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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My own highlights include "We can't renew this because it doesn't expire until next week" and "You're a grad student, why do you even want a YUcard?"

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Now that I'm allowed to look at the form, it /seems/ reasonably straightforward, but I am fully prepared for it to devolve into some kind of logistical nightmare.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Okay so the deeply baffling update on this is that it only works on mobile browsers and nothing else? Could not possibly imagine why that is.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect that this is not actually true.

UIT Announcement: As of October 2, 7:00 PM, all forms have been restored and are fully operational following the server upgrade. Thank you for your patience during this maintenance period.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Love trying to submit change of name/gender identity forms and then remembering that I'm at an institution that's run in such a way that it is about half a second away from completely imploding at all times. 🙄

A screenshot of a website error. At the top in large bold letters is "Forbidden." Below that in normal text is "You don't have permission to access this resource." Below that is a thin horizontal line and then italic text reading "Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at students.yorku.ca Port 443."

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 3d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 4d

First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍

Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪

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Martian Clouds Daily @martianclouds.bsky.social · 4d

This Zenith Movie was taken on Sol 2405 (2019-05-13) at approximately 17:54 LTST and a solar longitude of 24.54°.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 6d

Cruelly slain by the beast known as science dot nasa dot gov

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 6d

They took my girl the JPL Photojournal out behind the shed and killed her.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 7d

Area woman takes worst photo of Saturn, is asked to leave field of astronomy immediately.

Theoretically a photo of Saturn. It's almost entirety black except for a small yellow-white dot near the centre with small bulges on both sides, caused by the planet's rings or perhaps some bright moons. They may also simply be smearing from the photo being taken with an extremely unsteady hand.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 7d

Can you tell that it's International Observe the Moon Night?

A grid of eight rows and five columns of images. Every image is of the Moon at different angles, zooms, and exposures.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 7d

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet.

The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 8d

"I will focus on the projects that are in my dissertation. I will not wander off into any more side projects," she says, preparing a presentation about yet another new side project.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 8d

AFAIK, the entire raw images pipeline is completely automated with no human intervention, so it would require something fairly catastrophic to shut it down.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 9d

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year.

It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭

Full res: flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

A picture of Mars taken during astronomical twilight (the sun was 13° below the horizon). It shows a dimly lit reddish landscape with some hills at the horizon. Deimos, Mars' smaller moon shines with a small halo in the pale sky above.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 12d

A shocking percentage of my time in grad school has been spent rotating, adding, or otherwise mathematically tormenting various vectors.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 14d

Absolutely wild crashout by nasawatch over being asked for any kind of evidence in support of his claim that up to 4000 JPL employees might be fired by mid-October.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 15d

Eventually I will learn that attempting to understand camera geometry never ends well.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 15d

Cloudy martian afternoon over the Perseverance Rover on Sol 1635 (yestersol).

flic.kr/p/2rvFx3Q

A barren distant landscape with thin clouds and a low Sun blob.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 17d

#Kīlauea as observed by Sentinel-2

December 22, 2024 ==> September 23, 2025

Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 17d

Making myself seem a little insane to every new person I meet by walking into the conversation with the wrong name and then immediately backtracking like "Hm, actually no, that is not the name I am using."

Diana Hayes 🇨🇦 @conorwhayes.bsky.social · 17d

The thing I've discovered about changing your name is that you will constantly be getting it wrong in all conceivable contexts.

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 21d

#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity

Sol 4664 2025-09-19: Right Navigation Camera
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

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