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Russell Smith

@astrorjs.bsky.social

Astronomer at Durham University

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Interesting in context of astro, where we could live without google scholar I think, but not without NASA ADS

13.08.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

VERY Strictly

11.08.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The yellow highlighter surely fairly recent though?

10.08.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oof, this is sneaky from ESO

05.08.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my god, it's full of (two kinds of) stars

01.08.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Just some red and blue blobs really

Just some red and blue blobs really

Very pleased with today's "image" of (a very tiny piece of) NGC 5128

31.07.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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here's the branding we were asked to use by our lot, a few years back

23.07.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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here's the branding we were asked to use by our lot, a few years back

23.07.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No! Do not use "beyond" conventionally! That is a *poor example*!

23.07.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of unhinged, presumably drug-induced rebranding of a perfectly good university. I'd add some descriptive alt-text, but it is, ironically, "beyond" my powers of description.

Screenshot of unhinged, presumably drug-induced rebranding of a perfectly good university. I'd add some descriptive alt-text, but it is, ironically, "beyond" my powers of description.

"Beyond is a conceptual destination ... The Voice of Beyond is always one step ahead..."

I've finally looked at that Warwick "Beyond!" rebrand.

It's even worse than the posts suggest.

Beyond reason.

Beyond belief.

Beyond parody...
brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...

22.07.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4
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Oh, it's the i word I can't abide

15.07.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fortunately if you really want to avoid human interactions there’s a plasma physics session.

10.07.2025 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All purpose astro conference programme

08.07.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Which Gallagher is the tiny dense one?

03.07.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cheeky midweek bimble

18.06.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is southernmost use of "outwith" one of your side-quests?

16.06.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(much to the relief of our students)

16.06.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're going back as of next year, in my subject at least.

16.06.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well I know that's *not* Fabricant marching in the front row beside Benn, but...

05.06.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Already has Jesus Oxford though, so that's one already

04.06.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ron's sketch is a bit

30.05.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But I think the polish one is a red herring in this instance

27.05.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those Celts get everywhere eh

27.05.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeh but it took me ages to remember shadow cx and foreign the other day, which seems bad too...

22.05.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it a bit stronger than that to merit the asterisk?

15.05.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But also the words?

15.05.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I see the Durham ucu event at the brewery has been cancelled at short notice

09.05.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(and mostly by the students, who recognise that everyone else is cheating -- it's corrosive)

07.05.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep

07.05.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So we're dropping it to 2h in-person for all previously 3h papers, and killing all the online exams in physics from next year.

07.05.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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