Notices by Anne (anne@beach.city)

Welcome to mastodon everyone! I love seeing all this art posted. But we do have some folks on here who don't see well, and they really appreciate it if you add a description to your images. Just briefly what you're showing people, so that they have some idea what they're looking for.

I know sometimes it seems like too much work, and if you can't you can't. But it does make your work accessible to more people, not least because more of us will boost it.

#introduction #florespondence #mastoart

This is remarkable: an amateur built a modest array of Yagi-Uda antennas, hooked it up to hacked digital TV chips and detected a pulsar. Not only that, they observed the pulsar continuously long enough to catch a rare "glitch" in action. (1/n)

Vela Pulsar Glitch Detected with RTL-SDR Based Radio Telescope

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/vela-pulsar-glitch-detected-with-rtl-sdr-based-radio-telescope/

@katwylder
If we're going down this road (I approve!) I have to speak up for Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discoverer of the first pulsars. In addition to being a brilliant scientist she is also an awesome person who recognizes and is trying to do something about the inequalities in science.
@moiety