What an honour it was to conduct this interview. An experience, nay, a highlight that I will never forget! Sitting down, one-on-one with Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell. We spoke about pulsars, history, and ongoing equity in academia. I hope you enjoy it as much as I will cherish it. 🔭🧪📡

Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a most amazing and inspiring woman. And she has such great stories to tell! "Her story is not just about pulsars, it's about resilience in the face of bias, of generosity in sharing recognition, and of a vision to build a more inclusive scientific community." 🔭📡

One of astronomy's most inspiring figures, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was in Sydney this week. @cosmicrami.com sat down for an interview with her, discussing the impact of her discovery and community advocacy legacy. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte... #SpaceAustralia 📸 Uni. of Cambridge

But is PSR J1713+0747 the only millisecond pulsar with profile variability? And what are the implications of this for high-precision timing experiments, such as searching for gravitational waves? Read @cosmicrami.com article: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/puls... #SpaceAustralia 📸 D. Champion 🔭🧪

The results of a four-year analysis on PSR J1713+0747 have indicated that the millisecond pulsar underwent a significant profile change event, whose origin can be traced to the magnetosphere of the star - with massive disruptions to the polarisation. #SpaceAustralia 📸 @cosmicrami.com 🔭🧪📡

"Millisecond pulsars, whilst remarkably stable, may not be the perfect timekeepers we once thought they were" New research by @cosmicrami.com outlines how a pulsar throwing a tantrum could impact precision timing experiments. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/puls... #SpaceAustralia 📸 NASA SVS 🔭🧪

"Millisecond pulsars, whilst remarkably stable, may not be the perfect timekeepers we once thought they were" New research by @cosmicrami.com outlines how a pulsar throwing a tantrum could impact precision timing experiments. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/puls... #SpaceAustralia 📸 NASA SVS 🔭🧪

And a big thank you to @astrokatie.com for a mammoth effort across so many events! Thank you to our excellent partners too: @sydneyideas.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @ozgrav.bsky.social @darkmatteraus.bsky.social @queersinscience.bsky.social @wheelercentre.bsky.social, Macquarie Uni, Swinburne Uni!

I had a wonderful time in Australia! Massive thanks to Chris Stewart and the @sydney.edu.au International Science School for bringing me over and to @cosmicrami.com and @spaceaustralia.com for arranging all my other talks and events! 🙏🏼

And also for #Melbourne folks — there is also tickets available for this event on Wednesday evening!

We joined @astrokatie.com of @perimeterinstitute.ca and @spaceaustralia.com's Rami Mandow at the Stawell Underground Physics Lab today. Dr Mack was involved with the lab when it was no more than a big idea. Now, it is a state-of-the-art facility soon to host the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment.🧪

We're excited for tonight's @sydneyideas.bsky.social talk with @astrokatie.com (and hosted by @taramurphy.bsky.social) at Sydney Uni! The event has sold out! Folks in #Melbourne - events next week are also selling fast, so get tickets. More info: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/dr-kati... 🧵 👇

Folks in #Sydney, interested in #ScienceCommunication and near Macquarie Uni. - there's a fun SciComm panel tomorrow at lunch feat. @astrokatie.com, @cosmicrami.com, Dr Paige Erpf & Prof. Ronika Power discussing why translating science matters. [Free event] mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

And on the 17th July, we also have this #QueersInScience event in #Melbourne as well, that you should come along to on evening of 17 July. Also free and there will be hot snacks!

Aussie folks! If you're in #Melbourne on afternoon of 15 July, come along to this FREE event on #ScienceCommunication! I'll be joining this powerhouse panel of science communicators!

Look who's coming to #Sydney & #Melbourne! We're thrilled to be working with Australian institutions to host @astrokatie.com at events in both cities in July 2025. All event dates, times and tickets here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/dr-kati... Individual events listed in thread below 🧵👇 1/6

This new study, from Dylan Grigg at Curtin University, is not the first to study the impacts of Starlink on #RadioAstronomy, but is the largest of its kind and quantifies how this type of radio frequency interference - that comes from above - will impact the mega-science SKA project. 📸 DISR 📡🔭

Radio frequency interference from Starlink not only spans the narrowband intended emissions but also broadband unintended emissions, coming from propulsion and avionics. This RFI is unregulated and affects key science goals. Starlink can appear in ~30% of all sky images. 📸 Grigg et al. 2025 📡🔭

An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy 📡 Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from @icrar.bsky.social has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands. @cosmicrami.com writes about this new study. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emergin... 📸 Astro_Work 🔭 #SpaceAustralia

An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy 📡 Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from @icrar.bsky.social has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands. @cosmicrami.com writes about this new study. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emergin... 📸 Astro_Work 🔭 #SpaceAustralia

Tiny beginnings. Catastrophic endings. One unforgettable night. Public Lecture featuring Dr Katie Mack @astrokatie.com 📅 Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2025 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM 📍 Venue: AMDC301, Swinburne University 🎟️ Tickets: $15 Link to register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/public-lec... @spaceaustralia.com

EOIs are open for the CSIRO Industry PhD Program (iPhD)! iPhD is a four-year research training program, focusing on applied research that benefits industry by solving real-world challenges. See the available ANU-CSIRO science and medical research projects here: science.anu.edu.au/study/resear...

Fascinante découverte d'une "source transitoire à période longue" qui émet à la fois des impulsions radio et des rayons X, de manière parfaitement coordonnées. Leur nature fait encore débat : étoile à neutron hypermagnétisée ou naine blanche dans un système binaire. Plus d'informations ci-dessous👇

This is such a neat result ... seeing both X-rays and radio waves in phase tells us the emission processes might be linked. Throw in some polarization, and you got a magnetic field. Slowly, the clues are starting to be uncovered. New type of object? New physics? Time will tell!

RADIO + X-RAYS FROM THIS NEW LONG-PERIOD TRANSIENT! But .... we still don't know what they are! A true space mystery is brewing!

A multiwavelength glimpse at a space oddity! Astronomers from @icrar.bsky.social have led a global team to reveal new insights into the growing population of Long-Period Transients. Check out the article from @cosmicrami.com here: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aska... #SpaceAustralia 📸 ICRAR

In fact, here's the first! If you're in #Sydney on 10 July, come @astrokatie.com's big Sydney Ideas talk at @sydney.edu.au on the 'End of Everything', hosted by @taramurphy.bsky.social This is a free event but essential to get registrations. Don't miss out + watch this space for more! 3/3 🔭

This includes working with all these excellent partners: - Intl. Science School - @spaceaustralia.com - @sydney.edu.au - @ozgrav.bsky.social - ARC CoE Dark Matter - Swinburne Uni. - Wheeler Centre - @queersinscience.bsky.social Keep an eye out for event pages and ticket links! 2/3 🔭

Yo, #Sydney and #Melbourne! Some exciting news! Over last few months have been planning an excellent #SciComm event for our cities. We're hosting @astrokatie.com here in Oz for two weeks to talk about 'The End of Everything!' and more fun science. Got a fantastic program planned for you! 1/3 🔭

The ionosphere is cool. But you know what is cooler? Well, we can use smartphones to measure the temporal and spatial variations in our ionosphere caused by solar activity. Made a little vid for @spaceaustralia.com Read the article here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm... #SpaceAustralia 🔭☄️

Unos investigadores han encontrado un método para investigar la ionosfera terrestre mediante la señal GPS de nuestros móviles

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Researchers have found a way to measure Earth's dynamic ionosphere using smartphones, with GPS signals offering insights into this turbulent region of our atmosphere. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm... by @cosmicrami.com 📸 Kast, Smith, Google Research Software Engineers #SpaceAustralia

This has been years in the making, and its good to see this come to the pointy end now. @spaceaustralia.com has covered Gilmour heaps! But I'll also stress we should be thinking about our soverign launch strategy, implications with defence/civilian/science. www.spaceaustralia.com/search?searc...

Australia is gearing up for our first Aussie-designed and built orbital-class vehicle to be launched from Abbott Point (QLD) around March this year. @planet4589.bsky.social - we've got another port opening up soon to catalogue! www.innovationaus.com/green-is-for...

🌌 Ever wondered how tiny particles like neutrinos & neutron stars shape the universe? Join us on 21 Feb at 5:30 pm for Tiny yet impactful clues to unlocking cosmic mysteries with PhD students Pratyasha & Nimas. Free event! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/tiny-yet-i... 🔭 #SpaceScience #OzGrav

First day back at work, time for a flashback... Check out this video for the School of Physics (@sydneyuni.bsky.social) from 1977, the year I was born...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg61... "They often use large computers to check their theories..." ⚛️ #physics #astronomy ⚛️

while doing research for an upcoming piece i found this fun little explainer article i wrote a couple years back for @spaceaustralia.com 📡🔭🧪 spaceaustralia.com/news/science...

A nice article on Europa Clipper and its exploration context! @helen-e-mc.bsky.social

What could these objects be? Astronomers have started looking at other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to try and learn more about the 'Long-Period Transients'. Article now updated to also feature quotes from Dr. Ziteng Wang (+ @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social ) @icrar.bsky.social

An emerging class of objects in #RadioAstronomy, mostly discovered in the last few years, still can't be explained. Two new multi-wavelength studies might have answers. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mult... by @cosmicrami.com #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 📸 @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social /MWA/Curtin/ICRAR

ICYMI here's the video version of our podcast with @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social about the science of pulsar timing arrays and gravitational wave astronomy 📡🧪🌊🔭⚛️ youtu.be/s-gmfKHhucg?...

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MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array team has announced evidence for the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB)! @cosmicrami.com had a chat with lead author @astromattmiles.bsky.social from @ozgrav.bsky.social www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mpta... 📸 C. Knox/Swinburne/OzGrav/SARAO #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 1/3

By cosmic coincidence, there's a system of two neutron stars that are both pulsars and just by chance, they both shine in Earth's direction. It's the ONLY one of these systems we know about so far. When the beam of one goes through the magnetic field of the other, we can study its magnetosphere! 🔭

1 in 100 billion! The double pulsar system, where both pulsar beams point at us, offers astronomers a unique chance to study extreme astrophysics. @cosmicrami.com chatted with @astromelow.bsky.social on his new paper. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/unve... #SpaceAustralia 🔭📡🧪 📸M. Kramer/MPIfR

Another favourite of mine is this piece I wrote for @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social on evidence for past #galactic mergers: spaceaustralia.com/index.php/ne...

Hello BSky 👋, I’ve come back. Have started to write a bit more too - latest piece here 😎

ooooooh boy. This is big news that has thrown a spanner in the works for the Australian Space Industry. The Aust. Govt. has cancelled a $3B contract with Lockheed Martin on the JP1902 sovereign SatCom project. @rocketwoman.bsky.social covered it extensively for @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social here 👇

Early-career astronomers! Looking for a postdoc, want to come to New Zealand? The Elaine P. Snowden Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open. Applicants welcomed from any area of astronomy 🔭🧪🛰️🇳🇿