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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 3d

Not the scientifically accurate depiction of black hole 👀🔭

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 4d

Happy birthday! 🎂

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 5d

There exist coordinated efforts to secure time for LSST follow-up at major observatories. A spacecraft to intercept new interesting things is a thing.
Bah! LSST Solar System Science Collaboration even has a Technosignatures Think Tank. There are so many things that are a thing that AL disregards.

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 5d

Just going to say that it is hurtful when a systematic study effort by the global small-body community, with many of the campaigns led by women, with results being pushed to free open-source arXiv & data repos for scicomm as quickly as possible, is described as lacking coordination/communication

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 5d

I'll for global coordination for ISO follow-up, but it's telling that no one who's actually coordinating follow-up was actually asked to participate in this proposal or thought of to be even suggested as names on committees in this proposal

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve been lucky but I’m unusual. Many friends followed the standard advice, only to find that tenure came too late for their biological clock. Others broke under the pressure of trying to balance it all, reluctantly leaving academia for more family friendly careers. 7/9🧵

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 12d

Nah, the latest as of yesterday is that he claims the "Wow!" signal came from 3I...

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 12d

But do they emit the "Wow!" signal though

Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 17d

Officially a Space Rock Doctor! 🪨

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 18d

And in the School news: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/2025/ne...

New telescope data boosts asteroid mission

Astronomers have used observatories around the world to study asteroid 1998 KY26, revealing it to be almost three times smaller and spinning much faster than previously thought.

www.ph.ed.ac.uk

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 22d

They used to have a whole line, only kids t-shirts left shop.esa.int/products/din...

Dino Kids T-Shirt

A fun, space-themed dino T-shirt for kids — perfect for little explorers with big imaginations.

shop.esa.int

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 23d

Yup, my bet is it's going to turn out just a small boulder the size of a large boulder

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 23d

Thomas Müller shared a picture of a print to scale with the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft:
www.linkedin.com/posts/tgm879...

A grey 3D print of the updated shape model for asteroid 1998 KY26 with a scale model of the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, both in 1:48 scale

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 23d

Check out our tiny rock featured by @eso.org !
Now available in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We measured the size using the new lightcurve shape models and old radar data #TeamRadar
📡🪨🔭🧪

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · Sep 10

I need to send someone from Edinburgh your way 🤩

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Jarek Wisniewski @jwisniewski.bsky.social · Sep 10

A good day to follow @theguardian.com Europe Live for reliable information about Polish (and not only) reactions to the overnight violations of Polish airspace by Russian drones.
@jakubkrupa.bsky.social provides helpful translations from 🇵🇱 incl political context

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

‘Huge number of Russian drones’ violated our airspace, says Poland’s PM – follow live

Tusk says that those which posed a threat were shot down as Zelenskyy says incursion sets ‘extremely dangerous precedent for Europe’

www.theguardian.com

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · Sep 3

Emptied brain
On a page
Proposal season

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · Sep 2

Now I have, thanks! 🤖

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · Sep 2

As a mother of three, I strongly identify with themes of doing your best to protect humans in your care from harm when they do their best to not heed your warnings while all you wanted to do is consume high quality media

Humble @humblebundle.com · Sep 2

Pay what you want for great summer reading with the Martha Wells' Murderbot and More bundle, supporting @wck.org | https://bit.ly/4lFLFFL

Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR.

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Humble @humblebundle.com · Sep 2

Pay what you want for great summer reading with the Martha Wells' Murderbot and More bundle, supporting @wck.org | https://bit.ly/4lFLFFL

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Jean-Luc Margot @jeanlucmargot.bsky.social · Aug 19

This excellent piece describes the deceptive practices used by quacks to advance false claims. Beware! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)

Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.

www.nytimes.com

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · Aug 14

Listening to Andy Serkis' rendition of LoTR with my kids (first read through for all of us, I only ever got to the gates of Moria in my previous attempts) and I am astonished by the missed opportunity that was LoTR the Musical

Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · Aug 14

One might say the tourist got spamed

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · Aug 8

Well, for one thing, he compares reddening in UV adopted by authors of paper2 to reddening in near infrared measured in paper1 as if they were the same thing. And conveniently crops the figure from paper2 to not show the other measurements made at longer wavelengths, consistent with paper1.

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · Aug 7

It would have been funny if it wasn't so damaging.

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