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Laurie Winkless

@lauriewinkless.bsky.social

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Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. She/her. Massive science nerd, biz owner / self-employed, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine🇵🇸

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 7h

Latest #fatberg news - this one weighed 100 tonnes! share.google/2VcYyFtFmtbj...

'Fatberg' weighing 100 tonnes removed from London sewer

The removal of the "fatberg" from a sewer in Feltham was "hugely complex", Thames Water says.

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Nature @nature.com · 17h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, same here on both of those issues! I was super proud of my parents ❤️

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Thank you x

Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 21h

Anyway. My goal on this trip is to not have a blinding argument with my mum, so Ieft it. She's a wonderful person in many ways - we just have very different ideas and priorities.

(PS: I'm sharing this here because none of my family uses Bluesky. Forgive the self-indulgence)

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 21h

I'd argue that the statement "I worry about the future for my grandchildren" has less power and meaning if you dismiss who your grandchildren are voting for and instead continue to vote for the parties that are inflicting the damage

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 21h

Irish people of that generation vote for ghosts - ideas of political parties forged in the Rising - rather than the actual politicians who are alive and working today. Policies and their influence be damned. The Party name is all that matters.

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 21h

Foolishly suggested to my 80+ year old mother - as she loudly complained about the current Irish government - that for the next election maybe she should talk to her grandkids about who they're voting for and why, and perhaps allow that to influence who will get her vote.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 22h

She’d better be just fine

Or I’ll have to have words with whoever is responsible

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Dolly Parton ‘going to be just fine’, singer’s sister says as she calls for prayers amid health problems

Freida Parton says she has been ‘up all night praying’ as singer continues to deal with unspecified ‘health challenges’ Dolly Parton’s sister says she has been “up all night praying” for the singer as she continues to deal with unspecified health problems. Freida Parton wrote that her 79-year-old sister “hasn’t been feeling her best lately”, two weeks after the singer postponed a Las Vegas residency scheduled for December, citing “health challenges”. Continue reading...

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 1d

Delta (& my husband) are in NZ while I'm visiting my family in Ireland. Doggy daycare tagged me in this video today 🤣😍

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d

Every week I recruit more archaeologists and every week I run out of archaeologists again. Lol.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 5d

The Irish Times view on Manchán Magan: a singular expressive voice

Ireland has lost a communicator of rare talent
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The Irish Times view on Manchán Magan: a singular expressive voice

Ireland has lost a communicator of rare talent

www.irishtimes.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 5d

So very sorry to learn that Manchán Magan has passed.

He was a rare talent, and a lovely guy, and still had so much more to give.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

www.irishtimes.com

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 5d

Love this 🤣😅 (and I had Tayto today don't worry!)

Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 5d

Every trip back to Ireland, I go to the supermarket on the first day, partly to stay awake, partly to buy snacks I'll need when I inevitably wake up starving.

And that's why at 3am, I was in my childhood bedroom munching on peanut butter on rice cakes, grapes, a banana and an orange #jetlag

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 6d

Oh no did I?! It wasn't raining in Wellington when I left, so I plead innocence 😅

Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 6d

Aaannnnnd I'm finally in Dublin. The planet is big, peeps. Still another hour in the car to go, but thankfully I am not the one driving.

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 7d

Update: survived the 17.5hr flight from Auckland to Dubai. Now awaiting my 8.5hr flight to Dublin.

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 8d

Posting this as a record of how long the journey is from my home in NZ to my family home in Ireland. Just left my house.

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks a mill Dave 😁 I am a happy frood!

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 9d

The PM is off his rocker.

The SCIENCE tells us we can’t afford to burn even known reserves let alone new ones if we want a hope of having a liveable future…

Yet Luxon is asking @chrishipkins.bsky.social to support offshore gas exploration … for at least the next 10 years!

#ClimateCrisis

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 9d

Nyom nyom nyom #birthdaytreat

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 9d

Sweet treat acquisition now in progress

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you very much x

Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you Russell!