World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
fyi Brian Cox Neil deGrasse Tyson
source: Hannah Devlin
theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Gaia spots Milky Way's most massive black hole of stellar origin! It's 33 solar masses, dormant, 2nd closest to Earth at ~2000 light years away, part of a wide binary with an old giant star, with estimated age of 11 Gyr: youtu.be/cU00B-6DeSQ #GaiaBH3 cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2…

For those interested in the dark matter story today, Jonathan Oppenheim is the scientist behind the work and he's giving a talk at UCL next week. Expect it will be worth going to... 👇

Dark matter join a union.
30% of the universe to be replaced by unregulated wobbly spacetime.

Hannah Devlin So clearly explained! So interesting! Exemplary piece of scientific writing. These are difficult concepts and I am in no way a scientist but I drank in every word.

I was the only woman in an all-male Times leader conference when Wayne Couzens was sentenced. A 70 year old colleague expressed astonishment at the full life tariff - that was for the worst crimes only! I said: a generation of women will never trust the police. Not crime enough?

Could 'wobbly' spacetime replace the need for dark matter? theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

Latest from #JWST : Astronomers detect ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ in deep space theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

My daughter loves this book - and pleasingly low effort WBD costume. Red coat, ribbons, few splodges of paint, job done. Happy birthday!

ooh UK now within range for the doomed satellite

European Space Agency ESA Earth Observation 🚨 New data! 🚨

#ERS2reentry at 17:05 UTC (18:05 CET)
Uncertainty is still approx. 30 minutes.

Some personal news:

Tomorrow will be my last day at The Times, after 11½ years working with some amazing colleagues.

I'm moving to The Guardian to be Global Health Correspondent later this month.

Stories, tips and ideas on my new beat welcome!

Honoured to be shortlisted for Environment Journalist of the Year at The Press Awards alongside fantastic colleagues for our work on carbon offsetting.

It was a massive team effort overseen by the brilliant Bibi van der Zee

thepressawards.com/shortlist-2024

Happy bday to Alexia Lopez and her newly discovered #BigRing ! 🥂 While the bdays are a chance alignment, the Big Ring & Giant Arc don't seem to be.
Great news coverage by Hannah Devlin in The Guardian: theguardian.com/science/2024/j…
Thanks for the interview!
#Cosmology #astronomy

At a #AAS243 to hear @uclan's Alexia Lopez present on her claimed discovery of a giant ring of galaxies - 1.3 billion light-years across, to add to her prior discovery of a 'giant arc' of a similar size. Nice Hannah Devlin article here: theguardian.com/science/2024/j…

“As a nation we shouldn’t be having malnourished children... There’s that sense of this isn’t right; what’s happening here?” >> Surge in number of people in hospital with nutrient deficiencies, NHS figures show theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/d… via Hannah Devlin

PET is featured in article by Hannah Devlin. This highlights conf speaker Prof Kathy Niakan's call for law change to help IVF patients donate unused embryos for research

You can read the full article at:
theguardian.com/science/2023/d…

#ivf #embryo #fertility #research #PETconf23

Revealed: the oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe theguardian.com/science/2023/d…

Interesting, often overlooked, aspect of sexism in science

'physics probably had the highest rate of reported sexism in part because it had one of the most unequal male-female ratios among its enrolment.' #womeninstem