Jonathan Pritchard
@jr_pritchard
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Imperial astrophysicist and bewildered vagabond. Reader. SKA enthusiast. (opinions mine, not employer's). @[email protected]
Richmond, London
Joined January 2011
Well almost all the individuals I follow have moved to bluer skies or given up the ghost. Sad to see the dystopian and toxic landscape Twitter has become. Time to hibernate in the hopes of a spring after the long fallout winter.
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RT @Caltech: When George Ellery Hale climbed Mount Wilson, a nearly 6,000-foot peak rising high above Pasadena, in 1903, he had a vision fo…
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It’s a bit disappointing to see so many centre right parties just completely lose their grip on reality.
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RT @VRubinObs: 🚨Calling astronomy grad students! Want to build your data science skills while preparing for the deluge of Rubin data? The…
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RT @Wonkhe: Best of 2024: There's a long road between financial uncertainty and collapse. David Kernohan chats to Sam Sanders at KPMG about…
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RT @KofmanMichael: A long thread on the war and the current situation. Although the worst-case scenarios didn’t materialize in 2024, it was…
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RT @susie_dent: Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century,…
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RT @lauriewired: “My wife complains that open office will never print on Tuesdays” A bizarre sentence; which kicked off one of the most in…
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@markmleach Nice article, but this is one of many issues where it’s far from obvious that the “we” here should be the universities and not the towns and cities themselves.
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@BenneHolwerda Any good examples? I can only think of “Going Dutch” and “Dutch Book”, as phrases, which are financial/stingy/profiteering.
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RT @ImperialPhysics: If you missed it or want to see it again watch Professor Daniel Mortlock's inaugural lecture "The Universe, probably"…
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Looking forward to Daniel Mortlock’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture on “The Universe, Probably”
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RT @DJSnM: The first air crash investigation on another world has concluded that the crash of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars was caused b…
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Are there grants in the UK for mid-career sabbaticals targeted at “you could do good things, but your life got nuked by acts of man or gods” type circumstances? That seems like a thing that should exist.
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@ProfessorTanvir Are EPSRC suffering from the same government spending review related delays that STFC are? Our proposals are currently in a holding pattern until late Jan .
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RT @UK_SKARC: Save the date: 16-20 June 2025 @SKAO General Science Meeting: A New Era in #Astrophysics: Preparing for early science with th…
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