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26 Jul 2020
am back to using @matplotlib to recreate physics related album covers...
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22 May 2023
Harassment experiences are common in Astronomy but navigating them can be a nightmare...♥️
Here are 10 ways we can improve support resources in astronomy 👇♥️
baas.aas.org/pub/2023i020/re…
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5 Mar 2023
i think you should be required to look at this graph and explain what it shows before you can enter general society
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8 Nov 2022
Having fun discussing galaxy decomposition in Leiden today! Thanks @mschaller_ for organising 😊
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16 Sep 2022
ANU say that it’s unethical to stick to the government stipend amount 🤔Any plans to match this at @uwanews? @UWAresearch @ProfChakma @perth_meso_dr @colmer_tim
16 Sep 2022
Very happy to hear that ANU is raising the minimum PhD stipend from $28,854 to $34,000 in Oct - an increase of about $100 a week (scholarships are tax-free). Still not much money but definitely heading in the right direction.
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24 Jul 2022
Very happy to be back under moody Scottish skies after being away for so long. Also a nice surprise to see an astronomer has made it onto the currency since I was last home!
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10 May 2022
new album drop, except it’s my thesis (photo from submission last month!)
@ICRAR @UWAresearch
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Counting Clusters to Probe Ancient Star Formation
@astrobites's @AstroK80 reports on @NASAHubble observations of globular clusters in an ultra-diffuse galaxy. What can these observations tell us about this galaxy’s star-formation history? aasnova.org/2022/03/01/count… @princetonideas
ALT picture of a globular cluster
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14 Jan 2022
From @AstroK80: What can counting globular clusters tell us about a galaxy's star formation history? Today's authors investigate using Hubble Space Telescope observations. astrobites.org/2022/01/14/gc…
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15 Dec 2021
We had a lot of fun at the Christmas quiz today snatching defeat from the jaws of victory 🥲🎄
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Despite the name, some black holes effectively “shine” as they suck up nearby material with such force that they begin to glow.
New research by @ICRAR's @_jessthorne @SabineBellstedt reveals a new method for detecting these active black holes.
@uwanews
bit.ly/3DUJ3Ot
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What can angular momentum and stellar mass tell us about galaxy evolution? A new paper from ICRAR-@uwanews' Jennifer Hardwick uses @NAICobservatory data to better understand how our local neighbourhood of galaxies formed.
@ARC_ASTRO3D @astroquokka icrar.org/arecibo-fall/
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22 Oct 2021
From Astrobites: Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 5th (two weeks away). astrobites.org/2021/10/22/ap…
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Katy Proctor retweeted
14 Oct 2021
Did we mention that @ICRAR is a great place to do postgrad research in astrophysics?
youtu.be/DG0-GJjuzIw
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4 Oct 2021
From @AstroK80: Are past interactions to blame for the death of isolated, ultra-diffuse galaxies? Today’s authors use the IllustrisTNG simulations to find out. astrobites.org/2021/10/04/de…
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9 Sep 2021
I’ve put together an AGN unification diagram split into radio loud/quiet and low/high EM power. I’ve added rings to show whether a particular combination of radio emission EM power geometry is expected to produce broad or narrow emission lines, or MIR, radio, or X-ray emission.
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19 Jul 2021
This is an awesome (and very pretty) resource for teaching/outreach: informationisbeautiful.net/v…
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19 Jul 2021
And the answer that you get when selecting the 'lowest possible' values is... interesting
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