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Amery Gration
@amerygration.bsky.social
Astrophysicist. Research Fellow at the University of Surrey. Vegan.
It's paper day! 'Stellar velocity distributions in binary-rich ultrafaint dwarf galaxies' is now up online. arxiv.org/abs/2509.14316
Stellar velocity distributions in binary-rich ultrafaint dwarf galaxies
Ultrafaint dwarf (UFD) galaxies are dominated by dark matter, the distribution of which may be inferred from the kinematics of that galaxy's stellar population. Star-by-star observations are available...
arxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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April’s Supreme Court decision is being treated as the final word.

But the judgment has introduced considerable uncertainty to the law, and some parts appear to set back the rights of trans people by over 20 years, says barrister @crash-w.bsky.social:
goodlaw.social/d4n8
For Women Scotland: a legal critique | Good Law Project
April’s Supreme Court decision is being treated as the final word. But the judgment has introduced considerable uncertainty to the law, and some parts appear to set back the rights of trans people by ...
goodlaw.social
April 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If you're watching The Traitors this year, then here's a lovely paper on its dynamics! ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010arXi...
A mathematical model of the Mafia game
Mafia (also called Werewolf) is a party game. The participants are divided into two competing groups: citizens and a mafia. The objective is to eliminate the opponent group. The game consists of two c...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
... and that's me finally off Twitter.
November 20, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Paper day! My paper with John Magorrian, 'Mapping dust in the giant molecular cloud Orion A' (arxiv.org/abs/2401.12976) has been accepted by MNRAS and is on the Arxiv.
January 24, 2024 at 1:03 PM