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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · May 13

it's ya girl, being a pain in the baby sleep lecture asking for evidence and literature

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Apr 27

I still feel weird and bad if I whistle in the car.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Apr 27

I don't remember there being many rules when I was a kid but "no whistling in the car" was a serious one. "No chanting" feels like an important one too.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Apr 23

My baby has pre-ordered me a Switch 2 for Mother's Day, which is so sweet and generous of her.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Apr 22

Hey what's been happening bsky?
I had a baby and she's perfect in every way and I'm hoping that baby vomit is good for your skin because I'm soaked in it 👍❤️‍🔥

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David Aragão 🔶 @aragaod.bsky.social · Apr 15

Hey! Join this starter pack

go.bsky.app/Cpx2Ppu

To join and connect with the crystallography at Bluesky community.

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · Mar 19

Much excitement today with the very first users *ever* on MX3. Pretty amazing that in a few short years the old dewar handling area has turned into a fully functioning beamline! So keen for all the science to come! 👩‍🔬🧪💎
#ozchem

4 people sitting around a computer screen. Several other computer screens are in the background

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 21

Fun thing about exclusively wearing giant floofy circus tent dresses to work for years is that you can spend your last day before parental leave surprising people with the fact you're pregnant.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 21

Minimal aesthetic and lowercase track and 'album' names = insta-block from me. They're all AI sludge. I want lofi sludge made by 20 year olds discovering looping tools for the first time.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 20

The most exciting times in science are when you see some results and make the Big Confused face.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 20

When I was painting regularly, I definitely noticed colours out in the world WAY more. I need to get back into it soon :)

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · Mar 18

The Gelada is a monkey with a tawny, brown shaggy coat- with males flaunting anespecially impressive mantle, intensely herbivorous, these primates spend their days hard at work in the grass mines using nimble fingers to select the best grass blades for eating. (Hiller 2000) #2025MMM

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 18

Counting the hours until I'm on parental leave. I can't even comprehend what 'not being at work' for a year will look like. I'm so excited to be a parent and have a break from particle accelerator life.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · Mar 17

This is my entire life

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types
with one sentence per page, like "GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale
Woodchips playgrounds. GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can
get right to the chipping. See why Microsoft, OpenAl and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips
workflows." and you get to the bottom and you're like I
want this I guess but I still don't know what

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James Fraser @fraserlab.com · Mar 16

Since @stephanieaw.bsky.social left the lab to start her group at Vanderbilt, we've been talking regularly on the ups and downs of academic science. We started recording...

The Tortured Proteins Department

open.spotify.com/show/10PHVou...

(science with a small dose of running and Taylor Swift)

The Tortured Proteins Department

Podcast · Stephanie Wankowicz · A deep dive into scientific discovery and the process of doing science, hosted by Stephanie Wankowicz and James Fraser.

open.spotify.com

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Mar 16

Mo The Plesiosaur (Ponteix):

In 1992, Bob St. Cyr found the fossils of a plesiosaur that lived 70 million years ago. To celebrate the discovery, Mo was constructed and welcomes people to the community. Mo is 11.5 metres long.

The photo depicts a large, colorful sculpture of a long-necked dinosaur, resembling a plesiosaur or similar aquatic reptile, painted in blue and yellow stripes. The sculpture is situated on a grassy hill in an open field, with trees, power lines, and a partly cloudy sky in the background, suggesting a rural or park setting.

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bdubik.bsky.social @bdubik.bsky.social · Mar 14

Australian election season is coming - it's time to know how your MP voted. Either enter their name (if you know who your member is) or your postcode and you will be able to see their voting record to see how your MP votes on issues that matter to you.
theyvoteforyou.org.au
#auspol

How does your MP vote on the issues that matter to you?

Forget what politicians say. What truly matters is what they do. And what they do is vote, to write our laws which affect us all.

theyvoteforyou.org.au

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 13

Well I've found a local company that prints really good quality custom stickers which is very worrying for my bank balance

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 12

I would hop in the goo

merritt @merrittk.com · Dec 16

I need tech companies to stop creating things from sci-fi that were cautionary tales and get to work inventing warm goo healing pod

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · Jun 21

Harry, of course I'll let you kick the football! The football's Union made! What's the point of a football that doesn't get kicked? I wouldn't want to waste valuable Union resources on a useless football! Why would I pull it away at the last second? I'm a busy man, Harry!

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 11

Did you know that The Beatles were the first band to ever use guitars? Wild, I know.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 11

"What soothing techniques will you use during labour, do you think?"

Well I am always deeply calmed by longform video essays about academic fraud so probably audio from those...

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 11

Scavenger's Reign scoffs at 'world building' and dives straight into 'ecology building' instead and it rules.

David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · Mar 11

Just finished Scavenger's Reign and I'm just blown away. A breathtaking love letter to the eco/biology corner of science fiction. Beautiful and enthralling and horrifying in the best ways.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 10

Like yes absolutely she should have a palate cleanser named after her but she wasn't X-raying ulnas, my dude.

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Mar 10

Points for trying to the chef on Great British Menu who wanted to honour Dorothy Hodgkins for her work with 'X-rays' by making a pre-dessert shaped like a bone.

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