Ruth MottramFeb 24, 2025

I was honoured to meet Jocelyn Bell Burnell at the #bloomdk festival a few years ago - she is an incredibly nice woman and a very entertaining speaker.

https://mstdn.social/@CarveHerName/114058041972872464

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Attached: 1 image #OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not. In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

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Ruth MottramMay 28, 2023

Had a great time discussing dark matter, dark energy and anti-matter at #BloomDK with @Hotblack43 + Carol Anne Oxborrow, inspired by Jeffery Hangst's talk..

Did you know the #ASIM instrument on the #ISS literally measures the annihilation of positrons in the upper atmosphere via the gamma rays emitted? Utterly fascinating.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0592-z

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So anyway, my next book is from the festival haul. #TheEndOfEverything by @AstroKatie

The ASIM Mission on the International Space Station - Space Science Reviews

The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) is an instrument suite on the International Space Station (ISS) for measurements of lightning, Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs). Developed in the framework of the European Space Agency (ESA), it was launched April 2, 2018 on the SpaceX CRS-14 flight to the ISS. ASIM was mounted on an external platform of ESA’s Columbus module eleven days later and is planned to take measurements during minimum 3 years. The instruments are an x- and gamma-ray monitor measuring photons from 15 keV to 20 MeV, and an array of three photometers and two cameras measuring in bands at: 180–250 nm, 337 nm and 777.4 nm. Additional objectives that can be addressed with the instruments relate to space physics like aurorae and meteors, and to Earth observation such as dust- and aerosol effects on cloud electrification. The paper describes the scientific objectives of the ASIM mission, the instruments, the mission architecture and the international collaboration supported by the ASIM Science Data Centre. ASIM is the first space mission with a comprehensive suite of instruments designed to measure TLEs and TGFs. Two companion papers describe the instruments in more detail (Østgaard et al. in Space Sci. Rev., 2019; Chanrion et al. in Space Sci. Rev., 2019).

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Ruth MottramMay 28, 2023

Eline Lorenzen pointing out that humans have always moved since we left Africa 150,000 years ago. It's a part of us. And it will come to be part of our future also.

#BloomDK #BloomFestival

Ruth MottramMay 28, 2023

"Danmark findes ikke i et tusind år"

Will we be building a dike up the west coast of Denmark in a thousand years to preserve Danmark or will we be moving?

Eline Lorenzen giving us a really good overview of what has changed in the past on what is in fact quite plausible in the future

#BloomDK #BloomFestival

Ruth MottramMay 28, 2023

We should remember that the #Roskilde Cathedral was built about a thousand years ago and we have songs and stories that are even older, so a thousand years in the future is not unimaginable- Minik Rosing

#BloomDK #BloomFestival

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Attached: 1 image How will Copenhagen look in 30, a hundred and a thousand years? Minik Rosing rightly pointing at both #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity crises, Eline Lorenzen emphasising how dependent on natural ecosystems we are and how many species we stand to lose.. We are potentially in an ecological catastrophe as well as a #ClimateCrisis . #BiodiversityCrisis #BloomDK #BloomFestival

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How will Copenhagen look in 30, a hundred and a thousand years?

Minik Rosing rightly pointing at both #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity crises, Eline Lorenzen emphasising how dependent on natural ecosystems we are and how many species we stand to lose..

We are potentially in an ecological catastrophe as well as a #ClimateCrisis .

#BiodiversityCrisis

#BloomDK #BloomFestival

Ruth MottramMay 28, 2023

It's been an *excellent* #BloomFestival in Copenhagen this weekend.

Stor ros til organisationen. 👏👏

Final session closing with an attempt to see the future:
In 1024 Knut the great had just conquered England, how will 3024 look like?

#BloomDK

Ruth MottramMay 28, 2023

The collaboration between #CopenhagenContemporary + #BloomDK the nature, art + science festival has produced some quite beautiful installations - this one - The Copenhagen Interpretation somehow managed to turn a beech tree into a cathedral to physics..
Absolutely exquisite.

#nature #Art #science #festival #CarlsbergFondet

Ruth MottramMay 28, 2023

Scenen på #BloomDK er godt nævnt "Under The Oak"

Hvad an flot sted for en natur, viden og kunst festival...

Ruth MottramMay 27, 2023
A quite extraordinary exhibition at #CopenhagenContemporary today, including this piece by Jakob Kudsk Steensen.
I'm very much looking forward to our chat at #BloomDK tomorrow on myths, storytelling, the anthropocene and glaciers.
#JakobKudskSteensen