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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Why the f*ck would anybody need a nuclear power plant on the Moon? Like, seriously, what the hell?

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Digital Neo-Latin Studies @digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

The #IANLS has now its own #zenodo community where all presentations held at the #ianls25 can be published: zenodo.org/communities/ianls/records A small but hopefully important step towards more #openaccess in the field of #neolatin studies. @neolatin

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God @thegodshow.com · 31/12/2024

Hi, humans. I’m God. Please do less killing this year. More working together to fight for basic human rights. Thanks in advance, God

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Catch me in the newspaper today, if you‘re that way inclined :)

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 27/12/2024

I’ve never understood scholars in one field feeling the need to crap all over the methods and research of another field.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/12/2024

Earthrise. Taken #OTD 56 years ago. In terms of seeing that we're all on this one single planet, it's one of the most important photos ever taken.

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Love to those who find Christmas hard. You‘re seen! ❤️⭐️

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

the best thing about christmas this year: the afternoon nap ❤️

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

One of my profs used to say: „If you want a good translation, you‘re gonna have to do it yourself.“ In my case it‘s more: „If you want a translation, you‘re gonna have to do it yourself.“ Currently I’m onto a previously untranslated chronological treatise from 1606…

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I just booked my Christmas pressie to myself - a week in Siciliy this coming spring. 💝

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Having to attend a funeral on Dec 20th is such a mood killer 😞

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IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) @iau-wgsn.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The IAU named θ Aquilae (HIP 99473) 'Antinous', preserving Ptolemy's 137 CE designation honoring Emperor Hadrian's deified favorite in the region of the extinct Babylonian constellation The Corpse. This star in Aquila continues a 2000-year tradition. #Astronomy #IAU #starnames #WGSN

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IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) @iau-wgsn.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The IAU's star naming announcement highlights global astronomical heritage. From ancient Sumerian to South African languages, these names show humanity's diverse views of the night sky. Each name tells a story of culture and celestial observation. #Astronomy #IAU #starnames #WGSN

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

If you're interested in stars, star names and astronomical heritage, follow our work! #WGSN

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Dec 14th is the birthday of two extremely important people in my life…. my mum and Tycho #Brahe 🥳

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Excited to share that I'm putting my generous @transkribus.bsky.social scholarship to good use 🙂 transkribus.org/blog/transkr...

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A fan of astronomical poems on the tram? 🤔 #aratus

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A time capsule! Love the pre-Instagram-era shots of the teenagers 😍 Awesome song as well... courtesy of David Bowie, who gifted it to Mott the Hoople. youtu.be/9IqiRY60ZDE

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Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The problem with AI as a “replacement” for historians is that it makes up the past according to the biases that its creators are comfortable with. It is not research but simply an entrenchment of old stereotypes. It actually, in the long run, stuns progress and perpetuates disproved narratives.

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Notre Dame cleaned up nicely! The transformation is gobsmacking!

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It‘s been 23 years since George Harrison died. He and the Beatles are going to be remembered by future generations the same way we remember Mozart or Beethoven.

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is the first record I bought with my own money. I loved the move and I loved the song. It‘s so slow, cheesy and boring by today‘s standards😂 youtu.be/Y0pdQU87dc8

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Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Brutal! #jonasreindl "Jede Veränderung, die keine Verbesserung ist, ist eine Verschlechterung." - Adolf Loos

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Incredible parhelia yesterday... so bright!

the picture shows a mountain, the sun and two bright sundogs

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Summer to winter in less than 2 hours. 🥶🥶🥶 Last night I walked around in short sleeves, now I'm wearing my winter coat and beanie...

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My view this morning at 6:30. Humbled and grateful. 💞

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Live picture from Agrigento ☀️🤗

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Talk done 🫶 Lots of interest in Kepler, Schickard, topic modeling and the application of various Python libraries to texts. ❤️‍🔥

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Astronomer and mathematician extraordinaire Johannes #Kepler died #OTD in 1630. Well, I couldn't have planned it better ;-) Today I'm giving my talk about astronomical terminology at the beginning of the 17th century, which focuses on Wilhelm Schickard and Johannes Kepler.

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

After 5 days of terrible weather, the first glimpse of magnificent Mount Etna!

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I created a starter pack for Neo-Latin Studies. Please let me know in the comments if you or people you know work in this field and I will add your profiles. I would love to connect with more colleagues in this field on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/LYukbpC #ClassicsBluesky @neolatinsociety.bsky.social

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

SEAC XXXI about to start. My poster is looking good ♥️ Looking forward to my talk on Friday as well... I‘m going to talk about astronomical terminology at the beginning of the 17th century.

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Graz has all their Kepler monuments wrong! His workplace (the Stiftsschule) is now a shop for sports gear and the statue in the city park honours the laws of planetary motion (which he discovered in Prague and Linz).

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Several books and articles promised "a text majorly contributing to the development of the German scientific language", published in 1650. I finally managed to track it down and hey ho, it's full of Latin words (especially the termini technici) 😀

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Born #OTD in 1546, one of my all-time heroes, astronomer extraordinaire Tycho Brahe. He was an avid observer and extremely quick witted. I‘m sure he was also fun to be around (unless you‘re Johannes Kepler 😉).

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Details for the new TV documentary series on the history of Austria. I‘ll appear as one of the expert interviewees in episode 7 on Johannes Kepler on January 2nd 😇 tv.orf.at/stories/oest...

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Everybody says seeing things from the other side puts things into perspective, but in reality it just makes it worse…

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

You gotta love Early Modern title pages 😀 [Erasmus Francisci - Das eröffnete Lust-Haus der Ober- und Nieder-Welt (1676)]

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

No way back, no retreat, no surrender!

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I'm at the Universtiry Observatory Vienna looking at Jupiter through the 68 cm refractor 🤩

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Doris Vickers @dorisvickers.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Well, I never… i found out today there‘s a nerd like me visualising old maps. In the same city. MY KIND OF GUY! I‘m now dreaming of combined terrestrial-celestial visualisations of maps and charts from 1600-1800 🤩

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