ https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2024-05/israelkritik-pro-palaestina-proteste-universitaeten-lehrende-unterstuetzung

"Will man das Gemeinsame der unterschiedlichen Spielarten des Antisemitismus herausarbeiten, stößt man fast immer auf ein merkwürdig verunsichertes Selbstverhältnis. Ich möchte versuchsweise die These entwickeln, dass jegliche Form des Antisemitismus in seinen unterschiedlichen Varianten stets etwas mit einem ungeklärten Selbstverhältnis zu tun hat ... "

vicgrinberg, to random
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Argh, I hate it when people don't have an out of office autoreply and emails and messages I send just disappear 😬 Just tell me when you will be back. I can work with delays, but I do need to know whether I have to wait a few days or a week or weeks ...

grimm, to random German
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Ich weiß, dass meine Threads euch regelmäßig die Timeline zerschießen.

Welche Möglichkeiten habe ich auf Mastodon, Threads für euch besser darzustellen?

Einzelne Posts nicht zu "listen", ist keine Option für mich, weil ich typefully für die Threads nutzen muss (gibt ja noch 1546 andere Plattformen).

Was ich machen könnte: Längere Einzelposts, wodurch ihr gesamt weniger Posts in die Timeline bekommt.

Was denkt ihr?

vicgrinberg,
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@FabianLaasch @grimm Same.

drehumdiebolzen, to random German
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Was fallen euch noch für banale Kontroversen neben „Star Trek oder Star Wars“ ein? Nutella oder nuspli. Köln oder Düsseldorf…

vicgrinberg,
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@drehumdiebolzen

definitiv alphabetisch :D
Ja!
Auch ja!
Salz-Dill und zwar am besten die polnischen :D

vicgrinberg,
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@laubblaeser @drehumdiebolzen Solange mensch nicht equatorial halbiert, ist alles OK :D

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to random
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Work from home breakfast: homemade bagel chips (American-Ashkenazi-Jewish) with gorgonzola cheese (Italian), mango (I guess originally from Southern/Eastern Asia), Georgian coffee (brought to me via a Tatar friend in London who lived in Georgia for a long time) and a paper (American, Dutch, British, German and Italian) I am late submitting my referee report for.

#AboutToday

vicgrinberg,
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@dimpase in my friend's house? :D Oh, I just realized the above may read as someone brought me the actual beans - no, my friend brought me the recipe :)

vicgrinberg,
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@dimpase the version my friend taught me has more water - I do love the concentrated take, but it's not what makes me happy in the mornings!

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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Here are the much anticipated 10 images taken by the Euclid "Dark Matter Hunter" space telescope.

The images and accompanying papers were presented today at a gathering by the Euclid Consortium. We have seen the first image before.

These are part of the Euclid Early Release Observation program. The first results from Euclid’s wide and deep main surveys will take until fall, first cosmology papers at least until late 2025.

https://www.euclid-ec.org/first-early-release-observation-science-and-reference-paper-release/
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_celebrates_first_science_with_sparkling_cosmic_views

1/n

vicgrinberg,
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@saarmuller @markmccaughrean @knud no, it's not the same meaning. "Gegen 8 Uhr" means "around 8 o'clock"

vicgrinberg,
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@saarmuller @markmccaughrean @knud "at a certain time" (zu dieser Jahreszeit ist es kalt da = at this time of the year it is cold there); there is really no easy way to express the difference between "by" and "until"

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