Helen Sim

Writes about goings-on in Australian astronomy. Tries to avoid the sunk-cost fallacy and remember the Dunning-Kruger effect.

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

@woolworths If you are wanting more soft plastics for recycling, how about combining plastic pickup with home deliveries? Groceries dropped off, plastics picked up.

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

A big shout-out to customer service at @auspost for their excellent work in tracking down a missing parcel. After I raised the query it was delivered interstate within 36 hours. Thank you!

[CSIRO_ATNF @CSIRO_ATNF]

This composite image is of a section of the Galactic Plane. The colours denote the information collected from different telescopes: green: Spitzer/Glimpse, red: Herschel/Hi-GAL & blue: our #ASKAP telescope. More: https://t.co/wLAeDRr6gX Image: INAF/Macquarie University/EMU

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

@CSIRO_ATNF Lovely!

[Elena Gabrielle @elle_gabrielle]

This is what a prepared government looks like. Rapid Test vending machine in Germany #auspol

[Michael Collins @AstroMCollins]

Family Statement on Passing of Astronaut Michael Collins

[CSIRO_ATNF @CSIRO_ATNF]

Exciting news! Our Parkes radio telescope will support @Int_Machines later this year as it delivers @NASA science payloads to the Moon🌖#CSIROspace
https://t.co/wgyuu9sE8C

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

Can This New Map Fix Our Distorted Views of the World? https://t.co/Zq6NLcgesF

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

@strom_m To topologists?

[CSIRO_ATNF @CSIRO_ATNF]

“The team and I attended the @aaas awards online this morning. It was mind-blowing to be counted amongst the likes of Anthony Fauci and Ricardo Galvão and see the brilliant astronomical outreach of Annette S. Lee” said Keith Bannister @pleasefftme

[CSIRO @CSIRO]

A team of scientists, led by our astronomer Dr Keith Bannister, has been awarded the 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the best science paper of the year by the prestigious publication, @ScienceMagazine.

#CSIROSpace @CSIRO_ATNF https://t.co/cO3GrPHWDI

[Shivani Bhandari @shivibhandari]

Our work on localisation of an FRB is awarded the prestigious AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize 2020 for the most impactful work published in
@ScienceMagazine. Happy to be a part of this breakthrough! #CRAFTRocks #frbrules #awesomeASKAP
https://t.co/yBSAnpBzro

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

Nature red in tooth and claw (sort of).
https://t.co/KP82Hqxc6p

[Matthew Bailes @matthewbailes]

The Swinburne pulsar group and @ARC_OzGRav pays homage to this fallen great of radio pulsar astronomy and all the fantastic science it performed over the last 50 years including the pivotal role in gravitational waves via PSR 1913+16 for @LIGO.

https://t.co/bhOOmmmv33

[BirdLife Australia @BirdlifeOz]

And we have lift off!

This morning, all three Collins St Falcon chicks took the plunge, leaping from the ledge of a window high above Melbourne – much to the delight of their many fans across the world. Thanks for tuning in to the most successful year of the live stream yet!

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

@CosmicRami How fabulous!

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

@naomimcgriff @AstronomerAlec We have staycations, so why not?

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

The travels of Newton's Principia
https://t.co/P0XSsrEXpX

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

This is so good.

Doctors at Brisbane's Prince Charles Hospital say they have found a potential cure for deadly silicosis disease https://t.co/xc7uXvVDNR

[Helen Sim @sky_pointer]

CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope – The Dish – added to National Heritage List https://t.co/odW2kmB6dw 😊