The sophisticated COLIBRE simulations finally land on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.21126. Treating these with sonification, we can get new intuition for galaxy evolution to augment our visuals. Sound on for the explainer vid, visit the site for more! colibre.strw.leidenuniv.nl/videos.html 🔭🧪

🚨 you can also find more strauss examples here! www.audiouniverse.org/research/str... 🎶🎧🧪🔭🐡🚀 @stsci.edu #EduSky #musiciansky #philsci

Next paper I want to highlight: the paper for STRAUSS by @trayford.bsky.social et al. came out! ☄️ #astrocode STRAUSS is a tool for sonifying scientific data, meaning you can enhance the presentation & accessibility of your data. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01660 Here's a great example:

In 2021, we released a unique planetarium show for blind or low vision kids, using sounds and music convey space. Music of course is very cultural... now we've collaborated with Trinidadian scientists and musicians for a Caribbean version, watch below (1/n)! 🧪🔭⚡☀️🐡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjkA...

It's a very happy first-author paper day for me! In this thread I'll explain some of the exciting results from my paper nicknamed 'Cloudy-Maraston' with the aid of doodles inspired by the amazing work of @clairelamman.bsky.social ! arxiv.org/abs/2501.03133

Last week of work and everyone seemed to get their toys out! A mini Mars rover and a work in progress from @trayford.bsky.social

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Noticed different sentiment between arts, STEM, education etc surrounding machine learning & AI. How about a bit of word association? interested in adjectives for any/all of: - AI: ___ - Generative AI: ___ - LLMs: ___ - ChatGPT: ___ - Machine Learning: ___ 🧪🔭⚛️🐡🐙 #art #artsci #musicianfeed #EduSky

Just realised Peterborough united have scored and conceded the most goals in league 1 this season excepting leaders Wycombe and last-place Shrewsbury, respectively. Just about sums it up - still good win this weekend #pufc

reading up AOTY lists and stopping at 10 to leave a schrodingers chance that I’m in there. admittedly with a very short half-life

See and hear #herakoi in action (JWST alert!)

Check out this article from STFC about our sonification of astronomical data, and beyond! including a new sonification at the end - perceive multi-scale information about galaxy formation in our cosmological simulations... 🧪🔭⚡🐡. medium.com/big-science-...

Maybe comes under #SciArt 🐡 too

Progress! Star lives with sonification 🌟🔉. Models colour evolution from 0.3-150 sun masses. A higher note indicates higher main sequence temperature, shifting with post-MS temperature pre-death. They go 'bang' if they then go supernova or 'whoosh' if they blow out to leave a white dwarf. 🌌🔭🧪💽🐡...

Can't stop thinking about the zebra shark at Baltimore aquarium 🦈🦑

Sonifying satellite trails with STRAUSS... here's the harmonious version 🌌🔭🎧...

Stellar songwriting on the new trust fund album - shades of nick drake & judee sill - the string arrangements are gorgeous trustfund.bandcamp.com/album/has-it...

Baltimore, MD 🍄📷

Cycling through mpl colour maps for a multimodal astro-outreach prototype. Any preferences? 🌌🔭💡🧪

Some tasty SDSS-like images of virtual galaxies from upcoming simulation test runs... many (many) more cooking up as we speak 👨‍🍳💻🔭🧪

proposing 'bloops' instead of 'tweets' on #BlueSky

Follow the (growing) Starter Pack for the Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation (ICG) - Find out about our investigations into Gravity, Galaxies, Sonification & more at the University of Portsmouth, UK 🌌🔭 go.bsky.app/SScAL4f

Went the the cumberland house natural history museum in #southsea at the weekend - the butterflies are still going!

Nice to see this place filling up - back from my travels in the US last few weeks collaborating with STScI - very excited to see the JWST mission control! We're working an a very cool new interface for exploring telescope data with sound watch (hear?) this Space! 🌌🔭🎧

Check out our showreel for the STRAUSS code 🌌🔭 🎵🎧! A glimpse into some of the things that we can do to explore data with sound. We're looking to explore data outside astronomy too. Try out the code (www.audiouniverse.org/research/str...), or get in touch if interested! youtu.be/h1muFAEMmOs?...

Finally made it to a #dotAstro and seen so many amazing tools already! Grateful to be able to talk about our sonification work and the STRAUSS code. You can try the notebook for the live tutorial here github.com/james-trayfo... - You can run this completely in the cloud using platforms like Colab!