Anna Richards @MsHouseMD@qoto.org

Broad-billed Hummingbird

Brilliantly-colored hummingbird with dark tail and mostly red bill. Primarily a Mexican species, but occurs locally in the southwestern U.S. Can appear all dark at a distance, but in the right light, look for beautiful iridescent blues and greens on male's body. Females are less colorful than males, dusky grayish below with prominent white stripe behind the eye. Compare especially with female White-eared Hummingbird, which is more spotted below and has a broader white eyestripe and darker cheek. Occurs in scrubby riparian woodland, canyons, and thorn forest. Often visits hummingbird feeders.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/brbhum

The Spodek music & sports arena channelling the final sequence of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Katowice this evening 👽🛸

#poland #photography #itsneveraliens

Today in 1945, Dr. Roberta Bondar is born in Sault Ste. Marie. An original member of the Canadian Astronaut Corps, she went to space, becoming Canada's first female astronaut, in January 1992. Spending eight days in space, she was also the first neurologist in space.

#Space #Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons #Canadian #Space #SpaceHIstory #Astronaut

My husband took this photo in 2020, it shows Comet Neowise over the Longstone at Mottistone on the #IsleofWight.
We have wonderful dark skies here which really helped. We made the walk up to the neolithic monument late at night which was really magical. I was given a torch and duly light painted the Longstone with it whilst my husband snapped away.
We had our teenage son with us and once we had the shot we sat down and stargazed. #StandingStoneSunday

I posted this some time ago, but for those who didn’t see it: the Galactic Core region of the Milky Way over Stoke Pero Church, #ExmoorNationalPark #exmoor #photography #landscapephotography #astrophotography #MilkyWay #GalacticCore #stokepero #stokepeeochurch #graveyard

Coppery sunset on the Platte River, Nebraska
#ArtAdventCalendar #sunset #FlyoverCountry

Morning.

In Katowice for the Silesian Science Festival & some #JWST talks.

And in the hotel bar with us last night, the cast & crew of the Original Enigma Voices tour, who we talked to.

Yes, *that* Enigma 😱

You can’t make this stuff up. One for #SpaceRocks, perhaps? 🙂

#synchronicity

I could stare at these images all day and they still wouldn’t compute somehow. Great work by @markmccaughrean to bring them a little more down to Earth. #jwst #spacerocks 🖖🤘#katowice

A foggy Blade Runner evening in Katowice, looking out from the International Conference Centre. Sometimes it can be good to have a smeary lens 🤪

Today’s talk on #JWST done – I’ll have 33% more time for the same talk tomorrow, so will be able to speak more slowly & spare the nerves of the simultaneous translator a little 😱

#scicomm #photography #poland

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