Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant@koyu.space

Fun sonification of fast radio bursts by @caseyjlaw@twitter.com - an audio-visual version of a figure in today's arXiv:2206.13542 in @NatureAstronomy@twitter.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3x0sBCQ_c8

One thing I ❤️ about 🐦 is the illuminating threads by subject experts, like this

RT @HeleneBismarck@twitter.com

Boris Johnson has had a good war. The Russian attack against #Ukraine has probably saved his premiership. But that does not mean that UK support for Ukraine is all about him. It is British, not just Johnsonian. For Ukraine, and for Europe as a whole, this is good news.
Thread. 1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HeleneBismarck/status/1541726818348273665

Create a compulsory high-stakes game, then blame the players for 'gaming' when you see what the rules drove

RT @ResFortnight@twitter.com

REF 2021: ‘case-study cliff edge’ suggests gaming. Panel member fears that staff contracts may have changed to fit in with REF requirements. @FiJMcIntyre@twitter.com @HE_Analyst@twitter.com @SimonRKerridge@twitter.com

https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2022-6-ref-2021-case-study-cliff-edge-suggests-gaming/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ResFortnight/status/1542120636096684032

JFC every day brings a new low from the @Conservatives@twitter.com

RT @AdamBienkov@twitter.com

Conservative MP Danny Kruger says the UK should not be “lecturing” the US about abortion rights.

He says he disagrees with those who "think that women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy in this matter." https://t.co/n2kAHz6X9K

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1541761586305667073

This would be funny if it weren’t historically describing literally the prevailing views of Leavers, apart from the hyperbolic “starve” and 50 vs 50/100

RT @scott_mac_rae@twitter.com

@mrjamesob@twitter.com Brexit timeline:
2016: Brexit makes us better off
2017: Won't make us worse off
2018: Will make us worse off but only for the first 50/100 years
2019: Nobody ever claimed it would make us better off
2020: We don't care if we starve
2021: It's all Remainers' fault
2022: Self-harm.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/scott_mac_rae/status/1541467880512004099

MrsS tells me this has been the case at some medical conferences too

RT @KarenLMasters@twitter.com

So many astronomers I personally know (including myself) down with Covid recently. Common factor - flying for a conference. Be careful out there. Keep masking to reduce your risk but acknowledge (recommend out loud) the risk isn’t zero for anyone. No matter how careful.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KarenLMasters/status/1541463922234036225

Fabulous, fascinating 🐦 thread on what it takes to become a train driver

RT @Chris_TheDriver@twitter.com

73/76 BUT… it is a wonderful life. I really would not change it for the world. On a sunny day, when kids are on bridges waving at you and people are smiling, there is nothing like it.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Chris_TheDriver/status/1540382847135105027

Well said by @gvwilson@twitter.com

“Where America goes the UK follows”: “After Striking Down Roe, Supreme Court Justice Threatens to Go After Contraception, Same-Sex Marriage, and Bring Back Sodomy Laws”

RT @VanityFair@twitter.com

Justice Clarence Thomas is looking well beyond abortion. http://vntyfr.com/3Dnus9K

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1540449716068040704

Terrifying. And don’t think they will stop at abortion.

RT @lucy_brewer@twitter.com

And for all those in the UK, here’s a major national paper supporting the overturning of Roe v Wade. Where America goes the UK follows. PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lucy_brewer/status/1540356523792146432

Horrified by #RoeVsWade ruling. Meanwhile here in the UK, just when you think the @Conservatives@twitter.com could not sink lower, we get this

RT @danielmgmoylan@twitter.com

A great victory for US democracy.

Roe v Wade: US Supreme Court overturns landmark abortion ruling https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-us-supreme-court-overturns-landmark-abortion-ruling/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/danielmgmoylan/status/1540361915590918145

@support Sorry to bother you but is there a way on the koyu.space website to change the background to a lighter colour please? For some reason it’s turned into dark grey background with black text! (See toots above.) I’m sure I’m missing something but at the mo the only way I can use koyu.space is in a separate iOS app :(

@support@koyu.space Sorry to bother you but is there a way on the koyu.space website to change the background to a lighter colour please? For some reason it’s turned into dark grey background with black text! (See toots above.) I’m sure I’m missing something but at the mo the only way I can use koyu.space is in a separate iOS app :(

Black font on nearly black background in the settings but no setting for light-mode AFAICS... I guess I could try and rig something in Greasemonkey...?

WOW

RT @BrittLundgren@twitter.com

@npr247@twitter.com @StephenSerjeant@twitter.com @NatureAstronomy@twitter.com @OgNimaeb@twitter.com @EAS_meeting@twitter.com Counterpoint: astronomers (and especially women astronomers in the US) are disproportionately child-free.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrittLundgren/status/1539942763340374016

Too much text for alt text, but here are the links to the papers: https://rdcu.be/cP6to and https://rdcu.be/cP6vL

Well I'm definitely doing SOMETHING wrong in my mastodon koyu.space settings but I'm jiggered if I can find out what it is... Any ideas?

Pointed letter in @NatureAstronomy@twitter.com by @OgNimaeb@twitter.com & others on astronomers' responsibility to respond to climate crisis, re the lack of a [fully] hybrid @EAS_meeting@twitter.com. Response cites cost and partial hybrid access but I still feel an opportunity to show climate leadership was missed

Terribly sad news. Paul @suthers@twitter.com has had a great impact in the public understanding of astronomy in the UK. A great loss of a lovely man.

RT @popastro@twitter.com

We are very sorry to have to announce that Paul Sutherland, who has been an integral part of the society for over 50 years, died from cancer yesterday, 20 June 2022. Paul wanted no fuss, and continued to post his Wordle solutions until a few days ago.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/popastro/status/1539184549284007937