Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

he’s done asking politely

#Caturday

Sign of the times.

There are lots of timelapses of the lovely Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on the net ☄️

But watch a few & you’ll quickly notice many have huge numbers of passing satellites in them, often in similar orbits 🛰️🛰️🛰️

It doesn’t take a genius to realise that most of these belong to one guy who’s commandeering the public commons to further enrich himself.

Screenshot credit: fernanfegal @ Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAl5QWMSLBR/?igsh=bm9qc2l3cmphMTM1

#comet #comet2023a3 #starlink #lightpollution