Alister Puddifer
Aspiring exoplanet scientist and astrobiologist. 🔭🌌🛸 Vocal proponent for evidence-based policy (Scientocracy). 🔬 He/Him
- And here I was, 32 and worrying that I'm starting to look old.
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- Reposted by Alister PuddiferA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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- Tackling the disinformation crisis is still top of my list.
- Reposted by Alister PuddiferNASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks theonion.com/nasa-discovers-dist…
- He did what?!
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- Reposted by Alister PuddiferWhen the Mind Returns - the puzzle of terminal lucidity: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cons...
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- Reposted by Alister PuddiferTerrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
- Reposted by Alister PuddiferRobin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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- Reposted by Alister PuddiferI understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
- Reposted by Alister PuddiferTIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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- Reposted by Alister PuddiferToday is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈 ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals. The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do. #SpaceForAll
- Which is why I say "Trans rights are women's rights". Without those rights we all suffer.
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- Reposted by Alister PuddiferLots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
- Voyager I launched in 1977. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.25 light years away.
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- Here in the UK, a friend of mine is having a hysterectomy at a private hospital. It will cost ~£7,000, including the hospital stay. What's wrong with the US health system that a broken ankle costs $64k?!
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- Reposted by Alister PuddiferCardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
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