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The transcript for the 23rd meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club. We were discussing Extreme particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection layers. Application to the ga.. Read More

The transcript of the 22nd meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club. The discussion was based around "How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Artic.. Read More

The transcript of the 21st meeting of the Astronomy Twitter Journal Club (#astrojc). We discussed how to get astronomy jobs/careers - lots of helpful advice here from senior peop.. Read More

The transcript for the 20th meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club (#astrojc). We were discussing Gravitational detection of a low-mass dark satellite at cosmological dist.. Read More

This is the transcript of the 19th meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club. We discussed GRB 101225A, the unusual gamma-ray burst detected on Christmas Day last year. http:.. Read More

The transcript for the 18th meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club. We discussed the recent announcement of, and subsequent excitable media response to, exoplanet Kepler-2.. Read More

The 17th meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club. We discussed mentoring, and how useful it is for young scientists. Read More

The 15th meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club was spent discussing journal club itself: what works, what doesn't and how we can make it better Read More

The transcript of the 14th meeting of astronomy twitter journal club. The paper discussed was "Elemental abundance differences in the 16 Cygni binary system: a signature of gas g.. Read More

The 13th meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club discussed the paper "Detection of a Dipole in the Handedness of Spiral Galaxies with Redshifts z ~ 0.04" by Michael Longo (.. Read More

The 12th meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club. We discussed "On the Origin of the Salpeter Slope for the Initial Mass Function" by M. Oey (http://astrojournalclub.wordpr.. Read More

For the 11th meeting of astronomy twitter journal club we discussed the report "Careering out of control: a crisis in the UK science profession", from Science is Vital. (The full.. Read More

The transcript of the tenth meeting of astronomy twitter journal club. Instead of picking a paper this was more a general discussion of the evidence for the acceleration Universe.. Read More

The transcript of the 7th meeting of the Astronomy Twitter Journal Club. The paper discussed was Cold flows and the first quasars (Di Matteo et al. July 2011) - http://arxiv.org/.. Read More

Transcript from the fifth meeting of the Astronomy Twitter Journal Club. The paper under discussion can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0020 and was suggested by @astropi.. Read More

Transcript from the second meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club. The paper under discussion can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2541v1 and was suggested by @megs.. Read More