Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Final three competitors for ESA’s next medium science mission selected:

▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Final_three_for_ESA_s_next_medium_science_mission

After the super exciting #Euclid news yesterday, here is an outlook for what may become another mission of the same class:

🔴 M-Matisse: habitability and evolution of Mars (M-Matisse)

⚡ Plasma Observatory: exploring the plasma environment around Earth

💥 Theseus: studying high-energy, short-lived events across the cosmos

#ESA #astrodon

The Dutch public broadcast organization NPO ( (like a BBC or PBS) is now running its own mastodon instance with handles on its main domain!

Radio 1: @nporadio1

The instance itself is at https://social.npo.nl/

Too many seem to think that, in the end, NHS coped fine with covid.

I'm planning a substack on what happened from March 2020 to 2021, inc ICU

I'd like to include ANONYMOUS quotes from FRONTLINE staff on what it was like, to bear witness.

Please fill out & share!

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PKH9MRT

"The key to our collective survival is our collective knowledge and our willingness to collaborate in good faith. To unlock and utilise the great and growing pool of knowledge, we need to reimagine higher education as an open commons. Scholars are not cogs in a capitalist knowledge factory. We need stewards of the public knowledge commons."

👏🏽 Jim Luke (@econproph) is on 🔥 here - go read his amazing chapter
"Closing the factory: Reimagining higher education as commons", which has been published just earlier this week as an #OAbook with @OpenBookPublish

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363

‘The Word’ - a new 5 week, online, highly practical workshop exploring the possibilities of words & photography with @PrintedLand & I.
Develop your writing skills as a photographer, both creatively and functionally.
7/1/24 - 11/2/24 / Booking open now:

rkphotographic.com/the-word

When somebody asks "does this software need to be accessible to people with disabilities?” the answer you're looking for is “any level of discrimination is unacceptable and illegal.”

#Sarcasm
Why do we spend so much time looking for intelligent life on other planets? I’d be happy to find intelligent life here on Earth first.

Whiney VC upset that people's rights get in the way of him making money

Remember when browsers used to display an RSS icon in the URL bar when feeds were available on that website?

After the lost decade in social media, can we please bringt that back now?

#Firefox #Browser #IndieWeb #RSS

Sister Voyager 1 has sent a ~6-1/2 hour playback from her 8-track reel-to-reel tape of data from interstellar space. Earth will try to capture this data with 5 arrayed antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Network facility in Robledo de Chavela, Spain.

I'm talking about gravitational waves and black holes in today's lecture and I just watched a bunch of the simulations here and now I'm feeling slightly anxious about getting swallowed by a black hole.

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/videos?category=simulation

(I know, it's not going to happen. But entire stars are getting swallowed by black holes somewhere in the universe all the time! Wild)

At my lunch time tomorrow I’m teaching a free photography class at a Tenderloin community group. Participants will receive a disposable film camera, free film developing, and be part of a Tenderloin community art show in December

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzWkCnPrrMK/?igshid=Y2Yyb3BhYWw4d2Z6

#BelieveInFiIm #Photography #FilmPhotography #SanFrancisco #Tenderloin