🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

CHILES X: Molecular and atomic gas at intermediate redshift. Kelley M. Hess et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07966

📃Check out this paper: "SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): revealing the structure of the Rosette Nebula"(ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA...) if you want to see the Rosette Nebula with LVM ✨🔭

I'm hiring at Haverford - a 2 year NASA funded postdoc to work on Galaxy Zoo with Roman Space Telescope Data: www.haverford.edu/human-resour... 👩‍🔬🔭

We welcome applications for consideration for this year's Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme. Internal deadline is 3rd Nov. Please email [email protected] for the UstA Leverhulme ECRF application form. Call details are on: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

The little Twin Dome is now on a road trip back to the big Twin Dome in St Andrews. Starting at the shore in Cellardyke

Currently recruiting https://wahl.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/08/21/currently-recruiting-3/

Also, check out his amazing video visualising the @milkywaymapper.bsky.social survey on our YouTube Channel, by Szabolcs Mészáros of the MWM Survey Calibration working group: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w2...

🔭LVM is a robotic SDSS facility at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies✨ Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...

The SDSS-V DR19 is now online at www.sdss.org 🎉 For the first time, LVM data is released. Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨ A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻

@localvolumemapper.bsky.social is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and other Local Volume Galaxies. Read more about what they are doing here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/abo... #DR19

@blackholemapper.bsky.social had already released a few spectra in DR18, but they are going all out for DR19, with lots of galaxy and quasar spectra #DR19

Yesterday we released our nineteenth data release into the wild: www.sdss.org/dr19, let’s now take a closer look on what is in this data release. #DR19

We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #DR19

Today they trusted me with the @sdssurveys.bsky.social account to post about Data Release Day! It's the nineteenth already, and you can read all about it already in the DR19 paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093. And more on SDSS-V in the Overview paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989 #DR19

Still more little squares of brass for the installation #BeingSunny at the Twin Dome. A long way still to go

New work under construction for the twin dome #BeingSunny in collaboration with @amweijmans.bsky.social and tracking research at @sdssurveys.bsky.social under the #curious banner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

How do astronomers decide that objects to observe? You and your students can now map the cosmos with our new card game. We've distributed copies of to several SDSS institutions and anyone can download and print their own copy from the link below voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act...

Quite a few more flowers are starting to appear in the Twin Dome meadow. I’m expecting poppies, corn flowers and ox-eye daisies but it’s looking like we might also have white campions, field pennycress, Malcolm maritima and anchus arvensis (if my phone app is to be believed)

Internal selection for the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships is now open. Internal deadline is 30th June 17:00. Interested candidates should go to the website and follow the instructions. astronomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/stfc-ernest-...

Looking back to detail of “in the event of always falling back down again”. Installation at the School of Physics and Astronomy. Still looking good.

Following this weeks SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting in Heidelberg, there will be a public talk about LVM and its science at Haus der Astronomie on Wednesday, June 4 at 7 pm. Come and join our SDSS scientists! ✨🔭 More information can be found here: www.haus-der-astronomie.de/events/41361...

The first colour of the year in the wildflower meadow at the Twin Dome. It’s all about to start happening

Want to hear about how SDSS scientists are studying huge bubbles and shockwaves in the Milky Way and beyond? Then come to our public talk next Wednesday evening at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. The talk will be in German

Tom Herbst und Niv Drory zeigen euch am 4. Juni um 19 Uhr am HdA wie man die riesigen Blasen und Schockwellen, die von heißen Sternen in unserer Milchstraße und ihren Begleitgalaxien erzeugt werden kartiert. Tickets erhaltet ihr online unter ztix.de/hp/events/27... und an der Abendkasse 🔭

We are taking applications for the URF call (royalsociety.org/grants/unive...). Candidates should submit their application documents (draft for the 4 page proposal (royalsociety.org/-/media/gran...) and an up to date CV) by 1 July to [email protected]. Candidates will be informed by 4th July.

This weekend the Planetarium team and Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans are at the Edinburgh Science Festival. www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/an-eve... & www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/family... Anne-Marie will give a talk at both events, and be available at the ‘Ask an Expert!’ stand.

It has now been exactly 1 year since the planetarium started up again and had their first visit on the 20th of Feb 2024 to the Strathkinness Scouts. They have since delivered over 50 shows in 15 different locations! Thank you to the Planetarium team for all their hardwork and dedication.

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

1 week left to apply to do a PhD in the new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews 🪐🔭 Feel free to reach out if you're interested in applying!

Astronomy PhD opportunity at St Andrews 🔭 Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️ Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Deadline: 1 February Project details ⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A story we ❤️about how exploring the Universe can re-ignite passion. And we don't mind that it's about looking at our white dwarf spectra in @jjhermes.bsky.social group 🤩🔭 www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Say hi, everyone! 🔭

#DocuOrca is still going strong, though this is the last day 🔭

Composite photo of many of the folks doing #DocuOrca this week for Data Release 19. 🔭 Bsky'ers include @johndonor3.bsky.social @smorrison.bsky.social @amweijmans.bsky.social @thejunaverse.bsky.social @jajohnson.bsky.social working for @blackholemapper.bsky.social and @milkywaymapper.bsky.social

Mount Ranier looking lovely today presiding over DocuOrca. Have paused documenting about radial velocities to document this 🔭

🚨🚨🚨🚨 A new use for SDSS plates has been found! UWash crew closing Manastash Ridge Observatory for the winter got stuck in the snow & used an SDSS plate to carry vital equipment. 🔭

Update on our Data Release 19 documentation festival #DocuOrca on its second day Number of orcas seen: 0 Number of Mt. Raniers seen: 1 Number of Mike Blantons seen: 1 Number of tutorials on GitHub: 8 Onward and upward 🔭

Like armies, we document on our stomachs #DocuOrca 🔭

We are starting #DocuOrca off right… with stroopwafels! 🔭

We are starting #DocuOrca to work on Data Release 19 documentation in Seattle 🔭

The question of whether we will wear dead salmon on our heads at #DocuOrca is still open.... Maybe if we don't finish documenting there will be 🐟 🎩? 🔭

Looking back on some of the things we did in 2024. Colour-field in June

observatory.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/11/20/n... here’s the latest on the Twin Dome - getting ready for 2025

about the BLR structure and how they change based on the luminosity state of the quasar. This has implications for the use of reverberation mapping in this source to measure a black hole mass, and more! (3/3)

This paper presents a velocity-resolved analysis of reverberation mapping data of the quasar SDSS-RM 160, which is a hypervariable quasar found to display odd/interesting behavior in its BLR. The team uses reverberation mapping techniques to uncover details (2/3)

This week's BHM science paper highlight is "The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: A Kinematically Variable Broad-Line Region and Consequences for Masses of Luminous Quasars", by @loganfries Fries et al. (2024). ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXi... (1/3)

This week's BHM paper highlight is "The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: CIV BAL Acceleration in the Quasar SBS 1408+544" by Wheatley et al. (2024). The paper can be found here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.08622 (1/3)

Art-Astronomy exhibit with Tim Fitzpatrick at St Andrews Observatory's Twin Dome. Twin Dome open this weekend and the next: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/colou...

We are busy at DocuChili, working hard on Data Release 19 in Las Cruces, MN, hosted by NMSU. We are also busy winning trivia night thanks to certain people's excellent knowledge of 80s and 90s sci-fi and cult movies.