That is an important reflection: there is something we, scientists, science communicators, and scientific policymakers, are not doing OK. There should be something we can do for improving the way we tell our stories for reaching people who usually don’t pay attention to Science

https://twitter.com/cosmos4u/status/1325965078538170368

An example may be the huge bias we have in social media. Our voice is only listened by few, but we think there are many. Many times we just block someone who thinks slightly diferent to us for a minor detail. I know there are many trolls but we should be open to debate more

The first #bluemuse @bluemusevlt Science Workshop is starting right now online! 186 astrophysicists around the world discussing the amazing science this new @ESO’s VLT telescope! Thanks @novaric for organising this! First talk at #bluemuse workshop is by Roland Bacon, who provides a very good overview of the success of MUSE at @ESO’s VLT and gives the context of why deciding to build a blue-optimised Integral Field Unit (IFU) next

Well, you’ve spoken... let’s prepare the telescope for doing a bit of astrophotography ! :-)

https://twitter.com/El_Lobo_Rayado/status/1232911778381582336

Step 1. Prepare the tripod...

Day 5 and last of #ESOz2020 starts with great Cath Trott @CathAstro @ICRAR @ARC_ASTRO3D giving the invited review talk “Measuring the re-ionisation signal” Cath Trott @CathAstro @ICRAR @ARC_ASTRO3D provides a nice overview of how we study the low-frequency Universe, the instruments & experiment we use, & the kind of signal we should expect #ESOz2020 (look, @pcoffeebreak @cienciabrujula
et al., a reference to Loeb!)

#ESOz2020 Day 4. Starting at 9am sharp (& me walking around to get the watch movement tick this hour) with Matt Jarvis giving the review talk “Galaxy populations across time and wavelength” Ah, yes, the webpage combining the thread for #ESOz2020 Day 3 is here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1229934…

3rd day of #ESOz2020 conference, but I can’t share slides of the first talk as the speaker specifically requested it. Meaning this talk will not be included in my notes. Meanwhile please enjoy my compilation of tweets for the 2nd Day of the #ESOz2020 conference here threadreaderapp.com/thread/1229576…

Day 2 of #ESOz2020 conference. Simon Driver @ICRAR presents a panchromatic view of the Universe. Spectroscopic surveys have to get multiwavelength data, as galaxy evolution cannot be understood if information from x-ray to radio is not available (new #thread) Simon Driver @ICRAR emphasises that getting the spectra energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies is key for getting accurate estimations of galaxy properties (e.g. stellar masses, dust, star-formation rates & histories). Some examples provided #ESOz2020

On my way from Sydney to Perth for the #esoz2020... no movies (no individual screen), laptop without battery, no books and a very slow WiFi connection... another hour to go... At least I almost finished my talk and worked a bit more with my Python code... And there we go! #ESOz2020 is starting, thanks LOC (@CDPLagos et al.) for organising this. And a warning: expect many tweets about the Conference during the week, I’m trying to compile them in a thread. It’s also my way of getting notes of the talks, photos of the slides included

Amateur astronomers around the world are noticing that something weird is happening to the Great Red Spot in Jupiter... observations are showing variability in just few hours. Stay tuned ... or even better, if you can take photos of Jupiter, do it!

https://twitter.com/ElbesoenlaLuna/status/1130735603090448384

Another busy day... I had to skip morning sessions at the #A3Dscimeet19 as I needed to do a couple of “urgents” things at the uni including marking quizzes from my tutorings and preparing an invitation letter for a PhD student visiting us in July...

Day 2 of this very busy week. Unfortunately #Pint19AU & #A3Dscimeet19 colliding the same days and work/life balance made me arrive late for #A3Dscimeet19 1st session about the ASKAP. Kid school starts at 9:20am 45 min away from here. Mum will pick him up from aftercare at 6pm Otherwise mum would have changed her working hours to start later, she would have taken him to school while I would have been prompt at 9am for #A3Dscimeet19, and I would have picked him up from aftercare at 6pm...

Busy day today: @ARC_ASTRO3D Science Meeting at @CSIRO_ATNF, @MQPhysAstro fortnight meeting, lecturing at @MQSciEng & @pintofscienceAU tonight... and where am I right now? Walking Pyrmont Bridge in Sydney’s Darling Harbour... #youdontneedtoknowthedetails #A3Dscimeet19 #Pint19AU Meeting done, now lecturing /tutoring basics of optics & lens for @MQSciEng PHYS149 Physics for Life Sciences. I’ll be attending #A3Dscimeet19 all the afternoon so expect my MANY tweets about amazing @ARC_ASTRO3D science. And tonight... @pintofscienceAU #Pint19AU What a Day!

The main reason I’ve been quite off from social media lately is the #AusESO2019 conference, organised by @AAOMacquarie @AAOorg @ESO_Australia et al, starting now.After enjoying 1h40min of driving in Sydney I got in time for listening Eric Emsellem @ESO, connecting Australia & ESO PS: GPS said “45 min” when I departed from “home” this morning...

I’m half way my trip to the Anglo-Australian Telescope @scienceANU at @SidingSpring.After 7 months & suffering the Guillain-Barré Syndrome in July, now ~98% recovered, I’m really looking forward combining supporting telescope observations & stargazing.I’ll need many more of these You don’t know how much time I’ve waited to see this again!