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astroeric.bsky.social
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dachshund dad, bass guitarist, linguist, astronomer, video and TTRPG gamer. Old enough to order off the senior menu, keep forgetting to do so. 🤦‍♂️ He/Him
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Australia’s National Science Agency is looking for an Observatory Manager to lead the team at Parkes Observatory. Yes, come work at Murriyang, otherwise known as The Dish. #radioastronomy jobs.csiro.au/job/Parkes%2...

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I’ll share some highlights from the Silk Roads exhibition (British Museum) first something exquisite from County #Cork #Ireland #medievalsky

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We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!

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From Ansh Gupta: There are monstrous black holes in the centers of most galaxies. Today’s bite dissects one of them and questions how it could have grown so quickly. 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/02/22/b...

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What Was Student Life Like in a Medieval University? https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/what-was-student-life-like-in-a-medieval-university/ #History

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Hey American astronomers! Did you know you can apply for European Research Council grants while in the US and, were to bring an ERC to University College Cork, you would *automatically* get a permanent position!? ERC starting grants (2-7 yrs post PhD) are €1.5M for 4 yrs with. ~10% success rate! 🔭

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we're organizing to help folks in astronomy + planetary sciences who've lost their jobs without warning, or have important initiatives that suddenly lost funding, due to the recent executive orders. please share with your networks!! #extragalactic #exoplanets #astronomy #cosmology

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Listen to the #BepiColombo spacecraft as it flew past #Mercury on 8 January 2025. This sixth and final flyby used the little planet's gravity to steer the spacecraft on course for entering orbit around Mercury in 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6i...

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⚠️⚠️⚠️ Only one week left to apply for the two postdoc positions I am currently advertising. DL 28 February.

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This is the first full NIRCam field for the HEFE large program on JWST. It’s part of a region of active star formation north of the Orion Nebula, near the top of Orion’s sword.

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Brag moment- we just secured a grant to host the first-ever Oregon Astronomy Research Symposium (OARS)!!! For the first time ever, all self-identifying astronomers in the state of Oregon will come together at UO to share research, network, and forge new collaborations. Can't wait! 🔭🧪🎢

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The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the largest restitution to date of Benin artifacts looted by the British military in 1897.

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Check out the KITP research programs for 2025-26, developed by working with our Advisory Board and the international physics community. View 2025-2026 programs and apply at: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/programs

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If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are. In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.

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If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

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My latest Substack post on connections between the Lower Germanic limes and Roman Britain, inspired by a recent archaeological find just outside Utrecht

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Ever wonder how gravitational wave detectors like LISA would hear the signal of binary black holes orbiting around a supermassive black hole? 🔭 Well check out my first 1st author paper investigating that very topic, live on the arXiv today! 🔥📄 arxiv.org/abs/2502.10591 Explainer in 🧵👇 1/10

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Some of the most stunning images coming from the NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope, a post shared by popular demand. Do let us know in the comments 👇 what else you'd like to see in here, regardless of ESA space mission. 🔭 #astronomy #space

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Nicolaus Copernicus was born #OnThisDay in 1473. His work marked the start of the Copernican Revolution and the paradigm shift from a geocentric model of the cosmos, with the Earth at the centre, to a heliocentric model with the planets orbiting the Sun. #HistoryOfScience

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From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how JWST reveals a surprising dust curve in a distant galaxy, challenging what we know about cosmic dust! 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/02/18/a...

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Metal detectorists unearth 15th Century coin hoard. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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