Remember when Obama jokingly predicted this in 2011?

After today’s surgery I am ~0.05% titanium. Would not recommend.

I can finally start calling him “the Andrew formerly known as Prince”

In her WHAT

If only someone could have predicted that OSA would be a disaster

Passed my viva 🥳

Check out our tiny rock featured by @eso.org ! Now available in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We measured the size using the new lightcurve shape models and old radar data #TeamRadar 📡🪨🔭🧪

My name continues to cause chaos 😈

Such a classy display of patriotism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Planetary scientist Michele Dougherty made UK’s first female astronomer royal

I always found it weird that these guys used to own IDL.

Might be time to revive this 🔭

#subpost "What if this spacecraft in Jupiter orbit magically had four more tons of hydrazine" is not something to be taken seriously by anyone.

Comet Interceptor is now on Bluesky!! ☄️🚀🛰️

These petitions don’t seem to achieve much, but it’s still worth a shot.

Google searches for “VPN” in the UK:

The weirdest thing about this astronomer thing is how the astronomical community keeps thinking “wait do we know him?”

@ianbetteridge.com’s law now extends to astrophysics pre-prints

Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/v...

For any asteroid observers who have not heard about it already: Newly-discovered #A11pl3Z is a candidate interstellar object. cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/obje...

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Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

Everyone else can see the face in the middle, right…?

I can’t believe this meme from 2018 is relevant again

Ever wondered what the rain sounds like inside one of our steel 🔭 domes?

I’ve wanted this for years

There are many proposed cuts that are more directly harmful to people's lives, but these stand out for the intensity of the anti-science ideology. These are pure missions of exploration, famously nonpartisan, being cut by people who see knowledge as worthless or actively undesirable.

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

1/2 - 🔎 Can you identify any of these items? Even the smallest tip could help. ⚠️ Our #TraceAnObject website has new images taken from files depicting child sexual abuse. 💡 You can help us move these investigations forward by submitting an anonymous tip. Go to www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse

Astro-history buffs: the usually-closed King's Observatory in London will be open from 9 Jun-17 Jul. Located along the Thames in Richmond, it was commissioned in 1769 for King George III and has the oldest telescope cupola in the world. 🔭 You must book in advance: www.visit.kingsobservatory.co.uk

RIP, Ed, you steely-eyed missile man real heroes use duct tape

Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...

How long until the MAGA crowd declare the pope is woke and start calling him the ‘wope’ or something?

Several recent scientific findings, including signs of life on an exoplanet and 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf have caused a stir but when a claim seems too good to be true it probably is

There’s a whole website about this

"There are no coincidences" euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The problem with all of these framings of male violence is that those forms of violence are already crimes, but our anaemic justice system is entirely incapable of doing anything about it happening. Making it double illegal for a man to assault a woman in the toilets isn't going to solve anything.

apropos of nothing, really

Here's last night's aurora! 🔭

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Today I learnt the buzz-term "T-shaped talent": deep knowledge in one area & broad skills across many disciplines. Most PhD students are "I-shaped", but those who take part in a range of #scicomm outreach events: T-shaped! I'm told T-talent is highly sought after in the business world?👩‍🔬🧪

The eclipse from my very dodgy solar photography setup 🔭

Hey #TeamRadar! EPSC/DPS abstract submission is open and there's this cool session "On the radar: From small bodies, to moons and planets with ground- and space-based radars" meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025... 🔭☄️📡 #planetaryscience

Farewell Gaia! Incredibly successful mission, that has utterly transformed our knowledge of our home galaxy. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...