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Achintya “Thea” Rao

@RaoOfPhysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
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Dr Rao / Bass Lass #OpenScience aficionada • #SciComm wizardess • #RStats enjoyer • #cricket tragic Formerly #CERN and #CMSExperiment, currently UWE Bristol […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ scholar.social/@RaoOfPhysics, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
[Alcohol mention] Drinking Tynt Meadow #Trappist #Ale from the Mount Saint Bernard monastery, which isn’t far from #Loughborough, and I’ll tell you what – those monks know what’s up! Wow! msbtrappist.co.uk
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Tynt Meadow: Authentic Trappist Ale from Mount St Bernard Abbey
Tynt Meadow is a product born of centuries of tradition. Brewed and blessed on-site at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, Coalville Leicestershire.
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Leicester Gazette @leicestergazette.leicester.chat.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
We're hiring! The Leicester Gazette is looking for a freelance Graphic Designer to support our print edition. Details and apply here: www.leicester.news/graphic-designer
Leicester Gazette: We're Hiring!
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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I take serious issue with the @guardian's reporting on data showing increased cancer rates among young people "prompting warnings about lifestyle choices". It is completely inappropriate to suggest that cancer patients and survivors might have avoided their […] [Original post on fediscience.org]
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Headline: Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international research finds

Subtitle: Experts looking at UK, US and Dutch data found ‘significant increases’ in early onset cases of seven cancers, prompting warnings about lifestyle choices

Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent
Tue 6 Oct 2026 06.01 CEST
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
RE: chaosfem.tw/@ellieraejaye/117375856… «This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children.» We left the UK just when Labour got into power but the sense of utter betrayal was already in the air then 😔
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
«It’s a testament to how defensive, if not cultish, that AI advocates have become that merely suggesting that large language models don’t think, let alone in the way humans do, is cause for indignation» Not to mention that every one of those cultists has a lot of money riding on being able to […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Giving #Ellipsus a go. Bought the licence with a one-time payment to support what I think is a worthy project.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
#Bermuda, #Bahamas, come on, pretty mama… 🎶 www.icc-cricket.com/matches/274205/… #Cricket
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Bermuda vs. Bahamas | North American Cup, 2026 | ICC
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Assembling an #IKEA bed with fiancëe whilst listening to #ABBA. 🇸🇪
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
#TIL about photos taken by #pigeon camera! publicdomainreview.org/collection/d… #Birds #photography
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Dr Julius Neubronner’s Miniature Pigeon Camera
100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
[UKpol] According to Labour MP Emily Thornberry, the UK is the world’s oldest democracy. Pull your finger out, mate. British people really need to acknowledge the existence of countries other than themselves and the USA.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
M-i-l’s #SpiderPlant is flowering. Pretty. #Bloomscrolling
A tiny white flower with yellow stamen against a blurry background of spider-plant leaves.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
And Fiancëe will be marching with the sign featured in this video of us: youtu.be/S3InGcUC8ys #Loughborough #Pride #TransRights #TransgenderUK
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
It’s #Loughborough #Pride today. Fiancëe and parents attending. M-i-l is wearing an ankle-length rainbow cardigan she knitted, and will presumably be wearing an assortment of badges on her bags, including this one. <3 I am hoping the love will drown out the […] [Original post on scholar.social]
An enamel badge encircled with colours from the Pride and Trans Pride flags, with the words “You are SAFE with me” in the centre. Next to the badge are a brown button and a coaster with a mouse drawing on it.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
What I have been up to since May: now.achintyarao.in #NowPage
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Now · Achintya Rao
Achintya Rao’s Now Page
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
RE: leicester.chat/@achintya/1171044436… Life in small-town England. Apparently one cannot be both British and Queer, according to these smooth-brained individuals.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
Re. tomorrow’s #SolarEclipse! The lovely people at the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (#STFC) are doing a live stream for those who cannot watch it themselves: www.public-engagement.stfc.ac.uk/ev… I will be using my #eclipse […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
[Train grumbles] UK trains are literally the worse I have ever taken in Europe. They have sent five carriages for a journey from Glasgow to Plymouth. Five. For a journey down most of the country’s length. Fuck’s sake. #UKtrains #trains #TrainTravel #EuropeanTrainTravel #trainsUK
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Nearly got into an accident this morning on #Lboro campus. I had entered the site on my bike, having taken bike lanes where possible to get there, and was continuing straight in from the entrance when a massive SUV, having passed security to my right, decided to swerve across my front wheels to […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
I relished this piece by David Bentley Hart, called “How to write #English prose”: thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-to-wri… There is an abundance of joy one can experience when playing with #language that is lost when one simply Follows The Rules laid down by renowned […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
Every time I play #cricket, I end up asking myself, while standing alone in a field (with 14 other people standing alone around me), why I love this damn sport – at which I suck – so very much. Such a stupid sport. I love it more than I should.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
#TIL about @freesewing (by @joost and co.). What a brilliant project! freesewing.eu #FreeSewing #FiberArts #sewing
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Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns | FreeSewing
FreeSewing is open source software to generate bespoke sewing patterns, loved by home sewers and fashion entrepreneurs alike.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
After I read out ~125 words based on a writing prompt, the professional #SciFi writer running the session said I am a natural and should write fiction. Now, who wants to be a Patron of the Arts and fund my fiction-writing career, so I can quit my job?
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
RE: social.wikiworkersunited.org/@wwu/1… «When the Foundation rejected our request for voluntary recognition this week, they immediately sent out to employees and the public statements couched in classic union-busting rhetoric, rhetoric undoubtedly provided by […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
Sometimes, upgrading to First Class is such a no-brainer. Was £6.50 more per person per leg – Loughborough⇹London – and they bring you food and drink, and the seats are more comfy. Just the food and drink alone would cost more. #UKtrains #trains #RailTravel
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
Become a Patreon supporter of "Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles", and you will get newly translated German folk tales every week! If you subscribe at the "Scholar" level, you will also get PDF and EBUB compilations of all 800+ translations of the folk tales I have translated so far. And if you […]
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
It was a great pleasure to write up this post about the #Codeberg's recent votes with respect to LLMs and the impact that LLM have on #FLOSS more broadly, together with @Gusted and @fnetX: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-fl…
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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News
.codeberg-design ul { padding-left: revert !important; } In Brief: Two...
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David Weir @davidjamesweir.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
My partner’s sibling has left a Commodore 128 in the garage for me to play with. What cool things can I do with it that won’t turn into an enormous time sink? (assuming it still turns on, that is - replacing capacitors isn’t something I have time for right now) #Commodore128 #Commodore64 […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
I have just received a spam e-mail from a purported journal editor, addressed to “Dear Dr. Higgs”. That’s a new one! #spam #Higgs #HiggsBoson #Physics #journal #AcademicChatter #Research
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
#Loughborough! Need anything fixed? The Transition Loughborough Repair Café is happening now! transitionloughborough.wordpress.co… 🕧 Last items accepted until 12:30. #Leistershire #EastMidlands @leicestergazette
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Repair Cafe on Saturday 18th July
Had something break in the last couple of months? Want to see if it can be repaired before you replace it? Then we’ve got the event for you on **Saturday 18th July at Fearon Hall between 9.30am and midday**. Yes, it’s our next Repair Cafe! We’ll have people who can mend holes in clothes, tinker with sewing machines, twiddle with electricals, check over your bike, sort out your laptop and sharpen your secateurs! As usual the process is simple: you bring a broken item, check it in at our reception/triage desk and then you’ll be assigned to a volunteer repairer who will assess the item, determine if it can be fixed and then hopefully either repair it or give advice (if parts are needed, etc). Repairs are free and made on a voluntary best effort basis. We gratefully accept donations to help cover the cost of running the event however. There is also a cafe in Fearon Hall where you can get a cuppa and sit down to chat if you have to wait for a repairer to become available.
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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
🧐 #AMA on #emojis for #WorldEmojiDay ❗ #linguistics
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
My mum-in-law has written a new children’s book – “Pear Tree #Pirates” – inspired by tales she told her kids when they were little. If you have children aged 5–8 in your life, please consider this book by an #IndieAuthor. Not available on Bookshop yet, so here is an Amazon link (sorry) […]
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
I just released version 0.6.0 of the comaps-map-distributor for serving CoMaps map files via your own servers. The main new feature: It now allows you to select whole countries for download, instead of having to manually select all map files for a country […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
Just got a close-up of dragonfly’s wings just as it was about to take off! We suspect it was a newly emerged creature and was drying its wings. It had been on the #buddleia for ages. How cool is this!!! #Nature #Dragonfly #Dragonflies #Bloomscrolling
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
Been a while since I left home before 06:30 on a Sunday to go do something fun. If I recall correctly, the last time was years ago when we restarted the #LHC after a long shutdown, on Easter Sunday, and I managed to get the hashtag #ResurrectLHC onto the #CERN website for the event. Today, I am […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
If #Pride is a protest, and protests are getting increasingly criminalised in the UK, and the smallest criminal conviction can rule out immigrants from attaining indefinite leave to remain in the UK, why would any immigrants be at Pride? youtu.be/S3InGcUC8ys #BristolPride #Bristol […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
My mum informed me of this #Marathi movie (with English subtitles) about a #transgender man in rural #India. She heard about it from another mother in a group for parents of #queer children in India (Rainbow Parents). youtube.com/watch?v=TfhiCFJO4C4
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
I remember as a science-journalism student in London following the live stream from #CERN when the #LHC had its first collisions in March 2010. I remember the glee during my first visit to the lab in June that year. I remember my first day working at CERN that September and my several visits […]
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David Weir @davidjamesweir.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
Has anyone had the following error when pulling from a git remote (that happens to be an Overleaf project in this case): % git pull -v failed to get: -25293 failed to store: -25293 … [continues as normal] #git #overleaf
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
So, a known narcissist retires. Cry me a fucking river. #cricket
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
If you're using myapi.gedanken.uber.space (or host it yourself): Thanks to @RaoOfPhysics to reporting an issue with data not updating any more. It was due to how the REST countries API had changed its format. I've fixed that and it should all be working again <3
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MyPersonalAPI beta
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Achintya Rao @achintyarao.in · 26/06/2026
Episode One: out now!
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
[Cricket chat, opinions] I don’t care how good a cricketer Ben Stokes is, he shouldn’t be a role model for any young player. #cricket
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Achintya Rao @achintyarao.in · 25/06/2026
What a treat to attend the premiere of @cosmicshambles.com’s “For The Record: An Incomplete History of #Music”! You can watch the first episode in around 20 hours on the Shambles YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Familiar faces include @astrokatie.com and @helenczerski.bsky.social!
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For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music - YouTube
A nine part epic docuseries on the entire history of music, presented by Charlotte Ritchie
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
Meanwhile, Joe Root coming in at 13/2 in the second innings of a test match, with #England chasing a massive total, will never not be funny. #cricket #EngVNZ #NewZealand
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
Happy #Pride from #Edinburgh! This is the kind of public religious message I am ok with. #Scotland #Queer #EdinburghPride
A person on a ladder is painting a sign in Pride colours on the side of a church, which says, “Whoever lives in love lives in god, and god lives in them.” There is a partially painted Pride flag below the words and a second ladder to the painter’s right.

The photograph was taken from the top of a double-decker bus in Edinburgh, and through the window is the back of a different bus as well as people on the street.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
A few days ago, I signed up for @thunderbird Pro and promptly bought three domains to use with it: - achintya.fyi - basslass.fyi - theatrical.fyi (All domains redirect to a-ch.in/ty-a of course.) Because life needs whimsy. #Thunderbird #Email
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
Since I use a #VPN to browse the net in this hellhole, I cannot use `curl -s wttr.in` to give me the #weather at my actual location. So, I am leveraging @gedankenstuecke’s #PersonalAPI to write a custom .bash_function: ```bash wttr () { while : do clear; curl -s wttr.in/$(curl -s […]
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
Coming to terms with the fact that I have only two more weeks left in #Bristol, a city that has been home for five years (across half a dozen addresses). Here’s hoping whatever comes next brings me some stability.
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Achintya “Thea” Rao @raoofphysics.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
[Transgender slur, Happy Pride…] What a beautiful thing to see on my way to work. And I am asked why I am struggling with… everything. #Bristol #Pride #LGBTQ #Queer #TransgenderUK #TransRights
The words “Trannies are weird” written in yellow on a paving stone, with the word “weird” scratched over and the word “cool” written below it in pink. The ground is wet from rain and the silhouette of trees can be seen in the reflection.
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