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Marcin Glowacki

@astromarcin.bsky.social
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Radio astronomer at the Uni of Edinburgh. Has a moustache.

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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Been in Bath for the UK/Ireland Transients Meeting! Felt my talk went really well too. Pretty beautiful city, although the distance from Edinburgh means I'm taking the train back tomorrow. Oh no, more time to look at the city near sunset time... woe is me...
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 27/07/2026
Terrible news. Aside from learning more about the universe, we're not going to get much economic growth by cutting science funding. (If only we had a Prime Minister who was interested in supporting the north, and Manchester in particular, who could stop this.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Good set-up to the start of the town hall at #NAM2026
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
At NAM this week. Two talks and a poster/flash talk planned... but I managed to also come away with a medal last night from the NAM football tournament?? Nice souvenir
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So they went ultra defensive complete with changes, and continued with that despite the clear shift for the worse, and are now losing. Go figure!
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This... sounds pretty reasonable...? Execution is another matter, but we'll see on that. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Labor takes a stand on data centre rules and AI copyright
The prime minister unveils Labor's plan for new AI national standards, warning Australia has a narrow window to set AI's "social licence".
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This Sunday!!
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
At the SKAO today for the DARA MRes Symposium event today! My student gave a nice talk on the gas content of Simba radio galaxies in a very fancy 'council chamber'. #DARA #SKAO
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I'll be giving a talk at Pints of Knowledge end of June! It's part of the first set of talks they'll be doing in Scotland - this is in Glasgow. www.tickettailor.com/events/pints...
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Buy tickets – "How Radio Telescopes See What Our Eyes Can't" – Drygate Brewery
"How Radio Telescopes See What Our Eyes Can't" – Drygate Brewery, Sun 28 Jun 2026 - "How Radio Telescopes See What Our Eyes Can't"with Dr. Marcin GlowackiWhen most people picture astronomy, they pictu...
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Helping organise a workshop on the Simba simulations (and its upcoming successor Kiara!) June 10-12, registration closes this Friday (1st May). higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/workshops/si...
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Workshop: Simba/Kiara Team Meeting 2026 - Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
Workshop: Workshop
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Uni of Edinburgh is forcing everyone onto Teams, rip Zoom login. -_- I don't think I know anyone in academia who things Teams suffices for telecons, workshops, colloquia, etc! 🧵
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Last week I got to visit Bristol Uni for a talk and collab. Some nice views including from the Physics/Astro department's roof, including of its telescope! Helps it got sunny then, haha.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🔊 Calling UK early career researches in astro, particle & nuclear physics. Please sign this open response to the proposed cuts at STFC ⚛️🧪🔭 "Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people" ✍️ ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io
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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Royal Astronomical Society is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Read our statement 👉 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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Proposed budget cuts a catastrophe for UK astronomy
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (...
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Today at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh a bunch of astronomers said farewell to the #MOONS spectrograph, complete with bagpipes. It's off to Chile to do cool science on the VLT!
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Nice view for a few minutes in particular from the office today
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In Oxford for a couple days! And it's quite cold today... but at least it is dry.
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A nice slightly early birthday present - paper accepted email! Now I have to fight arxiv's system because the last time I tried with the PASA template... a weirdly unfun experience.
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A while ago I co-wrote a book chapter with Prof Khee-Gan Lee - as of last week the book got published! It's in the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, and the chapter is about doing cosmology with fast radio bursts. www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, Five Volume Set is a brand new, up to date reference work consisting of 153 chapters, headed up by an editorial board of...
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Important educational lessons at the #PHISCC neutral hydrogen conference in Sardinia
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
After two talks, discussion sessions, and safaris at a conference, now in Cape Town for catching up with friends and some collab work next week (besides grant writing/responding to ref report...) Made a friend this evening too!
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Very rude guests interrupted someone's conference talk today. They should have read the code of conduct! #HungryHIppos #Kruger
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Astronomy conferencing when the power goes out #HungryHIppos #Kruger
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Going back to South Africa today! Conference at Kruger, and then Cape Town Friday-Thursday. LMK if you wanted to catch up!
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Gave a talk at Dynamic Radio Sky last night! About our findings with scattering correlations for FRB host galaxies. I really do mean 'last night' - it was 12:30am for me... and probably the best possible time given the schedule! Better than not being able to give the talk at all. #timezones
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Jumped from double conference week into double telescope proposals deadline day (albeit one got led by my student in the end, and neither of them were started from scratch). Hoping next time MeerKAT and GMRT won't conspire to have their deadlines on the same day! 🫠
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Treated #NAM2025 to a musical, rhyming 1-min sparkler talk this morning >:] Thanks to a particular tune from The Sound of Music...
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This morning I gave a 1 min sparkler talk about a poster on FRBs and scattering correlations with host galaxy properties at #NAM2025 in Durham in person. This evening I gave a talk over telecon at #FRB2025 about a new repeating FRB discovery. That's right dual conferencing baybeeee
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Also got to see my PhD student, Hugh Roxburgh, give his talk at #FRB2025! He was a perfect 12 hours time difference from that meeting in Montreal. Hugh's carrying on with HI follow-up of multiple FRBs - paper submission is soon!
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Attending #NAM2025 this week - only arrived today but in Durham for the week. Seeing the castle shortly after getting off the train by the river was pretty neat. Got posters (plural) for this conference - first flash/sparkler talk tomorrow!
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I put out a preprint recently! Investigated how FRB properties (such as scattering timescale and |RM|) we measured for 35 FRBs localised via ASKAP and the CELEBI pipeline (plus a few in the lit), correlated (or not) with global host properties. #FRB arxiv.org/abs/2506.23403
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An investigation into correlations between FRB and host galaxy properties
Impulsive radio signals such as fast radio bursts (FRBs) are imprinted with the signatures of multi-path propagation through ionised media in the form of frequency-dependent temporal broadening of the...
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New repeating FRB! www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17257
astronomerstelegram.org
ATel #17257: ASKAP discovery of a high rotation measure repeating Fast Radio Burst source with |RM| > 7000 rad m^-2
ATel On
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The paper came out only in the past day, but the preprint was on arxiv last week. Despite no PR planned, it randomly got picked up, including by CNN... and all because we found a satellite rather than what we were trying to detect. But that's cool too. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/s...
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Long-dead satellite emits strong radio signal, puzzling astronomers | CNN
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that astronomers initially struggled to explain.
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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hot off the press - a new Nature @natureportfolio.nature.com paper by Ziteng (Andy Wang)! A new long period transient, this time with X-ray emission. Discovered as part of our ASKAP transient searches, it has a strong burst of radio emission every 44.2 minutes. #RadioAstronomy #AstroSci
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I've been part of a large collaborative effort, featuring a bunch of CRAFT survey people, behind this discovery! A long-period radio transient (LPT - rare objects) detected in X-ray, the first for an LPT! Images by the lead author, Ziteng (Andy) Wang. #nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I, alongside my boss Romeel, have a Masters project being advertised through #DARA - the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy program! Deadline is this Sunday - if you are/know a potential student from specific countries in Africa, check it out! www.dara-project.org/advancedprog...
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Advanced Programme | dara-project
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Gave a seminar at St Andrews yesterday! Talked on a mix of FRB, HI with MeerKAT, and simulation work. Was a nice town to walk through after the work day was done too (helped the weather was nigh perfect).
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a fire near a uni building I worked at, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right? (This one was fine, unless you're small patches of vegetation. But not something I expected to see in Scotland! Thanks firefighters.)
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Overleaf is down for the past half hour... nobody panic!
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a cartoon toad with his mouth wide open
ALT: a cartoon toad with his mouth wide open
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Watching the stream from the other side of the world. What a swing from 3 months ago #aus
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Sent in my postal vote for the Aus election recently - took a bit to get here! Will be interesting to see how it goes...
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
How not to schedule recurring events
A screenshot of my inbox highlighting 14 emails each about the same repeating event at a university department.
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Spring arrived early for this tree compared to most around here
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Gave a talk at work today about VR and using it for astronomy research and outreach! I like showing off that stuff.
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Some good talks at the International Women's Day event held today at work. Involved some personal stories as well.
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Shortly after I started my postdoc in Australia, September 2021, we applied for a partner visa for my wife. This week, in March 2025, she got the 2nd stage of the visa, over six months after we moved country for my next postdoc...
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 12/03/2025
👀👀👀 Two exciting preprints today from Aussie institutions and scientists! 🔭☄️ 1. A 41-sec radio pulsar! Slowest pulsar we know about is ~23-secs and then there are these mysterious long-period transients that have rotations periods of mins to hours. This one fits between them!
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The discovery of a 41-second radio pulsar PSR J0311+1402 with ASKAP
The emerging population of long-period radio transients (LPTs) show both similarities and differences with normal pulsars. A key difference is that their radio emission is too bright to be powered sol...
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Met a new friend during the walk home from work today
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Hope: Now that I've submitted this grant app I can get back to research! Reality: A bunch of other tasks and emails that were neglected during grant writing needs attention first 😅
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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"I wish overleaf wasn't still down..."
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