London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits
Alas, no. Same hat. Although I do enjoy it
Fun fact: the first female physics professor in the UK was Daphne Jackson, right here at the university of Surrey. This was back in 1971. Since then, no other women have been promoted to professor in physics here until now with me and Alessia 👩🏻🎓🔭🧪
Some professional news: I have been promoted to full Professor here in the physics department at the University of Surrey, after 10 years here. 👩🏻🏫👩🏻🎓🔭🧪 As has my excellent colleague and fellow astronomer Alessia Gualandris ❤️
I hope everyone who checked out @hogg.bsky.social’s white paper on the implications of LLMs in astronomy and shared it across slack channels similarly perused and amplified this white paper of best practices for broadening participation in astronomy!
They just want us to THINK it's an asteroid so we don't fight back
😂 that is very cute!
Apophis isn't just a power mad Goa'uld. It's also a large near earth object that will make a close flyby of the earth in 2029. This paper looked into where it came from and whether we expect more encounters with similar objects 🔭🧪☄️
Payel discussed this nice paper that used a simple model for star formation to unpack what's happening at z>5. 🔭🧪☄️
I'm very excited to announce a PhD position that will be supervised by Eugene Vasiliev and myself on the dynamical modelling of barred galaxies. Check it out!
Say hello to one the 7th known triple double radio galaxy! Its three distinct pairs of lobes likely trace three distinct periods of activity from the central black hole. Very cool stuff 🔭🧪☄️
It's @starxiv.bsky.social day! New episode is out. Join us and learn about lots of cool astronomy stuff. Including triple double radio galaxies which I did not know about until I read a paper for this episode 🤩☄️🧪🔭
Voice of Victim
"There was a University lectureship competition
My friend was in pole position. My Head of Department asked me if she was likely to go on maternity leave
I refused to answer
My HoD has not spoken to me since she was appointed -- & then went on maternity leave"
Me and @readdark.bsky.social are advertising aPhD position in our lovely group here at Surrey university. We're looking to understand unusual globular clusters and faint dwarf galaxies. Check out the advert and get in touch if you have questions 🔭🧪 www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...
Excellent piece from @astrokiwi.bsky.social @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & Laura Revell.
This one sentence is the crux of it all 👇
"There is no public mandate for a single company in one country to make changes on that scale to the planet’s atmosphere."
Highly recommended.
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"Progressives were told how to vote"
... what sort of frothing BS is this as an excuse? 'Telling people how to vote' is what campaigning is. If enough people do as told to achieve victory, that's democracy.
If you don't like it, leave the country. I'm sure I've heard that sentiment elsewhere...
Exactly this. Can we get one of those Trump baby balloons, but for Farage? Populist babies.
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Wake up, astronomers—the sky is calling.
@vrubinobs.bsky.social has unleashed its first rapid-fire alerts of new celestial activity. 800k of 'em—a nightly number that will soon rise to a million+!
By @meghanbartels.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/rubi...
Or if astronomy isn't your bag, check out our many other physics, maths, engineering, chemistry and computing projects! share.google/WBCxAnIX8xI6...
Our colleagues, Eugene Vasiliev and @payeldas.bsky.social are also hiring! The dynamical dream team! 🧪🔭 www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...
Me and @readdark.bsky.social are advertising aPhD position in our lovely group here at Surrey university. We're looking to understand unusual globular clusters and faint dwarf galaxies. Check out the advert and get in touch if you have questions 🔭🧪 www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...
STFC CEO responds to @jonbutterworth.bsky.social
"it is important for all of our ... programmes ... to contribute to us making savings across our entire portfolio"
No mention that *all* is disproportionately falling on the particle-astro-nuclear programme 🤷♀️😡
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
As @chrislintott.bsky.social points out in the thread, this is becoming an issue of Super Moon proportions 😬🔭
The Seestar S50. It's great!
Crikey O'Reilly 😬
Last night, it was finally clear! So naturally I got out the Seestar 🔭😍
Fighting age man attempts to enter British territory illegally on a small boat
Good luck and enjoy it!
This is devastating for Carl’s family, and for his IPAC friends and colleagues. We are all shocked and saddened. His contributions to exoplanets and infrared science and the astronomy community will not be forgotten. 💔
