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🎉 Congratulations to OzGrav’s Dr Laura Driessen, a 2026 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award winner! A fantastic recognition of Laura’s research and commitment to science communication. Congratulations, Laura! 🌟 🔗 aips.org.au/tall-poppies... #OzGrav #TallPoppyAwards #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 20/09/2026

didn't even have time to recover from a weekend of scicomm before diving back into astronomy 🔭 after running three amazing science comedy shows this weekend, I some how found myself spending the night/morning remote observing with one of my favourite radio telescopes 📡 zero complaints.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 18/09/2026

Are millisecond Pulsars, nature's cosmic clocks, as stable as we once thought? A new study by @rami.spaceaustralia.com has reported the discovery of two consecutive profile change events on PSR J0437-4715. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/disc... 📸 NASA SVS #SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy 🔭🧪📡

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 18/09/2026

OPENING NIGHT! Tonight we embark on our new experiment in science engagement, with a healthy dash of comedy thrown in!

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Brendan O'Brien @astrophiz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 Has dark matter finally been detected? New Astrophiz ep242 w/ astroparticle physicist @astropartigirl.bsky.social — we break down the LUX-ZEPLIN signal, her Roman Space Telescope launch experience, and self-interacting dark matter. 🎧 tinyurl.com/romanlaunch1 #DarkMatter #Astronomy

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Astrophiz 242: Has Dark Matter Finally Been Detected? – Dr Sophia Gad-Nasr

Is dark matter finally showing itself? In this episode of Astrophiz, Dr Sophia Gad-Nasr — particle cosmologist, science communicator, and creator of @AstropartiGirl — returns for her second appearance

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 09/09/2026

If you live in Sydney and like science, comedy and everything in between.... come see our show next weekend! sydneyfringe.com/events/scien...

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Science Did What Now?! | Sydney Fringe

Science can be funny!

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 09/09/2026

Super serious stuff.

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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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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 03/09/2026

This trip was so incredible that I unfortunately lost count of the number of bagels and pizza slices that I ate. From an unforgettable wedding in NYC to presenting my research in Montreal, a huge thank you to everyone who made it possible 🙏

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 03/09/2026

A gloriously chaotic night of Sydney’s most wonderfully obscure and strange science, delivered straight from the researchers 🎤🤓 Hosted by your favourite science nerds @raynerexplainer.bsky.social @funfactscience.com and presented by @comedyonedge.bsky.social #science #comedy #sydneyfringe #scicomm

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Rubin LSST:UK @lsstuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At the @vrubinobs.bsky.social , snow clearing continues under bright blue skies. So good to see how progress is being made at the summit following the devastating recent snow storms. Power is being restored and services are coming back online. Watch this space... 🌞 ❄️ 🔭

An image of the Rubin Observatory. The sky is deep blue and clear. There is a road winding up to the building. It is clear and is lined with deep snow.

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 27/08/2026

Update: I bought them a lovely houseplant that I'm certain the customs agent would have hated.

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 23/08/2026

Airport security: Where are you staying Me: my cousin's security: did you bring any gifts for your cousins? Me: uhh no? Security: this is good for customs. But bad for your cousins.

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 14/08/2026

Thrilled to share that we made the cover of @natastron.nature.com!!! 🔭💥☄️ The artwork, designed in collaboration with @ozgrav.bsky.social, features a rendering of the magnetic field simulation from our white dwarf binary paper. Check it out here: www.nature.com/natastron/vo...

Journal cover for Nature Astronomy, August 2026 issue. The background is a textured deep teal field filled with faint white grid lines and loops depicting magnetic fields. On the upper left, a large, textured reddish-orange star is shown. On the lower right, a small, bright white-blue dwarf star is encircled by a dense, flower-like array of magnetic field lines. A stylised, ribbon-like stream of white and blue light connects the two celestial objects across the centre. Bold white text in the lower-left corner reads "White dwarf binaries as long-period radio emitters."

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Dr Laura Driessen @astrolaura.com · 12/08/2026

Just a couple of the eleventy-billion photos of the eclipse I took 😅

A boat is in the mid distance in front of the shore and some buildings. It's close to sunset so the sky is orange a day there are some low clouds. The Sun is partially eclipse and close to the horizon. Since the Sun is partially eclipsed, it looks almost like an orange crescent Moon is setting.

A total solar eclipse. The sky is dark and there are some buildings and lights on the horizon. The Moon is a dark circle covering the Sun. There is a hazy halo around the Moon, which is the Sun's corona. It's kinda spooky.

A bright orange crescent on a black background. The orange crescent is the partially eclipsed Sun.

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 12/08/2026

I've been in NYC for 6 days and have already had 5 bagels and eaten pizza 4 times

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Dr Laura Driessen @astrolaura.com · 05/08/2026

Thrilled to be one of this year's NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award recipients! 🥳 aips.org.au/2026-young-t... 🧪

A woman wearing a navy blue cap and sunglasses is taking a selfie. She's standing in front of two radio dishes, these look like bit TV dishes. She's in the western Australian outback. The dirt behind her is orange and there are low shrubs and bushes. The sky is blue with some fluffy white clouds

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We've discovered two more long period transients! A new @pasajournal.bsky.social paper by Yuanming Wang and collabs introducing the VASTER pipeline running on ASKAP. As soon as we switched it on we started finding new things (star and LPT below) dx.doi.org/10.1017/pasa... #radioastro ☄️

Image caption from paper. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2026.10232

Examples of transient detections in the time-averaged deep images and short-timescale residual images, plotted from the VASTER outputs, for two sources: the flaring star ASKAP J051629.6–313543 (top row) and the LPT ASKAP J165130.3–450520 (bottom row).

From left to right in each row: the time-averaged deep image, the residual image prior to the flare, the residual image during the flare, and the residual image after the flare. The white circle marks the target source position, with a radius of 20 arcsec.

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OzGrav @ozgrav.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Congratulations to Dr Fiona Panther on being named a finalist in the Early Career Scientist of the Year category at the 2026 Premier's Science Awards! Vote for Fiona in the People's Choice Award and read more about her achievement: www.ozgrav.org/awards/ozgra... #PSA2026 #PremiersScienceAwards

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OzGrav's Dr Fiona Panther named finalist for Premier's Science Awards 2026 - OzGrav

OzGrav is delighted to congratulate Dr Fiona Panther, who has been named a finalist in the Early Career Scientist of the Year category at the 2026 Premier’s Science Awards. This milestone year marks t...

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 23/07/2026

Today marks 5 years since the passing of the Nobel-winning physicist Steven Weinberg. Each year I read his advice to early career researchers "The Four Golden Lessons". This year, I approach the final month of my PhD and consider my options for the future, I took particular notice of his words:

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Four golden lessons - Nature

Advice to students at the start of their scientific careers.

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David Kipping @davidkipping.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Why I don't think CD-35 2722B has an "exomoon"...

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We've discovered another long period transient with ASKAP! Source #15 in this small but growing population. It repeats every 36 minutes, but despite many observations (see plot) we're not sure what it is. New paper by Joshua Pritchard: doi.org/10.1017/pasa... #radioastro

Lightcurves from all ASKAP, ATCA, and MeerKAT radio observations of a long period transient: ASKAP J142431.2–612611

They are phase-folded to the radio period of 2 147.27 s. Green shading indicates the range of uncertainty in predicted pulse time around the expected pulse phase of 0.5.

Credit Joshua Pritchard

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 11/07/2026

Saturday morning: remote observing + thesis writing. Saturday afternoon: lego + stargate

Background: tv showing Stargate on wooden console with plants.
Foreground: project hail mary lego on wooden table

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astrosocaus.bsky.social @astrosocaus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 #ASA prize winners! 🏆 🔭 Grace Blomfield (ANU) 🌌 Dr Maria Luísa Buzzo (Swinburne, now Yale) ✨ Dr Ziteng (Andy) Wang (@curtinuniversity.bsky.social) 🪐 Dr Takafumi Tsukui (ANU) 🤖 Dr Anais Möller (Swinburne) 🔧 Dr @gradientrider.bsky.social (@sydney.edu.au, now Leiden)

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 02/07/2026

Just when you thought 2026 couldn't get any more absurd... cyborg cockroaches

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OzGrav @ozgrav.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

How fast is the Universe expanding? An international team led by OzGrav PI Dr Kelly Gourdji (CSIRO) and OzGrav CI Prof Adam Deller (Swinburne University) has taken a new step towards answering one of cosmology's biggest questions. 🔗 Read more: www.ozgrav.org/news/new-mea...

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New measurement brings us closer to understanding the Universe’s rate of expansion - OzGrav

Researchers closely observing the fiery aftermath of an immense cosmic collision have made a new measurement of the speed at which the Universe is expanding. The international team led by researchers…

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 22/06/2026

Advertise your bluesky account with a Simpsons meme.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 06/06/2026

A paper in Nature Astronomy classifies ASKAP J174508.9-505149 as an accreting white dwarf binary and identifies it as a long-period radio transient, strengthening the link between these mysterious bursting sources and white dwarf star systems. go.nature.com/4fwZFm1 🔭🧪

This is figure 2, which is phase-folded pulse timing.

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 14/06/2026

someone just referred to my latest paper as "finding the source of the mysterious ticking noise" and I'm not even mad 😅

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 09/06/2026

Absolutely blown away by the support/interest that folks have shown for/in our new paper 🥹 Still can't quite believe that we got over 100,000 reads on my @aunz.theconversation.com article within the first week!! theconversation.com/mysterious-s...