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Using white dwarf lensing to resolve accretion flows. Sophie L. Newman et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10674

I'm excited to announce that after two years, my Masters project has finally been submitted to MNRAS and is available to read on arXiv! 1/4 arxiv.org/abs/2509.10674

I'm SO excited to write the follow up paper to our April Fools Day paper after The Life of a Showgirl comes out - was our Taylor expansion correct? Will there be 12 ± 5 unique astrophysics words in her next album?! arxiv.org/abs/2503.24188

Some fun facial expressions while giving a talk to 90 teenagers considering if astrophysics is for them! #astroedu

A super fun video tour of the amazing outreach work done we did this week! #astroedu

Had such a fun time explaining the wonders of @eucliduk.bsky.social to those at @goodwoodrrc.bsky.social yesterday! Time to spot some F1 cars today! 🏎️

It’s Day 3 at the the @goodwoodrrc.bsky.social #FestivalofSpeed Future Lab. Our #HumansOfEuclid have had an early start, back and ready to share the mysteries of the dark Universe all over again! 🌌🕸️

Excited to be helping out with this tomorrow!!

finally got through my official offer letter from @flatironinstitute.org ... Alexa play Welcome to New York by Taylor Swift 🗽

being given money to buy books because I like talking to teenagers about physics and happen to be good at it? sounds like a great deal to me

game changer

RIP, Ed, you steely-eyed missile man real heroes use duct tape

A bizarre day of doing physics outreach at Portsmouth Comic Con! Never thought I'd be dressed as Feyre from ACOTAR while teaching others how to make a JWST model 👀

There's a press release out now for a galaxy discovered in JWST data described as the "oldest known spiral galaxy" noirlab.edu/public/news/... ..which is funny, because from a different (perhaps more correct) perspective, it's the youngest! 1/🧵

April Fools papers on ArXiV are always a good bit of fun, but this one from @sophienewman.bsky.social and Ana Sainz de Murieta on the Astrophysical implications of the Eras Tour is one of the best I've seen. arxiv.org/abs/2503.24188 🔭

@sophienewman.bsky.social and Ana Sainz de Murieta absolutely made my day. Thanks for this! 💜 arxiv.org/abs/2503.24188 This is my favourite day on astro-ph. Thanks #astronomy for being such a fun field to work in!

Had a super lovely day at the Royal Astronomical Society for their Specialist Discussion Meeting titled 'Exploring extreme stellar populations and initial mass function in the Universe' where I gave a talk on the impact of stellar rotation and Wolf-Rayet phase temperatures on high-redshift spectra!

New week new Physics Chat video! Start the week well by listening to my friends and I chat to Xan Morice-Atkinson ( @xangma.bsky.social ) about his interesting path into academia! #astroedu www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Ef...

late post but I'm always so, so thankful to all the women who have reminded me that I'm not alone in this often hard and isolating environment of academia!! (Image cred: @abbierosie_ on IG) #internationalwomensday

Very little research but lots of fun was had today while designing some rockets and learning about concepts such as centre of pressure with fifteen year 8 students who are on the JET Blue Skies programme! #astroedu www.joneggingtrust.org.uk/blue-skies/

10/10 homemade office decor 🌟

A brainchild project of mine came to life today at our department's yearly outreach event for local families in Portsmouth! It was so satisfying seeing all the prep I did make children super happy 🌟

Stargazing at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyards is on tonight from 6 pm! Kids and adults can learn about cosmology, space and navigation, and use some telescopes. I will be giving a public talk on "A History of the Universe in 40 Million Galaxies" at 6:30. historicdockyard.co.uk/event/starga...

First science-y book I've read in a long time and I'm really enjoying it! Have also made the switch from Goodreads to Storygraph if you fancy following me there (@sophiephys)! 📖

This morning I had the opportunity to convince people why it's important to do forward modelling and choose their stellar population models carefully at my first conference!

Come join us in Bristol in May for our meeting on Simulation Based Inference for Galaxy Evolution! We've got some very exciting speakers lined up (stay tuned), abstract submission deadline February 1st sbi-galev.github.io/2025/ #astronomy #astro #extragalactic #astrocode

JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:

Fantastic work from Sophie, and some potentially big implications for the modelling of stellar populations in the early Universe..! Check out the models here, including some nice interactive notebooks to get you started: sophie-newman.github.io/cloudy-maras... #astronomy #extragalactic #astrocode

It's a very happy first-author paper day for me! In this thread I'll explain some of the exciting results from my paper nicknamed 'Cloudy-Maraston' with the aid of doodles inspired by the amazing work of @clairelamman.bsky.social ! arxiv.org/abs/2501.03133

exciting crafts are in progress...

Check out this article from STFC about our sonification of astronomical data, and beyond! including a new sonification at the end - perceive multi-scale information about galaxy formation in our cosmological simulations... 🧪🔭⚡🐡. medium.com/big-science-...

Wolf-Rayet binaries ??? 🤯

I've been having a lot of fun designing a JWST craft for kids to make at our big Stargazing event early next year - please let me know any thoughts or suggestions! #astronomy #astroedu

From today, 100 women have been to space! 🚀🌌 Emily Calandrelli, aka @thespacegal, crossed us over that line, following in the footsteps of many adventurous women. From Valentina, to Emily, and beyond - ad astra ✨

Follow the (growing) Starter Pack for the Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation (ICG) - Find out about our investigations into Gravity, Galaxies, Sonification & more at the University of Portsmouth, UK 🌌🔭 go.bsky.app/SScAL4f

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Astronomer: In this work, we propose HoFITCh (HOw Full Is That Cup), a Bayesian model for sampling the fullness of cups from imaging data and prior beliefs. We sample the posterior of our model, and find that the cup is 50±2% full.

Today we have a new video on the channel Field of View! We chat with Sravan Kumar, a cosmologist at the University of Portsmouth, all about different theories in physics and whether we can connect them to observations! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA3l...

A highlight of this year was helping with the ‘James Webb Space Telescope: First Years of Discovery’ exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition! It was so lovely and encouraging seeing children and teenagers get excited about the telescope and the science it can do 🔭 #astronomy #astroedu

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Check out our showreel for the STRAUSS code 🌌🔭 🎵🎧! A glimpse into some of the things that we can do to explore data with sound. We're looking to explore data outside astronomy too. Try out the code (www.audiouniverse.org/research/str...), or get in touch if interested! youtu.be/h1muFAEMmOs?...

Hi Bluesky 👋 here's an arXiv announcement for ya Our new Learning the Universe paper is on the arXiv today, using luminosity functions and colours to perform simulation based inference on cosmological and astrophysical parameters arxiv.org/abs/2411.13960 learning-the-universe.org

Last week we put on arxiv the 16th paper from the FLARES team, exploring the panchromatic sizes of massive high-redshift galaxies: arxiv.org/abs/2408.11037. This was done by Paurush Punyasheel, an excellent master's student, who did his thesis with me, at the the Cosmic Dawn Center, DTU Space. 1/3

so many beautiful and distant red blobs!