Our latest episode is out! Me and @payeldas.bsky.social got together and discussed 5 cool papers from astro-ph. Join us to learn about fruity galaxies, black holes, planet eating stars and the fate of the Milky Way ☄️🧪🔭

It’s TODAY! Radio Universe is BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 📚💙 Episode 1 starts with the birth of radio astronomy, when one man heard a hiss in his headphones... 📡🎧 ... the moment we realised we could listen to the universe, not just look at it 🔭 🎧 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Would I like to spend an evening chatting radio astronomy with Izzie Clarke, host of The Supermassive Podcast? Why, yes I would! Come join us! www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

Watch the new film from Royal Society about the story of Hertha Ayrton, the first woman to be nominated for election to the Royal Society #womeinstem www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLt...

No-one ruin this for me but I think this review headline says I am basically Indiana Jones and I will take that.

Out in the wild! Hooted with with delight on seeing two books by two dear colleagues next to each other on the @portybooks.bsky.social shelves 🥳 Radio Universe: @dreochapman.bsky.social The Starspotter's Guide: Sheila Kanani

“Radio Universe” is out TODAY in the UK. If you want to find out how we use radio telescopes 📡 to uncover ice on Mercury, caves on the Moon, search for 👽 and SO much more please order and review today. It really helps to do it NOW. Thank you friends 🥰🔭 linktr.ee/RadioUnivers...

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/

The women who have made it to the top are exceptional - they’ve had to be. That can be so intimidating. Sometimes, I just want to hear they love reality TV and pigs. Scientist friends… tell me your ‘frivolous’ hobby. 🧬🔭🧪 I’m Emma, I’m an astronomer and I love popcorn and looking at waterfalls.

“Gendered views do not remove with age, especially in physics” - Prof. Louise Archer

Got it! A copy of First Light is visible on the oak bookcase behind with some other cosmology books, along with a cat tunnel and scratching post 😀

Excellent (tongue-in-cheek) suggestion from Uta Frith for solving childcare issue in academia: put the nurseries on campus and in the psychology department… then we can do experiments on them! 😂😂

“Institutions must Respect, Honour and Reward the communication of science” - Jocelyn Bell Burnell 🔭📡🧪🧬

First panel of the day: Trailblazing Perspectives with Jim Al-Khalili, Michelle Dougherty, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell (omg omg omg🤯), Uta Frith, Ijeoma Uchegbu

I’m at @royalsociety.org for a “Women and the future of science” conference. And yes, I’m wearing my women in science jewellery 💪

This morning I have travelled from Earth to the Moon, Sun, Mercury and Venus, reading the chapters of the Radio Universe audiobook. Next… to Mars!

Oh wow it’s actually out in the world! Friends, colleagues, interested internet lurkers, please do consider buying a copy for yourself or as a present for anyone in your life who likes popular science / astronomy 🔭 It REALLY helps to do it NOW, on release week ❤️

Writing a grant proposal & it is hard to stay motivated when the proposed funding cuts are so deep. 🔭 I believe in astronomy though. I believe in using the Universe as a laboratory to test our most extreme theories of physics & I know that astronomy helps build up our economies... and our spirits.

She said... yes! Last night's aurora tour had a surprise proposal, and Levi was there to capture the moment! Fairbanks looks absolutely majestic right now with the full moon, snowy trees, and beautiful aurora. Come join a tour with us! go.theauroraguy.com/levi

I have tea & chocolate: ready to start a day of prep for my Wed appearance at the UKGov Science, Information and Technology select committee. I'll be making the case for the economic and scientific benefits of funding (not cutting) UK astronomy. Keen to hear your Sunday thoughts on the matter!🔭⚛️🎢👩‍🔬

Day 1 of PhD interviews in our astronomy group ✨ Please don’t be nervous — we’re not trying to trip you up. We invited you because we’re impressed. Enjoy the day. Be curious. Be yourself. If you’re nervous later, we hope it’s because you’ve loved us and really want the place.

I just spoke in front of 1700 people and you know what’s weird? I wasn’t nervous. I used to dread upcoming talks and spend days ruminating afterwards. But each mistake became something I had survived and the fear faded. Shit goes wrong. All the time. But if you learn to laugh at yourself…🤷

Don’t take the sky, please. It’s the one place we can all look up to and find a moment of peace. And just to be clear, this affects radio astronomy too. These satellites emit radio wavelengths in the supposedly protected astronomical wavebands. Ground based radio will become nigh impossible. 🔭📡

Drop a crush from your youth

Last chance to visit Moon Palace! 🌔 🚌 The school bus-turned mobile observatory is here for one more day at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social – don't miss the chance to explore everything on board. Come and see us from 10am-4pm today!

So excited to announce Radio Universe is available for pre-order NOW! 🔭 linktr.ee/RadioUnivers... I wrote this as a love letter to radio astronomy and all the incredible science it has achieved: Ice on Mercury 🥶🤔 Volcanoes on Venus 🌋 Blazing Black Holes 🌚 Close your eyes and listen to the skies…

New for Deep Sky Videos 🔭: “A Starless Galaxy?!” Cloud-9 - a deep sky object that has all the ingredients of a galaxy… except the stars. youtu.be/iTcKalx_HFA

The money does not go into space. The money does not go into space. The money does not go into space. Sure, the money helps us in exploring and understanding the universe, but the money actually goes to people, to local economies, to universities, it provides jobs, and gets young people into STEM.

More on catastrophic cuts to UK astronomy & particle physics. Costs of facilities & international subscriptions go up so grants line and individual projects are cut. If the Government is serious about backing science & technology, they need to fix this. www.space.com/astronomy/uk...

Another comic I never bothered posting This one from 2023. Topical galileo humour apropos of precisely nothing at all

Are you a Friend of the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social? If so, why not come along to this month's lecture. 🪧'Celebrating Women Astronomers' 📅 12 February ⏰️ 1-2pm 🗣️ Dr Susan Pyne, @ucl.ac.uk 🚨 This talk is exclusively for Friends of the RAS members 🚨 To become a Friend, scan the QR code. 🤳📱

Listeners to Radio 4’s Inside Science today get an essay from me in defence of astronomy as pure research. Please listen in and let me know what you think. Show starts 4.30pm GMT here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

"One of the best popular-science books I have read within the field, and [an] uplifting read, despite dealing with some of the heaviest ethical questions in space sciences." @dreochapman.bsky.social reviews @scottsolomon.bsky.social's "Becoming Martian" (out Feb 17th) for @physicsworld.bsky.social:

Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...

🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 Here is the first known picture of the 19th Century astronomer Richard Carrington – who had the largest geomagnetic storm in history named after him. It was found by our assistant archivist Kate Bond thanks to some brilliant detective work.🕵️‍♀️ 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

The Royal Astronomical Society is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Read our statement 👉 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

I say it all in the review… but seriously, buy the book. Exceptional popular science writing and a unique perspective on human space exploration.

The aurora right now from North Pole, Alaska. Air temp -20 F. Winds calm. Nice night. First substorm tonight was to the north. The next will likely be overhead when we are rotated further under the oval. iPhone video handheld. Colors seen are naked-eye visible.

If you’ve ever wondered why it’s important to share your science with the public, whatever that science is 🧬 🧪 🔭, this @universetoday.com podcast episode is essential listening. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

I am on the train to the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social in London, ready to learn about advances in "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to astronomy' 🔭. Any bluesky friends going too?

Delighted to see "Radio Universe" mentioned in @newscientist.com Best New Popular Science Books of 2026! So surreal to see so much hard work almost out there. Pre-order now (US title Echoing Universe)! www.dr-emma-chapman.com

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

It's happening! ESA & JAXA are teaming up to visit Apophis, the 400-meter (1300-foot) asteroid that will skim close by Earth in April, 2029. The RAMSES mission will study this potentially hazardous object & watch how Earth's gravity reshapes it as it passes. 🧪🔭 cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/look-up-esa-...

So my publishers @johnmurrays.bsky.social just sent me a load of free books from their list and I could not be happier. I mean … free books, right?! Don’t tell them but I would definitely be fine accepting payment in books as opposed to royalties from now on 🤣

Parents & anyone else up early on Christmas morning: there’s a bright pass of the International Space Station over the UK, just after 6.15. Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home… Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....

Science for Fiction has now made the leap to cyberspace as the Science for Fiction podcast, made in conjunction with the @sffoundation.bsky.social The first episode is me interviewing @defjaf.bsky.social about his new book The Random Universe. Have a listen! apple.co/44A5GIg

Hi friends, please help me spread the word on the open professor position in #planetaryScience we have in Bern 🔽

I’m taking a day off and heading to Sheffield to see two friends from high school. Incomprehensibly, they have no interest in astronomy, but we share a love of musical theatre, many years of good memories, and we’d do anything for each other 🥰