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kjrunia @kjrunia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🍎🌳 & 🍟🪵 ‘A pentagon!’ she exclaimed on the edge of an empty pentagonal sandbox in the Griftpark on Boxing Day in 2015. ‘My favourite shape. A triangle is also my favourite shape.’ I had not yet encountered any four-year-old with this type of preference. I still have the photo of that moment. ❤️

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was genuinely on the edge of my seat

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Ariane Sherine Juniper @arianesherine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In this week's episode of our new comedy podcast AAAFYL, Adam is NOT happy that a listener sent me a recording of his fart, which you can hear here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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kjrunia @kjrunia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These two are the loveliest two talking about lovely things ha! Entertaining, informative, and funny! Also, +1 for Adam being a fellow 🖖 (as will be disclosed in episode 2!)

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One of my favorite #OTD threads: geneticist, conservationist, and civic-minded anti-fascist Liane Russell. 🧪 👩‍🔬

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Ariane Sherine Juniper @arianesherine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It was lovely to have my first byline photo in a national newspaper for years in @theipaper.com today - and my first piece ever under my married name. I forgot how nice it is to go and buy your work from the news stand! inews.co.uk/opinion/hate...

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Fauci show trial is an amazing illustration of the fundamental immaturity and insecurity of the modern right. What really outrages them is that he dared to suggest that people make sacrifices for the common good. So much of X/techbro/manosphere thought is just insisting that should never happen.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, who was probably the first person to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1876. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Credit: Notman Archives/Musée McCord

Black and white photo of Harriet Brooks. She has on a black dress with a high column collar, and she is looking to the right of the photographer.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Remembering Amy Johnson, born on this day 1903 in Hull. Pioneering pilot who became the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. She went on to break many long-distance records.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

New paper! A fun version of cyclic cosmology that is *exactly* periodic. So your life has been lived before, and will be lived again, an infinite number of times. Based directly on quantum state evolution.

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kjrunia @kjrunia.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I used to use a knitting needle. Compared to a banana not as sturdy girth-wise, but the length was perfectly adequate from my couch.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Physicist, mathematician, and electrical engineer Hertha Ayrton was born #OTD in 1854. She conducted foundational studies of electrical arcs, as well as the dynamics of ripple formation in sand. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Portaint: Helena Arsène Darmesteter, Girton College

A seated portrait of Hertha Ayrton, painted by Helena Arsène Darmesteter. From the collection of Girton College.

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kjrunia @kjrunia.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My dear friend @arianesherine.bsky.social wrote, produced, and performs her beautiful and personal song When I Was Your Age

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God Is A Tulpa @kristyclueless.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious

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kjrunia @kjrunia.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This early morning I reached the goal of my “pilgrimage” to this unassuming bridge in North-West Dublin where none other than Sir William Hamilton carved his solution to represent rotations in 3D space using quaternions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

A photo of the unassuming Broom bridge crossing both a canal and a railway track in the North-West of Dublin

A selfie before said bridge where I’m pointing at the plaque recounting Hamiltons act

A photo of the plaque and Hamiltons likeness in a wall sculpture. The plaque says: “Here as he walked by on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for quaternion multiplication
i2 = j2 = k2 = ijk = −1
& cut it on a stone of this bridge.”

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Stu J @stuj.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It should be no surprise that NASA, our most competent government organization, is very clearly the most representative of the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Watch all the kinds of people who were all given spotlights during the Artemis mission, it’s inspiring.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Lovely comic collaboration between Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social and Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social, on what mathematicians are actually like. Less weird than you might think! Apparently they really care about oranges. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sphere...

A panel from the webcomic, showing a tortured genius ("I cannot know love, but by God I will know if every polynomino with an area divisible by six can tile a hexagon!") and claiming that not all mathematicians are like that, honestly.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"Experts are dubious."

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A good time again to share my photo of an artifact in China's Silk Road Museum, labeled "green glazed pottery ornament."

A green glazed pottery ornament which is definitely an erect penis

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Ariane Sherine Juniper @arianesherine.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

My amazing teenager is several inches taller than me now! And looks way cooler than I do. Here’s my latest single cover. Even if my album does absolutely nothing, I’m so glad that she’ll always have these songs about her and will be able to listen to how much I love her. 🖤

The cover of Ariane X’s single Designed to Run, featuring her and her teenage daughter, who is holding a black heart balloon

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Ariane Sherine Juniper @arianesherine.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Showering together Boyfriend: Normal people don’t have the shower set to ‘boiling’ Me: Are you saying I’m not normal? Boyfriend: Well, that’s what your song says Me: It isn’t about water temperature! youtu.be/whGTRxRzyIE?...

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Ariane X - Not Normal (Official Video)

YouTube video by Ariane X

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Ariane Sherine Juniper @arianesherine.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Boyfriend's folks came round. They drank black tea while we drank green tea. Me: We drink green tea as they studied 100,000 Chinese people, and those who drank 3 cups of green tea a week lived 18 months longer on average than those who drank no green tea. Boyfriend's mum: But you're not Chinese!

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent. Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

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Ariane Sherine Juniper @arianesherine.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Absolutely delighted that extremely selective blog Indie Spirits has chosen to profile my debut single 'Not Normal': "It’s a compelling blend of introspective lyricism and accessible melody that underscores her strength as both a songwriter and performer." theindependentspirits.com/ariane-x-not...

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Ariane X - Not Normal - Indie Spirits

Ariane X’s latest single ‘Not Normal’ marks a bold and heartfelt moment in her evolving catalogue. Released January 30, 2026,...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/10/2025

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

[flashlight under chin] The Hamiltonian wasn’t diagonalized.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

An appeal to help preserve a unique archive of recorded scientific talks.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Astrophysicist Dr. Jaqueline Hewitt, known for pioneering work on gravitational lensing, was born #OTD in 1958. In 1987 she led the team of observers at the Very Large Array that discovered the first "Einstein ring." (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Images: Hewitt et al, Nature 333, 537 (1988)

Photo of a smiling woman with blonde hair, wearing a navy shawl sweater or blazer, looking directly at the camera. The skyline of a city is visible behind her.

Pixelated image of an Einstein ring, a mostly black image dotted with blue splotches. A central blue ring is a tilted oval, with green, yellow, orange, and red hot spots at opposing ends.

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kjrunia @kjrunia.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I hope the Jacobean-style’s determinant is positive as I prefer my orientation to be preserved while scaling the staircase.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Geneticist Liane Russell was born #OTD in 1923. She pioneered the study of mutagenesis and teratogenesis due to radiation, and identified the role of the Y chromosome in sex determination. Her work led to diagnostic x-ray safety standards for women of childbearing age. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

A young Liane Russell working with a mouse. She is in a lab, wearing a white shirt. Someone outside the frame of the picture is also touching the mouse. Image: @ORNL

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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Turns out most Americans (70%) believe US universities should be receiving previous levels of funding - or even more! - to advance scientific research.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Devastating cuts to humanities education. If even somewhat accurate, this is terrible news for the University of Chicago. And a bleak outlook for universities elsewhere. The scariest prospect is if, as Ando says, leaders of the faculty are promoting this rather than resisting as much as they can.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I think Elon and Trump need to go on Piers Morgan and have a civilized discussion

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