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Go work at the most beautiful telescope in the world! I’d seriously consider applying myself if I hadn’t just started a fellowship…

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Question to any stellar spectroscopy people on here: when you report that a star is of a particular spectral class based on a template bank, what did you actually do to figure that out?? Is it all just vibes and eyeballing things? Or is there a standard tool that nobody references? 🔭☄️

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Turns out the radio emission and spin-down rates of pulsars aren’t anywhere near as stable as we like to think! And it could even explain the “weirdness” seen in the apparent gravitational-wave background signal!! Results from the Parkes Young Pulsar Timing programme: doi.org/10.1093/mnra... 🔭🧪☄️

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Serious question: why would an ECR apply for a two-year “embedded fellowship” over longer (3-4 year) programs elsewhere? Especially when a good chunk of that second year will be spent hunting for the next job opportunity?

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Join us as we celebrate Professor Matthew Bailes, recipient of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science - The Role of Serendipity in Scientific Discovery! Date: 3rd April | Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Venue: AMDC301, Swinburne University Register Now: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-role-o...

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We are 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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And the pulsar astronomer becomes a radio-imaging astronomer! First time running my own observation with ATCA and making an image from the data 😄 Can you spot the pulsar? #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy

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🌌 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

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Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS as seen on Jan 18 from Bacchus Marsh, Australia! Could easily be seen unaided as a point of light at the head of a pencil-like tail. ☄️🔭

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Very successful comet hunt this evening. C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is EASILY visible to the naked eye about 50 mins after sunset!! Photos to come soon 🔭

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Having been immersed in radio astronomy for so long, I’ve forgotten many of the limitations of optical telescopes. “What do you mean you can’t observe this source in September? Oh right, the Sun…” “What’s wrong with pointing the telescope this close to the horizon? Oh right, the atmosphere…”

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Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) still very obvious in binoculars at mag 1.5. This mornings view Jan 6 18:10 UT with a 318mm f5.8 lens and Olympus em1.2.

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I am looking to hire a PhD student at Swinburne University to study the links between pulsars, magnetars and fast radio bursts! If you or anyone you know may be interested, then please feel free to reach out to me via email. #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy astronomy.swin.edu.au/study/phdpro...

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2024 was peak chaos. Job applications, rejections, heartbreak… But also many exciting discoveries and amazing adventures! Here’s hoping for a much less stressful (but still fun) 2025

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One of the many reasons to love magnetars

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Congrats Manisha Caleb, @elenchically.bsky.social @astromelow.bsky.social and many others 🤩 Great to see this ASKAP discovery being highlighted here ! #radioastronomy #astronomy

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Telescope proposals submitted! Totally didn’t leave the last one until two minutes before the deadline 😅

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

I’ve come to accept that my life is extremely chaotic. And that a good chunk of that is due to my own choices… Anyways, today I decided to move a queen-size mattress and a desk down several flights of stairs. On my own. It was totally fine

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Here is the gravitational wave background mapping paper academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...

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phys.org/news/2024-12...

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#TeamWhiteDwarf

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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

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And people wonder why I refuse to apply for astro jobs in the US…

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What the actual fuck Queensland?? WHY are you so insistent on voting against your own self interests after Labor has been in for a few terms? Do you not like nearly free public transport? Mining royalties? Or the big one: women’s bodily autonomy???? #Auspol

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In case you were wondering why the eclipses have these funny peaks and troughs: www.jb.man.ac.uk/~bretonr/dou... I still remember when my PhD supervisor first showed me that animation. Absolute awe that such a system existed

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And to top off the holiday in New Zealand, I was treated to an amazing display of the Aurora Australis while staying at Lake Taupō!

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Almost feels like a dream that I spent two weeks bouncing between volcanoes dotted around the North Island of New Zealand. And that I actually managed to complete the Tongariro Alpine Crossing!! Definitely need to go back sometime soon…

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