Marcin Glowacki
@astromarcin.bsky.social
Radio astronomer at the Uni of Edinburgh. Has a moustache.
In Oxford for a couple days! And it's quite cold today... but at least it is dry.
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In Oxford for a couple days! And it's quite cold today... but at least it is dry.
A nice slightly early birthday present - paper accepted email!
Now I have to fight arxiv's system because the last time I tried with the PASA template... a weirdly unfun experience.
Now I have to fight arxiv's system because the last time I tried with the PASA template... a weirdly unfun experience.
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A nice slightly early birthday present - paper accepted email!
Now I have to fight arxiv's system because the last time I tried with the PASA template... a weirdly unfun experience.
Now I have to fight arxiv's system because the last time I tried with the PASA template... a weirdly unfun experience.
A while ago I co-wrote a book chapter with Prof Khee-Gan Lee - as of last week the book got published! It's in the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, and the chapter is about doing cosmology with fast radio bursts.
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Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, Five Volume Set is a brand new, up to date reference work consisting of 153 chapters, headed up by an editorial board of...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A while ago I co-wrote a book chapter with Prof Khee-Gan Lee - as of last week the book got published! It's in the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, and the chapter is about doing cosmology with fast radio bursts.
www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
After two talks, discussion sessions, and safaris at a conference, now in Cape Town for catching up with friends and some collab work next week (besides grant writing/responding to ref report...)
Made a friend this evening too!
Made a friend this evening too!
August 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
After two talks, discussion sessions, and safaris at a conference, now in Cape Town for catching up with friends and some collab work next week (besides grant writing/responding to ref report...)
Made a friend this evening too!
Made a friend this evening too!
Very rude guests interrupted someone's conference talk today. They should have read the code of conduct! #HungryHIppos #Kruger
August 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Very rude guests interrupted someone's conference talk today. They should have read the code of conduct! #HungryHIppos #Kruger
Astronomy conferencing when the power goes out #HungryHIppos #Kruger
August 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Astronomy conferencing when the power goes out #HungryHIppos #Kruger
Going back to South Africa today! Conference at Kruger, and then Cape Town Friday-Thursday. LMK if you wanted to catch up!
August 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Going back to South Africa today! Conference at Kruger, and then Cape Town Friday-Thursday. LMK if you wanted to catch up!
Gave a talk at Dynamic Radio Sky last night! About our findings with scattering correlations for FRB host galaxies.
I really do mean 'last night' - it was 12:30am for me... and probably the best possible time given the schedule! Better than not being able to give the talk at all. #timezones
I really do mean 'last night' - it was 12:30am for me... and probably the best possible time given the schedule! Better than not being able to give the talk at all. #timezones
July 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Gave a talk at Dynamic Radio Sky last night! About our findings with scattering correlations for FRB host galaxies.
I really do mean 'last night' - it was 12:30am for me... and probably the best possible time given the schedule! Better than not being able to give the talk at all. #timezones
I really do mean 'last night' - it was 12:30am for me... and probably the best possible time given the schedule! Better than not being able to give the talk at all. #timezones
Jumped from double conference week into double telescope proposals deadline day (albeit one got led by my student in the end, and neither of them were started from scratch).
Hoping next time MeerKAT and GMRT won't conspire to have their deadlines on the same day! 🫠
Hoping next time MeerKAT and GMRT won't conspire to have their deadlines on the same day! 🫠
July 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Jumped from double conference week into double telescope proposals deadline day (albeit one got led by my student in the end, and neither of them were started from scratch).
Hoping next time MeerKAT and GMRT won't conspire to have their deadlines on the same day! 🫠
Hoping next time MeerKAT and GMRT won't conspire to have their deadlines on the same day! 🫠
This morning I gave a 1 min sparkler talk about a poster on FRBs and scattering correlations with host galaxy properties at #NAM2025 in Durham in person.
This evening I gave a talk over telecon at #FRB2025 about a new repeating FRB discovery.
That's right dual conferencing baybeeee
This evening I gave a talk over telecon at #FRB2025 about a new repeating FRB discovery.
That's right dual conferencing baybeeee
July 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Also got to see my PhD student, Hugh Roxburgh, give his talk at #FRB2025! He was a perfect 12 hours time difference from that meeting in Montreal. Hugh's carrying on with HI follow-up of multiple FRBs - paper submission is soon!
July 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Also got to see my PhD student, Hugh Roxburgh, give his talk at #FRB2025! He was a perfect 12 hours time difference from that meeting in Montreal. Hugh's carrying on with HI follow-up of multiple FRBs - paper submission is soon!
Attending #NAM2025 this week - only arrived today but in Durham for the week. Seeing the castle shortly after getting off the train by the river was pretty neat.
Got posters (plural) for this conference - first flash/sparkler talk tomorrow!
Got posters (plural) for this conference - first flash/sparkler talk tomorrow!
July 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Attending #NAM2025 this week - only arrived today but in Durham for the week. Seeing the castle shortly after getting off the train by the river was pretty neat.
Got posters (plural) for this conference - first flash/sparkler talk tomorrow!
Got posters (plural) for this conference - first flash/sparkler talk tomorrow!
I put out a preprint recently! Investigated how FRB properties (such as scattering timescale and |RM|) we measured for 35 FRBs localised via ASKAP and the CELEBI pipeline (plus a few in the lit), correlated (or not) with global host properties. #FRB
arxiv.org/abs/2506.23403
arxiv.org/abs/2506.23403
An investigation into correlations between FRB and host galaxy properties
Impulsive radio signals such as fast radio bursts (FRBs) are imprinted with the signatures of multi-path propagation through ionised media in the form of frequency-dependent temporal broadening of the...
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July 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I put out a preprint recently! Investigated how FRB properties (such as scattering timescale and |RM|) we measured for 35 FRBs localised via ASKAP and the CELEBI pipeline (plus a few in the lit), correlated (or not) with global host properties. #FRB
arxiv.org/abs/2506.23403
arxiv.org/abs/2506.23403
The paper came out only in the past day, but the preprint was on arxiv last week. Despite no PR planned, it randomly got picked up, including by CNN... and all because we found a satellite rather than what we were trying to detect. But that's cool too.
edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/s...
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Long-dead satellite emits strong radio signal, puzzling astronomers | CNN
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that astronomers initially struggled to explain.
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July 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The paper came out only in the past day, but the preprint was on arxiv last week. Despite no PR planned, it randomly got picked up, including by CNN... and all because we found a satellite rather than what we were trying to detect. But that's cool too.
edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/s...
edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/s...
Reposted by Marcin Glowacki
Hot off the press - a new Nature @natureportfolio.nature.com paper by Ziteng (Andy Wang)!
A new long period transient, this time with X-ray emission.
Discovered as part of our ASKAP transient searches, it has a strong burst of radio emission every 44.2 minutes.
#RadioAstronomy #AstroSci
A new long period transient, this time with X-ray emission.
Discovered as part of our ASKAP transient searches, it has a strong burst of radio emission every 44.2 minutes.
#RadioAstronomy #AstroSci
May 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hot off the press - a new Nature @natureportfolio.nature.com paper by Ziteng (Andy Wang)!
A new long period transient, this time with X-ray emission.
Discovered as part of our ASKAP transient searches, it has a strong burst of radio emission every 44.2 minutes.
#RadioAstronomy #AstroSci
A new long period transient, this time with X-ray emission.
Discovered as part of our ASKAP transient searches, it has a strong burst of radio emission every 44.2 minutes.
#RadioAstronomy #AstroSci
I've been part of a large collaborative effort, featuring a bunch of CRAFT survey people, behind this discovery! A long-period radio transient (LPT - rare objects) detected in X-ray, the first for an LPT!
Images by the lead author, Ziteng (Andy) Wang. #nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Images by the lead author, Ziteng (Andy) Wang. #nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I've been part of a large collaborative effort, featuring a bunch of CRAFT survey people, behind this discovery! A long-period radio transient (LPT - rare objects) detected in X-ray, the first for an LPT!
Images by the lead author, Ziteng (Andy) Wang. #nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Images by the lead author, Ziteng (Andy) Wang. #nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I, alongside my boss Romeel, have a Masters project being advertised through #DARA - the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy program! Deadline is this Sunday - if you are/know a potential student from specific countries in Africa, check it out!
www.dara-project.org/advancedprog...
www.dara-project.org/advancedprog...
Advanced Programme | dara-project
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May 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I, alongside my boss Romeel, have a Masters project being advertised through #DARA - the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy program! Deadline is this Sunday - if you are/know a potential student from specific countries in Africa, check it out!
www.dara-project.org/advancedprog...
www.dara-project.org/advancedprog...
Gave a seminar at St Andrews yesterday! Talked on a mix of FRB, HI with MeerKAT, and simulation work. Was a nice town to walk through after the work day was done too (helped the weather was nigh perfect).
May 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Gave a seminar at St Andrews yesterday! Talked on a mix of FRB, HI with MeerKAT, and simulation work. Was a nice town to walk through after the work day was done too (helped the weather was nigh perfect).
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a fire near a uni building I worked at, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
(This one was fine, unless you're small patches of vegetation. But not something I expected to see in Scotland! Thanks firefighters.)
(This one was fine, unless you're small patches of vegetation. But not something I expected to see in Scotland! Thanks firefighters.)
May 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a fire near a uni building I worked at, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
(This one was fine, unless you're small patches of vegetation. But not something I expected to see in Scotland! Thanks firefighters.)
(This one was fine, unless you're small patches of vegetation. But not something I expected to see in Scotland! Thanks firefighters.)
Overleaf is down for the past half hour... nobody panic!
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ALT: a cartoon toad with his mouth wide open
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May 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Overleaf is down for the past half hour... nobody panic!
Sent in my postal vote for the Aus election recently - took a bit to get here! Will be interesting to see how it goes...
May 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Sent in my postal vote for the Aus election recently - took a bit to get here! Will be interesting to see how it goes...