it's ya girl, being a pain in the baby sleep lecture asking for evidence and literature

My baby has pre-ordered me a Switch 2 for Mother's Day, which is so sweet and generous of her.

Hey what's been happening bsky? I had a baby and she's perfect in every way and I'm hoping that baby vomit is good for your skin because I'm soaked in it 👍❤️‍🔥

Hey! Join this starter pack go.bsky.app/Cpx2Ppu To join and connect with the crystallography at Bluesky community.

Much excitement today with the very first users *ever* on MX3. Pretty amazing that in a few short years the old dewar handling area has turned into a fully functioning beamline! So keen for all the science to come! 👩‍🔬🧪💎 #ozchem

Fun thing about exclusively wearing giant floofy circus tent dresses to work for years is that you can spend your last day before parental leave surprising people with the fact you're pregnant.

Minimal aesthetic and lowercase track and 'album' names = insta-block from me. They're all AI sludge. I want lofi sludge made by 20 year olds discovering looping tools for the first time.

The most exciting times in science are when you see some results and make the Big Confused face.

a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical equation on it .

Alt: a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical equation on it

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Jackson Cahn @jkbcahn.bsky.social · last yr.

Today I was in two meetings where people showed me data that made absolutely no f*cking sense, in the best way. I'm so pumped to be a scientist some days.

The Gelada is a monkey with a tawny, brown shaggy coat- with males flaunting anespecially impressive mantle, intensely herbivorous, these primates spend their days hard at work in the grass mines using nimble fingers to select the best grass blades for eating. (Hiller 2000) #2025MMM

This is my entire life

Since @stephanieaw.bsky.social left the lab to start her group at Vanderbilt, we've been talking regularly on the ups and downs of academic science. We started recording... The Tortured Proteins Department open.spotify.com/show/10PHVou... (science with a small dose of running and Taylor Swift)

The Tortured Proteins Department

Podcast · Stephanie Wankowicz · A deep dive into scientific discovery and the process of doing science, hosted by Stephanie Wankowicz and James Fraser.

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Mo The Plesiosaur (Ponteix): In 1992, Bob St. Cyr found the fossils of a plesiosaur that lived 70 million years ago. To celebrate the discovery, Mo was constructed and welcomes people to the community. Mo is 11.5 metres long.

Australian election season is coming - it's time to know how your MP voted. Either enter their name (if you know who your member is) or your postcode and you will be able to see their voting record to see how your MP votes on issues that matter to you. theyvoteforyou.org.au #auspol

How does your MP vote on the issues that matter to you?

Forget what politicians say. What truly matters is what they do. And what they do is vote, to write our laws which affect us all.

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Well I've found a local company that prints really good quality custom stickers which is very worrying for my bank balance

I would hop in the goo

merritt@merrittk.com · 3y ago

I need tech companies to stop creating things from sci-fi that were cautionary tales and get to work inventing warm goo healing pod

Harry, of course I'll let you kick the football! The football's Union made! What's the point of a football that doesn't get kicked? I wouldn't want to waste valuable Union resources on a useless football! Why would I pull it away at the last second? I'm a busy man, Harry!

"What soothing techniques will you use during labour, do you think?" Well I am always deeply calmed by longform video essays about academic fraud so probably audio from those...

Scavenger's Reign scoffs at 'world building' and dives straight into 'ecology building' instead and it rules.

David Levering@biogeoverse.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just finished Scavenger's Reign and I'm just blown away. A breathtaking love letter to the eco/biology corner of science fiction. Beautiful and enthralling and horrifying in the best ways.

Points for trying to the chef on Great British Menu who wanted to honour Dorothy Hodgkins for her work with 'X-rays' by making a pre-dessert shaped like a bone.

Charles Brooks' photos of the insides of musical instruments are phenomenal. I sent them to my sister-in-law who is a violinist, and she showed me a pic she took inside her own violin, which didn't really have the same majesty. It was a blurry void with dust bunnies.

ANSTO@ansto.bsky.social · 2y ago

The path of an electron moving close to the speed of light in the main ring of the Australian Synchrotron captured by international photographer@charlesbrooks.bsky.social Accelerator physicist Eugene Tan converted radio waves into the sounds of synchrotron light www.ansto.gov.au/news/photogr...

The path of an electron moving close to the speed of light in the main ring of the Australian Synchrotron captured by international photographer@charlesbrooks.bsky.social Accelerator physicist Eugene Tan converted radio waves into the sounds of synchrotron light www.ansto.gov.au/news/photogr...

Explore how our extraordinary “light bulb” 💡 provides incredible clarity, revealing the molecular and atomic structure of a wide range of materials as highlighted in @cosmosmag.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/news/aust-sy...

Melbourne synchrotron plans its fourth generation future

The Melbourne synchrotron is a particle accelerator that propels electrons to near-light speed inside a 216m circular vacuum chamber.

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Happy National Protein Day! Even though I've been a protein crystallographer for ~5 years now, it never ceases to blow my mind that these intricate little molecular machines can form beautiful crystals that are useful for #structure determination!

I'm now down from 3 rings on my fingers to just 1. The largest one. #blimplife

My colleague keeps publishing important papers in Science, the jerk. www.ansto.gov.au/news/researc...

Researchers uncover how pathogens hijack phosphate pathways to infect crops

A team of scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered how a powerful “weapon” used by many fungal pathogens enables them to cause disease in major food crops such as rice a...

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I'm not a huge celebrity follower, but this man, here. Look at how hot and cool he is.

kottke.org@kottke.org · 2y ago

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

Really entering my 'waddling' era.

arts & crafts 4 free

heron@thxnywy.art · 2y ago

make your own blobmap! a simple 2-page tutorial + a printable coloring page to make cool blobs devoid of meaning! or are they? get you one for free! ko-fi.com/s/6c8bf5c49f

Laser calibration not working... Hmm laser seems less lasery than normal... I resisted the urge to peer directly up underneath and into the laser because I really subscribe to the @funranium.bsky.social school of not being an idiot around lasers.