Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans

Find me at BlueSky: of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University.

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

Time to polish the tiara? https://t.co/iZ5YZSPXO4

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

Taps microphone: anyone still out there?

If you've been missing my tweets🤔come over to the blue skies - you'll find me there with the same handle. In the meantime here is me getting super excited about the Vera Rubin Observatory!

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

A world record-breaking digital camera is about to start making the first movie of the Universe.

Astronomer Royal for Scotland Professor Catherine Heymans tells @SeanFarrington that this will be ‘the first time that we’ve looked at the Universe in this way.’

#R4Today

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

A gorgeous sunny day in Edinburgh: perfect for counting all the sunspots! There is a new beast in town, #sunspot AR3780

I've got a new insta account scot.starry.skies: check out my sunspot-cloud-dance movie! 📽️https://t.co/YfrzUcSJV1

ℹ️: https://t.co/OMeFxWaXvE

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

👇A wide-ranging interview, on dark matter, dark energy, @VRubinObs, our Scottish Youth Telescope Network, #scicomm, inequality and #LongCovid.

��Science not talked about is science not done as far as I'm concerned”

By @Sarah_McArthur_ 🗞️: https://t.co/fXAMfqh9bv

[The Edinburgh Inquirer @EdinInquirer]

Helping solve the mysteries of the universe from Blackford Hill. @AstroRoyalScot on her @EdinburghUni work, fighting long covid and inspiring a new generation of women in science.
https://t.co/i62IaukoNp

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

And in fairness to the Labour Party, there are more potholes in the UK than *named* craters on the moon. The @IAU_org has official names for 9176 lunar features, many of which date back to UK astronomer Mary Blagg's catalogue from 1913.
ℹ️: https://t.co/fT08pd21oP

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

UK Election campaigning hits "silly season" with
#Labour stating "the roads have more potholes than the moon has craters" 🧐
I'm on BBC 'More or Less' this week: way, way more craters than potholes. Still great if Labour is going to fix them tho!
📻: https://t.co/CSaIaTkiDi

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Labour will back drivers, by fixing up to one million more potholes every year and cracking down on soaring car insurance costs.

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

I met Jasper in his “retirement” as an Oxford researcher probing the large scale structure of the Universe with radio surveys.  We both moved to Vancouver and Jasper effectively adopted me, becoming surrogate grandad to my firstborn. He was v much loved and will be sorely missed.

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

Sad news: Prof. Jasper Wall, titan and pioneer of radio astronomy, passed away on the 28th March. He created the 1st large-scale radio surveys to catalogue black hole quasars across the Universe and showed how to statistically analyse them to infer the cosmology of our Universe🧵

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

As the last Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Jasper fought to stop its closure in the 1998 UKGov’s cost-cutting exercise.  Prevented from speaking to the media, Jasper said he could write a whole book about this sad period in UK astronomy.
https://t.co/gksEQpnY84

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

@lionhaven @chrislintott If you're in the UK @Lionhaven, this is a super website: https://t.co/Wq2lU8QMz8
If you're further a-field this NOAA 30 min forecast site is fab: https://t.co/lSGWhjbv6c
Fingers crossed 🤞

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

#Aurora on Portobello beach Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. It was so very bright at one point that you could see the slow rainfall of colours across the sky with your very own eyes.

Special thanks go to the Sun & atmosphere for putting on such a spectacular show for us tonight!!

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

Are you a freelance #scicomm evaluator in Scotland/North England? If yes, please apply to work with me, @e_astronomer and our team, to assess the impact of dark sky telescope experiences at Scotland's Outdoor education centres. 🧪🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

ℹ️: https://t.co/bJDJZh0Har

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

The White House has directed Nasa to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies 🌕

@AstroRoyalScot Prof Catherine Heymans tells #R4Today 'there are serious safety risks for communication and navigation' if a standard time can't be agreed.

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

And if you're wondering where I've been - I'm over on Blue Sky now. Lots of scientists and astronomers over there, so do come and join us!
https://t.co/RLrphvr3ud

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

A brief X-return to say how delighted I am to virtually join WorldCon 2024 #scifi. This will be the 1st time I return to "the stage" since falling ill with Long Covid ~2 yrs ago. Huge🙏 to the Glasgow team for making it possible for me to join in the fun with hybrid events.

[Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures @Glasgowin2024]

Glasgow 2024 is excited to announce an online special guest!

Prof. Catherine Heymans is the 11th Astronomer Royal for Scotland, appointed by Her Majesty the Queen in 2021, the first woman to hold this title in its 200 year long history.

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[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

@lynseybestitch1 😍

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

@neillcameron 🙏I'm enjoying the "feeds" feature! There is one full of Americans getting excited about "Fat Bear Week" which is simply delightful! (Who even knew that was a thing!!)

[Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @AstroRoyalScot]

@neillcameron 🥳What's your handle? I just searched for you over there and couldn't find you! Life on BlueSky will be so much better with Alex and Freddy and some Donuts VS Bagels on my feed!