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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 23h

#CentresOfExcellence #CE26

ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!

It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.

www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

Screenshot of ARC "network messages" webpage stating that Centres of Excellence outcomes are "postponed". Blue text on white background as a heading, above an image of concentric part circles, to make a sort-of whirlpool pattern, above black text on white background.

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A/Prof Natasha Hurley-Walker @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social · 6d

Today in PASA we published a new image of our Milky Way at low radio frequencies, in unprecedented colour and detail. Here's just a tiny piece of it -- the whole thing is ten times bigger!

We're seeing high energy electrons whirl around cosmic magnetic fields from exploded stars, and more!

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A/Prof Natasha Hurley-Walker @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social · 6d

Or have a play with our interactive optical/radio viewer and watch our video about it here: www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...

A new, expansive view of the Milky Way reveals our Galaxy in unprecedented radio colour - ICRAR

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled.

www.icrar.org

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10d

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese getting off a plane while wearing slim black pants, black boots, and a black Joy Division t-shirt.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 11d

Another superb image from the team at HEO!

They're a Sydney-based start-up and are doing fantastic things. Super nice team too!

What's gonna blow your mind is this is taken from another satellite in a higher orbit - looking down.

All these objects are moving very quickly relative to each other! 🤯

Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · 11d

An absolutely incredible image of the International Space Station taken by a *satellite* also in orbit by heospace.com & blacksky.com

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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · 18d

Reminds me of this recent astronomical listing: the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope was up for sale www.realestate.com.au/sold/propert...

www.realestate.com.au

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · Oct 3

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is flying past Mars today. Might get some cool views!

skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Mars Orbiters Will Have Front-row Seats to Interstellar Comet

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet will aim a suite of instruments at Comet 3I/ATLAS to capture details about this enigmatic object.

skyandtelescope.org

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · Sep 30

Astronomers have long been blessed by the existence of #ADS - excited for the new @scixcommunity.bsky.social platform, expanding to other disciplines - developed via NASA #openscience funding. Look forward to trying it out! 🔭🧪

Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · Sep 29

#SciX is created by the #ADS team & operates out of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA Cooperative Agreement. Created and developed by scientists, for scientists, SciX builds on decades of open research infrastructure and collaboration: https://bit.ly/CfASciXNews

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.

No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Jul 31

For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

NSF Award Search: Award # 2347850

Structure theory for measure-preserving systems, additive combinatorics, and correlations of multiplicative functions

www.nsf.gov

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strangenewwords.bsky.social · Aug 1

Someone once said the most utopian thing about Star Trek is that 7 coworkers can call a meeting in the conference room and adjourn after only 3 minutes with a definitive plan of action.

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 31

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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Holly 🥄 @absolutspacegrl.bsky.social · Jul 28

I honestly don’t know how we ever recover from this loss of institutional knowledge. There’s no reason to do this…we learn nothing from history.

Tomorrow I will go to work and train those who come after me as best I can, like always, because I truly love NASA #nasa 🧪🔭🚀🛰️

www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

www.npr.org

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 28

More postdoctoral researchers secured access to sophisticated scientific instruments when an Australian facility made their application process anonymous

go.nature.com/3J4AA3j

Postdocs get more equipment time when applications are anonymized

Early-career researchers’ access to neutron-beam instruments jumped from 61% to 78% at one Australian facility.

go.nature.com

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · Jul 27

A fav inaccurate one is Stranger Things, it’s set in 1983 but has Livermorium which was discovered in 2000 and added officially to the table in 2012

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · Jul 27

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.

(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

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astrafoxen @astrafoxen.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are out! These were taken 5 hours ago. Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy. Best of luck to the researchers trying to write up papers for this... archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · Jul 16

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 15

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.

See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

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Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · Jul 11

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional.
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · Jul 9

At least they don’t give off radio frequency interference, because that would be baa’d …

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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · Jul 9

KAT7 (2012), sheep!

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George Pearkes @peark.es · Jul 9

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

www.politico.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 9

Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.

It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

www.nytimes.com

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Leigh Fletcher @leighfletcher.bsky.social · Jul 7

Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana

pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/v...

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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · Jul 4

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it zooms by us …

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