Anna Richards @MsHouseMD@qoto.org

Hello! It's great to be here. I'm a PhD student at Rutgers at the moment, and this will be my "very professional" mastodon account! I'm currently working with moon rocks, specifically meteorites, specifically-specifically lunar breccias.

Look up tonight! The Northern Taurid #meteor shower is expected to peak with the possibility of #fireballs. More on EarthSky: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/taurid-meteors-all-you-need-to-know/ and SPACE.com: https://www.space.com/nothern-taurid-meteor-shower-peaks-saturday-nov-12-2022

It's not the most active shower of the year, but you might get lucky if you have very dark skies and clear weather 🌠 #meteorshower #taurids #cometencke #skywatching

#HIP41378 f THIS IS TONIGHT !!

The #night has already started in Europe. Current #weather status is:

- OHP ❌
- Calar Alto ✅
- La Palma ❌

But the weather in Chile is great ! ✅

#AstronomerLife #observation #Astronomy

Reading about the Middle Ages is like reading about an alien world where everything is familiar.

I recommend it.

For the full “Ambition” experience, I recommend watching the teaser trailer, released without any hint that it was linked to Rosetta or ESA, then the main film, & finally the epilogue released in September 2016, when the mission ended with Rosetta’s impact on 67P/C-G.

Huge thanks to Platige Image, Tomek Bagiński, Maciej Jackiewicz, Jan Pomierny, Anna Różalska, Kuba Knapik, & Aisling Franciosi & Aidan Gillen.

https://youtu.be/R4XK_NAToRI
https://youtu.be/H08tGjXNHO4
https://youtu.be/LSdYCPATV9o

#OTD eight years ago, the Philae lander left the Rosetta spacecraft & headed towards the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Some of the rationale for this astonishing European Space Agency mission with its huge technological, operational, & scientific challenges is captured in the short sci-fi film we made with Platige Image, not least in the title: “Ambition”.

Such a privilege to have been involved with such an amazing team 🙇‍♂️

#RosettaLegacy

https://youtu.be/H08tGjXNHO4

Internet Archive launches Mastodon server (hacker news led me to this)

https://mastodon.archive.org/about/more

What is Mastodon?
What are the pros and cons of Mastodon over Twitter?
Should I make the switch?

All that and more in our latest blog!

#academia #PhD #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

Read it here:
https://thestrugglingscientists.com/mastodon-for-academics/

Undetected Black Hole Reveals Itself by Violently Shredding a Star That Strayed Too Close https://scitechdaily.com/undetected-black-hole-reveals-itself-by-violently-shredding-a-star-that-strayed-too-close/

We should continue trying to convince our colleagues to come over here (on #Mastodon), and not spread around on many different apps.

We should also promote the work of PhD students and #ECR, by boosting their toots 🔄. It is important for their careers !

#Research

I just created an AsyncAPI #Mastodon server: asyncapi.social. Would you mind boosting this toot so it helps federating with other servers? Thanks 🙏

2500 years after Thales of Miletus described static electricity, physicists are still trying to figure out exactly how it works. https://nationalmaglab.org/education/magnet-academy/history-of-electricity-magnetism/timeline/600-bc-1599 #physics #History