The fantastic UK network of science and discovery centres needs your help to survive and thrive! Sign this letter urging the UKGov to stop excluding science from the financial support that is available for other museums, art galleries & theatres 🙏🧪🔭👩‍🔬🎢 👉✉️: www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...

📣📣 BOOK NEWS 📣📣 I'm excited to share the cover and release date of Book #2, #EdgeOfSpaceTime, which is now available for PREORDER!! You can order from ANY bookstore, including your local indie! More details on preordering here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817... What's the book about? 🧵

A beautiful essay by cosmologist Mark Neyrinck, full of helpful real-world analogies for explaining the shape and evolution of large-scale structure in the universe 🔭

Got a surprise cake and bubbly at group meeting today. It is one of the best red velvet cakes I've had ever. Also there was bubbly. Also my students are the best. Also the promotion is nice, too. 😊

"It is unclear what would happen to operations at the observatory if the office were to close. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to comment, writing in an email, 'As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios.' " www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

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!

Abstract submissions are open for NAM 2025! Here's what sessions are on offer as part of our Cosmology & Large-scale Structure strand! Submit your abstracts here: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/abst... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

The amazing results from our large Hubble program, led by Alessandro Savino! These deep images allowed us to measure their detailed star formation histories, and we see they are not as we would expect when comparing to the Milky Way 🔭🧪

Getting the Twin Dome ready for the Observatory Open Night. An installation from day into night. 15th March 6pm - 9pm. University of St Andrews