benjaminpope.bsky.social
Australian astronomer
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Sydney/Gadi
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"Fajans testified that an electric current consists of the flow and “pressure” of electrons. He also explained that electricity is perceptible to the senses. It can be felt, smelled, tasted, weighed, measured, and stored (as well as seen by certain kinds of fish)."
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I think PASA is pretty high impact tbh but absolutely agree if you're outside Aus/EU/US/UK
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Interesting - I didn't have the impression we would be likely to get waivers at ApJ. That's really good to know!
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Astronomy is in the super favourable position of having all major journals belonging to learned societies. Thus any profits in principle returned to the community.
We were dragged into this by the OA zealots.
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Have a paper submitted there right now!
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Australia too...
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I think it was really suboptimal when MNRAS and PASA adopted this funding model over the last couple of years and argued against it at the time - I hope we can turn things around
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have one submitted to you just in the last week ;)
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How much detail/analysis do we have about the new system?
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Jesus Christ I thought you were doing a bit and I kept scrolling until I saw the quote, struggling to believe this is real
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Whoa... With the new software (so pretty soon) the #ArXiv order will be randomized. No more race to rhe first to submit on a given day!
#astrodon #EAS2025
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The version on YouTube is surprisingly good. youtu.be/DNMPNAUN_Vg?...