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I’m thrilled to announce a new workshop for aspiring and early-career science journalists, happening July 10-15 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Travel costs, meals, lodging generously covered by the Simons Foundation and the IAS.

It's going to be a wonderful week! Apply here: https://forms.ias.edu/form/ias-science-journalism-workshop.

Please share.🙏

Kummakivi is a 500,000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on top of another rock for 11,000 years

Good news everyone! Opening 15 more slots for drawing user icons for you again this week!

🌟 1 char per icon
🌟 no portraits
🌟 just silly lil guys

Book your slot on https://ko-fi.com/heyheymomo/commissions

they just came out of the glaze firing now and i’m pleased with the results!

After a fresh snow I grabbed my camera gear and headed down to the Palouse to see what I could find. The sun was out but frozen fog settled between the rolling hills. I found this lone tree covered in snow and frost as the fog was starting to leave.

"Alabaster Palouse"
https://1-mark-kiver.pixels.com/featured/alabaster-palouse-mark-kiver.html

#Ayearforart #Winter #Snow #Palouse #PacificNorthwest #landscapephotography #Photography #Homedecor #MastoArt

It's #NationalDentistDay! Here's an illustration of a scientist using a steam machine, with pulley, to extract a tooth from a man drawn on the front of an envelope addressed to a Dr. J. Chapman, 1894.

Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.

#histodon #histodons #histmed #histsci #sciart #artistsonmastodon #MuseumArchive #dentist

There was a kitty crying outside at all the apartment doors this morning looking for someone to take it inside. I stayed outside with it for 2 hours and asked several neighbors if they know anyone who lost their cat. No one knew.

Cat rescue came and got it to get it to scan for a chip. I couldn’t take it inside, so I hung out with it outside my door for 2 hours in the cold until they could pick it up. Went with the guy like yes please take me.

They’ll foster until they find the owner.

Geological pilgrimage to Hutton’s Unconformity on Arran 🖤 the basement precambrian dalradian schists are unconformably overlain by early carboniferous sediments - a gap in the rock record of almost 200 million years! #ScottishGeology

In 1999 to 2000 I was going through a very rough patch in my life. In the span of a few years, I'd gotten married, lost a parent, birthed a child, gotten divorced, changed careers, and relocated 3,000 miles away from everything and everyone I knew. What with the state of things, I didn't get to see #GalaxyQuest when it was first released.

Finally, on a day I was feeling particularly low, and shortly before the movie left the theaters, I canceled work and took myself out to a midday matinée.

I was the *only* person in a vast theater, of a size that no one builds anymore, sitting and waiting for the lights to go down. At one point, I turned and peered up at the projectionist's booth. I saw a shadowy figure moving back and forth behind the window, bending and straightening. This was in the days before automated, digital films. The Phantom Menace had been released digitally in 1999, but the equipment to show such films was extremely expensive and most theaters hadn't converted yet; "projectionist" was still a real job.

While I was looking, the figure paused, strode to the window and peered back at me, then disappeared quickly.

I turned back around and continued to fidget and ponder the misfit pieces of my life.

At the top of the aisle behind me, the theater door swung open and banged loudly on the wall. The projectionist strode down the aisle toward me, a tall barrel-shaped man with a thick beard and glasses. My first thought was that the matinee was canceled due to low turnout, and I'd be getting a refund. Just as I'd resigned myself to that, the marching projectionist shouted out in a booming voice,

"WELCOME to your PRIVATE viewing oooooooof GALAXY QUEST!!!"

He stopped in front of my row, and I saw that he had an *armload* of STUFF. One by one, he began presenting each thing to me, and as the pile in his arms dwindled, the one in my lap grew.

"As our SPECIAL VIP Galaxy Quest GUEST today, YOU are entitled to..."

"- A commemorative t-shirt!"
"- A poster suitable for framing!"
"- A limited edition refrigerator magnet!"
"- A button to pin to your lapel!"

The list and the shwag went on. With every ridiculous item, I laughed harder and harder, until there were tears leaking out of the corners of my eyes.

Then he bowed and shouted, "WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SHOW!" and turned on his heel to march back up the aisle and out the exit door.

Alas, of all the shwag only the magnet has stood the test of time. But the humor and kindness of the unknown projectionist lives on.

#storytelling

I miss my nurse & science bird app communities. Still looking for me people on here

Help me find/follow you #nurse #science #academia

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This is an odd question, but please answer this honestly.

Computer keyboards have little bumps or ridges on the F and J keys, as a key for touch typing.

Before right now, did you know these existed?

After you answer, would you please boost, so that more people see this? Thank you!

#keyboards #typing #computers

My #linocut of Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane, for #printerSolstice prompt #pattern.

The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner's column,…

#womenInSTEM #printmaking #womenshistorymonth

In #JapaneseFolklore a todaiki is a #yokai created by a sorcerer using black magic to transform their enemy into a living candle, unable to speak or move. In one tale the man who became a todaiki was sitting still, completely covered in tattoos, with a candle upon his head, almost like a piece of furniture. More info and art here: https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/07/todaiki.html?spref=tw&m=1
#MythologyMonday #folklore #ukiyoe #japodon #DailyFolklore #JapaneseArt @folklore @mythologymonday
🎨Taiso Yoshitoshi, 1893

rodo: I gnaw
Minimus is nibbling a pastinaca (carrot) with his sharp little dentes (teeth). The Romans brought carrots to Britain, but they weren't luteae (orange) back then, but albae (white).
#LatinVerbs

Yesterday I shared the process and tools of my door-with-cat drawing on Patreon 😺

If you are interested:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/knock-knock-79607241?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Have a happy week!

#drawing #procreate #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #fediart #catsofmastodon #illustration

The best thing about this door of a 16th century house in old town Goslar is that it is on the second floor.
No balcony, no stairs, just land gingerly on the van below.

#doors #thelittlebookofdoors #selfpublishing #photography #germany #harz #goslar #slowtravel

Emma.

#MastoArt #KidLitArt #Illustration #Music

I walked a path through the snow. I was followed.

#alpacas. #Vermont

The Cheesewring, Bodmin Moor, #Cornwall (UK).

This impossible weathered granite outcrop must surely have provided a reliable source of worried inspiration for many generations of Bronze Age megalith hoickers.

#StandingStoneSunday #SilentSunday