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Ele Willoughby
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Thank you
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Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social |
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Artist/marine geophysicist (PhD Physics)
Printmaker
Find/contact me at:
minouette.Etsy.com
minouette.blogspot.ca
Instagram.com/the.minouette
minouette on Cara
I post art, science, #sciart and stuff with typos. She/her, Settler in Tkaronto
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Ele Willoughby
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Thank you
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Ele Willoughby
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I was skeptical of the premise when it first aired but when an astronomy student friend started watching I tried it and was hooked. We totally would declare an end to working on problem sets in the physics student lounge so everyone could go home to watch it.
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Ele Willoughby
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I spoke to Dad on the phone and asked how he was and he said, “fine, pretty good actually!” And I can’t remember the last time he said he was pretty good. 🥹 It’s probably been months. Even if its fleeting, it’s almost overwhelming to hear. He’s had his MRI and spinal tap and awaiting results.
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Ele Willoughby
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An excellent idea!
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Ele Willoughby
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It was such a pain when TPL was attacked even just as a parent who wants to be able to read to her kid. So frustrating when hackers try to extort from institutions which help communities.
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Ele Willoughby
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Dad has finally gone for an MRI! He’s been at the hospital since Wednesday afternoon, but this is good and we hope to get some answers.
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Ele Willoughby
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Yes that’s terrible
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Ele Willoughby
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Is this near you? I hope you’re safe.
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Ele Willoughby
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Does this work? Willing to try anything for better printer behaviour.
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Ele Willoughby
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I have a version of my rainbow Dolly the cloned sheep print in my shop
minouette.etsy.com/listing/6650...
(Bsky can’t seem to load link cards consistently from Etsy)
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Ele Willoughby
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Happy birthday to Dolly the sheep! Dolly, the female sheep born 5 July 1996, was a trailblazer. She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.
Dolly was cloned from a mammary cell, and her name is a tribute to Dolly Parton. 🐡🧪 #histsci
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Ele Willoughby
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That we know of so far… It’s a weird place.
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Ele Willoughby
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It’s progress because I don’t think they will discharge him till they have answers and he’s got multiple people making sure he’s eating and taking his medication.
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Ele Willoughby
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Thank you
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Ele Willoughby
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7 hours in the ER and a small miracle. They found Dad a room. Still no MRI but it was virtually non-stop doctors, nurses, pharmacist and nutritionist. We’re all rather exhausted.
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Ele Willoughby
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Love the security here. I have a sticker which reads VISITOR and that’s sufficient. Still no room but doctors seem thorough and kind.
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Ele Willoughby
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On subway to hospital to help Dad advocate for himself & make sure he has what he needs. Got my Mom to babysit last minute & she asked for help paying parking tickets & she promptly lost her credit, because of course she did. I found it after several minutes in the empty parking ticket envelope.
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Ele Willoughby
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Thanks very much!
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Ele Willoughby
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Leavitt’s death interrupted her nomination for the Nobel. She did all this with recurring severe chronic illness and progressive deafness and was an extraordinary #DisabledInSTEM astronomer to celebrate this Disability Pride Month.
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Ele Willoughby
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or whether it was merely further away. Swan Leavitt's discovery lets astronomers use Cepheids as "standard candles". They allow astronomers to determine distances to celestial objects and form the foundation of the Extragalactic Distance Scale.
minouette.etsy.com/listing/4518...
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Ele Willoughby
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lifetime. Cepheid variables are a class of pulsating star, named for Delta Cephei in the Cepheus constellation. The relationship between a Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period is quite precise. It had not been obvious to tell whether a star was dim because it was less luminous, 🧵3/
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Ele Willoughby
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she was able to deduce a ground-breaking theory, which allowed Hubble's later insight about the age &expansion of the universe. Her period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars radically changed modern astronomy, an accomplishment for which she received little recognition during her 🧵2:
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Ele Willoughby
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Happy birthday to American #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. 🐡🧪🔭👩🏻🔬#histsci In her day, women scientists were regularly hired to do menial chores. She was hired to count images on photographic plates as a "computer". In studying these plates, in 1908 🧵1/
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Ele Willoughby
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Thank you. They are going to try to move him. My brother and I are planning to go tomorrow and make sure he has what he needs, but I think it’ll be a wait for imaging.
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Ele Willoughby
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Thank you!
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Ele Willoughby
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My brother is going to get Dad pyjamas and a pillow and his damn phone (which Dad distrusts so leaves at home) cause my brother has two keys to Dad’s place and I have zero. But luckily he doesn’t live that far away.
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Ele Willoughby
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The geriatric doctor sent Dad to ER with my brother to get an MRI. They’re telling him it might take 2 days! On the one hand if they admit him and deal with making sure he is eating and taking meds that’s a relief but on the other I am scared he’ll be neglected for 2 days.
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Ele Willoughby
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Oh wow! Look at that thing. Amazing.
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Ele Willoughby
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Thanks! It’s such a pretty animal!
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Ele Willoughby
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Yes, exactly! You can find unfaded dyed Victorian fabric in some museum collections and it’s much more intense in colour.
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Ele Willoughby
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The 10yo is singing to the cat. “If you’re naughty and you know it and you really want to show it, scratch a chair!”
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Ele Willoughby
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Almost all the feedback I have had is that it looks like a textile, unusually embroidery. I do think these velvet worms make good fashion choices!
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Ele Willoughby
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Slime guns! 😂
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Ele Willoughby
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The Victorian mauve fashion craze came about following Queen Victoria & Empress Eugénie's choice of mauve fashion because an 18yo undergrad chemist William Henry Perkin discovered what became the 1st synthetic organic dye when cleaning black sludge after a failed attempt to make quinine for malaria.
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Ele Willoughby
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How Cubism breaks from a single favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference & attempts to break down subjects into geometrical shapes from multiple points of view can be tied to advancements in non-Euclidian geometry in math, special relativity & the revolution in early 20th century physics.
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Ele Willoughby
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Good band name
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Ele Willoughby
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Was thinking the same thing! We have many of the same things here in Toronto public libraries.
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Helen/Tina/Boob Punch
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That whole "when pigs fly" thing starting to seem a little less improbable now
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Ele Willoughby
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Oh thank you! ☺️
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Ele Willoughby
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They are so cute and so very strange!
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John Kennedy
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
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Ele Willoughby
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I gave up on Twitter but certainly get good engagement and less rudeness here that previously on Twitter or now on Mastodon. I haven’t Dr. Hayhoe’s audience to warrant doing statistics but it fits with my impressions. I think there are also some quite active pockets in some research fields.
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Ele Willoughby
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Consider Katherine Hayhoe’s comparative analysis here about interaction on her recent cross-posted climate science thread.
I don’t know if it would be generally true, but normalizing interaction by number of followers like this might be revealing - and promising!
bsky.app/profile/kath...
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Ele Willoughby
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found throughout NZ. This print is made based on photos of P. aurorbis, but all the Peripatoides novaezealandiae have no morphological characters that distinguish them.
minouette.etsy.com/listing/1752...
🧵5/5
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Ele Willoughby
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& retain yolky eggs in their uteri. The eggs are fertilized internally, & babies develop inside their mother until large enough to be born, in batches of 4–6, as colourless miniatures of the parents! Peripatoides novaezealandiae is a species complex of velvet worms in the genus Peripatoides, 🧵4/5
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Ele Willoughby
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in shape. They look like caterpillars who don't become butterflies. The two extant families of velvet worms are Peripatidae and Peripatopsidae. And amongst the latter there are some in the genus Peripatoides which exhibits lecithotrophic ovoviviparity; that is, mothers in this genus produce 🧵3/n
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Ele Willoughby
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animals who spit slime to trap prey, somewhere between worms and arthropods. Like an arthropod their heads have segments but otherwise they have wormlike bodies. They have flexible wormlike skin but like insect skeleton in composition. They have insect-like limbs, but they are unjointed & conical 🧵2
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Ele Willoughby
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Here’s the final print of an adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from New Zealand or Aotearoa for #InsertAnInvert2024! 🧪🐡
Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture and somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged nocturnal 🧵1/n
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Jen C Mars
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The WUNDERPUS
A close relative of the mimic octopus, but with a much cooler name. Some liberties taken, esp with the color.
Large stickers and small prints available.
jencmars.bigcartel.com
#SciArt #bsnm
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Ele Willoughby
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Plans for day camp for the 10yo fell through this 4-day week, so I said he could stay home. So far the drain has backed up. He tried to climb the bookshelf at the library. I tried to get him a new passport photo and he wouldn’t stop making faces. If anyone has patience to spare I could use it.
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