Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Llego un poco tarde al día de muertos, pero creo que debía compartir este mensaje

Hace 68 años, el 3 de octubre de 1957, se lanzó el segundo satélite artificial de la historia y el primer animal en órbita: el Sputnik 2 con Laika.

Al leer este titular me ha parecido una locura comparar a Trump con el Conde-Duque de Olivares. Luego he visto que la afirmación viene de una empleada de la Casa de Medina Sidonia y entonces todo tiene sentido 😅

Este científico está centrado ahora en arrebatarle el Nobel de la Paz a Donald Trump, que lo ganará el año que viene. Puedes leer el texto completo en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2025/10/un-c...

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

🦟 #Mosquitoes arrive in #Iceland 🇮🇸 "Three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil." www.ruv.is/english/2025...

Del sótano de un palacio en Carintia a la Sorbona, Auer y Urbain se enzarzaron en una disputa científica donde las tierras raras se convirtieron en emblema de orgullo, de ambición y de un nacionalismo químico exaltado. www.jotdown.es/?p=275625

Listening to the Clásico de Castilla match on the radio 🙂 Gimnastica Segoviana - Real Avila 0:0 More info: www.flashscore.co.uk/r/?t=1&id=Is...

"Sofia Corradi, the Italian academic who founded the Erasmus programme enabling millions of young Europeans to study abroad, has died in Rome aged 91" www.brusselstimes.com/1802731/sofi...

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En torno al lutecio, las tierras raras arrastraron a dos científicos a una pugna tan feroz como absurda: un duelo de patrias, egos y espectros que acabó escribiéndose en la tabla periódica con tinta de revancha. www.jotdown.es/?p=275625

La historia de las tierras raras no solo es química: es ambición, rivalidad y orgullo. De Ytterby a Viena y París, Auer y Urbain pelearon por un lugar en la tabla periódica en una disputa que mezcló ciencia, vanidad y poder. www.jotdown.es/?p=275625

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Kathleen Lonsdale's notebook used while determining the crystal structure is also rather wonderful - such elegant handwritten calculations.

Just popped into the Royal Institution for a coffee, to discover they have a lovely display on benzene to mark the bicentenary of Faraday's discovery of it. Here are his notes, his paper, and one of his first samples. Glorious.

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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

El Gobierno concede al divulgador científico Javier Santolalla la encomienda de Alfonso X el sabio: boe.es/boe/dias/202... #BOE

Salmon swimming upstream through the Scottish rivers

The Fahrenheit Thermometer in Gdańsk, in honour of the scale’s inventor, features two important design choices: - What did Daniel Fahrenheit look like? We don’t know but we’re guessing “ripped” - look we have to put Celsius on the scale as well or people won’t understand it otherwise

The Argyle Street Ash, crowned Britain’s Tree of the Year 2025, this afternoon.

Everyone working on metal–organic frameworks today:

As we say in Spain “This plan is perfect, no flaws at all” www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Estrack: tracking satellites at the speed of light ✨ Today, we expanded our deep space communication capabilities with the construction of a new 35-metre deep space antenna at New Norcia station, Australia, to help meet our fast increasing data download needs. 🔗 esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

Just caught up on this fascinating paper in Science in August. It reports evidence of strong selective pressure from breeding of horses around 5000-3000 years ago in Central Asia. One reason it's interesting is that the selection is *really* strong... /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal. This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

I’m really looking forward to the new Sims…

Sunday! youtu.be/b63wv6UcBQQ?...

This only happens to you once

Watching this documentary about the last time scientists were really under fire

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Juas! Lo hizo!

Jimmy Kimmel debería regresar esta noche a lo Fray Luis de León y empezar su monólogo con un “Decíamos ayer…”

[Cries in Spanish]

Coming up tonight at 19:19 BST/20:19 CEST: the September #Equinox! This image from Meteosat-12, taken this morning, shows Earth near the equinox - when the terminator appears as a straight line dividing the planet into equal halves of light and dark. @wmo-global.bsky.social @eumetsat.int

Last night I watched “All the President’s Men” again, as a tribute to Robert Redford, and it reinforced my long-standing theory about the film: something must have happened during filming, forcing them to conclude the movie by explaining the ending through some teletype messages

Today Lord Kelvin is in excellent company

I just realized this meme could also apply to physics

I have to say it: Liquid Glass feels like a step backward. 💧

RIP Robert Redford, a brilliant artist and performer, visionary philanthropist and the star of one of the most resilient reaction memes on the internet, even if most people don’t realize this is him:

👨‍🔬 touring around England

Por si os preguntáis cómo se dice San Roque en inglés

Today marks 20 years since I went to Germany on my Erasmus exchange

** STEPHEN HAWKING WAS RIGHT ** Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility. PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open

No matter where you are in the world, Gullón is always there to brighten your day 😍

It’s kind of cute to see that, even in Windows 11, there are still parts that haven’t changed since at least Windows 98.

🌎 Fresh data just in from space: the first results from the Microwave Sounder and Radio Occultation Sounder onboard @eumetsat.int’s MetOp-SG-A1 satellite are here, after less than a month in orbit: esa.int/Applications... 📸Eumetsat