Laurence Datrier
@asleepywanderer.bsky.social
Astronomer, occasional artist, sometimes takes pictures
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Since a bunch of new people now follow me thanks to my very musically talented cat, I figured it was time to post another intro.
Hi! I'm an astronomer who sometimes does various arts and crafts. I did my PhD in Physics&Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, where I was part of LIGO.
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Hi! I'm an astronomer who sometimes does various arts and crafts. I did my PhD in Physics&Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, where I was part of LIGO.
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Luna Snow from Marvel Rivals
The water effects took ages to do but we're a fun challenge.
The water effects took ages to do but we're a fun challenge.
October 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Luna Snow from Marvel Rivals
The water effects took ages to do but we're a fun challenge.
The water effects took ages to do but we're a fun challenge.
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Me after every social interaction
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Me after every social interaction
Went to a cosplay figure drawing event at a comic book shop recently. I was incredibly terrible at it but it was fun to try something new! I'd only ever done figure drawing once, and that was over ten years ago.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Went to a cosplay figure drawing event at a comic book shop recently. I was incredibly terrible at it but it was fun to try something new! I'd only ever done figure drawing once, and that was over ten years ago.
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Crystal star & moon are almost finished! Just some highlights & background touch ups after they dry ⭐️🌙
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Crystal star & moon are almost finished! Just some highlights & background touch ups after they dry ⭐️🌙
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[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]
I'm working on these ✨amazing✨ hand-painted #mars #rover pendants as part of my collab with celestial pottery artist @amyraehill.bsky.social 🤩
All one-of-a-kind, launching soon:
sciencesocks.co/page...
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I'm working on these ✨amazing✨ hand-painted #mars #rover pendants as part of my collab with celestial pottery artist @amyraehill.bsky.social 🤩
All one-of-a-kind, launching soon:
sciencesocks.co/page...
🔭🐡🧪🎨
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]
I'm working on these ✨amazing✨ hand-painted #mars #rover pendants as part of my collab with celestial pottery artist @amyraehill.bsky.social 🤩
All one-of-a-kind, launching soon:
sciencesocks.co/page...
🔭🐡🧪🎨
I'm working on these ✨amazing✨ hand-painted #mars #rover pendants as part of my collab with celestial pottery artist @amyraehill.bsky.social 🤩
All one-of-a-kind, launching soon:
sciencesocks.co/page...
🔭🐡🧪🎨
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A couple of really nice stories about the intriguing subsolar mass candidate #S251112cm
www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho
www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social
A groundbreaking discovery, or just a false alarm? Time (and more analysis) may tell
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www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho
www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social
A groundbreaking discovery, or just a false alarm? Time (and more analysis) may tell
🔭🧪☄️⚛️
Curious gravitational wave may be hint at primordial black holes—or just noise
Astronomers approach unusual observation with caution and excitement
www.science.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A couple of really nice stories about the intriguing subsolar mass candidate #S251112cm
www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho
www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social
A groundbreaking discovery, or just a false alarm? Time (and more analysis) may tell
🔭🧪☄️⚛️
www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho
www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social
A groundbreaking discovery, or just a false alarm? Time (and more analysis) may tell
🔭🧪☄️⚛️
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Hi new followers! I know you're here for science art, but it's been a little while since I've had time to make art.
Here's a picture from this summer that I'd not shared before though! From Joshua tree national park. This was at the Jumbo Rocks campground, you can tell by the jumbo sized rocks
Here's a picture from this summer that I'd not shared before though! From Joshua tree national park. This was at the Jumbo Rocks campground, you can tell by the jumbo sized rocks
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Hi new followers! I know you're here for science art, but it's been a little while since I've had time to make art.
Here's a picture from this summer that I'd not shared before though! From Joshua tree national park. This was at the Jumbo Rocks campground, you can tell by the jumbo sized rocks
Here's a picture from this summer that I'd not shared before though! From Joshua tree national park. This was at the Jumbo Rocks campground, you can tell by the jumbo sized rocks
Hi new followers! I know you're here for science art, but it's been a little while since I've had time to make art.
Here's a picture from this summer that I'd not shared before though! From Joshua tree national park. This was at the Jumbo Rocks campground, you can tell by the jumbo sized rocks
Here's a picture from this summer that I'd not shared before though! From Joshua tree national park. This was at the Jumbo Rocks campground, you can tell by the jumbo sized rocks
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Hi new followers! I know you're here for science art, but it's been a little while since I've had time to make art.
Here's a picture from this summer that I'd not shared before though! From Joshua tree national park. This was at the Jumbo Rocks campground, you can tell by the jumbo sized rocks
Here's a picture from this summer that I'd not shared before though! From Joshua tree national park. This was at the Jumbo Rocks campground, you can tell by the jumbo sized rocks
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Explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with my SciArt Starter Pack.
Paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
Paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with my SciArt Starter Pack.
Paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
Paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
I'm obsessed with these
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I'm obsessed with these
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March 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Enquiry from an 8yo asking what the Fulton Orrery planets were? Apparently the #Kelvingrove museum staff didn't know, so he e-mailed the Astronomer Royal to find out! I also didn’t know, but the AstroSociety of #Glasgow did (after watching an old VHS recording on the topic!) 🔭 #histsci 1/2🧵
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Enquiry from an 8yo asking what the Fulton Orrery planets were? Apparently the #Kelvingrove museum staff didn't know, so he e-mailed the Astronomer Royal to find out! I also didn’t know, but the AstroSociety of #Glasgow did (after watching an old VHS recording on the topic!) 🔭 #histsci 1/2🧵
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Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I have started selling prints, currently I have a preorder open which will close november 30th and I will be shipping out orders mid december! (unfortunately US only at the moment, but hopefully international in the future!) www.etsy.com/listing/4370...
www.etsy.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I have started selling prints, currently I have a preorder open which will close november 30th and I will be shipping out orders mid december! (unfortunately US only at the moment, but hopefully international in the future!) www.etsy.com/listing/4370...
Saw the most vivid rainbow I've ever seen in my life on Saturday - for contrast (since rainbows never look as vivid in photos), a photo of an already very bright rainbow I saw in Glasgow a few years ago. It looked so surreal.
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Saw the most vivid rainbow I've ever seen in my life on Saturday - for contrast (since rainbows never look as vivid in photos), a photo of an already very bright rainbow I saw in Glasgow a few years ago. It looked so surreal.
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Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
It's that time of year again. If you're in Scotland and go see the sunrise on a partly clear morning near the Cobbler in Arrochar, you might get lucky and see the grass dramatically lit up by the sun before it hits the mountains.
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It's that time of year again. If you're in Scotland and go see the sunrise on a partly clear morning near the Cobbler in Arrochar, you might get lucky and see the grass dramatically lit up by the sun before it hits the mountains.
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Autumn is segueing into winter hereabouts - the first snows are dusting the mountains and we're due our first 'proper' fall come Tuesday. But at least IT. HAS. STOPPED. RAINING.
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Autumn is segueing into winter hereabouts - the first snows are dusting the mountains and we're due our first 'proper' fall come Tuesday. But at least IT. HAS. STOPPED. RAINING.
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
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Good morning Bluesky friends! We have started our holiday sale early so you can take your time to shop small this season! 💖
20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒
shop.startorialist.com
20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒
shop.startorialist.com
STARtorialist Online Shop
STARtorialist is a women-owned small business founded by professional astronomers to curate space- and science-themed products, support independent designers, and contribute to STEM education and outr...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Good morning Bluesky friends! We have started our holiday sale early so you can take your time to shop small this season! 💖
20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒
shop.startorialist.com
20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒
shop.startorialist.com
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Oo! Interesting #GravitationalWave candidate #S251112cm potentially from a *subsolar* mass source
If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses
False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬
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If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses
False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬
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November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Oo! Interesting #GravitationalWave candidate #S251112cm potentially from a *subsolar* mass source
If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses
False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬
[🧪🔭⚛️]
If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses
False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬
[🧪🔭⚛️]
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Looking for a postdoc in foundations of physics/cosmology/science? Come work with us at @fqxi.org on the Foundational Answers project
fqxi.org/jobs-postdoc...
fqxi.org/jobs-postdoc...
Postdoctoral Research Associate - FQxI
FQxI is seeking Postdoctoral Research Associates for the Foundational Answers project. Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate Organization: Foundational Questions Institute (FQxI) Location: Remote...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Looking for a postdoc in foundations of physics/cosmology/science? Come work with us at @fqxi.org on the Foundational Answers project
fqxi.org/jobs-postdoc...
fqxi.org/jobs-postdoc...
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Are you a grad student interested in writing for Astrobites, or do you know one? We're recruiting! Apply by November 26 :)
astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...
astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...
Apply to Write for Astrobites 2025!
Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th.
astrobites.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Are you a grad student interested in writing for Astrobites, or do you know one? We're recruiting! Apply by November 26 :)
astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...
astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...
You guys see it too, right?
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You guys see it too, right?
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Autumn is “Cute Leaf Season” … a pretty mix of greens, vivid hues of gold, amber, orange, and russet festooning the trees and the woodland trail. It captures the fleeting natural colours of fall woods in permanent form, making it ideal for cozy, nature-inspired projects. #mothyandthesquid
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Autumn is “Cute Leaf Season” … a pretty mix of greens, vivid hues of gold, amber, orange, and russet festooning the trees and the woodland trail. It captures the fleeting natural colours of fall woods in permanent form, making it ideal for cozy, nature-inspired projects. #mothyandthesquid
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Bauble pre orders and 24" Moon cushions will be live on my store FRIDAY for email subs!
Access for everyone on Saturday.
I'll be sending an email later today for all my lovely space besties on my email list with all the info.💜💫
You will be getting early access and special prices again!🤭
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Access for everyone on Saturday.
I'll be sending an email later today for all my lovely space besties on my email list with all the info.💜💫
You will be getting early access and special prices again!🤭
🧪🔭🐡🖌🎨📷
October 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Bauble pre orders and 24" Moon cushions will be live on my store FRIDAY for email subs!
Access for everyone on Saturday.
I'll be sending an email later today for all my lovely space besties on my email list with all the info.💜💫
You will be getting early access and special prices again!🤭
🧪🔭🐡🖌🎨📷
Access for everyone on Saturday.
I'll be sending an email later today for all my lovely space besties on my email list with all the info.💜💫
You will be getting early access and special prices again!🤭
🧪🔭🐡🖌🎨📷