Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)

Now this is a normal-sized constellation.

The archaeobotanical study of charred cereals. Interesting! Obviously I've not had time to read this paper yet. I'll just share it for anyone interested in ancient cereal processing, the bread/beer debate etc. Another question would be: is it malted? Because malt and malt sugars are important too.

Here's hoping the yanks throw themselves into inaction over this because it contains the prefix cis in cislunar. Isn't there meant to be an international treaty on the non-militarization of space and why is the USA just allowed violate international law? (rhetorical question, we all know why)

'PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom— and of whom only—it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.' - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Design Thinking has evolved

Write for the historians of archaeology blog! 🧪 🔭 🏺 cc @hmaloigne.bsky.social

War is coming to the Moon 🧪 🌔

‘Ability to strike back’: Denmark commits to long-range missile orders

Cool terms and/or writing prompts from the latest issue of Advances in Space Research: space sailing planetary sunshade large-membrane reflectors rendezvous in the Earth Moon neighborhood Sundivers performance analysis photo-gravitational hydrogen blistering 🧪 🔭 @cospar.bsky.social

The European Space Agency’s Director of Space Transportation, Géraldine Naja, is uncertain whether the agency will complete the first flight of its Themis reusable rocket demonstrator before the end of the year. 🧪 🔭 @esa.int

Crumbing the past: micro-CT as a tool for characterising the structure of archaeological cereal-food remains 🧪 🏺

Science is cool. All this from a rock.

'PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics'. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

'PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three'. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

A paradox. They want to make a mother, but they wish to replace women bc all of them threaten them. Last week, Palantir co-founder wants AI to disempower "educated white liberal women voters" and replace w/working class men. I said before: this is straight up "womb envy"--and has been all along.

Regarding voter suppression and other election interference, Brazil is also a dress rehearsal for election interference in the USA coming next.

Israeli strike on Gaza university kills three

Fancy spending $AUD 1,500 on a private dinner with Richard Dawkins and only 20 other people? This is happening in Adelaide soon, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Selfish Gene.

“I never knew words could be so confusing,” Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog’s ear. “Only when you use a lot to say a little,” answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he’d heard all day.

#Politics #Trump #Musk #Space From #TheGuardian: "The US military has given Elon Musk’s #SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data ..." www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

One Indiano Jone, two Indiana Jones

Princess Ida is an 1884 comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan which satirises women's education (haha so funny). They make a joke about the madness of the Princess and her mates sending a wire to the Moon. AHEAD OF THEIR TIME 🧪 🔭 #WomenInSTEM

162. I thought this book by Ashlee Vance sounded good: When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach #TabClosed2026 📚

Coming up Monday, 26 October 2026 at 16:00 Central European time, we'll be talking to Filipa Ramos, about her book The Artist as Ecologist: Contemporary Art and the Environment (Lund Humphries, 2025) in the online Greenhouse #envhum book talk series. All are welcome! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Ugh. www.urgentmatter.press/nasa-said-it...

“Our job,” said the count, “is to see that all the words sold are proper ones, for it wouldn’t do to sell someone a word that had no meaning or didn’t exist at all. For instance, if you bought a word like ghlbtsk, where would you use it?”

I just lost a 100 and 1000 in the bed.

I have the George W. Bush version :) www.wopc.co.uk/usa/bush-car...

I went to IKEA and I bought a whole Daim cake

'PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it'. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

161. Pathways to Exploration—Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration (2014) 🔭 #TabClosed2026

Have a puzzling phenomenon you'd like an anthropologist to explain? Send us your question: appliedanthro.org/dispatches-s... #SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #Dispatches

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said

Barbara was blowing a hot Columbian #nudinits #naughtyknitting #saucy #britishhumour #british #knittedpuppet #knittedanimation #coffeelovers

Women who changed science missing from GCSE and A-level courses – new study by Stephanie Buttigieg; Gregory Cooke; Skyla White theconversation.com/women-who-ch... Books in Women in STEAM at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books... #books #education #womeninstem