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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

Women behind the lens: ‘I envisioned these slaves whose lives were exchanged for indigo’

Stacey Gillian Abe’s Indigogo project explores how the dye was used in the slave trade – and how those enslaved people lost their identities

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 14h

We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...

Repair Café

Bring your broken or damaged possessions to our UCL Repair Café event at UCL East Marshgate on Friday, 7th November.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 14h

Enjoyed our documentary 'Seas of the Sun: The story of Cluster'? 🥹

Then listen to these three podcasts hosted by @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social's Alexander Milas that go in more depth on the #ESACluster mission and the making of the documentary 👉 soundcloud.com/esa/sets/sea...

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Seas of the Sun

Seas of the Sun is a film about a bold science mission and the people who made it possible. Hosted by Space Rocks founder and producer and co-director on Seas of the Sun, this series was produced by P

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Hot chicks in your barn right now. At least, pleasantly warm, incredibly fluffy chicks.

Looking down on a black mama hen with 9 small fluffy black and yellow chicks all eating from a small round container. They're standing on straw with a red heat lamp shining on them.

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Eye @grb090423.bsky.social · 13h

Beautiful Greece <3

(It's so annoying when autocorrect changes words to US spelling as opposed to British.)

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Listening in to a meeting of radio astronomers: direct-to-cell satellites are SO BRIGHT that even though they're following the rules and broadcasting in their allocated bands, they destroy astronomical observations across a huge swath of frequencies.

Radio telescopes were designed to operate in […]

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 1d

📷 What lies at the heart of this unusual-looking spiral galaxy? This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows galaxy NGC 4102, home to what astronomers call an 'active galactic nucleus' 🧪🔭

Spiral galaxy NGC 4102. The inner region immediately around the bright centre is golden in colour. A gap separates this region from a bright ring, itself surrounded by a glowing halo. Strands of dark brown dust swirl around the centre and the outer ring, joined in one spot by a curved arm. Bright, blue and pink specks of light dot the ring, showing where stars are concentrated or have recently formed.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Today's challenge: modify my "billionaires dropping garbage on us from orbit" talk to be informative for farmers who found actually space debris in their fields, while not scaring the crap out of the grade 5 students who are going to come listen too.

(Giving a talk at the Ituna Library this […]

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates ceramic figures #womensart

Photonof a line of odd ceramic figures resembling alien like creatures in white on a white surface against a brien backdrop

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 1d

🚀 Ready to launch your career into space? ESA Student Internships 2026 are now open!

www.esa.int/About_Us/Car... #ESArecruits

Graphics card showing students at ESA for the opening of the 2025 ESA Student Internships programme

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

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🏺 #archaeology

Small blue glass bottle with a round base and a long narrow neck, decorated with white swirling patterns. The bottle rests on a textured dark surface, reflecting light across its glossy finish

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 1d

💖 What lies at the heart of this spiral galaxy?

The luminous galactic centre of NGC 4102 is powered by a supermassive black hole.

Hubble has returned after 11 years to the spiral to study this region better. Read more 👉 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
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A spiral galaxy. The inner region immediately around the bright centre is golden in colour. A gap separates this region from a bright ring, itself surrounded by a glowing halo. Strands of dark brown dust swirl around the centre and the outer ring, joined in one spot by a curved arm. Bright, blue and pink specks of light dot the ring, showing where stars are concentrated or have recently formed.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The moon is very bright, but there are very faint auroras, too! (The pillars are just barely naked-eye visible, they look amazing in a few second exposure! The red colour on top is completely invisible naked-eye.)

Looking toward some scrubby woods, with green and red auroras low in the nighttime sky, and faint stars sprinkled above. The moon is behind me in the sky and very bright, so that limits how long an exposure I can take, which is why so few stars are visible.

Looking across an open field, lit by the moon, with a couple of silhouetted spruce trees on the right side. There is a pillar of auroras low on the horizon, green at the bottom and red at the top. There are a few stars visible in the sky.

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Eye @grb090423.bsky.social · 1d

If this isn't a nice, calming scene for your Monday morning, then I don't know what is.

Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I keep thinking "surely today is the last day I'll get the goats out in the electronet pasture" and then the snow melts and the weather gets (somewhat) nicer again. Not a whole lot of grass left, but the goats (and dogs and llama) definitely do appreciate a change of scenery.

An open grassy pasture under bright blue sky, with somewhat sad looking grass because it's been frosted several times. There are a bunch of black, white, and brown goats eating over on one edge, a fuzzy brown llama eating on the other edge, a big yellowish dog lounging in the sun, and a fluffy white dog trying to figure out how to get herself into trouble.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I just finally did 3 weirdly stressful paperwork things I'd been avoiding! Time to eat lunch and go outside.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 2d

📷 This was our #WeekInImages 27-31 October 2025 👇
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Four Arianespace technicians monitor the Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite being encapsulated inside the Ariane 6 rocket fairing.

Members of ESA’s astronaut reserve Carmen Possnig, Meganne Christian, Anthea Comellini and Arnaud Prost in full training gear during a fire emergency drill.

This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 26 October 2025 shows the ‘brightness temperature’ at the top of Hurricane Melissa as it moved through the Caribbean Sea towards Jamaica, where it was expected to make landfall.

Part of the Red Spider planetary nebula: the nebula’s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, illuminating the nearby dust.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Today is my day to smugly gloat about how I live in a province where we stay on standard time all year long, so I didn't have to change my clocks last night.

Tomorrow is my day to be very frustrated and apologize a lot as I miss all the meetings that have shifted because everyone else's time […]

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 2d

However, from the Treasure Valuation Committee minutes for 2022, if you count up the valuation figures that were recommended to the Secretary of State in 2022 (that includes finds from multiple years that were assessed in that year), the figure is actually over £2 million…!!!
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 2d

How do I get myself into this stuff?? 🤣

Trying to interrogate the Treasure figures when everything is reported many years later, and nothing is straightforward.

But, it's truly horrifying...

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 2d

My collage for this @us.theguardian.com piece 👇👇
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 2d

Your guide to the November night skies courtesy of @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social. Wishing you all clear skies and lots of lovely #Leonid 'shooting stars' (meteor shower peaks on the 17th)! 🤞🧪🔭🤩

An Infographic from the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh showing the November 2025 Highlights as a list. You can find the text-only format here: https://www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2025/10/24/sky-diary-november-2025/

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services.

Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0.

But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?"

Make it make sense!

Big Issue @bigissue.com · 1d

Politics is in a vibes era. Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski are proof of that. But maybe Keir Starmer can take positivity from Ruben Amorim.

What Keir Starmer can learn from Ruben Amorim

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 2d

In 1957, Vance and Pockriss released the song,

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for rainy day

But if you caught a meteor before it hits the Earth, you should use a ziplock bag and get it to a curation facility. Waiting for a rainy day would be the worst action. THE WORST.

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Eye @grb090423.bsky.social · 2d

This!

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