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Leo Enright

@ollopa11.bsky.social

"The Guy from Irish TV" at NASA for 50 years (and counting)! Ex Foreign Hack at BBC News & RTE News; now see/hear me live on space on BBC, RTE, Newstalk FM @aljazeera.com etc

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ESO@eso.org · 3h ago

Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4

Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · last wk.

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

UKRI launches two AI research labs to stay ahead in global race

Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK’s position as a global leader.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Josef Aschbacher@josefaschbacher.esa.int · last wk.

My teams have completed all necessary checks and testing of the Cebreros station. After careful review, we have declared the antenna GREEN for nominal operations as of 27 July.

Josef Aschbacher@josefaschbacher.esa.int · 2w ago

Based on current information, the Cebreros station appears to have remained unharmed. My deepest thanks go to the Spanish emergency services whose efforts helped protect the site as wildfires approached. Left: 24 July 19:57, Right: 25 July 07:54

Leo Enright@ollopa11.bsky.social · 4w ago

I am astonished and delighted that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are still active! My report from San Francisco in 1980 @news.rte.ie , when they first emerged, caused some outrage in Ireland 😂. They were the first Pussy Riot - using shock tactics to make a society face the horror of AIDS.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert@elakdawalla.bsky.social · last mo.

If you are in Venezuela and are safe you can assist scientists in understanding the cause of the earthquake and future risk by reporting what you felt. Felt reports are crucial information for understanding faults and risk. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services.

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Leo Enright@ollopa11.bsky.social · last mo.

www.meteo-paris.com/actualites/l... Did Met Eireann do a similar exercise in 2014? (A lot of countries did) Can we see the data products? @wmo-global.bsky.social l.bsky.social @climatecolin.bsky.social @hannahdaly.ie @ybuckley.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

Le bulletin météo du 18 août 2050 04/12/2014

<p> L&rsquo;Organisation M&eacute;t&eacute;orologique Mondiale a invit&eacute; des pr&eacute;sentateurs m&eacute;t&eacute;o du monde entier &agrave; imaginer un bulletin m&eacute;t&eacute;o de l&rsqu...

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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌@parentsforfuture.de · last mo.

"Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming. Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.” #ClimateChange has accelerated much more quickly…" - Pauline von Hellermann

Two photos of weather forecasts, showing maps of France, above one imagined in 2014 of a 2050 forecast of temperatures of high 30s, occasional 40-42, overall more orange; below actual forecast yesterday showing majority red and over 40s across France.
Leo Enright@ollopa11.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another reason to be on BlueSky. Thank you for a wonderful creation story, from the "Bible" of the Chukchi of Siberia - the people who settled the Americas. Every astronaut who ever flew on the ISS knows their native Kamchatka. Another reason to be awed by that view. (ALT for source)

https://archipelagobooks.org/wp-content/uploads/ChukchiBible_excerpt.pdf
Jamie L. Molaro@spacejammie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Chukchi creation myth tells that the first bird Raven flew through a great expanse and created landmasses, but the world was dark. He asked the other birds for help and only the tiny snow bunting could peck a hole in the sky large enough for the Sun to emerge. #SkyhorseCarousel

View of the whole panel showing. The previously shown border designs frame a center section of the panel with a white bird pecking at a brown background, with rays of light in yellow hues seeming to burst forth.
Leo Enright@ollopa11.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I prefer the original 😉. (Oddly, Baltimore MD is *not* named after the original Baltimore, but from an obscure country house in County Leitrim at the other end of the country. The absentee-landlord owners – who probably never even came to Ireland – "founded" Baltimore MD)

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Danielle Johnson@dwhren.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today I went to the Ivy Bookshop Pop-up in the old Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church. It’s has really cool interactive displays encouraging you to share your local recommendations according to the dipslay theme. I’ll use this book for adventures once I’m done with all the bookstores.

The book Secret Baltimore: A guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure by Rvan Valkan with an Ivy Bookshop bookmark sticking out of it