Rebecca McElroy
@breaky.bsky.social
🇦🇺🏴🏳️🌈 Astrophysicist, artist, cat mum Research Fellow @ University of Southern Queensland Web: rebeccamcelroy.github.io Art: instagram.com/paintingbybex Buy my designs: paintingbybex.redbubble.com she/her 🌈
cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas
Had a wonderful time talking about supermassive black holes and the Vera Rubin Observatory at Pint of Science in Sydney last night! 🔭 @vrubinobs.bsky.social @unisq.bsky.social @pintofscienceau.bsky.social @pintsworld.bsky.social #PintofScience #sydney
Do you like science? Do you like pubs? Well you are in luck! I am giving a talk on supermassive black holes and their dramatic lives in Randwick at the Coach & Horses Hotel on the 20th of May. Tickets below 🔭 pintofscience.com.au/event/pint-o...
Pint of Science @ Coach & Horses Hotel, Randwick | 20 May
Pint of Science returns to Sydney, bringing scientists ready to share their latest discoveries and ideas in pubs across the city. Come along for a casual e…
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My student is doing a space event tonight in Manly, go along if you can! 🔭 #sydney
Space Talk
Join us for a journey into outer space with astronomer SpaceJosh20.
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Redirecting funding from basic science to applied science isn't just wrong because you need to start with basics - because products are assembled out of *many* ideas. It's like asking farmers to pivot from making tomatoes, cheese, grains, mushrooms, herbs, and focus on making pizzas.
We are looking for two new PhD students to join our group at the University of Southern Queensland to work on exoplanet demographics and atmospheres. See AAS ad below. aas.org/jobregister/...
PhD Positions in Exoplanets | American Astronomical Society
The Exoplanet group at University of Southern Queensland Centre for Astrophysics is inviting candidates for two fully funded PhD scholarships (3 years).
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Check out this fun gif of Artemis on its trip to the Moon! @unisq.bsky.social 🔭
George Zhou@georgezhouastro.bsky.social · 4mo agoArtemis II from our 0.8m at Mt Kent, more than half way to the moon. To track it we are pointing fairly close to the nearly full moon - reminds me of that scene in The Dish #artemis
Want to come see me talk about supermassive black holes? Grab a ticket to @pintofscienceau.bsky.social on the 20th of May at the Coach & Horses in Randwick. @unisq.bsky.social 🔭 👩🔬
Pint of Science @ Coach & Horses Hotel, Randwick | 20 May
Pint of Science returns to Sydney, bringing scientists ready to share their latest discoveries and ideas in pubs across the city. Come along for a casual e…
pintofscience.com.au
Got to talk to Channel 10 today about the NASA press release! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR1t...
NASA’s Moon Colony Plans Spark Space Pregnancy Debate | 10 News+
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We were lucky to get a break in the clouds to see most of the lunar eclipse! My photos are very blurry - but look at this gorgeous shot from UniSQ's Mt Kent Observatory 🔭 @unisq.bsky.social #eclipse
Perhaps if the Herzog protesters had turned up dressed as Nazis the cops would have left them alone
Pushing and injuring a prominent MP who clearly identifies herself as such and who is filming peacefully is the sort of thing you can only do if you expect impunity
Muslim organisations and civil liberties groups have slammed NSW Premier Chris Minns after NSW Police threw punches, used pepper spray, charged into pro-Palestine protesters and forcibly broke up a Muslim prayer group outside Sydney Town Hall yesterday. www.deepcutnews.com/p/unfathomab...
'Unfathomable state violence': NSW Police set upon Muslim prayer group, protesters at Sydney rally
Muslim groups decry 'shocking abuse' of peaceful worshippers
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The Town Hall Police Riot needs charges laid against cops who attacked protesters and resignations at the top. A total disaster for social cohesion
There continues to be a lot of conversation on how astronomers and researchers must “deal” with the existing and incoming pollution caused by satellite constellations. But I want to see this reframed into asking: “Why do these companies need this many satellites in orbit?”
Alejandro S. Borlaff@asborlaff.bsky.social · 8mo agoBy 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations. Read our new NASA article in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…
Every wondered how we know that supermassive black holes are so supermassive? Well one trick is to watch how light echoes around them, using "reverberations" to map how big they are. In my latest paper I close out the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) to measure the masses of hundreds of SMBH.
Genuinely I don't understand why this government is trying to dismantle science locally when it's at its most vulnerable point globally. Like, what on earth are they trying to achieve. What's the endgame here. What's the constituency for just vandalizing expensively built societal infrastructure
I was very excited to receive a 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 at last night's Queensland Women in STEM awards at the Queensland Museum. Congratulations to all the other award winners and finalists, it was a privilege to be recognised among such an incredible group of leaders in science!
Very excited to be a finalist for the Queensland Museum’s Women in STEM prize, and very honoured to be named alongside such amazing women (like the fabulous @alicetwomey.bsky.social) 👩🔬🔭
Check out these fun stickers I made for the Centre for Astrophysics and iLAuNCH! Both are drawings of University of Southern Queensland's Mt Kent Observatory (Queensland's only professional observatory!). p.s. if you want a sticker I have a stash with me, and in the Astro lounge on campus 🤫
Come and see @unisq.bsky.social astronomers talk and do some Space Trivia at Bribie Island RSL at 11am on Saturday! www.facebook.com/share/1arBCH... @astroshishir.bsky.social @elocinimages.bsky.social
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Lovely to see my art out in the world! I made this fun logo for the Stellar and Planetary Research in Greater Sydney (@sprigs.au) group. How many subfields can you spot in the flowers?
It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week.
Super happy about this paper today led by the brilliant @astroshashank.bsky.social - equations and information theory about what an interferometer really encodes about a stellar surface.
Shashank Dholakia@astroshashank.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry? This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433
My fabulous student, @elocinimages.bsky.social, is organising Space Bar - an astronomy night on Bribie Island, hosted at the RSL. Come along to hear from @unisq.bsky.social astronomers, do some space trivia, and maybe win a prize ✨
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
Gaza Sumud flotilla: How Israel breaks international maritime law
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
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