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Ludmila Carone
@exotides.bsky.social
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My goodness: It's full of planets!

European in Graz.

Often to be found at Space Research Institute at Graz!

(Yes, Graz hosts the Austrian Space Research Institute. It's awesome, check it out!)
(Ja, Graz hat die Weltraumforschung und sie ist toll)
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diane.dianeduane.com
Over at #Ebooks Direct, on this "Whatever We're Supposed To Call The Sunday After Black Friday" Sunday: our #Pride package is on sale! Contains #LGBTQ & queer folk (mortal and immortal) of many kinds, stripes and varieties, all of them worth meeting at least for drinks! ebooks.direct/products/pri...
Ebooks Direct Pride Package
This package contains all our Middle Kingdoms material—some of the first LGBTQ-representing epic fantasy in the 20th-century fantasy field, now continuing into the 21st. It also contains the matter-of...
ebooks.direct
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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diane.dianeduane.com
This, FFS. (eyeroll)
November 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩

The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!

This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long curving neck and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
This is like a big deal story.

A320s are an extremely popular aircraft.

That is *a lot* of flights — and a lot of people impacted.

Cursed G2V stellar object.

More like a wrathful Ra!
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
It wasn't all wretched though. These documents record a religious festival (possibly the oldest written evidence for a midsummer celebration in England) at the fort, where beer, wine, pork, fish sauce and more was consumed!

Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Four wooden tablets with writing on them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
exotides.bsky.social
First phages now this! Antibiotics resistance is less scary when we get new tools for fighting bacteria.
sailorrooscout.bsky.social Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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margaowski.bsky.social
ah neue rossmann logo just dropped
das rot weiße rossmann logo mit einem zentaur und der schrift antifa (von mir erstellt)
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
This is a success story that Sierra Leone deserves credit for.

#GoodNews #PublicHealth #Blackademics #Epidemiology
boghuma.bsky.social BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5d
At the peak of the outbreak Sierra Leone was seeing 600 cases of mpox weekly. Over the last 8 months 200,000 vaccine doses have been delivered prioritizing the most at risk groups. Currently cases are down to 30 a week.
Public health works to end epidemics.
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
Sierra Leone’s mpox case-count is plummeting. Can the country get to zero new infections?
Ten months into a national public health emergency, and nearly six months into a vaccination campaign, Sierra Leone appears to be winning its fight against mpox.
www.gavi.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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nataschastrobl.bsky.social
5000 Menschen in Salzburg ist beachtlich und vielleicht können wir in Österreich zur Abwechslung über reale Probleme realer Menschen reden?
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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teresabuecker.bsky.social
Unserem „Fragen Sie mal Ihre Töchter“-Kanzler war der heutige »Internationale Tag zur Beseitigung von Gewalt gegen Frauen« übrigens keinen Post in sozialen Medien wert.

…

Stattdessen gibt es einen Ausschnitt seiner Rede bei der »Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände e.V.«.

💁🏼‍♀️
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
exotides.bsky.social
"Menswear meets mesopotamia" this is not a drill.
moudhy.bsky.social Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 4d
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).

I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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claudiazettel.bsky.social
Nicht die schlechtesten Nachrichten am heutigen Tag
Urteil rechtskräftig: Bolsonaro muss 27 Jahre in Haft
Brasiliens Ex-Präsident Jair Bolsonaro hat dem obersten Gericht des Landes zufolge alle Rechtsmittel im Fall seiner Verurteilung wegen eines geplanten Umsturzes ausgeschöpft. Der rechtspopulistische f...
orf.at
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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klenkflorian.bsky.social
Gestern Abend haben wir einen der angesehensten Journalismuspreise Londons gewonnen. Prämiert wurde von der Jury ein Longread in dem wir aus London und Wien beschreiben, wie Putins Schergen Persönlichkeiten in Wien verfolgen. Der Text findet sich hier. Danke.
www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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kejames.bsky.social
Ooh, big fan of Kelvin Helmholtz clouds here. Here is an interesting one i spotted a couple of years ago near Rangeley, Maine. I think it had burned off a bit, leaving only the arched tops of the “waves”.
Clouds in a dotted line formation
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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bassisjeremy.bsky.social
Geoengineering will never be a meaningful climate solution because the lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere is thousands of years and that fact will never stop the quasi-monthly think pieces about how we need to do more "research" on geoengineering.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d
The idea that opposition to geoengineering is largely just lefty extremists and loopy right-wing chemtrail guys feels very much like part of the broader project to normalise it with the ultimate aim of ensuring it is actually deployed as a tacit replacement for mitigation

archive.ph/IYgEB
But at the same moment that scientific and business leaders are softening to the idea of geoengineering, the political opposition in the U.S. is growing. “The politics are wildly bipolar,” Craig Segall, a senior adviser to the Federation of American Scientists and a former top lawyer at the California Air Resources Board, told me. In recent years, he himself has embraced the need to research geoengineering, but he has also watched opponents on both ends of the political spectrum dig in. On the left, the most extreme thinkers argue that the world should be talking only about mitigating emissions—that the solution to climate change is dramatically scaling back energy production. On the right, a contingent of MAGA leaders have become vocal adversaries to geoengineering research and are using it to feed conspiracy theories about government manipulation of the atmosphere.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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diane.dianeduane.com
DEATH-BALL SPONGES!

I've never even *met* one and I love them already. 😄
adapalmer.bsky.social Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6d
A 35-day deep-sea expedition in the Southern Ocean has uncovered 30 new species: from a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge to iridescent armoured worms, black corals and even the first-ever live footage of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. buff.ly/9uVWJvN
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea
In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of life, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge (from the genus…
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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brandontbishop.bsky.social
...that "habitable" bit would also requires getting the planet to cooperate.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8d
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.

If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
😁
"If AI was around during the Viking Age…it probably wouldn’t have made that much of a difference.

PS. Don’t use AI when researching history. Come to The Viking Museum instead! We have a more critical approach to sources. And we use less emojis."
www.tiktok.com/@thevikingmu...
If AI was around during the Viking Age…it probably wouldn’t have made that much of a difference. PS. Don’t use AI when researching history. Come to The Viking Museum instead! We have a more critical a...
TikTok video by The Viking Museum
www.tiktok.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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blank.org
Just for context here: Tehran has a larger population than _New York City_.
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 9d
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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kidpex.bsky.social
Gestern Nacht fanden wir im Grenzgebiet eine völlig durchnässte, zitternde Gruppe Geflüchteter. Wir gaben Wärme, Essen und trockene Kleidung. Dank an Nihad, der unermüdlich ist. Jetzt sind sie in Sicherheit, im Warmen.

Danke an alle, die SOS Balkanroute unterstützen.

IBAN: AT20 2011 1842 8097 8400
Schneefälle im Grenzgebiet zwischen Bosnien und Serbien Endlich im Warmen: 2 Geflüchtete nach einer Horrornacht in Sicherheit
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Many people think about cold in Northern Europe if the Atlantic Ocean current system #AMOC fails. But that wouldn’t be the only problem for Europe by far.
This new study shows that severe drought is another one. 🌊
swinda.bsky.social Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social · 9d
📢 New paper on the impacts of AMOC collapse on European hydroclimate. 🌊

We find an AMOC collapse would exacerbate drought conditions across Europe, linked to reduced precipitation. In combination with climate change droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe.

doi.org/10.5194/hess...
Changing European hydroclimate under a collapsed AMOC in the Community Earth System Model
Abstract. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is expected to weaken or even collapse under anthropogenic climate change. Given the importance of the AMOC in the present-day climate,...
doi.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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drnereide.bsky.social
For those who may have missed it when it first came out.

This stunning infrared image from #JWST, released 11 July 2022, shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago.

It's the Webb’s First Deep Field...

➡️ web.wwtassets.org/specials/202...

🔭 🧪 #science #cosmology

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Dark velvet sky packed with countless far-off galaxies—some look like smeared amber dots, others tiny rust-colored wisps, a few pulled into long glowing ribbons and perfect Einstein rings by the huge mass of SMACS 0723 sitting in the middle. A handful of sharp foreground stars flash their classic six-pointed glitter. All this wonder squeezed into a patch so small it would hide behind a single grain of sand if you raised it to the night sky.
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
no but this time I mean it: oh my God
vuc.bsky.social David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 10d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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bramderidder.bsky.social
🤩 Go-time voor Oproer en Omwenteling! #O&O

Met dank aan @ertsberg.bsky.social en @karldrabbe.bsky.social voor het geloof in het project; @vuurdistel.bsky.social voor de prachtig dramatische cover; en uiteraard aan co-auteur Joost Van Meerbeeck!
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM