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Britt Scharringhausen

@brashtech.bsky.social

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Born to love 🪐, forced to live on 🌎. Professor of physics, knitter of things, drawer of earnest pictures, planetary astronomer. Goal: Be as low-key as possible without becoming no-key. My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 3h

Iridescent black🖤

#bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian
#feather

A raven with colorful reflections on its feathers

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 3h

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Kermilton Act One Part One #hamilton #hamiltonmusical #linmanuelmiranda #themuppets

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 4h

OMG OMG OMG

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 8d

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)

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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 5h

Never give up hop 🐸

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 7h

#caturday #QueenBean Saturday #Snoozling

A dilute orange tabby is curled up under an orange blanket with a white paisley pattern.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 23h

Quaoar has consummate V's. I SAID CONSUMMATE.

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 1d

Potayto, potahto.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

Raye Montague US naval engineer created 1st computer-generated draft of US naval ship. 1956 grad Arkansas Ag Mech & Normal College Joined Navy as clerk, sat next 2 UNIVAC I computer, stepped in to run machine, rose to be program director for NAVSEA d #OTD 10 Oct 2018 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raye_Mo...

Raye Montague in colour photo taken in 2017

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 1d

Some of y’all never placed a lit candle in the highest window of your house every evening because hope is forever alive in your heart and it shows.

Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 1d

Whither pepe?

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Beloit College @beloitcollege.bsky.social · 1d

Beloit’s beloved farmers’ market is still happening outdoors through the end of the month! Pick up pumpkins for carving, seasonal treats to savor, and bring friends along for a day of fun, food, and community. 🧡

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 1d

In the first Trump administration I found myself craving absurdist humor: Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Adventure Time... Any way to skirt around a reality that seems hostile to human life and thriving.

Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute #1 best I-am-an-adult purchase I ever made was a good mattress. The ROI is incredible.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

Sarah Hengler, Fire Queen of Vauxhall Gardens, The King's Pyrotechnic. Businesswoman, firework artist. Matriarch of Hengler's Circus family. Invented rocket element for early shore to ship lifesaving equipment. d. #OTD 9 Oct 1845 in home & fireworks factory fire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_H...

Sarah, Madame Hengler, portrait depicting her as a young woman made up from the fireworks of the business she ran for 40 years - and eventally died from when her home and fireworks factory caught fire and she died in the blaze. #WomenInSTEM #FeministSky #circus #fireworks

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · 2d

Calling all prospective grad students! 🚨

Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs.

RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 2d

omg omg omg omg The Truth is back!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 2d

Back on my usual bullshit, i.e. holding this college together with the sheer force of my personality and my love for every human being on this camps.

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 2d

Fall Break is next week. I told my students to touch grass, and the Electricity and Magnetism students said we should touch electric fields, and it was lovely.

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 2d

YES, everyone should read Cordwainer Smith. Such a man out of his time. It reads as fresh and strange, just jumps off the page.

Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 2d

AND GEOLOGGYYYYYYYY

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

“Damage is being done already. Even if funding is reinstated, we have already lost people.”…

arstechnica.com

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