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Astronomer, science communicator, over-thinker extraordinaire. @AucklandUni space person @AucklandSpace. Autoimmune illness. 🇳🇿🇺🇸

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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That seems to be all they are into. 😖😖

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Agreed. Me raising it as an equity issue was seen as a lack of school spirit!

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Things a NZ public school should not do: fill their newsletter with excited pics of a fun opportunity that only kids with money to donate to a sports fundraiser were allowed to attend during standard school hours. “Learning” was the alternative punishment for the unpaid. C’mon NZ.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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My heart is absolutely breaking for America right now.

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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Reminder that you can sign off emails today with: Kia pai te tau hou (Have a good new year) Kia pai to mutunga wiki roa (Have a good long weekend) Ngā mihi o te tau hou (Greetings for the new year)

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Grateful for the Matariki pause. It’s been a time. Just going to sit here and enjoy this winter sky of pinks and oranges fading into blue and be thankful for the good.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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I’m so sorry. It really does suck

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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It’s something isn’t it? 😖✊

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Why does it always feel so shameful when you’re going through a big thing and people ask if you have much family support and you have to answer “no?”

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Marking the start of what is probably the hardest week of my life and that is saying something.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Another day, another nondescript hospital waiting room

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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The world is an incredibly lonely place when you’re facing realities people don’t even want to contemplate.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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This has without a doubt the darkest time in my life - but the kindness of a few people has been immeasurable. Sometimes your family isn’t who you expect. 💜

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Laurie Winkless's avatar Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social
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I just did my GST return. It has been a grim six months, work-wise, and the forecast isn't sunny. Wherever you are in the world, if you need a very experienced science writer, physicist, comms consultant, trainer, mentor, event speaker, or talking head / broadcaster, please hit me up 👩‍🔬🧪📚💬

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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This has been the roughest week of my life (and there have been a few strong contenders) and that won’t change soon. Once again, I am so immensely grateful for the kindness of strangers on this platform. 🙏

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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And since I know so many of you are awesome scientists, I would also accept some calls for new and urgent kickass medical science.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Going dark for a while here. Also: gratefully accepting prayers and positive universal thoughts from anyone so inclined after some devastating health news for my family. Stay safe, peeps. And be good to eachother.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Aw coming from you - that a the HIGHEST compliment! Next time with puppy!!!

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Y’know things are bad when the other household members are swearing profusely and loudly on your behalf at the ways in which men utilize women’s unpaid labour.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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It really is. We need to have our guard up already and we seem to think it can’t happen here :-(

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Dr. Jens Foell's avatar Dr. Jens Foell @fmriguy.bsky.social
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I lived in the US until 2020 and see the same dynamics play out in Germany right now. The extreme right here gets around the same support (and from the same people) that Trump had in early 2016.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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It’s so hard to watch but I am reminded that humans are more similar than they are different the world over 😖

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Would give them their day in the….#tooSoon?

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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When you didn’t quite expect a news story about a space probe to be emotionally devastating.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Look I admire the effort being put in by the NZ right to sound original and interesting, but I lived in the US until 2019. Feels like a bad sitcom rerun. #AlreadyJumpedThisShark

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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Shoutout to other sensitives who urgently need to find a quiet dark room after doing the hot, loud things.

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CatherineQ's avatar CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social
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That was truly something, right? What that thing was is still just outside the reaches of my comprehension….

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David Hood's avatar David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social
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The free RAT tests from the Pharmacy at the Dunedin Gardens's corner are now expiry Jan 2027 stock (manufactured last month), so I assume other free RAT pickup locations will also be getting in the new stock

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