Dr Alastair Bruce
@spacedoot.bsky.social
Astronomer. Science Communicator. Planetarium Manager. Fond of all things up. Rather fond of what's down too...
So sad to hear that the iconic, trailblazing, Apollo 11 moon landing software engineering lead, Margaret Hamilton, is no longer with us. Love this image of her, standing next to a print out of the software that landed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Amstrong on the moon! 👩🔬🔭🛰️🧪 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🔊 Calling all Primary School teachers!🎢 Tues 11th Mar @11am GMT: Join me & @glasgowscience.bsky.social online where we'll be answering your questions live! Just getting my bank of pictures ready in anticipation of what the kids will ask 🤗🔭 🍿: curiousabout.glasgowsciencecentre.org/live-session...
Glasgow Science Centre@glasgowscience.bsky.social · 7mo agoAsk the Astronomer Royal! (8 & over) Tuesday 10 March 11.00am Ask your space questions to Prof. Catherine Heymans, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, From big telescopes to a day in the life of an astronomer, it’s your chance to quiz our out-of-this-world expert. https://bit.ly/4l70AKH #CuriousAbout
Burns knew it in 1785. “I’m truly sorry man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union”
Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.
Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
The secret history of Neoliberalism | The Invisible Doctrine | Full Film
YouTube video by Journeyman Pictures
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Last chance to co-sign our proposal to save the swifts before MSPs vote later today! It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick. Show your support here ✍️👇 greens.scot/saveourswifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts -
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Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target But we're not done. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform this May. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
crowdfunder.co.uk
More and more people from every corner of the country are joining the @scottishgreens.org We’re welcoming members from Shetland to Stranraer every day and we're very close to hitting record membership numbers. We’re seeing what happens when you inject hope into politics! members.greens.scot/join
Huge. And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well! Join.greenparty.org.uk
Green Elects@greenelects.world · 11mo agoUnder-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
The Scottish Greens stand with trans people this week, next week and always. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Something extraordinary is happening. +6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day. @greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!! Join.greenparty.org.uk
🚨New poll for @scotnational.bsky.social has the @scottishgreens.org in SECOND place! Our message is cutting through. Scotland can be a fairer, greener place if we fix the systems rigged by the super-rich. Join our movement to help turn record polls into real votes! 👉 greens.scot/join
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
theguardian.com
Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature. All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!! share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...
Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds
Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30x30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas
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I’ve joined @ecotalk.bsky.social as their new Chief Ecologist , working to rewild , replant and reintroduce some incredible native species into sites across the UK . You can support British wildlife too , just switch your SIM to Ecotalk– where profits go to nature , not shareholders ! #ad
🔊New post-nominal alert: Prof. Catherine Heymans FLS 😊 Dark Matter; Dark Energy; Galaxies; #Cosmology; Comedy; the Hubble, Rubin and Euclid Telescopes; #SciComm; Long Covid; Virtual Realities; @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and I talked about it all! 📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔭🧪👩🔬
Jim Al-Khalili@jimalkhalili.bsky.social · 2y agoFor my scientific and engineering colleagues, what are the more prestigious letters after a name: FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) or FLS (Fellow of the Life Scientific)? 😊🧪
Sending love and solidarity to trans people everywhere. We will always fight to protect human rights, dignity and respect for all people. We stand with the trans community today, tomorrow and always.
Clouds outside, live stream at the front, simulated view at the back 🤩 The cosmic ballet goes on 😋
Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Our Hera spacecraft science team, including Dr Brian May of Queen, were amazed as the first images came in from the spacecraft's gravity-assist flyby of Mars and martian moon Deimos - see why here: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵
That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned. We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures. Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post! Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now. It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
