Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious

Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious

@rachellense.bsky.social

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Science communicator, artist
She/Her 🏳️‍🌈
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🛰️ Comms Lead at NASA
gdc.smce.nasa.gov
🦆 DCSWA Board Member
dcswa.org
🎨 The Science Writer Graphics Editor
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📃 Freelance work
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Putting this one in my back pocket for later use

the four year old, mad at my wife: “you broke my heart into pieces and they rolled all the way to Legoland and we have to go to Legoland to put them back together” absolutely incredible work, kiddo, I am in awe

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Welcome to BookSky! 💙📚 1️⃣ save/pin the feed if you're enjoying it 2️⃣ repost to help us find more bibliophiles 3️⃣ use 💙📚 or 📚💙 to post to feed 4️⃣ more niche feeds on my profile (some are NSFW) FAQ 👉🏻 bit.ly/bookskyFAQ

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Woke up to this. It seems like the American people are the real losers here 🙄

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I found your shelf babe

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈

Physically attacking any random Jews you encounter on the street, and vandalizing Jewish houses of worship and cemeteries and businesses owned by Jews is not “pro peace” or “anti-Israel,” it’s just antisemitic.

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Almost certainly gonna regret this post, but as a Jew, it’s not great to see so many people on here all weekend condemning library graffiti by supposedly pro-Palestinian groups, but see no one say “and also it’s bad when these extremists attack random Jews on the street including Jewish children”

Bass blasts 'abhorrent' violence outside L.A. synagogue during protest, beefs up LAPD patrolswww.latimes.com Video on social media shows fistfights among protesters, some of whom are wielding sticks and handles from protest signs as police in riot gear stand nearby.

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🎶 Watch out boy, she’ll chew you up Ohh ohhh, here she comes 🎶

ma’am that’s an anteater

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Well holy shit. The Shasta Nation just got a major Land Back victory. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Shasta Indian Nation to get homeland back in largest land return in California historywww.latimes.com Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged.

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I fucking love David Tennant SO MUCH! (Source: Georgia Tennant's IG)

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I just love this so so so so much. Space has always been a huge part of my identity, and matching it to the Progress flag makes me want to explode with joy.

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NEW REPORT: Deep-sea mining poses risks to fragile ecosystems and is not necessary to obtain the critical minerals needed for the energy transition – especially when many of those same minerals are currently just thrown away. frontiergroup.org/resources/we...

We don’t need deep-sea miningfrontiergroup.org Deep-sea mining risks damaging vibrant ecosystems that science is just beginning to understand. And we don’t need it to meet the critical minerals challenge.

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Happy Juneteenth! May your day be filled with family, good food and lots and lots of rest ❤️

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Zelda faces a tough decision at the end of Echoes of Wisdom...

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Toads tip-toeing through the Tulips! #grickledoodle #toads #tulips #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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Voyager 1 is on the shortlist of the coolest shit we've ever done, just incredible that we sent this thing to space in 1977 and we're still expecting to keep talking to it and getting data until 2036 hats off to the incredible debugging team, as a software engineer I'm in awe

GUESS WHO IS SENDING BACK DATA FROM ALL FOUR OF ITS OPERATIONAL SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS?? Voyager 1 we love you

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'“Death blowing bubbles,” one of the several depictions of death created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany. inkedmag.com/original-new...

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My field is more than 60% women. Shark Week, marine biology's biggest stage, doesn't just feature more men than women... it features more guys named Mike than women. And that's ignoring the pseudoscientific nonsense, wildlife harassment, and near complete lack of any real conservation content 🧪🦑

Beware of ‘Shark Week’: Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male ‘experts’ named Miketheconversation.com A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.

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Voyager 1 is back up & science-ing on all four remaining instruments for the first time in more than 6 months yay 🧪🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/voya... by @meghanbartels.bsky.social

Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science Observationswww.scientificamerican.com NASA’s venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed normal science operations with all four functioning instruments for the first time in more than six months

For those of you asking for a higher resolution version, here you go. Should be 4k/300dpi, which is suitable for printing at about 13in x 8in/33cm x 20cm. (Note: I'm working with images not originally created in high resolution; some color bands may be blurry.) drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

NASA Pride - Google Drivedrive.google.com

Wow, thank you so much for all the love! I'm so happy NASA space Pride has resonated with you all. I knew it would be appreciated here, but never guessed it would be top-15-posts-of-all-time appreciated! I have given myself a migraine trying to respond to you all, so I must put my phone down now 🫠

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Immediately after I took photos of these goobers playing with each other, the cat on top promptly puked on the one below. I never thought I'd be able to read a cat's face so clearly, but he was absolutely horrified he'd just bathed in barf.

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He is Baby. Postcard from my collection, ca. 1900.

If you or someone you love has ADHD, especially if they're a woman, this video is for you. It's a mini-documentary about the disorder and what it was like growing up with it, how it affected my family, and how I've been learning to cope. 🧪 youtu.be/Dzxqhp2_SrY?...

The Daydreamer: The Story of a Girl and Her ADHDyoutu.be A mini-documentary about ADHD and my experience growing up with it as a girl. The disorder has affected my family, my life, and my outlook.If you believe you...

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Looking up "confection" on Etymonline and see it comes Latin _confectio_ for "a preparation, a medicament." In modern times, a "medicament" is certainly what those of us in the U.S. find ourselves in whenever we deal with our healthcare system...

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#kakapo camouflage isn’t too shabby. This is Cyndy today, not even trying: completely in the open, about 50cm from the camera. Find out more about kākāpō in the latest episode of the “Sounds of Science” podcast: www.doc.govt.nz/news/podcast/ #conservation #parrots

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Arnold Schwarzenegger giving an Oscar to Godzilla is the best thing to ever happen to high school me

I don't know boutchoo, but I'm always stylin' when I fly. Of particular note, I would like to point out my far-too-short sweatpants and bright purple knee-high compression socks terminating in a pink running shoe that matches my eye-watering fluorescent jacket. 💁💅💃

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I will miss you, little ones