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Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

Excited (and nervous) to give a Zoom lecture today to a 5th-grade class about astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia and its legacy! It’s impossible to talk about any aspect of scholarship

Avid Research

avid_podcast

It’s always celebrate awesome Science women day here at Avid Research, but today the whole world is joining in! So here’s a shoutout to some of the amazing twitter women

César

polaris_astro

The Great Conjunction and the rise and fall of kingdoms: a mini-thread on the Caliphate of Córdoba.In 929 AD, the Emir of Córdoba decided to declare himself Caliph. The Caliphate

Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD, CDN, CSCS (she/her)

alissarumseyRD

DYK: the LOWEST risk of mortality is in people with a BMI of 25-29.9 (aka "overweight").Next lowest risk: a tie between people with a BMI of 30-34.9 (aka "obese") and

Caprice Phillips

CapricePhillips

The reality of #BlackinAstro is that I have never been in a space/job where someone hasn't questioned me. It doesn't have to be loud, it is the micro aggressions or

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

While we are here, let me tell you another story; it's a story of a super amazing planet and it's discovery!In the late 1600s when our young Isaac Newton laid

BravoZulu17

BZulu17

Does anyone find comfort that Donald Trump’s father had a middle name of Christ his mothers name was Mary and his uncle’s name was John. Oh and by the way

H

ghurabafidunyax

Without the Muslim empire you would not have:https://twitter.com/pashtungoddess/status/1274003438234460161 The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation.

Nicole Scro

nmscro

Some positive news for 2020: not only are we replacing old roads named after white supremacists, but we're naming *new* ones not after some variant of shrubbery.The roads for the

Prof. Lisa Harvey-Smith

lisaharveysmith

A thread: I wanted to give you a sense of what a great telescope she was, so here's my Arecibo radio telescope: a guided tour. First, this is the focus

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

ON PHYSICISTS DOING OTHER NON-PHYSICS THINGSBeing good at physics doesn't mean you know how to do everything and I spent time training myself and learning from others when I picked

foone

Foone

Aww yeah, now we can finally get up to some REAL programming fun fortran fact: at my government job, some of the other fresh-out-of-college kids were mainly employed to convert

Alex and Books 📚

AlexAndBooks_

Carl Sagan was a brilliant astronomer, author, and professor.He's well known for being the presenter of the popular PBS series "Cosmos."Here are some of my favorite thoughts on books from

Sophia Gad-Nasr

Astropartigirl

Most of you know I study particle dark matter. I find this stuff so interesting that I wanted to write a thread, all about this weird stuff, to tell you

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Contradicting an earlier consensus, a team of astronomers predict that the Sun will be *very* active over the next few years, and maybe even have one of its strongest magentic

The Tower of London

TowerOfLondon

Thanks to everyone who’s been sharing their well-wishes and memories of Merlina We’ve also been receiving a lot of questions (“why do you keep ravens at the Tower?”, “is the

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