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They help fight climate change.
They provide positioning and timing information.
They strengthen our connectivity capacity and resilience.

They are the EU satellite constellations!

Thanks to Copernicus, Galileo, and IRISS, we are enhancing our security and becoming stronger to tackle current and future challenges.

Learn more ➡️ https://europa.eu/!q8chMc

In the EU, we stand against discrimination.

On International Roma Day, we celebrate their diversity, language, art, and culture.

Though improvements have been made, Roma still face marginalization and discrimination.

This year, we are working with the Council of Europe on the EQUIROM project to combat stereotypes and promote Roma achievements.

Every individual deserves respect, and we are committed to turning this vision into reality for all in a #UnionOfEquality.

If you're into astronomy, this is just so wild - a black hole ejected from a galaxy created a 200,000 light-year long trail (larger than our own galaxy) of new stars. https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-010

Registrations are open for our annual Summer University for Plasma Physics and Fusion Research to take place from 11 to 15 September 2023 in Garching: www.ipp-summeruni.info

Gender bias can be handed down intergenerationally. Researchers looked at teeth at 139 European archeological sites to see if men were healthier than women. In areas where there was a gendered health gap in Medieval times, the authors found evidence of gender bias today. In PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213266120

Two-thirds of the oceans are beyond the jurisdiction of any country.

The species and resources therein risk being overexploited and damaged by climate change and pollution.

We, therefore, welcome the breakthrough agreement on the 🇺🇳 UN High Seas Treaty reached last Saturday. A success we helped achieve.

The treaty will protect the ocean, tackle environmental degradation, fight climate change, and prevent biodiversity loss.

This is a historic moment for our Oceans 💙

➡ https://europa.eu/!n8B9Xr

We are amid a geomagnetic storm caused by the first of two Earth-directed CMEs. Last night, the aurora was visible as far south as Oregon and Pennsylvania! It will likely continue the next two nights, so if you live in the northern US, Canada, or northern Europe, check the night skies tonight and tomorrow night! I have more info, with photos from last night and info on photographing the northern lights in my article here: https://www.lwpetersen.com/photo-blog/aurora-borealis-february-26-2023/

Turns out the existence of an "alpha" wolf is a myth.

It was based on old/bad experiments, conducted when unrelated wolves were thrown together in captivity.

In actual wild wolves, packs are just families. There's no dominant alpha battling for the top spot -- and in the rare cases there is, it's an alpha *female* wolf.

Insert obvious implications for the use of this term in human societies.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/

Burgers’ equation is one of the simplest nonlinear partial differential equations, with solutions exhibiting shocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgers%27_equation

We are looking for a PhD student to build a strontium clock at the MPQ in Garching/Germany.

Such clocks may soon become the basis for the official definition of time, and we have a few ideas on how to improve them.

You can learn more about our group here: ultracold.sr

Please get in touch if you would like to learn more or send your application to Dr. Sebastian Blatt.

#PRXQuantum #Physics #Quantum
Tutorial: A pedagogical and comprehensive introduction to the full quantum description of intense laser-matter interactions and its potential for quantum state engineering is presented.

https://t.co/jwTFERHLjs

🥶#Prestellar ice #chemistry unveiled: Using the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope, a team of #astronomers, including #MPE researchers Ewine van Dishoeck & Paola Caselli, discovered diverse ices🧊 in the darkest, coldest regions of a molecular cloud ever measured.
➡https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7922367/news20230123

Welcome to #Mastodon, @mpsd

#TwitterMigration #SocialMedia #SciComm #WissKomm

Our paper on Wigner crystallization with FermiNet was just published at Physical Review Letters, and selected as an Editor's Suggestion! A huge congrats to Gino and the rest of the team!

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.036401

I posted a lengthy tweeprint about it back before That Guy bought That Site that you can read here: https://twitter.com/pfau/status/1492134649157591046

Hello everyone, it's time we start officially posting on Mastodon, so here is our #Introduction -- we are the #Chandra Director's Office, responsible for updating you on all of the goings-on at the #ChandraXray Center operating NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. From newsletters and workshops to proposals and peer review, we are here to keep you in the loop with what is going on in Cambridge and in orbit. #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Space #Science #Satellite #NASA #XRaysAreTheBestRays

The second most difficult challenge in science is to have a new important idea; the most difficult one is to convince your colleagues that it is interesting.

#chemiverse #chemistry #science #idea #research

Update More in post. The US contains 26 state names are based in American Indian languages
Alabama Alabama is the name of an Indian tribe native to the state. This tribal name may have come from the word albina, which means "campsite" in their own language, or from the words alba amo, which mean "clearing brush."
http://www.native-languages.org/state-names.htm #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #diversity #racism #antiracist #indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #history #native #NativeMastodon