Russell Smith
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Russell Smith
@AstroRJS
Astronomer at Durham University, UK. I weigh galaxies.
Durham, United Kingdom انضم Mart 2010
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Universities have in place some of the most advanced systems in the world to stop students using AI to produce their work
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Els primers resultats científics de #WEAVE aporten noves dades sobre els #xocs en el grup de galàxies del Quintet de Stephan 💥
🌌 Aquest sistema galàctic és un laboratori ideal per comprendre la caòtica i sovint violenta relació entre #galàxies
🗞️ Investigadors de l’#IEEC a l'@ICC_UB han participat en l'estudi, publicat a la revista Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society @RAS_Journals #MNRAS
👉 ieec.cat/els-primers-re…
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De eerste publicatie van metingen met het mede in Nederland ontwikkelde WEAVE-instrument is een feit.
Stof remt schokgolf bij iconische groep sterrenstelsels.
Nieuwsbericht:
astronomie.nl/nieuws/stof-re…
Arnaudova+ in MNRAS:
academic.oup.com/mnras/article-…
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@Sam_Dumitriu although even if they ever dualled it as far as ellingham that is not scotland strictly...
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Confirmed: Plans to dual the A1 betweeen Morpeth and Ellingham have been scrapped.
The main road link between England and Scotland will continue to be single-carriageway.
Promised a decade ago, stuck in planning limbo for years, and now finally cancelled.
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Enjoying the implication that my hunter-gatherer ancestors gained some advantage by being sceptical about interferometry, or by not liking UVES.
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@yuanyi_z yeah just say the month - nothing eurocentric about "july" or "august"
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This doesn't even make sense on its own terms. Almost everyone from the “Global South” lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
nature@Nature
Stop using ‘summer’, ‘winter’ and the rest when inviting researchers to events — it’s a small step, but it’s necessary and inclusive go.nature.com/4dUMxT0
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Always enjoyed going to Space House for TAC meetings
C20 Society@C20Society
📰 'The coolest new office development of 2024 is, in fact, one from 1964...this rhythmic cabasa of pop-art London is as impressive in the 21st century as it ever was in the 20th, if not more so.' C20 speaks to @helenbarrett for the @Telegraph, on the incredible transformation of Space House by @SeaforthLand telegraph.co.uk/art/architectu…
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And I've updated my list of astronomy journals that publishes anything at all: ApJ, MNRAS, NatAst, A&A.
No comment on which is preferable, but feel we under-appreciate just how different astro publishing is to many/most other fields.
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@twlldun what if it was like this but also they were locked in a spaceship
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People sometimes ask me why I bang on so much about the need for new housing. This. This is why. It is an academic preprint by five authors from three countries arguing - and I am not making this up - that we should build *no new housing at all* (1/?) osf.io/preprints/soca…
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... and if you get the job, that line will still be at the bottom of your never-again-edited website in 2044
Jennifer Doleac@jenniferdoleac
Academic job market candidates: PLEASE add a line to the front page of your website that says something like "I am on the 2024-25 academic job market." This might sound silly but it makes it much easier to tell who is looking for a job now.
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"There are working toilets on this train," said the announcement, with a note of some pride. I fear we may be setting the bar a little low for public services.
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