Dr Hannah Dalgleish

This is devastating. The skills that astronomers learn are invaluable to society, many going into industry, the civil service, science communication, … such drastic cuts will have terrible consequences in the long run.

Public Attitudes to Science Survey shows the public values science, but highlights concerns over AI, quality of information, and representation Ipsos, the British Science Association, and UK Research and Innovation have published the results of the 2025 Public Attitudes to Science Survey - the first since the Covid-19 pandemic, and the first ...

The Public Attitudes to Science Survey results have been published by @ukri.org and @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social. This wide-ranging report reveals that the public values science, but highlights concerns over AI, information quality, and representation: www.britishscienceassociation.org/News/public-...

Church photograph used in Don’t Look Now, pre ink spill

One for the film detectives - anyone know what this church is from Don’t Look Now? Can’t seem to find much info and it looks more like a church in the UK than Italy? Reverse image search just brings back the film 🤔

All time favourite film opening, by the way #filmsky

I have an email in my junk addressing me as "Your Excellency Professor".

An ARIA-grade agenda for social science The missing R&D pipeline for building and scaling social science solutions

Very interesting piece from @anastasiabekt.bsky.social responding to @geoffmulgan.bsky.social's challenge that we need an Aria for social science
anastasiabekt.substack.com/p/an-aria-gr...

Done! 😴

Okay my loves. I need your help here with a local thing! I’m currently putting together a series of talks relating to East Sussex.

If you could share with your fellow lovelies it would be incredible! @overslizzie.bsky.social @reblambert.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social @lazaruscorporation.co.uk

Now is the time to go and embrace a star-filled sky while we still can, for it won’t be long before all we can see are satellites…

A starfield filled with a diffuse red glow has an unusual nebula on the lower left. The nebula has bright red filaments that curve down and appear to be reminiscent of a waterfall on Earth. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 HH-222: The Waterfall Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby

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wild.

darwin award anyone?

That uses data from VIIRS which is an infrared satellite and so it doesn’t pick up light from LEDs (which is typically bluer). This is why photographs taken by astronauts are so much better (it contains the blue light). But also much more difficult to process and put it all together!

“Cities at Night will release an app in 2026 that will allow Europeans to check how light pollution has evolved over time where they live.”

I literally cannot wait!

I think it’s easy to underestimate just how impressive this new map is. We can now see Europe at night in colour! This is mega!

Boo :(

May your journey home go smoothly. It was so great to hang out with you!

done! <3

UK readers – from today through Friday, you can get 25% off if you pre-order NIGHTFARING (and other 2026 releases) from @waterstones.bsky.social. 🔑 Use the code OCTOBER25 at checkout on the Waterstones website or app. Pre-orders really help an author out, and I appreciate your support! Out 22 Jan.

is there another party that you support every single policy for?

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

I think it is also separate for the other major parties: they have the Scottish Labour Party and Scottish Conservatives.

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

“It only works if it works for everyone”

had a marvellous time attending this! a very expansive and thought-provoking time with some wonderful humans – thank you all for making me feel so welcome

finally got around to deleting my twitter. take that elon. 💩

The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

a spread for a comics page, black background, with white panel borders and most the drawings white on black. upper left of the spread, a swirl of the start of a star - emanating out from it in radiating arms, a number of different paths in brick-like interconnected panel border shapes. First radiating down and to the left the life of a brown dwarf - which never quite becomes a start. the next branch goes mostly down - a red dwarf which burns longer than the current life of the universe, but the path forks near the bottom, because some of these alternately flare up during their life. the next path is a dwarf star - much like our own - which is stable until it puffs up late in its life, then burst off much of its material to become a white dwarf. Here the path forks - in one branch it lives on as a white dwarf and nebula, in the other, when it has a partner star, it steals material from it and eventually becomes a type 1A supernova. Overlaid a bit on this set of paths and the red dwarf is an example of a binary star system and a six star system. Emanating from the middle of these paths from upper left and going across the spine of the book to the lower right, is a path filled with galaxies - the path loses its border in the middle showing a collection of galaxies. Upper right path is a blue super giant as we move right it goes nova becoming in one forking path a black hole, in another a spinning neutron star - and that forks to either continue or if paired, collide to go supernova and create heavy elements. Middle of right side, molecules formed by chemistry with these atoms forged in stars. new swirls form, and then we see another generation of stars in a grid set of panels and the Planets! formed around them. This is a generational cycle and the text reflects that

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!)
#Nostos #Unflattening 2

Expressions of interest: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US AHRC and SSHRC invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial intelligenc...

This looks interesting, you get funded to go to a three-day in-person residential workshop in Canada in February 2026. And there are opportunities for more funding. I would have probably applied if I wasn't so allergic to AI. Deadline: 30th October www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

Three overlapping circles with the words project, person, and place inside each of them.

As early-career colleagues start thinking about autumn job applications, I wrote a piece describing my post-PhD path. Reflecting on "project," "person," and "place" with mentors helped me immensely, so I hope this note pays it forward somehow. www.wlallen.com/wp-content/u...

It's a date!

Have an amazing time!!

I'm a postdoc working on a CRCRM project – absolutely loving it! soundscale.ac.uk