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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The end of an era. They don't make librarians like Giles anymore.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This is grand. I've always liked the clear germanisch of Chaucer, but the 1000 script falls off a high cliff.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 06/12/2025

Why do they think they will "see savings" if programs whose students bring in more tuition than the programs cost... all leave???

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The "Cloud" is physical and mostly located in the DC area.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Today was a weird day. I woke dreaming I was promoted (there was a rollercoaster ride, which is both an accurate analogy and also should be real), farewelled my 94 yo grandmother and gave the eulogy.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I was thinking about an old friend this morning. How we’d hit the bar at Newcastle airport on work trips. Found out at lunch he’d passed. Watch out when people fall off the radar. The little world of Australian engineering geophysics lost a mentor and a friend. RIP Mick.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A sobering read on AI and productivity, and especially on why productivity is not progress.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Just back from a geochemistry conference in Prague, having visited the Terezin concentration camp on a spare day. Amongst the incarcerated (which included Dvorak’s protege and a heartbreaking number of kids), I found a fellow earth scientist, who somehow survived the killings.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This seems pretty reasonable. Although getting any apartment in most Australian cities is challenging.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 23/06/2025

We're gonna need the Solar System ephemeris models updated on a regular basis! Really hoping we have better constraints on the masses and distances of KBOs so these models account for this in more detail.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

They'll show this at the post mortem for planetary science.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 30/05/2025

🚨 We’re hiring at UCC! Two roles in energy systems research with our Energy Policy & Modelling Group (MaREI, Cork). Work with us on Ireland’s energy transition 🧵

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I think I’m loosing some students to this phenomena.

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Robin Wordsworth @rdword.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Proposed NASA cuts in context, courtesy of the Planetary Society #astronomy #science

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What came first, the echidna or the egg? A: the platypus.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There was a whale on Brisbane river tonight. But, like, 30m above it.

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Hugh Daigle @hdaigle.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Reading our paper copy of the NY Times I came across Xavier Le Pichon’s obituary! What a loss. A pioneer of plate tectonics. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

⚒️ Could use some more Kangaroo Point ignimbrite like QUT but it’s alright.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Alec Guiness reading TS Eliot’s The Wasteland. I suppose this was why the internet was invented. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4... #poetry

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The Waste Land (TS Eliot) read by Alec Guinness

YouTube video by modelsandjuniors

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Something we have up to recently published in Nature: The Hadean Protocrust

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Closer view of Bangkok skyscraper collapse: Ht @drericding.bsky.social

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Boris Behncke @borisetneo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A new episode of Strombolian activity occurred on 24 March 2025 at the Southeast Crater of #Etna. It started on the morning and culminated around noon, and then diminished; some explosive activity was still going on at nightfall. Seen from Nicolosi, on the south flank of the volcano

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

⚒️⚒️ Yet again those Indonesian volcanos causing havoc to Australasian air travel.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I am, possibly, a little late to the game, but really enjoying this book by @moudhy.bsky.social. Sumerians 5000 years ago sound a lot like my neighbours. I get these guys. A lot more than I get some people today. Also, they were fixated with beer.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Chances the poem here is responsible for at least one HP Lovecraft story?

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/03/2025

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

For a brief moment last night the skies above Brisbane were showing the love.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This is really sad. I loved Fortey’s book Trilobite. A wonderful and charming communicator.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/03/2025

Have we considered that maybe Starship is *supposed* to explode?

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Himawari low-level water vapour is not messing around #CycloneAlfred ⚒️

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

My Uni in Brisbane has announced it will shut Tues 11.59pm till the end of the week due to cyclone Alfred, a category 2ish cyclone. When I was in Texas we didn't even check the weather until it reached category 4 (#rememberGalveston). ⛏⚒ www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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'Be ready': Premier's warning as Cyclone Alfred predicted to make landfall near Brisbane

A tropical cyclone is set to make a rare appearance near a capital city and tourism hotspot, prompting warnings for locals to evacuate.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Blue Ghost successfully on the moon. Upright, too, as this photo attests :) Here's to some seismometers up there soon!

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fuck, Camus was awfully enpoint on this particular day: “His greatness was his incoherence.” *shudder*

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 26/02/2025

EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS PHOTO This *gorgeous* view of the Moon was taken by the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost lander from an altitude of 100 km above the lunar farside on Monday. Blue Ghost is aiming for a landing on the Moon on Sunday.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think of a few tailings dams this might be relevant to.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A Sequoia (Californian redwood) I randomly encountered in the Blue Mountains. It’s still dominated by some nearby red gums, and probably planted in the 1800s. Made me think of the flammable blue gums in California in the recent fires, both results of the first botanical exchange in 55Myr.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

There’s a certain accountability to be had in seeing this from space. Certainly in that bright red.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Bout to go all Mycenaean Greek again 😀⚒️

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

On its latest flyby of Io, Juno probe observed a volcanic hot spot larger Lake Superior - "the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system."

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NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date - NASA

Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Don’t we all. Ignoring University emails is an ongoing student trope.

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Dr Craig O'Neill @thecraigoneill.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A hiker lost in the Australian higlands for 14 days was found not by the 400+ person emergency services search, but by a group of other hikers including my son's old preschool teacher (pictured). Heros wear different capes.

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UPDATED: 'An incredible outcome': Missing hiker found alive after 14 days in Kosciuszko National Park | Region Riverina

8 January, 6:40 pm: Details continue to emerge about the rescue of 23-year-old bushwalker Hadi Nazari who was found two…

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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I have now posted my provisional analysis of fatal landslides in 2024 on my blog. In total, 708 fatal landslides (excluding those triggered by an earthquake), cost 4,492 lives. This is far higher than in any previous year for which I have data. eos.org/thelandslide.... Published under a CC license.

A map showing the distribution of fatal landslides in 2024. There are two clusters in South Asia, plus others in SE Asia, East Asia, East Africa, SE Brazil, the northwest of South America and in Central America. Author's own data, published under a CC license. If you want a higher resolution version, please contact the author.

The cumulative total number of fatal landslides in 2024 compared with previous years. The graph shows that 2024 was exceptional in every respect, with the December total exceeding every previous years by a huge margin.

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