Dr Alfredo Carpineti

Happy publication day to me!! wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/inv... (US friends - publication there will be September 22)

We got 6th out of 21 at the Halloween themed quiz!

Bluesky has four kind of users

How your email finds me

Billionaires are such fucking losers!

Rainy walk with my hydrophobic dog

And let us know (DM/Email or just reply here) that if you have some events happening on or around the International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, we are happy to feature them on the website: prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/... #queerinstem

“I don’t want any of us to be or feel un-housed in our bodies our towns our movements ever again. This book is my prayer; if you need to use it as shelter, it’s yours.” My memoir HOME OUT THERE is available for preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/home...

And don't forget our Small Grant Scheme closes this weekend! bsky.app/profile/prid...

November 18 - We will be at Queen Mary to celebrate #LGBTQSTEMDay! Free tickets: link.outsavvy.com/lgbtqstemday26 feat: @jazzywildheart.bsky.social @joshlukedavis.com

For 33 years I was living in pain every month. I finally had a hysterectomy (for fibroids) and they found endometriosis when they did it. Up til then I'd been told "most women find periods uncomfortable." I'd been unable to walk due to the pain for 1-2 days per month. I was on prescription codeine.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Calling #Glasgow. 👇Your office Christmas drinks night out location is sorted!

Get glammed up for a glitzy night out with the light of your life - without the kids! Science Lates | Illuminate | Sat 12 Dec Add-on @drcarpineti.bsky.social's talk exploring how astronomer's use invisible light to reveal the universe's secrets More info: https://bit.ly/4y1oWdl

Everyone with a shred of objectivity already knows this to be obviously true, but it's still good to have data supporting the fact that transphobes are just bog-standard misogynist bigots, and the attempts to frame transphobia as some kind of feminist virtue are insultingly transparent.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. 30 years after the first protests members of the UK intersex communities have come together to write this important open letter to the UK government: openletter.earth/open-letter-... Please do read, sign and share widely.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

"I was a dumbass for X, Y, Z reasons. Material reality made me see the error of my ways" is actually incredibly uplifting stuff, especially from a 25 year old with a blue collar job and a HS diploma. He was a teenager during Trump 1

Musk is panicking about his recent anti-Ukraine moves following bi-partisan demands to bring his business under scrutiny, and perhaps control.

The next 10 days will be monumental, with elections in Serbia, Brazil, Israel and the US. This one was a victory for democracy.

He’s been giggling and pacing for a minute so I’m about to hear the stupidest joke known to humankind

In the travel confusion, I forgot the clocks where changing so I was not impressed by Clue acting like we were starving him from 7

bring back shame

Can't believe it'll have been two years soon! I'd love to reach 20% of my fundraising goal by then 🏳️‍⚧️ canopyrobin.etsy.com

😭 🫡 science.nasa.gov/missions/swi...

Someone has decided to guard the suitcase as I unpack to make sure I’m not traveling again

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

OMG moment finding Invisible Rainbows at the Indigo Bookshops in Toronto (and they already sold a few copies)! Truly giddy with joy and a perfect end to the little Canadian adventure! 🥰

I can’t help seeing red trees and yellow school buses and thinking “wow like on TV”

I got a picture

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

Behold a cosmic creche! Before the LSST Camera, there was ComCam: the @rubinobservatory.org engineering test camera. 🔭 Two years ago, image testing with ComCam began. One of its targets was the Seagull Nebula, captured by ComCam in breathtaking detail. Read more: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-10...

Saw a melanistic squirrel this morning, which reminded me of one of the best facts that I've heard this year! www.theastroholic.co.uk/a-squirrel-o...

(tapping my "almost all right-wing politics can be understood as eugenics" sign)

I can finally tell you all about this project that has consumed my life. I am so excited to announce this searchable dark money database aimed at exposing political influence networks. This is just the first phase of the project too. We have big plans.

Here is the BMA saying "we were worried about the FWS case, warned you about the potential health risks associated with the proposed Code of Practice, and now you have gone ahead and implemented policies that will cause serious harm to trans patients and staff' www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Saw dinosaurs last night! 🦖