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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I received the award alongside two other fabulous astronomers @astrolaura.com & Dr Fiona Panther 🔭👩‍🔬✨

Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can you tell that I was very excited to win a @aipscience.bsky.social Young Tall Poppy award? The Young Tall Poppy awards recognise and celebrate Australian scientific excellence and science communication 🔭👩‍🔬 @unisq.bsky.social

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are offering a new round of 4 Physics Foundation PhD scholarships @sydney.edu.au Available in any area of #physics or #astronomy. Please send to any students (domestic and international) who may be interested. Deadline 18th October. ⚛️ ☄️ www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

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Physics Foundation Scholarship

A stipend scholarship to support PhD students who are undertaking research within School of Physics, Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney.

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Really enjoyed the first @astro-on-tap.sydney event at the Endeavour Tap Rooms last night! Thanks to Nichole Barry, Peter Tuthill, and Orsola De Marco for their talks, @breaky.bsky.social for her logo & stickers, and all our guests for coming!

Nichole Barry, Peter Tuthill, Orsola De Marco, me, Rebecca McElroy

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 08/09/2026

At the inaugural @astro-on-tap.sydney event here in The Rocks and loving the logo! Looking forward to talks from the speakers tonight — full house! Awesome work setting this up @benjaminpope.bsky.social and @breaky.bsky.social !

Ben Pope standing in front of a room full of people talking on a microphone

Speakers list at the Astronomy on tap event. Includes Nichole Barry, Peter Turhill and Orsola De Marco.

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A couple of cancellations so we have a few seats available!

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm extremely proud of @breaky.bsky.social winning a Tall Poppy Award for her science and communication in Queensland! She's of three astronomers recognised this year - alongside the excellent Fiona Panther (WA) and Laura Driessen (NSW)!

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2026 Young Tall Poppy Science Award Winners - AIPS

Meet the 2026 Young Tall Poppy Science Award Winners – Australia's leading early-career researchers and science communicators.

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is fun (1992): - exoplanet - meh - home page - cutscene - throw shade

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

And some of my Sydney-based students came along! @unisq.bsky.social

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Had a wonderful time talking about supermassive black holes and the Vera Rubin Observatory at Pint of Science in Sydney last night! 🔭 @vrubinobs.bsky.social @unisq.bsky.social @pintofscienceau.bsky.social @pintsworld.bsky.social #PintofScience #sydney

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Do you like science? Do you like pubs? Well you are in luck! I am giving a talk on supermassive black holes and their dramatic lives in Randwick at the Coach & Horses Hotel on the 20th of May. Tickets below 🔭 pintofscience.com.au/event/pint-o...

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Pint of Science @ Coach & Horses Hotel, Randwick | 20 May

Pint of Science returns to Sydney, bringing scientists ready to share their latest discoveries and ideas in pubs across the city. Come along for a casual e…

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Redirecting funding from basic science to applied science isn't just wrong because you need to start with basics - because products are assembled out of *many* ideas. It's like asking farmers to pivot from making tomatoes, cheese, grains, mushrooms, herbs, and focus on making pizzas.

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George Zhou @georgezhouastro.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We are looking for two new PhD students to join our group at the University of Southern Queensland to work on exoplanet demographics and atmospheres. See AAS ad below. aas.org/jobregister/...

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PhD Positions in Exoplanets | American Astronomical Society

The Exoplanet group at University of Southern Queensland Centre for Astrophysics is inviting candidates for two fully funded PhD scholarships (3 years).

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Check out this fun gif of Artemis on its trip to the Moon! @unisq.bsky.social 🔭

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I removed social media from my phone - it only exists on the ipad now. I can't accidentally end up on social media and it has really helped!

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We were lucky to get a break in the clouds to see most of the lunar eclipse! My photos are very blurry - but look at this gorgeous shot from UniSQ's Mt Kent Observatory 🔭 @unisq.bsky.social #eclipse

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Perhaps if the Herzog protesters had turned up dressed as Nazis the cops would have left them alone

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Pushing and injuring a prominent MP who clearly identifies herself as such and who is filming peacefully is the sort of thing you can only do if you expect impunity

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Muslim organisations and civil liberties groups have slammed NSW Premier Chris Minns after NSW Police threw punches, used pepper spray, charged into pro-Palestine protesters and forcibly broke up a Muslim prayer group outside Sydney Town Hall yesterday. www.deepcutnews.com/p/unfathomab...

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'Unfathomable state violence': NSW Police set upon Muslim prayer group, protesters at Sydney rally

Muslim groups decry 'shocking abuse' of peaceful worshippers

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Town Hall Police Riot needs charges laid against cops who attacked protesters and resignations at the top. A total disaster for social cohesion

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 03/12/2025

There continues to be a lot of conversation on how astronomers and researchers must “deal” with the existing and incoming pollution caused by satellite constellations. But I want to see this reframed into asking: “Why do these companies need this many satellites in orbit?”

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Hugh McDougall Astro @hughmcd-astro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Every wondered how we know that supermassive black holes are so supermassive? Well one trick is to watch how light echoes around them, using "reverberations" to map how big they are. In my latest paper I close out the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) to measure the masses of hundreds of SMBH.

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

They really need a train station in Bondi

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Genuinely I don't understand why this government is trying to dismantle science locally when it's at its most vulnerable point globally. Like, what on earth are they trying to achieve. What's the endgame here. What's the constituency for just vandalizing expensively built societal infrastructure

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I was very excited to receive a 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 at last night's Queensland Women in STEM awards at the Queensland Museum. Congratulations to all the other award winners and finalists, it was a privilege to be recognised among such an incredible group of leaders in science!

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Very excited to be a finalist for the Queensland Museum’s Women in STEM prize, and very honoured to be named alongside such amazing women (like the fabulous @alicetwomey.bsky.social) 👩‍🔬🔭

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Check out these fun stickers I made for the Centre for Astrophysics and iLAuNCH! Both are drawings of University of Southern Queensland's Mt Kent Observatory (Queensland's only professional observatory!). p.s. if you want a sticker I have a stash with me, and in the Astro lounge on campus 🤫

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

USyd felt like a fan-forced oven when I was biking earlier! 🥵

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Yay Tam! Couldn’t have gone to a more deserving person.

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Come and see @unisq.bsky.social astronomers talk and do some Space Trivia at Bribie Island RSL at 11am on Saturday! www.facebook.com/share/1arBCH... @astroshishir.bsky.social @elocinimages.bsky.social

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Lovely to see my art out in the world! I made this fun logo for the Stellar and Planetary Research in Greater Sydney (@sprigs.au) group. How many subfields can you spot in the flowers?

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 04/10/2025

greta ily what an outfit

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week.

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

** correction. This is a daytime event - running from 11-1pm!

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Super happy about this paper today led by the brilliant @astroshashank.bsky.social - equations and information theory about what an interferometer really encodes about a stellar surface.

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My fabulous student, @elocinimages.bsky.social, is organising Space Bar - an astronomy night on Bribie Island, hosted at the RSL. Come along to hear from @unisq.bsky.social astronomers, do some space trivia, and maybe win a prize ✨

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If LLMs are widely being used to give legal, medical, and financial advice, why are they not being regulated accordingly

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The March for Humanity across Australia should be a wake-up call for politicians who refuse to take action to end the genocide. Thousands of people from all walks of life demanding in historic numbers that the government sanction Israel. Labor cannot - must not - ignore them.

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Rebecca McElroy @breaky.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 photo from before we were told to turn around by police helicopters and mass texts #sydney #harbourbridge

Protestors walking across Sydney harbour bridge in the rain

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derridalicious @derridalicious.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I’ve seen estimate of 100,000-300,000 people in today’s march. A sobering thought: these are also the conservative (100k) realistic (300k) estimates of people israel massacred in Gaza.

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