Get into the car in the morning and drive through France into Belgium on the way to the Netherlands. And the only sign of change of country is a sign along the road that I almost missed. Nobody checked our (German) IDs and we did not need a passport.
Living in the #EU, we tend to take it for granted that we can easily cross borders. But it's an wonder, an achievement, something worth fighting for.
The terrible thing about home improvement stores is that you go in to get one thing (in this case: paper nursery pots) and end up with a ton more. And I on purpose did not go to a garden centre, which would have turned worse 😬
Yet It took until 1956, 10 years before her retirement, for her to become full professor - because women were barred from becoming full professors at Harvard.
I am trying to re-create an old talk from ~4 years ago I found in my archives and I simultaneously love past-me (she did such a great job developing a talk structure, much better than the one I had in mind when asked to give a talk on this topic a month ago!) and hate her (she somehow managed to deleted the keynote of the talk so that I am now stuck with a PDF and trying to find all figures & re-type the text ...).
Oooh, is this new? (Rhetorical question - even if it is not new, it seems new to me!) I really like how mastodon (in the version currently running on mastodon.social) explains how blocks work!
P.S. Obviously not blocking this particular account, used it as an example 😅
I love passing by wind turbines. They are such an essential solarpunk element to me. Seeing one feels like a sign of hope: a different future is possible.
Is there a Dutch charity that would help folks who can't afford it with dental care in the Netherlands?
Boosts welcome.
(Yes I googled and did not find one that would be still active. So please refrain from "here is what I googled" results. Obviously not for me, but - for reasons - that's something I want to donate to.)
🌀 And it's just so less than 100 years ago since Hubble, building on Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s period-luminosity relation for Cepheids, has shown that our own Milky Way is just one galaxy among many: ▶️ https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/111681549432325681
Meine wissenschaftliche Karriere (die drauf aufbaut, das ich als Studentin Auslandsaufenthalte habe könnte) wäre mit diesem Staatsbürgerschaftsrecht übrigens nicht möglich:
Typically, the only cosmic things that disturb the "sunny side" of Earth's atmosphere come from our closest star, the Sun.
Except, it turns out, if you get a very bright GRB, the brightest we ever detected. And suddenly a star, exploding 2 billion light-years away (the Sun is just 8 minutes light away!) can - just temporarily, for a few minutes, but still - affect the Earth's ionosphere (and possibly the ozone layer).
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