Dr. Adam Batten
@adamjbatten
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Postdoctoral Researcher at Swinburne University of Technology. I'm an astrophysicist that uses computer simulations to understand the Universe. He/Him
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined March 2013
Not going to lie, I was pretty excited when these plots finally came out. Look out beautiful these simulations are. 😍
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What is the best way to prepare for our upcoming #ScienceComedy shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival? Watch a comedy show with other scientists! We decided to leave the lab and head to Brunswick to watch some up-and-coming comedians perform. Such a fun night!
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The Universe is expanding! Kicking off Astronomy lectures in 2023 with Dr Adam Batten @adamjbatten "The Hubble Tension: How are we trying to solve one of the biggest crises in Astronomy?" Thurs 30 March at 6pm @Swinburne ATC101
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What is your random tip, tool, feature or software in acedemia/astronomy that you wish you knew about earlier? I wanna know.
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Two weeks in a row now we have finished the night with an extremely tense and close Poppygander Blood on the Clocktower game (@BloodClocktower). It think Poppygander is fast becoming my favourite custom script to play in person. 😈
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"Is the sun alive?" "Are the stars alive?" "Is the moon alive?" "How does gravity make things move?" "Does the moon move?" "What are the cracks on the sun?" (i.e sun spots and flares) "Is the sun hotter than it is at the equator?" "How do we know what the sun is made of?"
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Just got to speak with a bunch of 5-6 year olds about the Sun and if it is alive and they had lots of amazing questions.
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With a new headshot, it's probably about time I updated my profile picture to something taken after 2019.
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Perth friends! I'll be in Perth visiting for a couple weeks from June 21st and would be keen to catch up with everyone. 😁
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This is actually really cool for writing papers/documents with multiple monitors! 😍
Hey everybody! 🤩 We are very excited to announce a brand new feature to rock your workflow: the PDF detach! 🛠️ 🎉🎈🎸 You can now see the PDF preview of your project in a separate tab! 📑 💻 Check out our blog post: https://t.co/2CsKOfnjNt
#TeXLaTeX #Overleaf #OverleafBlog
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So this morning I woke up to my building actually being on fire. I live on the 7th floor, but there was so much smoke going past the 3rd floor as we evacuated it was surreal. 😱
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I'm attempting to use the Victorian Energy Compare website. It keeps telling me that the rates I currently have are way too low and to check them. But I have checked them like 10 times. I apparently got a deal so good the Vic Gov website doesn't believe me.
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Wonderful public talk tonight on simulating the universe by @adamjbatten ! My favourite quotes below:🧵
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"Professional women are a problem for the liberal party. " If your problem is that you are unliked by smart and profesional women. Then maybe the issue isn't the women. The problem is you and your policies. #AusPol2022
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I got to talk about this image today in my year 9 trials! We aren't covering black holes, but it gave me a chance to show them one of the reasons they should care about photons before then bringing out the Nerf guns @einstein_first
We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*. It’s the dawn of a new era of black hole physics. Credit: EHT Collaboration. #OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole Link: https://t.co/Ax7ECRVg8A
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What's the biggest problem in modern physics @cosmicpinot? RT for better stats.
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Ever wondered how we can find the stuff in-between galaxies that doesn’t give off any light? @Swinburne PhD student @adamjbatten tells us how to study the intergalactic medium in his interview here: https://t.co/tHiEkzjz72
#pintAU
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New supercomputer coming to Swinburne! If you watch the video closely you will be able to see me! 😁
This isn’t any ordinary computer. It’s Victoria’s fastest – processing data one million times faster than the laptop you might be using now. And it will help keep Victoria at the forefront of research. That’s why we’ve invested $5.2 million towards the project. (1/2)
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