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= 2023 = LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS!
LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! = 2023 =
December 2023: "Filth so foul and stench
so offensive as not to be imagined", de Grijs R.,
Hektoen
International, Fall 2023 | History Essays
5 December 2023: Richard received the 2023
Excellence in Research Integrity Award (Faculty of Science
and Engineering, Macquarie University)
December 2023: At the crossroads of
astrophysics and cosmology. Period--luminosity relations in the
2020s, de Grijs R., Whitelock, P. A., Catelan, M. (eds), 2023,
Proc. IAU Symp. 376. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
- China Space Station Telescope and Variable Star Studies,
Chen X., Wang S., Deng L., de Grijs R., Zhou X., Chen X., Zhang J.,
2023, Proc. IAU Symp. 376, eds de Grijs R., Whitelock P.A., Catelan
M. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), pp. 319--327
December 2023: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines (Black hole "cannon fodder"), de Grijs
R., The Amateur Astronomer, March 2024, in press (in Chinese;
English version)
December 2023: William Dawes -- Scientist, Governor,
Abolitionist: Caught between science and religion, de Grijs R., Jacob A.,
2023, Springer Biographies;
eBook
November 2023: All roads lead to (New)
Rome, de Grijs R., 2024, in: Costache D. (ed.), Scientific
Interests and Technological Innovation in Byzantium: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives, De Medio Aevo, issue 2024-2, submitted
November 2023: The GALAH survey: Elemental
abundances in open clusters using joint effective temperature and
surface gravity photometric priors, Beeson K.L., Kos J., de Grijs
R., Traven G., Bland-Hawthorn J., Zafar T., Zwitter T., De Silva G.M.,
2023, MNRAS, submitted
November 2023: Wigan's Queen of Spades,
de Grijs R., 2024,
Past Forward, submission to the 2024 Barbara
O'Neill Local History Writing Competition (Wigan, UK);
competition
link
November 2023: NGC 1783 has absorbed small
stellar clusters, Wang L., Deng L., Pang X., Wang L., de Grijs R.,
Li C., 2023, ApJL, submitted
November 2023: The VMC Survey. L. Type II
Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds: Period--Luminosity relations in the
near-infrared bands, Sicignano T., Ripepi V., Marconi M., Molinaro
R., Bhardwaj A., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., Storm J., Groenewegen M.A.T.,
Ivanov V.D., De Somma G., 2023, A&A, submitted
24 October 2023: A story about our biography of
William Dawes appeared in Macquarie University's
This Week newsletter:
Book
reveals First Fleet astronomer, the mysterious Mr Dawes
October 2023: Extended Main Sequences in Star
Clusters (review), Li C., Milone A.P., Sun W., de Grijs R., 2023,
Fundamental Research, re-submitted
16 October 2023: Congratulations to Aashique
Unnikrishnan on the completion and formal approval of his M.Res. thesis,
Not-so Simple Stellar Populations in Nearby, Resolved Intermediate-age
Massive Clusters!
27 September 2023: I was asked for comments
on claims that India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar probe had landed "near
the lunar South Pole":
South
China Morning Post
18 September 2023: My entry in to the
Blacktown
Mayoral History Prize 2023 competition received a commendation.
Entry:
Stand
and Deliver! A Comprehensive Account of 'Bold' John Donohoe and
his unmerry men
September 2023: Don't get
me started on "use" versus "utilise"..., de Grijs R., 2023,
AuthorAID blog post
6 September 2023: Captain
Cook and Health at Sea, Royal Asiatic Society of China, Beijing:
public lecture, "Editor's pick" of
The Beijinger
1 September 2023: Featured in the Dutch press
(
Trouw newspaper):
Het
wordt dringen in de ruimte, op weg naar de grondstoffen van de maan;
also covered by
De Morgen (Belgium)
August 2023: Extended Main Sequences in Star
Clusters (review), Li C., Milone A.P., Sun W., de Grijs R., 2023,
Fundamental Research, submitted
31 August 2023: Science and Technology Australia
press
release:
STA welcomes top STEM leaders to committees; covered by
Mirage News,
The National Tribune
31 August 2023: Australian Associated Press story:
Second night lucky for spotters of big, bright moon (see,
for instance, the
Canberra Times
and many other outlets)
31 August 2023: How to watch the rare super
blue moon in 2023: The exact times in every state, a story by
7 News
citing some of my comments; see also
Yeeyi (in Chinese) and
Huaglad (in Chinese).
August 2023: The role of tidal
locking in the formation of slowly rotating early-type stars in young star
clusters, He C., Li C., Sun W., de Grijs R., Li L., Zhong J., Chen L.,
Qin S., Wang L., Tang B., Xu C., Shao Z.-Y., 2023, MNRAS, 525, 5880;
arXiv:2309.01975
29 August 2023: This month's blue supermoon
continues to excite, so I was asked for comment by the
Sydney
Morning Herald:
Once in a blue supermoon: Eyes on the
horizon for lunar double feature, following the Australian Science
Media Centre's decision to highlight me as their
weekly expert.
28 August 2023: I was asked to provide
advice for a story for news.com.au:
Best
way to see rare blue supermoon for last time until 2029;
syndicated by
The Daily Telegraph and many others
24 August 2023: I was quoted a number of times
by a journalist writing for
Astronomy magazine:
India
makes history with its first Moon landing
August 2023: Bradfield's Memorial Plaque
and Dawes' Observatory, de Grijs R., August 2023,
Engineering Heritage New South Wales
23 August 2023: Russia has declared a new
space race, hoping to join forces with China. Here's why that's
unlikely, de Grijs R., 2023, The Conversation;
article
August 2023: 4.1 IAU Symposium 376: At the
Crossroads of Astrophysics and Cosmology: Period--luminosity Relations in
the 2020s, de Grijs R., Kiss L., Szabó R., August 2023,
IAU
Catalyst, 9, 16
August 2023: Unravelling the Period Gap using
LAMOST Chromospheric Activity Indices, Chahal D., Kamath D., de Grijs
R., Ventura P., Chen X., 2023, MNRAS, 525, 4026;
arXiv:2308.10539
14 August 2023: On request from the ABC, I
commented on this story:
The
best photos of the Perseid meteor shower from around the world (
in Bahasa Indonesia);
picked up by
Republika
Indonesia;
Shut;
NewsCop
8 August 2023: I was asked to comment on the
appearance of a bright "meteor" over Melbourne: see
Expert
Reaction; my comments were broadly covered by
The
Age and
Newsweek,
with more condensed reporting by
The
Guardian,
National
News Nigeria (NNN) and many others
August 2023: At the crossroads of astrophysics
and cosmology. Period--luminosity relations in the 2020s, de Grijs
R., Whitelock, P. A., Catelan, M. (eds), 2023, Proc. IAU Symp. 376.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. In press.
August 2023: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines (Record-breaking flashes in the sky), de Grijs
R., The Amateur Astronomer, November 2023, 30-35 (in Chinese;
English version)
26-27 July 2023: Richard delivered an opening
address and a plenary lecture at the
4th World Photonics Conference
and the
12th Applied Optics and Photonics China conference (
AOPC2023); press
coverage:
Science
China,
2;
C114;
SHI FAIR;
instrument.com.cn;
ZiDongHua;
zg198.net;
zwzxxw.com;
MICE-GZ;
eeany.cn;
JuFair
July 2023: Of vermicide and vermifuge: A
history of intestinal parasites at sea, de Grijs R., 2023,
Hektoen
International, Summer 2023 | History Essays
June 2023: William Dawes -- Scientist, Governor,
Abolitionist: Caught between science and religion, de Grijs R., Jacob A.,
2023, Springer Biographies,
in press
June 2023: From 1 July 2023, Richard will be the new
Executive
Director of the International Space Science Institute-Beijing, a 3-year
appointment at 25% FTE
June 2023: The ships' surgeons' toxic toolkit,
de Grijs R., 2023,
Hektoen
International, Spring 2023 | Infectious diseases
June 2023: Temporary insanity in tropical
waters, de Grijs R., All Hands (Australian National Maritime Museum),
123, 35--38
22 May 2023: I was asked to comment on the
appearance of a bright fireball in the skies over Queensland last weekend;
see the coverage of my comments in
The
Canberra Times,
The
Courier (Ballarat, Vic),
The
Standard (Warrnambool) and
The
Bendigo Advertiser
20 May 2023: Check out my lecture on
Historical Chinese efforts
to determine longitude at sea, given as part of the
USTC Lectures on
Astronomical History and Heritage (No. 9)
8 May 2023: Playing
fast and loose with authorship conventions, de Grijs R., 2023,
AuthorAID blog post
May 2023: New quasars behind the Magellanic
Clouds. II. Spectroscopic confirmation of 136 near-infared-selected
candidates, Ivanov V.D., Cioni M.-R.L., Dennefeld M., de Grijs R.,
Craig J.E.M., van Loon J.T., Pennock C., Maitra C., Haberl F., 2023,
A&A, submitted
27 April 2023: Artificial
Intelligence Not Yet Intelligent Enough to be a Trusted Research Aid,
de Grijs R., 2023, Guest Post on the
Scholarly Kitchen blog
April 2023: Kinematics of stellar substructures
in the Small Magellanic Cloud, El Youssoufi D., Cioni M.-R.L., Kacharov
N., Bell C.P.M., Matijević G., Bekki K., de Grijs R., Ivanov V.D., van
Loon J.T., 2023, MNRAS, 523, 347;
arXiv:2304.14368
April 2022: Hubble Space Telescope
survey of Magellanic Cloud star clusters. Photometry and astrometry
of 113 clusters and early results, Milone A. P., Cordoni G., Marino
A. F., D'Antona F., Bellini A., Di Criscienzo M., Dondoglio E., Lagioia
E. P., Langer N. Legnardi M. V., Libralato M., Baumgardt H., Bettinelli
M., Cavecchi Y., de Grijs R., Deng L., Hastings B., Li C., Mohandasan A.,
Vesperini E., Wang C., Ziliotto T., Carlos M., Costa G., Dall'Agli F.,
Jang S., Martorano M., Renzini A., Simioni M., Tailo M., Ventura P.,
2023, A&A, 672, A161;
arXiv:2212.07978
April 2023: Temporary insanity in tropical
waters, de Grijs R., 2023,
Hektoen
International, Spring 2023 | History Essays
April 2023: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines (Monster black holes lurking in our cosmic backyard), de Grijs
R., The Amateur Astronomer, June 2023, 52-56 (in Chinese;
English version)
30 March 2023: Expert reaction:
Second
coronal hole detected on the Sun in one week (with a quote from Richard);
Scientias
media coverage (in Dutch)
27 March 2023: Can I
re(prod)use that figure?, de Grijs R., 2023, AuthorAID blog post
16 March 2023: Weaving together a global team:
INASP
blog post published as part of their 2022 annual report; introduces new
INASP Associates (including Richard)
March 2023: The Cosmology of David
Bohm: Scientific and Theological Significance, de Grijs R.,
Costache D., 2023, Theology and Science, in press;
academia.edu,
arXiv:2303.04303
March 2023: I submitted my entry to the
2023
Blacktown Mayoral History Prize:
Stand and Deliver! A
comprehensive account of "Bold" John Donohoe and his unmerry men
March 2023: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines (The Himalayas in a beer mug), de Grijs R., The Amateur
Astronomer, March 2023, 38-42 (in Chinese;
English version)
February 2023: Early star charts of
the Dutch East India Company, de Grijs R., 2023. In: Essays on
Astronomical History and Heritage. A Tribute to Wayne Orchiston on
His 80th Birthday. Gullberg S.R., and Robertson P., eds. New York:
Springer, Ch. 3,
39--55;
arXiv:2302.12992
20 February 2023: Sky
shows: A stargazer's guide to 2023: My recommendations for
night-sky events to observe this year, published in Macquarie
University's
Lighthouse series of press clippings
February 2023: John and Walter F. Mackenzie,
acclaimed Wiganite brothers half a world away, de Grijs R., 2023, Past
Forward, in press; selected as runner up in the
2023
Barbara O'Neill Local History Writing Competition (Wigan, UK)
9 February 2023: Should
researchers really be worried about ChatGPT?, de Grijs
R., 2023, AuthorAID blog post;
INASP
blog post
9 February 2023: Richard was quoted in an article
in
Nature,
US
funders must do more to ensure research reliability;
The
Star Bulletin
February 2023: Precise Empirical Determination
of Metallicity Dependence of Near-infrared Period--Luminosity Relations
for RR Lyrae Variables, Bhardwaj, A., Marconi, M., Rejkuba, M., de
Grijs, R., Singh, H.P., Braga, V.P., Kanbur, S., Ngeow, C.-C., Ripepi,
V., Bono, G., De Somma, G., Dall'Ora, M., 2023, ApJL, 944, L51;
arXiv:2302.05455
February 2023: Astronomical Tent Observatories,
Relics of a Bygone Era, de Grijs R., 2023, Journal of Astronomical
History and Heritage, 26, 159;
arXiv:2302.02198
January 2023: Roger of Hereford: the
twelfth-century astronomer who put Hereford on the map,
literally, de Grijs R., 2023, The Local Historian, 53, 98-111;
arXiv:2301.06610
24 December 2022: We have been informed that our
application for student exchange under the
Australia--India
Research Students Felowship Programme has been successful! We
look forward to hosting Ms Sipra Hota from the Indian Institute of
Astrophysics for 8 weeks in 2023!
News from previous years:
2022;
2021;
2020;
2019;
2018;
2017;
2016;
2015;
2014;
2013
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