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Honoured and excited to have been elected President of the Society for Popular Astronomy this afternoon, taking over from the wonderful Prof Lucie Green! The SPA is the UK's leading entry-level astronomical society, find out more at www.popastro.com

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Watching astronauts Suni Williams and Nick Hague work on repairs of our baby, X-Ray 🔭 NICER!! streaming live from space: www.youtube.com/live/RYPk8fz... 🧪

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I talked about SaxaVord and UK vertical launches and the possibility of the first launch happening this year on the radio yesterday and then this news comes out today! It feels like there's so much happening in the space sector right now, it's hard to keep up!

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ICYMI … the NRAO is on The Sky! [radio astronomy is slowly taking over the socials and this is the future envisioned dot tumblr]

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I had a blast talking to Chris Jarvis (of Cbeebies fame!) on BBC Radio Solent this morning about lots of exciting things that are happening in space this year. Putting this photo out there for when they get us to do the next series of Cbeebies Stargazing together 😉

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At the BBC Radio Solent studio this morning to talk about space in 2025. Think I'm on around 11.10, UK peeps should be able to listen online!

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Spending a bit of time reading up on highly protected marine areas and I think this is another entry to "things I never thought would form part of my future job when I did a PhD in astrophysics"

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A proper daytime moon spotted on today's lunchtime dog walk 🤩

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The perfect ceiling lampshade doesn't exi-

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Cold nights = clear skies! Driving to get the kids and spotted a gorgeous crescent moon with an incredibly bright Venus nearby, then Jupiter above Orion who's just peeking up over the horizon.

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My aurorawatch notifications have been pinging this afternoon - completely cloudy here (and possibly too far south) but if you're in the north and have clear skies it might be worth keeping an eye out!

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When your kid has a different bedroom setup since last year and you suddenly realise you have nowhere to hang the stocking - it's an Institute of Physics lanyard to the rescue!

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And that's me done with work for 2024! It's been quite the year - a challenging time for the UK higher education sector with redundancies and cost saving measures all over the place, but also a brilliant year personally for me as I grew my team and won grants to do exciting projects...

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Last week of work and everyone seemed to get their toys out! A mini Mars rover and a work in progress from @trayford.bsky.social

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I love the work that my colleague @trayford.bsky.social is doing with the sonification of astronomical data! Truly groundbreaking stuff. You can read more about it in the blog post he links in his post.

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OK friends, can someone please tell me how to say in an email when I'm free so people actually understand me?? I say I'm free apart from 2-3pm, they send me an invite for 2pm. I say I'm free 9-11am or 12-5pm they ask to meet at 11am. I give up!

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Co-presented our internal seminar on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion yesterday & it dredged up a memory of the time I was in the pub during my PhD and our visiting colloquium speaker (a senior academic) became convinced I was Latina and wouldn't let it go as if I didn't know my own heritage 🙃

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It's the 30th November which means it's time to refill the most excellent advent calendar that has ever existed! 🚀

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I had no idea about this - just up the road from where I am in Winchester! Will have to go see it next time we're in Andover!

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Spending the morning in a school with a bunch of 9/10 year olds talking about space is one of my all-time favourite things to do. Questions today included "what happened before the Big Bang?" "how can birds fly if gravity is pulling them down?" and "how many stars are there in space?" 🤩

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It's blooming cold out there but at least it means breathtaking views of the night sky! I had my first glimpse of the season of Orion last night when I popped outside before bed, and now Mars is looking lovely and red out of the back door while I make breakfast!

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Another day, another beautiful daytime moon to keep me company while I wait for my car tyres to be changed before work!

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I moved into my own office at work recently (from a shared one) and have slowly been making it feel like mine. Finally got this poster to stay up today after many attempts (rumour has it these are sound proofing rather than pin boards) - what do we think are the chances it'll still be up on Monday??

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We've got a little gang of ICG-ers on here now - all gathered together here if anyone wants to give my lovely colleagues a follow!

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@bot.astronomy.blue signup

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If you've followed me on other platforms you'll know I'm a big fan of a daytime moon and this mornings's was a particularly nice one!

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My three year old asked for "all the books about space" at bedtime tonight and I feel like his indoctrination has finally commenced...

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Welp, I hit 1000 followers at some point overnight! That's a lot of you! I should probably think of something interesting to say...

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Just off BBC Radio Scotland, talking about 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿ScotRail's decision to sign up to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet for all their Highland trains. I think I rather upset presenter Kaye Adams with this story of space junk falling from the sky...😬🔭 ℹ️: www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...

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Not gonna lie, I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed in here at the moment with the rate of new follows and figuring out a new platform. If I followed you in the other place and am yet to do so here please give me a shout!

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The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012

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