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Luca Cortese @astroquokka.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Wondering what is the point of an ARC assessment review process if assessors are just asked to amend text removing the most dubious parts of assessments but likely not change the grade. Happened twice in a row. May deter people from even asking for a review in the future @arc-tracker.bsky.social

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Irene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Honestly this should be a cause for national embarrassment. There's no justifying these timelines, especially the perverse delay between the panel meeting and the final announcement for DPs this year. Somehow grant panels in other countries can handle multiple cycles a year and yet here we are.

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Luca Cortese @astroquokka.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Congratulations to @icrar.bsky.social PhD student, Amy Attwater, for the publication of her MAUVE-MUSE paper on star formation-driven outflows in satellite galaxies. 🎉 Feedback may be more important than previous thought for quenching galaxies in clusters. arxiv.org/abs/2512.10574

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 15/12/2025

📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows a sideways spiral galaxy called NGC 4388. 🧪🔭 🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2... @science.esa.int @stsci.edu

A spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-on. Its disk is filled with red and blue lights from star-forming nebulae and clusters of hot stars, respectively, as well as thick dark clouds of dust that block the strong white light from its centre. A faint, glowing halo of gas surrounds the disc, fading into the black background. A bluish plume of gas also extends from the galaxy’s core to the lower-right of the image.

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Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) @astroaustralia.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The latest @eso.org Messenger includes science highlights from the #MAUVE ESO Large Programme led by astronomers at @icrar.bsky.social, plus a profile of Australian ESO Fellow @ameliafm.bsky.social. eso.org/sci/publicat...

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 11/04/2025

The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: aas.org/press/aas-st... and take action now: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

ARC has “paused” future rounds of grant schemes pending outcomes of its NCGP Policy Review. All schemes previously scheduled to open before 1 July this year will go ahead. But next year’s Laureates, Industry Fellowships & Discovery Indigenous won’t. See table👇 & www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...

Black text on white background. Screenshot from ARC’s Grants Calendar webpage showing which schemes will go ahead next year (upper bullet points), and which will be “paused” pending the outcomes of the review of the National Competitive Grants Program (lower bullet points). Source: https://www.arc.gov.au/funding-research/ARC_grants-calendar

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 10/02/2025

Our dark Universe detective 🕵️ Euclid has discovered a stunning Einstein ring! 💍 It surrounds galaxy NGC 6505, which is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a distant galaxy behind it. Why is this rare phenomenon so useful for scientists? 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪 #cosmology

$A sea of colourful stars and galaxies appear to swim in the vast blackness of space around a hazy halo at centre stage. In the middle of the image, the fuzzy-looking bulb of light in a warm shade of yellow extends around a small bright spot, nestled within a thin light circle that appears to be drawn closely around it. As we follow the central halo’s rim outwards, its brightness dims and blends smoothly into its surroundings. Here, extended discs of shades ranging from a warm purple to golden yellow, and piercing dots of light with sharp diffraction spikes are spread evenly across the image.$

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