Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to British-born, American <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a> Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge (her 🧵</p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a></p>
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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a> Jocelyn Bell Burnell! In 1967, as a grad student she discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us; so, like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Antony Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope to study quasars. 🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a> Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe.<br><br>Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, “My world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like a nervous breakdown.”🧵<br><br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a></p>
Starry Time Podcast<p>went to a talk last night by a prominent <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a> (which is why I was remiss in posting) & I can't stop thinking about Kessler Syndrome.</p><p>The degree of space debris *already* in orbit of earth 😬 </p><p>📷 :<a href="https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/The_cost_of_space_debris" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Deb</span><span class="invisible">ris/The_cost_of_space_debris</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESA</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>The <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printerSolstice2425</span></a> prompt this week is iron, so after talking last week about how certain numbers of nucleons are "magic" as you grow increasingly large nuclei, now we're talking about how you do that: how you grow nuclei from a single proton to the largest naturally-occurring transuranic elements. British-born, American <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a> Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) is 1 of the people instrumental in building our understanding 🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Making my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> portraits of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a> Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/PrinterSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrinterSolstice2425</span></a> prompt: iron! It’s about how most of you and I are stardust, made of elements built in stars through stellar nucleosynthesis. Supergiant stars build elements up to iron through nuclear fusion. In a famous paper known as B2FH, first-authored by Margaret Burbidge, they reviewed everything known about stellar 🧵1/2</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysics</span></a></p>
Bianca Nogrady<p>I was lucky enough to profile <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a> Professor Matthew Bailes for Australian Geographic last year, and learn that his journey to scientific superstardom has hit some roadblocks, one of which made him so famous – for the wrong reasons – he considered giving up <a href="https://aus.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> altogether.<br><a href="https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2024/01/a-curious-mind/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">australiangeographic.com.au/to</span><span class="invisible">pics/science-environment/2024/01/a-curious-mind/</span></a></p>
Dr Sam Morrell<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SummerSolstice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SummerSolstice</span></a> seems like a good time for your friendly neighbourhood <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a> to remind you that in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a> right now there is no nighttime, and there won't be until mid July. I enjoy the quirks of Earth's tilt. </p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/2zqv_Uws490?si=Q2jUtErs1Fw1k46x" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/2zqv_Uws490</span><span class="invisible">?si=Q2jUtErs1Fw1k46x</span></a></p>
Santiago Andrés Triana<p>Hi all! just moved from another instance so an <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> is in order. I'm half-half a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Geophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geophysicist</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophysicist</span></a> working at the Royal Observatory of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Belgium</span></a>. I study the normal modes of fluid planetary cores and stars. I care for social justice and human rights. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AstroPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AstroPhotography</span></a> are my main hobbies. Follow me for bad takes on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> pics.</p>
Sébastien Maret<p>Hi <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrodon</span></a>, time for an <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> 👋 </p><p>I’m an <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/astrophysicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysicist</span></a>, staff researcher at the Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CNRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CNRS</span></a> and Université <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Grenoble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grenoble</span></a>-Alpes). I work on the formation of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/stars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stars</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/planets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>planets</span></a>, more specifically the evolution of gas ans dust in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/protostars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protostars</span></a> and protoplanetary <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/disks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disks</span></a>. For my research I mostly use <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ALMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALMA</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NOEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOEMA</span></a> observations. I also develop models and analysis tools, with a peculiar attention on research <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/reproducibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reproducibility</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a>.</p>
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