Christopher Berry

illustration of folk art animals and flowers in 4 colors (green, white, yellow, and red) with a solid black background- there are alpacas, goats, geese, sheep, rabbits, chickens, and some hidden bugs surrounded by flowers, wheat, and fruit. the illustration combines traditional folk art florals and patterns with cute animals. the design is mirrored so the left reflects the right side.

was really inspired by the alpaca festival i went to a couple of weeks ago! i want to make this a screen printed shirt (minus the text at the bottom) early next year :)

Dr. Jane Glanzer smiling.

The 2025 winner of the LIGO Laboratory Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization & Calibration is Dr. Jane Glanzer in recognizition of critical and timely contributions to both calibration and detector characterization for the fourth observing run

www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA/news/ligo...

Once again I have been compelled to draw an Absolute Unit.

A remarkable Ministerial Council for @esa.int & @science.esa.int. Record €22.1 bn overall & historic budget for Science.Thanks to our member states for this vote of confidence & to our DG @josefaschbacher.esa.int for putting frontier science & technology at the heart of European leadership in space

This! I so far think that the students who use LLMs too much are in a minority, and (at least here) a lot still seemed to engage with our course & cared about trying to learn.

Quite a few obviously didn't, though, and it does a big disservice to their education.

The arrangement was difficult for Meitner at first. Women were not yet admitted to universities in the German state of the Kingdom of Prussia, which included Berlin. Meitner was allowed to work in the wood shop, which had its own external entrance, but she could not enter the rest of the institute, including Hahn's laboratory space upstairs. If she wanted to go to the toilet, she had to use one at the restaurant down the street. The following year, women were admitted to Prussian universities, and Fischer lifted the restrictions, and had women's toilets installed in the building. Not all the chemists were happy about this.[27] The Institute of Physics was more accepting, and she became friends with the physicists there,

Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪

The cresent moon large behind a slightly blurry zoom in of the top of an ornate dome shaped roof. It's sporting a tall flagpole with the Scottish Saltire flag, blue with a white cross on it. Taken by Tom Duffin

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wishing Scots all around the world a happy St Andrew's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Note, you don't need to be Scottish to celebrate! How about a nice bowl of porridge for breakfast or a wee dram of whiskey at the end of your day? 🥃

📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social "Saltire on the Moon"

Dreamt that using nacho cheese flavoured chips to make nachos inspired me to invent set-of-all-sets-that-contain-themselves flavoured crisps. The list of ingredients was hilarious

Why do we keep insisting universities are run like businesses? Apart from the fact they are not meant to extract profit, they actually seem to do pretty well—Cambridge has been a leading university for 800+ years, Glasgow is almost 600 years old. How many businesses can boast that?

gotta sit down and take a lil break first

Looking at the people sharing this, I can tell these biscuits are universally popular

SCOOP: Carbon Brief has exclusively obtained a list of 84 countries "opposed" to adding a fossil-fuel roadmap to COP30 deal – but our analysis found a series of contradictions & likely errors

For eg 14 on list are also roadmap "supporters"

Read more➡️

www.carbonbrief.org/...

A thread of interesting statistics

Women scientists often do not get recognition and visibility for their achievements as their male peers. Thanks to @indianexpress.com for highlighting stories like ours which go unnoticed, that hopefully will help to change the gender bias that still exists in society.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

A colorful berry pie. The crust is painted to look like Kitt Peak National Observatory, scattered with small white telescopes and framed by colorful pie-crust stars.

Happy Thanksgiving :)
@desisurvey.bsky.social

Sounds like an excellent time to enjoy some cake

Sharing another fab starter pack - for astrophysics. 🌌😀

A tariff on one of the UK's principal exports. Universities are one of the largest employers in the UK. Their impact can be difficult to notice as they are spread across the country instead of concentrated, but this means they support many local economies.

Shocking

I think these articles are great examples of science journalism—not all science is clear cut. Sometimes results are inconclusive. The mystery can dive us on to collect more data to figure things out. Much of being a scientist is not making breakthroughs, but wondering why that odd thing happened? 🧪🔭

They all did such a good job. I hope they get to warm up with some hot chocolate!

I hope it was delicious?

How can a PhD blend science with art, and dessert with creativity? 🤔

I tried it by making a “night-sky cake“— colored with phycocyanin, the same vivid blue pigment 💙 found in the algae I study. My supervisor recognized the source of the color immediately — he’s incredibly sharp!

Curious gravitational wave may be hint at primordial black holes—or just noise Astronomers approach unusual observation with caution and excitement

Great to see Dr Christopher Berry (@cplberry.bsky.social) of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social quoted in this @science.org piece on the intriguing possibility of a new detection of gravitational waves from primordial black holes.

Read here: www.science.org/content/arti...

Academics! I have experienced a huge drop in student questions both online (I keep a discussion forum) and offline for my class. Attendance is good (maybe even great I’d say). Am I an anomaly? My suspicion is that student are asking LLM questions. Thoughts ?

Good work bears! I'm glad they look to be having such a good time

Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!

YouTube video by University of Glasgow University of Glasgow celebrates 10th anniversary of first gravitational wave detection

A new mini-documentary by our colleagues at @uofgravity.bsky.social celebrating the 10th anniversary of our first detection and the progress in #GravitationalWave astronomy

youtu.be/SqhFtkQ4f2c

#GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️🎢

Curious gravitational wave may be hint at primordial black holes—or just noise Astronomers approach unusual observation with caution and excitement

A couple of really nice stories about the intriguing subsolar mass candidate #S251112cm

www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho

www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social

A groundbreaking discovery, or just a false alarm? Time (and more analysis) may tell

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