Avaneesh Pandey

So it goes.

[Shannon Stirone💀 @shannonmstirone]

The space community really needs to take a look at itself. Look at what you’re cheering for, what it represents and the history behind the words you use. Words matter.

[ESO @ESO]

📢 Breaking news: Meet the Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy! Astronomers have unveiled the 1st image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. The image was produced by a global research team @ehtelescope 📷EHT Collaboration

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

I won't claim to have an understanding of how likely a global nuclear war is right now, but the reminder that our existence on this planet is fragile enough to rest in the hands of a few demented megalomaniacs is immensely sobering.

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

This just in: Big-brained men can no longer do good science because they don't have "nurturing" wives.

[Chris Greenway @ChrisGreenwayUK]

A long and nerdy thread about two obscure incidents in the Afghanistan war:
Big history is made up of millions of small mistakes that go unnoticed by those who make them.
This thread is about two of the tiniest of such errors, from US information operations during the war. 1/17

[Fariba Nawa @faribanawa]

Western journalists who embedded with the Taliban have Stockholm Syndrome, calling those who oppose the TB as outliers, and claiming that Afghans just love them because they bring peace. The assumption being that Afghans don't want freedom, and women's rights is a foreign concept

[Tse Yin Lee @leetseyin]

Thinking of all Afghan journalists:
https://t.co/fv3r6vCc9P

[Samiha Aboobacker @SamihaAN]

Link for #Afghanistan nationals who wish to apply for fast-track six-month e-visas to India: https://t.co/k5GUbmB6K5
On clicking 'Apply here for e-visa', the form that opens will show an option for Afghan nationals to choose the e-Emergency X-Misc visa category.

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

"At the heart of this merger was the creation of a new religious movement of sorts centered around the felt loss of power among white men due to the empowerment of other people." https://t.co/sDIq3mURPE

[Fermilab @Fermilab]

We’re thrilled to announce that the first results from Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics! #gminus2
https://t.co/tUx4ojzIps

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

"Herbert understood that religions do not act. People act. Their religions change like their languages, slowly over time in response to the new challenges of time and place." https://t.co/wuphf30PU4

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

When people throw stones at you, don't throw them back.

Pick them up, call them "Ram shillas" and sell them on @amazon.

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

You know what we haven't done for a while? Bad science fiction covers!

Let's remedy that now. Come this way... #SundayMotivation

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

#OnThisDay 1986: Douglas Adams explained how the idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy began while lying drunk in a field in Innsburck.

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

@lakshmurali Then we should definitely do it this year. Get all the disaster movie tropes out in this shitshow that's 2020.

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

Protomolecule!

But seriously, this is a HUGE deal.

[Marina Koren @marinakoren]

🚨Big news today: Scientists have detected a gas in the atmosphere of Venus that may be a sign of life 🚨 https://t.co/roxzxnRlKK

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

#Solarpunk

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

VIDEO: An experimental green housing project in China's southwestern Chengdu city has been overrun by its own plants, with state media reporting that only a handful of buyers have moved in

[Leigh Fletcher @LeighFletcher]

For anyone else like me struggling to see the article: @ESO have your back with a preprint:

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

Or, it could be unreliable data. There's that too.

In any case, SEND A PROBE TO VENUS TO FIND THE PROTOMOLECULE BEFORE IT KILLS US ALL! @JamesSACorey

[Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88]

TL;DR version: They've found a molecule in the atmosphere of Venus that, on Earth, can only be produced 1) In labs. 2) by certain kinds of microbes.

So it might be life, or it could be something we don't understand yet. Both of which would be huge; one more so than the other.