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Peter Tuthill

@spiralstar.bsky.social

Astronomer

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This $10 billion telescope was taking blurry pictures. Sydney students fixed it The extraordinary James Webb Space Telescope had a major problem before two young scientists unlocked its full potential.

Really happy with the write-up in the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social of our work with JWST interferometry, with quotes from me, @spiralstar.bsky.social, and @gradientrider.bsky.social, and above all a great photoshoot with @maxecharles.bsky.social showing his tattoo of the instrument!

15.10.2025 09:45 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Thoughts are with you and your family. I hope whatever comes next is awesome, and that your initiative, style and flair continues to contribute to innovation in optical astronomy.

10.10.2025 02:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Breakthrough Listen - Wikipedia

For the curious (and for fair balance the SciAm article should really have mentioned this):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakth...

17.09.2025 01:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Before fetching the pitchforks for this billionaire, at least he knows what science looks like (as opposed conspiracy word salad). Although major funding for Starshot never appeared, the same foundation is on track to spend $100M on Breakthrough Listen. Solid science at world leading Universities.

17.09.2025 01:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Prettiest optic _ever_
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

26.03.2024 08:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Team TOLIMAN project had a fun interview with Australia's 7 news covering the award of an Explorer's Club Flag to the mission:
www.instagram.com/reel/C2_6jND...

06.02.2024 09:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Just chiming in here to shamelessly attempt to hog full credit!. This was in a paper of mine form the nauties ... although to be fair I think it was Jamie Lloyd who insisted we make the subversive gambit to establish Splodge as the appropriate technical term ...

02.02.2024 01:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My reverse enginnering o fAI prompt for NYT artwork: "Modernist style painting of subject with egg all over his face"

21.11.2023 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Another data point establishing the relationship:
Loeb's Razor = 1 / Occam's Razor

arxiv.org/abs/2311.07699

16.11.2023 03:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hmmm lemme see...
- sponge fancy invite code
- upload personal data for identity theft
- 20 mins finding not-taken user handle
great.
Dear bluesky, please find attached my last step for registration

10.11.2023 20:59 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0