K.B., PhD

Science & Tech Professional | 🇯🇵🇨🇦🇺🇸 | Pibble mom | Musician wife | She/Her | Now over where the sky is blue.

[K.B., PhD @K_Bonson]

@LLAG @MomentumMag What’s wrong with… oh.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

The Dutch, naturally, have this sorted.

At this #Delft intersection, cyclists and pedestrians get a continuous green.

The arrival of a car or truck sets off a sensor, which allows it to cross. The default is green for humans, red for cars.

📽️ @modacitylife

[K.B., PhD @K_Bonson]

Day 1 of bike commute. Coworker taking similar route was hit by a car recently and broke her ankle. Actually, at every workplace I’ve been, I’ve known someone who was hit commuting this way (except in Japan!). Wish me luck! 😬

[FirstPrinciples @FirstPrincip1es]

Particle cosmologist Luna Zagorac (@cosmoloony) explores how underdog experiments can punch above their weight. https://t.co/AUwYUWUYu6

#cosmology #astronomy #physics

[ESA's Euclid mission @ESA_Euclid]

We need your help! 🆘

In its mission to map out the #DarkUniverse, #ESAEuclid will image hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies 💫

For the next six years, the spacecraft is expected to send around 100 GB of data back to Earth every day! 🤯

That’s a lot of data, and we need your help to train Artificial Intelligence models to classify the shapes of galaxies as seen by Euclid 💡

If you partake in our new Euclid challenge on @galaxyzoo, you could be the first to lay eyes on Euclid's latest images ✨

Not only that, you could also be the first human ever to see the galaxy in the image 🤩

Read more: https://t.co/gUyh2PhLkG

Access Galaxy Zoo: https://t.co/Ds7AnQK0Ra

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

We have been putting in proposals for alternate funding sources but no luck so far...

[NASA @NASA]

For 25 years, @chandraxray has given us the x-ray vision to see galaxies and star clusters form, peer into black holes, and study worlds beyond our solar system.

Celebrating the anniversary of its launch, check out 25 all-new views from Chandra: https://t.co/zKdVMsrdSx

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

Chandra, the space-based observatory that brings us incredible x-ray images of extreme environments in the cosmos, is at risk of cancellation. It’ll be a huge loss to astronomy if the mission ends early for budget reasons. Go to https://t.co/U6nyMs9UPl to help #SaveChandra

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

Wonderful piece by @overbye on the power of long-lived Great Observatories, the budgetary crisis threatening Chandra's premature end, and the #SaveChandra effort to rescue it in Congress https://t.co/eycad9O8qi

[K.B., PhD @K_Bonson]

@Nnedi English speakers with no German language experience/heritage may struggle with this 😅. Joking, it really shouldn’t be a problem!

[Abraxsys @Abraxsys]

Whatever your feelings about the Trump shooting, it’s worth pointing out that if a Secret Service team can’t protect a presidential candidate, maybe expecting Mrs. Krabappel to protect her 4th grade students from an active shooter is unrealistic.

[Vermont Public @vermontpublic]

Important safety information:

Shelters are open in Barre (Barre Auditorium, 16 Auditorium Hill) and Williamstown (Middle/High school, 120 Hebert Rd.).

Respect road closures and do not attempt to drive or walk across flooded areas.

Stay updated:

https://t.co/0BLz6JMsO4

[K.B., PhD @K_Bonson]

Feeling so sad for those I know in Barre. They had just barely recovered from last year’s flood.

[Tyler Jankoski NBC5 ☀️ @TylerJankoski]

Vermont National Guard rescuing people in Barre tonight. Video by Josh Richards.

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

Ok, friends. On July 17th, our film Wild Wild Space will air on @StreamOnMax @HBO @HBODocs. Here's the first look at the trailer (since many of you have been asking me for months) while you wait. https://t.co/XtDTJiKo4U

[K.B., PhD @K_Bonson]

Not quite the same, but I’d say working in my 20s as a recovery tech for a tissue bank. Makes you really appreciate life.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

Spending my 20s as a holiday rep having to tell families their son was either dead or crippled and they'd have to sell their house to have him repatriated because his insurance doesn't cover it.

[K.B., PhD @K_Bonson]

@AwfulLotOfEagle @ellegist Yes, those insect repellent plugs! One was driving me crazy at an office, until I found it and unplugged it. Others thought I was losing it because no one else could hear it. 🤷‍♀️

[K.B., PhD @K_Bonson]

@DrRob_Thacker neither of our bets included asteroid fragments (although maybe we discussed it?). Very cool stuff! https://t.co/lHrdvZhVaW

[Jack Boot @IamJackBoot]

You eat one amazing peach then spend the rest of your life buying lousy peaches trying to repeat the experience. Forever chasing that peach dragon; that’s how good it was.