Reposted by Sian ProsserProf Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fabulous 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 Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Stargazing news! ✨🌃 From 1-4 October stargazing beginners in the UK and Ireland can take part in an initiative called '100 Hours Under One Sky'. It features four simple challenges, with the chance to win badges and put your mark on a shared map. Find out more at: 100hours.online 0148
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Come and explore the Royal Astronomical Society! 💫🚀🪐 Today we've thrown open our doors as part of Open House festival, offering self-guided tours for members of the public to find out more about what we do and how we began. Join us any time between now and 1pm, or from 2-5pm (last entry 4.30pm) 👋 0209
Reposted by Sian ProsserMobeena @mobeena.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don’t know what the library equivalent of dimming our lights is but whatever it is, we should be doing it for Dolly because what that woman did for literacy deserves so much more recognition than it got 218841
Reposted by Sian ProsserAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Eclipse playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/6Wf... 12295106
Reposted by Sian ProsserRAS Library and Archives @astrolibrarian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026These original negatives of the 1875 eclipse, loaned to us by the Royal Society, have now been returned. We are grateful to the @royalsociety.org for not fining us! 074
Reposted by Sian ProsserRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920. She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. 🧪 👩🔬 Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 2294133
Reposted by Sian ProsserDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras 201577551
Reposted by Sian ProsserDigital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...bl.ukEThOS records restoredWe are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack. 212180
Reposted by Sian ProsserKatie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026We're got LOADS of really cool books on display in #ABodyOfKnowledge, and it closes on 23 July. If you can't get to us during working hours, maybe you can make Thursday evening's late? I'll have even more COOL BOOKS out for a special viewing. #GLAMS #RareBooks 📚 172
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026We're delighted to announce that Dr Isobel Romero-Shaw has won the 2026 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship. Her lecture, at the University of Bath in November, is titled 'Violent Beginnings Have Violent Ends: Deciphering the Origins of Binary Compact Object Collisions with Gravitational Waves'. ⤵️ 2244
Reposted by Sian ProsserJames Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Somewhat depressing that although the British Library is one of the headline cases, the article (and seemingly the report behind it) then pivots to talking solely about Galleries and Museums, ignoring Libraries. And Archives aren’t even mentioned. Don’t forget the L and A in GLAM!theguardian.comUK’s museums and galleries left vulnerable to cyber-attack and theft, MPs warnReport by Commons committee says government has failed to make concrete changes after recent security failures 1239
Reposted by Sian ProsserChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Oh my! Cambridge University Press have put Agnes Clerke's 'A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century' online. I had no idea. How fabulous. 1306
Reposted by Sian ProsserChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Charlie Baker, a veteran of Manchester housing, is doing a 1,000 mile cycle through ten countries in ten days to raise money for Asylum Speakers, a charity that organises talks by refugees for schools and unis so young people can hear their stories directly: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...justgiving.comHelp raise £10000 to fund Asylum Speakers to amplify real stories of asylum seekers – JustGiving CrowdfundingIʼm raising money to fund Asylum Speakers to amplify real stories of asylum seekers. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page. 24121
Reposted by Sian ProsserStuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Love this as a prevention case study: - Low cost, even revenue raising in the short term - Improves health outcomes and reduces costly hospital admissions Shows political leadership is key: - Politically costly for Khan to implement - Did it despite cost savings landing outside GLA 8380161
Reposted by Sian ProsserMarianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 08/06/2026 OK #MedievalSky and #Skystorians: early career job klaxon! A post on my new project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain', 30 months (with poss. of extension). Details at jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @royalhistsoc.org @memorients.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social 01617
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Don't forget to tune into tonight's episode of the BBC's The Sky at Night. 🪐🔭 'Space Weather: The Perfect Storm' airs on BBC Four and the iPlayer at 10pm and features our new President Professor @jim-wild.bsky.social talking to @chrislintott.bsky.social. 👉️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 0186
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026We're delighted to say that the RAS will be featured in the next episode of the BBC's The Sky at Night. 🪐🔭 Our new President Professor @jim-wild.bsky.social was interviewed for 'Space Weather: The Perfect Storm', which will air on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer at 10pm on Monday 8 June. ☀️☄️ 1122
Reposted by Sian ProsserCambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Humanity has long been captivated by rainbows - this collage contains over 1000 years of curiosity and wonder from all over the world! bit.ly/CamDigLib-Ra... This universal fascination is one reason 🌈 symbolise inclusion and a reason to have #Pride in the wonderful diversity of the world! 0144
Reposted by Sian ProsserJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Historian of something cool and niche? i've got some episode slots available on the Untitled History Podcast in the coming weeks. so if you're up for coming on and talking about your area, DM me! Think In Our Time but more casual. ESPECIALLY if its non-mil stuff. (spread the word, peeps) 39165126
Reposted by Sian ProsserEarly Modern How-to Books @howtobooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Meet us at the GLASGOW SCIENCE FESTIVAL! Together, we’ll test real experiments from 16th-c how-to books. Try your hand at making a floating compass or writing with invisible ink, and discover the quirky world of early modern practical knowledge. You can find us at the Riverside Museum (June 7-10). 1137
Reposted by Sian ProsserUniversity of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Noted, thanks Mel. We should probably hold off on making any firm decisions about REF2029 until we've heard from the bloke who made Angry Birds. 26821
Reposted by Sian ProsserDaina Bouquin @dbouquin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The Apollo computer's memory had to be woven. Wire by wire, by women whose names never made it into NASA's reports. It also needed integrated circuits, built by Navajo women with "innate" rug weaving skills. New episode of Found in the Machine about the weavers: foundinthemachine.com/episodes/9-t... 053
Reposted by Sian ProsserKatie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Last year we finally got language information in the catalogue for everything in the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social library (hurrah!), and I've done some stats and stuff on how the breakdown changes over time. #libraryhistory #GLAMS 📚 2196
Reposted by Sian ProsserInternet Archive @archive.org · 23/04/2026🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️ 261560824
Reposted by Sian ProsserAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026A recommended read by Hiranya Peiris: "[we] had a quality problem long before LLMs...publish or perish, citation metrics as proxy for impact, volume as proxy for productivity... have been producing incremental, poorly checked, & sometimes wrong papers for decades"🧪🔭⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... 08325
Reposted by Sian ProsserRAS Journals @rasjournals.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Published in #GJI Geophysical Journal International: "Subsurface density structure of the Orientale basin revealed by 3-D gravity inversion of GRAIL data", Manda et al. This is Fig. 1: please visit academic.oup.com/gji/article/... to read the paper. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com 041
Reposted by Sian ProsserChris Lee @cpl43uk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I saw this art work by #AnnaGillespie at the #RWA exhibition on “Art and the Cosmos” in Bristol - to me it says “the future of astronomy“ as we try to peer through the bars in our skies from bright satellite “noise”. 🤔 Art can be so profound! 🔭 #space @royalastrosoc.bsky.social 0234
Reposted by Sian ProsserOliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Refreshed gift link www.economist.com/leaders/2026... 0125
Reposted by Sian ProsserDr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA 344362907568
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026With all the excitement around Artemis II and our return to the Moon, who's also ready for Mars? 🚀 Why not join our Education and Outreach Officer Lucinda Offer as she explores past and future exploration of the Red Planet at a #SpaceLates event hosted by the National Space Centre on 17 April. 🪐 ⤵️ 152
Reposted by Sian ProsserCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026African American women mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson did the complex calculations that made spaceflight possible. Johnson helped map the trajectory for Apollo 11. Vaughan lead unit of Black women mathematicians. Jackson became NASA’s 1st Black woman engineer.clickorlando.comFrom hidden figures to Artemis: How NASA women reshaped America’s race to the moonThe Artemis program to land the first woman on the moon, following the path of many trailblazing women in space. 16533
Reposted by Sian ProsserAngela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Super interesting #scicomm #scipol #STS job in UK Govt. 149
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026ℹ️ & 🎟️ www.rwa.org.uk/collections/...rwa.org.ukCosmos: the art of observing SpaceA major art and science exhibition celebrating our enduring fascination with Space. 011
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026✨ Don't miss it! ✨ There is now less than a month to go until the exhibition Cosmos: the Art of Observing Space closes at the Royal West of England Academy. Curated by Ione Parkin RWA and delivered in partnership with us, the exhibition explores humanity's enduring fascination with the cosmos. ⤵️ 194
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Why not come and visit the brilliant 'Our Fragile Space' exhibition here at the Royal Astronomical Society... The free display about space debris, which opened to the public last week, will be in Burlington House courtyard until 10 May. 🛰️ 🚀 🔭 0105
Reposted by Sian ProsserRebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Awful! Started in a vape shop and the 1850s buildings are gone. I can only hope that starts to allow firefighters to get it under control. 1175
Reposted by Sian ProsserRebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...nms.ac.uk8 women in Scotland who shaped the history of science | National Museums ScotlandMany of the scientific endeavours featured in our collections are the work of women with a connection to Scotland. Below, we've highlighted key contributio 02418
Reposted by Sian ProsserAstronimouse @astronimouse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026In the 19th century the Cambridge Observatory was sent the publications of many other observatories from around the world: this is from the East India Company's Observatory at Madras. 131
Reposted by Sian ProsserDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Welcome aboard today's #commute with John Lewis Roget (1828–1908), calling at #Deal, #Dover, #Kearsney, #Canterbury and #Faversham. Roget took every opportunity to illustrate the places he visited, including the railway station. 1) Deal Station – Canterbury Station. 6th August 1891 #trainstation 252
Reposted by Sian ProsserChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 03/03/2026New podcast from the awesome Daina Bouquin on the strange history of computing. A must listen. 0113
Reposted by Sian ProsserBOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Starting TOMORROW!! #BiteSizedBookHistory returns with a 5-episode season! BSBH is a series of 7-10 minute long videos about various book historical topics, aimed at a general audience. Catch up with previous episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comBite Sized Book History - YouTube 1237
Reposted by Sian ProsserKatie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 02/03/2026For £35k, which is zippity nada in the scheme of even impoverished council funding, just going to show that it's not actually about the money in any case. Vandals. 710618
Reposted by Sian ProsserJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council. Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher." 1017786
Reposted by Sian ProsserChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 26/02/2026As @vrubinobs.bsky.social gets going with its survey of the sky, nice to be reminded of a Fred Hoyle quote: ‘a large telescope is a good example of the things which our civilisation does well’. 0459
Reposted by Sian ProsserRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Last chance to visit Moon Palace! 🌔 🚌 The school bus-turned mobile observatory is here for one more day at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social – don't miss the chance to explore everything on board. Come and see us from 10am-4pm today! 062
Reposted by Sian ProsserDr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Save the date! T&F's Mark James FLS and Dr Anke Timmermann FLS (i.e.yours truly) will discuss Sir Joseph Banks' botanical discoveries at the Grantham Museum in September. More information and tickets available here: granthammuseum.org.uk/product/sir-... 031
Reposted by Sian ProsserRebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Job opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (3 year fixed term): Heritage Operations Officer, responsible for coordinating public engagement and events for the Heritage Fund programme associated with the First Light redevelopment of the site #scicomm 📜 01015
Reposted by Sian ProsserOliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Jobs! Senate House Library is embarking on an ambitious project to transform access to one of the UK’s largest and richest collections of queer literature —the remarkable Haud Nominandum Collection, donated by activist, bookseller and co-founder of Gay’s the Word bookshop, Jonathan Cutbill. 12620
Reposted by Sian ProsserAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 me #Archaeology 11747148