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Dr Alfredo Carpineti  

I was today years old when I found out that Fly Me To The Moon is a gay love song!
Composer Bart Howard wrote the song for his partner Thomas Fowler. They were together for 58 years! ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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The Duality of Xan  

Normalise being wrong. Normalise admitting to mistakes and changing your opinion as you learn more. It's how we learn. It's part of being human.

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Graham Sleight  

Why do we call them “central banks” and not “apex creditors”?

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SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙  

Devastating article on the pressure #NHS staff are under. So many #nurses, #paramedics, doctors and other staff are near breaking point, yet they're painted as the villains by the government. I see #Sunak has said today that he won't discuss pay ... They *want* the strikes to happen in the hope that the public will turn against NHS staff. Stand firm!
#SupportTheStrikes #NursesStrike #Solidarity #RCN
theguardian.com/society/2022/d

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Kees van der Leun  

Good timing: annual solar PV installations in the EU leaping ahead: 41 GW this year, up 47% from last year's record 28 GW!
And a way broader base than the spike driven by German and Italian support schemes in 2011.

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Nicol Wistreich  

Day two of a deeply #transphobic hashtag trending at number 2 on Twitter in the UK (am not sharing screenshot). Trying to imagine a similar hashtag trending for so long that targeted any another marginalised, minority group. Least of all a hashtag targeting a group where 40% have attempted suicide, rising to 56% of young people (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/323451) and where the risk of experiencing violence is four times (!) higher than cisgendered people (williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu).

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Jules  

@OtherRyn translate that into German and it'll sound legit

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺  

Snakes have clitorises
theconversation.com/snakes-hav

First evidence of hemiclitores in #snakes: Megan Folwell et al. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

Across all species, researchers have given female #genitalia a lot less attention compared to its male counterpart. What’s more, it’s hard to get a good look at #snake genitalia. It’s all internal to the snake’s tail, for the most part. There has been quite a bit of research into the snake #penis, but the snake #clitoris has been missed.

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(moving) APOD  

Thor's Helmet

Image Credit & Copyright: Hannah Rochford

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221220.ht #APOD

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kim_harding ✅  

Which European nations are handling the energy crisis best? | Business and Economy | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/features/2022/12

France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Greece are doing some things right, but face challenging times ahead, say experts. And the United Kingdom is struggling.

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Graeme Bell  

@Molly The skillsets and mindsets required for solving the first, often bring unforseen and serendipitous benefits that aid solving the second.

However such a view of STEM encourages a utilitarian outlook which is problematic in itself.

What we should promote is the sheer joy of discovery and problem solving in every sphere and not judging worth based on expected outcome.

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Jules  

@taoofcoffee "I'm genuinely baffled that (s)he remained alone his entire life, despite the urge to mate." speaks for a lot of us I think

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Sarah  

Been in the Uk for a few days. The extent to which the place is coming apart at the seams is alarming. Trains don’t work. Ambulances don’t work. Post doesn’t work. Electricity is a luxury good. It feels like a fairly advanced stage of terminal decline.

The answer is a return to social democracy and EU membership, but no political parties are advocating either because trying to halt this decline is, itself, seen as toxic.

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Jules  

@Jon6705 @Molly that science shouldn't just be a utilitarian thing, that learning more about and wondering at the incredible universe we find ourselves in is one of the noblest things we little squabbling apes do. There a lovely thought exercise about visualising what the world would look like if we won, how we would live if we managed to build an equitable world where everyone's needs were met while respecting the planet, and for me studying the cosmos would make up a big part of that world.

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Jules  

@Jon6705 @Molly vanity space travel of billionaires sending cars or celebrities of themselves into space. But proper space science isn't just useful to us - by comparing the geological composition of Mars to Earth we learn more about the formation of both and how rocks may weather differently under atmospheric conditions for example, and it led us to develop satellites that can monitor ozone and atmospheric and water temperature and model future weather patterns. But I also strongly believe

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@Jon6705 @Molly honestly I think we need to do both - it's the capitalistic scarcity mindset that tells us there's only cash to do one, and not fully, and that eventually leads to the idea that if we can't look after everyone we need to prioritise and exclude the undeserving. There is obviously a huge problem that our news and social media focusses on sharing what gets most clicks and hence most revenue, which is Mars not the ongoing crises on this planet, and I'm not defending the

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Butser Ancient Farm  

#Introduction time!

We're Butser Ancient Farm, a world-renowned experimental archaeology site covering over 10,000 years of human history -- we recreate ancient buildings from real UK archaeology to test theories about how they were built and lived in!

We're part of the #TwitterMigration & we talk about #archaeology #history #nature #conservation #education and #TraditionalSkills 💚

Part of the #PrehistoricNotPrimitive brigade!

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Hank Green  

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

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Vicki Kyriakakis  

I'll weigh in on the subject of artists promoting their work and #art and #crafts since it's a discussion at the moment. I say PLEASE DO. Obviously, we want more than just shop fronts, we want communities. But I LOVE seeing art on my timeline. I'll boost and occasionally probably buy. So, share away. Artists must support artists, and that means enabling a living wage. Art can't be created in poverty. And art should NOT be the preserve of the rich.

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Jenny Hansen  

This individual had such a remarkable history. I'm genuinely baffled that he remained alone his entire life, despite the urge to mate. Perhaps the initial highway crossings were so difficult he didn't want to attempt them again? Or maybe the access to food and space was more compelling than mating? Anyway, RIP to a very interesting cat.

#P22 #wildlife #cougar #mountainlion

P-22, the celebrity mountain lion of Los Angeles, has died - Los Angeles Times

latimes.com/california/story/2

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