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Autistic astrophysicist/board-game-salesperson, Borealis (Bo)'s human, amateur sailor, pulsar enthusiast, and world traveler. Loves: cats, science, board games, books, and silence. She/Her. Profile picture: me outside Banner: Bo lounging on a workbench
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BTW, random question. Just to show something... if you're a cis woman who has been challenged, whether you should be in a woman's space please tell us your story here.

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My new favourite adjective courtesy of Terry Pratchett: Fungoid www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I've been trying to sort out what to say in the aftermath of that garbage speech (which I haven't read because I don't need that), so here goes. Erin's point is important, extremely so. RFK's entire shtick is eugenics: make disabled and elderly folks just *not exist*. 1/6

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The current spelling 'marijuana' appears to have been an English invention.

submitted 7 days ago • 292 comments

I'm biased because she describes exactly my current thinking and ranked me exactly where I would, and validated my deep research on moving out of the country, but I really appreciated this video from @leejamiller.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLyw...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

does anybody have resources on what NASA/NIH/NSF grants have been completely cut, listed ideally by state or institution? 🔭🧪

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Kenosha, Wisconsin!

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

‘Rhyming slang’ or ‘Cockney rhyming slang’ is super fun and a little confusing and probably easier to show than explain. Rhyming slang: “Someone is on the dog for you.” Translation: “Someone is on the phone for you.” dog —-> dog and bone —> ‘bone’ rhymes with ‘phone’ 🧵⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

"This isn’t just bad journalism. It’s a deliberate editorial choice that speaks volumes about how establishment media downplays collective action challenging power."

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Congratu-BLEEPING-lations! It’s time we had a little talk about your use of expletive infixation. ‘Expletive infixation’ is the linguistic term for profanity inserted into a word for emphasis. (For this thread, we’ll use 'BLEEPING,' but feel free to substitute another word.)

submitted 21 days ago • 209 comments

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

These notes from universities aren't just useless and cowardly, they're actively dangerous at this point! Your university isn't a "community" if it's allowing people to be abducted off the street because of an op-ed. Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.

submitted 29 days ago • 36 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 29 days ago • 510 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 31 days ago • 813 comments

Everyone pays for search. The difference is whether you're paying with your attention, time, and private data - or with your wallet.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments