Soheb Mandhai, PhD
@theastrophoenix.bsky.social
Astrophysicist/ Sci-Artist/Start-Up. I love 3D modelling and printing (among other hobbies + puns). Research: GW/EM + Spider Pulsars + Galaxy Dynamics. Happy to talk art, physics, or games! Views are my own. Links: https://linktr.ee/theastrophoenix
Can empty space alter the behaviour of light? Turns out the answer is seemingly yes, if you have a magnetar on hand! Using NASA’s IXPE and NICER telescopes + the CSIRO’s Murriyang radio telescope, we may have finally detected this effect 🔭 🧪 ☄️ Publication in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
As well as the great artwork accompanying the press release by @theastrophoenix.bsky.social, I have to also highlight this animation by Ben Cadell. I think it really nicely shows off how all the data came together to show us this planet in all its glory!
Toby Rodel 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🦕🦖@astrotobe.bsky.social · last mo.Hey it’s me, I’m scientists! phys.org/news/2026-07...
Residents in southern Lebanon’s Tyre and the capital Beirut expressed sharply different reactions on Saturday after an initial framework agreement was signed between Israel and Lebanon following US-mediated talks in Washington.
Yesterday Israel announced that it will never leave the areas in Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank or Syria (Who they haven't been at war with) that they illegally occupy. Western Media didn't even mention it.
This is just the beginning. Join our movement of hope: Join.greenparty.org.uk
Random thought: A shining force 2 remake would be incredible
A Government of lies and u-turns. And a failure to end rip off Britain. In May millions of people have a chance to vote for something better. Hope and a plan.
From October 19-21, this workshop will bring together the most innovative science communicators helping to connect the public with topics in physics and astronomy. Learn more and make your submission by May 15th: events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/2128
Where to find the words anymore? What to say when Israel continues to behave like this? And no condemnation at all from the UK Government. They carry on business as usual as if Israel aren't carrying out genocides in both Gaza and Lebanon. aje.news/jf7llm
At least 254 killed in Israel’s devastating attacks across Lebanon
Israel carries out 100 strikes across Lebanon in 10 minutes, health minister says hospitals overwhelmed with victims.
aje.news
Gaza and Lebanon have been invaded by Israel and are being Ethnically Cleansed and Genocided and all the West does is ignore it or provide lies to cover it up.
What Privatisation has done for you. Most expensive Energy in the world. Dirtest most expensive Water in Europe in England. Slowest most expensive Mail ever. Slowest most expensive Trains in Europe Least number of Hospital beds ever.
A major private healthcare boss paid thousands 💰 towards an MP’s General Election campaign 🚨
Settlers set fire to homes and cars near Jenin amid reports of widespread violence across the occupied territory.
Casualties as Israeli settlers set fire to homes and cars in West Bank
Settlers set fire to homes and cars near Jenin amid reports of widespread violence across the occupied territory.
aljazeera.com
What if I'm the dragonborn and I just don't know it yet?
A joint Eid for the first time in a while. Eid Mubarak, folks!
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 5mo agoEid Mubarak to everyone celebrating.
WHO says it has verified 13 attacks on health sites in Iran reut.rs/4rP5zlx
WHO says it has verified 13 attacks on health sites in Iran
The World Health Organization chief said on Thursday that it has verified 13 attacks on health infrastructure in Iran amid a U.S.-Israeli campaign and it was checking reports that four healthcare workers were killed and 25 others injured.
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Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever. www.wired.com/story/plesti...
When the Internet Goes Dark, the Truth Goes With It
Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever.
wired.com
If I had built my computer two months later, it'd have costed £1000 more... If I had built it it a month earlier, it'd have been around £500 cheaper.
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6mo agoClaims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win. The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong. Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…
In Gorton and Denton, vote for Hannah Spencer & the Greens. There is only one way we will defeat Reform: by working together.
Hello, our names are Zidane (left) and Garnet (right). Our human mom named us after the protagonists of Final Fantasy IX. We’re bonded litter-mates, although our human questions the “bonded” bit. We keep her busy with the song of our peoples, smelly poops, and furry blizzards. Read on for bios!
"Even with such terrible wounds, he still holds to his duty? Fly away, little man. Try to outrun death." I hope we get Sacred Stones remake one day because damn it I LOVE Eirika and Seth and I think they deserve to hog the spotlight a little bit 😌 #fireemblem #sacredstones #fe8
This past year has been an absolute sh*tshow for tech...
This has honestly made my blood boil. F*** Yahoo, F*** every corpo that has downgraded the user experience at each conceivable turn and spun as an "improvement". I've had my email for over 20 years...
Simon Harper@srhdesign.co.uk · 6mo ago🚨 Breaking - May 5th, Yahoo Mail storage sizes change. If you are at your limit on that date, you cannot send or receive emails unless you: - Free up space - Or, add more storage 👀 Yahoo says, "Stay tuned - more details coming soon."
If you're on upscrolled - you can find me under the same tag - theastrophoenix
Feeling nostalgic about a show called UBOS (Ultimate Book of Spells) - does it ring a bell? I miss that art aesthetic (especially in point and click games from the 90s).
Some worrying stuff from UKRI/STFC in terms of funding today. "we will be asking individual projects...how their project would respond to flat cash and reductions of 20%, 40% and 60%, and also identify the funding point at which the project becomes non-viable." 🧪🔭 #academicsky
