Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@qoto.org

The Naked-Eye Sky Will (Briefly) Host a New Star https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/186241/the-naked-eye-sky-will-briefly-host-a-new-star?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Police don't simply enforce the law. Police enforce only some laws, against some people, in some neighborhoods.

Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?

Here’s a longer thread I wrote elsewhere. (1/7)

Once upon a time, only about 650 million years ago, our Earth was a snowball. What was the aftermath #greenhouse #climate triggering deglaciation and the ocean's role in it?

We addressed this intriguing scientific question via a set of #EarthSystemModel experiments in the new Nature Communication paper "Moderate greenhouse climate and rapid carbonate formation after Marinoan snowball Earth" led by Lennart Ramme within his PhD project.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47873-6

Etymology fact: "Midwife" doesn't imply the gender of the midwife. It comes from the Middle English "mid" (with) and "wife" (historically, used to mean "woman". So it means "person who is with the woman".  

'They don’t tell you beforehand that it will be a choice between having a career in science or starting a family. But that’s the message I heard loud and clear 17 years ago, in my first job after completing my Ph.D. in evolutionary biology. During a routine departmental meeting, a senior academic announced that pregnant women were a financial drain on the department. I was sitting visibly pregnant in the front row. No one said anything.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/women-science-motherhood.html

It can't even steer in place.

#wankpanzer #IncelCamino #cybertruck

Why are people boycotting certain products?

@palestine
#BDS
#boycott
#divestments
#sanctions

spiders have six legs

#InsectFacts #Science

This image of the Horsehead #Nebula from #JWST near-infrared camera focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane” that is about 0.8 light-years in width.

The ethereal clouds that appear blue at the bottom of the image are dominated by cold, molecular hydrogen. Red-colored wisps extending above the main nebula represent mainly atomic hydrogen gas.

#astronomy #astrophotography

Ibuprofen is a gateway drug to middle age.