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arisd.bsky.social

Antikythera Mechanism researcher. PhD student at UCL. Teacher of Physics and Astronomy.

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🔭 APOD is 30 Years Old Today Image Credit: Pixelization of Van Gogh's The Starry Night by Dario Giannobile apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Hello #Oxford - if you're around on Monday you're all invited to come and celebrate the first images from the @vrubinobs.bsky.social. We're running a free event at 6pm in Oxford Physics: www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/vera-...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

'The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers.' Maybe the policy of 'turbocharging' AI everywhere & all the time needs thought?

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

submitted 16 days ago • 293 comments

Some personal thoughts on the recent death of the historian of science, Mario Biagioli #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/m...

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submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Picked up another good one!

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Arrived! Looking forward to reading this. All I’ve got to is Dava Sobel’s book and the fondly remembered Michael Gambon and Jeremy Irons Longitude TV drama #histsci #histastro #histastronomy

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

submitted 68 days ago • 524 comments

Possibly the weirdest planet yet discovered? Newfound world 2M1510 (AB) b appears to orbit not one but two stars...and they are actually failed stars, known as brown dwarfs...and the planet orbits sideways, in a unique up-and-down polar orbit. 🧪🔭 www.eso.org/public/news/...

submitted 71 days ago • 16 comments

A phrase which might help with sixth formers remembering how to answer the question of why something is a wave: “something does what it does, not because it is what it is, but it is what it is, because it does what it does”. empiricist undertones in A-level wave-particle duality #iteachphysics

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Rosetta Earth Flyby #3, Outbound - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/cevFv1

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

If you missed Derek Muller's @perimeterinstitute.ca public talk last night about AI and the future of education, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/live/PYeBGyX... It was a really great discussion of how we learn and what effect AI (and other technologies) can have on that.

submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

Nothing else on this list was a self-imposed policy choice.

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

🔭 Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25040...

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

"Preventing the addition of new debris is no longer sufficient. We must now actively clean up the space environment to halt the onset of a chain reaction that could render heavily utilised regions unusable. Immediate and decisive action is necessary." Read the ESA Space Environment Report 2025 👇

submitted 86 days ago • 52 comments

Gorgeous weather today for the RMS for Girls solar eclipse event! 200+ attendees enjoyed views of the Sun from three solar telescopes using HA filters. Many smiles all around and happy students on the Garth. Onwards and upwards! #girlsinstem #girlsinastronomy #solareclipse #iteachphysics

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Dark Matter and Dark Energy have been staples in secondary school textbooks for maybe 20years now. The scientific method of “when the theory can’t explain new data we change or abandon the theory” is also a staple in textbooks. The kids are watching. Some of them, anyway. Will scientists behave?

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

🧑‍🔬🔭 Research news! 🧑‍🔬🔭 A new paper published in #MNRAS suggests that at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova explosions. ⤵️

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Our latest research paper published today on a type of biodegradable plastics called PAC plastics. We did field trials in Dorset and found they did not biodegrade. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Fellow Physics/Astronomy folk - need help tracking down a person whose details I’ve misplaced, who was at the SPEED IOP Physics workshop in Cambridge in 2019, who brought an inflatable planetarium dome and projector. @hookean.bsky.social @allyphysics.bsky.social

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

🔭 Driveway Analemma Video Credit & Copyright: Nick Wright apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

submitted 205 days ago • 2 comments

Aristotle's crystalline spheres, their destruction and the consequences for the development of celestial mechanics #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/f...

submitted 204 days ago • 2 comments

Listened to #BBC4 #inourtime on the AKM last Thursday. Same old narrative about it being “for the mantlepiece” or for “instruction”. As always, the AKM is introduced as an analog computer and everyone then forgets that it was one, just because its planetary predictions were not very good, 1/3

submitted 222 days ago • 1 comment