Astronimouse
@astronimouse.bsky.social
A mouse living in the old Cambridge Observatory. I love old books and everything astro-historical.
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University Rankings: Vice Chancellor Vanity Projects
1 Colin Riordan – Cardiff Uni Insane Building Spree (£300m)
2 Shearer West – Nottingham Uni (Castle Meadow mess £88m++)
3 Koen Lamberts – Sheffield Uni (£99m on The Wave)
Colin & Shearer moved on😉😲
Staff are still losing their jobs
1 Colin Riordan – Cardiff Uni Insane Building Spree (£300m)
2 Shearer West – Nottingham Uni (Castle Meadow mess £88m++)
3 Koen Lamberts – Sheffield Uni (£99m on The Wave)
Colin & Shearer moved on😉😲
Staff are still losing their jobs
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
University Rankings: Vice Chancellor Vanity Projects
1 Colin Riordan – Cardiff Uni Insane Building Spree (£300m)
2 Shearer West – Nottingham Uni (Castle Meadow mess £88m++)
3 Koen Lamberts – Sheffield Uni (£99m on The Wave)
Colin & Shearer moved on😉😲
Staff are still losing their jobs
1 Colin Riordan – Cardiff Uni Insane Building Spree (£300m)
2 Shearer West – Nottingham Uni (Castle Meadow mess £88m++)
3 Koen Lamberts – Sheffield Uni (£99m on The Wave)
Colin & Shearer moved on😉😲
Staff are still losing their jobs
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Burning of Universities continues
Job losses this year exceed 10000
This is happening while the ruling party includes an unprecedented number of academics among its MPs
Let's hope their political careers work out ... because there'll be few university jobs to go back to 😲
Job losses this year exceed 10000
This is happening while the ruling party includes an unprecedented number of academics among its MPs
Let's hope their political careers work out ... because there'll be few university jobs to go back to 😲
Some 10,000 jobs could be lost each year at UK universities as leaders continue to cut staff numbers to tackle ongoing financial problems, new analysis suggests. Helen Packer reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-universities-could-cut-10000-jobs-every-year-v-c-predicts
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-universities-could-cut-10000-jobs-every-year-v-c-predicts
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Burning of Universities continues
Job losses this year exceed 10000
This is happening while the ruling party includes an unprecedented number of academics among its MPs
Let's hope their political careers work out ... because there'll be few university jobs to go back to 😲
Job losses this year exceed 10000
This is happening while the ruling party includes an unprecedented number of academics among its MPs
Let's hope their political careers work out ... because there'll be few university jobs to go back to 😲
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For over a decade, #ESAGaia mapped our galaxy with stunning precision, rewriting the story of the Milky Way 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
While Gaia no longer collects new data, its scientific mission is far from over! Upcoming are the Gaia Data Release 4 and the final legacy catalogue. 🔭
While Gaia no longer collects new data, its scientific mission is far from over! Upcoming are the Gaia Data Release 4 and the final legacy catalogue. 🔭
Gaia: Rewriting the story of the Milky Way
www.esa.int
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For over a decade, #ESAGaia mapped our galaxy with stunning precision, rewriting the story of the Milky Way 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
While Gaia no longer collects new data, its scientific mission is far from over! Upcoming are the Gaia Data Release 4 and the final legacy catalogue. 🔭
While Gaia no longer collects new data, its scientific mission is far from over! Upcoming are the Gaia Data Release 4 and the final legacy catalogue. 🔭
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Cosmography archives
Distribution of the Nebulæ, drawn from the 1864 General Catalogue of Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars published by John Herschel.
by Richard A. Proctor (1869)
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1869MNRA... 🧪 #Cosmology
Distribution of the Nebulæ, drawn from the 1864 General Catalogue of Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars published by John Herschel.
by Richard A. Proctor (1869)
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1869MNRA... 🧪 #Cosmology
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Cosmography archives
Distribution of the Nebulæ, drawn from the 1864 General Catalogue of Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars published by John Herschel.
by Richard A. Proctor (1869)
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1869MNRA... 🧪 #Cosmology
Distribution of the Nebulæ, drawn from the 1864 General Catalogue of Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars published by John Herschel.
by Richard A. Proctor (1869)
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1869MNRA... 🧪 #Cosmology
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Suspending music courses will have a devastating impact on musical life at the University, as well as future courses, job, and career opportunities across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands
👇 Read our open letter to the University
👇 Read our open letter to the University
MU Sends Open Letter to University of Nottingham on Music Course Cuts
Music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham while the university’s council decides whether to terminate the courses permanently. Read our open letter to the Univ...
musiciansunion.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Suspending music courses will have a devastating impact on musical life at the University, as well as future courses, job, and career opportunities across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands
👇 Read our open letter to the University
👇 Read our open letter to the University
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Have you ever wondered where we store our rare books and archives? We have specialist strongrooms for the purpose: if you'd like to see them why not book onto one our our free tours taking place on 15 December 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Have you ever wondered where we store our rare books and archives? We have specialist strongrooms for the purpose: if you'd like to see them why not book onto one our our free tours taking place on 15 December 2025.
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"Sadness in the room .. people in floods of tears, with their heads on the desk"
200 staff at University of Derby are facing redundancy
Yet £75m spent on new Cavendish Building
It's screaming flashy infrastructure is valued more than teaching staff
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-n...
200 staff at University of Derby are facing redundancy
Yet £75m spent on new Cavendish Building
It's screaming flashy infrastructure is valued more than teaching staff
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-n...
University of Derby staff to strike before Christmas as redundancy threat looms
'We will be preparing for strike action to protect members' jobs'
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"Sadness in the room .. people in floods of tears, with their heads on the desk"
200 staff at University of Derby are facing redundancy
Yet £75m spent on new Cavendish Building
It's screaming flashy infrastructure is valued more than teaching staff
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-n...
200 staff at University of Derby are facing redundancy
Yet £75m spent on new Cavendish Building
It's screaming flashy infrastructure is valued more than teaching staff
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-n...
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Crisis of underfunding didn’t just “happen”
It was overseen by UniversitiesUK, who represent University Vice Chancellors
They're now pretending to be helpless bystanders
There’s excuses, hand-wringing … but absolutely no one taking responsibility
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/what-we-do/c...
It was overseen by UniversitiesUK, who represent University Vice Chancellors
They're now pretending to be helpless bystanders
There’s excuses, hand-wringing … but absolutely no one taking responsibility
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/what-we-do/c...
Universities receiving £6.4bn a year less for teaching students compared to a decade ago
New analysis from Universities UK (UUK) shows the scale of underfunding English universities face in teaching today’s home students, compared to ten years ago.
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Crisis of underfunding didn’t just “happen”
It was overseen by UniversitiesUK, who represent University Vice Chancellors
They're now pretending to be helpless bystanders
There’s excuses, hand-wringing … but absolutely no one taking responsibility
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/what-we-do/c...
It was overseen by UniversitiesUK, who represent University Vice Chancellors
They're now pretending to be helpless bystanders
There’s excuses, hand-wringing … but absolutely no one taking responsibility
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/what-we-do/c...
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📣Hurry! You only have until 6 December to visit the #CuriousCures exhibition at Cambridge University Library.
🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
🔎 Vein Man and Zodiac Man, from a leaf of medieval folding almanac. MS Add.3303(3)
🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
🔎 Vein Man and Zodiac Man, from a leaf of medieval folding almanac. MS Add.3303(3)
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📣Hurry! You only have until 6 December to visit the #CuriousCures exhibition at Cambridge University Library.
🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
🔎 Vein Man and Zodiac Man, from a leaf of medieval folding almanac. MS Add.3303(3)
🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
🔎 Vein Man and Zodiac Man, from a leaf of medieval folding almanac. MS Add.3303(3)
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It was a huge pleasure to be back at the Royal Institution last month! I gave a lecture all about the mysteries of dark matter, which is now up on YouTube. 🧪🔭
(As a bonus, my demo actually worked, unlike in my 2021 Ri talk...!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
(As a bonus, my demo actually worked, unlike in my 2021 Ri talk...!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
The quest for dark matter with Matt Bothwell
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It was a huge pleasure to be back at the Royal Institution last month! I gave a lecture all about the mysteries of dark matter, which is now up on YouTube. 🧪🔭
(As a bonus, my demo actually worked, unlike in my 2021 Ri talk...!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
(As a bonus, my demo actually worked, unlike in my 2021 Ri talk...!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
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Athena was selected as the second large mission of #CosmicVision, and was later rescoped as #NewAthena.
NewAthena will be the largest X-ray observatory ever built. It will investigate some of the hottest & most energetic phenomena in the Universe with unprecedented accuracy and depth.
1/ #CM25 🔭
NewAthena will be the largest X-ray observatory ever built. It will investigate some of the hottest & most energetic phenomena in the Universe with unprecedented accuracy and depth.
1/ #CM25 🔭
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Athena was selected as the second large mission of #CosmicVision, and was later rescoped as #NewAthena.
NewAthena will be the largest X-ray observatory ever built. It will investigate some of the hottest & most energetic phenomena in the Universe with unprecedented accuracy and depth.
1/ #CM25 🔭
NewAthena will be the largest X-ray observatory ever built. It will investigate some of the hottest & most energetic phenomena in the Universe with unprecedented accuracy and depth.
1/ #CM25 🔭
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🔔 The University of Cambridge has revised its Open Research Position Statement, reinforcing our commitment to rigour, integrity, and transparency in research behaviours, practices and outputs.
🔎 Read the statement: https://loom.ly/-W0LS6o
🔎 Read the statement: https://loom.ly/-W0LS6o
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🔔 The University of Cambridge has revised its Open Research Position Statement, reinforcing our commitment to rigour, integrity, and transparency in research behaviours, practices and outputs.
🔎 Read the statement: https://loom.ly/-W0LS6o
🔎 Read the statement: https://loom.ly/-W0LS6o
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One week to go!
Join us on 2 Dec at 6:30pm GMT for Renée Bergland’s online lecture on Natural Magic ✨ , the 2025 Hughes Prize–winning book exploring Dickinson, Darwin & the dawn of modern science.
Free—register on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-ma...
Join us on 2 Dec at 6:30pm GMT for Renée Bergland’s online lecture on Natural Magic ✨ , the 2025 Hughes Prize–winning book exploring Dickinson, Darwin & the dawn of modern science.
Free—register on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-ma...
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
One week to go!
Join us on 2 Dec at 6:30pm GMT for Renée Bergland’s online lecture on Natural Magic ✨ , the 2025 Hughes Prize–winning book exploring Dickinson, Darwin & the dawn of modern science.
Free—register on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-ma...
Join us on 2 Dec at 6:30pm GMT for Renée Bergland’s online lecture on Natural Magic ✨ , the 2025 Hughes Prize–winning book exploring Dickinson, Darwin & the dawn of modern science.
Free—register on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-ma...
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Come and hear from Dr Fabio Silva and Professor Clive Ruggles as they take their audience on a journey into the world of archaeoastronomy.
📅 27 Nov
⏰ 5-6pm
📍 Burlington House, London
🎟️ www.sal.org.uk/event/ras-le...
📅 27 Nov
⏰ 5-6pm
📍 Burlington House, London
🎟️ www.sal.org.uk/event/ras-le...
Robust Methodologies in Skyscape Archaeology: Case Studies from Malta and Peru - Society of Antiquaries of London
Evening lecture organised jointly with the Royal Astronomical Society. Learn about the thirteen towers of Chankillo which form part of a monumental complex built in the Peruvian coastal desert in the…
www.sal.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Come and hear from Dr Fabio Silva and Professor Clive Ruggles as they take their audience on a journey into the world of archaeoastronomy.
📅 27 Nov
⏰ 5-6pm
📍 Burlington House, London
🎟️ www.sal.org.uk/event/ras-le...
📅 27 Nov
⏰ 5-6pm
📍 Burlington House, London
🎟️ www.sal.org.uk/event/ras-le...
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Fancy winning some UK Space Agency goodies, including a mission patch? 🚀
Our Christmas Card competition is back! Design a card illustrating the need to #KeepSpaceTidy so Santa and satellites stay safe. 🛰️
Closes 5pm on 15 December.
Enter here 👉 space.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/20/%...
Our Christmas Card competition is back! Design a card illustrating the need to #KeepSpaceTidy so Santa and satellites stay safe. 🛰️
Closes 5pm on 15 December.
Enter here 👉 space.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/20/%...
📢 UK Space Agency Christmas card design competition! 🎅
Design a Christmas card about keeping Santa and the satellites we all rely on every day safe! 🛰️🎅🛷
space.blog.gov.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Fancy winning some UK Space Agency goodies, including a mission patch? 🚀
Our Christmas Card competition is back! Design a card illustrating the need to #KeepSpaceTidy so Santa and satellites stay safe. 🛰️
Closes 5pm on 15 December.
Enter here 👉 space.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/20/%...
Our Christmas Card competition is back! Design a card illustrating the need to #KeepSpaceTidy so Santa and satellites stay safe. 🛰️
Closes 5pm on 15 December.
Enter here 👉 space.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/20/%...
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
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The team recreating the famous Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial ship is inviting the public to name it!
The Sutton Hoo Ships Company (SHSC) aim to complete the project next year before getting the ship on the River Deben in 2027.
You can submit your nomination here: saxonship.org/suggest-a-na...
The Sutton Hoo Ships Company (SHSC) aim to complete the project next year before getting the ship on the River Deben in 2027.
You can submit your nomination here: saxonship.org/suggest-a-na...
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The team recreating the famous Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial ship is inviting the public to name it!
The Sutton Hoo Ships Company (SHSC) aim to complete the project next year before getting the ship on the River Deben in 2027.
You can submit your nomination here: saxonship.org/suggest-a-na...
The Sutton Hoo Ships Company (SHSC) aim to complete the project next year before getting the ship on the River Deben in 2027.
You can submit your nomination here: saxonship.org/suggest-a-na...
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It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
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Our next meeting is the last of our regular Astrodome meetings of the year: Friday 5th December at 8PM Rectory Cottages, Church Green Rd, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6BJ. All welcome.
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Our next meeting is the last of our regular Astrodome meetings of the year: Friday 5th December at 8PM Rectory Cottages, Church Green Rd, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6BJ. All welcome.
We have just received the latest annual report from @kicc-cambridge.bsky.social and it is now on display in the Library.
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We have just received the latest annual report from @kicc-cambridge.bsky.social and it is now on display in the Library.
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New journals in the Library this morning. A very interesting issue of Astronomy Now includes a calendar for 2026.
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New journals in the Library this morning. A very interesting issue of Astronomy Now includes a calendar for 2026.
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Today is #WorldFisheriesDay and Nicky, one of fabulous library volunteers, has written a piece on @thembauk.bsky.social's history of fisheries research.
www.mba.ac.uk/the-marine-b...
www.mba.ac.uk/the-marine-b...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Today is #WorldFisheriesDay and Nicky, one of fabulous library volunteers, has written a piece on @thembauk.bsky.social's history of fisheries research.
www.mba.ac.uk/the-marine-b...
www.mba.ac.uk/the-marine-b...
New journals in the Library this morning. A very interesting issue of Astronomy Now includes a calendar for 2026.
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New journals in the Library this morning. A very interesting issue of Astronomy Now includes a calendar for 2026.
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In 2025 more than 70% of our research has published #OpenAccess each month. OA plays a key role in our mission to advance learning, knowledge, and research across the world.
Read how we are driving a community-led change to build an open future 🔗 https://cup.org/3LMIv76
Read how we are driving a community-led change to build an open future 🔗 https://cup.org/3LMIv76
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In 2025 more than 70% of our research has published #OpenAccess each month. OA plays a key role in our mission to advance learning, knowledge, and research across the world.
Read how we are driving a community-led change to build an open future 🔗 https://cup.org/3LMIv76
Read how we are driving a community-led change to build an open future 🔗 https://cup.org/3LMIv76
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🎙️Mariner's Mirror Podcast 🎙️
Dr Sam Willis visited our archive in Woolwich to discuss the Scottish Antarctica Expedition on board the vessel Scotia, a significant vessel contributing significantly to understanding Oceanography 🌊 snr.org.uk/the-mariners...
Dr Sam Willis visited our archive in Woolwich to discuss the Scottish Antarctica Expedition on board the vessel Scotia, a significant vessel contributing significantly to understanding Oceanography 🌊 snr.org.uk/the-mariners...
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🎙️Mariner's Mirror Podcast 🎙️
Dr Sam Willis visited our archive in Woolwich to discuss the Scottish Antarctica Expedition on board the vessel Scotia, a significant vessel contributing significantly to understanding Oceanography 🌊 snr.org.uk/the-mariners...
Dr Sam Willis visited our archive in Woolwich to discuss the Scottish Antarctica Expedition on board the vessel Scotia, a significant vessel contributing significantly to understanding Oceanography 🌊 snr.org.uk/the-mariners...