"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Grateful to the 14 Fellows of the Royal Society for their letter to the Times against proposed cuts to of Nottingham Physics and Astronomy. "Killing a goose that lays golden eggs is a short-sighted response to difficulties paying for goose feed." www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

www.thetimes.com/uk/education... When 8 Nobel prize winners warn you are about to do something foolish, isn't it a good sign to consider alternatives?

Thank you @starxiv.bsky.social for featuring this paper led by PhD student Rhys Jordan! 🔭 ☄️ (as well as your kind words for the challenges currently facing Nottingham Physics) The infall regions around clusters are fascinating but messy...this is a first step towards sorting out what's what.

🙏 Thank you to the 2700 colleagues who signed our open letter: the same as the # of people at risk of redundancy at the University of Nottingham. We continue to ask leadership to engage with the alternative measures proposed to avoid compulsory redundancies. nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter

“It takes years of dedication to build up a world-class reputation. I worry that it can be destroyed much more quickly.” - Antonio Padilla on proposed cuts to the physics department at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Story by my colleague @michaelbanks.bsky.social 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/nottingham...

We are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support we have received in the face of possible compulsory redundancies at the University of Nottingham. Physics friends: please sign and share if you can nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter

Here is my run-down of today's Science, Information & Technology Committee hearing (House of Commons) where @jonbutterworth.bsky.social @si-wills.bsky.social & I argued for no funding cuts, & Prof. Michele Doughtery explained why they were needed. The public gallery again packed with physicists 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

The Royal Astronomical Society is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Read our statement 👉 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Perks of the job: sneak previews of awesome books! @dreochapman.bsky.social has outdone herself with Radio Universe - a truly joyful & eloquent tour of the Universe through the 'eyes' of the oft-neglected but nevertheless remarkable radio telescopes of the world. Warmly recommended - out in March!🔭

"Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning" - Louise Bourgeois #WomensArt

This is an excellent tip!

Can art help scientists better understand the quantum universe? @newscientist.com interviews Dr Ulrike Kuchner and Prof Silke Weinfurtner at the spectaculr "Cosmic Titans" exhibition @uniofnottingham.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBN4...

We're excited to chair the "A multi-scale and multi-tracer view of the cosmic web" session - with @emeegray.bsky.social @apontzen.bsky.social, @abdrake.bsky.social, Tianyi Yang, and me!

For those who don’t know, Jonathan is *the* person who keeps track of stuff in space, a key part of the information ecosystem for anyone who studies or writes about satellites. He now needs some help to keep doing this. (1/2)

On 5 March this year, the second Postgraduate Women in Physics conference will take place in Nottingham, with great speakers and chances to network and showcase your research. UK friends please help us advertise this event by sharing with PhD students you know! www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/f...

The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.  This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/ 🔭  📷 ESO/P. Horálek

Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark 😱, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.

Students, parents, teachers! Are you or someone you support anxiously awaiting UK A-level/Highers results? If the outcomes are not as expected, all is not lost. There are always options (believe it or not) My colleague Philip Moriarty: from failure to Professor www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZJT...