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Dr. Matthew J. Rickard FRAS
@matthewrickard.bsky.social
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Astrophysicist, socialist, humanist & bad musician

He/him

See my research - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5255-8116
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@standupmaths.bsky.social Hey! Did I remember you are doing meet and greets before your shows? What time tonight in Bedford? Need to know to arrange the babysitter (aka Mother-in-law).
July 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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@zakbrownceo.bsky.social looks like he's lost as weight
April 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
matthewrickard.bsky.social
We should be sympathetic. No one likes those yearly performance review meetings with their line manager.
March 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
matthewrickard.bsky.social
Two panel line drawn cartoon, credited to @amil.illustrates Top panel: Man in a oversized suit and bad hair and an angry look on their face say "stop immigration so we can take of our own". "stop" and "our own" are underlined. Bottom panel: smaller figure looks up at the man and says "i'm starving". Man from the first panel looks in their direction, hands on hips and says "fuck off".
February 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
matthewrickard.bsky.social
So it seems I can't search on the NASA Astronomical Database system because it is suffering issues, as Trump and the fascists go through cutting anything they don't like. 'Information' being their first target, of course.
February 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I want to spend a really long time explaining how well this works, but I am stationary.
January 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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My latest paper has just been published;
Determining stellar properties of massive stars in NGC346 in the SMC with a Bayesian statistic technique.

www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
Determining stellar properties of massive stars in NGC346 in the SMC with a Bayesian statistic technique | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)Mendeley
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics
www.aanda.org
December 9, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Most massive massive contact binary star - by myself and Dr. Daniel Pauli.

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ap...
Most massive touching stars ever found will eventually collide as black holes
Two massive touching stars in a neighbouring galaxy are on course to become black holes that will eventually crash together, generating waves in the fabric of space-time, according to a new study by r...
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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@neildegrassetyson.com I saw you recently talking about the moon illusion. Your description does not match the explanation I have seen before by @philplait.bsky.social - who is correct?
December 5, 2024 at 7:45 AM