Russell Smith

Local group pushes to preserve historic Corpus Christi barge - Cherwell The Oxford College Barges Preservation Trust are fighting to save the Corpus Christi barge, one of Oxford University’s last remaining barges, from falling into disrepair.

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Can't believe they didn't call it Jo-Racers dot com

Change of scene for today

With some of the reviewers in step 5 having been authors in step 2, presumably...

Well that’s a first. My only mildly sarcastic answer to a question about how we know 3I/ATLAS is a comet made it onto Have I Got News For You.

😂😂😂

Oof

And that was Thought For The Day, with Russell Smith, a member of the Durham IFU community

Datacubes are stupid

I do them all on new year's eve each year, as a special treat

U wiv da Angles now

Oh come on, "winer's gala" was right there

Oh come on, "winer's gala" was right there

Had not until now recognised how sinister "The Apparatus" sounds

They've not even put anything under "alternative name" despite, um, several helpful suggestions...

And boom, got double the number of reviews I hoped I'd have to do this round.

Never mind, we had it over cooking tonight and all joined in with the speech extracts @ppfideas.bsky.social @robertsaunders.bsky.social

Too bad the university run isn't for another week. No way I'll be able to save it long enough to inflict on the whole family down the M1

Happy Thursday to those who celebrate

I'm here for it when we get to "R Party"

Admittedly it's a blank sky frame without the associated science object that was expected. But still.

Amazing things are happening. I've just seen actual WEAVE data for my Open Time project.

@kevinmckenna.co.uk has done I saw

25 years enough to drop it into the detector gap...

Spent half the morning trying to figure out why my guide star disappeared between 2MASS and JWST. Proper motions, eh?

I know what the words mean, but Fridtjof Nansen's Veg Vest is still giving visions of some kind of vegan lady gaga

First ESO proposal submitted two weeks early. I don't recognise myself.

Where? what?

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

It isn't exactly the nice one-object "gold sample" for resolving the IMF controversy that we maybe hoped for... And the closer we looked the messier it was. But still the broad result: the spectrum wants a bottom-heavy IMF but the dynamics are light. Usual caveats to that statement apply.