Diana Hayes 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️

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PhD candidate @ York University studying lunar ices and clouds on Mars (among other miscellanea) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 she/her

COLUMBUS - Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed House Bill 68, the controversial bill prohibiting physicians from providing minors with gender transition treatment and barring someone born biologically male from competing in interscholastic girls' sports. The governor announced his decision at a news conference Friday morning in Columbus. "These are gut-wrenching decisions that should be made by parents and should be informed by teams of doctors who are advising them," Governor DeWine said. "Were I to sign H.B. 68 or were H.B. 68 to become law, Ohio would be saying the state, that the government knows better what is medically best for a child than the two people who love that child the most, the parents."
Dr. Acton said she agrees with the law prohibiting transgender women and girls from participating in women's and girls' sports. "I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law," Dr. Acton said.
A photo of Doug Ford howling. Text below the photo reads "Doug Ford howls to show how he scares off coyotes"
A photo of myself wearing an Ottawa Charge hat and PWHL Pride shirt.
A screenshot of a question from the 2026 census. It reads: 3. What is this person's gender? Gender refers to an individual's personal and social identity as a man (or a boy), a woman (or a girl), or a person who is not exclusively a man (or a boy) or a woman (or a girl), for example, non-binary, agender, gender fluid, queer or Two-Spirit. Below this text are three options with radio buttons: -Man -Woman -Or please specify Under the final option is an arrow pointing to the text "Specify this person's gender," under which is a text box to enter one's own response.
A photo of a light-yellow envelope on a faux wood surface. The envelope is from Statistics Canada for the 2026 census. Several identifying elements are redacted.
A screenshot of a series of tumblr tags that read: do they make all astronauts take fuckin. poetry classes before they take off, or does being in space just make this type of profound shit suddenly come out of your mouth just from the sheer (lack of) gravity of the situation of where you are and what you're doing doing and how fragile you are. because like holy fuck. whose job is it to sit all astronauts down and say "fucking listen up. neil set the bar really fucking high. you have to keep up"
A screenshot of a CBC headline reading "Poilievre backs J.K. Rowling's support for Olympic ban of transgender women from women's sports." Below that is text reading "International Olympic Committee announced new gender policy ahead of L.A. Games."
A photo of a whiteboard on which is written in black marker "Are grad students obsolete?" Below that in blue, someone has written "Maybe?"
A screenshot of a combination Doordash and Starbucks ad declaring that "pumpkin spice season is back."
A screenshot of a quoted tweet from the Ottawa Senators that reads: A match up that's felt destined for the last 365 days Join us Sunday morning at Bert's Bar at the Canadian Tire Centre for the Gold Medal Watch Party Doors open at 7:30 AM Breakfast buffet available for purchase for attendees The quote reads: I never thought the Ottawa Senators would be inviting us to the Canadian Tire Centre to cheer AGAINST Brady Tkachuk and Jake Sanderson. But here we are.
A plan to pass through every station in Toronto's subway/LRT system that reads: Line 4 Don Mills to Sheppard-Yonge: 8 minutes Line 1 Sheppard-Yonge to Finch: 5 minutes Line 1 Finch to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre: 75 minutes Line 1 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre to Finch West: 8 minutes Line 6 Finch West to Humber College: 45 minutes Bus 927 Humber College to Kipling: 23 minutes Line 2 Kipling to Kennedy: 54 minutes Line 5 Kennedy to Mount Dennis: 57 minutes Total time: 275 minutes (4 hours, 35 minutes)
A photo taken out the back window of an Eglinton LRT train stopped at Mount Dennis Station. In the foreground is a cool-toned seat, while just out the window is the other train in the two-car set. There is a crowd of people stood on the station platform.
The T.A. for my lab section was great. Very helpful and prompt, and the grading was fair too.
A screenshot of a website statistics page. The header is "Referrers" with an "info" icon next to it. Below that are two green bars: "Google Search" with four views, and "chatgpt.com" with two views. There's a "View Details" button at the bottom left.
A timelapse video composed of fisheye images taken by the York University Observatory all-sky camera. The observatory's two domes peak up in the bottom half of the images, while various other university buildings fill the other edges. It's mostly cloudy during the day, but once the sun sets, the clouds eventually clear away, revealing a dark sky. The Moon is visible moving across the sky as a bright, oversaturated disc. Trailing behind the Moon is Jupiter, visible as a small bright point.
A photo of a sunset. The sky is white at the top, transitioning to gold towards the horizon. The sky is filled with clouds, thinner at the top of the image and thicker at the bottom. Some of the clouds near the top of the image have some pink/green iridescence.
A video from one of the Kīlauea volcano summit livestreams. A cloud of dust, ash, and molten rock gradually approaches the camera until it is consumed.
A sped-up video of the Toronto skyline, taken from atop the CN Tower. A white cloud of snow quickly moves in from the distance until all of the buildings vanish into it. At the end, the snow moves away and everything reappears.
A photo of a snowy landscape. There are some trees in the background and a snow-free sidewalk winding across the photo from the camera and off to the left.
A screenshot of two scammy emails claiming to be from legitimate journals, both addressed to "Diana C Hayes."
Screenshot of an MLB game notice that reads: "Disengagement Violation: With Alex Call batting, Max Muncy advances to 3rd on a disengagement violation."
A blue-tinted image of the night sky, filled with stars. Near centre, there is a small smudge that is a comet.
A photo of a destination sign on a train reading "Belleville." In the bottom left is an indicator of the train's speed, which says 150 km/h.
A screenshot of an email thread with the subject line "Your changes on the Elsevier Preference Center." There are eight emails visible in the thread, all from Elsevier. The time stamps on them are all exactly five minutes apart.
A photo of a Tim Hortons cup on a desk. It's light blue instead of red, and has the Toronto Blue Jays logo on it. Above the logo is the text "Official Partner" and below the logo it says "Let's Go Blue Jays".
An Airbus A380 in Emirates livery against a cloudy sky.
A GIF fading between the York University and Rogers logos.
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A screenshot of a website error. At the top in large bold letters is "Forbidden." Below that in normal text is "You don't have permission to access this resource." Below that is a thin horizontal line and then italic text reading "Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at students.yorku.ca Port 443."
Theoretically a photo of Saturn. It's almost entirety black except for a small yellow-white dot near the centre with small bulges on both sides, caused by the planet's rings or perhaps some bright moons. They may also simply be smearing from the photo being taken with an extremely unsteady hand.
A grid of eight rows and five columns of images. Every image is of the Moon at different angles, zooms, and exposures.
Satellite imagery of Kīlauea during its ongoing eruption. As time progresses, the crater slowly fills with dark material.
Meme that says "Died 2024, Born 2025: welcome back VIPER". On both sides of the image is a rendering of the VIPER rover on the lunar surface.
A long panorama of the northern rim of Gale Crater on Mars as viewed by the Curiosity rover's colour Mastcams. The image has been white-balanced to approximate Earth-like conditions, so the sky is a pale blue, while the ground is a pale pink/red. Several nearby buttes are visible at the two sides of the image, and the terrain slopes down towards the crater floor. The crater wall rises in the far distance, made slightly hazy by dust in the air.
A close-up photo of a rock. It consists mostly of horizontal stripes of red and orange, with a particularly thick one across the centre of the image. The rock is interspersed with some thin darker stripes.
A nighttime shot of a city skyline. The Moon appears low in the sky and is in full eclipse, all red, brighter at the bottom left and darker towards the upper right.
A graph of "Current Date" on the x axis and "Planned opening date" on the y axis. Both axes are between 1980 and 2030. There are a series of points, roughly linear, going from the middle left to the top right. These data are fitted with a red line. There is a second, black dashed line going from the bottom left to the top right. The two lines intersect near the beginning of 2026. The title of the graph is "Look, at least the slope is less than one."
A LEGO model of the Curiosity rover on top of a desk, surrounded by red-pink rocks. It has its arm extended and placed on top of one of the rocks. A small knitted bird is placed on top of the rover.
A screenshot of an email attachment. The attachment is named "is this a thumb.png". The content of the attachment is not visible.
A photo of the ongoing eruption of Kīlauea. Lava is being ejected from a vent with a considerable horizontal velocity, creating a low, long arc stretching a great distance across the ground.
An image of a martian landscape, handcoloured on twelve sheets of paper. The colours range from pink (representing the brightest areas) to black (representing the darkest areas). The landscape is mostly blue and purple, representing a mostly flat area with some large buttes to the right side. At the bottom right corner, the back of the Curiosity rover can be seen. All twelve sheets of paper are taped together, then taped onto a white cinderblock wall. The colouring styles of each sheet are different, as they were all done by different people. Some are a series of horizontal lines, some are scribbled in, and some are fully coloured in.
A smooth, flaky, brown and gray feature embedded in a rock.
A spiral fossil embedded in a rock.
A colour photo of the side of the Curiosity rover's APXS sensor head, as imaged by the rover's Mastcam. Along the side of the sensor is some apparently handwritten text, reading "APXS SENSOR HEAD ASSEMBLY" as well as what are likely serial numbers or other similar identifiers.
A descriptive diagram of Mars' orbit around the Sun. It's notably non-circular with the Sun offset slightly to the right of centre, reflecting Mars' high orbital eccentricity. The orbit is divided into slices of 30 degrees of solar longitude, starting near the top centre and proceeding counter-clockwise. The orbit is colour-coded according to the southern hemisphere seasons, with 0-90° red for fall, 90-180° blue for winter, 180-270° green for spring, and 270-360° orange for summer. There are two dashed lines extending from the Sun to just outside of the orbit. One is between the 60° and 90° lines and is labeled "Aphelion" and the other is between the 240° and 270° lines and is labeled "Perihelion." Along the left side of the orbit is a cyan arc, indicating the temporal extent of the Aphelion Cloud Belt season, between solar longitudes of 40° and 150°. Around the orbit, in line with each of the solar longitude lines, is a diagram of Mars showing how the sunlight on the surface changes over the year. The subsolar point first drifts into the northern hemisphere before reversing direction into the southern hemisphere and back again. The southern hemisphere's summer is notably much hotter than summer in the northern hemisphere.
A dramatic shot of the sun shining through some dark, puffy clouds. Dark crepuscular rays streak across the blue sky at the top of the image. The clouds near the sun are yellow-orange, with bits of rainbow iridescence. Just to the left of the sun, the silhouette of a large airplane is visible.
A screenshot of the Curiosity rover Raw Images page, showing many frames of a single cloud movie. There are 19 rows and five columns. All of the images are black-and-white shots of the martian landscape, mostly looking at the sky with a little bit of ground at the bottom. There is a bright arc across all of the images, caused by the sun shining on the camera sensor. Some of the images have black regions of missing data.
A black and white image from one of the Curiosity rover's Navcams. In the top left corner, clouds are clearly visible. To the right of this area is a dark arc, caused by the shadow cast on the Navcam sensor. Below this arc, the image is covered in a number of bright and dark linear artifacts that point towards the top left, where the Sun is just out of frame.
One of the Navcams used by the Mars Exploration Rovers and the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover. The camera is a conical tube mounted to a silver rectangular base. The camera lens is surrounded by a black strip of material that extends out beyond the lens. A brown ribbon cable trails out of the bottom of the camera off the edge of the image. A quarter is placed in the bottom right for scale. The camera lens is a bit larger than the quarter.
A black and white image of a martian landscape. Thin, bright clouds appear in the sky in the upper right of the image. The left side of the image is dominated by a bright arc caused by the edge of a shadow cast on the camera sensor by the Sun.
A screenshot of the J2000 time, reading 800000000414.
A telescope view of the Sun. The Sun itself is a large orange circle, slightly darker towards the edges. Several sunspot groups are visible as dark spots across the solar disc.
A photo of the Full Moon.
A photo of the 2024 total solar eclipse. Near the bottom of the image are the silhouettes of some trees and a group of people. The sky near the horizon is a pale yellow-orange, transitioning into dark blue and black as you look up. Near the top of the image, the ring-like eclipsed Sun shines brightly.
Looking out over a small snow-covered field between several buildings. As the wind blows, large volumes of snow are thrown up into the air, forming airborne sheets and vortices.
A clay sculpture of Gale Crater, Mars. It is painted in Mars-like reds and dark browns.