It's not just earthquakes our seismometers pick up, they can also detect the weather!
On Thursday morning a large lightning storm hit Leicester, with the thunder being picked up on our seismometers, showing as peaks in the seismogram.
#SeismicSaturdays
Go out! Look up! Enjoy the Moon! Watch how it changes from night to night (I've had a great view of the first quarter Moon from the garden the last couple of nights). Do not worry about 'special' events like a mini blue strawberry latte hedgehog Moon. Just go and look whenever you like! 🔭
Enormous congratulations to the #SMILE team on the successful launch this morning, especially the @physicsuol.bsky.social team leading the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), which uses the ‘lobster-eye’ micropore optics technology developed @uniofleicester.bsky.social.
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North of the border, and flying across the beautiful Scottish landscape on my way to St Andrews for the British Planetary Science Conference #BPSC
An excellent meeting, well-organised and in a very special place (even if you don't play golf). Well done #BPSC2026
Extended my stay in St Andrews by a day to give a seminar on Jupiter's atmosphere for the School of Maths & Statistics. Hadn't realised John Couch Adams (of Neptune prediction fame) was here, albeit briefly. Thanks to Daphné Lemasquerier, Hamish Hay, and Tom Elsdon for hosting me.
Excellent idea - a new #planetaryscience job site - PhDs, postdocs, fellowships, and academic posts, all in one place.
So the big Brian tweeted this out to his 3M followers over on the other site - and even though it is a cesspit of doom over there - the comments are so supportive. A lot of love out there for physics and astronomy (albeit from a biased subset of Brian's lovely mega-fans) 🤩🔭⚛️
Oxford, reflected 🌧️
📷 Instagram | UmairAtOxford (Photos taken earlier this week)
To the 800+ of you who have signed the letter of support for Physics and Astronomy at Nottingham since yesterday, I cannot thank you enough.
Please continue to sign and share as much as you can.
nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/