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vicgrinberg

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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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@grindcrank @drehumdiebolzen also bitte, das ist doch nicht banal ;)

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@drehumdiebolzen

  • wie Bücher in privaten Bücherregalen angeordnet werden.
  • die oder der Butter
  • Schneiderichtung fürs halbieren von Cherry-Tomaten
  • Salz-Dill-Gurken vs. Essiggurken

(wobei ich bei jedem von diesem Dingen finde, dass es ganz klar ein "richtig" gibt :P)

vicgrinberg,
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@drehumdiebolzen @grindcrank https://xkcd.com/378/

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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@quidcumque 💚

vicgrinberg, to Bloomscrolling
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Still struggling today, but hey, look at how happy my plants are. Aren't they total beauties?

The aloe flowers a second time this year (I missed the peak of the flower last time but collected the seeds that I'll try to plant in fall, when the worst of the work travel is over.)

#bloomscrolling #cactus #kaktus

A flowering red and green aloe on front of a large bookshelf.
Flower buds of a dark green and purple plant.
A small pot with three cactii with white flowers.

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@schnedan the little flowers each make a seed - I just collected the dried out flowers!

vicgrinberg,
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@grb090423 the trick with cactii and succulents is not to look after them too well (ie not to overwater them) 😂

vicgrinberg,
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@mmdolbow one of these is Ikea, another a local plant swap and a third a present from parents in law (it was a bigger plant that turned up super sick, so I just cut some bits and planted them). What I'm trying to say: just get some 😊

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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@knud @markmccaughrean having made similar mistakes in the past - yup 😂

vicgrinberg,
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@markmccaughrean @knud for me, the problem is that my brain reads "by" more on its other sense, as in "by the river", so it seems etymologically more related to "bei" than to "bis".

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@markmccaughrean @knud btw., thinking about this "they’re clearly separate meanings, one saying “do this thing continuously between now & then” & “do this one thing any time you like but no later than this deadline.”" makes me also wonder whether part of the problem is the lack of an explicit continuous tense in German. But I'm not an expert enough in grammar for that ...

vicgrinberg, to random
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Ugh, visas are so much fun. So a colleague was supposed to support me at the IAU in South Africa.

But they are from a country requiring a visa. Fine. Only for the visa you need a stamped bank statement. The consulate does not accept a digital signature. And the Dutch bank - the colleague lives in the Netherlands - does not give out physical stamps only digital signatures. So their visa got rejected.

And now I'm stuck without support.

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@dmbaturin I know and I published on this. But here we are.

vicgrinberg,
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@dimpase ufff, this sounds hard :(

vicgrinberg, to random
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Blood donation done!

And the usual plea: if you can, please donate! If you are an immigrant in NL, you can do it in English and I'm glad to go with you if you don't want to go alone!

(Also fingers crossed they don't kick me from the donation programme, my ferritin was low last time 😭)

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@can they don't :( They also don't recommend supplements at all (I still took over the counter iron one).

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@can here their explanation: https://www.sanquin.nl/over-bloed/eiwitten/ferritine - at the bottom under "Moet ik ijzertabletten gebruiken om mijn ferritinegehalte te verhogen?" - they are pretty much saying that this is something the GP should prescribe because they could have side effects and they would usually only prescribe this if also the Hb is low or you actually have symptoms of low iron levels.

In general, the Dutch is a lot less likely to prescribe anything compared to Germany :D

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@can you are welcome! Don't necessary assume that they are correct - Dutch doctors will also famously send you home with paracetamol when they should not (the Germans on the other hand prescribe antibiotics for colds ...), so who knows which side is correct.

vicgrinberg, to random
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Fand ich einen wichtigen Artikel - ein Plädoyer fürs Trittbrettfahren (es braucht beides, das hohe Engagement und die breite Masse und es ist OK, nur zum zweiten zu gehören, wir alle haben begrenzt Zeit und Energie!):

▶️ https://taz.de/Supermarkt-Initiative/!6008684/

venite, to random Dutch
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Goedemorgen en welkom bij het “we laten het niet zomaar gebeuren”-draadje van 23 mei! Gister het debat gekeken? Langzaam hopeloos aan het worden? Ik ook. Laten we niet gebeuren. Hop aan de hoop!

Het is een marathon en geen sprint. https://mastodon.nl/@venite/112483794802951007

vicgrinberg,
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@venite Yay, thanks! But it's better than having nothing and I can still check once I'm there how much I like a place ...

vicgrinberg,
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@Janda @venite Oooh, danke!

vicgrinberg,
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@annemartine @venite oh, this looks interesting, thanks! Will download their app and check out...

ognimaeb, to Happy
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Sometimes, staring into space pays off! 🤩
https://www.ukri.org/news/stfc-announces-latest-ernest-rutherford-fellows/
(Original cartoon by the amazing Tom Gauld)
#Happy #Science #Astronomy #AstroNerd #Success

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@ognimaeb omg, I am SO HAPPY FOR YOU! SO MANY CONGRATULATIONS! yes, I did scream this! This is worth screaming!

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to random
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"Es gibt eine transgenerationale Traumatradierung über mehrere Generationen. [...] Es hat nicht mit der zweiten Generation aufgehört."

"Nun würden all diese Dynamiken noch verstärkt. Denn am 7. Oktober sei etwas Wesentliches geschehen. Davor hätten die Nachfahren Holocaustüberlebender in dem Bewusstsein gelebt, dass sich das kollektive jüdische Trauma vor ihrer Geburt ereignet habe. Jetzt sei das anders."

▶️ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/steigender-antisemitismus-juden-ziehen-sich-zurueck-19733512.html

(noch frei, bald vermutlich 🔒, siehe auch Kommentare)

vicgrinberg,
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@jochenschwarzer danke!

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