astromarcin

Radio astronomer at the Uni of Edinburgh. Previously @astrobobandbill. Has a moustache.

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I'll be giving a talk at Pints of Knowledge end of June! It's part of the first set of talks they'll be doing in Scotland - this is in Glasgow.

https://t.co/BkJZngs5Kp

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Helping organise a workshop on the Simba simulations (and its upcoming successor Kiara!) June 10-12, registration closes this Friday (1st May).

https://t.co/aNMTmsgboE

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Sure, Zoom ain't perfect, but it's way better than Teams in my and many other people's experiences, and forcing everyone into one option without addressing any concerns raised (which they asked for) is kinda crap.

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Uni of Edinburgh is forcing everyone onto Teams, rip Zoom login. -_- I don't think I know anyone in academia who things Teams suffices for telecons, workshops, colloquia, etc! 🧵

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The email we got isn't great either. It starts with 'Dear ,' - they forgot to address us.

Then the claim of this to help save jobs - for a uni currently _in surplus_. Yet too poor to afford even a few Zoom licenses for departments to share. How many jobs will be saved by this?🙄

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Last week I got to visit Bristol Uni for a talk and collab. Some nice views including from the Physics/Astro department's roof, including of its telescope! Helps it got sunny then, haha.

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Today at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh a bunch of astronomers said farewell to the #MOONS spectrograph, complete with bagpipes. It's off to Chile to do cool science on the VLT!

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Nice view for a few minutes in particular from the office today

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In Oxford for a couple days! And it's quite cold today... but at least it is dry.

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A nice slightly early birthday present - paper accepted email!

Now I have to fight arxiv's system because the last time I tried with the PASA template... a weirdly unfun experience.

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The whole book is _only_ $3000 USD... oof. The one chapter itself is a ~100th of that in cost, but you can read the preprint version (which doesn't weirdly add a hyphen to the title!) for free :v https://t.co/lXc2JCbTpL

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A while ago I co-wrote a book chapter with Prof Khee-Gan Lee - as of last week the book got published! It's in the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, and the chapter is about doing cosmology with fast radio bursts.

https://t.co/4KTZSd9mUl
https://t.co/cMkSDiukJO

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@FiPanther Congrats!

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Important educational lessons at the #PHISCC neutral hydrogen conference in Sardinia

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After two talks, discussion sessions, and safaris at a conference, now in Cape Town for catching up with friends and some collab work next week (besides grant writing/responding to ref report...)

Made a friend this evening too!

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Very rude guests interrupted someone's conference talk today. They should have read the code of conduct! #HungryHIppos #Kruger

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Astronomy conferencing when the power goes out #HungryHIppos #Kruger

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@ndaliso_xola Cool, would be great to catch up and chat!

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Going back to South Africa today! Conference at Kruger, and then Cape Town Friday-Thursday. LMK if you wanted to catch up!