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After squandering millions on Castle Meadows purchase, University of Nottingham is now axing modern languages & music It also plans to cut its nursing programme Leaders of the bungleocracy continue to draw handsome salaries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"and he ate TWO black holes, but he was STILL hungry" www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

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There are currently no permanent academic positions for astrophysics in the UK 🔭🧪 #academicsky

I never thought it was but, okay

These are galaxy colour magnitude diagrams from a different article surely? 🧪🔭

As it's Halloween here's a bit of Type O with black No. 1 🤘🎃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwY...

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Welcome to our Open Day 👋 Unfortunately, due to the clocks change, our ANPR cameras have fined all Open Day guests who have parked in our car parks between 8-9am. The fines cannot be cancelled, but 5% will go back into improving the student experience.

Best quote referring to the comet going behind the Sun “Was this hideout planned as an opportune time for technological action?”… No 🔭🧪

Loeb latest: “If 3I/ATLAS is a massive mothership, it will likely continue along its original gravitational path and ultimately exit the Solar system.” Getting his excuses in early. Even if moves like a comet and leaves the solar system it’s still aliens. 🤦‍♂️ avi-loeb.medium.com/the-imminent...

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Irritated by all the publicity hungry nonsense about 3I/ATLAS and aliens I made a video describing what we actually know about this unusual tourist from deep space and deep time that is racing through our solar system. Spoiler: it's a comet, a cool one, but still a comet. youtu.be/clrp8aW4RJk?...

🤩The @4most-eu.bsky.social (#4MOST) facility on @eso.org VISTA telescope in Chile achieved first light. #MPE scientists played a leading role in developing the Operations System, enabling to link #eROSITA’s X-ray universe with large-scale structure of galaxies. ➡️ More: www.mpe.mpg.de/8102833/news...

I guess there was also after this happened...

🚨 While Amazon Web Services crumbled, our state-of-the-art GeoCities-powered learning environment stood strong

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

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You have got to be kidding me 🧪 #academicsky

Voting intention for the UK. Now while I realise the worst part of this graph is the party in the lead, I can't get over Yougov using a full 0-100% y axis, when biggest party is on 30%. 🧪 #academicsky

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In this galaxy cluster merger the galaxies are located in the red shaded regions with the majority of the mass. The pink region in the middle is where the gas lies. This proves the existence of a missing dark matter 😉🧪🔭 #extragalactic #cosmology

Our JELS paper on galaxy sizes (stellar and Halpha) and merger rates at z=6 using NB JWST data has now been accepted for publication. Congratulations @hmostevo.bsky.social 🧪🔭 #extragalactic #academicsky

Not read the paper yet but this looks v cool

In memoriam...

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#Galaxy cluster ACO S 1121 (SPTJ2325-41) with #JWST NIRCam. Filters: F277W, F356W, F444W program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

Avoid plagiarism by performing your own research and reading around the background literature, such that you can write your own original sentences. #academicsky

It's that time of year when my alma mater asks me for money when they have far more money than my own institution (factor of 300 in value of the respective endowments). They also used to ask me for it when I worked for them which seemed a little cheeky. #academicsky

Two gravitational lens candidates from the North ecliptic pole EXtragalactic Unified Survey (NEXUS). #JWST 🔭 NIRCam image (filters: F200W, F444W) program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

Inner child extremely excited about a crewed mission to the moon as soon as February! Outer adult painfully aware of the NASA funding cuts and their impact on wide-ranging and incredibly important scientific research. Anyone else simultaneously thrilled and downcast about this news?🔭🛰️

MS Teams telling me it no longer works unless I upgrade my OS... don't threaten me with a good time 🧪 #academicsky

⏰ Start your countdown clock for the exact moment of the autumn #equinox, 19:19 (UK) 22nd Sept, when the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere are equally illuminated. Today the day length in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland is ~the same as in 🇳🇿New Zealand 🤓🧪🔭 📷: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

10 years since I decided it looked like a crocodile 😀🔭🧪

Trent Reznor takes a seat from Labour!

H. M. O. Stephenson, et al.: The \emph{JWST} Emission Line Survey (JELS): The sizes and merger fraction of star-forming galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08045 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08045 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08045

I know you lot love this, but why am I seeing halloween cakes in mid september? 🙄

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New JWST paper from Lancaster’s @hmostevo.bsky.social 🧪🔭 #extragalactic

New JWST paper from Lancaster’s @hmostevo.bsky.social 🧪🔭 #extragalactic

Feel a bit sorry for Corpus being brought into this #academicsky

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Looking forward to being faculty at the University of the Danelaw once this has reached its final conclusion #academicsky 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the right is an HST grism spectrum of a star forming galaxy at z=1.5 🧪🔭 #extragalactic

This is the new leader of Kent CC. People need to think carefully before sanewashing this dangerous nonsense for its "whacky fun" or "camp energy". To paraphrase Goldblum: "Oooh! Ahhh! That's how it always starts, but then later there's running and screaming." Good job @ayeshahazarika.bsky.social.

The ‘patriots’ are putting their own flag upside down again

Jesus wept, you have a doctor claim that the covid jab gave the King and the Princess of Wales cancer and this is what you put out? Not only is it drivel it is completely devoid of any political analysis. God help us if this is the BBC political analysis

Why are you using AI to grade anything??!! #academicsky 🧪