Reposted by Christopher BerryUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 19hNottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham. 15640
Reposted by Christopher BerryChristopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🔭 Anyone interested in applying for a RAS Fellowship or 1851 Fellowship at @uofgravity.bsky.social, please get in touch! We have a great gravitational-wave group ⚛️ These fellowships are great for those coming straight from a PhD. We have internal deadlines, so we need to know who's interested soon 0910
Reposted by Christopher BerryProf Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 20hFabulous that humanity has regained the ability to image the Earth's entire auroral oval from orbit. Well done to the whole SMILE/UVI team! 👏 Note how the whole oval seen here is in daylight These ultraviolet images were captured during the middle of summer in the northern hemisphere 👀 0103
Reposted by Christopher BerryConor Fitzpatrick @fitzparticle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@robinbisson.bsky.social doing great work here. If I were on @ukri.org's STFC council I'd be very unhappy with the chair altering approved minutes I'm named on without consultation. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...researchprofessionalnews.comNew evidence raises questions for UKRI on edited STFC minutes - Research Professional NewsFunder insists amended minutes are “accurate summary”, despite differing with slide presented to council 131
Reposted by Christopher BerryAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I absolutely love the idea of everyone across the world, looking up at the cosmos, together. Join in the international fun for 100 hours of stargazing! The challenges start this Thursday! 🔭🎢🧪⚛️ ℹ️: 100hours.online 55321
Reposted by Christopher BerryMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/09/2026How have the constellations changed since humans first looked up? Has the big dipper always pointed to Polaris? Has Polaris always been the North star? (nope!) 211119
Reposted by Christopher BerryLIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 25/09/2026The latest issue of the @ligomagazine.bsky.social is now out with all the latest #GravitationalWaves news! Read it for free at ligo.org/wp-content/u... 🔭🧪⚛️🎶 0196
Reposted by Christopher BerryLISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What do black holes and comic books have in common? More than you'd think. 📖 Read it for free: blackholecomicbook.com 286
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🔭 Anyone interested in applying for a RAS Fellowship or 1851 Fellowship at @uofgravity.bsky.social, please get in touch! We have a great gravitational-wave group ⚛️ These fellowships are great for those coming straight from a PhD. We have internal deadlines, so we need to know who's interested soon 0910
Reposted by Christopher BerryLucien Heurtier @lucienheurtier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Excellent article about the crisis faced by physics research in the UK: Brian Cox: "I have no idea who mandated this shift or why they think it’s a good idea, but from my perspective it’s a disaster. I urge the new Burnham government to step in..." 🧪🔭 www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...thetimes.comBrian Cox: Physics in Britain is facing a crisisThe celebrity physicist has joined officials in condemning the UK’s decision to withdraw £45 million in funding from the Large Hadron Collider 12812
Reposted by Christopher BerryThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Higher education is good, actually. 76526
Reposted by Christopher BerryNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t. 61257350
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What next, attacking the RSPB for helping Canada geese? 110
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I know Pokémon Go some to get people out, but this seems a bit far 130
Reposted by Christopher BerryCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 18/09/2026I'm finally so excited to share this! My second PhD paper, and what I've spent the last year working on ... We've discovered not one, BUT TWO, profile change events on the closest and brightest millisecond pulsar (MSP) to Earth! www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/disc... Let's jump ito a 🧵👇 🔭📡 823357
Reposted by Christopher BerryLucien Heurtier @lucienheurtier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026📢 Are you working in Particle Physics, Astronomy, and Nuclear (PPAN) in the UK? You were sent a survey regarding Early-Career Researchers and the impact of STFC cuts on them. If you didn't, PM me, as we need as many ECRs to fill it asap, and you could help spread it. If you were, fill/spread it!🧪 031
Reposted by Christopher BerryCarbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 17/09/2026NEW – Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge ✍️ Written by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social and Anubha Aggarwal @creacleanair.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/JIwsTKV 46525
Reposted by Christopher BerryChristopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good to see @heraldscotland.bsky.social picking up the story of the chronic shortage of Physics teachers in Scotland www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655294... 🎢⚛️🏴eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.comScotland faces worsening physics teacher shortage, says new IOP reportIOP Scotland is calling for a new 10-year strategy to boost retention, recruitment and retraining. 272
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good to see @heraldscotland.bsky.social picking up the story of the chronic shortage of Physics teachers in Scotland www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655294... 🎢⚛️🏴eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.comScotland faces worsening physics teacher shortage, says new IOP reportIOP Scotland is calling for a new 10-year strategy to boost retention, recruitment and retraining. 272
Reposted by Christopher BerryRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tapping the sign. There is a solution to the “problem“ of the *scary* (ooooOOOOooh spooky) asylum centre and its to just treat them as normal people and start integrating them into society the moment they get here and just find them homes 123540
Reposted by Christopher BerryCarbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026NEW – CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ | By @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/SBtfvG3 34528
Reposted by Christopher BerryCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 16/09/2026Western Australia’s wildflower season is happening, and the ASKAP and SKA antennas are surrounded by lots of growth! Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, looks great thanks to the early winter rains! Read more: www.csiro.au/en/news/All/... 📸 CSIRO 38121
Reposted by Christopher BerryPaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?bbc.co.ukThe Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract showsThe Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows. 21993072831
Reposted by Christopher BerryLIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 14/09/2026Happy birthday #GW150914! 11 years ago today, we caught our first gravitational wave, and founded a new type of astronomy A decade later, we now have hundreds of observations! 🔭🧪🎂 413247
Reposted by Christopher BerryDr Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Since then we have seen 390 events! 173
Reposted by Christopher BerrySam @samdolan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026if 50% of the country were to donate £3, we could nearly match today's donations by two crypto-bros 022
Reposted by Christopher BerryEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A small good (arguably v cute) thing happened in my garden a few days ago - a break from the doom scroll 👇🏼🪶 29114
Reposted by Christopher BerryDr Áine O’Brien @aineclareob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thanks @sophieatrpn.bsky.social for covering this, glad to have had the chance to be heard (and remain so gutted we are losing the vital work of RPN) 033
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'd love to know the context of the statement that academics are spending “hours if not days” on grant applications? The prospect of spending only hours on a proposal feels ridiculous to me #AcademicSky 060
Reposted by Christopher BerryGrant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data 4356114
Reposted by Christopher BerryChris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Chris McDonald: funding system ‘destroying’ value of research. New science minister wants fewer, longer-term grants and a “smoother and simpler system”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p... 014
Reposted by Christopher BerryMarkus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 10/09/2026When we do outreach or education, astronomers frequently claim that public and student interest in astronomy is greater than in other sciences, making it an ideal entry way for science. My article analyzing Wikipedia page views which (somewhat) supports this claim is out in the CAP Journal. 🔭⚛️🧪🎢capjournal.orgEnglish-speaking Wikipedia users’ interest in astronomyWikipedia users’ interest in astronomy is examined using data available for pageviews over the period 2016–2025. Interest, as measured by the level of engagement, is gauged by examining the top 30 ast... 14117
Reposted by Christopher BerryEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 09/09/2026How much warmer was summer 2026 than 1976 for the UK? Interesting differences between daytime (Tmax) and nighttime (Tmin). 2026 was much warmer than 1976, including in rural areas. (The only exception is daytime temperatures in Scotland.) 05018
Reposted by Christopher BerryProf Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Join us! We are advertising not one but TWO new observation-oriented tenure track faculty positions, in the areas of massive stars/compact binaries and exoplanets. Links in thread! [Genuine footage from our staff meetings, seen below]static.klipy.comAvengers Assemble with ThorAlt: Avengers Assemble - camera pans around the Avengers on a New York (?) street. Thor chairs the staff meeting. 22715
Reposted by Christopher BerryDaniel Williams @daniel-williams.co.uk · 07/09/2026In arxiv.org/abs/2609.03859 @cplberry.bsky.social and myself have a look at the new things the cornucopia of new black hole collisions have taught us about the Universe and the way it works. We also have what I hope are some handy never-seen-before plots. 111
Reposted by Christopher BerryJRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt. 6861112007
Reposted by Christopher BerryAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Help save Maxwell's resting place & make his work known to broader audiences! #HPS ⚛️ 🧪 12915
Reposted by Christopher BerryShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe 13140001089
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Preprint out today: A short review of science to come from GWTC-4.0 and GWTC-5.0 put together with @daniel-williams.co.uk arxiv.org/abs/2609.03859 Catch up on some of the recent advances in gravitational-wave astronomy 🔭☄️🧪⚛️ #GWTC4 #GWTC5 0184
Reposted by Christopher BerryCIERA @nuciera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🔭 Postdoctoral positions open at CIERA! We're now accepting applications for CIERA Postdoctoral Fellowships and Postdoctoral Associate positions in theoretical astronomy and astrophysics. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3SLEvHK 031
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Wow, this is shocking! Farage caught on film actually in his constituency! 070
Reposted by Christopher BerryCorey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Happy Carrington Event Day to all who celebrate. On Sept 2-3, 1859, a huge solar flare hit Earth with the most intense magnetic storm on record. Auroras bloomed, magnetometers went wild, and telegraph machines sparked around the world. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 27527
Reposted by Christopher BerryJames Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 02/09/2026It cannot be stated enough: whatever your view of technology & policy development over the rest of this century & beyond, the rapid ending of fossil fuels is the most resilient & robust way to secure a liveable climate. 217584
Reposted by Christopher BerryHella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3 1666172586
Reposted by Christopher BerryAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026That was a v fast-paced debate on the STFC funding cuts! Good things: * The minister did not trot out the infuriating "there are no cuts" line * Lots of MPs there passionately standing up for their constituents who are directly impacted * Everyone there seemed to genuinely love the work we do! 15014