It’s Friday and Twitter is still a thing, so we’re going to tell you who to follow. This week we’d like to point you towards science lover Phil Plait (@badastronomer) for some fun science times.
Who he is
Plait blogs about science for Slate, and he’s hands down our favorite thing about that site. He comes up in Geekosystem stories occasionally, and in Geekosystem conversation on the regular. We may have a bit of a science crush on him. So much so that we’re surprised it’s taken us this long to make him our #FollowFriday pick. Actually if you read last week’s #FollowFriday post it seems we thought we had.
Why you should follow
Because you love science! Unless you don’t love science, and if you don’t love science… well… then you confuse us. What are you even doing here?
Plait excels at finding interesting science news and giving his grounded, clear-headed, intelligent stance on it. He’s also pretty good at chemistry/Shakespeare puns!
I come to praseodymium Caeser, not to barium.
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 20, 2014
Great tweets
Obviously, that pun is great, but he also does math jokes:
I [x^2 + (y – x^2/3)^2 = 1] you. http://t.co/CuoEmRcmUh
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 14, 2014
You get a fair amount of space porn from Plait’s feed as well, and that’s just fine with us.
Truth. MT @elakdawalla: The real master of amateur Cassini img processing is Gordan Ugarkovic: http://t.co/ifUQsZ3VmV pic.twitter.com/kzcTp2BupA — Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 19, 2014
He also does a great job keeping you up to date on climate change news.
Global warming is melting older Arctic ice, and it’s taking the rest of the ice with it. http://t.co/zlJiZWJCl7 — Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 20, 2014
He really put the Facebook/WhatsApp acquisition into perspective.
BTW, 19 billion one-dollar bills would make a stack 1290 miles high, ignoring weight compression at the bottom. #Facebook #Whatsapp
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 21, 2014
Wait. *How many* Mars rovers could we get for what FB paid for WhatsApp? http://t.co/DJC9mxOrcS
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 21, 2014
So go forth, happy tweeter and check out Phil Plait. He is Grait.
(via @badastronomer)
- Last week we recommended John Scalzi
- Also check out author/Geekocontributor Eric Smith
- Speaking of authors, John Green is also a great follow
