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Last week we installed a camera to monitor the northern sky. It didn't have long to wait to capture a brief but intense show of red #AuroraBorealis this morning.
#aurora #northernlights
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Whoa - Shaw was only 48 in Jaws?
Actor and writer Robert Shaw passed away #onthisday in 1978, just three years after his iconic performance as Quint in Steven Spielberg's #JAWS. He was just 51 years old.
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Probably the best "slow fuse" paper I've discovered yet. This is the citation history for Fritz Zwicky's 1937 paper on the possibility of dark matter in the Coma cluster of galaxies. It really didn't get going until the '90s:
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Large language models may enable real-time communication with extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vast distances between stars. We need to start thinking about what to tell them about us | Opinion trib.al/lUc2leA
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Put the tent up in the garden. Cats immediately commandeer the roof as their personal hammock.
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Jim Geach retweeted
Sam Altman has an OpEd in today's Washington Post: "Who will control the future of AI?". He frames the future of AI as an urgent competition between the US / West and "nations or movements that don’t share our values".
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Check out our new work led by Jianhang Chen: pushing the detection of ordered galactic B-fields back to z=5.6 in SPT0346-52! arxiv.org/abs/2407.14596 with @Enloro et al.
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Jim Geach retweeted
More @I_Hert_Space stars: @AstronomerEmma giving her plenary talk about all the exciting JADES results
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Professor Chiaki Kobayashi of the @UniofHerts is presented with the 2024 George Darwin Lectureship.
She is an internationally recognised leader in the field of chemical evolution of galaxies, and a pioneer in the study of the origin of the elements.
Congratulations!
ALT Professor Chiaki Kobayashi.
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Amazing what you find in an astro department deep clear out. 30-year-old dot matrix printout of the Starlink kappa package bug fix anyone?
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I put the Solvay Conference through Luma Dream Machine. The results weren't exactly what I was expecting.
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Anyone have a penchant for vintage >40 year old Sky & Telescope magazines? This one predates me by one month. @SkyandTelescope @chrislintott
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We are currently recruiting for 4 new Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Maths to support our Data Science teaching: jobs.herts.ac.uk/go/060255
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