Anna Richards @MsHouseMD@qoto.org

#Japanese #aesthetics might unsettle concepts of ugliness.

* Wabi-sabi 侘寂
Embrace transience and imperfection.

* Kintsugi 金継ぎ
Repair cracks with gold.

* Yūgen 幽玄
Appreciate subtle mystery.

@philosophy @stancarey @nicup @codewiz
📷https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/07/07/Healing-Art-Kintsugi/

The German word "Bescherung" describes the handing out of Christmas gifts. But it's also used for a mishap or mess.

So, the sentence "Da haben wir die Bescherung" can mean
- "That's when we hand out the gifts"
or
- "There you are, what a mess!"

And the sentence "Das ist ja eine schöne Bescherung!" can mean
- "That is a beautiful Christmas celebration!"
or
- "What an incredible mess!"

For Xmas, I wish you all the former, not the latter, enjoy your Bescherung - and our language!

Hi there, I have been around for over a month now, and I am really happy with my network. I have a nice community of people interested in #ecology, #evolution, #biodiversity, #conservation and alike.

But, I feel that for professional reasons, it'd be good to expand my network with those interested/working in: #transformations #socioecological #social #justice #degrowth #postgrowth #intersectionality #decoloniality #PoliticalEcology

If you have such folks among your followers, please share 🙏

Just ahead of Santa's normal delivery schedule, NASA's #Perseverance mission made a special shipment on #Mars: the first sample return dropoff for the backup depot area.

Read more about this chalk-sized piece of Red Planet history. #space

https://www.space.com/nasa-perservance-rover-mars-sample-first-tube-dropped

Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s #forests.

Earth’s forests face grave challenges in the #Anthropocene, including hotter droughts increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events.

Frequency of the observed mortality-year climate conditions strongly increases nonlinearly under projected warming.

Forests are dying due to #climate change.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29289-2

On the 20th day of the #Artemis I mission, #Orion captured the Earth rising behind the #Moon following the return powered flyby.

#space
https://images.nasa.gov/details-art001e002083

A detailed study of the Kepler-138 #planetary system using 13 #Hubble and #Spitzer transit observations of the warm-temperate planet Kepler-138 d combined with new Keck/HIRES RV measurements of its host #star.

Evidence for a volatile-rich "water world" nature of Kepler-138 d, with a large fraction of its mass contained in a thick volatile layer.

#exoplanets #astronomy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08477

We had a little snow today and there was some activity. It is so slow this winter, it makes me a bit sad. I am yearning for some frost 😌 Anyways, loved the very adventurously colored House Finch, the adorable Titmouse and the King. Much to my dismay, the squirrels have found the branch cam and will not even be deterred by cayenne.
#birds #birdsofMastodon #birdsofnorthamerica #pureMichigan #birdwatching #birdlovers #nature #Ostdrossel #birdphotography

I photographed star trails at a dutch barn...it's a pretty cool thing to stand in a field of cereal all night looking at the night sky...

#startrails #astro #astrophotography #nightsky #nightphotography #nikon #longexposure #longexposurephotography #dutchbarn

Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years across

Check out this paper by Adam Mann for LiveScience, on this recent discovery in the field of cosmography, which is "the cartography of the cosmos": https://www.livescience.com/south-pole-wall-discovered-in-space.html

#universe #cosmology #southpolewall #astronomy #astrophysics #galaxies #cosmicweb #space #science #research #astrodon #scicom #sciencecommunication #sciencemastodon #sciendon #milkyway #galaxy #map #maps #cartography #physics

Cosmic fireworks over the mountains of San Juan, Argentina, in honor of the WorldCup. https://science.nasa.gov/orion-over-argentine-mountains #WorldCup #Argentina

#introduction - Greetings everyone! I'm P/D at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was previously 30 years at Columbia/Lamont working in paleoclimate, now encouraging smart people to do amazing things for ocean/climate solutions. I miss the community we had on T. Let's try to rebuild that here! Some people I've found:

@davidho
@scottdoney
@bobkopp
@kathhayhoe
@KenCaldeira
@indyfrompace
@gwagner
@coralsncaves
@MichaelEMann
@pfriedling
@climatedynamics
@Co2ley
@hausfath
@jhauck

Happy Sunday, Mastodonians! I'm grading papers today; what are *you* doing to honor the memory of John Mastodon?

Anyone still on twitter please tell people to follow me here!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I didn’t have a chance to post about my Mostodon bc Musk was banning links to it #twitter #tech #technews #twitterexodus #TwitterMiragration