Reposted by Michelle CollinsMichelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our latest episode is live! I joined Dr Nicole Buckley 🎉🎉🎉 for our first episode since she passed her PhD viva to talk about some great recent papers from the astro arxiv 🔭🧪☄️ 034
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our latest episode is live! I joined Dr Nicole Buckley 🎉🎉🎉 for our first episode since she passed her PhD viva to talk about some great recent papers from the astro arxiv 🔭🧪☄️ 034
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's that time of year again... Garden telescope time! 🤩🔭 1655
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I guess this is what happens when you get promoted to professor 😂 010
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Almost certainly. But, if they are ultra faint do they become invisible? That is the question. 010
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Don't get me wrong, it's cool we're finding them in virgo and all. But that is what we expect. 1120
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026ALMOST DARK GALAXIES ARE JUST CLASSICAL DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES. WE EXPECT TO FIND THEM EVERYWHERE. THEY DON'T NEED A NEW NAME. ALSO THEY'RE ACTUALLY QUITE BRIGHT. This has been a public service announcement. 🔭🧪☄️ 3423
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Early dark energy - like regular dark energy - is not something I really understand! But I enjoyed talking about this paper on its potential effect on large scale structure in our latest episode. Tune in to learn more, or check out the paper! arxiv.org/abs/2608.17212 182
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New episode has dropped! @payeldas.bsky.social and I cover a range of topics in this latest dive into astro-ph. Check it out on starxiv.com or wherever you get your podcasts! 🔭🧪☄️starxiv.comThe StarXivA podcast that delves into the newest astronomy papers from astro-ph on the arXiv 061
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It's been a while since I posted about my injury and returning to running. But... it's finally happening! I'm running again! 🥳🏃♀️ www.therunningastronomer.com/2026/08/an-u...therunningastronomer.comAn update on the Great TerriblingThis Saturday was a weird one. I woke up at 7:30, and could hear a strange pitter-patter on the roof. I took a look outside of the window, a... 090
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026She's away! A great launch for the Roman telescope! 🤩🌍🚀🔭 0101
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Also prepping for our next @starxiv.bsky.social episode while I wait, which lands in your streams on Tuesday. Multitasking! 🌍🚀🔭 130
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026My partner is building a shed today. He asked me what I'll be doing and I was like "OBVIOUSLY I'M WATCHING A SPACE TELESCOPE LAUNCH 🤩 🎉🌍🚀🔭" 1300
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Had to stretch myself a little to discuss this pulsar hierarchical triple system! Very intriguing discovery and interesting investigation of the initial conditions for this set of three stellar objects 🤩 tune in on starxiv.com to learn more 🔭🧪☄️ 181
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This paper discussed an unusual star in the Milky Way disk. Is it a member of the ancient epoch of disk formation? Tune into our latest episode to learn more on starxiv.com or wherever you get your podcasts 🔭🧪☄️ 040
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In this episode, we discuss the fact that a globular cluster stream has finally been found in an external galaxy 🤩 it's not just pretty, it also lets us measure the halo mass of the galaxy. Tune in on starxiv.com to hear more 🔭🧪☄️ 194
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This paper offered up a neat test of Chandrasekhar's dynamical friction formula in clumpy disks. Given observations of clumpy disks at high redshift, it seems pretty relevant and cool. Check out our latest episode on starxiv.com for more! 🔭🧪☄️ 060
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In our latest episode, we talk about 4 recent astronomy papers and my last minute, not entirely sanctioned, eclipse event. Tune in below or wherever you get your podcasts 🔭🧪☄️ 170
Reposted by Michelle Collins21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The two scandals involving Cambridge University that are in the news show exactly the same thing Internal processes which could & should address matters early, discreetly & with compassion and support, are no longer operational 0127
Reposted by Michelle CollinsKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026There's actually research on this and it involves scrutiny. If you're Black people are going to look at your work looking for mistakes in a way they would never for white people.theatlantic.comBlack Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as GoodAfrican American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse perform... 162199677
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026From yesterday's ☀️🌕🌍 event on the university campus! Taken with my seestar. It starts out a bit wobbly and occasionally the eclipse is eclipsed by our guests, but it is stable for the peak 🔭🧪🥰 1356
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Our not entirely sanctioned event became a wholly sanctioned success 🤩🔭🌍🌕☀️. It was amazing thanks to the support of all our Surrey astro team 🥰 2152
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026So excited for tonight! I organised a small eclipse work event for a few people. Which has spiralled into something massive! 😂I should not have mentioned my eclipse glasses stash... 😎🔭🌍🌕☀️ 1142
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Claude sonnet 5 at that point,I think. And no,I don't need other people's prompts. 010
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 07/08/20262) yesterday, after working for a while on a contrastive learning approach I'm noodling with, it kept telling me it was late and I should stop for the day when it struggled with the differences between the real data and it's simulated approximation. It was lunch time. 😂 2150
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026So, while LLMs are super helpful at coding, I maintain they are more like theorists than observers. My two pieces of evidence are: 1) when we are dealing with data, if it can't get something quite right, it blames the data quality and I have to convince it that it isn't the data 🔭🧪 2191
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Can AI produce good literature reviews? @payeldas.bsky.social read this paper which dives into the topic. Check out the findings in our latest episode on starxiv.com 🔭☄️🧪 120
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In this episode I also talked about the latest news on Tabby's star. The latest data from Tess suggests it has a companion! Tune in at starxiv.com to learn more 🔭☄️🧪 180
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026On the latest @starxiv.bsky.social podcast, I talked about a cool paper aiming to use globular clusters across cosmic time to measure the age of the universe! Check it out 🤩🔭🧪 030
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Lots of cool stuff in this latest episode of the @starxiv.bsky.social! Check it out on our website and subscribe wherever you get podcasts 🔭🧪☄️ 272
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Needs a square on "newly discovered dwarf galaxy candidate that could be a star cluster or could be something else" 🔭😂 050
Reposted by Michelle CollinsAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Think of all the awesome science-ing we could do with an extra £20M......🧪 814354
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The summer holidays are in full swing! It's the perfect time to catch up on the arxiv with the @starxiv.bsky.social podcast! Last week we released our 40th episode, so there's plenty to listen to 🔭☄️🧪 032
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It can be part of the bluedot line up! 110
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Telescopes neither receive welfare payments nor pay income tax. Because they're telescopes. 🤷🏻♀️ 100
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026No! Jodrell Bank is such an important site for UK astronomy and has such history. I remember well my visits and experiments there as a Manchester undergraduate. These cuts are short-sighted and I hate them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭☄️🧪bbc.co.ukJodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained. 310137
Reposted by Michelle CollinsThe StarXiv ✨ podcast @starxiv.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Michelle's second paper this episode was on Maisie's galaxy and whether this is the first "typical" very luminous red shift > 10 galaxy. Deep JWST data paints a beautiful portrait of this interesting system ☄️🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2607.08749 starxiv.com/2026/07/21/e... 031
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026If Dyson spheres exist in the universe, we might be able to find them if they are nearby. In this episode I talk about a paper that follows up candidate Dyson spheres with JWST! No 👽 tech found yet. But maybe one day 🔭☄️🧪 3228
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Episode 40 has dropped! Check it out on our website or wherever you get your podcasts 🔭☄️🧪 031
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A great opportunity to come work with Denis, Eugene and the Surrey Astro team! 🧪☄️🔭 095
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Phew! At the airport after a whirlwind at @eas-meeting.bsky.social! What a great bunch of sessions, talks and posters. I'm exhausted from all the knowledge 🤩🔭 #eas2026Lausanne 050
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026We may be in a different building for SS1 on the low surface brightness universe, but the views are 🤩🔭☄️ #EAS2026Lausanne 0111
Reposted by Michelle CollinsAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026At today's UKRI board meeting, the fate of UK particle physics and astronomy will likely be decided. Have we done enough to convince the powers-that-be to halt the proposed funding cuts? 🤞 Read Prof. Hiranya Peiris in Nature today eloquently explaining why these cuts are wrong.🧪🔭⚛️ 📖: rdcu.be/friwM 520275
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I was a little late to #EAS2026Lausanne so I could finish my talk. Managed to time my departure from the train with an epic storm. Even with an umbrella, I'm soaked 😂🔭☄️ 040
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If you build the ecosystem, they will eventually come (and post about cool astro stuff) 🥳 020
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026AAAAHHHHHH! 🥳🎉🎊 It begins! We're mapping the sky in a way we've never done before. Get excited everyone, LSST is finally here! 🔭☄️🧪 1184
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026She also mentioned that Rubin may be starting the LSST survey soon... And as she was speaking I got sent an email saying it HAS STARTED! LSST begins! Get excited everyone 🔭☄️🎉 rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...rubinobservatory.orgAction! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made | Rubin ObservatoryThe wait is over: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, is now capturing the cosmos in unprecedented detail, ... 1112