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people do have some opinions on a variety of topics don't they
A handy searchable map that tells you whether your eclipse vantage point tomorrow will already be eclipsed by buildings shademap.app/@51.50738,-0...
This is the third separate fire I have seen reported as being of this very specific size. Is it the official threshold for being newsworthy?
We are hiring! Faculty positions in observational and computational group (one each). aas.org/jobregister/...
Assistant or Associate Professor in Observational Astronomy | American Astronomical Society
The Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA), part of Durham University Department of Physics, invites applications for a permanent faculty member at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor.
aas.org
I'm finding it hard to keep up with the Bagpuss extended universe
James Heale@jaheale.bsky.social · 3mo agoLord Leong is DBT PUSS Lord Lemos is MHCLG PUSS Lord Collins is Parliamentary Secretary. Baroness Ramsey is a Whip Baroness Curran is a Whip
New paper out on the arxiv today. arxiv.org/abs/2605.21588 Here's figure 1, showing the ERIS fields we observed in NGC5128 as an example (mostly) old population, and NGC5102, a post-starburst galaxy.
Spent too long today trying to figure out the weird sky lines in some WEAVE spectra
Still some imperfections with this but I've updated my local elections explorer to have (a) all county level wards, (b) bloc politics as an option, (c) more demographics, and (d) ability to control for other variables on the scatterplot. And the new URL is below. 1/n benwansell.github.io/le2026/
Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 4mo agoI know the local elections were seven hundred years ago in Labour-time but I thought I'd share a little app I made that lets you look at the English ward results on a map and compared to various Census demographics. Warning the map takes a while to load. 1/n benwansell.github.io/local-electi...
Did the compass survey thing. Apparently there's a chance that I might not be American.
As an astronomer, I notice that people are generally formed with early-type names, like Josh or Ellie. As they evolve into late-type people, they develop new names like Christine or Stephen.
On the other hand, good to be mentally prepared for meeting the astronomical magnitude system.
Gavin Jackson@gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhenever I hear that students should expect to be offended at university I always think of like an accountancy student. “And now we’ve finished the cash flow statement onto the next section of the course: MEIN KAMPF!!!”
Since everyone seems to be posting their Sunday walk pictures today
