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Astronomer, driving The Dish📡 to study pulsars in my PhD. Also, founded SpaceAustralia.com. Also, love a bit of astrophotography. Also, do everything with my little mate, Max. Also, Ultra-Gay. He/Him.

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📅 Just realised that today is the same date on the calendar emoji. That’s because it is also World Emoji Day. A day to celebrate all emojis. 🎉🤪🫡👻👏🏽💃🍾🥂🏆🎆🎇🎊

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👀👀👀 This is really cool (preprint, so grain of salt!) 🔭🧪 We don't know what causes FRBs. When observing pulsars, some exhibit orthogonal polarization mode jumps. My pulsar does this! New preprint reports FAST observes OPM jumps in FRB bursts! I keep saying ... FRBs are just fancy pulsars.....

Sudden polarization angle jumps of the repeating fast radio burst...arxiv.org We report the first detection of polarization angle (PA) orthogonal jumps, a phenomenon previously only observed from radio pulsars, from a fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A. We find...

Well, this is interesting! New research from our Uni. Bull Ants might be using polarized light from the Moon to guide their navigation. 🧪 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Polarised Moonlight Guides Nocturnal Bull Ants Homeelifesciences.org

My dog has frens (neighbour’s dogs) over for some playtime and getting some Sun and they are so cute and cooperative with each other. Honestly, dogs are the best!

There's some neat science going on here, and I got to speak with Aussie astronomer Dr Holger Baumgardt from Uni. of QLD, who played a direct role in providing the theoretical modelling and investigations into the stellar velocities around the monster, 20,000 solar mass black hole. 🔭

Astronomers suggest that Omega Centauri, a massive globular cluster orbiting our Galaxy, likely has a 20,000 solar mass black hole in its core. @cosmicrami.bsky.social spoke with Uni. of QLD's Dr Baumgardt, a co-author on the paper. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/omega-c... 📷 ESO 🔭🧪 #SpaceAustralia

oh wow! ESA is planning to launch the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses - fantastic acronym!) mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis when it passes Earth in 2029. Apophis (375m size) passes extremely close to Earth in 2029 and 2030s (no risk of impact for next 100 years) 🔭

Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophiswww.esa.int 30 years ago, on 16 July 1994, astronomers watched in awe as the first of many pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet slammed into Jupiter with incredible force. The event sparked intense interest in th...

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Seeing this at Sydney Observatory is one of the key reasons I ended up in astronomy 😍🔭

30 years ago today, we waited for the crash of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into the planet Jupiter. I was on the front lines as the leader of the Hubble Space Telescope 🔭 team to watch Jupiter's spectacular response. It was a life-altering experience for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGm7...

Shoemaker-Levy 9: Interplanetary Impactwww.youtube.com Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 left an indelible mark on our understanding of the cosmos when it collided with Jupiter. Discover the significance of this event and t...

This morning at 8am on 16 July, my partner and I had breakfast together. Now - some 13.5 hours later, it is 1:30am for him on the 16 July. In 2.5 hours, he and I will no longer be living in 16 July together. Where is my partner?

Ooooooooft …. Anyma is playing SphereVegas for NYE …. Which would be nothing short of the most epic immersive light, sound and vision production experience for EDM possible up until this point of human history. www.instagram.com/reel/C9cwbNB...

Anyma on Instagram: "Afterlife presents Anyma ‘The End of Genesys’ - Live at Sphere Las Vegas - December 31, 2024 Presale registration is available now at after.life/spherelasvegas - link in bio P...www.instagram.com 355K likes, 7,752 comments - anyma on July 15, 2024: "Afterlife presents Anyma ‘The End of Genesys’ - Live at Sphere Las Vegas - December 31, 2024 Presale registration is available now at after.lif...

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Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a Cambridge grad student in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars! In 1974 the Nobel was given to her advisor; she was left off. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭 Photo: National Science & Media Museum

PSR J0437-4715 is the closest millisecond pulsar to Earth. It’s so bright that it shows us problems with our instruments 😂 We can take such precise measurements that we can tell it is 511.93 +/- 0.35 light years away. It’s one of the most accurate distances measured outside our system. 🤯

Australian astronomers, using Murriyang (Parkes radio telescope) data & working with NICER researchers have made the most precise measurements of the nearest millisecond pulsar to Earth. @cosmicrami.bsky.social outlines results: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/clos... 📷 C. Knox/OzGrav/Swinburne 🔭🧪

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Really beautiful work here! 😍 Embroidery of a pulsar with a dipole magnetic field, done freehand on a sewing machine. Made by Mel Miles (melmilesart on Instagram) who is a painter, textile artist and physics undergrad. I really love this 💙 🔭👩‍🔬

1. Peter Theil is a *real* evil character. Think Elon-level power, but cunning, strategic, much smarter than Elon (not hard) to say things out loud, and lurking in the shadows to pull strings at the highest level. Anyone he backs is going to be really bad. 2. Teen Vogue rock. 3. Read this. 👇

Vance is a Theil-backed bag of shit in a man suit. But Teen Vogue went ahead and did an explainer on all the reasons why. (And is it just me or does he look like a colorized Bela Lugosi character here?)

Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”

Any arguments put forward that Jocelyn Bell Burnell held historical views that she ‘shouldn’t’ have been included in a share of the Nobel Prize are outdated and lack consideration of sacrifices and compromises that women researchers had to make for their careers in an overly male dominated field.

1:39am, and can’t sleep. Jet lag is such fun.

You can’t take the US seriously anymore.

Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

Happy b'day to this Queen, whom I recently had the absolutely joyful experience of meeting for the first time! 👩‍🔬

Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell! In 1967, she was a grad student when she discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us; 🧵1/n 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci

Read this earlier today and find these results interesting. Using GAIA data to infer dark compact remnant binaries, like neutron stars with a visible GAIA companion. Inferring the orbit and masses of these from this data. I'm a bit confused about their sample selection ONLY incl. wide binaries ...

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "A population of neutron star candidates in wide orbits from Gaia astrometry" by Kareem El-Badry (Caltech, USA) and 12 others. astro.theoj.org/article/1212...

A population of neutron star candidates in wide orbits from Gaia astrometry | Published in The Open Journal of Astrophysicsastro.theoj.org By Kareem El-Badry, Hans-Walter Rix & 11 more. Spectroscopic study of neutron star candidates identified using GAIA astrometry to be in binary orbits around main sequence stars

something continues to not sit with me right, since the Trump incident. The way he pumped his fist several times as they were ushering him off. Not entertaining any conspiracy theories or anything, but that was one of the clearest signs of how Trump can seize the marketing moment, then and there.

#Astrophotgraphy using alt-text challenge 2024. You can toggle your settings to remind you each time you post. First thing I look for in any images shared online is: * does it have alt-text * does it have proper attribution (where required) 98% more likely to share onwards if above points met.

Some very cool new science! Folks from our team used data collected by Murriyang to place constraints on the closest millisecond pulsar to Earth. These were then used as priors for NICER researchers to further constrain mass, radius and equations of state of matter on a neutron star! 🔭🧪

Trying to keep positive it though, so cleanse your TL with this awesome pic from local astronomer and astrophotographer, Aman! So much depth here … meteor rushing across our atmosphere. Further out are stars of the Milky Way. Then across the vastness of intergalactic space, another spiral galaxy!

#apod 2024-07-14 Meteor Misses Galaxy Image Credit: Aman Chokshi Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240714.html#apod 2024-07-14 Meteor Misses Galaxy Image Credit: Aman Chokshi Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240714.html

There’s something to say about the whole “trust your intuition” thing, hey. Like this morning I woke up, saw the news, and said “naaa, stay offline today”. Nine months ago today, decided to no longer be active on Twitter. Days like today online give me lots of confidence on the choices I’ve made.

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Fun fact: when I was eleven years old, I met Richard Simmons in the Crystal Court in downtown Minneapolis. He told me a story from his childhood and gave me a kiss on the cheek and told me, "Whatever world you step into, do your best to make it beautiful."

Richard Simmons, the fitness guru, has reportedly died at 76

Richard Simmons Dead at 76www.tmz.com Richard Simmons -- the legendary fitness guru -- has died at 76 ... TMZ has learned.

Gona be real cold in our region over next few days! Don't forget to look after your pets and animals, friends! ping: @annieparker.bsky.social

Snowfall possible in northern NSW as low pressure brings Antarctic blast to southern Australia

Snowfall possible in northern NSW as low pressure brings Antarctic blast to southern Australiawww.theguardian.com BoM says most severe impacts expected on Sunday and Monday, with warnings of flash flooding in Tasmania Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast An intensifying low pressure system off Australia’s south-east is bringing frigid temperatures to large parts of the country’s south and a chance of snow as far as northern New South Wales. The Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) was carefully monitoring the system on Saturday, which was expected to move from the NSW coast towards Tasmania, intensifying as it goes. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

Are people *genuinely* surprised that Musk donated to Trump's campaign? Does it really need big house publications dedicating 800-word think-pieces on it like *all signs* have not been there for us to see? Musk's views are aligned with Trump and have been for some time. That's not news.

Our group leader shared this on Slack. I have to pay it forward. From 2010, this talks about how we can use high-freq. gravitational waves to transmit + detect comms. The premise is that high-freq. GWs can carry messages and be decoded at different spatial points on Earth. I have many questions.

NGL - since I got home, I have told my dog I love him and missed him about 300 times, and we have had lots of games, two big walks, and fell asleep together. Go tell your pets you love them. Do it now. Instantly improves your well-being, and more importantly, theirs.

Reunited with my little mate and faaaar out it was just the best! 🥰😭🥺😍 Longest time I’ve spent away from him (a month!) and he was super happy to see me! 60-sec vid of when he first saw me here: www.instagram.com/reel/C9TNx0u...