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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans

@astroroyalscot.bsky.social

"We'd like your photoshoot to be with a historic telescope" "But my book is about creating a virtual universe inside a futuristic supercomputer" [pulls in massive favour from colleagues at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre] "Great news - I can offer you both space-age and sparkly" 👌👩‍🔬

25/8/26, 2:09 pm7 reposts115 likes

Azi Raphael

@moonglaive90.bsky.social

25 Aug

They wanted photos of biophysics students working in the lab. They wouldn't let me wear my mask. We work with pathogenic bacteria (and this was during the height of CV-19). XD

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans

@astroroyalscot.bsky.social

25 Aug

😱😳

Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

25 Aug

@astroroyalscot.bsky.social yay! Also very much hope your socks and shoes are on the final photos, they rock!

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans

@astroroyalscot.bsky.social

25 Aug

My feet like to simultaneously channel both Pippy Longstocking and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. 😂

Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀

@thomasfuchs.at

25 Aug

Yes!!

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans

@astroroyalscot.bsky.social

25 Aug

Huge huge thanks to @markgbeckett.bsky.social and all the ACF EPCC team for hosting me. We also had the best bike ride along the Roslin bike path to get there - gorgeous morning, birds singing. Only got slightly lost on the way home 😂