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“For too long, vice-chancellors and senior executives have escaped any real accountability for some of the terrible decisions that have damaged our public universities.” – NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes #Auspol2025 #inquiry

Making progress on the gofundme to help me rehouse Jonathan's Space Library in the UK ... every little helps. gofund.me/eb11af47

Welcome to the third part of our fourth observing run #O4c The second part O4b ended earlier today, and O4c is currently planned to continue until 7 October Find out more about our observing plans at observing.docs.ligo.org/plan/ #O4IsHere

Wondering where/when/why the conference terminology of describing a presentation as a "paper" came from, as when chairs announce "this paper is now open for questions"

“It’s incredibly concerning that despite all these issues, some university leaders want to keep their heads firmly in the sand and deny there’s serious systemic problems.” Alison Barnes Find out more: betterunis.nteu.au/inquiry

#AcademicTwitter #phdvoice #PhDlife

After over $400m in wage theft, the corporate graft and cronyism, the wastage, incompetence and mismanagement on their watch, university leaders are finally being held to account and ongoing scrutiny. About time! afr.com/work-and-caree… #HigherEducation #universities

Comet C/2024 G3 got stupidly close to the Sun on Jan 13, and solar telescopes caught it in action! ☀️☄️ Oh, and my friend Andy Casely managed to photograph it IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. Absolute legend. If you missed it (like me, RIP), enjoy these astrophotography gems!

Bravo to monashastro.bsky.social PhD student Sergey Belkin and the GOTO GRB working group for their screamingly fast followup of Swift GRB 250129A. "Targeted imaging ... covered the Swift localisation region starting ... +2.7m post trigger". gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/39072

Aus Bluesky self-care 2025 style