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Vanessa Moss

@cosmicpudding.bsky.social

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Adventures of the Cosmic Pudding & sidekick Vanessa: astronomy, telescopes, data, #automation, #scicomm... also #TFOM! #SuperstarsofSTEM ✨

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Vanessa Moss @cosmicpudding.bsky.social · Aug 14

For #NationalScienceWeek, I wanted to share my fave technology: the #VR headset! These enable an amazing immersive collaboration that opens up opportunities to go well #BeyondBeingThere 🙌 ❤️

#SuperStarsofSTEM #CSIROSuperStarsofSTEM #ScienceWeek #WomeninScience #ScienceAndTechnologyAustralia #CSIRO

Montage of images with a central focus on a VR headset, with ten different photos showing people in different immersive spaces - giving talks, running conferences, exploring worlds and interacting socially.

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · Jun 9

And here is a picture with some of the CSIRO Space and Astronomy team: Douglas Bock, Ron Ekers, Elizabeth Mahony and Vanessa Moss (@cosmicpudding.bsky.social)

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Launch of the Ruby Payne-Scott ferry - Australia Telescope National Facility

Ruby Payne-Scott was a pioneer in radio astronomy and an early advocate for women’s rights in the workplace. She worked at CSIRO (then known as CSIR) from 1941 to 1951. […]

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Vanessa Moss @cosmicpudding.bsky.social · Mar 24

This was such a fun chat with @raynerexplainer.bsky.social and Seizure, all about #SAURON! Being able to build SAURON, see it boost our efficiency and constantly make it better has been one of the best parts of overseeing science operations for #ASKAP 👁️📡 Link: australianhighlights.com.au/vanessamoss

Social media image advertising the podcast which features Dr Vanessa Moss, Head of Science Operations for CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope with an image of said Vanessa standing in front of ASKAP dishes.

Image of a quote from the podcast: "It's taking the risk and saying, well, we're not going to throw humans at it, even though that's what facilities of this scale around the world tend to do. We're going to try something different."

Image of an ASKAP antenna at night, with the Milky Way visible in the sky.

Image of Vanessa with a quote from the podcast: "We're starting from a point of saying, all right, we want it to be as autonomous as possible. What have we learned from SAURON and how could we do better?"

Vanessa Moss @cosmicpudding.bsky.social · Mar 24

And finding the occasional hidden skeleton is a fun bonus! 💀 located this time by @elizabethtasker.bsky.social!

The hidden skeleton from Mount Olympus, just hanging out in a secret location as they are wont to do.

Vanessa Moss @cosmicpudding.bsky.social · Mar 24

Always enjoy our @futuremeetings.bsky.social adventures into #VR - especially the beautiful worlds of @walkaboutminigolf.bsky.social! By far the biggest advantage of #immersive tech that we've found in #TFOM is the ability to be *together* with others, whether for social or work!

A group of intrepid golfing adventurers (who are also members of TFOM) posing on the edge of a cliff face with the Mount Olympus world of Walkabout Mini Golf visible behind.

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Vanessa Moss @cosmicpudding.bsky.social · Jan 30

Had a fun chat today with James Vyver on #ABCDrive Canberra about the newly discovered asteroid #2024YR4, the threat it poses to Earth, and what we know about it so far ☄️🌏 You can listen online currently here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (from ~28:00-34:30) @csiro.bsky.social

Drive - ABC listen

The lively debate and stories that have shaped Canberra today.

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · Jan 25

My favourite group in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD are kicking off their Bluesky account properly, with trials and tribulations of experimenting with tech for successful online meetings, events and collabs. Now more than ever, we need to be together, even when we’re apart 🌏.

The Future of Meetings @futuremeetings.bsky.social · Jan 24

Greetings all! We (The Future of Meetings, #TFOM) are here on #Bluesky properly now, and we plan for this to be one of our main platforms going forward 👋 There's a fair bit of very recent TFOM news to share, so stay tuned for more posts imminently! 📬

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Vanessa Moss @cosmicpudding.bsky.social · Jan 24

Hi everyone 👋 Planning to get a bit more active on here, looking forward to meeting you and chatting about #astronomy, #VR, #ASKAP, #TFOM, #automation, #scicomm, #remotecollab and more! 🙌 Here's a pic of me contemplating the future of #humanity atop a carbon pillar representing conference travel ✈️

A small figure sits atop a tall pillar of carbon, stretching high into the sky, surrounded by a bleak mountainous wasteland with a blue sky patched with pink clouds above - a virtual representation of the cost of astronomy travel, created by Glen Rees as part of "The Future of Meetings" (TFOM).

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