Sarah holding a glass trophy in a box. The trophy is glass with a bulb shape, with a metallic part at the bottom which looks like the screw part of the bulb. On the glass is the Pride in STEM logo and "decadal award winner, Sarah Cosgriff". Sarah is wearing brown trousers, a short sleeve barong, and a blue and dusty pink bolero with butterfly sleeves.

Last night, I was one of the recipients of a Decadal Award from @prideinstem.bsky.social.

I've been spending some time thinking of the last 5 years of my LGBTQ+ and asexual advocacy work. It's something I fell into, and I'm so grateful for the opportunities and support I've received.

I think the answer is that they didn’t see any of this as a Big Deal. This is just business as usual for the insiders

YOU BROUGHT A HOME NEXT TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE. THAT IS NOT A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD. HEAVEN HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 1979

astonishing levels of Nimby

It's okay everyone, Starmer's premiership is safe and sound. I just heard that JD Vance is coming to visit him personally next week.

this is cool because it's a very obvious concept but it's neat to see it laid out in data!

Hotsauce

This BBC immigration and asylum story is a moral panic. Poorly evidenced, generalised panic about a marginalised social group. Next week, the government will respond with a new 'crackdown'. This will then further exacerbate public anxiety.

You know who wins from all of this, Nigel Farage.

I DO NOT CARE FOR THIS IMMIGRATION FRAUD SERIES THEY ARE DOING, IT REALLY STINKS AND DOESN'T ACTUALLY MEAN ANYTHING

The complete lack of any critical thinking regarding rate of incidence is infuriating. The fact that fraud happens doesn’t mean everything is fraud, but these articles sure as hell try to sell it that way.

Another win for vibecoding I suppose

Mining on the Moon is closer than ever, but challenges remain A scientist, an engineer, an archaeologist and a lawyer break down some of the physical, environmental, ethical and legal challenges of mining on the Moon.

Could this be my finest moment?

'"Your average space billionaire probably doesn't give a rat's arse about future generations," she said'.

I'm not sure I was expecting this to be quoted!
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4 frame street reporter comic. the reporter, off frame, asks someone waiting for the subway, with a dark long jacket, a gold and red scarf and round glasses : miss! any thoughts about the newest study showing that trans people's mental health deteriorates after starting gender-affirming treatment? she replies : kaltiala's paper didn't measure mental health deterioration. it measured how many trans people visited a psychiatrist after getting their diagnosis from the finnish gender clinic, which forces trans people to be screened extensively every 3-6 months during their treatment. this paper counts any visit to a psychiatrist, including when the patient is cleared of any issue, as a sign of "mental health deterioration". that metho- dological flaw is mentioned in the paper*, but that didn't stop any of these powerful anti-trans bigots to share it online. *erin in the morning : "Fact Check: New Finnish "Study" Does Not Prove "Trans Youth Care Leads To Worse Outcomes" *kehraaja.com (in Finnish)

Mental health care

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I got a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship with @thelabandfield.bsky.social and @adriftlab.bsky.social and it was great! They are lovely people, the Museum is a cool place to work, and the issues around plastic pollution are only going to get more important over time

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The problem with germinating seeds on my windowsill is that all the compost is attracting gnats who, apparently, like to entertain themselves by flying right in front of my face

Yesssss goodbye Orban you won’t be missed

What a relief!

Nope

At this point I really should have a playlist just for helping me come to terms with not getting fellowships/grants I applied for

Ah but 0.5 is equally distant from both 0 and 1, so by consistently rounding halves upwards you risk introducing a systematic error in that direction, especially if you're doing lots and lots of step-by-step calculations that involve rounding

Yeah, I was taught that it’s better for reducing cumulative error when doing lots of calculations

I had to demonstrate my stats skills in a test recently and got a question on rounding wrong. Apparently rounding halves to the nearest even number is not a universally taught method, and I am quite taken aback by that.

That’s basically what just happened

One of our D&D characters keeps getting himself cursed on purpose and I’m pretty sure he’s turning into a lich now

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage.

Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video.

This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

Shelves in the Natural History Museum archives with preserved jars of fish.

Researchers used spatially offset Raman spectroscopy to analyze Charles Darwin’s specimen jars without opening them, identifying preservation fluids and distinguishing container types. 🧪💡⚛️

optics.org/news/raman-spectroscopy-...

The only things that are keeping me going right now are books and my little garden

Hmm, weird, I can’t seem to concentrate on my work and I can’t seem to relax either. I wonder why…

Oh right, the state of the world

I love the fact you can always tell which point of light is Mars because it's such a delightfully butterscotch colour