Thread of things I’ve learnt at the Mount Stromlo Student Seminars over the last few days: 1. The pythagoreans were a cult of triangle loving, bean haters. #MSSS2025

ooo! Adding to the reading list!

What are some of the things you do between projects? Astro or unAstro related. #astro #research

Finally got around to writing a Blog Post about my experience at @eso.org as a Summer Research Student, so go check it out if you're curious! jaydewillingham.github.io/Rd2Dr_Pages/... #astro

I had the pleasure of being a part of Macquarie University's Astronomy Open Night talk line up a few weeks ago. It was such a cool night and I always love an opportunity to talk about our Universe's history!

Reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and tell me if this is a thesis worthy quote: “When she was a teenager D’Agostino told a friend that she wanted to go to university to study Death, Stars and Mathematics.” Either way that’s what I’m telling people I do from now on. 💀✨🧮

And just a few days after getting back to Australia, I was at Macquarie University’s Higher Degree Research poster session, showing off the work behind my Master’s thesis. 🎆🤓

Last week I finished my 6-week research programme at @eso.org with a presentation highlighting my work. It was such an amazing opportunity, I had the best time, met cool people, saw beautiful places and learnt so many things! Definitely would recommend the experience and the institution! 🌌🔭

Can we take a moment to appreciate how cool the names "Cosmic Dawn" and "Cosmic Noon" are? So dreamy 🤩🌌✨

Today I had the pleasure to present at the ESO journal club. It was very scary but I am so excited to develop my sci-comm skills! 🌌🎤

Biggest shock of 2025: I'm using viridis instead of plasma 💀

Only the coolest thing you will read all week 🌌🏃‍♀️

For the next three nights me and the other summer students get to play with ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT). Here’s a nice little pic of a YSO! ⭐️✨💫

Spent way too much time this morning looking through the ALMA archive, here are some pretty sources 🤩🔭🌌

Aus is being blessed with so many @astrokatie.com events right now and I’m devastated to be missing them 😭 But here’s my contribution to the Dr. Mack hype: Check out the 11 ep podcast she co-hosts with John Green. I found it last year and it's an absolute gem! open.spotify.com/show/5sdOcHY... 🌌🔭🎤🎧

Hey Siri, play “Supermassive Black Hole” by Muse

I made my first 4D plot today - dreams do come true kids.

Real sky or @eso.org Supernova Planetarium? 🌌

A Haiku Review for my first week ESO: Endless caffeine tide. Universe did not notice. Brain just exploded. 🚀🌌👽📡✨☄️

I am very excited to announce that over the next few weeks I’ll be a summer research student at @eso.org. Stay tuned for some cool science and beautiful pics! #ESOSummerResearch.

Starting the morning with a virtual tour of the first imagery from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory 🌌 skyviewer.app/tours/cosmic...

Update I found Crux or the Southern Cross (I think?) and Alpha Centauri (I also think). The moon was hidden by some clouds but that is my next victim 🔭

I’m not sure why I chose Australian winter as the perfect time to start using my childhood telescope again but here we are. Calling all my astronomers to give me telescope and star gazing tips! 🔭✨

So PRETTY 🤩🌌

Just Out: EMU/GAMA: A new approach to characterising radio luminosity functions. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11453 I have been lucky enough to be a part of my first publication, go check out the awesome work being done in radio astronomy! 🌌📡

Just got back from Japan and visited the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno Park—easily the coolest museum I’ve ever been to. Loved all the exhibits on Japanese Nobel physics winners, the space displays were incredible… and yes, there was even a surprise Maxwell jump scare.

Coming out of my Masters Hyperfocus to show some pictures from the AIP Poster Event today @ Macquarie University. This was my first poster event so it was very scary but I learnt a lot from all the awesome presenters and posters. Poster will be added to my website sometime in the next few weeks 🌌

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🌌 🔭 I would love to hear about some Women that inspire you in the comments!

What a year it’s been already! Last week was my final week at CSIRO with the amazing Space and Astronomy team. I’m forever grateful for the learning and friendships I’ve developed over the last 2+ months. This week I jump fully into my masters and am excited to see where the rest of the year goes.

My special interest this week is pretending I know things about football to trick people into talking about the Super Bowl half time show with me.

I feel like my entire existence is just making weird sounds.

Where would we be without matplotlib?

I am awoken 😮‍💨

My desk @ Macquarie has a label!!! This is a momentous day!

January check in: -read 8 books -launched my website -had some of my last weeks at my CSIRO studentship -started my Masters research What is everyone else excited to have done this month?

A goal of mine this year is to learn how to process images from my favourite telescopes. I started that journey this afternoon with JWST data of the M74 galaxy, so here is my day one progress! If anyone has any helpful links or videos feel free to share them below 🚀🌌🔭

We had a visitor for lunch at @csiro.bsky.social today!

Nothing is more satisfying than coding to the beat of music. 🎧 👩🏻‍💻 See below for a very accurate picture of me:

Heheh I love infographics! Does anyone have any they’d like to share? 🤭🚀

Digesting some starbursts this afternoon and not the lollies! This team just submitted some cool work on how intense radiation fields may affect the flow of molecules in starburst galaxy M 82. I love the diagram included too! Check out the preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.14893 🔭

Finally getting my hands deep into my masters research this weekend… 🚀🌌🔭

Picture of my kitty doing important space work 🤓🌌🐱

By voting me in as president, I promise to make eating pastries and drinking coffee a compulsory event on Sundays 🫡

Another based post by my favourite human 🤩🌌😂

Yay long weekend in Australia! Finally a chance to do some work 🫠🔭😂🌌

The first draft of my website is ready! I can now start filling it with some content 🎉 🌌 If you want to check it out ➡️ jaydewillingham.github.io

Astrophysicist: "I want a cool plot for my paper!" Matplotlib Plasma colourmap: "Hold my beer."

This feels a little too relatable this week 😅🌌

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝗠𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲. 𝘼 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 🧵🌩️ Last week, I was set for my first unsupervised observing run with the ATCA. It was supposed to be an exciting milestone—but instead, Sydney’s worst storm in years turned it into something I’ll never forget. Part 1/8

How learning html for my website is going 😅😂 In good news, a first version is almost complete!