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- #astroJC update: Journal club's returning soon (once I get the internet connected in my new flat). Tweet me your paper suggestions! 8 months ago
- @Harcel Yes please! 10 months ago
- @Awesome_Ph @thebamf Sorry, sent last tweet from the wrong account! 10 months ago
- @evanocathain @KarenLMasters Sounds like a great idea. I could drag #astrojc out of hiatus for you next Thurs if you want? :) 11 months ago
- @KarenLMasters Sorry for not getting back to you. The week got away from me & Thursday has happened unexpectedly! Will have to postpone 11 months ago
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This week’s meeting: the pros & cons of pro/am collaboration
Professional / amateur collaboration in science, and astronomy in particular, is the discussion topic for this Thursday’s astronomy twitter journal club, starting at 20:10 GMT. @SamHawkins, who proposed this topic, explains more: Astronomy is one of the few branches of … Continue reading
This week’s meeting: Understanding gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula
This Thursday, 20:10 GMT, astronomy journal club will look at a possible explanation for the mysterious gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula – Extreme particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection layers. Application to the gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula (Cerutti … Continue reading
Review: How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints
The 22nd meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club focused on an intriguing question: “Does tweeting really help get a paper more citations?” The discussion was loosely based on a recent paper, How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted … Continue reading
This week’s meeting: How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints
This Thursday, 20:10 GMT, the astronomy twitter journal club’s going to be looking at the benefits of tweeting on paper citations. The discussion topic arose thanks to this recent paper, which I heard about this morning on twitter: How the … Continue reading
This week’s meeting: What should young scientists spend their time on?
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
Review: Dark dwarfs & the missing satellite problem
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
This week’s meeting: Dark dwarf galaxies & the missing satellite problem
The astronomy twitter journal club is back this Thursday, 20:10 GMT, for our first meeting of 2012. Happy New Year everyone! This week we’re going to be discussing the recent discovery of a rather odd dwarf galaxy: Gravitational detection of … Continue reading
Review: Kepler-22b – hype or new home?
The 18th meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club was all about science hype. The topic was suggested when the Kepler team announced the discovery of Kepler-22b – the exoplanet the media immediately christened “Earth’s twin”. There’s some more information … Continue reading
Review: Mentoring for young scientists
The 17th meeting of astronomy twitter journal club turned out to be a very lively discussion of the importance of mentoring to early career scientists. The topic was suggested by Marcel Haas and he explains why he put it forward … Continue reading
This week’s meeting: Mentoring for young scientists
The topic for the next meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club (Thursday, 20:10 GMT) is the importance (or otherwise) of mentoring for helping young scientists establish themselves. It was suggested by Marcel Haas, and I’ll pass you over to … Continue reading
