AstroDad's Activity
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AstroDad wrote a new blog post: Moving to WordPress…. 2 years ago
I’ve decided to move the blog to the rather more fully featured WordPress main site rather than the 99c cut-down version of WP offered here on JournalSpace. JS is sadly a dying site - one that hasn’t recovered from the big crash/blog wiping of Jan 2009. A lack of customization ability and an inability to [...]
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AstroDad wrote a new blog post: A flood of results from Herschel…. 2 years ago
I’m currently sitting in the ESA ESLAB conference in Noordwijk, Holland, listening to a barrage of new results from Herschel. It’s been an extraordinarily busy few months for us all, finally sitting down with our first science-quality datasets from the various instruments on Herschel, and reducing them/analysing the results, and finally, writing the first papers. [...]
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AstroDad wrote a new blog post: Surveying the wreckage.. and other bits 2 years, 5 months ago
It’s been quite a week.
The UK physics community is still reeling from the massive slashing of funding to the STFC. Funding for some major projects has been discontinued (including the UK contribution to the Gemini Telescopes, a particular favourite of mine - this had been expected, given the extremely clumsy attempted withdrawal 2 years ago), [...]
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AstroDad wrote a new blog post: I’m a *science warrior* 2 years, 6 months ago
No, I’m not mutating into that crazy “Christian” lady from Trading Spouses. At least not yet.
I’m watching with interest the lead up to the Copenhagen climate summit next month - and in particular, the full on assault by those with vested interests on the science of climate change. The recent theft of emails - and [...]
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AstroDad wrote a new blog post: Dunsink Observatory - a crying shame 2 years, 7 months ago
It’s been a while, I must admit - life has been a tad busy with work on Herschel, with performance verification pretty much done (apart from one instrument) and science demonstration kicking off. It’s been pretty much non-stop since August, with me travelling quite a bit up and down to Oxfordshire for the majority of [...]
