Am as proud a sport-supporting Aussie as any, but it does strike me as a tad rude to welch on holding a comp, then to turn up and win most things
Helen MC
@crystallised-cricket.com
Follow for the crystal structures, stay for the cricket (or vice versa) Interests brought to you by the letter ‘C’, cryominerals 🥶, woman’s cricket 🏏 and cookbooks 🥘 Lives on Dharug and Gandangarra country (Blue Mountains, Australia)
Saturn, Rhea and spokes 6th July RGB image from a nice session a few weeks ago, some strong ring spokes are on the near-right side on the B-ring. There's a nice storm in the southern mid-latitudes, south is up. Rhea is to the left. Celestron C14, ZWO ASI585MM, 22mins, taken from the Blue Mountains.
Ok this is good news www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... if Australia can produce it's own helium then we can keep life-saving MRI machines going, and also keep doing more world class researches (those qbits be needing 🥶 conditions!)
Hopes for renewed Australian helium production after SA extraction
Helium has been produced in Australia for the first time since 2023, on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
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Who's going to #IUCr2026 in Calgary? As the world's crystallographers 'assemble' in Canada - can we post some #BraggYourPattern pictures that we find on our journeys?
"Every planetary scientist worth their sodium chloride wants a Uranus-Neptune mission" www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Neptune's moon system is bizarre. JWST data helps explain why
Neptune's strange moon and ring system has puzzled astronomers for decades, but data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) might help explain how it formed.
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Neutron scattering reveals the Cretaceous seas were a dino-eat-dino world www.ansto.gov.au/news/fossil-...
Fossil provides world-first evidence of ancient marine behaviour in Gondwana
ANSTO has supported research that has revealed for the first time marine reptile ichthyosaurs consumed pterosaurs before becoming prey themselves to giant marine predators.This extraordinary fossil di...
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Diamond's 16,000th paper has uncovered clues to hidden oceans on icy moons in our Solar System. Using the I11 beamline, researchers found that sodium chloride hydrates act as a geological archive of freezing conditions on ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4wqUzwY
IMPORTANT for TODAY, if you are experiencing domestic and family violence and have a hidden or safety phone. AusAlert will test its new emergency siren on all mobile devices: • 🕐 2pm AEST TODAY • 📍 Nation-wide
Ok… I rewatched the Commonwealth games opening ceremony… did I imagine there was a flying, firework spouting tunnocks teacake? It wasn’t on the Aussie broadcast…
Stop doomscrolling, watch this and feel a bit better about the world youtu.be/9vJZi-x-sag?...
🦜 Eastern Rosellas 🎵 Song by Miles Phillips (and Dad)
YouTube video by Joel Phillips
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Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Cryo-mineralogist: Pants, my sample’s melted
Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2y agoOptimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Mircobiologist: the cup is full. Just look at what grew on this plate when wd swabbed the inside of the cup and the sequences we recovered from the filtered air. 🧪🧫
"Scientific systems rarely collapse through a single dramatic event. They decline incrementally: one technician dismissed, one laboratory left unrepaired, one instrument taken out of service, one young scientist deciding to build a career elsewhere." physicsworld.com/a/letter-fro... ⚛️🧪
Letter from Argentina: 'an empty desk and an idle electron microscope signal the erosion of the country's science' – Physics World
Faramarz S Gard laments the decline of Argentine science
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Getting mRNA vaccines to remote locations is a challenge because they need to be kept in cool storage. A team using the Australian Synchrotron @ansto.bsky.social have made a breakthrough that could lead to vaccine patches to by-pass the transport issues. www.ansto.gov.au/news/austral...
Australian Synchrotron supports research to advance a new generation of mRNA vaccines using patches
A research team from RMIT University in Melbourne and MIT in the US has taken an important step towards making mRNA vaccines easier to distribute, store and administer as patches.
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Two year countdown for the Sydney eclipse starts today! Great thread about how to see it and some local info here.
CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 2w ago🚨TWO YEARS FROM TODAY! 🚨 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OVER AUS/NZ ☀️🌑🌏 Here's the view 6M+ people in #Sydney will have. Last one here was 1857. Next one here is 2858. It's a once-in-a-thousand-year (totality) event! Are you thinking of coming along to Sydney? A thread of info for you 🧵👇 📸 TimeAndDate
Also the moon has never won the Ashes. CHECKMATE, MOON
CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 2w agoThe Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) put out a little infographic for International Moon Day. It compares the diameter of Australia to the diameter of the Moon. This always throws me because in my mind, the Moon is actually bigger!
JK Rowling uses her Harry Potter money to fund lawsuits against companies that support trans rights so no, I do not care what Hogwarts house you are in.
Just like last season then? Fixture for #WNCL 26/27 is out, and yes it overlaps with the internationals. Is good news for increasing the depth of Aussie talent IMHO
Cricinfo@cricinfo.com · 3w agoAustralia's series against Bangladesh, New Zealand and the women's Champions Trophy, as well as the WPL, are likely to keep their best players away from domestic cricket
I bet if you totalled up the funding put to combatting shark attacks, terrorism and one-punch it would be more than is put to assisting victims of DV in Aus.
Kon Karapanagiotidis@kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 3w agoMore women have been killed by male violence since 2020 than all Australians killed by shark attacks, terrorism and one punch attacks combined in the last 25 years.
Powerful article by Rana Hussain - as Australian chases overseas $$ for sport, we must not loose sight of our own inclusion efforts. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Watching Australian sport embrace Modi broke my heart – and showed inclusion is still just a strategy | Rana Hussain
When the AFL and Cricket Australia target India and the diaspora but only engage with convenient perspectives, trust begins to erode
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How witless was it that the end of 142 years of gender-based injustice should be overshadowed once again by a bunch of male cricketers and their own inept timing? Andrew Miller writes ⤵️
Women's cricket shortchanged again as men's Test binfire sucks up the oxygen
ECB complicit in fanning flames as momentous month for English game is repeatedly overshadowed
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not enough people talk about how lucky we are to be alive to witness a sunset on ANOTHER PLANET
Glad we're all agreed that women get exclusive use of Lord's for Test cricket from now on (or at least the next 142 years).
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
The only correct reaction to an England game going to extra time
Nigella Lawson@nigella.bsky.social · 4w agoThis calls not only for another martini, but also for some pickled onion monster munch, clearly
Japanese scientists have confirmed a monumental discovery: asteroid Ryugu contains all 5 nucleobases essential for DNA and RNA. By analyzing 5.4 grams of material returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, researchers identified adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil in similar proportions.
