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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
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Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/
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I've been to that one many times!
Picture of the Ulverston rocket in the rocket park. Ulverston is in Tasmania. The rocket has four stages made out of metal bars three red fins and is painted yellow and black.
January 30, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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This is great! The Disturbing Function, from the University of Maryland Department of Astronomy.
🔭 #PoetrySky
First page of an academic book chapter 6 The Disturbing Function Do I dare Disturb the universe? T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
January 17, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) and Mr Darcey (Colin Firth) from the 1995 BBC series of Pride and Prejudice, standing together in a garden.
January 15, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

24/30
Cover of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Yellow background with a cubist sketch inside a box.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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On a sunny afternoon in Adelaide ....
A beer gareb with big umbrellas shading the tables, green chairs, large trees and blue skies Two glasses of Grüner Veltliner
January 14, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

23/30
Cover of Spaceship Earth by Barbara Ward. Mustard background with stylized yellow sun in a black circle.
January 13, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

22/30
Cover of A Severed Head by Iris Murdock. Blue background with a calligraphic head in black and yellow.
January 11, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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Proof reading exercise for my students (from New Idea I think). Can you spot it?
A trash magazine article about Beyoncé with the typo 'pubic' instead of 'public'
January 10, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

21/30
Cover of In the Freud Archives, by Janet Malcolm. Plain white cover with a yellow line under the title.
January 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

20/30
Cover of The Last Man by Mary Shelley. A painting of a skeleton approachim a man outside some ruined buildings, in daytime.
January 9, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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Pink grapefruit spider. Hurrah!
Glass with blue elephants on it, holding a pink grapefruit spider, pale pink, white and foamy, on a wooden side table
January 8, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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19. 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 📚💙

19/30
Cover of Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey. Grey background, purple astronaut suits.
January 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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211. 'Space, the final front ear and back nostril...the domain of Zara Zyfly - Space Cadet!'
From the University of New South Wales student magazine in 1987.
#TabClosed2026 🔭
Cartoon with the text: Space, the final front ear and back nostril...the domain of Zara Zyfly-Space .Cadet! Hyper space-warp factor 9-code red alert etc. I've got to finish those essays or I'll never graduate!!! Zara Zyfly, space cadet is on a mission to the planet Rootyhill!!! 'Suddenly! Gee! I hope this isn't tne end of the comic StT[DU! M Can Zara Survive??
January 5, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

17/30
Cover of Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre. Yellow, grey and white triangles separated by black lines, with a black-and-white portrait of the Queen in one of them.
January 4, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

16/30
Cover of The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell. Pale pistachio green with a yellow line drawing of a woman laughing in profile
December 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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IKR! I haven't been able to find out much about it online, and it's Menotti's SECOND space opera!
Black and white photo of the Bride from Giancarlo Menotti's opera A Bride from Pluto. The Bride is all silver and robotty with moth antennas. Credit: unknown
December 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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OhI I had Maria too!
December 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Well, 71 browser tabs closed so far in #TabClosed2026! And I've chosen a new wallpaper, from the Giancarlo Menotti opera A Bride From Pluto. So, on to my third thread of closed tabs. Trying to stay ruthless.
Black and white image of silver space capsule with porthole windows and antennas, and the bride from Pluto standing next to it in a silver dress and metal headdress. A woman in a flared skirt stands next to a man in a checked shirt nearby. Credit: unknown.
December 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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We went to the pub for Christmas lunch.
Two vol-vents on a plate A glass of beer and two plates with potatoes, pumpkin, roast lamb and Turkey, a slice of ham, cranberry sauce and mint sauce Half eaten dessert
December 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 💙📚

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Cover of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack. Deep blu stars background with gravity well or black hole lines in gold.
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

15/30 🏺
Cover of Engendering Archaeology. Women and Prehistory, edited by Joan M. Gero and Margaret W.Conkey.Black background with a drawing of a Mesoamerican ceramic plate.
December 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

14/30
Cover of This Sex Which is Not One by Luce Irigaray
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

13/30
Cover of Angelique The Marquise of the Angels, by Sergeanne Golon. Angelique lies on a couch and looks sultry.
December 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen

12/30
Cover of Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn, Picture of a black man wearing a cape and patterned clothes, sitting down, and looking off into the distance.
December 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 📚💙

11/30
Cover of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Japanese painting of two men sitting next to a screen, one playing the flute.
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM