#ScienceOnThisDay In 1877, Thomas Edison coined the telephone greeting “Hello.” He suggested the use of “Hello” to the president of the Telegraph Company to answer the phone instead of “Ahoy, ahoy” suggested by Alexander Bell.

We welcomed The One Show to our Acre Road Observatory last night to watch the solar eclipse with us. Dr Iain Hannah from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social spoke to presenter Jennifer Reoch about the science behind the historic event. Watch the programme for yourself on iPlayer here: lnkd.in/e9HYYGZB

Did you catch the eclipse today? 📸 Whether it was full totality or just a sliver of shadow, we want to see it. Share your photos and impressions with #EuropeanSolarEclipse 👇 🔭🧪 ☀️

Is this an artificial solar eclipse? 😵 Yes, this 2025 image is from Proba-3, the world's first precision formation flying mission 👉 esa.int/proba3 Two spacecraft recreate a solar eclipse in space, every 19.6-hour orbit. That's eclipses on demand!  #EuropeanSolarEclipse 🔭

A quote to mark the day. This ground level view of the Nagasaki bomb, taken from 5 miles away by Hiromichi Matsuda, always feels to me to be almost unbearably sinister. #Nagasaki81

Alex Wellerstein@wellerstein.bsky.social · last wk.

81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and wildfires are now reaching them more regularly.

Europe’s wildfires have raised the danger posed by unexploded WWII bombs

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and wildfires are now reaching them more regularly.

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Dr Ana Da Silva Felipe and @drtoniho.bsky.social of @cvrinfo.bsky.social will lead Glasgow's contribution to the international DETECTIVE consortium to improve the early detection of emerging viral threats and strengthen future pandemic preparedness. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

UofG helps secure €4.4 million EU funding to train the next generation of viral experts

The MRC-University of Glasgow’s Centre for Virus Research (CVR) is playing a leading role in a major new European doctoral training programme.

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To celebrate our 575th birthday we’re throwing open our doors for Glasgow Doors Open Day Festival 2026! We hope you can join us from 17 – 20 September, we have lots of events happening! More info and to book tickets: www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/whats-on

Did you know that The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith turned 250 years old this year? We are marking this milestone anniversary by bringing together students, academics, alumni and international partners to discuss the enduring relevance of one of history's most influential books. 👉 gla.ac/4pXGLI9

@glasgow.ac.uk and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social are partners in a new Leverhulme Doctoral Programme in Responsible Hybrid Intelligence announced today. Full story via the link: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Good luck to everyone receiving their results today🤞🍀 If you’re joining #TeamUofG, let us know. We can’t wait to welcome you! ❤️

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

Mathis Riehle is often spotted around the ARC sketchnoting at talks and during meetings. Mathis uses technique as it helps keeps his mind focused, then he can leave the meeting with a piece of art in his hands - pretty cool. #sketchnote #sketchnoting #doodle #art bsky.app/profile/morn...

Why do we need an archaeology of space? 'But archaeology can be of the living, not just of the dead, and this means it's inextricably linked with the future'. 🧪 🔭 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology

Why do we need an archaeology of space?

Why do we need an archaeology of space? Haven’t we got an abundant documentary record to tell us all about spacecraft and their stories? Not...

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I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last mo.

“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪

OTD 80 years ago, Operation Crossroads nuclear test, shot Baker, created images with global impacts on generations of audiences, explored in my article 'From Crossroads to Godzilla: the cinematic legacies of the first postwar nuclear tests' (@uk.theconversation.com 2021). Article link in next post.

80 years ago right now at Bikini Lagoon (8:35 AM local time, July 25), 42,000 people witnessed Shot BAKER of Operation Crossroads, the second postwar US atomic test. A 23-kt Mark-III Fat Man-type A-bomb was detonated 90 feet underwater to assess its effects on 94 US, Japanese, and German warships.

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The Clyde Auditorium, affectionately known as the Armadillo would follow in 1997 and the nickname was so successful that it's now the venue's official name. Fast forward to 2013 and the SSE Hydro, now the OVO Hydro, arrived on the scene. 📷 HES #Glasgow

The Commonwealth Games studio down at the Scottish Events Campus stands on the site of one of the city’s most important trading docks. The cluster of venues in the shadow of the Finnieston crane were created on the site of Queen’s Dock, centre of the city’s worldwide trading operations.

Congrats to 14 UofG researchers who have secured awards in the latest Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Awards. Over £661,000 will fund research for projects led by UofG scholars spanning health, heritage, climate, history, engineering, social justice & refugee studies. More: gla.ac/4bDC0NO

The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games have arrived in Glasgow! Last month, Finnie, the Games mascot, paid a special visit to our campus at Open Day. We are just as excited as Finnie for #Glasgow2026! Sending a warm #TeamUofG welcome to all the athletes and visitors in Glasgow for the Games ❤️

#ScienceOnThisDay In 1969, Apollo 11 made history as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon, while Michael Collins orbited above. An estimated 700 million people watched live around the world.

Great to hear that Network Rail has purchased the miniature replica of Union Corner, created by Bricks & Bones. The 175-year-old Victorian building was consumed by fire in March, with Union Street and all entrances to Glasgow Central Station reopening yesterday. 📷 Network Rail #Glasgow

Hosting the International Conference on Social Media & Society @socialmediaandsociety.org at Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk 300 attendees, 6 continents, 190+ papers, 40+ posters, 10+ workshops/panels. See some of the interdisciplinary world-changing research on social media, platforms, AI at #SMSociety ⬇️

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We caught up with a few of our poster presenters last night. Watch to hear more about their research! 👩‍🏫 Did you have a favourite? #SMSociety #SocialMediaResearch

🤩 Check out this round-up of the ARC’s 2025-2026 public programme! We can't wait to welcome audiences back to the ARC for 2026-27.

Delighted to have welcomed delegates from Macquarie University @mqsois.bsky.social to the ARC at the University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgarc.bsky.social - from hearing about ARC-XR's latest VR research & the work of @uofggameslab.bsky.social to running a Serious Game around nuclear diplomacy.

I've spent the last few days down south, so here's a London icon with Glaswegian bones. The familiar stonework of Tower Bridge hides an impressive steel skeleton forming the main structure, which was constructed by the Glasgow civil engineering company Sir William Arrol & Co.

International Conference on Social Media & Society is coming to Glasgow!

Mark Wong@markwong.bsky.social · last mo.

@uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgarc.bsky.social #SMSociety in 2026 is coming to Glasgow. More about the conference: socialmediaandsociety.org 3/3

#SMSociety 2026 at @glasgow.ac.uk next week! Full press release: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... “a different path must be possible and fairness and public concerns should at the heart of its development. We as a society must demand better, fairer, and more ethical ways of developing technology.”

UofG hosts International Conference on Social Media & Society

An international conference that puts the spotlight on social media and society will be hosted by the University of Glasgow.

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University of Glasgow@glasgow.ac.uk · last mo.

An international conference that puts the spotlight on social media & society will take place at UofG. @socialmediaandsociety.org is one of the first conferences on social media in the world, with a reputation for shaping the future of social media research. More: gla.ac/4eT3l0B #SMSociety