We have started inducting the 2023 Australian Academy Fellows - congratulations to the new Fellows 🧪
⬆️ soil H2O content & ⬆️ CO2 lead to ⬆️ isotopic discrimination: Soil moisture effect not influenced by CO2 level & vice versa. Changes in carbon isotope record of terrestrial organic matter preserved in geologic record are best interpreted as deriving from changes in atmospheric CO2 🧪⚒️
Jahren & Schubert (2024) Plant response to decreasing soil moisture under rising atmospheric CO2 levels doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Soil moisture and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels both affect plant isotope discrimination, and the two effects are independent, which must be accounted for when interpreting photosynthetic carbon a...
Most of the time, the stars look the same from night to night. Sometime over the next six months, though, there's a good chance you'll see a new bright star in the constellation Corona Borealis! (I've simulated the before & after view here.) blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Sk... 🔭🧪
Woot! LISA is gonna fly!! 🔭🧪 Gravitational waves from million solar mass black hole binaries!! And white dwarf binaries… which are ok I guess… 😉
I never met Arno Penzias, but the discovery of the CMB definitely catalysed a revolution in cosmology www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1... 🔭🧪
Fellow Astros, the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union is in Cape Town this year 😍 👇Worth a follow as they announce the Symposia. 🔭
For the first time, the IAU General Assembly 2024 will be held in Africa and open to the public! Join us in the Mother City, Cape Town, or virtually during August 6-15. Registration is officially OPEN! astronomy2024.org It’s time for Africa! #IAUGA2024 youtu.be/MzR_dthayRE
The World's Largest International Astronomy Meeting will be held in Africa and Open to the Public for the first time.Registrations Now Open for the Historic ...
Do all the reviews you want, but the bottom line has been obvious for 10+ years. "We urgently need publicly funded scientists doing essential research for overall public benefit & a nice social media strategy doesn’t make that happen – funding does." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Technology experts sound the alarm as authorities try to encourage private investment
Important and scary new paper on satellite megaconstellations: we may be creating a conductive band of plasma dust around the earth arxiv.org/abs/2312.09329