Thrilled to be one of this year's NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award recipients! 🥳 aips.org.au/2026-young-t... 🧪
Fun Fact Science with Kovi
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Astrophysics PhD candidate studying stars that go snap, crackle, and pop - communicating scientist - meme aficionado.
We've discovered two more long period transients! A new @pasajournal.bsky.social paper by Yuanming Wang and collabs introducing the VASTER pipeline running on ASKAP. As soon as we switched it on we started finding new things (star and LPT below) dx.doi.org/10.1017/pasa... #radioastro ☄️
Congratulations to Dr Fiona Panther on being named a finalist in the Early Career Scientist of the Year category at the 2026 Premier's Science Awards! Vote for Fiona in the People's Choice Award and read more about her achievement: www.ozgrav.org/awards/ozgra... #PSA2026 #PremiersScienceAwards
OzGrav's Dr Fiona Panther named finalist for Premier's Science Awards 2026 - OzGrav
OzGrav is delighted to congratulate Dr Fiona Panther, who has been named a finalist in the Early Career Scientist of the Year category at the 2026 Premier’s Science Awards. This milestone year marks t...
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🎉 Congratulations to OzGrav's Dr Kirsten Banks, who has been named a finalist in the 2026 Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science! Read more: www.ozgrav.org/awards/ozgra... @eurekaprizes.bsky.social #EurekaPrizes
OzGrav's Dr Kirsten Banks named finalist in the 2026 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes - OzGrav
The Australian Museum (AM) has announced the finalists of the 2026 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, recognising the outstanding homegrown scientists, innovators and communicators that drive exploratio...
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Today marks 5 years since the passing of the Nobel-winning physicist Steven Weinberg. Each year I read his advice to early career researchers "The Four Golden Lessons". This year, I approach the final month of my PhD and consider my options for the future, I took particular notice of his words:
Four golden lessons - Nature
Advice to students at the start of their scientific careers.
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The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 A mystery solved that's baffled astronomers for years 🌌 I chat with Kovi Rose @funfactscience.com (@USyd / CSIRO) to discuss his stellar "Rosetta Stone" a chaotic, cannibalistic star system shedding secrets of Long Period Transients. Listen: tinyurl.com/kovilpt #Astronomy #Space
Astrophiz Episode 238: Kovi Rose – The Rosetta Stone in Space and Decoding Long Period Transients - Astrophiz: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Podcast
Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-238-kovi-rose-askap-j1745 Full Transcript Below Celebrate groundbreaking astrophysical discoveries with Astrophiz!In this episode, host Brendan O’Bri...
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Had a blast chatting with @astrophiz.bsky.social about my journey through the stars as well as my latest discovery. Check it out here: soundcloud.com/astrophiz/as... #astro #space #scicomm #radioastro 📡🔭🧪💥
Ep 238: Kovi Rose – Discovering the Stellar Rosetta Stone & ASKAP J1745
In Episode 238 of the Astrophiz Podcast, we sit down with multi-wavelength astrophysicist Kovi Rose to explore a groundbreaking breakthrough in radio astronomy: the discovery of the stellar "Rosetta S
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Had a blast chatting with @astrophiz.bsky.social about my journey through the stars as well as my latest discovery. Check it out here: soundcloud.com/astrophiz/as... #astro #space #scicomm #radioastro 📡🔭🧪💥
Ep 238: Kovi Rose – Discovering the Stellar Rosetta Stone & ASKAP J1745
In Episode 238 of the Astrophiz Podcast, we sit down with multi-wavelength astrophysicist Kovi Rose to explore a groundbreaking breakthrough in radio astronomy: the discovery of the stellar "Rosetta S
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We've discovered another long period transient with ASKAP! Source #15 in this small but growing population. It repeats every 36 minutes, but despite many observations (see plot) we're not sure what it is. New paper by Joshua Pritchard: doi.org/10.1017/pasa... #radioastro
Saturday morning: remote observing + thesis writing. Saturday afternoon: lego + stargate
Congratulations to the 2026 #ASA prize winners! 🏆 🔭 Grace Blomfield (ANU) 🌌 Dr Maria Luísa Buzzo (Swinburne, now Yale) ✨ Dr Ziteng (Andy) Wang (@curtinuniversity.bsky.social) 🪐 Dr Takafumi Tsukui (ANU) 🤖 Dr Anais Möller (Swinburne) 🔧 Dr @gradientrider.bsky.social (@sydney.edu.au, now Leiden)
Just when you thought 2026 couldn't get any more absurd... cyborg cockroaches
Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · last mo.A paper in Nature Communications presents a wearable diving suit that enables terrestrial cyborg cockroaches to maintain respiration and locomotion underwater for up to 3 hours. This biohybrid system facilitates sustained exploration through hybrid hazardous terrains. go.nature.com/4xZn8Tp 🧪
How fast is the Universe expanding? An international team led by OzGrav PI Dr Kelly Gourdji (CSIRO) and OzGrav CI Prof Adam Deller (Swinburne University) has taken a new step towards answering one of cosmology's biggest questions. 🔗 Read more: www.ozgrav.org/news/new-mea...
New measurement brings us closer to understanding the Universe’s rate of expansion - OzGrav
Researchers closely observing the fiery aftermath of an immense cosmic collision have made a new measurement of the speed at which the Universe is expanding. The international team led by researchers…
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Advertise your bluesky account with a Simpsons meme.
Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 2mo agoAdvertise your bluesky account with a Simpsons meme.
Anyone in the #astro community know what the story is with this GCN bug? github.com/nasa-gcn/gcn...
Repeated GCN Circular Number 44963 · Issue #3662 · nasa-gcn/gcn.nasa.gov
On date DATE: 26/06/17 09:33:10 GMT, a bug occurred with the GCN Circular NUMBER: 44963 (SUBJECT: GRB 260610B / AT2026owq: SAO RAS optical observations of possible re-brightening), which was sent a...
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A paper in Nature Astronomy classifies ASKAP J174508.9-505149 as an accreting white dwarf binary and identifies it as a long-period radio transient, strengthening the link between these mysterious bursting sources and white dwarf star systems. go.nature.com/4fwZFm1 🔭🧪
someone just referred to my latest paper as "finding the source of the mysterious ticking noise" and I'm not even mad 😅
Fun Fact Science with Kovi@funfactscience.com · 2mo agoI’m thrilled to share that my latest research paper has just been published in Nature Astronomy! It’s been nearly a year since I first submitted the manuscript to Nature and a little over three years since I began working on this project. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natastron.nature.com
Fresh off the pre-print presses: our X-ray follow-up paper of ASKAP J1745 💥 #astro #astronomy #radioastro arxiv.org/abs/2606.05842
The X-ray emission of the long-period transient and accreting cataclysmic variable ASKAP J174508.9-505149
Long-period transients (LPTs) challenge our knowledge of the mechanism producing radio periodic pulsations in compact objects. Some LPTs have been associated with systems hosting a white dwarf and a l...
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Fun Fact Science with Kovi@funfactscience.com · 2mo agoI’m thrilled to share that my latest research paper has just been published in Nature Astronomy! It’s been nearly a year since I first submitted the manuscript to Nature and a little over three years since I began working on this project. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natastron.nature.com
Absolutely blown away by the support/interest that folks have shown for/in our new paper 🥹 Still can't quite believe that we got over 100,000 reads on my @aunz.theconversation.com article within the first week!! theconversation.com/mysterious-s...
Mysterious signals keep coming from space. We have found their ‘Rosetta stone’
Seeing a signal in different kinds of light is like having a text written in several forms of writing – it makes it easier to decipher.
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Absolutely blown away by the support/interest that folks have shown for/in our new paper 🥹 Still can't quite believe that we got over 100,000 reads on my @aunz.theconversation.com article within the first week!! theconversation.com/mysterious-s...
Mysterious signals keep coming from space. We have found their ‘Rosetta stone’
Seeing a signal in different kinds of light is like having a text written in several forms of writing – it makes it easier to decipher.
theconversation.com
For legal purposes this is a joke... (It will obviously be a heavy metal album)
Fun Fact Science with Kovi@funfactscience.com · 2mo agoComing soon, an album of exclusively science-related rap 🧪 🎤
Fresh off the pre-print presses: our X-ray follow-up paper of ASKAP J1745 💥 #astro #astronomy #radioastro arxiv.org/abs/2606.05842
The X-ray emission of the long-period transient and accreting cataclysmic variable ASKAP J174508.9-505149
Long-period transients (LPTs) challenge our knowledge of the mechanism producing radio periodic pulsations in compact objects. Some LPTs have been associated with systems hosting a white dwarf and a l...
arxiv.org
Fun Fact Science with Kovi@funfactscience.com · 2mo agoI’m thrilled to share that my latest research paper has just been published in Nature Astronomy! It’s been nearly a year since I first submitted the manuscript to Nature and a little over three years since I began working on this project. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natastron.nature.com
For legal purposes this is a joke... (It will obviously be a heavy metal album)
Fun Fact Science with Kovi@funfactscience.com · 2mo agoComing soon, an album of exclusively science-related rap 🧪 🎤