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Phew! Thanks to new data from ESO's Very Large #Telescope, we now know that a white dwarf that was set for a close encounter with our Solar System in 29000 years isn't actually headed our way. Turns out that the intense magnetic field of the #star had biased the previous measurements of the approach speed. You're welcome everyone! 😉

We tell you everything in our latest ESO #blog: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/rogue-star/

#astrodon #astronomy #space #scicomm


ESOblog: Rogue star not heading for Solar System collision after all

Rogue star not heading for Solar System collision after all
www.eso.org
#blog #scicomm #astronomy #space #telescope #Astrodon #star

Be ungovernable, like birds who make nests OUT OF ANTI-BIRD SPIKES. A new study describes resourceful Dutch & Belgian corvids besting evil architecture by stealing metal anti-bird strips and using them like thorny twigs, to construct their homes.

Like thorns, the spikes may protect their nests from predators.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra wrote an epic 🧵 about his research that's worth a read: https://twitter.com/AukeFlorian/status/1678703433900064773

Paper: https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/organisatie/publicaties/deinsea/deinsea-21/

#science #SciComm #birds #netherlands

A bird's nest made of metal anti-bird spikes, against a white background.
A bird's nest in a tree in Antwerp. The nest is made of metal anti-bird spikes.

Deinsea 21

www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl
#science #birds #scicomm #netherlands

I feel like I can announce this now. I want to put on a conference for math communicators in the US. Inspired by @TMiP. Please share with those interested. You can sign up for updates at https://mathcommunications.com #scicomm

Math Communications

A potential new US math communications conference.
mathcommunications.com
#scicomm @Talking Maths In Public

We are all stardust.

That oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their light in a supernova.

The iron in your blood? Some massive stars dying, but mainly white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.

The gold ring on your finger? Mostly merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.

#astrodon #scicomm #astronomy
#scicomm #astronomy #Astrodon

Hi, fellow #journalists ... in an attempt to make the Twitter diaspora a little easier, I'm compiling a list of #journalism types on mastodon. Currently it's biased toward #science / #scicomm types, but there are others in there.

I'll post the names, but the ongoing project is available on Github here: https://github.com/cgseife/mastodonpeople

From the top:
Jason Abbruzzese
@JasonAbbruzzese

Hilda Bastian
@hildabast

Alan Boyle
@alanboyle

Bethany Brookshire
@beebrookshire

Siri Carpenter
@SiriCarpenter (+)

GitHub - cgseife/mastodonpeople

Contribute to cgseife/mastodonpeople development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#science #journalism #scicomm #journalists @Hilda Bastian @JasonAbbruzzese @alanboyle @beebrookshire @SiriCarpenter

Because there's no obvious onboarding nor page dedicated to accessibility features, notice that this is how you put alt text into images on Mastodon. I'm not sure what the upper limit is on characters per img. Use the "Edit" in the upper right-hand side of an uploaded image in a draft toot to access this area. #a11y #SciComm
#a11y #scicomm

> The ecology of fear, the idea that the presence of a predator causes a cascade of ecological effects across a landscape, is a fundamental concept in wildlife ecology. In recent years, ecologists have come to appreciate how much animals, even apex predators, fear humans, with myriad effects on animal behaviors and, in turn, ecosystems.

Ecologist Asia Murphy writes about humans' role in the "ecology of fear" and the implications for wildlife management & conservation: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/a-landscape-of-fear-of-humans

#SciComm #ecology #biology #science #anthropocene 🐘

A Landscape of Fear of Humans

Animals, even apex predators, take great pains to avoid people—a pervasive problem when these changes disrupt what they eat and where they go.
American Scientist
#science #biology #scicomm #Ecology #anthropocene

Because it launched folded up, # spent the first several weeks verrryyy carefully unfolding itself in space as it traveled to its orbit.

The scariest part was the sunshield tensioning! The sunshield is the pink/grey part and is used to keep the mirrors and instruments nice and cold so we can see the very faint heat from the early universe!

# #
#science #scicomm #jwst

Do people like threads here? I guess we'll find out!

Between meetings today I thought I'd talk about # # and all the exciting # we can expect from it starting in a few months!

(Yes, I made this travel mug ❤️)

# # # # # #
#science #scicomm #astronomy #astrophysics #jwst #nasa #telescope #MastodonNewbie #exoplanets

Quick #introduction: I'm Mars (she/her).

I'm a PhD researcher for CSIRO + software engineer for the University of Tasmania, where I make software that runs on big radio telescopes. My work is used to track space debris, planetary spacecraft, asteroids, solar weather, spectral line emissions, and more!
💻___📡~~~🛰

Side hustles in #SciComm, #SwiftLang and #GameDev. Big nerd for space fiction on any medium. Wife of @parisba ❤️

A large radio telescope sits atop a grassy hill, with a wide river in the background. Beside it and down the hill a bit sits a smaller dish. This is the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory outside Hobart in Tasmania.
A single radio telescope in front of a backdrop of snow-capped mountains. It is one of the ten 25 metre dishes scattered around the United States that make up the Very long Baseline Array (VLBA).
An array of five large radio telescopes. These are five of the six 22 metre dishes that make up the Australia Telescope Compact Array, otherwise known as ATCA (at-cuh).
#gamedev #introduction #scicomm #swiftlang @Paris B-A

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