Well this is just incredibly sad. She was a beautiful π¨ π Keeping our fingers crossed that her joey stays healthy.
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Posts by Prof Anna Watts
Picture of a step ladder in a back yard. It is clearly now substantially offset from where I am sitting on the shed roof.
Hubs has however moved my ladder. So maybe I now live on the shed roof.
A beautiful green sedum shed roof with my shabby pink gardening gloves in the foreground.
Spring green roof maintenance is done! Lots of weeds to haul out this time (mostly grass and some weird spreading thing with a pondweed vibe). Maybe because I'm a bit late with it?
That sounds π±
So excited that i utterly borked the alt text on that π
"Excited Loki leaning out of a car window yelling YEAH"
Finding out that you actually can't apply for a grant that would have taken a good chunk out of your summer to write.
Badge tags saying " Unit leader" and "No whining"
Words to live by, courtesy of @apsphysics.bsky.social badge tags.
Finally submitted a paper that we've been puttering about on for 4 years. π
Dutch Family Milestone as Kid the Youngest is finally tall enough to steal my bike to get to school when her own has a flat tyre.
No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age donβt know this.
You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you donβt know history.
Does it count as hunting if your cat steals a mouse from another cat? #MightyPredatorScam
Screenshot of a Twitter exchange in which user @kimerrikin notes that the city of Lynchburg VA declared April 7 2008 to be Leland Melvin Day, and Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow) thanking them for reminding him.
Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. π
Direct link to the movie here....
youtu.be/AxaCGVYpxVk
This is fabulous! π
A reminder that the Artemis missions are fully built on international collaboration in huge ways. This is not just the US going to the moon!
Surely go pure ESA with "Nominale"? Much classier.
Arguments breaking out over who should go make tea. #OneSmallSteep
Heart in mouth....
Afgesproken π
Zoom call with me AND CHRISTINA KOCH WHO IS AMAZING
So thrilled just to have shared a Zoom screen with her back in the day.
I guess we are staying up? Sleep is for the weak. #artemis
If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home π
π₯° Stellen van gelijk geslacht om middernacht getrouwd bij 25-jarig jubileum homohuwelijk - nos.nl/l/2608609
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OK HANG ON A SECOND EGYPT IS NOT CALLED ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY SOUNDING LIKE EGYPT IN ARABIC?????
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(I am so enjoying learning this language but flip how did I not know this before?? I am such an ignoramus!)
Can I put this in a grant proposal to summarize "state of the art"? In the hope that the ear worm carries me through?
We'll be squished into temporary desks on the 3rd floor for a few months. Hopefully back on a shiny mouse-proof institute at the end of August.
Packing up the office for our impending institute move (for renovation).
Lego collection dismantled and packed. See you on the other side Women of NASA π
Very nice to see this paper, on dense matter Equation of State informed pulse profile modelling of neutron stars - led by Mariska Hoogkamer and Nathan Rutherford - published as an Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review D. #highenergyastro πβοΈπ§ͺ
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