Alex Riley

"Misanthropic lefty and bullshit astronomer." @Royalcom1851 Research Fellow @DarkerMatters and @durham_uni but don't blame them for my tweets. He/him.

[Samuel @SamueILFC]

Andy Robertson. Wow.

[Jon Mackenzie @Jon_Mackenzie]

They've outdone themselves today

[John Green @sportswithjohn]

Unfortunately, this is a very good football game.

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

@DudeDarkmatter @cwru that's a great view of the holy oil can, tho!

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

@AstroAlysa this article really shaped my thinking on this question

https://t.co/9Lg4bDkdjf

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

@alexanderpji 🙋

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

signal boosting for any #BlackInAstro colleagues

new 4 year postdoc fellowship, for people with <2 years postdoc experience, can take it anywhere in the UK, can apply regardless of nationality

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

The Career Development Fellowship is a four-year, postdoctoral research fellowship, and will initially run as a pilot for researchers from Black heritage backgrounds. Find out more about the scheme here: https://t.co/mIACOBJeaS

[Ari Noble | Metajoker @AriNobleWrites]

I think Spiderverse and EEAAO's success demonstrates why MCU and other multiverse stories aren't working. Two ways to go about a multiverse story:

1) "Look at all the different worlds out there"
2) "Look at all the different *yous* out there"

Here's why option 2 works. (1/x)

[Colin Angus @VictimOfMaths]

Playing around with ONS' data on prices and this is something I hadn't realised before.

The variation in the price of a pint across England has increased *massively* in the last decade or so.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Fireflies https://t.co/MIIZd1Yzze

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

UK visa application fees are about to increase “significantly,” says PM Rishi Sunak

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

@michelle_lmc @surreyastro 👀👀👀

[Alex Riley @astroriley]

hate how relevant my undergrad Civil Liberties and Con Law classes have been lately

[Andrew Pontzen @apontzen]

TWO papers on the arXiv today! In the first, Gandhali Joshi asks whether the number of bright satellites around a galaxy tells us about its recent merger history – and yes, it does, but only for about 4 Gyr after the merger. https://t.co/EhFwGIn5Tx (1/2) (funded by @ERC_Research)

[janna elizabeth haider, phd🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @janna_e_haider]

academic conferences are wild. $1000 in flights and lodging. talk about your work for 15mins. hear some questions that are more of comments. go to the plenary. a senior scholar says something completely out of pocket. "this is not who we are." overpriced cocktails at hotel bar.

[Unofficial NAM @UnofficialNAM]

A quick reminder to all NAM participants tomorrow - any "more a comment than a question"s must be given in Welsh. It's in the code of conduct

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

Astro1982 is released in the wake of 13% inflation; huge cost and schedule slip for Hubble; Reagan in ’84 upends NASA priorities toward Space Station Freedom; OMB proposes canceling AXAF; Challenger tragedy in 1986 fundamentally changes the agency and grounds the shuttle program

[Kayhan Gultekin @kayhangultekin]

Good things come to those who wait, either in mixology or science. Here is the recipe for a Millisecond Pulsar:

[Alan Kelly @akellyucc]

The Rosetta Stone of academia