Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

I'm trying to get started with Mastodon and hope to find dendro people here and discuss tree rings and other fun topics! 🌳💍

It’s wild that we can see images like this from NASA’s Webb Telescope - galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away, stars being born & dying - and yet carry on ravaging the planet as if it’s not miraculous that somehow, we’re here.

A tiny speck of sand in the vastness of the cosmos. #space

With all of the horrible things happening in the world, it’s nice to find the wins. Especially in the area of our environment. A group called Coral Guardian is restoring coral reefs, and it’s quite magnificent. More wins like this, please.

https://www.coralguardian.org/en/

#Climate #Environment #CoralReef #Restoration

December 10, 1823, Mary Anning finds the first complete Plesiosaur skeleton. She sketched her discovery in one of her letters - the #animal's anatomy was so unusual, at first nobody believed her 🎧🐉

https://futilitycloset.com/2018/06/11/podcast-episode-204-mary-annings-fossils/

Bear playing hide and seek.. 😅

10 December 1942 | Deliana Rademakers, a Dutch Jehovah’s Witness, perished in Auschwitz.

She was registered in the camp on 20 November 1942. One of at least 387 Jehovah’s Witnesses imprisoned in Auschwitz.

Listen to our podcast about their story: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-17-prisoners-with-purple-triangles---Jehovahs-Witnesses-in-Auschwitz-e1edpkh/a-a7dh2m3

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #Netherlands #JehovahsWitnesses #podcast #people #women @histodons @educationecon

😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cj3EoHmqODj/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Dark-eyed juncos are true #borbs

#birding #birdphotography

Check out this beautiful #bioswale (and rain garden) video. Taken in Vancouver this year by Jordan Ross

When times are bad, help people.

When times are good, help people.

9 December 1942 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Florence Vigevino, was born in The Hague.

In February 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her mother Mietje. They were murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #WorldWar2 #Memorial #Remember #mother #Netherlands #Hague #children

@josemanuel

First to make a few things clear:
I am autistic myself.
And I have a fairly good understanding of what those kids might go through.

What if they actually _like_ analyzing data and all that? Computers be damned, they're just tools, doesn't mean humans can't have a shot at it too.
Sometimes I am hyperfocused myself, then I make ridiculous lists of lists and whatnot. Waste of time? Oh, _absolutely_, you bet! But was it satisfying to me? Oh _yeah_!

They'll have plenty of time to learn how to socialize, but does that mean you need to put them in a fascist regime that only forces them to socialize and never have _fun_?

After one evening of socializing, I'll be _happy_ to have 3 weeks of no human contact. I don't hate humans, it is just that social contact is _utterly exhausting_.

Maybe try to understand _that_.

On the final day of #StarrySights #NASA #Hubble gave to us --
Bright blue-white and orange #stars in the open cluster NGC 376. 🤩

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-captures-a-glittering-neighbor

#astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #HubbleFriday