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Astronomer, driving The Dish📡 to study pulsars in my PhD. Also, founded SpaceAustralia.com. Also, love a bit of astrophotography. Also, do everything with my little mate, Max. Also, Ultra-Gay. He/Him.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Oct 24

Been a while since an intro & lots of new folks following. So, about me:

1. #RadioAstronomy PhD candidate studying pulsars

2. Started @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social #SciComm

3. Part of @queersinscience.bsky.social fam

4. Live in Sydney with hubby and #BalmainMax

5. Love hiking, astrophotography

A man standing on a raised ledge above a rail track. The track, leading off behind him leads to a large dish antenna radio telescope. The man is wearing a hard hat. He is at a radio telescope interferometer facility.

Man taking selfie and smiling. Perched up on his shoulder is a small white dog who is also looking directly at the camera.

Eight tile image in a 2 row by 4 column grid. In each tile there is a picture of a galaxy, either face on or edge on.

Man, standing at a signpost that indicates it is the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro at 5895m above sea level.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1h

Nearly all the pubs and some local shops, like our laundromat, have pictures of the local dogs pinned up around their shops.

#BalmainMax is in all of them, of course!

We wonder into the laundromat on Friday arvo walk as he gets a treat there. He knows the routine!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 5h

Honestly, I would wear that as a shirt! I really like it!

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 5h

#SpacetoberChalenge Day 9: Nebula

The Hourglass Nebula. This one was definitely out of my comfort zone, but I had fun making it.

#sciart #spaceart #nebula

Illustration of the hourglass nebula in shades of red and orange.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 5h

heeeeey, this is really great! I love the colour scheme, it is really captivating and striking! Well done!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 5h

He would have a coronary.

Double the win!

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 5h

Look if he gets a Nobel because he bullied his way into getting one, then every living Nobel Laureate should hand theirs back because it will, put simply, taint any value of such an award.

He is the last person who should be recognised for any form of positive achievement on the planet.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 6h

It even got an awesome cover for the edition of @science.org !

Front cover of Science magazine, showing a total solar eclipse in the clouds, with a bird flying near the focus of the image. The title "Eclipsising the Sun - a unique cosmic event shows an influence of light on bird behaviour"

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 6h

This is AWESOME science - connecting astrophysical phenomena as perceived here on Earth, with Earth's fauna.

"...these analyses revealed that half of the species responded to the end of the eclipse by singing a dawn chorus despite the “night” lasting only a few minutes"

Eclipses are special!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 6h

Happy bday!!

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 8h

Heading into @sydney.edu.au for the last of Prof. Stappers lectures!

(also, fighting some horrendous nausea triggered by the motion of this uber from some medication I took this morning)

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 2d

Off to @sydney.edu.au to hear Prof. Ben Stappers talk about #pulsars as part of the Hunstead Lecture Series!

a white star with a blue beam coming from it

Alt: a white star with a beam coming from its magnetic poles rotating rapidly

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 23h

This hologram (I believe the world’s deepest, and the largest laser transmission hologram) depicts the before, during, and after of a New Year’s party hosted by the artist. It was painstakingly reconstructed in the lab from photos by artist Fiona Hall - astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott’s daughter!

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 23h

Wonderful to tour the new Jim Piper Centre at Macquarie, and see Paula Dawson’s To Absent Friends in the new gallery!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 9h

This was in our old building before we moved — glad to see it is back!

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 10h

What a beautiful way to say goodbye.

Also 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Rest well, Manolo! You deserve it, little mate.

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10h

This is Manolo. His family invited strangers to spend time with him on his last day. His mom said, "This was such a perfect way to celebrate the life of a dog who truly loved spending time with people and their dogs. Run free and fast forever, Manolo. I will never stop missing you." 14/10 for all

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 10h

Accurate.

Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 10h

My best explanation of parallel lines

Two parallel lines going up. Top line says "The age I consider 'old'" and the bottom line says "My age".

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 14h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 10h

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 11h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 10h

Remains relevant 👇

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Jul 22

As many have said before, and have reiterated today ...

Nothing scares Trump more than a woman of colour holding him accountable.

He knows that his erratic and simple slogan messaging won't hold up, so he'll slip up and say something racist, misogynist, etc. that will then dominate headlines.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 10h

Nebby.

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Michael Brown @mjibrown.bsky.social · 12h

A US tech startup is proposing to use mirrors in space to power solar farms on Earth at night. Is this even feasible? And what are the light pollution dangers?

Myself and @mattkenworthy.bsky.social have crunched the numbers for The Conversation.

theconversation.com/a-us-startup...

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 20h

The grandest spiral of them all! 🌀

One of my fav targets to catch from my backyard too!

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 1d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 12h

There’s lots of crappy things going on right now.

Don’t forget there is also lots of good stuff going on across the world …. and even beyond! ☄️

Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 16h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 12h

“Dealt the metaphorical killing blow”

— a one-page concise, correct and consumable summary by Judge Vargas in this legal document that will bring you up to speed quickly.

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 13h

Honestly, make a list of everything that he has said since January.

Then read over that list to understand how insane and unscientific it all is.

Then show it to the people who confirmed his nomination and tell them that they put their vote towards this.