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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 41m

Did you miss the #aurora last night? Or do you want to see more? Either way, you can get your fill by helping us classify all-sky camera images taken over the high Arctic & your efforts will make a genuine contribution to science! No experience needed! www.zooniverse.org/projects/lep...

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Clear Skies - Kiruna | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Can you tell us when the skies are clear? You may even see an aurora!

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 2h

Finally assembled a cast and recorded the first episode of my lockdown audio #sitcom project recently, which was then teased into shape by the talented @kaptainrok.bsky.socia. Listen to The Bleeding Edge Episode 1: Time Wasters on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/l0zBtLFRmvaI...

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The Bleeding Edge Episode 1: Time Wasters

The laboratory administrator, Harper Buchanan has promised the minister that her scientists will win more international awards. Encouraged by the anachronistic and physics-addled CEO Sir Douglas Y

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s World Mental Health Day and if you’re fortunate enough to be in good mental health today please show your gratitude by refusing to stigmatise those who happen not to be.

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Woop woop! Sounds amazing. And I am confident you'll capture that amazingness.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Perhaps their production team asked AI to look for stock images associated with 'vigil', and it returned pictures of space weather missions.

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

After a bit of faffing, a less glitchy version. The latest software update led to the glitches apparently.

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Prof Lucie Green @luciegreen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

These images show very clearly how the eclipse shadow disappeared into the sunset

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Glitchy timelapse movie of yesterday's #eclipse from Dorset, UK. A headland full of hippies. There was a lot of whooping, but they told me to be quiet... Taken with a #SeestarS50

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SolarSteph 🌞 @stephyardley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

5/ To view the eclipse find somewhere that is open and/or on high ground and look to the west preferrably soemwhere cloud free.🌳🌊☁️ If it’s clear after dark, the Perseids meteor shower peak the same night too ☄️🌌✨

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SolarSteph 🌞 @stephyardley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

1/ T-minus 1 day until the solar eclipse ‼️🌞🌑 Please remember to wear certified eclipse glasses not sunglasses! 😎 Greenland 🇬🇱, Iceland 🇮🇸, and Spain 🇪🇸 will see a total eclipse but UK will still see a 90+% partial eclipse, the most significant since 1999. More info below👇

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yikes! Man, don't take away the means of production. Hope you get it sorted ASAP.

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Dame Chi Onwurah, Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee: “I am concerned that, a fortnight on from the new government taking office, we are yet to see a detailed statement about what the abolition of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will mean in practice.”

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What are government’s plans for science, innovation and tech policy? Committee seeks explanation - Committees - UK Parliament

After the Government announced plans to break up the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and distribute its responsibilities amongst other departments, MPs have written to three S...

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Proud Changemakers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @proudchangemakers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today, the EHRC's updated Code of Practice has come into force across England, Wales and Scotland, providing guidance for organisations on how to interpret and apply the Equality Act following the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex. Find out more here: transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri...

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"A recent survey found that nearly 80% of early-career physicists were considering leaving the UK after the funding crisis. The loss of even a fraction of that would be a blow for UK science and also national growth. The task now is to persuade them to stay." www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain

Funding crisis could lead to an exodus that would be a blow for British science and national growth

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

And for the spacey people, Newbury Astronomical Society is holding an event here on the 12 August. What a beautiful place to see the #eclipse

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Inspired to get out and commune with nature today. RIP #BillOddie thanks for all the joy, despite the demons.

A space scientist with sun-glasses and baseball hat stands in front of the lake at the wildlife centre in Newbury, UK. Geese and ducks are in the background.

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you have been watching today's news coverage of STFC's cuts to astronomy projects, I invite you to step into my time machine and review this 2008 BBC report. Sounds familiar, right?

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Preparing to head home from NAM 2026 in Birmingham. Conversations reflected the challenges facing our community, but the sense of optimism remains. The science was outstanding and the passion and talent of students and early career researchers were impossible to miss. Tired but re-energised!

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our new @solarstormwatch citizen science project launched today! Can you spare time to help us identify times when the skies in the Arctic are clear? You will see beautiful #aurora and will help us to improve our #spaceweather research. www.zooniverse.org/projects/lep...

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Clear Skies - Kiruna | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Can you tell us when the skies are clear? You may even see an aurora!

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Congratulations! Genuinely remarkable. Thanks to all who have organised projects and classified the data. @solarstormwatch.bsky.social would not be here without you!

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Marvellous! Which begs the question, what was your *previous* favourite paper title?

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Were it not for your enthusiasm for mulitple layers of hi-vis, you could have a lucrative side-hustle modelling for the Littlewoods catalogue.

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wait, are you digging a hillfort or building one?!

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

What was the "Carrington Event" and who was the astronomer it was named-after? Catch me talking to @chrislintott.bsky.social on this month's episode of the BBC's The Sky at Night: 10pm, Monday 8 June on BBC Four. #spaceweather #heliophysics #astronomy

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Congratulations to the wonderful @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social who today successfully defended her PhD to become #DrWatson! Sarah has been studying how #solarwind affects #comets so her friends even baked a suitably cosmic cake to celebrate.

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

So *that's* why Maximillian had those rotating knives...

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

That pie looks like it would generate a gravitational anomaly, let alone a geomagnetic one.

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Yes the #cumulous clouds were beautiful this evening, but it was the sun that was the... er, star. #timelapse

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Time lapse of the sunset over Oxfordshire last night.So much going on! #sundog to the right at the start,planes leaving con-trails, then #Venus, #Jupiter & the #Moon set in sequence, the orbital plane of the planets compressed into a line viewed from Earth, like peas on a plate viewed from the side!

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Heading to London to give my lecture at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social. Was disappointed that the train at Platform 5 was not mine!

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Mars - Clouds over Terra Cimmeria - ESA Mars Express HRSC Full size 5k image: flic.kr/p/2sdpsHP 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-07-24 South is up HR211_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3

A close view of Mars from orbit, showing a dusty reddish surface covered in impact craters, with thin whitish high altitude clouds stretching along the upper limb of the planet against black space.

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What now?! <Adds to 'things to do-urgent' list>

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Spent the morning fanboying with some Carrington-related artefacts at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social. Amazing to get the chance to view these sketches which are - if you are a #spaceweather aficionado - the G.O.A.T. ☀️ 🔭

Richard Carrington’s original observing sketch of the massive sunspot group on 1 September 1859 that was responsible for what is now known as the “Carrington event”.

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Dr Luke Barnard @lukebarnard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Looking for a PhD position in solar system science? Consider coming to work with me, @interplanetary.bsky.social and @mathewjowens.bsky.social! We have a project on Solar Wind - Magnetosphere Coupling at the Giant Planets. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #heliophysics#aurora#spaceweather

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Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Coupling At The Giant Planets at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Coupling At The Giant Planets at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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