Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere is a weird thing!
- it’s summer. And here in Santiago, Chile, hot summer. Min 14C and max 32C these days. All the chants I’ve learned when a child in France are about winter wind, snow and being cold. Here we’re in short or even in swimming suit in the outdoor pool! The few Santas around are in malls or supermarkets with air conditioning because… 🥵
1/
Christmas in #Kherson. People stand in line to donate blood after yesterday’s bombardment of pedestrian area.
#Ukraine #UkraineWar
Whatever you celebrate (or don't celebrate), wishing you and yours the very best of seasons!
#Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography
Read this article— some rare blunt honesty about choosing all the suburban “advantages,”including the fact that it’s heavily subsidized by the rest of us, and then complaining about the amount of traffic in your commute into the city. It may sound snarky, but it’s also true. “You know what the suburbs aren’t, though? Close to downtown.”
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/pellerin-choose-ottawas-suburbs-deal-with-the-traffic-woes
A stunning slow-motion tracking shot of a cheetah running captured at 1200 frames per second.
Source: https://vimeo.com/53914149
More details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icFMTB0Pi0g
Credit: Gregory Wilson / CC BY 3.0
PHOTO BLOG: Earlier this month, a storm chaser from the Netherlands took a wonderful photo showing several textbook ice halos, including a 46-degree halo, a 22-degree halo with parhelion (sun dogs), and an upper tangent arc. https://www.accuweather.com/en/leisure-recreation/live-news/weather-permitting-photo-blog/933860
One of the benefits of #Mastodon being #OpenSource: The EU can help make it more secure.
"Awards of up to EUR 5000 are available for finding security vulnerabilities in LibreOffice, LEOS, Mastodon, Odoo and CryptPad, open source solutions used by public services across the European Union. There is a 20% bonus for providing a code fix for the bugs they discover."
https://commission.europa.eu/news/european-commissions-open-source-programme-office-starts-bug-bounties-2022-01-19_en
Can we bring back #TheExpanse just so we can have a Christmas special?!?
I dunno, maybe Amos kills Santa for not giving an innocent kid a present?
Or a whole episode of Avasarala fucking swearing about how much she fucking hates Christmas!
Excited for an #introduction 👋!
📝 We are Penn NeuroKnow, a #neuroscience blog run by PhD students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Graduate Group.
👩🔬 👨🔬 Our goal is to share our love of neuroscience with you all. Each post breaks down a different topic in neuroscience, ranging from general neuroscience knowledge to summaries of exciting new studies that are changing how we think about the brain.
🧠 Recent topics have included why we get the hiccups, how the octopus controls its arms, and how neuroscientists are starting to realize that what they thought was noise might not actually be so noisy.
⏰ We’ll be sharing links to our latest posts with short summaries every Tuesday when they go live. We’re looking forward to sharing our posts and engaging with the community here!
#sciComm #scienceCommunication #writing #blog #neuro #PhDStudent
Wandering in this new space to learn more