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    Posted on August 19th, 2009

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    Livestreaming from the Citizen Science Alliance meeting

    … can be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/citizen-science-alliance-meeting-at-greenwich-royal-observatory

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    Posted on August 12th, 2009

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    Greenwich meeting on Sunday

    Greenwich meeting on Sunday

    I meant to post about this earlier, so apologies for those who only read the blog and not the forum. My only excuse is that we’ve been busy hunting for Supernovae…

    On Sunday 16th August, a motley gathering of Zooites and Zookeepers will be descending on the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. There are more details in the [...]

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    Posted on July 29th, 2009

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    The universe on a carpet (live from the SDSS-III meeting)

    The universe on a carpet (live from the SDSS-III meeting)

    Greetings from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III meeting in Princeton! Today is the third and final day of the meeting, where we are planning the next year of operations for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). The original SDSS, of course, provided all the beautiful galaxy pictures that you see in Galaxy Zoo; [...]

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    Posted on January 13th, 2009

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    Kevin and Jordan at AAS

    Kevin and Jordan at AAS

    Here is another photo from the AAS meeting last week. Georgia Bracey took this photo, catching Kevin and I in the act of working during the reception before the opening of the International Year of Astronomy:
     
    What can I say? I was curious about the peas, and Kevin had some results to show me.
    After this photo [...]

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    Posted on January 7th, 2009

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    As promised – photos!

    As promised – photos!

    Chris giving his talk while wearing a pink shirt:

    Kevin with his opening slide, which generated some applause from the audience:

    Chris and Kevin take joint questions after both talks:

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    Posted on January 6th, 2009

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    A zoo-tiful morning

    A zoo-tiful morning

    Day 2 of the AAS meeting is here. The Zoo team talks were yesterday. The scheduling has been a bit odd at this meeting – Chris and Kevin’s talk was in a session about galaxies, while at the same time Bob was chairing a session on cosmology with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in which [...]

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    Posted on January 5th, 2009

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    Liveblogging – AAS meeting

    Greetings from Long Beach, California! I’m here along with Chris, Kevin, Bob, and Daniel Thomas at the twice-annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society.As we’ve done at previous meetings, I’ll be liveblogging events at the meeting. Between now and Thursday, I’ll be posting in real time about what I see and do at this meeting. Some of the [...]