Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️

Displaced Scot. Space ace 🏳️‍🌈♠️. Astro PhD student at Manchester uni. Still not completely sure what I'm doing. I knit a lot. (She/her)

[Micah Bowles @Micah_mb010]

Ever thought about the language we use in science? Should we be challenging it? Come dive into my latest work accepted at the #ml4phys @NeurIPSConf. 🎉
https://t.co/VscRYKs08P
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[chrislintott @chrislintott]

This is amazing. Press play!

[Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️ @alicemayhap]

Big thanks to @UoMAstroSoc for providing the eclipse glasses and telescopes - it was so cool to be able to get a good look at the Sun, these photos hardly do it justice!

[UoM Physics & Astronomy @UoMPhysics]

Images from Manchester (yes, no cloud today!) of the partial eclipse, taken using eclipse glasses and a phone camera. We can't wait to see what the @UoMAstroSoc have to share - they've been out on Brunswick Park taking images.
📷 Fiona Porter

[Will Norman @willnorman]

People keep telling me that because the UK had a heatwave in 1976, climate change is overhyped.

So here’s the global heat anomaly maps from June 1976 and June 2022. https://t.co/GGVg46UTcI

[Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️ @alicemayhap]

Stopped by the @jivevlbi table at #EAS2022 and just had to take a photo of this gorgeous quilt - isn't it amazing?

[Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️ @alicemayhap]

@AlexBonta98 Congrats!! 😊

[Boris Knyazev @BorisAKnyazev]

Dear paper writers, consider using \𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘨𝘦[𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗿𝗲𝗳=𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲]{𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘧} instead of simply \𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘨𝘦{𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘧} to make it easier for a reader to jump to the references and back.

[Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️ @alicemayhap]

Big thanks to everyone who sponsored me! My fundraising link should still be active for a wee while yet, so if you can spare the money any post-run donations are also very gratefully accepted.

https://t.co/blMK26Zx2O

[Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️ @alicemayhap]

A day late, but I think I have an excuse for being tired after the #GreatManchesterRun half marathon! Super proud to have taken part and glad to have helped to fundraise for @TheChristie.

[Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️ @alicemayhap]

@AlexBonta98 What a lovely girl! Hope she settles in nice and soon so you can enjoy the joy of a snuggly kitten 🥰

[Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️ @alicemayhap]

@AlexBonta98 God, Alex, I'm so sorry 💔

[Fiona Porter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈♠️ @alicemayhap]

@AstroNo_Mick Context for the alarmed: https://t.co/VNaKuvN1Bz

[Angela 🛡🇪🇺💙 Rebel With Many Causes #ToriesOut @spaceangel1964]

Never trust a Tory. #HealthAndCareBill

[Emily Hunt is on Bluesky @emilydoesastro]

this is a good thread. but gosh, is the media frenzy around trans people in the UK at the moment just so, so horrible.

if you're not trans, please please please do everything you can to educate yourself on this & understand just how severely this could impact us

[Richard Gadsden @po8crg]

If we treated heterosexuality around children in the way that many of the responses to this tweet seem to want to treat any other sexuality, then it would be child abuse to wear a wedding ring in public.

[Seven Rasmussen @toomanyspectra]

it is known that at the center of every galaxy is a Very Anxious Person

[MatLab crashes @memecrashes]

(Submitted by @safwatdt )

[Scientist Rebellion @ScientistRebel1]

We have leaked the IPCC summary for policy makers in collaboration with @esxrebellion https://t.co/pzamRwktkp

Now will now share with you some of the sentences we think are most meaningful within the document.

Follow the white rabbit...
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[Rosemary Mosco (Bird And Moon Comics) @RosemaryMosco]

I made this last year but I feel like it’ll be relevant every year. My heart is broken for the towns we’re losing. We need to be talking about climate change. We need to be doing so much more, of course, but to studiously avoid mentioning climate change is just unconscionable.