Hilding Neilson
St. John’s #yyt, Mi’kmaw, astronomer at #munl, trying to understand stars and their stories. Indigenizing astronomy and STEM. views are my own. He/him. hildingneilson.com
- I’m so happy to see that two articles I wrote for the IAUS 385: Astronomy and Satellite Constellations is published. These articles are now a couple of years old but I think they continue to be relevant to how we engage with Outer Space exploration and exploitation.
- Time for the second attempt to propose new courses at MUN @memorialu.bsky.social @memorialuscience.bsky.social on Indigenous Astronomies and on Outer Space and Society. Hopefully the proposal won’t be thrown out like last time with the reason that they aren’t “sufficient physics”
- Currently listening to a seminar on burnout and stress in academia while having multiple textbooks open to write notes for my math methods course and surfing social media. Am I doing this right ?🙄
- Astronomy is hard in St. John’s #yyt. Taken today in windy conditions and just above freezing #nlwx with the Unistellar EVscope 2. @memorialuscience.bsky.social.
- Can’t wait to read this.
- Well, 2026 is starting with a lovely almost full moon over St. John’s #yyt
- What a week. Started with Science meets Parliament #SciParl2025 organized by the Canadian Science Policy Centre where I got to meet a group of fantastic scientists from all other Canada. Then meetings MPs and Senators where I got to learn about their work and how they relate with science and policy.
- Reposted by Hilding NeilsonJob - please share widely! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
- The discussion is ongoing about creating these course with the undergrad head wanting more and more details, explanations and justifications under the guise of having to convince a small group of senior faculty. Just more bad faith academia.
- I submitted new course proposals to the Physics Dept at MUN @memorialu.bsky.social @memorialuscience.bsky.social. They are: “Indigenous Astronomy & worldviews” and “Space & Society”. #Academia #Astronomy
- I submitted new course proposals to the Physics Dept at MUN @memorialu.bsky.social @memorialuscience.bsky.social. They are: “Indigenous Astronomy & worldviews” and “Space & Society”. #Academia #Astronomy
- Disappointing but not surprising. People here aren’t interested and the best they can do is to make Land Acknowledgments sound like a marginally interesting grocery list.
- Reposted by Hilding NeilsonAcademics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
- Cybertrucks are pretty rare in my part of the world, but every time I see one I can only think ‘technomullet’.
- Story time; This is a long thread about my experiences with Indigenization in Physics at my university. The tl;dr is that Indigenization only matters if faculty and depts get something for doing nothing. I wrote something over at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-ph...
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- Foggy day in St. John’s #yyt #nlwx. It makes me wonder that if we know of water worlds and ice giant #exoplanets, does that imply the existence of fog worlds?
- Reposted by Hilding NeilsonDo we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage? 🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
- Time for a new research project: monitoring light pollution/sky quality in St. John’s, Newfoundland, as part of a new project to support Dark Sky Preservation across the province. #DarkSkies
- Observing the Sun in front of the @memorialu.bsky.social clock tower today in St. John’s #yyt. The Sun is sneaky quiet today. #Solar #Physics #Astronomy @memorialuscience.bsky.social
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- Fun with sunspots today at @memorialu.bsky.social @memorialuscience.bsky.social #sunspots #astronomy
- It was a good day in St. John’s to look at sunspots with my Physics 3150 class in St. John’s. #nlwx @memorialuscience.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social
- I’m excited and honored to be selected to participate in this year’s Science meets parliament organized by the CSPC @sciencepolicy.ca. #SciParl2025 #ScienceMeetsParliament
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- It’s weird receiving multiple emails from a random person with Astronomy notes copied from various websites with the final email telling me that I “should mellow out”. Dear sir, I’d be happy to mellow out if you’d just add some context of why you’re wasting my time.
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- On my way home after a productive and interesting conference IAUS399 “Indigenous Astronomy in the Space Age” www.archaeoastronomy.org/iaus399. Lots of good discussion about Archaeoastronomy, ethnoastronomy, decolonizing astronomy and more.
- Thank you Sam for your kind words.
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- Very excited to be travelling to Australia to participate in the IAU Symposium “Indigenous Astronomy in the Space Age” www.archaeoastronomy.org/iaus399. This should be an amazing learning experience
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- It’s scary to think we might return to a time where we have to worry about growing holes in the ozone layer.
- I’m so proud to be a part of this new publication in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... where we discuss the need to be more inclusive of Indigenous communities and support underrepresented nations in the human future in space
- A beautiful day in St. John’s to observe the Sun at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador to celebrate the end of term.
- Today is my first talk at Université de Moncton despite the rain and snow
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- I’ve been reflecting about this a lot recently. More so, if I were 18 again would I even be able to go to university? My family had financial troubles and I almost didn’t get to go to university then. Now I’m pretty sure i wouldn’t be able to except for maybe @memorialu.bsky.social but why would i?
