Dr Pamela L Gay
I am an astronomer, technologist, and creative focused on using new media to engage people in learning and doing science. Note: I have dyslexia and will typo. OMG will I typo...
- This is the content I come here for
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- Ok, hear me out, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social & Luke Skywalker hosted when I was a kid and they totally need to host again.
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- A writing system that worked for both the sighted and the blind from the very beginning
- I love this description of Quantum entanglement and why Quantum encryption is such a goal: “Entanglement is fundamentally monogamous: If two particles are maximally entangled then no other particle can join the connection.” www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Dr Pamela L GayNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
- Reposted by Dr Pamela L GayWoohooooo, here we go! Episcopal consecration without permission is a "latae sententiae" excommunication, ie, the excommunication is automatic and at the instant the offense is committed. www.vatican.va/archive/cod-...
- Magic player? Not sure what to do with your surplus of countdown cylinders? They are amazing row counters for your knitting and crocheting needs (or to give to fiber art doing friends!)
- This is a horror novel waiting to happen: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
- I swear the people in my life spend a lot of time asking, was that AutoCorrect fail, voice to text fail, or revenge of dyslexia. Assistive technologies are no longer my friend. My brain was never my friend. But I used to trust technology.
- To keep up on US politics, I canceled my Washington Post subscription about six months ago, maybe longer, and instead got a subscription to Wired. No regrets. Highly recommend.
- Reposted by Dr Pamela L GaySir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Loot that drops after defeating me: - dog hair - Apple Pencil - hair stick ready to break - Benadryl - goblin tokens - stitch markers - usb c cable (works if shaken)
- Reposted by Dr Pamela L GayThis is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.
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- Reposted by Dr Pamela L Gaythis goes so fuckin hard ”A revolution must be started by yourself. An egg, opened from the outside, is food; opened from the inside, it is a new life.“ Ovum exteriore apertum cibus, interiore vita nova. Revolutio exteriore est incursio.
- Detail about Crew 12 launch I just realized. With SpaceX shifting crew launches from 39a to 40, the Crew 12 launch can't happen until construction of a new / moved crew access arm at pad 40. (The access arm came down at 39a last night.) Filed under things that make you go "huh".
- This is my first attempt at Tunisian Crochet. It uses multiple mini skeins of Emma’s hand dyed yarns. I love that you can’t easily tell how I’m alternating yarns every set.
- She found a sunbeam
- I read a lot. I try to read mostly black authors in BHM. I’ve read everything by Okafor, Jemison, Butler, and (not science fiction) Morrison. Can anyone recommend a female black scientist fi writer who writes light or funny books? I need less darkness.
- This is the science communications analysis content I need.
- Zomg, I hadn’t realized how hard reading Fahrenheit 451 would hit me in this moment of history. There will be an essay… but not tonight.
- Returning tonight! (Possibly a few minutes late because my dinner, like so many things, refused to thaw.)
- Tonight, story time returns with a re-read of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", which is (annoyingly) as timely now as it was when I first read it. Join on Twitch.tv/StarStryder at 9pm EDT
- This coyote justified so many plot lines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMs...
- Timeline Cleanse: I present a sleeping Aussie doggo
- I hit a bug…
- As someone with seasonal effective disorder, I’m realizing the current new cycle is making this one of the worst years ever. It’s really hard to find. Hope right now. I always encourage people to look for the helpers but lately they’ve been getting murdered. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
- Tonight, story time returns with a re-read of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", which is (annoyingly) as timely now as it was when I first read it. Join on Twitch.tv/StarStryder at 9pm EDT
- Reposted by Dr Pamela L GayI've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.
- I'm having the kind of Monday where I'm really really glad last Friday me left me with checklists & todo lists to keep me on track. I keep having to post things online & having fresh WTF moments to erase my brain completely. That's ok because all I have to do is move to the next item on a list...
- Join us for a wild and science-filled time!
- This was the same time Larry Summers was university president and making statements against women in STEM.
- Reposted by Dr Pamela L GayNext time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
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- G**d***it, @scottsigler.bsky.social , that's how you end Voidstrike? And now we have to just.... wait????
- I once had someone say, “There is no way all those men would be working to protect each other. You’re being ridiculous.” Just they said it in more & harsher words. Now we’re seeing all those very same men in the Epstein files and all of us who had a WTF with the skeptics movement are unsurprised.
- Just dog
- Watching the lack of consequences regarding all the names in the Epstein files (redacted and not) is devastating. But also not unexpected. There is a reason women so rarely report. They know the men rarely face any penalties. And apparently the networking men do while ****ing helps keep them safe.
