Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
@drspacejunk.bsky.social
Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Explorers Club 50, 2024 | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/
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I’m reading a book about the lowest possible temperature and it’s 0K.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’m reading a book about the lowest possible temperature and it’s 0K.
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I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down!
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down!
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In #colonial New South Wales, there was no parliament. Instead, public dinners were held and toasts were made to demonstrate political support – or dissent
🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
Drinking to Australian Democracy
www.historytoday.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
In #colonial New South Wales, there was no parliament. Instead, public dinners were held and toasts were made to demonstrate political support – or dissent
🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
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The map's form: crop circle
It shows: predictions
Its purpose: to archive/chronicle
It shows: predictions
Its purpose: to archive/chronicle
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The map's form: crop circle
It shows: predictions
Its purpose: to archive/chronicle
It shows: predictions
Its purpose: to archive/chronicle
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I have found the greatest AI-generated slop cache on the web. I won’t spoil it but you have to make it all the way down to the author bio and photo. I know it’s part of a spam factory and I shouldn’t share it, but somehow it’s both delightful and horrifying
9 Things That Weight Around 400 Kilograms (kg)
Our world is filled with various items. Material, people, animals, and even ideas that occupy space and are weighty. However, it is normal for us in our human e
weightofstuff.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I have found the greatest AI-generated slop cache on the web. I won’t spoil it but you have to make it all the way down to the author bio and photo. I know it’s part of a spam factory and I shouldn’t share it, but somehow it’s both delightful and horrifying
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Today marks 60 years since France became the third space power by launching the A-1 Astérix satellite on 26 November 1965... So happy anniversary to
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today marks 60 years since France became the third space power by launching the A-1 Astérix satellite on 26 November 1965... So happy anniversary to
'Spacepower, the ability in peace, crisis and war to exert influence in, to and from space, rests on the knowledge, talent and intellectual frameworks that universities cultivate.'
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Universities are the intellectual engines of spacepower
Spacepower – the ability to exert influence in, to and from space – is emerging as a defining force in global politics. The countries that will th...
www.universityworldnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
'Spacepower, the ability in peace, crisis and war to exert influence in, to and from space, rests on the knowledge, talent and intellectual frameworks that universities cultivate.'
🧪 🔭
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Gender relations and the domestication of space technology.
'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'
#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪
'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'
#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪
Space Age Suds: women, washing machines and the astronautics of everyday life
'Space Age Suds' is a charming and slightly alarming little vignette which is about the seeping of the Space Age into domestic life, machin...
zoharesque.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Gender relations and the domestication of space technology.
'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'
#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪
'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'
#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen #buchsky #buchliebe
8/30
8/30
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen #buchsky #buchliebe
8/30
8/30
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When a Syrian author becomes the voice of Gaza's survivors
When a Syrian author becomes the voice of Gaza's survivors
'A Memory of Annihilation,' the latest book by Samar Yazbek, brings together a striking series of testimonies from survivors of the hell in Gaza.
www.lemonde.fr
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When a Syrian author becomes the voice of Gaza's survivors
'PRINTED: You have to believe everything that's printed. Seeing your name in print! Some people commit crimes just for that.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
'PRINTED: You have to believe everything that's printed. Seeing your name in print! Some people commit crimes just for that.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
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The map's form: ornamental pond
It shows: whisper network
Its purpose: to make a proposal
It shows: whisper network
Its purpose: to make a proposal
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The map's form: ornamental pond
It shows: whisper network
Its purpose: to make a proposal
It shows: whisper network
Its purpose: to make a proposal
Gender relations and the domestication of space technology.
'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'
#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪
'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'
#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪
Space Age Suds: women, washing machines and the astronautics of everyday life
'Space Age Suds' is a charming and slightly alarming little vignette which is about the seeping of the Space Age into domestic life, machin...
zoharesque.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Gender relations and the domestication of space technology.
'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'
#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪
'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'
#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪
'Someone close to them' = man. Can't we just say it? Amazing how men have been written out of this and many other similar articles.
One woman killed by someone close to them every 10 minutes: UN report
One woman killed by someone close to them every 10 minutes: UN report
To mark the International Day for the Elminination of Violence Against Women on Monday, the United Nations released a report that also revealed that 60% of women are killed by close family members.
www.lemonde.fr
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
'Someone close to them' = man. Can't we just say it? Amazing how men have been written out of this and many other similar articles.
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Ah, the Sonora Aero Club raises its pretty but ahistorical head again: “I could share more, but our friend wants evidence, and I am not yet ready to publish…”
Seeking Sonora
The art of Charles Dellschau has been receiving some attention lately, thanks to the recent publication of a book about his work. Dellschau, who produced thousands of strange and wonderful watercolour...
airminded.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Ah, the Sonora Aero Club raises its pretty but ahistorical head again: “I could share more, but our friend wants evidence, and I am not yet ready to publish…”
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If you would like to see me live on stage with Andy Zaltzman doing @thebugle.bsky.social, look no further!
The Bugle Live - Brisbane | The Paddo Tavern
Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Doors 6.00pm
Show 7.00pm
🎟️ https://www.standup.com.au/event/andy-zaltzman-the-bugle-live/
The Bugle Live - Brisbane | The Paddo Tavern
Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Doors 6.00pm
Show 7.00pm
🎟️ https://www.standup.com.au/event/andy-zaltzman-the-bugle-live/
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
If you would like to see me live on stage with Andy Zaltzman doing @thebugle.bsky.social, look no further!
The Bugle Live - Brisbane | The Paddo Tavern
Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Doors 6.00pm
Show 7.00pm
🎟️ https://www.standup.com.au/event/andy-zaltzman-the-bugle-live/
The Bugle Live - Brisbane | The Paddo Tavern
Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Doors 6.00pm
Show 7.00pm
🎟️ https://www.standup.com.au/event/andy-zaltzman-the-bugle-live/
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Hey #planetSci friends, the end of the year is nearing. Does anyone want to help me put together an Image of the Year Bracket?
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hey #planetSci friends, the end of the year is nearing. Does anyone want to help me put together an Image of the Year Bracket?
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
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Imagine if China killed scores of unidentified people at sea claiming they were drug-runners, then set its navy on course to invade a country I think the global media would be reacting differently compared to reporting the US threat to Venezuela. BTW it's giving off big Gulf of Tonkin vibes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Imagine if China killed scores of unidentified people at sea claiming they were drug-runners, then set its navy on course to invade a country I think the global media would be reacting differently compared to reporting the US threat to Venezuela. BTW it's giving off big Gulf of Tonkin vibes.
A Venus figurine made of cigarette butts. I first saw this work by Al Hansen in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where the 30, 000-year-old Venus of Willendorf is displayed. 🏺 🦣
Al Hansen, La Venus de Jacques Villon Assemblage of Cigarette Butts (1988), Galerie 1900-2000 (Paris), Folded Card, 1991
Size: 6 x 8.5 inches
gallery98.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
A Venus figurine made of cigarette butts. I first saw this work by Al Hansen in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where the 30, 000-year-old Venus of Willendorf is displayed. 🏺 🦣
'IMPERIALISTS: All honest, polite, peaceful, distinguished people.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
'IMPERIALISTS: All honest, polite, peaceful, distinguished people.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
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"What are they playing?" asked Tock
"The sunset, of course. They play it every evening, about this time. And they also play morning, noon, and night, when, of course, it's morning, noon, or night. Why, there wouldn't be any color in the world unless they played it.”
"The sunset, of course. They play it every evening, about this time. And they also play morning, noon, and night, when, of course, it's morning, noon, or night. Why, there wouldn't be any color in the world unless they played it.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"What are they playing?" asked Tock
"The sunset, of course. They play it every evening, about this time. And they also play morning, noon, and night, when, of course, it's morning, noon, or night. Why, there wouldn't be any color in the world unless they played it.”
"The sunset, of course. They play it every evening, about this time. And they also play morning, noon, and night, when, of course, it's morning, noon, or night. Why, there wouldn't be any color in the world unless they played it.”
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“Declaration for the Future” by German Physical Society and the Physical Society of Japan - Nov. 2025
www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli...
"We pledge, as physicists, to contribute to humanity’s survival and advancement"
www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli...
"We pledge, as physicists, to contribute to humanity’s survival and advancement"
Declaration for the Future
Representatives of the Physical Society of Japan (JPS) and the German Physical Society (DPG) convened in Münster, Germany, during the United Nations’ International Year of Quantum Science and Technolo...
www.dpg-physik.de
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Declaration for the Future” by German Physical Society and the Physical Society of Japan - Nov. 2025
www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli...
"We pledge, as physicists, to contribute to humanity’s survival and advancement"
www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli...
"We pledge, as physicists, to contribute to humanity’s survival and advancement"
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Udo Kier, German actor with wide-ranging career, dies aged 81
Udo Kier, German actor with wide-ranging career, dies aged 81
He rose to fame in the 70s with cult portrayals of Frankenstein and Dracula, before working in hundreds of films, including several with Lars von Trier.
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Udo Kier, German actor with wide-ranging career, dies aged 81