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The other side of the rain.
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Dr. Victoria Grinberg
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06- professional PhD astrophysicist #XraysAreTheBestRays
- published author & artist
- #ClimateCrisis & Astronomers for Planet Earth
- science communication #VicisAstro
- artwork #VicisArt
- book recs #VicisBooks
- foodie & chef #ViciCooks
- living between Zuid-Holland (50%), Süddeutschland (20%) & on the road (30%)
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Remember that page in my #sketchbook that I started while at the conference in Cefalu? I finally finished it.
Pretty happy with how it turned out - far from perfect, but I learned quiet a bjt while working on it.
And now that it's done, it's the entry 9 in #52ArtWeeks.
#VicisArt #aquarelle #watercolor #watercolour #InkAndWash #mastoart
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Dutch pancake time!
#leiden
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In better news: amazing PhD defence, possibly a new collaboration, medovnik cake and Georgian lemonade.
I love Prague 😍
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Acutely aware today that I can't repair the world.
But at least I can mend t-shirts.
#VisibleMending #repair #mending
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Between the last German elections and the impact of the Trump policies, I don't know how to write about things happening without sounding absolutely despairing on this world.
So I will not. I can't add anything that hasn't already been said.
Because what we need now is hope (the kind of hope that makes you fight, not wait) and ideas, ideas for (small) things to do. And beauty and fun, to replenish.
And because I can't deliver of the first two, I'll try for the later.
Do good things and talk about them. And if good things are done to you, for you, around you, also talk about then.
Because knowing may inspire others. Because folks feel lonely and caught in endless doom. Because we sometimes need a push to do something: it's easier if we know there is someone else, even of they are just a voice on the little screen in our pockets. Because we need to combat the negativity bias.
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A reminder to myself: You are a plant. It's now officially fall. Sit outside that lunch break. Make sure your body sees some sunlight. Yes, it will make your sleep better. And your awake periods actually awake.
A reminder that card only is shit: tried (not very successfully) to help an African (not sure which country) stundent who had just arrived by train in Leiden & needed to get to the 2.5 km away dorm.
She needed to take a taxi (extra expensive in NL) because the buses need a (credit) card and she didn't have one working in Europe. And to add insult yo injury, I had to tell her she needed to walk around the station because the taxis are on the other side & she need a card to get through. 😔
Many sad and powerful slides and references in Sara Bonito's talk on Gender Inequality in Astronomy - this one did in particular hit home.
#astrodon #science #AcademicChatter
Not quite some #VisibleMending, but definitely #mending: my olive linen pants definitely would not have survived more than another wear, so I added some thin, soft denim-like material and fixes it with Sashiko-like (I know, not real Sashiko) stitches.
One side was made fully by eye, the other with some guiding lines. Neither is perfect and if I want visible mending, I'm going to have to find a better way in the future, but this one works and holds.
Was the #repair worth it? 1/2
Wir sollten uns vielleicht gar nicht so schlecht fühlen, wenn wir nicht immer alle Klauseln von Verträgen verstehen. Passiert anderen auch, kein großes Problem, etc., ne?
▶️ https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2026-09/abhaengigkeit-usa-bundeswehr-ruestungsindustrie-kampfjet-f-35?freebie=2b23c5f7 (🔒 aber mit Geschenklink)
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You'd think one would be over it at some point of one's career.
But here I am, having submitted a report last week and the editor writes back saying
"thanks for a detailed and thoughtful report. exemplary actually. i find it very useful."
-- and I am PREENING myself on this.
Seriously, folks, never forget how happy a few words of real praise (there were some more details in there that show that the editor truly engaged) can make someone.
#Academia #astrodon
Ahaha, how cool is this?
Yes, it's real!
▶️ https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Branding_and_Partnerships/ESA_and_Pokemon_team_up_to_celebrate_World_Space_Week
#ESA #astrodon #pokemon
RE: https://wisskomm.social/@nawik/117292515433260709
Genau das - und nicht nur wenn es um Wissenschaftskommunikation zu einem Laienpublikum geht, sondern auch innerhalb des Wissenschaftsbetriebs bei Bewerbungen.
Es gehen mal wieder hunderte Bewerbungen durch meine Hände und so viele Leute denken nicht drüber nach, wer eigentlich ihre Projektbeschreibung lesen wird (obwohl wir sie explizit drauf hinweisen, dass die Auswahlkomission sehr breit aufgestellt ist und sie entsprechend schreiben müssen).
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Wer tief im Thema steckt, läuft Gefahr, das Gegenüber mit dem eigenen Inhalt zu überfordern. Wir müssen uns die Frage stellen, was für unsere Zielgruppe wichtig ist. Bei der didaktischen Reduktion gilt also: Unwichtiges streichen, Kernaussagen herausarbeiten und Komplexes verständlich aufbereiten.
#ABCderGutenSprache #Wisskomm #Didaktik
Some things are hard today (& so will be the next few days), but my belly is full, the next two days' lunch is taken care of & my kitchen is full of the wonderful smell of spinach & cheese strata by the amazing Deb Perelmann:
▶️ https://smittenkitchen.com/2009/12/spinach-and-cheese-strata/
Makes enough for 6 meals. I use 1200g fresh spinach & frozen stale bread. No, it's not too much spinach, believe me - you put it into a pan (not all at once!) & it cooks down just into the right amount.
Hello Italy! Sometines you do remind me that your food can be amazing.
Local place, not visibly a restaurant at all (thanks google for pointing it out for once!), hand-written daily-changing menu, grandpa-style cook explaining all the dishes and a "glas of wine" of about half a liter.
Only the bruchetta-style starters were something we ordered, all other starters were on the house 🤯
#food #florence #italy #COSPAR2026
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Hey professional #astrodon folks!
A pretty unique chance to become my colleague at #ESA - working as a project scientist on our newly adopted galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs:
Job details: https://jobs.esa.int/job/Noordwijk-Project-Scientist/1414232033/
More about Arrakihs: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_adopts_galactic_archaeology_mission_Arrakihs
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Yesterday's dinner - the easiest and most amazing fish recipe ala Uri Buri:
▶️ https://koechlkocht.com/rezept/fischfilets-leider-g/ (sad that this amazing blog seems dead)
With a side of Ottolenghi's bulgur from the chermoula aubergines (minus the aubergines):
▶️ https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/chermoula-aubergine-with-bulgar-and-yoghurt/
It should not work together, but oh, it does.
Both dishes are taste explosions & the cilantro brings both of them together. The cod fell apart, but was otherwise a good choice, nice & chewy.
Late evening run.
#photography #Leiden
Cute postcard pattern (bags not mine 😅) to try out the new fountain pen for outlines.
Any ideqs what else is going to make cute postcards? I already had tea cups.
#VicisArt #aquarelle #watercolor #watercolour #InkAndWash #mastoart #artfight
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A pretty crass image invoked by ESA's Director of Science, Prof. Carole Mundell, "we don't want to me enthombed on a planet surrounded by space debries, blinded by brifht satellites and deafened by radio interference".
#COSPAR2026 #astrodon
I'm in that phase (they come sometimes) when I struggle focusing even for 10 min, non-stop distracted.
I HATE this.
No proper reading possible. Art only in small bits.
I wish I were the person whose reaction to certain kinds of stress is hyperfocus. But no, I have brain hamsters who panicky run on their little wheels and want brain pop corn as distraction.
(Please no recommendations on what to do. I know how to deal with this and will deal with this. But I want to share. Visibility, etc.)
"Meinungsfreiheit" - kein einfaches Buch (auch wenn @ronensteinke.bsky.social, wie immer, sehr gut schreibt), wie erwartet. Aber auch, wie erwartet, mit sehr viel Gewinn gelesen.
Vieles klingt jetzt, eine Woche nach dem Auslesen, noch nach. Von der Hauptthema des Buchs unabhängig vor allem der Gedanke, dass (und warum) erlaubt/nicht erlaubt Regelungen eindeutig formuliert sein müssen, auch und vor allem im Gesetz.
Leseempfehlung auf jeden Fall.
#VicisBooks #lesen #buch #books
To start the morning: ein Interview mit Emily Wilson über Übersetzungen und Übersetzbarkeit, die Fremde Kultur der Antike und wie Begriffe und Ideen sich mit der Zeit gewandelt haben.
▶️ https://www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2026-07/emily-wilson-uebersetzungen-odyssee-ilias-anfeindungen?freebie=9cda8f30 (🔒 aber mit Geschenklink)
Und ja, ich wünschte mir auch, sie hätten auch das englische Originalinterview veröffentlicht. Aber irgendwie ist es auch Teil der Unterhaltung über Übersetzungen...
To start the day: today I really enjoyed this review of Ursula K. LeGuin's "Disposessed" that addresses quiet a number of points why it's "an ambiguous utopia" and the importance of this ambiguity:
▶️ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/to-touch-the-dust-of-anarres/
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@benroyce@mastodon.social don't feed the troll please.
Brains are strange. Mine is usually pretty chill about waiting - for people or trains, doesn't matter.
But I've got a (minor) referral in my inbox to an eye clinic. My GP sent me to the one that is much further away from my place, so I want to find out whether they can take me in another location. I know I need to call the clinic on Monday to ask whether they can do it or whether I need to ask the GP.
And my brain is SCREAMING at me to do it NOW, throwing up complex nonsensical scenarios.
😭💔
I've known Ralph since I was visiting master student in Amsterdam in 2008... Never directly worked with him but had a ton of great conversations about all kinds of things related to work and international living...
https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/in-memoriam-ralph-wijers-astrofysicus-1964-2026-4834
#astrodon
It's cool enough to be able to spend Sunday morning on the couch with a tea and a book (the book is amazing and mind-changing, so I'm super slow at reading it since there is so much information to process and so much of mt own thinking and conceptualising to change...).
#HappyThings #bookstodon #VicisBooks
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Important term in the Eutelsat talk:
Aggregate impact computation: asset constellation as a whole system, it's not just about an individual satellite (jup!).
#COSPAR2026 #astrodon
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@Federkatz@gruene.social ahaha, I haven't even realised that there is a difference! Thanks for pointing this out!
Netherlands-based folks (or people willing and able to travel to Noordwijk): The registration for the ESA/ESTEC Open Day for people with disability is now open:
https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC/Register_now_ESTEC_Open_Day_for_people_with_disability
Please pass the info on to folks who may be interested!
Admission is free, but the total number of tickets is limited.
#ESA #astrodon #space
Heute zu Anfang des Tages ein spannender Artikel mit vielem, worüber sich nachzudenken lohnt:
▶️ https://www.zeit.de/2026/30/dekret-837-china-investitionen-technologietransfer-aussenwirtschaft?freebie=9c21d583 (🔒 aber als Geschenklink)
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@BiCurious@fnordon.de ja, Reservierungen sind nicht davon betroffen.
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@LappenjammerDieZweite@social.vivaldi.net "but how" is a good question. I have no idea 😅
RE: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr/116935970994765162
Folks, this is a really unique chance to ask questions to a linguistics professor who specialises in emoji :)
And if you don't have a question, just read the whole thread - I learned so much!
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Open quoted post
Aus Gründen sollten wir alle noch mal Igor Levits spontanen Nachruf auf Margot Friedländer hören (und sehen):
▶️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9N7AaSwreAM
To start the day:
"Und wir warten, warten, warten, das ist erstmal bequemer
Es geht uns trotzdem an den Kragen, nur halt etwas später"
Jo, das ist richtig gut.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-SCpXba64
Danger Dan - Keine Angst
There is a reason why I did not want to go to #COSPAR in Florence (but I have to).
Made birthday muffins for a friend this week :)
It's a kefir-based recipe that was originally a cake and that I got from a friend during the first months of the pandemic, when everyone seemed to search for comfort in cooking. It's spectacular as muffins. The kefir and the chocolate keep them in perfect balance of sweet and slightly tangy with bits of nuttiness from walnuts. And they make excellent brownies if you forget the baking powder 😅
#ViciCooks #food #kochen #baking #backen #muffins
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@xChaos@f.cz admittedly, most folks who try to go into (astro)physics end up with programming or general IT jobs anyway in the long run ...
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@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social oh, sashiko looks amazing! Wishing you many beautiful projects 🪡
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@aprilfollies@mastodon.online yeah - we do not often enough tell people when they did well. I'm definitely saving this particular email...
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@drehumdiebolzen@social.cologne wow, wie schön! Was für eine Landschaft!
Ob "Schrei nach Liebe" heute auch nicht gesendet werden würde? Weil ihr wisst schon, könnte als Beleidigung und Aufruf zur Gewalt verstanden werden...