Colin Witts
@kidblue.bsky.social
Biology, Music, Art, NHS
DJ, Events, Production Management. Born at 333ppm
@[email protected], @[email protected]
@kidblue_Colin (twitter) He/Him
DJ, Events, Production Management. Born at 333ppm
@[email protected], @[email protected]
@kidblue_Colin (twitter) He/Him
Obligatory plane photo. Off to Germany 🇩🇪 ✈️
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Obligatory plane photo. Off to Germany 🇩🇪 ✈️
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An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
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Oh my gosh. This is... A thing. Please allow a microbiologist who has played with the microbe that makes this to waffle on for a bit in a short thread. (1)
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Oh my gosh. This is... A thing. Please allow a microbiologist who has played with the microbe that makes this to waffle on for a bit in a short thread. (1)
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Anyone for mini baked apples with a flapjack stuffing?
Quick and easy to make, a great way to use up smaller apples, and absolutely delicious with lashings of creamy custard 😋
orchardnotes.com/2025/11/16/h...
#apples #recipe
Quick and easy to make, a great way to use up smaller apples, and absolutely delicious with lashings of creamy custard 😋
orchardnotes.com/2025/11/16/h...
#apples #recipe
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Anyone for mini baked apples with a flapjack stuffing?
Quick and easy to make, a great way to use up smaller apples, and absolutely delicious with lashings of creamy custard 😋
orchardnotes.com/2025/11/16/h...
#apples #recipe
Quick and easy to make, a great way to use up smaller apples, and absolutely delicious with lashings of creamy custard 😋
orchardnotes.com/2025/11/16/h...
#apples #recipe
Managed to catch this on my phone earlier!
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Managed to catch this on my phone earlier!
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![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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There's something that feels a bit dead about the world right now, but tens of thousands of people just came together to help us solve a 100 year old mystery about a little blue jelly, and I find that heartbreakingly hopeful:
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
There's something that feels a bit dead about the world right now, but tens of thousands of people just came together to help us solve a 100 year old mystery about a little blue jelly, and I find that heartbreakingly hopeful:
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Copper crystals can form beautiful leafy patterns called dendrites from the Greek word dendron meaning tree. Dendrites grow due to mineral-rich fluids moving through cracks or during rapid cooling from a melt or vapor. Vote and more👇🏼
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Copper crystals can form beautiful leafy patterns called dendrites from the Greek word dendron meaning tree. Dendrites grow due to mineral-rich fluids moving through cracks or during rapid cooling from a melt or vapor. Vote and more👇🏼
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
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A paper in Scientific Reports presents the origins of vivid colours within the gemstone ammolite — a rare type of brightly coloured fossilised ammonite shell. go.nature.com/48OT5DX #Paleosky ⚒️ 🧪
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A paper in Scientific Reports presents the origins of vivid colours within the gemstone ammolite — a rare type of brightly coloured fossilised ammonite shell. go.nature.com/48OT5DX #Paleosky ⚒️ 🧪
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Perimeter Institute is doing a series profiling their researchers; here's mine! Featuring airplanes, of course. You can check out some of the other profiles here: perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/we-...
"Humans are curious... We're doing this work because humans want to know, because we are a fundamentally curious species and we have to explore."
Watch Mack's Explorer Profile to learn more about her aviation and physics journey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXvy...
Watch Mack's Explorer Profile to learn more about her aviation and physics journey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXvy...
Katie Mack: Exploring gravity in mind and body
YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Perimeter Institute is doing a series profiling their researchers; here's mine! Featuring airplanes, of course. You can check out some of the other profiles here: perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/we-...
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![4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: We haven’t checked in on the geology department for a while. I wonder if they’re doing okay. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail: I’ll go see what they’re up to. (3) [Person 2 opens door to room where a person is gesturing at a projector screen and explaining to two other people] PERSON 3: 49 million years ago, Heart Mountain, Wyoming slid sideways 15 miles like a giant stone hovercraft. (4) PERSON 2 [returning to Person 1]: ...They’re not okay. OFF-PANEL PERSON: Hey, *you* come up with a better explanation!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigkmmwkcyhpp7flvvqlj5dwg26hn4rssqln4c3zrtidabl4y3efvy@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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More soothing coming from retired geologist Myron Cook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYS3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYS3...
Learn how Supervolcanoes caused the World’s Largest Landslide in Wyoming
YouTube video by Myron Cook
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
More soothing coming from retired geologist Myron Cook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYS3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYS3...
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This morning's capture of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)
The comet will make its closest pass to Earth on October 21, 2025, at a distance of about 55 million miles (89 million kilometres).
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
The comet will make its closest pass to Earth on October 21, 2025, at a distance of about 55 million miles (89 million kilometres).
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This morning's capture of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)
The comet will make its closest pass to Earth on October 21, 2025, at a distance of about 55 million miles (89 million kilometres).
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
The comet will make its closest pass to Earth on October 21, 2025, at a distance of about 55 million miles (89 million kilometres).
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
Well i couldn't sleep due to a bout of insomnia but i've managed to completely rewrite my CV. Something i've only been procrastinating over for about 2 years now 😆.....Suppose i'll have a cup of tea now apparently it's morning. 🤷♂️
October 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Well i couldn't sleep due to a bout of insomnia but i've managed to completely rewrite my CV. Something i've only been procrastinating over for about 2 years now 😆.....Suppose i'll have a cup of tea now apparently it's morning. 🤷♂️
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Gonna tell my grandkids this was Madonna
October 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Gonna tell my grandkids this was Madonna
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Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon showing a big kink in the tail this morning. This is a stack of 5, 60 s exposures with a Takahashi TSA 120 and 0.7x reducer and Sony Alpha 7 III. Will try to get more images tonight and some good flats. #astrophotography
October 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon showing a big kink in the tail this morning. This is a stack of 5, 60 s exposures with a Takahashi TSA 120 and 0.7x reducer and Sony Alpha 7 III. Will try to get more images tonight and some good flats. #astrophotography
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Piglet squids (genus Helicocranchia) are a genus of small cranchiids known for their goofy appearance. They have a rather large siphon that make them look like a pig with a snout.
Well I guess with their arms raised up cranchiid style, they look like a pig with a crazy hairdo.
#SQUIDtember
Well I guess with their arms raised up cranchiid style, they look like a pig with a crazy hairdo.
#SQUIDtember
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Piglet squids (genus Helicocranchia) are a genus of small cranchiids known for their goofy appearance. They have a rather large siphon that make them look like a pig with a snout.
Well I guess with their arms raised up cranchiid style, they look like a pig with a crazy hairdo.
#SQUIDtember
Well I guess with their arms raised up cranchiid style, they look like a pig with a crazy hairdo.
#SQUIDtember
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Using my new Bluesky BOOKMARK for this one. I will be needing multiple doses of this everyday for some time to come.
September 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Using my new Bluesky BOOKMARK for this one. I will be needing multiple doses of this everyday for some time to come.
This Peacock (Aglais io) just came and sat on me for a while....both of us contemplating hibernation methinks.
September 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This Peacock (Aglais io) just came and sat on me for a while....both of us contemplating hibernation methinks.
Going in on Studio Pankow - Linienbusse
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Going in on Studio Pankow - Linienbusse