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One small tweet...

Twitter had its first entry live from space last week when engineer TJ Creamer (or @Astro_TJ to his Twitter followers) used a new wireless connection on the International Space Station to update his account directly, rather than having to email details to the ground for support personnel to post to the micro-blogging site.

And the immortal text of that first space-tweet?

“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station – the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your’s.”

Sustainable notes

How do you communicate the science of climate change amid post-Copenhagen scepticism? How does climate change link with sustainable development? And what kinds of research issues does renewable energy face?

These are the subjects up for discussion by an expert panel at Dublin City University tomorrow from 2pm.

Prof John Sweeney (NUI Maynooth), Prof Owen Lewis (Sustainable Energy Ireland) and Dr Stephen Daniels (DCU) will be taking the floor as part of a day-long workshop on sustainability organised by Celsius, the DCU interdisciplinary research group on science in society. For more information, contact padraig.murphy@dcu.ie

“There could be life out there in forms that we can’t conceive and forms of intelligence beyond human capacity

Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal and president of the Royal Society in Britain, on the possibility of extra-terrestrial life