With one in four university Physics departments facing the risk of closure, and with unprecedented research cuts on the horizon, @royalastrosoc.bsky.social have created an open letter for Physics teachers to lend their support to the university Astronomy community ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre... 🎢🧪⚛️🔭

Our next LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA webinar will introduce the analysis methods used for our #GWTC4 results (paper arxiv.org/abs/2508.18081) 19 February at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Register for free wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🔭 ☄️ ⚛️ 🧪

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Continuing our attempts at winter sports, this is Dad trying out the half-pipe on a snowboard - he was about as good on it as he is on a skateboard! 🤣🤣🤣 #glasgow #glasgowpenguins #snowboarding #winterolympics #kelvinwalkway

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With one in four university Physics departments facing the risk of closure, and with unprecedented research cuts on the horizon, @royalastrosoc.bsky.social have created an open letter for Physics teachers to lend their support to the university Astronomy community ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre... 🎢🧪⚛️🔭

Interesting analysis, particularly highlighting that the UK's science and innovation research portfolio is only just growing. Other nations are doing much better. Loss of this fundamental research will have long-term impacts www.ersatzben.com/p/the-bucket... 🧪 #AcademicSky #UKPol

10 years ago, the two LISA Pathfinder test masses were successfully released into free-fall The release was a very delicate operation, and the technology required a great deal of research and design, so everyone was anxious! youtu.be/wUZ81wItsZI?... #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission 🔭🛰️

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Roses are red The dot is pale blue Here's a mote of dust in a sunbeam From a distance of forty AU 🧪 🔭 🌍

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

In @theguardian.com, IOP President-elect Prof Paul Howarth CBE warns that funding cuts will hit early-career researchers hardest - putting the UK’s future in science & innovation at risk. If we want breakthroughs tomorrow, we must invest in young physicists today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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A print copy of this paper lives on a bookshelf in my parent's home It's strange how such a few pages can contain so much #GW10Years

The RAS was saddened to hear of the passing of our former President, Professor Mike Cruise, who has died aged 78. "Kind, thoughtful and honourable", Mike was a "stalwart of the RAS". Our thoughts are with his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him. ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

The Trieste gravitational wave group celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first gravitational wave detection, #GW150914, with a public lecture and themed cakes! 🖼️: L Smith 🧵🎂 #GW10Years

Daniel Williams @daniel-williams.co.uk joined our collaboration on 14 September 2015 at the start of his PhD. He shares his perspectives on the last decade and things to come astronomersdiary.substack.com/p/celebratin... #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️ #AcademicSky

It has been a busy first decade for gravitational-wave astronomy Here is to another decade of discoveries! #GW10Years

A decade since I got to update havewedetectedgravitationalwavesyet.com ! #GW10Years

📣 Are you an RAS Fellow or Friend? 📣 We're calling on our members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science, which would be the most drastic in a generation. Send our template letter to your MP and seek their support 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

10 years ago today, we told the world "We have detected gravitational waves. We did it!" Relive the moment we shared our result with the world www.youtube.com/live/aEPIwEJ... #GW10Years #OTD 🔭🧪⚛️ 🎂

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Our next LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA webinar will introduce our latest #GWTC4 detections and discoveries (paper arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082) Register for free wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 12 February at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after 🔭☄️⚛️🧪

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.

🎙️Our ECR open letter now has a sibling: an open letter from advanced fellows!👥📣 ECRs: ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io/index.html Adv. Fellows: advancedfellows-openletter-stfc.github.io/index.html Together, we hope UKRI and the government will hear the many voices across the PPAN community. 🔭🧪📡⚗️

If you are an early-career researcher worried about the threats to funding in Astronomy, nuclear and particle physics, you should consider signing this open letter👇

Thanks to @iansample.bsky.social at the Guardian for covering the devastating funding cuts that are being proposed for UK (astro)physics, and the dire impact these would have on young researchers. Will UKRI/STFC reconsider? Will the UKGov step in?🤞👩‍🔬🧪⚛️🔭 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I, along with many other UKRI, STFC and RS fellows are signing this open letter on the STFC cuts. The proposed reductions will devastate UK astronomy and the researchers who make it possible. Please read, share, and, if a fellow, sign. advancedfellows-openletter-stfc.github.io/index.html #astro

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More on the UKRI/STFC funding squeeze. Significant quote: “It is clear that no UK university will want to open lecturer positions in curiosity-driven research if such lecturers would not be able to attract much national funding." KCL's Lucien Heurtier. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The president of the Royal Astronomical Society urged the government to prevent a “catastrophe” in science. “You lose a whole generation,” he said. “As a nation, we can’t afford for that to happen.” www.theguardian.com/science/2026... 🔭🛰️🧪⚛️🎢

🔊 Calling UK early career researches in astro, particle & nuclear physics. Please sign this open response to the proposed cuts at STFC ⚛️🧪🔭 "Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people" ✍️ ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io

Open letter from Early Career Researchers to the UKRI investment plan. We can't let young people pay the price of "outcome-driven strategies". #stfc #ukri ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io If you are a postdoc or PhD, read and sign! 🧬🔭🔬⚗️🧪📡🛰️

An excellent open-letter enumerating the dangers to early career researchers and then wider society of proposed changes to UK science funding ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io Early-career researchers may like to add their signatures 🧪⚛️🔭 #AcademicSky #UKpol

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"Physics isn't a luxury we can afford to throw away through confusion and cuts." Following our response to STFC's funding reductions yesterday, it's great to see this news covered in @thetimes.com. (1/4) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

An excellent open-letter enumerating the dangers to early career researchers and then wider society of proposed changes to UK science funding ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io Early-career researchers may like to add their signatures 🧪⚛️🔭 #AcademicSky #UKpol

The university funding crisis finally starting to make it into newspaper editorials www.ft.com/content/82f5...

When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support