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Guy Watkins

@guywatkins.bsky.social

🪐 MPhys Astrophysics with Space Science student at The Open University. 🪐 Aspiring astrobiologist/planetary scientist. FRAS. 🪐 http://guywatkins.space 🏃 Novice trail runner

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Guy Watkins@guywatkins.bsky.social · 5d ago

“The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”

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Bart⚓️@bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Mike Sowden@mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d ago

In all the grandiose discussion about colonising Mars, I don't see much about how the soil is poisonous to us. This was only discovered in 2008. It contains perchlorates, which are environmental toxins here on Earth. Any human contact with Mars dust? Super-bad news in the long run. 1/

NASA image from the surface of Mars, showing its red dusty surface with rover tire-tracks running across it.
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 6d ago

I said I'd do a thread about my new Space Science Reviews paper, so here it is! This is part of a collection of papers arising from a meeting at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in 2024: a workshop to better understand rocky extrasolar planets. A 🧵:

Interior structure models of Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, the Moon, and Io, all shown to scale and key elements labelled.
Caltech IPAC@caltechipac.bsky.social · 2w ago

Huge congratulations to the NExScI team on launching AstroFetch! This new tool makes it easier than ever to query #exoplanet science data. 🔭 Give it a spin at exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu!

Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 2w ago

We trained a natural language agent to query the archive's tables! Ask a question of AstroFetch and it will do a search of our documentation and ADS, generate the right TAP query, and present the results. Give it a try! exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html

Screenshot of the front page of the NASA Exoplanet Archive with a button labeled 'Query AstroFetch AI' circled in red. Squared in red? Highlighted in red.
Guy Watkins@guywatkins.bsky.social · last wk.

Do professional scientists suffer from social anxiety, and if so, what are your coping strategies? I’d be interested to learn how you navigate the fear/phobia of public speaking, networking and presenting your work.