Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️

@bridgetmcgann

Bioanthropologist & curator of #LactFacts Doing: #LactSci & #SciComm @ #THRiVELab 🤱🏾 CU Denver grad student • Did: #MarchforScience crappy violinist • drochghaeilgeoir ☘️ Neurospicy 🌈🦋 • nuance, kindness, hope www.thrivediscovery.ca/kt

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· 12d

The post is live! Ask us anything! www.reddit.com/r/askscience... 🧪 🛟 🩺 #MedSky #PedSky #MedEd #MCH #breastfeeding #worldbeeastfeedingweek #wbw2016 #BlueSci

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· May 27

This fucking timeline.

A picture of an arch-shaped lighting rig on the South Lawn of the White House, with the South Portico visible in the background, through the arch. It’s every bit as disgusting as it sounds.

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· May 9

The plaques are there in case an alien race ever encounters the ship, as it is the furthest a human-made object has ever traveled, and will outlive the crew. Like the Golden Record, it tells the story of Earth, and of the Hail Mary. At the end, Rocky shows Grace his own version on the Blip A.

A B-Roll shot of a close-up of a tiny little relief illustration of the Blip A and its 23 crew members. Rocky’s wedding band hand points to it tenderly.

Grace looks at the relief picture from the inside of his xenonite EVA suit. His flashlight casts dramatic lens flare in the vertical, and the light reflected from his EVA suit casts rainbows on the wall over the relief picture.

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· May 9

My sexuality is “Cross-dressing Ryan Gosling looking at Voyager 1-inspired scientific diagrams in an explicit reference to Carl Sagan” Fun fact: Ryan Gosling’s favorite book is actually Demon-Haunted World. 😍

Ryland Grace, viewed from the side, looking at a wall of golden plaques that are reminiscent of the golden records on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts. He’s just bent over to pick up something he dropped (because he is drunk), and he has paused halfway up after noticing the plaques. He wears chucks, Ilyukhina’s skirt, his knitted fox cardigan, and his mission cap worn sideways.

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· May 4

You say that now. Wait til the existential crisis sets in lol

A tweet

jay
It's always "You're autistic" and never "Thank you for telling me everything you know about Project Hail Mary"

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· May 4

*pushes up glasses up nose* ACTUALLY, it was a chapter in his dissertation. The dissertation was titled “An Analysis of Water Based Assumptions and Recalibrations of Expectations of Evolutionary Models.” 🧪

A satirical story in The Times Higherb Education

Scientist condemned after calling leading scholar "a staggering waste of carbon" at UNESCO conference
The early-career molecular biologist reportedly made the remark while defending his controversial paper "The Goldilocks Zone Is For Idiots", sparking fresh debate over professionalism, academic freedom and personal attacks in scientific discourse.
By Joel Goscinsky 1 May

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· May 1

Satellite photos of geological shapes spelling out “save NASA science“

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 13

Hey @thebulletin.org this email could have been a Xanax

Email screenshot from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Subject: Will Trump nuke Iran?
Body: TODAY: panel on nuclear power in warzone (cut off)

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 12

Why should you care that Project Hail Mary hit its break even milestone this weekend? Because it means that: - science - practical effects - hope SELLS. variety.com/2026/film/bo... 🧪 #CosmicHope

Dr. Ryland Grace look out the window of his spaceship with his glasses hanging off of his ears

Global Box Office
'PROJECT HAIL
MARY' HAS GROSSED OVER $500M AT THE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 11

Who remembers #Penny4NASA?

A bar graph of the NASA Budget as a Percentage of Federal Budget from 1958 to 2017. A circle highlights the years 1961-1972, showing that at the peak of the Apollo Program it was over 4%.

Caption: NASA's budget for fiscal year 2026 is $24.4 billion. It represents 0.35% of the $7.0 trillion the United States spent in the previous year.

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 8

I want to grab every testosterone-obsessed manosphere bro and shake them and tell them this is the same guy. He wears a goofy fox sweater and cries no fewer than (I counted) nine times in this film.

A hero shot from Project Hail Mary. Grace stands on the top of the Hail Mary as it flies above Adrian, holding the predator collector and looking very badass in his EVA suit.

A screenshot from inside the Hail Mary. Grace is crying because he has learned he will get to go home, and because he is moved by the generosity of a friend. You know, manly stuff.

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 8

Shoutout to this Artemis science team member who is all about that evidence-based life #StillCoviding #PublicHealth 🧪 🛟

A close up of an Artemis team member with short brown hair and a black KN95 mask, sitting at a laptop in the Science Evaluation Room at Johnson Space Center. Their hands are on the keyboard but they are looking up and listening intently to a colleague who is standing and wearing a headset.

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 8

I’ve had the same profile pic since my birthday in 2017, just as we were beginning to organize the March for Science. I’ve never been more tempted to change it. In the words of Rocky the space spider, “What think, Eeeeaarth?”

A close-up of a black-and-white photo of Carl Sagan waving and smiling from inside a bus while being arrested

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 8

"Annie and I were arrested several times at the Nevada nuclear test site. We organized three of the largest acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against US nuclear testing…My point of view is that it’s just something you do as a citizen." -Carl Sagan, 1992 🧪 #BlueSci #Iran @standupforscience.net

An old color photo of Carl Sagan, facing away from the camera, holding his hands up in front of him so that a state trooper can arrest him. They are surrounded by a gaggle of other people, and some cars, and the Nevada desert can be seen in the background.

An old new paper clipping featuring a black-and-white photo of several people waving from the windows of a school bus. In the center, Carl Sagan, wearing glasses, waves and smiles broadly.

The caption reads:

Astronomer Carl Sagan, center, smiles from bus after his arrest Sagan and 138 other demonstrators were arrested after protesting a nuclear test in Nevada

The title of the article reads:

139 activists arrested at nuclear test
allowable under the Limited Test
By TIM DAHLBERG
Associated Press Writer

The copy:

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - About 500
physicians and peace
activists
gathered at the Nevada Test Site to urge the government to halt nuclear weapons' testing as scientists detonated an underground nuclear test.
Authorities arrested 139 of the demonstrators Tuesday, including noted astronomer Carl Sagan, who crossed a symbolic white line marking the boundary to the test site.
It was the 17th announced underground nuclear test since the Soviet Union declared a unilateral moratorium on testing Aug. 9, 1985.
"We must push for the termination of this madness." Dr. Bernard Lown,
co-president of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, said.
The blast had a yield of up to 150,000 tons of TNT, the maximum
Ban Treaty. It was detonated at 6:30
dubbed Camp Desert Rock, where tens of thousands of military person-
p.m. EDT after being delayed for 742 hours by strong winds.
nel took part in atmospheric nuclear tests three decades ago.
The arrests came an hour after
"Unlike a real nuclear war, this
the powerful explosion rocked the
one passed us by," Sagan said.
desert floor from 2,000 feet beneath
Sagan, his wife, Ann Druyan, and
the desert. There was no noticeable Dr.
Jack
Geiger, head of the
ground motion at the protest site,
Physicians for
Social
Responsi-
and Department of Energy officials
bility, an anti-nuclear group, linked
said the demonstrators were in no
arms after the test to become the
danger.
"It was thoughtful of the DOE to first to cross the …

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 6

Honorary mention Can’t talk about epic space hugs without including this adorkable duo

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Apr 6

Space group hug after Commander Reid Wiseman names a lunar crater after his late wife, Carroll. 🧪 #ArtemisII

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Mar 28

An estimated 34% second weekend domestic drop. This is an outstanding hold for a post-covid non-franchise film and puts it on par with some of the more impressive non-franchise performers: Original Avatar (2009) 29% Interstellar (2014) 39% The Martian (2015) 32% Oppenheimer (2023) 44%

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Mar 19

Lisa Marshall from @colorado.edu at the #scicomm workshop at #aaba2026 🧪 🩺 🛟 . The article The headline

Article title:

Interpeduncular GABAergic neuron function controls threat processing and innate defensive adaptive learning

Popular science article. The header features a shadowy figure in a forest.

'Jump scare' science: Study explains how the brain responds to fear
A spooky shadow walks through the treea

In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors- wide eyed and heart racing-to instinctively freeze and flee.
Evolutionarily speaking, this "innate threat response is key to survival, helping a wide variety of animal species escape predators. But when stuck in overdrive it can cause problems for (cut off)

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Mar 17

FYI

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Mar 4

Astronaut and deputy director of the Flight Operations Directorate Kjell Lindgren and the team at NASA JPL take a selfie with the cast and crew of #ProjectHailMary. This makes me so freaking happy. 🧪

In the foreground, Kjell Lindgren, wearing a flight suit, holds up his phone and smiles for a selfie. This photo is taken with a different camera, but so it's a photo of a selfie being taken, but from an angle very close to Kjell's outstretched arm. Behind him is a huge crowd of hundreds of JPL staffers with the NASA and JPL logos projected on distant wall. At the front of the crowd stands Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord, screenwriter Drew Goddard, and an extremely but rightfully happy Andy Weir. I mean who can blame him. A woman on the edge of the photo holds a copy of the Project Hail Mary book. It's all aggressively wholesome.

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Mar 4

The mark isn’t ink it’s concealer

A close-up of Donald Trump‘s hand with badly applied concealer

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Mar 3

David Rothkopf’s explanation of what Epstein says about our society and what we value on today’s @thedailybeast.bsky.social pod is a real banger. I had to chop it up and speed it up a bit to make it fit but I highly recommend the full episode: pca.st/episode/0fda... 🧪 #BlueSci #AcademicSky

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Mar 1

A Reddit comment:

sidechain101. 1 day ago.
Board of peace got bored of peace really quickly

In case you can’t see it, it’s a play on the words “board” (B-O A-R-D) and “bored” (B-O-R-E-D).

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Feb 24

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Feb 20

Think they were compensating for something?

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Feb 20

LET’S GOOOOOO!!!!! www.activaterewards.com/PrimeEarlySc...

Screenshot of the seat selection scene for an early access viewing of Project Hail Mary on March 16th

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Feb 12

Love you guys 💗 Here’s a screenshot from one of my text chats this week. I’ve been listening since November 2016 and still evangelizing!

Screenshot of an incoming text bubble: I've been devouring the opening arguments pod (jumping around episodes) it's really good thank you for sending my way

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Feb 12

“They are all complicit. If you won’t believe these men, when they keep telling you who they are, then at least believe the women. There are thousands of them.” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89tkRgr/

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Feb 12

“Her supervisor calls her ‘resistant to authority’ which is a fascinating thing to call a woman who found 36 victims of a sex trafficker.“ This was covered in the Feb 6th episode of @openargs.bsky.social. It is STUH-NING.

Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️@bridgetmcgann· Feb 9

Hope this helps