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telescoper, 17 days ago to random

Euclid Paper Day!

This morning's arXiv update brought the expected deluge of preprints from Euclid. You can find details of all fifteen of the new articles here. Ten of them relate to the Early Release Observations of which five were announced yesterday and five last November. These are essentially byproducts of the testing and calibration phase of the Euclid mission rather than the main cosmological survey.

http://telescoper.blog/2024/05/24/euclid-paper-day/

telescoper, 17 days ago to random

Fifteen new Euclid papers are now on arXiv, including this one with >1000 authors!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13491

telescoper, 18 days ago to random

No update so far today from arXiv. Did Euclid break it?

JimsPhotos, 21 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

Current letters E or F

JOIN IN friends of the birds:

THREAD: A to Z of birds.

The idea is to create a thread of birds starting with A and ending with Z (if we get that far).

Rules:

1. Common names not Latin names
2. Flexibility with common names (i.e.. American Robin (A) or (R)
3. IMPORTANT: You can post the same letter bird or the next letter forward but not backward.

(Only photographs please of any quality)

use tag #AtoZofBIRDS

#BirdPhotography

telescoper, 22 days ago to random

Bullying and Harassment in Astronomy – The Report

As I advertised a few days ago, The Royal Astronomical Society has now released its report on Bullying and Harassment in Astronomy. You can download the full report (40 pages, PDF) here. I recommend you to read it as the statistics are stark. Here are a couple of graphical summaries from the RAS Website: Note the greater prevalence of bullying and harassment directed towards LGBT astronomers.

http://telescoper.blog/2024/05/19/bullying-and-harassment-in-astronomy-the-report/

telescoper, 25 days ago to random

The Radio and Microwave Sky from Juno

It's always fun when data sets are used for something so different from the purpose originally intended

http://telescoper.blog/2024/05/16/the-radio-and-microwave-sky-from-juno/

mattkenworthy, 25 days ago to Astro

One of this morning’s posts on #arxiv had quite a sobering lede: ☀️☠️ #astrodon

telescoper, 1 month ago to random

Another Day, Another Predator…

It's been a while since I reported on a couple of encounters with predatory publishers so I thought I'd do another post in the same vein. Just this morning I received an email: Our of curiosity I had a look at the website for UK Zhende Publishing. Imagine my lack of surprise when I found out it was down! The company is however registered at…

http://telescoper.blog/2024/05/09/another-day-another-predator/

telescoper, 1 month ago to random

I find myself wondering if the Flatiron Institute has a Press Office?

Geddit?

telescoper, 1 month ago to random

I'm almost finished writing up this physics calculation for a paper. All that's left to do is dotting the q's and crossing the h's...

telescoper, 1 month ago to random

Why you and your institutions should leave X/Twitter

Some time ago I wrote a post asking why universities are still using X, the social media platform that used to be called Twitter. In the same vein I thought I would repost the article below, which I saw this morning.

http://telescoper.blog/2024/04/21/why-you-and-your-institutions-should-leave-x-twitter/

kcarruthers, 1 month ago to random

Why do the Tories hate young folks? UK rejects EU free movement for young people offer

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68848046

telescoper, 1 month ago to random

This, from last year, is even more relevant today.

https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

telescoper, 2 months ago to random

Very sad to hear the sad news that Peter Higgs has passed away...

#RIPPeterHiggs

https://bsky.app/profile/astroroyalscot.bsky.social/post/3kppkzxg6oh2o

telescoper, 2 months ago to random

All these #Eclipse photographs just look like ordinary clouds to me.

telescoper, 2 months ago to random

DESI Year 1 Results: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

There has been a lot of excitement around the ICCUB today - the press have been here and everything - ahead of the release of the Year 1 results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The press release from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California can be found here. The papers were just released at 5pm CEST and can be found…

http://telescoper.blog/2024/04/04/desi-year-1-results-baryon-acoustic-oscillations/

telescoper, 2 months ago to random

Lots of excitement around here (in Barcelona) because new cosmological results from #DESI are coming out this afternoon. The press are here and everything. I'm told the papers will magically appear at 5pm CEST here:

https://data.desi.lbl.gov/doc/papers/

telescoper, 2 months ago to random

That Exciting New Black Hole Picture!

At a press conference earlier today, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope revealed an exciting new picture of the environs of Sgr A* the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way that shows structures associated with a powerful magnetic field: New Old You can see immediately the enormous advantage of using a paintbrush (left) rather than a crayon (right) to make such images. For more details, see the press release here.

http://telescoper.blog/2024/03/27/that-exciting-new-black-hole-picture/

Wikisteff, 2 months ago to random

For the adverbs, massive significance levels for "meticulously", "methodically", "compellingly", "impressively", and "strategically"; alongside a significant decline in "reportedly", "excellently", and "undoubtedly".

telescoper, 2 months ago to random

Updated on Euclid's de-icing...

https://telescoper.blog/2024/03/25/euclid-on-ice/

telescoper, 2 months ago to random

Is an American bisexual a thousand times smaller than a British bisexual?