Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

Astrophysics post-doc at the University of Sydney. He/Him/His samvaughan.info Sydney, Australia Joined January 2015

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Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

3 years ago

Hi @Optus! The article below says you will replace foreign passports which have been leaked. But I called up to get some more information and was told that the advice to foreign passport holders hasn't changed! So will you pay for a new passport or not? abc.net.au/news/2022-11-0…

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Rosa Furneaux @rosafurneaux

6 years ago

Fifty years ago, this photograph was captured on the surface of the moon. We had made it. This was what wonder looked like. But, how did an astronaut take such a picture? What kind of camera works on the moon? Friends, let me tell you about the mission to shoot in space.

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Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

7 years ago

I wrote a bit about Sparse Bayesian regression, and translated some of the Stan code from @betanalpha's excellent post about it into PyMC3- you can find it here! samvaughan.uk/Posts/2018-08-… (and Micheal's original case study at betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_st…)

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Lego Grad Student @legogradstudent

7 years ago

A thought for those of you heading off to start grad school: You may feel the need to posture in front of your new colleagues to show how awesome you already are. Get over that impulse and find people with whom you can share feelings of how lost and overwhelmed you all will be.

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David Papineau @davidpapineau

7 years ago

ICYMI Why we should be thankful Bayes and Bayesianism are replacing ‘the farrago of significance testing’ @mpigliucci @philosophybites @nntaleb @danieldennett @floridi @BenceNanay

Rhodri Lewis @profrhodrilewis

7 years ago

ICYMI Why we should be thankful Bayes and Bayesianism are replacing ‘the farrago of significance testing’ @mpigliucci @philosophybites @nntaleb @danieldennett @floridi @BenceNanay

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Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

7 years ago

Who's going to win the World Cup? Bayes says England have a 9.6% chance! medium.com/@samvaughan01/… #WorldCup2018

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Jester @Resonaances

7 years ago

On Résonaances, whether the anomalous electron neutrino appearance observed by the MiniBooNE experiment can really be evidence for sterile neutrinos: resonaances.blogspot.com/2018/06/can-mi…

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The UWC Astro Group @UWC_Astro

7 years ago

Great to see two of our students described as "rising stars" in the @UWConline Natural Sciences brochure 😀👏

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David Squires @squires_david

7 years ago

Here’s this week’s Guardian cartoon: theguardian.com/football/ng-in…

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David Lammy @DavidLammy

8 years ago

Home Secretary just said Windrush children can become citizens if they want to be. They were citizens when we invited them 70 years ago. Their citizenship is theirs by right, and was taken away by your government, not something that your government is now choosing to grant them.

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Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

8 years ago

Big astronomy fan at the FA cup semi final today #CanadaFranceHawaiiTelescope @CFHTelescope

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Nicolas Martin @nfmartin1980

8 years ago

With @michelle_lmc, @Nico_Longeard, and @eteq, we condensed our thoughts on NGC1052-DF2 into a paper: arxiv.org/abs/1804.04136

Nicolas Martin @nfmartin1980

8 years ago

With @michelle_lmc, @Nico_Longeard, and @eteq, we condensed our thoughts on NGC1052-DF2 into a paper: arxiv.org/abs/1804.04136

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Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece

8 years ago

Hey @LBC, this is a lie. Fact check: 65% of ASSESSED, unaccompanied child-refugees were adults. Three-quarters were NOT assessed - because they were obviously children, fleeing war & bombs & death. Are you watching what's happening to Syrians right now? #FarageLies

Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage

8 years ago

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Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

8 years ago

I wrote something about the recent paper on the "galaxy with no dark matter" (arxiv.org/abs/1803.10237), following on from the tweets by @nfmartin1980. You can read it here: medium.com/@samvaughan01/…, with the code here: github.com/samvaughan/van…

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Mike Walmsley @mike_walmsley_

8 years ago

Check out not-astro-ph! not-astro-ph.herokuapp.com We make up fake astro-ph titles based only on the current astro-ph. @astroSPV and I's #EWASS hack day project.

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Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

8 years ago

Excellent British understatement in the JWST review talk: "What happens if it explodes on the launch-pad?" "Well that would certainly be a very bad day at the office..." #EWASS2018

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David Spergel @DavidSpergel

8 years ago

WFIRST Is the top priority of the US decadal survey and has been endorsed in its current form by two NAS reviews and has just been modified to fit within recommendations of independent review. Abandoning WFIRST is abandoning US leadership in dark energy and exoplanets.

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Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

8 years ago

There are many positions on Brexit (hard/soft/Norway/Canada/etc). How can the government possibly have decided on one- leaving SM and customs union- without a quantitative assessment of the impacts?! #impactassessments #derelictionofduty

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Sam Vaughan @_sam_vaughan

8 years ago

Some brilliant water-dowsing quotes on the Guardian letters page. "Dowsing is in the same category as gravity and quantum mechanics in that science cannot explain how it works, but that it works is irrefutable." Hmmm... theguardian.com/environment/20…