@robertcnichol

Astronomer. PVC and Executive Dean of FEPS @UniOfSurrey Opinions are definitely my own.

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surrey.ac.uk/faculty-engineering-physical-sciences
Joined August 2009
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Come to ⁦@UniOfSurrey⁩ holder day and build this #electronicEngineering
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Do the ⁦@SurreySustain⁩ challenge - I won some chocolate
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#spring ⁦@Ashdown_Forest⁩
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From 20th-23rd May 2024, we're hosting Frontiers in Cosmology and Gravitational Physics, bringing researchers together to discuss the latest developments and key challenges in the fields of cosmology and gravitation! Read more and register here: sciama.icg.port.ac.uk/fronti…
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Adrian Dobbs@APDobbs15 Mar 2024
Nice way to end the week with a rainbow over campus @UniOfSurrey – at Guildford, England
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The @EPSRC has announced that @UniofSurrey’s 5G/6G Innovation Centre will lead a new £8 million Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Open Secure Networks (FORT): tinyurl.com/2k5udu5z @oneinbillion #wirelesscommunications #cybersecurity #networking #AI
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Check out the #PhD opportunities in physical sciences and engineering – nearly 50 of them! Sinkholes, batteries, miniature robots, green hydrogen, lunar construction, quantum – there’s a huge range. Come and join us! Apply by 3 April. tinyurl.com/y7u2xu2d
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We’ve released our final analysis of measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal! Read about the most precise measurement of this kind ever made of when the Universe was just half its age! ifae.es/news/2024/02/20/new-… The full papers can be found at darkenergysurvey.org/des-bao…
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We're advertising a postdoctoral position in supernova cosmology at @LancUniPhysics! It's focused on the 4MOST transients survey TiDES, making use of @VRubinObs and @ESA_Euclid too. For details, see hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.…

Jobs at Lancaster University

hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk
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We are delighted to share this reflective film celebrating some of our 2023 achievements and #ProudToBeSurrey moments. #universityofsurrey #Guildford #highereducation #foreversurrey
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The newest faces of our Proud to be Surrey campaign feature the winners of our Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Staff Excellence. stories.surrey.ac.uk/VC-Awar… #ProudToBeSurrey #ForeverSurrey
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'The question is: is this a strike day with a few trains running, or a non-strike day with a few cancellations?' My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com
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We're doing a little training gig on 7 Feb @thekeeppub We'd love to see members of our @uniofsurrey research community come along, support their colleagues and see what #BrightClub is all about. Free Tickets for this one (but strictly limited on numbers) bit.ly/3HA5XPw
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Jin Xuan@Jin_Xuan_29 Jan 2024
Still time to apply for the THREE Research Fellow positions on sustainable engineering & systems; and join the Surrey Circular Economy Group at @UniOfSurrey! jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.as… jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.as… jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.as… Deadline 12 February 2024
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#BurnsNight in #Worthing (veggie haggis).
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Zack Labe@ZLabe21 Jan 2024
Just updated my visualization of changes in land ice mass as observed by GRACE(-FO) satellite in #Antarctica (left) and #Greenland (right) 🧊📉 Methods can be found from @NASAClimate at climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs…. My graphic can also be downloaded: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-….
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ESO@ESO16 Jan 2024
After a 10,000 km journey across the world 🗺️, the first 18 segments of M1 — the main mirror of ESO’s #ELT — have safely arrived in their next home, the ELT Technical Facility at ESO’s #Paranal Observatory in Chile! 🎊 1/ Read more: eso.org/public/announcements… 📷 ESO/F. Carrasco
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The race to destroy the toxic ‘forever chemicals’ polluting our world - read about the cutting edge research being done by our very own @madbuss theguardian.com/environment/…

The race to destroy the toxic ‘forever chemicals’ polluting our world

As countries work to ban more and more PFAS, focus is shifting to how to remove the ones already out there

theguardian.com
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Has the density of dark energy varied over time? New analysis hints that is possible. Latest findings from @theDESurvey involving the 3 @spacesouthcntrl universities looked at 1,500 supernovae. Read more: tinyurl.com/mr9h7mu3
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Thanks @oneinbillion
University of Surrey VC@uniofsurreyVC9 Jan 2024
Congratulations to @UniofSurrey’s @RobertCNichol, a stalwart of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) which, after a decade-long analysis of over 1,500 supernovae, has shed new light on the dark energy that makes up around 70% of the universe: tinyurl.com/2u6zzpy3 @oneinbillion
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