Matt Bothwell
@mattbothwell.com
Astrophysicist, science communicator, author, human person
🪐 Public Astronomer at the University of Cambridge 🏛️ Bye-fellow at Girton College, Cambridge 📚 Author of The Invisible Universe, Astrophysics for Supervillains, & more
www.mattbothwell.com
🪐 Public Astronomer at the University of Cambridge 🏛️ Bye-fellow at Girton College, Cambridge 📚 Author of The Invisible Universe, Astrophysics for Supervillains, & more
www.mattbothwell.com
Astronomy convention goes
- 1st author, who did the most work and wrote the paper
- Then a handful of names, roughly in order of how much they contributed
- Then everyone else in the collaboration listed alphabetically
The ‘last author’ is just someone with a surname late in the alphabet… 🔭🧪
- 1st author, who did the most work and wrote the paper
- Then a handful of names, roughly in order of how much they contributed
- Then everyone else in the collaboration listed alphabetically
The ‘last author’ is just someone with a surname late in the alphabet… 🔭🧪
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Astronomy convention goes
- 1st author, who did the most work and wrote the paper
- Then a handful of names, roughly in order of how much they contributed
- Then everyone else in the collaboration listed alphabetically
The ‘last author’ is just someone with a surname late in the alphabet… 🔭🧪
- 1st author, who did the most work and wrote the paper
- Then a handful of names, roughly in order of how much they contributed
- Then everyone else in the collaboration listed alphabetically
The ‘last author’ is just someone with a surname late in the alphabet… 🔭🧪
As Douglas Adam’s said, “I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand”
October 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
As Douglas Adam’s said, “I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand”
A colleague of mine has three different models, shaped differently to represent different gravitational potentials (point source, galaxy, and cluster)
October 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A colleague of mine has three different models, shaped differently to represent different gravitational potentials (point source, galaxy, and cluster)
It is glass! And the other side is flat.
October 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It is glass! And the other side is flat.
Sadly I have no idea! It pre-dates me, and was bought many years ago
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Sadly I have no idea! It pre-dates me, and was bought many years ago
It is regular glass optics, but it’s a piece of glass specifically made so the lending matches the gravitational lending profile of a galaxy. This video shows it a bit better
October 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It is regular glass optics, but it’s a piece of glass specifically made so the lending matches the gravitational lending profile of a galaxy. This video shows it a bit better
Amazing stuff, bravo.
August 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Amazing stuff, bravo.