iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NewAthena papers could be submitted any time between September 1 and 30. Want to guess whether we've got ours submitted yet?

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So we break the silence. We tell our mutual friends. And we mentally propel the sleazy bastards into the nearest star. [And to anyone who thinks women don't have to deal with this crap when they get older lol nope, still going on].

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why talk about it all? Why not just focus on the good things about the weekend? WelI, I would love to do that, but harassers flourish in silence. They rely on us to be embarrassed, to keep silent, to try to just forget it ever happened, to keep their actions secret.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was way more over the line than I had anticipated having to handle, by a mile, but the pre-loaded "You need to stop, this is absolutely not OK." did eventually make its way out. The adrenaline still flared though. I got out of there as fast as I could when I got to London.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I made the mistake of taking the window seat in a row, so even though we were in a group, I got boxed in and blocked off. And he grabbed the chance to take the discussion off in an explicit and utterly unwelcome direction.🤮

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alarms were going, but I figured in a group setting, and mostly hanging out with other friends, I could get through the weekend. And that worked! It was lovely. Until the train ride back to London.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From the get-go, it was more than that. Lots of sexual innuendo, not really directed at me (also in group), but just a general attempt to move discussions to a place where it was easy to make sorties across boundaries. The sort of stuff that would get you booted at work. Not cool.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So I hoped for the best. But I went with a pre-loaded mental response to stop anything in its tracks in case it got a bit weird. I had anticipated maybe some maudlin reminiscing, that kind of thing.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For most, things are perfectly normal. We've all grown, matured, boundaries of existing relationships are respected. But. There's often one where it's not. Where you just get an uneasy feeling that your boundaries might not be respected. I have one of those.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last weekend I was back in Oxford for a college reunion. A chance to catch up with old friends. But like many in the room (so many that it was a joke in the speech) I have exes who were also there.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The dark side of college reunions - the sleazy ex. TW - Sexual harassment

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Genuinely picked the worst weekend imaginable for a trip. I have so much to do that I couldn't do it even if I pulled a full caffeine powered no sleep weekend-o-work. HOW AM I STILL GETTING INTO THESE DEADLINE CRISES AT MY AGE?

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not an IOP staff member, but I have colleagues there working on the dense matter equation of state, supernova simulations, gravitational waves, binary mergers, dark matter, and fundamental aspects of relativity. So if you fit the profile, give it a go!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is designed to launch excellent researchers from underrepresented groups into faculty positions in the Netherlands or abroad. The fellowship is open to researchers in all fields of experimental and theoretical physics.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 18/09/2026

I'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 🧵👇 🔭📡

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Activists" Jeez Louise, but this is way, way beyond activism.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Read @chanda.blacksky.app 's summary of our new paper! I would never in a zillion years have imagined writing a paper with dark energy in the title (although mind you I said that about dark matter too 👀). But great collaborators can haul you in all kinds of fun and unexpected directions!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I almost made a flippant remark about it being Russians or farmers when the news of sabotage across the Dutch rail network broke. But I didn't think the farmers were crazy enough to put the lives of rail travellers at risk. Now the Farmers Defence Force is hinting that they were involved.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On 9/11 reports circulated that in Ede Moroccan-Dutch kids celebrated the attacks. They were false. Strong interview with a teacher and community leader who fought polarization for 25 years and is now exhausted.

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

'Het nieuwe bewijs van OpenAI heeft naar schatting 22,5 miljoen dollar aan rekenkracht gekost. Daarvan had je Andrew Wiles zo’n 225 jaar kunnen inhuren. Of, realistischer, dertig wiskundigen van het kaliber Andrew Wiles voor zeven jaar.' [DPG] www.volkskrant.nl/cs-b44c3da4

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DPG Media Privacy Gate

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Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy @api.uva.nl · 10/09/2026

Teaser voor de lezing van @profannawatts.bsky.social volgende week vrijdag. Toegang gratis! Tickets via pretix.eu/API/Lecture9... 🔭

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Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy @api.uva.nl · 09/09/2026

On Friday September 18, @profannawatts.bsky.social will be giving a free public lecture! The title is Six Decades of Neutron Stars. More info & abstract at api.uva.nl/nl/content/e... Where: Science Park 904, Amsterdam Time: 19:00 Tickets: pretix.eu/API/Lecture9...

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Lecture: Six Decades of Neutron Stars

Fri, Sept. 18, 2026

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hier dezelfde opstelling... het enige voordeel zit in de kwaliteit van de thee die ik tijdens de pauze kan zetten!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Join 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]

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Avengers Assemble with Thor

Alt: Avengers Assemble - camera pans around the Avengers on a New York (?) street. Thor chairs the staff meeting.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026

In the latest round of pass the harasser, this Professor slept with students and now is moving into a leadership role at Arizona State University 🧪 #metoo madison.com/news/local/e...

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Records: UW-Madison professor engaged in sex with students, exploited 'power imbalance'

The records were released in response to a request from the Wisconsin State Journal.

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Dr Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Celebrating this chonky neutron star by adding it to my "How dense are neutron stars?" notebook. Find out what volume of this neutron star weighs as much as all of humanity on Earth right now! shanikagalaudage.github.io/scicomm-outr... Spoiler: it's tiny!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wonders idly, as I do every teaching commute season, whether Utrecht University are hiring 🚲🚲🚲

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Day 1 of teaching - invest in new train card. Day 2 of teaching - trains are already borked 🙄😭 Day 3 - now planning to leave home at 6am to make sure I'm there in time to teach at 9. Oh yes and next week train strikes.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And thanks, AS ALWAYS, to our wonderful radio astronomy colleagues (co-authors on the paper) who provided us with the tight priors on mass, inclination and distance that we used for this source. No radio, no radius!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want to run your own Equation of State analysis you can already find mass-radius posterior samples and credible region contours on Zenodo! Full reproduction packages will be made available once the papers have been through review. zenodo.org/records/2216...

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Data and Reproduction package for: "A NICER view of PSR J1614−2230: a massive and compact millisecond pulsar"

Mass-radius posterior samples and contours for the headline result from the analysis of the millisecond pulsar PSR J1614−2230 presented in "A NICER view of PSR J1614−2230: a massive and compact millis...

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Would like to thank the cat's laser like focus on the kickboard under the dishwasher for finally alerting his humans to mousey shenanigans in the adjoining cupboard.

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Black Cat's Intense Stare

Alt: Black Cat's Intense Stare

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