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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...

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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

They should do some flips while they're at it

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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 · 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 · 02/03/2026

Intro to late nights wrestling with data...

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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Oof, I had that once. At least my commute back wasn't too bad for that... What's the course?

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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Sure, Zoom ain't perfect, but it's way better than Teams in my and many other people's experiences, and forcing everyone into one option without addressing any concerns raised (which they asked for) is kinda crap.

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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The email we got isn't great either. It starts with 'Dear ,' - they forgot to address us. Then the claim of this to help save jobs - for a uni currently _in financial surplus_. Yet too poor to afford even a few Zoom licenses for departments to share. How many jobs will be saved by this? 🙄

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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

They asked for input last year about the idea. A bucnh of us responded, highlighting where Teams fails, issues with forcing visiting people giving seminars to have it downloaded when they may not even have a Windows machine, etc. No response to these points, just an outright 'no Zoom at all'.

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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 · 14/12/2025

To be fair the microburst idea is just a theory for what could have caused the signal we saw here.

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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I helped find this! It was quite a pain actually, because it was so 'close' - had to drop antennas to be able to get the signal from the ASKAP voltage data.

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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

And finally out of the grounds. It took a while longer for it to get off the hill entirely - narrow road with turns navigated without a hitch in the end.

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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

The whole book is _only_ $3000 USD... oof. The one chapter itself is a ~100th of that in cost, but you can read the preprint version (which doesn't weirdly add a hyphen to the title!) for free :v arxiv.org/abs/2410.24072

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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 · 15/09/2025

Saw even more of them in other parts of Greece. Including the islands!

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Marcin Glowacki @astromarcin.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Huh... I was there only two days ago!

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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 · 18/07/2025

It was one of the shootouts of all time :v

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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

We found there are some significant correlations! Scattering timescales correlates with compactness (stellar surface density), mass-weighted age, and gas-phase metallicity. Meanwhile, |RM| increased in hosts with more edge-on disks.

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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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