Rebecca Harbison

Planetary astronomer and assistant professor. She/her/etc.

[Rebecca Harbison @beccastareyes]

@Failwhip Alt text says 'lodestone' if it helps.

[Adam Kuhr @AdamKuhr]

This is @PeteButtigieg with the only acceptable answer.

[Rebecca Harbison @beccastareyes]

@dieworkwear You have joint custody now. I don’t make the rules

[💙Orange Dick Tater Hater #PO1135809 ($8 Parody)💙 @realbiscuitspaw]

Treasonous bastard

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

Why can’t I watch a reality show where instead of toxic dating it’s just cat rescue weirdos scrabbling around to trap and rehabilitate a smelly scrungy mess of a cat they found in a hole

[Rebecca Harbison @beccastareyes]

@TJFlamson @ssteingraber1 From what I recall, saltwater is just generally a pain to work with in cooling systems. For instance, steamships often used condensers (a closed system) so they could just carry freshwater and not have to take in ocean water. Less efficient, but better on the pipes.

[Rebecca Harbison @beccastareyes]

@HenryLawso13201 @dieworkwear I once had to move interstate three times within a 5 year period. I still like books, but I cut my collection way down. (Books are very heavy.)

[Rebecca Harbison @beccastareyes]

@dieworkwear I suspect the interest is in training models to provide generic commercial art to go with online articles or ad copy so they don't have to pay an artist. So even humans aren't generally prone to doing more than 'this is an acceptable piece of art to fill a space'.

[Goth Ms Frizzle 🧚🏻‍♀️ @g0thgoblin]

me: garlic bread is so good

garlic bread: go raibh maith agat

me: ah damn it this is gaelic bread

[Felecia Commodore @FeleciaElana]

I call this, "Phases of a Faculty Meeting"

[Heartland Signal @HeartlandSignal]

NEW: Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) is on the air with an ad about paid family leave for American families. Heartland Signal investigated, and it includes stock footage from Romania, Thailand and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[TrekCore.com 🖖 @TrekCore]

Happy Bell Riots day to all who, uh, celebrate

#StarTrek #DS9

[Rebecca Harbison @beccastareyes]

@kberkopes @gorskon “We have both kinds: country AND western!”

[Rebecca Harbison @beccastareyes]

@VP202466 @NASAWebb The former is listed in the article: "researchers in both the CEERS team and others finding evidence of fast-moving hydrogen gas, a signature of black hole accretion disks."

[Rebecca Harbison @beccastareyes]

@Andy7915886 @gorskon @center4inquiry @rdfrs He's had other weird takes. I recall him trying to make some point about how church bells were nicer than the Muslim call to prayer, therefore... something about Islam, without the self-awareness to consider the alternate: 'familiar sounds are nicer than unfamiliar sounds'.

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

There is much confusion about the "hygiene hypothesis" (what kind of microbes are beneficial vs. harmful?)-- a clearer refinement of it is the framing of "old friends" vs. "crowd infections"

Our immune systems evolved in a different world, without 100,000 flights per day 1/

[David S. Duhalde @TheDuhalde]

.@Bodegacats_ waiting for work to open

[Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire]

It is 8:30 in the morning and the only sounds in my Air B&B are typing and the screams of seagulls.