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Just wanting to confirm my bird ID, is this a Collared Sparrowhawk @wtb_Michael @Twitchathon?
Unless these books say something different to what I expect, we have a problem here (okay, I’ll accept Astronomy)
ALT Bookstore shelf labelled Science but holding books on tarot, astrology, chakras and numerology, alongside one on astronomy
I had a great time chatting to @MichaelEMann, always good to talk about how basic physics underlies the serious climate consequences we’re seeing. The consequences themselves, not so good
In our latest episode, we speak to climatologist @MichaelEMann about THAT hockey stick graph of historic temperatures, and how not to give in to doom in the face of climate change @3CR @thinkincAU 3cr.org.au/lostinscience/epi…
Our twins recently picked up Covid from childcare (we strongly suspect), and now we’ve received an email about an unnamed “illness” going around… Whatever could it be?
With the #AussieBirdCount on it’s a great time to support @BirdlifeOz, but, um, I think these posters have the wrong Brunswick… What do you think, @Twitchathon?
I made a video! For the latest episode of @LostinScience1, with the physics of how ropes and yarn hold together, while Stu talks to @ChristianRinke about plastic-eating superworms. What?!?
+ Stu talks to Dr Chris Rinke from @UQ_News School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences about superworms that eat polystyrene. ▶️🧪📻 3cr.org.au/lostinscience/epi…
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There it is: the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, four million times the mass of the Sun. From the Event Horizon Telescope, which is really a team effort of multiple radio telescopes here on Earth.
We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*. It’s the dawn of a new era of black hole physics. Credit: EHT Collaboration. #OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole
Link: eventhorizontelescope.org/bl…
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Standard Model of physics challenged by most precise measurement of W boson particle yet - ABC News abc.net.au/news/science/2022…
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The case to #RenameJWST and do right by the LGBTQ+ community has only gotten stronger. We last talked about this space telescope controversy in Feb on Lost in Science, 3cr.org.au/lostinscience/epi…
Right, so let's talk about James Webb. It's a big and complicated story and maybe, like me, you've been mainly following it through headlines. Maybe you'd like to think about it more deeply now and consider why we should #renameJWST. For you, a thread 🧵: scientificamerican.com/artic…
A few people have pointed out that this was already well known – the article even quotes a 1992 biography – but it also appears to have been minimised and unless you were reading extensively and looking out for it, it’s easy to have missed 1/3
Late to this, but: turns out Erwin Schrödinger sexually abused underage girls. Ugh. He was long known as a bit of a scoundrel, but this is much worse.
futurism.com/schrodinger-ped…
It may seem trite to say, but we really need to talk about this stuff more. Students shouldn’t finish their physics education without knowing the history, including the shameful sides 2/3
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This is very good and very important news!
📢 The first large scale UK data on the safety of #CovidVaccine in #pregnancy is out today from @UKHSA !
In people giving birth between January and August, 24,759 of whom were vaccinated...
🗝️ No difference in stillbirth rate between vaccinated and unvaccinated... 1/
