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Duncan K Galloway
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Astrophysicist, educator, cyclist, science communicator. Living through a climate emergency (as are we all) on Boon Wurrung/Wurundjeri land/Netherlands. He/him. http://outs1der.github.io

ORCID: 0000-0002-6558-5121
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science.esa.int
📣 For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed seeing a giant explosion on a star other than our own!

Our XMM-Newton observatory and the LOFAR telescope contributed to making this long sought-after discovery 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 1/
An artist’s impression of a large red star releasing a bright, explosive burst of light. Swirling red and orange patterns surround the star, suggesting intense activity. In the background, a smaller blue planet appears with a faint, wispy trail extending away from it, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. The scene is set against a dark space backdrop dotted with stars.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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startswithabang.bsky.social
The devious trick behind the most sensational science headlines

Sick of sensationalistic science headlines that promise revolutions, but that don't pan out?

Here's what's wrong with science news, and why you keep seeing those dubious stories.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #physics #news
The devious trick behind the most sensational science headlines
Dark matter, dark energy, and the Big Bang are all part of a solid scientific foundation. Here's why popular media often claims otherwise.
bigthink.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Duncan K Galloway
celestelabedz.bsky.social
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Reposted by Duncan K Galloway
dutchcycling.nl
There's no such thing as bad weather just bad clothing! That's where DCE member WOBS (WarmOnBikes) is here to help.

Bike Pogies keep your hands warm and dry when riding your bike. Made sustainably, they are perfect for any all-season cyclist.

Learn more about the Bike Pogies here: buff.ly/pEcrJyl
Woman riding a bike across a snowy bridge in Dutch old city Woman cycling with pink handlebar covers on her bike Woman cycling in nature with handlebar covers on her bike Handlebars covers in zebra print pattern
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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astrojoe.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce our new Springer Nature paper is now live!
We’ve tuned into a massive stellar storm on the radio! 🌟📡
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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modacitylife.com
For taxpayers, every piece of cycling infrastructure is a gift that keeps on giving.

An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.

Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
A woman in casual attire with a broom over her shoulder rides a bicycle across a car-free suspension bridge over a river in Rijswijk.
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Reposted by Duncan K Galloway
woutervanbernebeek.bsky.social
🌌 Weergaloze verrassing afgelopen nacht! Er verscheen intens noorderlicht boven Nederland: deze foto kon ik rond 03.10 uur maken vlakbij Nijmegen. Oorzaak was een plotseling zware geomagnetische storm (G4/KP8), waardoor de lucht zelfs met het blote oog rood kleurde. Vanavond mogelijk nieuwe kansen!
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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jackmdavenport.bsky.social
Adult time for adult crime, brought to you by a bunch of ignorant political dipshits who have no engagement with the realities of trauma, abuse or how many dangerous & violent adult criminals avoid detection, not just jail. #springst

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Victoria’s proposed ‘adult time’ plan to impose life sentences on children condemned by advocates
In a move akin to Queensland’s youth crime laws, Jacinta Allan’s proposal could see children as young as 14 face 20-year jail terms in ‘alarming race to the bottom’, human rights expert says
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reposted by Duncan K Galloway
issibern.ch
Adaptation is now as urgent as mitigation.

Discover how Earth observations can help measure real progress on climate resilience in our new ISSI feature 🌎

📖 www.issibern.ch/earth-observ...

#ClimateAdaptation #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #Sustainability #ISSI #ClimateScience #ParisAgreement
New Perspective “Earth observations for climate adaptation” | International Space Science Institute
Explore how climate adaptation benefits from Earth observations and operational adaptation tracking in recent research.
www.issibern.ch
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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timhollo.bsky.social
Whitlam Dismissal take

The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.

Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.

Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
duncankgalloway.bsky.social
Another win for AI
ldobsonhughes.bsky.social Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 3d
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:

- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.

It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Reposted by Duncan K Galloway
profannawatts.bsky.social
New paper! Led by PhD student Bas Dorsman, and continuing the fine tradition of @api.uva.nl studies of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 (discovered many moons ago by Rudy Wijnands and Michel van der Klis AT THIS VERY INSTITUTE). #highenergyastro 🔭

arxiv.org/abs/2511.07152
Pulse profile modelling of the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using NICER data from its 2019 and 2022 outbursts
Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that has provided constraints on parameters, with a focus on mass and radius, of five rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. While the te...
arxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
duncankgalloway.bsky.social
Bravo! Wonderful news
pennytangey.bsky.social Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social · 1d
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Reposted by Duncan K Galloway
ketanjoshi.co
The idea *suppliers* of fossil fuels are neutral meeters-of-demand remains one of the worst lies

Their job is not just digging up fossil fuels: their job is bullying, pushing, fighting, lying and lobbying to ensure fossil fuels get burned as much as possible

www.rigzone.com/news/wire/ch...
China Gas Sector Lobbies for More Power Plants to Boost Demand by Bloomberg|Bloomberg News | Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | 2:30 AM EST China Gas Sector Lobbies for More Power Plants to Boost Demand China's natural gas producers are lobbying Beijing to increase the number of power plants that run on the fuel, in a bid to help prop up faltering demand. Image by zhang meng via iStock China’s natural gas producers are lobbying Beijing to increase the number of power plants that run on the fuel, in a bid to help prop up faltering demand. The power sector - which currently accounts for 18 percent of China’s gas consumption - is viewed by the industry as a key engine of growth, according to people involved in advising on energy policy. Under the sector’s latest proposal, China would build nearly 70 gigawatts of new gas-fired capacity by 2030, an almost 50 percent increase from 2025’s estimated level, they said, asking not to be named as the plan is not public.
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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margaretmorgan.bsky.social
One of the most damaging and enduring aspects of the Dismissal, fifty years ago today, was its poisoning of the electorate against the Whitlam government, ensuring that it would lose the subsequent election and creating fear of progressive government.

🧵

#auspol
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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astromikemerri.bsky.social
3I/ATLAS Update: would you believe it? It’s *still* a comet. 🔭

(www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/i...)
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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cosmicrami.com
Heads up, folks!

Two Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from the Sun are expected to arrive tonight(ish) and predicted to hit Class-G4 tomorrow evening, thanks to an X1.2 flare unleashed by the AR4274 region on Sol.

Thanks to Earth's magnetic field we'll be safe.

But there might be .. AURORAS!
Space Weather Services website home page showing the solar disc, and several icons that reflect diffent warnings of incoming space weather. The icon for geomagnetic activity for 12 Nov is red and listed as a G4 event, a sever solar storm. There is also text that explains further details about the event. The event is not harmful for people on Earth.
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.

Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Graph showing unemployment benefits relative to poverty
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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mjibrown.bsky.social
Want to know why your mobile phone photos of the Moon look like crap?

I have a new @aunz.theconversation.com article explaining why, how you can take better(ish) photos, and what astronomical sights your phone can photograph well.

theconversation.com/why-is-it-so...
Why is it so hard to take a good photo of the Moon with my phone?
Phones can often take great photos, but why photos of the Moon typically disappointing? The Moon itself and camera design are both part of the answer.
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
duncankgalloway.bsky.social
Go @ailiegallant.bsky.social !
strangerous.bsky.social stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d
Climate scientists Ailie Gallant & Alex Dunne educate RWNJ Malcolm Roberts on science, & explain that “in the case of climate change there is not strong disagreement” among scientists.
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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profsera.bsky.social
An unbelievable privilege and experience today visiting the world leading #ALmA telescope at 5000m in Chile! 🧪🔭 Plus we saw some local fauna!
Photo of woman with hat and oxygen tube under nose in front of stunning desert landscape with an array of white telescope dishes spread out behind. In the background the iconic Licancabur volcano in the background. Photo of a desert landscape with white telescope dishes scattered across the plane, with the Licancabur volcano cone looming over Close up of the APEX single dish telescope with spikey sheets of ice in vertical formation in front and a dramatic sky behind. Photo of three guanacos, a type of Andes camelid related to alpacas and llamas, with cute black faces and tan hides, on a scrubby plain with valley in background.
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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mitpress.bsky.social
"Instead of trying to assuage critics’ fears, the pro-UBI movement needs to challenge the narrative in which any refusal to accept employment is a 'bad' experimental observation."

The latest from @karlwiderquist.bsky.social:
The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into
To win the argument for universal basic income, advocates must confront the myth that less work means less worth.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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christophermichel.com
Paul Ginsparg changed how science is shared. In 1991, in a small Cornell office filled with chalk dust and curiosity, he built ArXiv, the first open-access preprint server. His idea rewired the global flow of knowledge. Physics first, then the world.
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM