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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The denial of your national identity because your accent doesn't sound right. Please don't question my identity 😕 I'm from New Zealand, I live in Liverpool, and I have a mixed and doubly foreign identity. I'm a stranger to both spouses and kiwis

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Just back from my yearly one week holiday. Went to Ballycastle in Ireland. Visited the Lammas fair but didn't buy any horses... or toy guns

A can of Guinness next to a full glass of the stout and a fidget spinner on a small black table. A cozy room behind has contemporary furnishings and a framed Hurling stick on the wall behind

The Dark Hedges, or the King's Road from Game of Thrones. A half mile from where I stayed

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

"I hate that we've gone from plastic straws and paper cups to plastic cups and paper straws!" Sebastian(14)

Boy holding plastic cup with paper straws in blue slush

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Spotted this grasshopper in my yard. Erin(10) identified it as a long-winged cone-headed grasshopper - she has a few insect books. Could this be a climate change migrant? Because these are southern coast Britain at best, and we're up North --> in Merseyside, UK #climatechange in action?

A green grasshopper with brown wings on a white uPVC window frame

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NAM 2025 Durham @nam25-durham.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We are over half way through #NAM2025 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social 💫 Here is our incredible conference photo with 100s of the nearly 1000 attendees of NAM! Possibly one of the largest astronomy conference photos ever! We hope you’re having a great week 🪐

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Tax the rich graffiti spotted between the tiles above a pub pisser in Cork, Ireland. Always good advice for policy makers

The grout line between white tiles in a slightly grubby pub toilet. Written in the grout line is the statement, "TAX THE RICH"

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Mouse in my bird feeder. Quite the adventurous little fellow. Not sure if it's stuck, but it is very happy

Bird feeder hanging from a beam with a wisteria around it. The bird feeder is a third full of seeds with two bird perches above the seed line and two below. Through the transparent body of the bird feeder, a mouse is happily gorging itself on the seeds

Zoom out of the bird feeder for context on the parkour level skills of the mouse.
The bird feeder hangs a third of the way along a beam that is 3.5m above the ground. Wisteria winds along the beam but offers no (easy) access to the feeder

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2025

Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs. “You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.” “John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The proof editor of my recent paper changed every instance of "disk" to "disc". In accretion disk parlance, both are fine... but I had a section titled, "diskoseismology", and that is now, "discoseismology"!? My science gets the dance floor shaking! 😅

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Monte Mader @montemader.bsky.social

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

At the cinema. By myself. To watch the first 3 episodes of the new Dan Da Dan S2. Treat yo'self. #DanDaDan #LightCinemaNewBrighton #GrandmaAyase FTW

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Four charts showing the extent of cuts to NASA in the FY26 budget: - Cuts to every science division - Smallest science funding since 1984 - 19 active, inflight missions cancelled - Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

@ljmuofficial.bsky.social led research into the origins of periodicity in an extra-galactic flash of high energy gamma-rays With my collaborators from Leicester, Melbourne, Hamburg, Sendai, Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Fullerton, and Nijmegen @ljmu-ris.bsky.social #ARI #LJMU #astrophysics #liverpool

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The long duration, but likely neutron star merger origin, gamma-ray burst GRB 211211A had a short and low luminosity pre-cursor with duration ~0.2s - and looks to have a 20 Hz periodicity. The question we asked, "what would cause that!?" Our paper in #mnras academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc...

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Prompt Periodicity in the GRB 211211A Precursor: Black-hole or magnetar engine?

Abstract. The merger origin long GRB 211211A was a class (re-)defining event. A precursor was identified with a ∼1 s separation from the main burst, as wel

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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

This is actively bananas. LIGO is doing (literally) Nobel winning work, and you need both of them -- the second one is not a spare or a nice to have; this is like buying a fire engine, but deciding it doesn't need wheels on the left hand side...

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Fossil fuel companies make billions turning oil in plastic. They want to keep shovelling plastic down our throats to grow their profits. We need the UN to ban them from the Global Plastics Treaty talks - sign the petition now: act.gp/4kgDL5U

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Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks

Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 24/05/2025

ME/CFS is an awful, awful disease that can randomly take all quality of life away from... anyone. And there's no known cure - sometimes people get a bit better, other times not. I'm really glad to see Dianna Cowern aka Physics Girl (an amazingly talented science communicator) get a bit better.

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First Update From Dianna (Physics Girl)

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My boss when I was at University of Leicester, and continued collaborator and mentor. A well deserved appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society @royalsociety.org @physicsuol.bsky.social

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University of Leicester, Physics & Astronomy @physicsuol.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

🔭🧪 Congratulations to Prof Nial Tanvir who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work studying gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions we've ever seen. le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

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Leicester cosmic explosion expert among exceptional scientists elected as Royal Society Fellow | News | University of Leicester

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Urgh! I'm just catching up with UK news! "Incalculable damage..." ...yep, but not by who you say but by what you say, Mr. Prime Minister. Racist apologists everywhere

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11/05/2025

Breaking News! Code Yikes! One for the record books -- May 9, 2025 was the hottest May 9th on record globally, with daily records dating back to 1940. And yes, this means that May 9, 2025 was likely the hottest May 9th in the last 120,000+ years. The climate 8-ball says: f&%kery ahead!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🚨BREAKING: The new Reform Mayor for Lincolnshire has said she will MEET with a fracking company to discuss extracting gas from the county - claiming it will 'save money for taxpayers.' 92% of Reform's donations come from oil/gas interests. Who else thinks Reform is just a mouthpiece for Big Oil?

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Liverpool John Moores University @ljmuofficial.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

LJMU academics and postgraduate students will present their research @pintofscience.uk in Liverpool, 19–21 May. Join us at Murphy’s Distillery for engaging talks on science, technology, health and the environment. Tickets £5 via Pint of Science ➡️ www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot

The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Watching UK media fawning over the proto-fascist, try hard, Enoch Powell wannabes of Reform in a few UK council elections. Giving credibility and airtime to bigots makes me keep my fingers crossed for the rapid development of an Artificial General Intelligence, so we can welcome our robot overlords

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Ah 2016. Little did we know!? This is me (less grey and short hair) somewhere in Corsica wandering around aimlessly on the spare day between an astronomy summer school, "Astrophysical Jets, Cargese 2016" and my flight back north. In my simple mind, I find this hilarious -- still do #boutiquefanny

Half of my face covers the left quarter of the photo. My beard looks a little auburn, my hair is brown and trimmed short. A shop behind me on the far side of the street has the name, "Boutique Fanny". I found this funny because I'm a child

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Space elevators are the future tech our space-billionaires should be building. Rockets are so 20th century 😉

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

You want to know what #climate scientists got wrong about #climatechange? We were too cautious. It's happening faster than we anticipated and the impacts are going to be worse.

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The 2nd part of our special issue on multi-messenger gravitational lensing. This is an ambitious vision of the future science that will be revealed as our detectors get more sensitive. Something that was a novel side thought 5 or 10 years ago is now the foundation for our next generation scientists

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Did Ch4 News just have a giant Russian flag as the slide transition on their report about Trump's disaster of a first 100 days!? "You might very well say that but I just couldn't possibly comment" 😉 Well played Ch44 @channel4news.bsky.social

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RAS Journals @rasjournals.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Published in #MNRAS: "Multipeaked non-thermal light curves from magnetar-powered gamma-ray bursts", Omand et al. This is Fig. 4: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

The GRB afterglow of GRB170817A in optical, X-ray, and radio (Evans et al. 2017; Haggard et al. 2017; Hallinan et al. 2017; Mooley et al. 2018) and a Gaussian jet light-curve model using the median parameters from Lamb et al. (2019a). Please see the paper for the full caption.

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MWGNZ @mwgnz.t.o.omuch.info · 26/04/2025

Happy Moehanga Day

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I love the time of year when the koru on ferns start to unwind Some photos from my yard #koru #ferns #smallgarden #yard #green #uk

The young unraveling fronds of a Hart's Tongue fern

The unfurling koru (spirals) on a Sword Fern (I think)

More tightly wound koru on a Sword Fern with a carved wooden green man in the background

The same Sword Fern but with the yard plants in soft focus behind. The cloudy British sky beyond

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Liverpool John Moores University @ljmuofficial.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Did you know The Liverpool Telescope, run by LJMU, has been supporting the European Space Agency’s GAIA spacecraft on one of its most important missions? The 12 year mission has revolutionised our understanding of the Milky Way galaxy we live in. ✨ Read more: www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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LJMU telescope played major role in Gaia 'eye of Galaxy'

Space, Universe, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics, Research, ESA, Space Exploration, Technology, Liverpool Telescope

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

10:15 GMT My sense of smell suddenly started to return - mid-drink. Which suddenly got more flavour. Otherwise, I still feel like shit. Week 6 of the perma-headache and severe fatigue. Week 4 of a cough. I won't mention chest pain or you'll tell me I'm having a heart attack... like 111 #melodrama

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

While RFK Jr. Made his remarks saying autistic life is a tragedy that destroys families, I sat right in front of him and made it a point to let him know he was wrong. My latest for @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Opinion | I know RFK Jr. is wrong about autistic people — because he's talking about me

“These are kids who will never pay taxes,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said of autistic children Wednesday. "They’ll never hold a job.”

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Dr Beasor has concluded her Public Talk on the lives and deaths of massive stars, as seen by Hubble. 🔭 Missed the talk but would still like to celebrate Hubble's 35th birthday with us? Dr Beasor will be repeating the lecture again at 6pm. Watch here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MESZ...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 14/04/2025

The first multi-messenger detection of a gravitationally lensed cosmic explosion will have huge impact and unleash decades of novel science. Read the new #PhilTransA issue 'Multi-messenger gravitational lensing (Part 1)': royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/202... #astrophysics #cosmology

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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

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NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire

A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This — and has been for a while — an all-hands-on-deck emergency situation for anyone who cares about the welfare of the world.

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Gavin Lamb 🇳🇿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ @drgavinplamb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I've been "bed rest" for so long now (2 weeks) that I'm starting to feel like Charlie Bucket's granddad

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