Anna Richards @MsHouseMD@qoto.org

This agate looks like a wee owl 🦉 #ScottishGeology #Geology

United Federation of Instances now has hundreds of thousands of users! We had a few more join last night.

DM me if you want to join, be a founding member. Joining will be a much harder process once we launch in about a week.

#UFoI @ufoi #UFI #Mastoadmin

A Fox News Alert from my two year old.

#introduction

👋 Hello from #Zurich!

I'm a researcher working at the intersection of #neurosciene and #ai. Before joining Google's #connectomics team earlier this year, I did my PhD advised by @jakhmack on simulation-based Inference (#sbi).

Excited to see Mastodon gaining momentum!

For many many years I've reviewed and recommended kids' books about space. After a couple-year hiatus, I'm finally back at it! I'll use this thread to review and recommend books to give to kids of all ages, or to libraries or schools.

I have a biiiiiiiiig pile to sort through. First up: my recommendations for kids ages 0-3:
https://www.lakdawalla.com/emily/blog-patreon/kids-space-books/kidsbooks-0-to-3/

#books #kidsbooks #kids #space #reading #giftideas

This is NGC 2359, Thor's Helmet Nebula. Also called the Duck Nebula, but between you and me, I'm not seeing the duck. This is 2 1/2 hours of it. When the rain and the moon go away again I'm going to try for 10-15 hours of this one.

Italy is now home to another famous Leonardo! 💻
Meet Europe's new #Supercomputer — the 4th most powerful in the world.

Capable of 250 million billion calculations per second, Leonardo will enable scientific breakthroughs in health, climate, and clean energy technologies.

Find out more: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_7119

#DigitalEU

You certainly don't get #skies quite like this here in the UK! This is me under the spectacular #starry skies above the #ESO #LaSilla #Observatory in #Chile. Above and to the right you can see the Large and Small #MagellanicClouds. These are relatively small galaxies that orbit our #MilkyWay #Galaxy. Literally galaxy moons!

Any time you need to escape from this world, drop by the PlanetaryLightShow site & watch flickering auroras on Saturn and Jupiter. Beautiful and mind-boggling.
https://www.planetarylightshow.com/
@PlanetaryLightShow or @PlanetaryShow@twitter.com #astronomy #perspective

'Laugh now...' Banksy's monkey trade mark is valid.

The 5th Board of Appeal of the EUIPO confirms it.

In a decision on Case R1246/2021-5, the Board of Appeal annuls the cancellation of the EUTM and rules that there is no bad faith (the Cancellation Division considered that Banksy never had any intention to use the mark).

Link to case: https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearchCLW/#basic/*///number/R1246%2F2021

#banksy #intellectualproperty #copyright #trademarks #caselaw

A group at Johns Hopkins has created a scrollable, interactive map of the entire universe, from here to the cosmic microwave background.
Extraordinary discoveries at your fingertips for free, unimaginable when I was a kid. https://mapoftheuniverse.net/ #astronomy #space #exploration

Mars Sample Return will retrieve Martian rocks and atmosphere and bring them to Earth. Want to find out more?

Join our series of virtual and in-person meetings seeking to obtain public comments on the draft environmental impact statement for the mission: http://go.nasa.gov/3gniufj
#NASAJPL

M 6.2 #earthquake 29 km SW of Las Brisas, #Mexico

#Baja California (part of Mexico), is moving NW at ~50 mm/year riding on the Pacific Plate.

This region is part of the Pacific / North American plate boundary where the plates are sliding past each other, causing right lateral strike-slip faulting.

Dipping a toe with my first “real” post. This story is from July, but I thought it might be of interest to folks who don’t normally follow math news or who might want to see the war in Ukraine from another perspective. I traveled to Switzerland to report and photograph this profile of Maryna Viazovska, who this year became the second woman to win a Fields Medal in the award’s 86-year history. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ukrainian-mathematician-maryna-viazovska-wins-fields-medal-20220705/

It's such a simple thing but it's so very beautiful, when moons and other planetary bodies come together. And the camera team lead by @carolynporco for Cassini were absolute masters at catching these events.

Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

#Saturn #Titan #Cassini #Space #Science #Astrodon