Notices by Dr. Victoria Grinberg (vicgrinberg@mastodon.social)

Today marks the 3000 km on my ebike.

That thing changed my life.

Seriously, if you are thinking about buying one - do it (if you can afford it; and if you can't and live in Germany or NL talk to me, I have funds earmarked for donation - [edit to add: offer gone!]). I knew how to bike but never did and now I 80% of the time bike to work and back (10km one way). And I on biking vacations and on bike rides with friends. It's good for my health, it's good for my mood.

Sometimes it's the only reframing that helps me not to drown: I'm not waiting for the catastrophe. The catastrophe has already happened. We are living the apocalypse. How do I make my life and the lives of others as bearable as possible in the aftermath?

A mindblowing set of images of what the flood in #Valencia looks like from space - images of the same region from 8 and 30 October (I've been to the area, this is scary):

▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/10/Valencia_flood_disaster

image credit: USGS, processed by #ESA
images from the US Landsat-8 satellite

Back to the wall - zero core strength and my hands are killing me after three problems, but hey, what else did I expect from a hobby I'm shit at even at my best times? It makes me happy anyway 😊

#HappyThings #bouldering

There is an animal in this pic. Can you see it? 😊

[Spoilers in comments. Also quiet some fun in comments ☺️]

#SouthAfrica #GardenRoute

And because the world is what it is and we thus need distraction, here is a baby hippo chilling on its Mum's back.

#SouthAfrica #GardenRoute #NaturePhotography

And good night from the #hippos 😴

#SouthAfrica #GardenRoute #NaturePhotography

Good (very cold) morning from the hippo!

#SouthAfrica #GardenRoute #NaturePhotography

@Gargron wohooo, thanks!

Interrupting my vacation animal & nature posting to congratulate my #ESA colleagues on the amazing #Juice lunar-Earth flyby, the first of it's kind 💪 And it was so nicely precise, that they could save some fuel for extra scientific shenanigans in the Jupiter system!

▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_rerouted_to_Venus_in_world_s_first_lunar-Earth_flyby

Btw., if you want to know more here on #fedi, you should read the recent threads my (former) colleague @markmccaughrean who majorly contributed to making those lovely images of Earth & Moon!

#astrodon

Greeted a friendly neighbour after a stressful work day 😽

#Leiden #CatsOfMastodon

"Man stelle sich vor, ein Marschflugkörper schlüge in die Kinderstation der Berliner Charité ein."

"Putin hat mit seinem Angriff auf ein Kinderkrankenhaus die Temperatur gemessen. Zufrieden dürfte er feststellen: Es ist kühl geworden in Europa."

▶️ https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2024-07/krieg-ukraine-russland-wladimir-putin-europa 🔒

Bin zufällig über den Instagram Account von Natalie Grams gestoßen und es bricht mir das Herz: https://www.instagram.com/doc.natalie.grams

Escher in Het Paleis.

#AboutToday #escher #art

@littledetritus @regehr

https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/109819714252450021 :)

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.

#Europa #Europe

The Trench of Death / Dodengang (Belgian WWI trench) in Diksmuide.

#AboutToday #photography

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 😬

#AboutToday

It's only since Cecilia Payne's PhD thesis in 1925, that we know what the stars - and our Sun - are made of: mostly hydrogen.

Her thesis was described as ""the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy" and it extremely readable: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1925PhDT.........1P/abstract

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.

(Posted because she was born #OTD).

#astrodon #VicisArt #VicisAstro

Well, that's also a way to solve long-standing dispute...

#AboutToday