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On hiatus

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

I’m off to get married so I can’t run the astronomy twitter journal club for the next few weeks. If anyone would like to step in and run things whilst I’m away send me an email (astrojournalclub@gmail.com) and I’ll initiate … Continue reading →

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Review: Understanding gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

coming soon…

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This week’s meeting: What should young scientists spend their time on?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

The topic for this week’s journal club meeting came from recent conversations on twitter; Marcel Haas explains more below. Join in the discussion this Thursday at 20:10 GMT. Recently on twitter there have been plenty of discussions about what skills … Continue reading →

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Review: Dark dwarfs & the missing satellite problem

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

Astronomy twitter journal club met for the first time in 2012 last week to discuss the recent discovery of a distant, dark, dwarf galaxy which may help explain the discrepancy between the predicted and observed number of Milky Way satellites. … Continue reading →

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This week’s meeting: a preferred axis for the Universe?

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

This Thursday (20:10 UK time) astronomy twitter journal club is tackling a paper that may have major implications for cosmology if the results it presents are correct: Detection of a Dipole in the Handedness of Spiral Galaxies with Redshifts z … Continue reading →

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Review: On the Origin of the Salpeter Slope for the Initial Mass Function

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

It was back to science this week for the astronomy twitter journal club, with a discussion of the origin of the steep slope in the stellar initial mass function based on this paper. There’s some background to the topic in … Continue reading →

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This week’s meeting: On the Origin of the Salpeter Slope for the Initial Mass Function

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

This Thursday (20:10 UK time) come and join the Astronomy Twitter Journal Club in discussing a paper (feels like ages since we did that!) This one in fact, suggested by Marcel Haas: On the Origin of the Salpeter Slope for … Continue reading →

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Review: Are science careers in crisis?

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

This week Astronomy Twitter Journal Club moved away from science topics and onto a more fundamental issue for scientists – the problems with the current career structure for academics, inspired by the report “Careering Out of Control: A Crisis in … Continue reading →

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Off on holiday!

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

I’m off on holiday for the next few weeks so Journal Club’s going on holiday too. We’ll resume on Thursday 22nd September, with an as yet undecided paper. If you want to suggest something for this, or a future, discussion … Continue reading →

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This week’s paper: Life might be rare despite its early emergence on Earth: a Bayesian analysis of the probability of abiogenesis

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

This week the paper we’re going to be discussing is the long-titled “Life might be rare despite its early emergence on Earth: a Bayesian analysis of the probability of abiogenesis” (Spiegel & Turner 2011). The meeting’s on Thursday 4th August, … Continue reading →

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