MS Teams telling me it no longer works unless I upgrade my OS... don't threaten me with a good time 🧪 #academicsky

⏰ Start your countdown clock for the exact moment of the autumn #equinox, 19:19 (UK) 22nd Sept, when the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere are equally illuminated. Today the day length in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland is ~the same as in 🇳🇿New Zealand 🤓🧪🔭 📷: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

10 years since I decided it looked like a crocodile 😀🔭🧪

Trent Reznor takes a seat from Labour!

H. M. O. Stephenson, et al.: The \emph{JWST} Emission Line Survey (JELS): The sizes and merger fraction of star-forming galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08045 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08045 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08045

I know you lot love this, but why am I seeing halloween cakes in mid september? 🙄

🧪🔭 #extragalactic

New JWST paper from Lancaster’s @hmostevo.bsky.social 🧪🔭 #extragalactic

New JWST paper from Lancaster’s @hmostevo.bsky.social 🧪🔭 #extragalactic

Feel a bit sorry for Corpus being brought into this #academicsky

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Looking forward to being faculty at the University of the Danelaw once this has reached its final conclusion #academicsky 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the right is an HST grism spectrum of a star forming galaxy at z=1.5 🧪🔭 #extragalactic

This is the new leader of Kent CC. People need to think carefully before sanewashing this dangerous nonsense for its "whacky fun" or "camp energy". To paraphrase Goldblum: "Oooh! Ahhh! That's how it always starts, but then later there's running and screaming." Good job @ayeshahazarika.bsky.social.

The ‘patriots’ are putting their own flag upside down again

Jesus wept, you have a doctor claim that the covid jab gave the King and the Princess of Wales cancer and this is what you put out? Not only is it drivel it is completely devoid of any political analysis. God help us if this is the BBC political analysis

Why are you using AI to grade anything??!! #academicsky 🧪

Why are you using AI to grade anything??!! #academicsky 🧪

It’s not going to ward it off

On the motorway yesterday and noticed only a 50% hit rate of union-jacks-on-bridges being the correct way up. It’s almost as if these people aren’t actually as patriotic as they think they are.

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

That’s the aliens breathing out 🔭🧪

Buttermere, painting by Lake District artist Libby Edmondson. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

ANCHORAGE…

Love this! 🧪🔭

This will help guide me to my ancestral home of Rainhill 😃

I’d like a ‘Stott plot’ myself 🧪🔭 #academicsky

‘Need’? Do I?

Now Loeb introduces the "Loeb Scale" for interstellar objects. Without exception eponyms are bestowed by usage in the community, not by the author of the damn thing. Love 8-10 for confirmed ETI origin. Don't wanna read the definitions - my own imagined scale will be better. arxiv.org/abs/2508.09167

So true!

“Metallica” was released 34 years ago #OnThisDay in 1991! What's your favorite song on the album?

Dateline Canterbury

Saw this in my hotel room in Kent this morning… apparently a something oak cricket #insects #nature

This is bizarre… people are selling rubbish AI generated posters on market stalls. 🧪

😂 #academicsky

We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran. Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. https://go.nasa.gov/41tbrpq

Quite an aggressive street preacher in Lancaster today. Told a man to ‘shut up old man’ and ‘get on your knees’ 😂 winning hearts and minds there 😂

I see the first articles in the UK press giving space to the claim that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft. Briefly: It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System. It’s behaving like a comet. There is no evidence it’s artificial.

Indeed he does 🧪🔭

Unfortunately, I think I’m going to have to turn off Rubin LSST Community notifications for Early Science 🔭

I’m glad exoplanet folks also have a red sequence, blue cloud, and green valley 🔭🧪

Good grief 🧪🔭

For some reason all of the Chinese restaurants in town have been unavailable on delivery apps and/or closed for at least 2 days. Any ideas @beyond.radio ?

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

Let me take this moment to also congratulate & thank the amazing Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal for 30 years! Esteemed theoretical astrophysicist, pop-sci author, tireless campaigner for the protection of dark skies, a genuine gentleman. Retired from astro-royal duties, but still sciencing! 🔭🧪

Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair. If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪

the important thing for americans understand about britain is that in 2028 kier starmer will propose hooking every cctv camera to a networked facial recognition database to track people who let their dog shit on the pavement and he will win re-election in a landslide as a result

And for me, 1991 for music

Seems unlikely 🧪🔭

Staff have hit out over plans for job cuts at Lancaster University. www.beyond.radio/news/local-n...