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Astronomer, driving The Dish📡 to study pulsars in my PhD. Also, founded SpaceAustralia.com. Also, love a bit of astrophotography. Also, do everything with my little mate, Max. Also, Ultra-Gay. He/Him.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Oct 24

Been a while since an intro & lots of new folks following. So, about me:

1. #RadioAstronomy PhD candidate studying pulsars

2. Started @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social #SciComm

3. Part of @queersinscience.bsky.social fam

4. Live in Sydney with hubby and #BalmainMax

5. Love hiking, astrophotography

A man standing on a raised ledge above a rail track. The track, leading off behind him leads to a large dish antenna radio telescope. The man is wearing a hard hat. He is at a radio telescope interferometer facility.

Man taking selfie and smiling. Perched up on his shoulder is a small white dog who is also looking directly at the camera.

Eight tile image in a 2 row by 4 column grid. In each tile there is a picture of a galaxy, either face on or edge on.

Man, standing at a signpost that indicates it is the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro at 5895m above sea level.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1h

thanks for clarification.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1h

Around NYE, Anyma also played at Sphere in Vegas and it also looked incredible.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Dec 29

As I expected, Anyma at Sphere — by all accounts of people who have gone to these first shows — is beyond epic. NYE is going to be wild.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how jealous am I to miss this?

10⁹⁹ 😭 ……. wish I got tickets!

Vid from Anyma Insta account.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1h

Seeing insta posts coming out of Cairo, where Anyma is playing at the foot of the Pyramids of Giza.

The Egyptian Govt. allowed the monuments to be used as part of the immersive experience, incl. placing a huge light at the peak of the Great Pyramid.

(wonder what the Pharaohs would have thought!)

technoandhousemusic on Instagram: "Anyma in front of The Great Pyramids of Giza 🛕View all 88 comments"

Anyma in front of The Great Pyramids of Giza 🛕

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 2h

Glistening today!

#Balmain #Sydney

Looking out across Sydney harbour to the harbour bridge. It’s a bright clear day and sun is shining above bridge

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 3h

And speaking of earworms — here is my #GymTunes for this morning!

You are welcome.

Roxette - Joyride (Official Video)

YouTube video by Roxette

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 3h

Your brain 🧠 does Fourier Transforms 📊 with music which is extremely good and the sampling of packets of music against a database (your memory) is the basis of how apps like Shazam work!

Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 1d

“Why do some songs get stuck in our heads so easily? The science of earworms.” theconversation.com/why-do-some-...

Why do some songs get stuck in our heads so easily? The science of earworms

Here’s what happens in your brain when you can’t get a tune out of your head.

theconversation.com

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 5h

Excellent. Looking forward to reading them.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 12h

The quality is amazing with the bigger rigs, but it requires a lot more time investment which can be wasted when issues like this pop up, or the weather suddenly changes

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 12h

Yes, microwave ovens where a big thing for her! She came from a time and place where cooking was done over the stove, or over a fire - not some weird box thing that lived on the bench that made humming sounds and heated things up!

I wonder what they'll reflect on about our time in the year 2125....

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 12h

Today would've been my grandma's 100th.

Often think about how the world changed around her so much: born into the great depression; the formation of the country called Iraq; second world war; technology revolution; humans on Moon; immigration to Aust., microwave ovens, cell phones!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 13h

More analysis over next few months still required, but looking promising so far!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 13h

Cross-verification with a different instrument, different dataset taken at the same or different times, but showing the same results, helps us rule out things like localised radio frequency interference, instrument issues (like telescope clock errors), or processing issues (like calibration).

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 13h

Have been investigating this!

IT IS A REAL THING (!!!)

The beauty of collaborative science is that we ran it past some friends who use another telescope on another continent and said "hey, we see this weird thing, do you see it too?""

The magic rains down on you when you hear the reply:

"yes"

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Aug 10

Ohhhhhhhhhh 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Have been processing data this weekend and something *extremely* exciting has just come to light.

Could be a false positive, gonna investigate it.

Could also be a real thing.

Those that know exactly what I do in pulsar astronomy will understand why this could be exciting.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 14h

This is why these new, easy-to-setup telescopes, like Seestar are gaining so much market share. It's a simple, 5min job to get it set up, then you're good. Hardly come across issues like this.

Now I'm annoyed! What a waste of time!

Here's a review of both types from a while back.

SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · Sep 8

The rapidly growing market of smart telescopes is leading the way in making #astrophotography more accessible and interesting to wider audiences.

@cosmicrami.bsky.social compared the Seestar S50 to the more traditional setup. 🔭📸

www.spaceaustralia.com/news/democra...

#SpaceAustralia

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Image divided into four tiles. Top row is the Trifid Nebula. A dense star field surrounds a bright, multi-coloured nebula. One region of the nebula is reddish. This is the hydrogen gas that has been excited by the hot massive stars at the centre of the nebula, causing it to be ionised. This structure is also crossed by dark dust lanes, in an X-shape. These are the dark nebula which are silhouetted against the red portion of the nebula. To the lower left are faint hues of blue-green gas. This is the dust that is reflecting light in our direction. Bottom row is the Helix Nebula. It features a central, large ring-like nebula. The inner part of the ring is a blue-green colour and is diffuse, whilst the outer ring region is reddish in hue, much more defined and clumpy. A central small white star, the white dwarf, emits powerful UV radiation which excites the different elements producing different colours. Surrounding the nebula are many stars. Images on the left are of higher resolution.

Four tile image. In the top row is the Pillars of Creation, three finger-like giant molecular clouds that are darker and more dense, relative to the background surrounding red nebula. These giant structures are parts of the Eagle Nebula, where star formation is occurring. In the bottom row are black and white images of NGC 1232, a face-on spiral structure that has intricate and tight winding spiral arms. The left-hand column images are sharper and exhibit less noise, whilst the images on the right, whilst still very good, are not as resolved.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 14h

Nice clear night here, so thought I would do some #astrophotography

Lugged all the gear for the big rig outside, got set up, cleaned the lens, put some new batteries in, cooled imager, got flats, etc.

Awaited post-twilght to start shooting.

Only to find the tracking on the mount is borked!

Gah!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 17h

Nearly all the pubs and some local shops, like our laundromat, have pictures of the local dogs pinned up around their shops.

#BalmainMax is in all of them, of course!

We wonder into the laundromat on Friday arvo walk as he gets a treat there. He knows the routine!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 21h

Honestly, I would wear that as a shirt! I really like it!

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 21h

#SpacetoberChalenge Day 9: Nebula

The Hourglass Nebula. This one was definitely out of my comfort zone, but I had fun making it.

#sciart #spaceart #nebula

Illustration of the hourglass nebula in shades of red and orange.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 21h

heeeeey, this is really great! I love the colour scheme, it is really captivating and striking! Well done!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 21h

He would have a coronary.

Double the win!

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 21h

Look if he gets a Nobel because he bullied his way into getting one, then every living Nobel Laureate should hand theirs back because it will, put simply, taint any value of such an award.

He is the last person who should be recognised for any form of positive achievement on the planet.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 22h

It even got an awesome cover for the edition of @science.org !

Front cover of Science magazine, showing a total solar eclipse in the clouds, with a bird flying near the focus of the image. The title "Eclipsising the Sun - a unique cosmic event shows an influence of light on bird behaviour"

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 22h

This is AWESOME science - connecting astrophysical phenomena as perceived here on Earth, with Earth's fauna.

"...these analyses revealed that half of the species responded to the end of the eclipse by singing a dawn chorus despite the “night” lasting only a few minutes"

Eclipses are special!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 22h

Happy bday!!

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1d

Heading into @sydney.edu.au for the last of Prof. Stappers lectures!

(also, fighting some horrendous nausea triggered by the motion of this uber from some medication I took this morning)

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 3d

Off to @sydney.edu.au to hear Prof. Ben Stappers talk about #pulsars as part of the Hunstead Lecture Series!

a white star with a blue beam coming from it

Alt: a white star with a beam coming from its magnetic poles rotating rapidly

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