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Humanity first. Science second. Loves dogs, birds, trees, and outer space 🌌

DS9 is the best Star Trek!
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Fern 🪐 @fern-nesme.bsky.social · Oct 14
Not planets, not moons, but... pancakes! A project by designer Nadine Schlieper and photographer Robert Pufleb. Their 'Alternative Moons Pancakes' were made with 500 ml of buttermilk, 3 eggs, 1 pinch of salt, 6 heaped tablespoons of flour, and 1 teaspoon of sunflower oil for each pancake 🌕 🥞 🌻 🧪
Black and white photograph of a pancake that looks like a photograph of the moon. Black and white photograph of a pancake that looks like a photograph of the moon. Black and white photograph of a pancake that looks like a photograph of the moon.
fern-nesme.bsky.social
The West Wing 🎄
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
NGC 3576/3603 - The Statue of Liberty Nebula - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/kdpo6Y
This rich and complex scene shows the glowing clouds of NGC 3576 and NGC3603 in the Southern constellation of Carina. The large pink nebula on the right is NGC 3576, an impressive looking but relatively close and small nebula in the Sagittarius Arm of our Milky Way galaxy, some 9,000 light years away. On the left is the much more distant and larger NGC 3603, located a further 14,000 light years behind NGC 3576. NGC 3576 is also known as the Statue of Liberty Nebula because of the striking shape visible in the core. The delicate loops are approximately 100 light years wide and are caused by material being blown outwards by the intense radiation pressure from young stars in the centre of the nebula. Most of these stars are hidden from our view in the bright area at the base of the loops. The more distant NGC 3603 on the left is noticeably reddened due to obscuring interstellar dust and appears almost deep red in comparison with the un-obscured pink NGC 3576 on the right. NGC3603 is the largest nebula in our galaxy and is classified as a giant HII region. It would appear as a noticeable large reddish glow to observers in other galaxies. A very bright massive central star cluster can be seen lighting up this nebula, and although these stars are in reality all young and blue they appear yellow to us because of the intervening dust. This effect can be seen in a number of other nebulae, such as the star cluster Pismis 24 in the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357). The cluster contains ...
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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sharponlooker.net
"3I/ATLAS imagined"

Styluspainted on tablet with #SketchbookApp

#ArtAdventCalendar
Greyscale painting of an oblong small body in deep space, covered in craters and boulders and embedded in its coma.
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
Bloomsbury 🌟
The top of a Christmas tree flanked by other trees under a cloudy sky.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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davidzipper.bsky.social
"Only 1.5% of the older people with reduced mobility in our study – just 17 out of 1,110 participants who had an average age of 77 – could cross the road faster than the 1.2 metres per second walking speed that is programmed into many UK pedestrian crossings."
Cities aren’t built for older people – our study shows many can’t walk fast enough to beat a pedestrian crossing
Many older people with reduced mobility say they feel ‘hurried’, ‘rushed’ and ‘unsafe" when walking around their city.
theconversation.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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dunnjons.bsky.social
Can you help me solve a monkey puzzle?

I'm currently working on a new #orchid book, and would like to track down information and, if possible, photo(s) for inclusion of the Monkey Orchids (Orchis simia) that flowered at Spurn (East Yorkshire) in 1974-1983.

Please drop me a line if you can help!
Monkey Orchid (Orchis simia), Kent © Jon Dunn Monkey Orchid (Orchis simia), Oxfordshire © Jon Dunn
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
London Zoo.
Mosaic by Tessa Hunkin of the Hackney Mosaic Project 💚
Mosaic of squirrel monkeys. There are three of them facing the viewer in an upper branch; below them, there is another one carrying a sleepy baby monkey on its back. The background is a light, minty green and there are leaves in various shades of green, ochre, and red. All of this is framed in black, red, and gold mosaics.
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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tedstryk.bsky.social
Today in 1989, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft, the first orbiter and entry probe at a giant planet. When I watch it recede from the shuttle, I can't help but want to scream to open the antenna first (it never opened). They were still able to salvage an amazing mission.
A crescent Jupiter from the Galileo orbiter Io, moon of Jupiter, from the Galileo Orbiter The rings of Jupiter and Europa, moon of Jupiter, from the Galileo orbiter. In this view, Europa is eclipsed by the planet Jupiter, which is why it is so dim relative to the rings. Callisto, moon of Jupiter from the Galileo orbiter.
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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carlzimmer.com
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Festive All Souls Church.
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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💛🍂🍁💛
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data
A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
#NowPlaying this album that I am utterly obsessed with ♥️ Never fails to put me in the best frame of mind with mandatory dance session to go along.
Idris Muhammad's 'Turn This Mutha Out' record.
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
Been a really long time since my last #NowPlaying.
Cover for the album 'Expansions' by Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes.
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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fionasturges.bsky.social
It's Monday so here's my @FT column on an epic new podcast on Fela Kuti, hosted by Jad Abumrad, which examines the Afrobeat pioneer's life, loves, sounds and politics. The series is vast and wide-ranging and, after 12 eps, I still didn't want it to end. www.ft.com/content/2737...
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man podcast review — epic portrait of the Afrobeat pioneer
Wide-ranging new series explores the Nigerian musician’s life, loves and rebel politics
www.ft.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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danwhitehead.net
BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.
1962: An Expedition to Post-Apocalyptic Britain | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
This one is really tough, but I'll give it a try...

- Candyman (1992)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- Suspiria (1977)
- The Lost Boys
thexclaim6.bsky.social Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · Oct 15
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Wicker Man
- Halloween
- Suspiria
wiswell.bsky.social John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Oct 15
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws
October 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
Not planets, not moons, but... pancakes! A project by designer Nadine Schlieper and photographer Robert Pufleb. Their 'Alternative Moons Pancakes' were made with 500 ml of buttermilk, 3 eggs, 1 pinch of salt, 6 heaped tablespoons of flour, and 1 teaspoon of sunflower oil for each pancake 🌕 🥞 🌻 🧪
Black and white photograph of a pancake that looks like a photograph of the moon. Black and white photograph of a pancake that looks like a photograph of the moon. Black and white photograph of a pancake that looks like a photograph of the moon.
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
Too relatable 😂👹
rufustsuperfly.bsky.social Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · Oct 7
me off to the kitchen to eat some chocolate biscuits at 3am
October 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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britannica.com
(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
The face I'll see everytime I add yet another book to my cart 🛒
andrewmale.bsky.social Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Sep 28
“Do you really need a book?”

Worst. Librarian. Ever.
Hank, a chocolate-brown Oriental cat, sits in front of a selection of art books, refusing to budge.
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
Mood 😎:
Fontaines D.C. - Romance (Radio 2 Jo Whiley Sofa Sessions)
YouTube video by BBC Music
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September 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
Happy 80th birthday to Bryan Ferry!
Roxy Music - Jealous Guy
YouTube video by RoxyMusicVEVO
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September 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
fern-nesme.bsky.social
Periodic reminder to keep cats indoors 🗣️ It's safe for both birds and your cats!
September 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM