Mike Peel

@mike_peel

Astronomer, Wikimedian and photographer. Postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. All tweets are my own.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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Joined February 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Oct 2020

    Satellite constellations like will cause problems for radio telescope observations at the and can only be partially mitigated.

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  2. Retweeted
    May 19

    A recent insightful comment by highlights the magic of in-person , making many valid points about the value of in-person interaction () --> Based on work, here is a (not super) brief Twitter thread response 🧵

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  3. Retweeted
    May 17

    How many of these layered protections have we abandoned? Is it any wonder the economy its suffering because workers are chronically sick?

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  4. Retweeted
    May 15

    If anyone presented the mass infection of kids with Covid in schools as an experimental design to a University research ethics committee it would be knocked back with horror. Yet we’re happily conducting this experiment in the real world on a generation of kids. It’s just wild.

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  5. Retweeted
    May 16

    Hey, who is noticing that “post-pandemic normal” is a lot of “I’ve been knocked out by this cold for weeks” and “Sorry, we’ve had to cancel this event!” and “My kids are sick for the second time in two months!” and “Due to staffing shortages…” and “The ER wait was 10 hours!”

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  6. Retweeted
    May 16

    Inequitable access to freedom of travel frequently affects the ability to hold an inclusive meeting. We're looking forward to collaborating with to try and design better approaches! Find out more about their vision here: 🌍🌏🌎

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  7. May 13

    "England" is also difficult, since I don't only identify with that geography, but perhaps it helps that it's named after a Germanic tribe? 'Earth' is the simplest term - except that means 'Ground' and is the least imaginative term we could have used to name our planet? (2/2)

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  8. May 13

    I'm struggling to describe where I'm from. I can't say "United Kingdom" any more since it's not a Kingdom (Queendom?) and it definitely doesn't feel United (thanks Brexit). "Great Britain" is also difficult, is it really great nowadays? But perhaps Britain would work. (1/2)

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  9. May 13

    Ah, , you seem to be there too? Any idea what's happening? :)

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  10. May 13

    I'm virtually at a specialist discussion meeting today. At least, some bits of it. Due to no schedule being circulated, I've managed to catch 2.5 talks, had to drop off for a telecon, and now seem to be connected back to the lunch break?

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  11. Retweeted
    May 10
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    i just can’t even comprehend who thought this was ok. 17.6% of FRS from one university, 100% of them men. what is going on?

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  12. Retweeted
    May 10

    “…and reflects the Royal Society’s exceptional commitments to gender equality.” 🤦🏻‍♀️

    Congratulations to the nine scientists announced as Fellows of the today! This honour recognises their exceptional contributions to science.
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  13. May 11

    The view the other way, normally you’d see Gran Canaria, but the edge of the storm is there. Tenerife is inside the windy bit!

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  14. May 11

    On the way to Teide Observatory today - windy!

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  15. Retweeted
    May 10

    "Under these circumstances we simply cannot agree to force participants to be present in Valencia to discuss a sustainable future for astronomy." Preach it!

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  16. May 9

    I'm on Youtube! I, erm, seem to say erm a lot while talking, will have to do better at that. Also, GroundBIRD!

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  17. May 8

    Went back to 2.1, and that works fine.

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  18. May 6

    I'm running in the Foundation Board elections again this year - just posted my candidate statement. If anyone has any suggestions of how I can improve it, please let me know in the next couple of days!

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  19. Retweeted
    May 5

    Sign at a Camden polling station this morning.

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  20. May 5

    "Community Vital Signs: Measuring Wikipedia Communities’ Sustainable Growth and Renewal " by - now fully proofread on (just needs verifying)!

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  21. May 4

    This sounded promising, except the investigation seems to be into the leak for some reason, and not into how they could even draft such a daft decision?

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