Anna Richards @MsHouseMD@qoto.org

"Vennel occurs in street-names throughout much of Scotland, including the Glasgow Vennel in Irvine, the Boat Vennel in Ayr, Friars Vennel in Dumfries, Northgate Vennel in Peebles and The Vennel in Edinburgh. The word derives from French venelle, meaning 'little street', and is found in Scots texts from the fifteenth century onwards."

#edinburgh #photography

A #Comet and Two Dippers
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230207.html

#APOD #CometZTF

A newly discovered #exoplanet could be worth searching for signs of #life.

Despite its close distance to the central #star, the planet Wolf 1069 b receives only about 65% of the incident radiant power of what Earth receives from the sun.

These special conditions make #planets around red dwarf stars like Wolf 1069 potentially friendly to life.

#astronomy #exoplanets
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-astronomers-rare-earth-mass-rocky-planet.html

Paper by Kossakowski et al. (2023):
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245322

I’m having trouble understanding the reason for these massive tech layoffs. Twitter—sure. Meta? OK, bad bet on “metaverse” and social network in decline. But what has suddenly changed for Google and Microsoft?

One possible explanation here: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

And this morning the Shed is lost in the mists, against a landscape of unbroken snow...

The fact that Jacinda Ardern is standing down, instead of doing everything she can to remain in power, is yet another example of how different she is to the mostly awful people we have as “leaders” in everything from our governments to the little organisations we work for.

Couldn't resist. I MacGyvered my SLR to get a better view of #AR3190. This was one of the better snaps. Other, smaller sunspots even came into view.

EU-backed scientists and researchers are working tirelessly to study climate change🌍

Their work is feeding into @IPCC_CH, helping to improve the effectiveness of both national and international #climateaction.

Read more➡: https://europa.eu/!3hjJbJ

#HorizonEU #EUGreenDeal

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1616439141335719941

Time for a #PaintingsILove entry, too: Samuel Palmer - The Lonely Tower - 1861

Starting to reach out to news and media outlets to promote my upcoming Invisibility book so if anyone I know is interested in writing about it for somewhere, please let me know! (Or writing about invisibility in general.) https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300250428/invisibility/

BREAKING: The United States Treasury Department is expected designate the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary organization, as a “Transnational Criminal Organization” today. Next week, the US will impose additional sanctions against this group as well as its global support network.

First set of photos from the camera from Iceland trip. Also first Mastodon post. Shapes and colours of Sólheimajökull glacier. This was definitely one of the highlights, our guide was really informative and explained a lot about how the local volcanoes (mostly Hekla but also the more recently active Eyjafjallajökull) are seen in the glacial landscape.

#glacier #Eyjafjallajökull #Hekla #Sólheimajökull #iceland #winter #walking #travel #adventure