Dr Niall 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@niallg.bsky.social
Plant eater. Data scientist. Space doctor. Dog companion. Queer. He/they. Muse/Fall Out Boy stan. Star Wars is life. 🌱🦕🏳️🌈🐦👾🦑 📍East London
I wish I could master the communication of intent and the intent of communication as effectively as @hankgreen.bsky.social
Was supposed to go to Thorpe Park today but accidentally gave myself lactose intolerance so bad it gave me dead parent dreams and now I have fatigue. Unpleasant.
Probably one of the worst night’s sleep I’ve had all year 😭
Hello assassin snail haven’t seen you in a few months
no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 3d agoWith much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
I think I need to abandon Spotify. When I go on that app I feel like it actively diminishes my scope and taste in music. It’s just so bad at using the data it has collected on me the past 15 years. Do they exclusively hire engineers that don’t listen to music or are they just really bad at ML?
show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie
ben@benrs.uk · 3d agoshow me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie
A rare correct astronomical prediction from Futurama… you can indeed get “violet dwarfs”
Science X / Phys.org@sciencex.bsky.social · 3d agoThe first known green star would look chartreuse to human eyes. The white dwarf’s hue was calculated from its spectrum, not seen directly. doi.org/hcnrzj
The first known green star would look chartreuse to human eyes. The white dwarf’s hue was calculated from its spectrum, not seen directly. doi.org/hcnrzj
Green, pink and purple: Astronomers reveal the surprising true colors of white dwarf stars
University of Warwick astronomers have shown that white dwarf stars can glow in a range of colors, including the first star ever found that would appear green to the human eye.
phys.org
I would say my least professional behaviour at work is my gratuitous use of the phrase "okie dokie" regardless of context
You can’t pet the Loth cats in Galactic Racer? Literally unplayable
Rochelle forgetting the name “Tinky Winky”… swear she was using that name as a slur last week 😭 #bbuk
I know that’s a lot of dark chocolate but still… £27 for 3-4 days groceries minus breakfast and protein shakes 😭
That really was like ITV Gandalf turned up at the shire #bbuk
Was really hoping we were gonna get the first ever televised real-life trolley problem #bbuk
Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what
Have to say Amazon kind of nailed it with “sustainable, advanced vaper, dog parent, too many plants, ADHD recently treated”
Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · last wk.Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"
I have never tried a buzzball. I bought one yesterday but gave it to @glitterstrands.bsky.social, who I hope will be a more appreciative imbiber of the spherical nectar than me.
Big gay news 🌈 Polish registry offices have recorded 516 same-sex marriages concluded abroad following the EU's top court ruling from November 2025 that Poland must recognize gay and lesbian marriages concluded in other member states.
Poland registers over 500 same-sex marriages concluded abroad
The total has risen from 184 in late July, with 318 marriages between men and 198 between women.
tvpworld.com
This points towards the possibility that a gas giant may have formed from the material ejected from the star in its death throes. Read more 👉 https://esahubble.org/news/heic2613/ 🔭 🧪
Suspected second-generation planet solves Hubble cold case
For more than a quarter century, unidentified chemical signatures from a white dwarf star have laid dormant in the archive of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, until diligent sleuthing by a young astronomer revealed something extraordinary: high amounts of the element niobium, and other unusual chemical abundances, indicating a potential second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf. While a handful of planets have been identified orbiting white dwarfs, this is the first candidate with the hallmarks of a planet that formed from material related to a star’s death, rather than its birth. The discovery proposes a fascinating new area of future research and highlights the intriguing concept that stars could have an extended second act hosting new planets long after the fuel of their primary “lifetime” runs out.
esahubble.org
Also, was walking in the park yesterday in shorts and a t shirt, as I have been doing for months, and it suddenly struck me that it was October
Dr Niall 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@niallg.bsky.social · 2w agoFound hops growing in the Olympic park. Also pictured: Olympic Tess.
Found hops growing in the Olympic park. Also pictured: Olympic Tess.
New Zealand's heaviest insect has moved from Threatened—Nationally Endangered to Threatened—Nationally Increasing after a breeding program released 11,000 wētāpunga at 10 new wild sites. doi.org/hcmfgz
A conservation success story for New Zealand's heaviest insect
The success of a large-scale recovery program for wētāpunga/Little Barrier giant wētā, New Zealand's heaviest insect, has been officially documented in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology.
phys.org
Ah fun. My housing provider has lost some of my sensitive medical information to hackers. Lovely. I do hope I am due compensation.