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Dr Hannah Dalgleish
@hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
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📝 science/academic policy engager/facilitator
🌌 rewilding the night
🤝 knowledge mobiliser
🌟 former astrophysicist
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hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
This is devastating. The skills that astronomers learn are invaluable to society, many going into industry, the civil service, science communication, … such drastic cuts will have terrible consequences in the long run.
January 29, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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britsciassoc.bsky.social
The Public Attitudes to Science Survey results have been published by @ukri.org and @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social. This wide-ranging report reveals that the public values science, but highlights concerns over AI, information quality, and representation: www.britishscienceassociation.org/News/public-...
Public Attitudes to Science Survey shows the public values science, but highlights concerns over AI, quality of information, and representation
Ipsos, the British Science Association, and UK Research and Innovation have published the results of the 2025 Public Attitudes to Science Survey - the first since the Covid-19 pandemic, and the first ...
www.britishscienceassociation.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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thexclaim6.bsky.social
One for the film detectives - anyone know what this church is from Don’t Look Now? Can’t seem to find much info and it looks more like a church in the UK than Italy? Reverse image search just brings back the film 🤔

All time favourite film opening, by the way #filmsky
Church photograph used in Don’t Look Now, pre ink spill
March 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
I have an email in my junk addressing me as "Your Excellency Professor".
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Reposted by Dr Hannah Dalgleish
hetanshah.bsky.social
Very interesting piece from @anastasiabekt.bsky.social responding to @geoffmulgan.bsky.social's challenge that we need an Aria for social science
anastasiabekt.substack.com/p/an-aria-gr...
An ARIA-grade agenda for social science
The missing R&D pipeline for building and scaling social science solutions
anastasiabekt.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Dr Hannah Dalgleish
sjfarrer.bsky.social
Okay my loves. I need your help here with a local thing! I’m currently putting together a series of talks relating to East Sussex.

If you could share with your fellow lovelies it would be incredible! @overslizzie.bsky.social @reblambert.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social @lazaruscorporation.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
Now is the time to go and embrace a star-filled sky while we still can, for it won’t be long before all we can see are satellites…
apod.shinyakato.dev Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Dec 30
🔭 An Artificial Comet

Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Chao

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25123...
A star filled sky shows bands of green and purple sky glow. In the foreground is a grassy field with clouds on the horizon. Most remarkably, a series of short streaks appear like a comet's tail up from the horizon toward the upper left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
December 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Reposted by Dr Hannah Dalgleish
apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 HH-222: The Waterfall Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25123...
A starfield filled with a diffuse red glow has an unusual nebula on the lower left. The nebula has bright red filaments that curve down and appear to be reminiscent of a waterfall on Earth. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
December 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
I think it’s easy to underestimate just how impressive this new map is. We can now see Europe at night in colour! This is mega!
exploration.esa.int ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · Dec 17
Europe's nighttime glow from space 🌍

This first colour mosaic of the continent at night was created from 7000+ pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.

www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Mosaic of Europe at night in colour created from over 7000 pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station in 2017.
December 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Reposted by Dr Hannah Dalgleish
meganeaves.com
UK readers – from today through Friday, you can get 25% off if you pre-order NIGHTFARING (and other 2026 releases) from @waterstones.bsky.social. 🔑 Use the code OCTOBER25 at checkout on the Waterstones website or app. Pre-orders really help an author out, and I appreciate your support! Out 22 Jan.
October 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Reposted by Dr Hannah Dalgleish
waltydunlop.bsky.social
Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.
October 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Reposted by Dr Hannah Dalgleish
roisinmoriarty.com
“It only works if it works for everyone”
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
had a marvellous time attending this! a very expansive and thought-provoking time with some wonderful humans – thank you all for making me feel so welcome
futurespaceproject.bsky.social FutureSpace Research Project @futurespaceproject.bsky.social · Nov 22
Exciting news and more info to come soon! 🚀

We are happy to share that the next Ethnographies of Outer Space (EOS) conference will be hosted by ourselves at the University of Vienna!

#EthnographiesOfOuterSpace #EOS #STS #SSOS #UniversityOfVienna #OuterSpace
September 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
finally got around to deleting my twitter. take that elon. 💩
September 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reposted by Dr Hannah Dalgleish
nsousanis.bsky.social
Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!)
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
a spread for a comics page, black background, with white panel borders and most the drawings white on black. upper left of the spread, a swirl of the start of a star - emanating out from it in radiating arms, a number of different paths in brick-like interconnected panel border shapes. First radiating down and to the left the life of a brown dwarf - which never quite becomes a start. the next branch goes mostly down - a red dwarf which burns longer than the current life of the universe, but the path forks near the bottom, because some of these alternately flare up during their life. the next path is a dwarf star - much like our own - which is stable until it puffs up late in its life, then burst off much of its material to become a white dwarf. Here the path forks - in one branch it lives on as a white dwarf and nebula, in the other, when it has a partner star, it steals material from it and eventually becomes a type 1A supernova. Overlaid a bit on this set of paths and the red dwarf is an example of a binary star system and a six star system. Emanating from the middle of these paths from upper left and going across the spine of the book to the lower right, is a path filled with galaxies - the path loses its border in the middle showing a collection of galaxies. Upper right path is a blue super giant as we move right it goes nova becoming in one forking path a black hole, in another a spinning neutron star - and that forks to either continue or if paired, collide to go supernova and create heavy elements. Middle of right side, molecules formed by chemistry with these atoms forged in stars. new swirls form, and then we see another generation of stars in a grid set of panels and the Planets! formed around them. This is a generational cycle and the text reflects that
September 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
This looks interesting, you get funded to go to a three-day in-person residential workshop in Canada in February 2026. And there are opportunities for more funding. I would have probably applied if I wasn't so allergic to AI. Deadline: 30th October www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Expressions of interest: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US
AHRC and SSHRC invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial intelligenc...
www.ukri.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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williamlallen.bsky.social
As early-career colleagues start thinking about autumn job applications, I wrote a piece describing my post-PhD path. Reflecting on "project," "person," and "place" with mentors helped me immensely, so I hope this note pays it forward somehow. www.wlallen.com/wp-content/u...
Three overlapping circles with the words project, person, and place inside each of them.
June 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
The @bankofengland.bsky.social are asking people to suggest themes for a new series of bank notes www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

I suggested "Women+Space: Helen Sharman, Jocelyn B Burnell, Caroline Herschel, Annie Maunder, Mary Somerville" 👩‍🚀🌟🔭
Help us design our next series of banknotes
Share your views by nominating a theme before 31 July – it takes less than two minutes.
www.bankofengland.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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joshdmay.bsky.social
Why do liberal professors value tradition and hate bureaucracy within their own workplaces but not outside them? I suggest an answer:
Why Are Liberal Professors More Conservative On Campus? (guest post) - Daily Nous
"Academics pride themselves on critical thinking and intellectual virtues. But intellectual honesty demands that we recognize when we are applying principles selectively." In the following guest post,...
dailynous.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
Laughing and crying at the same time 😭
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde
The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
This looks great, wish I could be there!
ucl-ccs.bsky.social UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies @ucl-ccs.bsky.social · Apr 4
On April 15, we're hosting the much-anticipated UK launch of @koheisaito.bsky.social's SLOW DOWN

Kohei Saito will be in conversation with our Centre Director Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

6pm, Logan Hall, 20 Bedford Way

@ariskomporozos.bsky.social
@sriucl.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
SLOW DOWN - the UK launch
The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies presents Kohei Saito in conversation with Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
A wonderfully captivating night time read, by Hannah Sullivan: brigstow-institute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/nightwalker-...
NIGHTWALKER: Creative essay on women walking at night, the night body and darkness in the city.
Preamble In the early 1800s a frenzy of street lighting completely rearranged England’s cities and our night. Overcome with the spectacle of engineering, street lighting was rolled out at a pace. An appropriate arrival point and symbol for the age of enlightenment. It also marks the strengthening of a nyctophobia that has persisted ever since. […]
brigstow-institute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
hannahsuzanne.bsky.social
A fantastic read, thank you!
adesut.bsky.social Adrien De Sutter @adesut.bsky.social · Mar 31
I really enjoyed writing this piece for @aeon.co!

A huge thank you to @richardfisher.bsky.social for his patience and support during the editing process.
aeon.co Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Mar 31
‘We risk what has been called a ‘post-empirical physics’. In short, a Universe lost to the world’ Why the hunt for reality is an impossible burden for physics @adesut.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM