Barb, MeeplePhD (she/her)
@meeplephd.bsky.social
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Board gaming astronomer who sees the stars in everything I do. #Astronomy #TableTopGames #BoardGames #SciComms
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Happy #CephalopodWeek! If you were a cephalopod, you’d deserve a fancy name.
Using your first initial, last initial, and favorite color, you can make one for yourself! 🐙

Share yours in the comments, and check out our cephalo-bration: buff.ly/mlzthqQ
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Unwound after another stressful day (nothing new, just the constant chaos) with some familiar and comfortable games.
Photo of a player's tree in Kodama: The Tree Spirits. The tree has a large card as the trunk. Smaller cards have branches drawn on them and several are laid out to form long and short branches sprouting from the trunk.
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I understand legal hesitation and "breech of contract" are real issues to be avoided, and have experienced circling the corporate fucking wagons myself. But you know... how about 10 cents (or more) out of every dollar goes here @czechgames.com www.thetrevorproject.org (or any relevant place)
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The Trevor Project is a non-profit suicide prevention organization that provides 24/7 crisis support services, research, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ young people.
www.thetrevorproject.org
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Lots of games this weekend! The LOOP, Wingspan, Deep Regrets, Dominion, Lost Ruins of Arnak, and Wishland. Whew!
Photo of a hand holding a card from Deep Regrets with their player board in the background. The card has a weird looking fish-like creature with long, spider-like legs. The card is titled Skitterfin."
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Squeaked out Employee of the Year in the L.A.S.E.R. Centrifuge scenario of The Loop tonight, even though we had two vortexes pop off on the third turn (!!)
The Loop board game on the table. A green figure stands on a circular board. The board has a number of red cubes, green cubes, and cardboard disks scattered around. I. The center the board is a purple cube tower.
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Just a reminder to find the light when you can.
A black cat looks up to the left. Sunshine bathes him from behind.
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uofglasgow.bsky.social
Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein.

More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q

#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
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What do games like On Tour and Welcome to Dino World have to do with astronomy? I talk about it in my latest video! youtu.be/Ae8T1xK_pgU?...
Title: Line Drawing | Board Game Mechanisms in the Universe
YouTube video by Meeple, PhD
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I remember my mom dusting the leaves on her plants as a break from homework 🤣
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This may come in handy in about 90 days....
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NPR @npr.org · Jul 5
When you lose your job, it can be tough to know what to do next. Career coach Octavia Goredema shares a practical checklist of next moves, from reviewing exit paperwork to securing health care.
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When you lose your job, it can be tough to know what to do next. Career coach Octavia Goredema shares a practical checklist of next moves, from reviewing exit paperwork to securing health care.
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"O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder."
- Frederick Douglass
July 5, 1852
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What can you do?

The House is marking up the NASA budget on July 7, so call your Representatives NOW.

The Senate will take it up later this month, so call them, too, while you're at it!

This site from the Planetary Society makes it easy: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
Advocacy Action Center
The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.
www.planetary.org
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NASA mission development leads benefits to humanity. Among many others, development of detectors for X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy has led to advancements in medical imaging technology, allowing faster and even portable scanners.

You can see more ways NASA touches your life here: spinoff.nasa.gov
Home | NASA Spinoff
spinoff.nasa.gov
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It will take decades to recover from the damage these cuts cause. For example, 19 active missions are slated for cancellation. Most will not be recoverable. Each represents years (and $billions) of work. Recovering their capabilities will take decades, even if funding is restored in a year or two.
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CALL FOR ACTION!
The presidential budget request cuts NASA next year by about 25%. Hardest hit is science, with a 50% cut. Along with other science cuts across the government, this is an extinction-event for science in America.

More from the Planetary Society: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
Purple slide with planets, stars and asteroids along the edits. Text reads: Save NASA science. The presidential budget request cuts NASA by 25% overall, but science takes the biggest hit with a 47% cut. This, along with other cuts to NSF and NIH, will put the US behind by decades.
Purple slide with a planet and asteroids in the corners. An image shows a multwavelngth view of the Crab Nebula. Text reads: NASA science isn’t just about pretty pictures
Among many other achievements, technology development for X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes has led to advances in medical imaging like faster or portable scanners.
Purple slide with planets in the corners. A large graphic shows many small squares arranged in a 16x18 grid. This represents the overall U.S. budget. One of the squares is colored in - it is the NASA budget. Text reads: Cutting NASA’s science doesn’t save much money, and does more harm than good to our technological future.
Purple slide with asteroids, a planet and star. Text reads: 
What can you do? 
Contact your members of congress 
https://bit.ly/NASAAction 
Let others know 
Get more information
https://bit.ly/SaveNASASci
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Got in a little mid-week gaming tonight. It's a much needed break from...well, everything.
A player's final tree in Kodama:The Tree Spirits. A central card serves as the trunk, and many other cards are played off of it, each depicting a branch and a few different icons which include clouds, stars, caterpillars, flowers, fireflies, and mushrooms. One tile shows a white creature on a swing with "50" on its belly.
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Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed by it all, you’re not imagining things. This moment is heavy. But it is not calling for perfection or a hero. It’s asking us to do simply what we can, where we are, with what we have. 

americansofconscience.com/everythings-falling-apart/
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Sending love and strength to those for whom Mother's Day is difficult. 💐