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Minh Huynh
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Radio astronomer. Politics nerd. Avid ultimate frisbee player. Comic book geek and MCU fan. Opinions own. she/her, dr 🏳️‍🌈
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#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...
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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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how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
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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! 🤯
An absolutely incredible image of the International Space Station taken by a *satellite* also in orbit by heospace.com & blacksky.com
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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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! 🔭🧪
#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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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.
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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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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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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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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)
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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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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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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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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...
At least they don’t give off radio frequency interference, because that would be baa’d …
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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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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

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