Dr Lucy Rogers

Black sand beach with some graupel on it (cross between snow and hail) - the incoming waves have pushed it into some nice squiggly patterns. In the distance are some dark mountains and a storm over the sea.

I learnt a new word today: graupel, a cross between snow and hail - tiny soft balls of snow! Graupel fell on the beach at Stokksnes last night, and the waves continued to come in and made nice squiggly patterns.

#Iceland

Buoys and lobster pots

Hello world

What clock? A picture of multiple bollards in front of Big Ben in London.

What clock?
#WorldBollardAssociation

An aircraft at an airport.

#NomadLife. Again.

Swan and reflection. Second Sean in background.

Hello world

A photo of some daffodils, with yellow petals and orange trumpets in a glass vase. They are on a wooden dining table against a dark blue wall.

First daffodils of the year from the garden.

Photo of a hand holding up a smart phone case adorned with cute cartoon figures of various shark species.

Love my new phone case from Brain Ocean Studios in Taiwan! #TeamFish #SundayFishSketch #SciArt #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 www.instagram.com/brainoceanst... 🦈🦑🐡🧪

A watercolor painting of a bee hunched over, dead.

This bee was struggling when I found it and died in my hand. I am different than before, thanks to this project and the commitment to see that it requires!

#bugsky #death #sciart #art #seen

Who dresses the 'Make Way for Ducklings' ducks? A bronze sculpture of a mother mallard leading her eight ducklings in a line has stood in the Boston Public Garden since 1987.

OK, what next? www.boston.com/news/wickedp...

Was it a cat swiping things off the side?

Look closely and you can spot some Saharan dust on the satellite images that is now drifting towards southern parts of the UK 🛰️

This is likely to cause some hazier skies in our weather this weekend 🌥️

"world book day" it's not a world book you idiot it's called an atlas

this xkcd never gets old

World’s largest krill harvester at centre of row over ‘blue tick’ sustainability label Aker Qrill is facing criticism of its fishery management amid calls by environmentalists for curbs on Antarctic fishing of the keystone species

The fishing of krill is putting marine wildlife at risk.❗

To protect this fragile ecosystem, the fishery needs to be paused until stronger management and safeguards are in place.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh god I love the ALCS roulette. Is it going to be fifty quid or the best part of a grand? Nobody knows!

Could all the ducks please line up in an orderly manner.

Ah. Yes. I hadn't even thought of "before my time"!

I always assumed it was older than that and is a reference to active sonar (that's where the name of the ping command comes from)

Just realised "I will ping you later" used to be a ref to the ping command. And now it fits the sound an incoming message makes.

Take a minute and read it, then cry with me.

Worth a read.

Early stroll. The made-to-measure sky. A possibility of loitering mist. Historic sites of former puddles. The bus passes slowly, like time sometimes does. A security light blink, blinks again, then stays awake.

Just read about something that was looking at the "demisability" of a thing.

I read it as de miz ability.

And had to look it up

Demise

End of life etc. that word I know.

Demisability

And now I can't stop thinking about how I read new (to me) words.

Spot on. I only meet fellow weirdos online. I’m lucky enough to have been able to meet a couple of my weird Internet friends IRL while traveling to visit family but those meetings are few and far between. All my friends are here, in online spaces.

I have an asteroid named after me. No, I don’t know the number; it’s six digits long and I can’t remember it. Just trust me.

What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second? YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second?

What the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!

youtu.be/oTzW-mTQd5w

Fish FACT: Conger eels are the most easy to distinguish of all fish because there's always another one behind it holding its waist.

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

@daraobriain.bsky.social hey Dara, you read my book yet? :)

A positive response