Adventures of the Cosmic Pudding & sidekick Vanessa: astronomy, telescopes, data, @sauronschedules, #scicomm... also @futuremeetings! #SuperstarsofSTEM ✨
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18 Sep 2021
Yay for #TFOMversary! A whole year of online meeting adventures 🥳 if you’re wondering why I go on about #TFOM here’s a helpful thread 🧵😁 I hope we can continue to explore this interesting new normal and find ways to make astronomy, science and the world more connected! 🌎🌍🌏
17 Sep 2021
This week marks our #TFOMversary - one year exactly since the #TFOM symposium took place! To celebrate, we will be sharing some tweets summarising outcomes as well as reflections by those who have been involved in @futuremeetings over the past year. Watch this thread! 🧵
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Vanessa Moss retweeted
20 Jan 2025
As well as presenting at the #IAUGA2024, I was lucky enough to be part of the @futuremeetings work led by @cosmicpudding exploring hybrid access at large scale. Check out our write up now in @NatureAstronomy! 👀💫
20 Jan 2025
Did you know the @IAU_org #IAUGA2024 was a chance to test #hybrid technology at a large scale?
A recent comment in @NatureAstronomy, led by our astronomer @cosmicpudding, explores successes and challenges of the hybrid #conference model: nature.com/articles/s41550-0… @astronomy2024
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Vanessa Moss retweeted
20 Jan 2025
Did you know the @IAU_org #IAUGA2024 was a chance to test #hybrid technology at a large scale?
A recent comment in @NatureAstronomy, led by our astronomer @cosmicpudding, explores successes and challenges of the hybrid #conference model: nature.com/articles/s41550-0… @astronomy2024
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Vanessa Moss retweeted
5 Sep 2024
"It is vital to recognise that data and mathematics are not neutral tools; they wield significant power. As scientists, we know that evidence-based policy is at the heart of sound decision-making."
QIS Statement on LGBTQIA Inclusion in the 2026 Census: queersinscience.org.au/resou…
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10 Aug 2024
Phew, Week 1 of #astronomy2024 is complete and it’s been a wild and intense and pretty amazing week! I have done an awful job of sharing so far, but here are some pics from #WomensDay2024!! ❤️
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8 Aug 2024
Looking forward to this Women's Day event taking place tomorrow, 11:00-14:00 SAST as part of #astronomy2024 !! You can register here: quicket.co.za/events/268674-… 🙌 #CapeTown #CapeTownCity #CTICC
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8 Aug 2024
Definitely *not* distracting @govender from his interviews advertising the awesomeness of #astronomy2024 to the world ✌️ @AstroCharlesT
4 Aug 2024
Still moving in and starting to get comfortable! Waiting to welcome the world of astronomy to Africa. #astronomy2024 @govender @astronomy2024 @AfricaAstronomy @cosmicpudding
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8 Aug 2024
It's 5 days later and I still haven't found the penguins!!! I have failed, @AstroCharlesT - but I know where all the #astronomy2024 venues are now, does that count 😁
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Vanessa Moss retweeted
13 May 2024
One of our currently-active #TFOM projects has been working with @IAU_Outreach to develop a technology solution that enables people to gather virtually and celebrate amazing #astrophotography! You can register for free to join one of the two events: tickettailor.com/events/iauo… 🌌📸🏆
12 May 2024
Join the event of the season!
This May, the OAO will celebrate smartphone astrophotographers in a FREE virtual gallery exhibition.
Join the guestlist and find out more here: bit.ly/smart_gallery
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3 May 2024
Classic #Sydney: there's an awesome meteor shower coming, with a fortunately-timed new moon for dark skies (see this great summary article by @jacinta_bowler: abc.net.au/news/science/2024…) and what does Sydney do? exactly what you expect 😅 Come on weather, be nice!! 🌠
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Vanessa Moss retweeted
30 Apr 2024
How much did astronomers actually travel in terms of distance in 2019 in total? More than 300 times to the moon and back! Or, to put it in astronomical units: more than 1.5 AU!
doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pg…
My🧵summarizing our paper, written together with members of @Astro4Earth:
ALT Screenshot of the header from the published paper in the journal PNAS Nexus. The title of the paper is "Astronomy's climate emissions: Global travel to scientific meetings in 2019". The authors are, in the order of the author list: Andrea Gokus, Knud Jahnke, Paul M. Woods, Vanessa A. Moss, Volker Ossenkopf-Okada, Elena Sacchi, Adam R. H. Stevens, Leonard Burtscher, Cenk Kayhan, Hannah Dalgleish, Victoria Grinberg, Travis Rector, Jan Rybizki, and Jacob White.
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13 Mar 2024
After so many years of planning for me to visit for a school talk (we’ve played bball for > 10 years!), we finally made it happen! Today I visited Regentville Primary to chat with their Year 3 and 4 students about our cosmic address 😁 #SuperstarsofSTEM @ScienceAU @CSIRO_ATNF 🌌
ALT Two smiling happy basketball players dressed in normal clothes for their “real jobs” with Vanessa visiting the school to give a talk about space and astronomy 🪐
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8 Mar 2022
On this #IWD2022, let's have a chat about a great pioneer in #radioastronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott 🙌 Many know of her awesome work in early studies of #solar radio activity, but do you also know about the struggles she faced as a female scientist in the 1940s? 👩🔬🧵 1/n #astronomy
ALT Image of Ruby standing on a rock, from: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-03141-0
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8 Mar 2024
Happy #IWD2024! It's the time of year when I tend to reflect on how much harder it was for past #WomenInScience, where I wonder if I'd have persisted with as much determination as they did, and where I re-commit to doing whatever I can to make the future better than today 🙌🌏
8 Mar 2022
On this #IWD2022, let's have a chat about a great pioneer in #radioastronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott 🙌 Many know of her awesome work in early studies of #solar radio activity, but do you also know about the struggles she faced as a female scientist in the 1940s? 👩🔬🧵 1/n #astronomy
ALT Image of Ruby standing on a rock, from: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-03141-0
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Vanessa Moss retweeted
1 Mar 2024
So for those who tend to leave things to the very last minute (#astronomers 😉), the exact deadline is midnight UTC-12. Basically if it's still 1st March anywhere in the world, you can still submit your abstracts/grants/early bird registration. And yes, you can pay later.
28 Feb 2024
Submit an abstract by 1st March to be part of the first ever Open Access IAU General Assembly. We want everyone in your life to listen to you speak about your science, whether it's your grandmother, gardener, yoga instructor, kids, banker, anyone! 😉
astronomy2024.org
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22 Dec 2023
We (@futuremeetings) wrote a chapter for the upcoming book edited by Travis Rector “Climate Change for Astronomers” on #TFOM and the important role of #online in #astronomy 🎉😁 with a shout out to the great paper by @ProfHollan and @ScottStornetta 🙌 coming your way in 2024!! 🎊
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22 Dec 2023
It also features a bit of love for one of our favourite #online #VR social activities: the ever-awesome @WalkaboutMG ❤️💕🙌 #TFOM
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14 Dec 2023
How was my view of the #GeminidMeteorShower? Well… it got #Sydney-ed 😅🌠☁️ still, looking forward to chatting #meteors and #astronomy with @GavMcGrath17 later this morning on #ABCBallarat 📻 🌌 (around 09:35 AEDT!) @CSIRO_ATNF
ALT There are probably some spectacular Geminid meteors soaring majestically through the sky… above the layer of Sydney cloud in this photo 🙈
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Vanessa Moss retweeted
14 Dec 2023
"Going beyond being there" from @cosmicpudding in @NatureAstronomy highlights how a VR exhibit showcasing Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey data, demonstrated @CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope's science & technology to conference attendees. Read more: nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
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9 Dec 2023
Oh no, sheep friend, what happened to you 😱 @WalkaboutMG @MeowWolf
15 Jan 2023
Sheep friend says “If things seem grim, stick your tongue out and stand on a hill in the sun” ☀️🐑
For bonus points guess which game, and for bonus bonus points, guess the location in game 🗺 #TFOM #VR
ALT A polygonic sheep friend standing on a hill sticking its tongue out in the sun
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Now that looks delicious 🤤
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