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Martian science at Oxford Birds and food too.
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After a day of terrible news on top of terrible news, I share with you a treasure: English Trappist beer, brought down from Leicester 🍻 #beersky

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The Washington Post has become the darkness. New editorial policy prohibits opinion columns opposed to Bezos' values. For "free speech." What a joke.

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Here's a still of @lunartrailblazer.bsky.social going up last night!! Taken on-site by one of our @oxfordphysics.bsky.social PhD students, Fiona Henderson. What a show! 🧪🔭 #planetsci

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Lunar Trailblazer is green for launch! T-30 mins, imminent departure!! Follow here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... 🧪🔭 #planetsci #moon

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ExoMars CaSSIS: when you crush up iron oxide to match the size of dust particles we observed with Mars Express, ferrihydrite fits the data better than hematite! (ESA press release uses a figure with no numbers or scales on the axes 😵‍💫) doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧪🔭 #planetsci

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

And here's a much more recent image of Lunar Trailblazer on the adapter ring ready to got into the fairing and onto the rocket. Launch is tomorrow midnight! @oxfordphysics.bsky.social's Lunar Thermal Mapper is the black box in front. (black thermal insulation is 🔥) 🧪🔭 #planetsci

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Exactly a year ago on Weds, NASA'a Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was fully assembled and undergoing testing. Today, it sits in a fairing atop a Falcon 9 ready for Thurs morning launch. @oxfordphysics.bsky.social built the Lunar Thermal Mapper, which is the black box upper right. #planetsci 🧪🔭 #Moon

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money

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Destruction of the Cathedral. This is important discourse. In the ideology behind Trump/Musk, "the cathedral" is Academia + Media organizations, the arbiters of truth. We've witnessed attacks on NIH/NSF/NASA/DoE etc. This essay covers those on media 🧪🧵 thesillyserious.substack.com/p/the-destru...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked. https://go.nature.com/4iboVwb

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 7 days ago • 1305 comments

Just watched Prospect. A 2018 indie sci-fi Western starring Sophie Thatcher and Pedro Pascal. I love these unassuming, low budget, well thought out, imaginative trips that come out every now and then. 🔭📽️🎬🤠 Like Orbiter 9, Io, Vesper, I am Mother....

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Learned something new: "Nature Communications uses a transparent peer review system for published work, and therefore publishes reviewer comments and the authors' rebuttal alongside the paper." Open peer review is something I loved about Copernicus / @eurogeosciences.bsky.social publications. 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trudeau: you can't take our country - and you can't take our game. 🇨🇦

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Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded & what’s next Once upon a time leaders believed that science was essential to nation’s security, to better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living & to cultural progress 🧪 #academicSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I am now tempted to start trying to work "vegetative electron microscopy" into an upcoming paper 🤔... Thank you @joelving.bsky.social and @retractionwatch.com for the good read, shame on Elsevier, and keep up the good fight! 🧪 retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/v...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Moose in Edmonton, racoons in Toronto, foxes in London, and walking the re-wilded railroads in Paris. This paper is on the ecology of urban rewilding in cities and the benefits of brings to the environment and us. doi.org/10.1111/tran... 🧪

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

WhiteLotusNight! youtube.com/shorts/HEMlu...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Tri Lo Bite!

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Member of the European Astronaut Reserve, John McFall has been cleared to become the first person with a physical disability to take part in a mission to the International Space Station. 👨‍🚀🛰️ Read more 👉 www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

#Justice at Ally Pally London 2025

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My open letter and FRS resignations reported in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments