Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴☠️
@drgavinplamb.bsky.social
(He/Him) Astrophysics researcher at the Astrophysics Research Institute, LJMU, UK. My interests include gamma-ray bursts and gravitational wave sources.
Akira is my go-to manga; I still have Arcane living rent-free in my head, mundus sine caesaribus
Akira is my go-to manga; I still have Arcane living rent-free in my head, mundus sine caesaribus
The denial of your national identity because your accent doesn't sound right.
Please don't question my identity 😕
I'm from New Zealand, I live in Liverpool, and I have a mixed and doubly foreign identity. I'm a stranger to both spouses and kiwis
Please don't question my identity 😕
I'm from New Zealand, I live in Liverpool, and I have a mixed and doubly foreign identity. I'm a stranger to both spouses and kiwis
September 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The denial of your national identity because your accent doesn't sound right.
Please don't question my identity 😕
I'm from New Zealand, I live in Liverpool, and I have a mixed and doubly foreign identity. I'm a stranger to both spouses and kiwis
Please don't question my identity 😕
I'm from New Zealand, I live in Liverpool, and I have a mixed and doubly foreign identity. I'm a stranger to both spouses and kiwis
Just back from my yearly one week holiday.
Went to Ballycastle in Ireland. Visited the Lammas fair but didn't buy any horses... or toy guns
Went to Ballycastle in Ireland. Visited the Lammas fair but didn't buy any horses... or toy guns
September 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Just back from my yearly one week holiday.
Went to Ballycastle in Ireland. Visited the Lammas fair but didn't buy any horses... or toy guns
Went to Ballycastle in Ireland. Visited the Lammas fair but didn't buy any horses... or toy guns
"I hate that we've gone from plastic straws and paper cups to plastic cups and paper straws!" Sebastian(14)
August 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"I hate that we've gone from plastic straws and paper cups to plastic cups and paper straws!" Sebastian(14)
Spotted this grasshopper in my yard.
Erin(10) identified it as a long-winged cone-headed grasshopper - she has a few insect books.
Could this be a climate change migrant? Because these are southern coast Britain at best, and we're up North --> in Merseyside, UK
#climatechange in action?
Erin(10) identified it as a long-winged cone-headed grasshopper - she has a few insect books.
Could this be a climate change migrant? Because these are southern coast Britain at best, and we're up North --> in Merseyside, UK
#climatechange in action?
July 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Spotted this grasshopper in my yard.
Erin(10) identified it as a long-winged cone-headed grasshopper - she has a few insect books.
Could this be a climate change migrant? Because these are southern coast Britain at best, and we're up North --> in Merseyside, UK
#climatechange in action?
Erin(10) identified it as a long-winged cone-headed grasshopper - she has a few insect books.
Could this be a climate change migrant? Because these are southern coast Britain at best, and we're up North --> in Merseyside, UK
#climatechange in action?
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We are over half way through #NAM2025 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social 💫
Here is our incredible conference photo with 100s of the nearly 1000 attendees of NAM! Possibly one of the largest astronomy conference photos ever!
We hope you’re having a great week 🪐
Here is our incredible conference photo with 100s of the nearly 1000 attendees of NAM! Possibly one of the largest astronomy conference photos ever!
We hope you’re having a great week 🪐
July 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We are over half way through #NAM2025 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social 💫
Here is our incredible conference photo with 100s of the nearly 1000 attendees of NAM! Possibly one of the largest astronomy conference photos ever!
We hope you’re having a great week 🪐
Here is our incredible conference photo with 100s of the nearly 1000 attendees of NAM! Possibly one of the largest astronomy conference photos ever!
We hope you’re having a great week 🪐
Tax the rich graffiti spotted between the tiles above a pub pisser in Cork, Ireland.
Always good advice for policy makers
Always good advice for policy makers
July 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Tax the rich graffiti spotted between the tiles above a pub pisser in Cork, Ireland.
Always good advice for policy makers
Always good advice for policy makers
Setting the foundations for our next generation astrophysicists.
Here's a press article that describes the two @royalsocietypublishing.org issues we recently published on the prospects for multimessenger gravitational lensing.
And I get a quote! #LJMU #ARI #astronomy 🔭
phys.org/news/2025-06...
Here's a press article that describes the two @royalsocietypublishing.org issues we recently published on the prospects for multimessenger gravitational lensing.
And I get a quote! #LJMU #ARI #astronomy 🔭
phys.org/news/2025-06...
Unlocking the mysteries of the universe with multi-messenger gravitational lensing
Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with powerful new instruments sensitive to gravitational waves and electromagnetic r...
phys.org
June 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Setting the foundations for our next generation astrophysicists.
Here's a press article that describes the two @royalsocietypublishing.org issues we recently published on the prospects for multimessenger gravitational lensing.
And I get a quote! #LJMU #ARI #astronomy 🔭
phys.org/news/2025-06...
Here's a press article that describes the two @royalsocietypublishing.org issues we recently published on the prospects for multimessenger gravitational lensing.
And I get a quote! #LJMU #ARI #astronomy 🔭
phys.org/news/2025-06...
Mouse in my bird feeder.
Quite the adventurous little fellow.
Not sure if it's stuck, but it is very happy
Quite the adventurous little fellow.
Not sure if it's stuck, but it is very happy
June 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Mouse in my bird feeder.
Quite the adventurous little fellow.
Not sure if it's stuck, but it is very happy
Quite the adventurous little fellow.
Not sure if it's stuck, but it is very happy
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Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs.
“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”
“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”
“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
June 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs.
“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”
“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”
“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
The proof editor of my recent paper changed every instance of "disk" to "disc".
In accretion disk parlance, both are fine... but I had a section titled, "diskoseismology", and that is now, "discoseismology"!?
My science gets the dance floor shaking! 😅
In accretion disk parlance, both are fine... but I had a section titled, "diskoseismology", and that is now, "discoseismology"!?
My science gets the dance floor shaking! 😅
June 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The proof editor of my recent paper changed every instance of "disk" to "disc".
In accretion disk parlance, both are fine... but I had a section titled, "diskoseismology", and that is now, "discoseismology"!?
My science gets the dance floor shaking! 😅
In accretion disk parlance, both are fine... but I had a section titled, "diskoseismology", and that is now, "discoseismology"!?
My science gets the dance floor shaking! 😅
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At the cinema.
By myself.
To watch the first 3 episodes of the new Dan Da Dan S2.
Treat yo'self.
#DanDaDan
#LightCinemaNewBrighton
#GrandmaAyase FTW
By myself.
To watch the first 3 episodes of the new Dan Da Dan S2.
Treat yo'self.
#DanDaDan
#LightCinemaNewBrighton
#GrandmaAyase FTW
June 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
At the cinema.
By myself.
To watch the first 3 episodes of the new Dan Da Dan S2.
Treat yo'self.
#DanDaDan
#LightCinemaNewBrighton
#GrandmaAyase FTW
By myself.
To watch the first 3 episodes of the new Dan Da Dan S2.
Treat yo'self.
#DanDaDan
#LightCinemaNewBrighton
#GrandmaAyase FTW
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Four charts showing the extent of cuts to NASA in the FY26 budget:
- Cuts to every science division
- Smallest science funding since 1984
- 19 active, inflight missions cancelled
- Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961
- Cuts to every science division
- Smallest science funding since 1984
- 19 active, inflight missions cancelled
- Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961
May 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Four charts showing the extent of cuts to NASA in the FY26 budget:
- Cuts to every science division
- Smallest science funding since 1984
- 19 active, inflight missions cancelled
- Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961
- Cuts to every science division
- Smallest science funding since 1984
- 19 active, inflight missions cancelled
- Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961
The long duration, but likely neutron star merger origin, gamma-ray burst GRB 211211A had a short and low luminosity pre-cursor with duration ~0.2s - and looks to have a 20 Hz periodicity.
The question we asked, "what would cause that!?"
Our paper in #mnras
academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...
The question we asked, "what would cause that!?"
Our paper in #mnras
academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...
Prompt Periodicity in the GRB 211211A Precursor: Black-hole or magnetar engine?
Abstract. The merger origin long GRB 211211A was a class (re-)defining event. A precursor was identified with a ∼1 s separation from the main burst, as wel
urldefense.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
@ljmuofficial.bsky.social led research into the origins of periodicity in an extra-galactic flash of high energy gamma-rays
With my collaborators from Leicester, Melbourne, Hamburg, Sendai, Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Fullerton, and Nijmegen
@ljmu-ris.bsky.social #ARI #LJMU #astrophysics #liverpool
With my collaborators from Leicester, Melbourne, Hamburg, Sendai, Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Fullerton, and Nijmegen
@ljmu-ris.bsky.social #ARI #LJMU #astrophysics #liverpool
The long duration, but likely neutron star merger origin, gamma-ray burst GRB 211211A had a short and low luminosity pre-cursor with duration ~0.2s - and looks to have a 20 Hz periodicity.
The question we asked, "what would cause that!?"
Our paper in #mnras
academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...
The question we asked, "what would cause that!?"
Our paper in #mnras
academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...
Prompt Periodicity in the GRB 211211A Precursor: Black-hole or magnetar engine?
Abstract. The merger origin long GRB 211211A was a class (re-)defining event. A precursor was identified with a ∼1 s separation from the main burst, as wel
urldefense.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
@ljmuofficial.bsky.social led research into the origins of periodicity in an extra-galactic flash of high energy gamma-rays
With my collaborators from Leicester, Melbourne, Hamburg, Sendai, Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Fullerton, and Nijmegen
@ljmu-ris.bsky.social #ARI #LJMU #astrophysics #liverpool
With my collaborators from Leicester, Melbourne, Hamburg, Sendai, Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Fullerton, and Nijmegen
@ljmu-ris.bsky.social #ARI #LJMU #astrophysics #liverpool
The long duration, but likely neutron star merger origin, gamma-ray burst GRB 211211A had a short and low luminosity pre-cursor with duration ~0.2s - and looks to have a 20 Hz periodicity.
The question we asked, "what would cause that!?"
Our paper in #mnras
academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...
The question we asked, "what would cause that!?"
Our paper in #mnras
academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...
Prompt Periodicity in the GRB 211211A Precursor: Black-hole or magnetar engine?
Abstract. The merger origin long GRB 211211A was a class (re-)defining event. A precursor was identified with a ∼1 s separation from the main burst, as wel
urldefense.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The long duration, but likely neutron star merger origin, gamma-ray burst GRB 211211A had a short and low luminosity pre-cursor with duration ~0.2s - and looks to have a 20 Hz periodicity.
The question we asked, "what would cause that!?"
Our paper in #mnras
academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...
The question we asked, "what would cause that!?"
Our paper in #mnras
academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...
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This is actively bananas. LIGO is doing (literally) Nobel winning work, and you need both of them -- the second one is not a spare or a nice to have; this is like buying a fire engine, but deciding it doesn't need wheels on the left hand side...
NSF budget would close down one of LIGO's sites. This would be, to put it lightly, a catastrophe for gravitational wave astronomy.
"In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites
and will support a reduced level for technology development."
bsky.app/profile/hast...
"In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites
and will support a reduced level for technology development."
bsky.app/profile/hast...
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is actively bananas. LIGO is doing (literally) Nobel winning work, and you need both of them -- the second one is not a spare or a nice to have; this is like buying a fire engine, but deciding it doesn't need wheels on the left hand side...
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Fossil fuel companies make billions turning oil in plastic.
They want to keep shovelling plastic down our throats to grow their profits.
We need the UN to ban them from the Global Plastics Treaty talks - sign the petition now: act.gp/4kgDL5U
They want to keep shovelling plastic down our throats to grow their profits.
We need the UN to ban them from the Global Plastics Treaty talks - sign the petition now: act.gp/4kgDL5U
Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks
Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.
act.gp
May 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Fossil fuel companies make billions turning oil in plastic.
They want to keep shovelling plastic down our throats to grow their profits.
We need the UN to ban them from the Global Plastics Treaty talks - sign the petition now: act.gp/4kgDL5U
They want to keep shovelling plastic down our throats to grow their profits.
We need the UN to ban them from the Global Plastics Treaty talks - sign the petition now: act.gp/4kgDL5U
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ME/CFS is an awful, awful disease that can randomly take all quality of life away from... anyone. And there's no known cure - sometimes people get a bit better, other times not.
I'm really glad to see Dianna Cowern aka Physics Girl (an amazingly talented science communicator) get a bit better.
I'm really glad to see Dianna Cowern aka Physics Girl (an amazingly talented science communicator) get a bit better.
First Update From Dianna (Physics Girl)
YouTube video by Physics Girl
youtu.be
May 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
ME/CFS is an awful, awful disease that can randomly take all quality of life away from... anyone. And there's no known cure - sometimes people get a bit better, other times not.
I'm really glad to see Dianna Cowern aka Physics Girl (an amazingly talented science communicator) get a bit better.
I'm really glad to see Dianna Cowern aka Physics Girl (an amazingly talented science communicator) get a bit better.
My boss when I was at University of Leicester, and continued collaborator and mentor.
A well deserved appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society
@royalsociety.org @physicsuol.bsky.social
A well deserved appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society
@royalsociety.org @physicsuol.bsky.social
🔭🧪 Congratulations to Prof Nial Tanvir who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work studying gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions we've ever seen.
le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
Leicester cosmic explosion expert among exceptional scientists elected as Royal Society Fellow | News | University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My boss when I was at University of Leicester, and continued collaborator and mentor.
A well deserved appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society
@royalsociety.org @physicsuol.bsky.social
A well deserved appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society
@royalsociety.org @physicsuol.bsky.social
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🔭🧪 Congratulations to Prof Nial Tanvir who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work studying gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions we've ever seen.
le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
Leicester cosmic explosion expert among exceptional scientists elected as Royal Society Fellow | News | University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🔭🧪 Congratulations to Prof Nial Tanvir who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work studying gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions we've ever seen.
le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
Urgh! I'm just catching up with UK news!
"Incalculable damage..."
...yep, but not by who you say but by what you say, Mr. Prime Minister.
Racist apologists everywhere
"Incalculable damage..."
...yep, but not by who you say but by what you say, Mr. Prime Minister.
Racist apologists everywhere
May 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Urgh! I'm just catching up with UK news!
"Incalculable damage..."
...yep, but not by who you say but by what you say, Mr. Prime Minister.
Racist apologists everywhere
"Incalculable damage..."
...yep, but not by who you say but by what you say, Mr. Prime Minister.
Racist apologists everywhere
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
One for the record books -- May 9, 2025 was the hottest May 9th on record globally, with daily records dating back to 1940.
And yes, this means that May 9, 2025 was likely the hottest May 9th in the last 120,000+ years.
The climate 8-ball says: f&%kery ahead!
Code Yikes!
One for the record books -- May 9, 2025 was the hottest May 9th on record globally, with daily records dating back to 1940.
And yes, this means that May 9, 2025 was likely the hottest May 9th in the last 120,000+ years.
The climate 8-ball says: f&%kery ahead!
May 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
One for the record books -- May 9, 2025 was the hottest May 9th on record globally, with daily records dating back to 1940.
And yes, this means that May 9, 2025 was likely the hottest May 9th in the last 120,000+ years.
The climate 8-ball says: f&%kery ahead!
Code Yikes!
One for the record books -- May 9, 2025 was the hottest May 9th on record globally, with daily records dating back to 1940.
And yes, this means that May 9, 2025 was likely the hottest May 9th in the last 120,000+ years.
The climate 8-ball says: f&%kery ahead!
Reposted by Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴☠️
1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
May 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
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🚨BREAKING: The new Reform Mayor for Lincolnshire has said she will MEET with a fracking company to discuss extracting gas from the county - claiming it will 'save money for taxpayers.'
92% of Reform's donations come from oil/gas interests.
Who else thinks Reform is just a mouthpiece for Big Oil?
92% of Reform's donations come from oil/gas interests.
Who else thinks Reform is just a mouthpiece for Big Oil?
May 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🚨BREAKING: The new Reform Mayor for Lincolnshire has said she will MEET with a fracking company to discuss extracting gas from the county - claiming it will 'save money for taxpayers.'
92% of Reform's donations come from oil/gas interests.
Who else thinks Reform is just a mouthpiece for Big Oil?
92% of Reform's donations come from oil/gas interests.
Who else thinks Reform is just a mouthpiece for Big Oil?