Russell Smith

Astronomer at Durham University, UK.
I weigh galaxies.

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

Christmas

[John Reeks @wartsandbrawls]

Universities have in place some of the most advanced systems in the world to stop students using AI to produce their work

[Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) @IEEC_space]

Els primers resultats científics de #WEAVE aporten noves dades sobre els #xocs en el grup de galàxies del Quintet de Stephan 💥

🌌 Aquest sistema galàctic és un laboratori ideal per comprendre la caòtica i sovint violenta relació entre #galàxies

🗞️ Investigadors de l’#IEEC a l'@ICC_UB han participat en l'estudi, publicat a la revista Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society @RAS_Journals #MNRAS

👉 https://t.co/9nLerAG5Mg

[AstronomieNL @AstronomieNL]

De eerste publicatie van metingen met het mede in Nederland ontwikkelde WEAVE-instrument is een feit.

Stof remt schokgolf bij iconische groep sterrenstelsels.

Nieuwsbericht:
https://t.co/z5rbY6G8Ti

Arnaudova+ in MNRAS:
https://t.co/dI7GghkaTz

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

Towers

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

Texture

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

Autumn

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

@Sam_Dumitriu although even if they ever dualled it as far as ellingham that is not scotland strictly...

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

Enjoying the implication that my hunter-gatherer ancestors gained some advantage by being sceptical about interferometry, or by not liking UVES.

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

@yuanyi_z yeah just say the month - nothing eurocentric about "july" or "august"

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

Always enjoyed going to Space House for TAC meetings

[C20 Society @C20Society]

📰 'The coolest new office development of 2024 is, in fact, one from 1964...this rhythmic cabasa of pop-art London is as impressive in the 21st century as it ever was in the 20th, if not more so.'

C20 speaks to @helenbarrett for the @Telegraph, on the incredible transformation of Space House by @SeaforthLand

https://t.co/XBRRgR8L8Q

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

And I've updated my list of astronomy journals that publishes anything at all: ApJ, MNRAS, NatAst, A&A.

No comment on which is preferable, but feel we under-appreciate just how different astro publishing is to many/most other fields.

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

remember when doodle was useful?

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

today's nobel winners though...

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

If I were drawing a map of the course of the 1588 Armada, I would simply not include Manchester. Or Belgium. Or the United Kingdom. Or the quaint Suffolk fishing village of Birmingham.

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

@PJTheEconomist is that more, or less, agog, than more or less agog?

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

@twlldun what if it was like this but also they were locked in a spaceship

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

@rcolvile can't argue with a causal loop diagram though

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

Equally true (on both counts) for scientific papers...

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

... and if you get the job, that line will still be at the bottom of your never-again-edited website in 2044

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

Academic job market candidates:

PLEASE add a line to the front page of your website that says something like "I am on the 2024-25 academic job market."

This might sound silly but it makes it much easier to tell who is looking for a job now.

[Russell Smith @AstroRJS]

@AlwynTurner a bit like this, at one of the Durham colleges on welcome day...