“We are lined with eyes. We see with our feet.”

Investments in autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are increasing worldwide. The legal regime of AWS potentially deployed in outer space remains unexplored. New paper: Winner takes all? Legal implications of autonomous weapons systems and the militarization of outer space. 🧪 🔭

Run, Ride or Walk for Palestine Sunday 30 November 2025, Adelaide (Australian Friends of Palestine Association) Register below!

I'm reading Aphra Behn's 1688 novel Oroonoko for a book group. It's set in the English colony of Surinam. Behn says she was living there when the events of the novel take place, but apparently this is controversial. Any thoughts? @gutenberg.org

Go for it, Gustave 'GLOBE: A modest word for a woman's breasts. "Let me kiss your lovely globes."' - Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s

“You can pick any assortment you like or buy a special box complete with all letters, punctuation marks, and a book of instructions. Here, taste an A; they’re very good.” Milo nibbled carefully at the letter and discovered that it was quite sweet and delicious—just the way you’d expect an A to taste

An Archive of Handwritten Traditional Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online

Spark Space is still going, still providing mutual aid on the ground to students who need a place to study, and we're still fundraising to keep them open. Donate here, if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Flickr (Sep 27, 2022) The Roman Space Telescope features a mosaic plate assembly that will enable it to capture wide-field images of distant galaxies and cosmic phenomena. flic.kr/p/2nYshp7

I'm going to use this as the jonbar point in my upcoming alternate-history novel.

A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. www.livescience.com/health/genet...

Among his many achievements Edmond Halley, who was born 8 November 1656, was the first to map the magnetic variation in the Atlantic #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/06/26/m...

Look out for this later #histSTM (And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)

It was learning about Rosalind Franklin’s story at Cambridge that prompted me to consider the impact of 1950s academic misogyny on the intellectual development of the field of archaeology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Oh my fucking god

Fascinating dude - wrote "The Devil's Dictionary". Went off to experience the Mexican revolution and disappeared. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose...

Well this is charming. 'GIRAFFE: Polite word for not calling a woman a camel.' - Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s

This is horrific. This cannot happen.

The map's form: velvet nap It shows: minerals Its purpose: art project

Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner. As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day! #histSTM #chemistry #physics #OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜

I'm seeing a lot of crochet patterns "written" by AI, as well. I promise, these will not be successful for you.

On 7 November 1878, physicist Lise Meitner was born. Read Baez’s thread: a real jewel of science storytelling and passion. Lise Meitner also kicked the door wide open for women in physics with nothing but genius and grit. Read it, fall in love, share it. ⚛️ 🧪 #physics #HistSci #WomenInSTEM

The map's form: on round thing on e.g. orange It shows: lightning strikes Its purpose: allegorical

The map's form: kaleidoscope It shows: ice Its purpose: to simplify

Fortunately it is not quite so bleak! The Tasmanian language palawa kani has been revived.

The Moon's orbit is roughly circular, but imagine if it were more elliptical, with a much greater distance between perigee and apogee.

Satellites inspired by daft punk, or daft punk inspired by satellites.

Space junk - how to solve it. Join me and other panellists for Physics World LIVE, Mon 10 November 2025, 9 pm GMT Register below! #SpaceJunk 🧪 🔭 @physicsworld.bsky.social

'EPISTOLARY GENRE: A style genre exclusively reserved for women.' - Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s

"When France launched Asterix 1 on a Diamant rocket from Algeria in 1965, it became the third nation in space. Asterix 1 is named for the plucky Gallic bande dessinee character who successfully holds the Roman invaders at bay against all the odds . . . " zoharesque.blogspot.com/2018/06/seve...

This is the story about the delay of his return. It’s his third trip to the space station. I hope it’s not his last. www.space.com/space-explor...

My take on the @methanesat.bsky.social shambles on @newsroom.co.nz -- paywalled for 24 hours.... newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/h...

“You see,” continued the minister, bowing thankfully to the duke, “Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They’re grown right here in our orchards.” “I didn’t know that words grew on trees,” said Milo timidly.

And that's why they continue to push rape is a consequence of women & children's actions. Power can not be subverted, men cannot be expected to police themselves & be inconvenienced. They cannot be expected to live as they make women live.

MeToo outraged men because for a brief moment they feared they might have to be the ones to live their lives policed, having to microanalyze their every action to avoid some unwanted or even devastating result. For a moment, they almost had to consider other people.

Interesting, and relevant to so much right now, that we don't seem to have a future equivalent for "forebears" - we need a word for those who will come after, that encompasses humans who aren't our direct descendants, but is more personal than just "posterity".

Hannah recently visited Jodrell to debut her latest composition, created from sounds foraged across the site! Want to celebrate with us? Don’t miss ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ on BBC Radio 4, Saturday at 20.00, featuring Hannah’s piece alongside brilliant stories from the BBC archive: ow.ly/9rYH50XnGu8

A polarising poltergeist at the Epworth home of Methodist founder John Wesley sowed division in 18th-century England. ⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

🌕💥 DOUBLE LUNAR IMPACT! Two asteroids slammed into the Moon last week—both caught by Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii. Traveling at 60,000 mph, the space rocks left fresh craters in the lunar soil, a reminder our serene neighbor is constantly under fire. 🔗

This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365 Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...

#Astronomers Let #ADSabs know how they are doing They value your feedback. However, they are making most improvements to #SciX so let them know if you have tried that as well ADS User Survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @scixcommunity.bsky.social #planetaryscience 🔭#heliophysics

In addition to my heart, take my organs, pancreas, lungs, larynx, my arteries. You took out your gears, micro controllers, motors, sensors, your wires, and laid them at my feet. Your screws fell one by one a delicate metal sonata stereo in my ear - Margaret Rhee: Light, Robot, 2017

If you're starting to plan your Christmas, this is a great stocking filler or present for the cat lover in your life (or self). @queenoliviaiii.com @chroniclebooks.bsky.social

First Daft Punk gig on the moon or whats the point

Check out this for your Christmas tree - Babiin Ngunggi Wiradjuri Blak Santa!

Seven reasons to love French aerospace 🧪 🔭 #France

Just so you know, I'm skeeting the Dictionary of Received Ideas until I get to Z.

For a 'seafood' table? #SaltNPepper #Kitchen #Condiments #Weird

'GLOVES: They give the right look.' - Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s

Spoke to AAP yesterday about the Liberal coup speculations: 'Monash University politics lecturer Blair Williams said it would be a "terrible look" for the Liberal Party's first female leader to be dumped by a bunch of men. "Women are watching," she told AAP.' #AusPol #Liberals #Coalition