Excited and honoured to be giving the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture on Thursday 20th November at the @uniofbath.bsky.social and online 🔭 I will be talking about all things supermassive black holes and quasars! 🌌 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social

Excited and honoured to be giving the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture on Thursday 20th November at the @uniofbath.bsky.social and online 🔭 I will be talking about all things supermassive black holes and quasars! 🌌 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social

Had a great time visiting @unisouthampton.bsky.social, presenting my latest work on outflows in DESI QSOs ✨ Now on to Portsmouth!

That's a wrap on another great #STEMFest in Newcastle! It was a great event, talking to thousands of primary, secondary, and sixth form students about space! 🚀 It's been a busy #WorldSpaceWeek, speaking to students, giving a school talk, and being part of Meet a Scientist with Dynamic Earth 🌎

Looking forward to this tomorrow! I will be discussing my latest work, linking outflows, radio, and dust in DESI QSOs ✨

The @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social team will be at this year's #stemfest in Newcastle! We'll be exploring invisible light and space with ~3000 students across 3 days! ✨ #rtcnorth

Über 150 internationale Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler diskutieren diese Woche am AIP beim 18. Potsdamer Thinkshop. Der Thinkshop mit dem Titel „The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Formation“ bietet Raum für neue Ideen und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. 💫 #astrophysics #galaxy #potsdam

First time visiting @aippotsdam.bsky.social this week presenting a poster on my recent dusty QSO work 🔭

Lots of @newcastleuni.bsky.social representation at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week! ✨ First up, @astrofawcett.bsky.social talking about evidence for a blow-out phase in dusty QSOs 💨 #NAM2025Durham

Great talk at the @nam25-durham.bsky.social EDI session by @izgarland.bsky.social Favourite (paraphrased) quote on why outreach is important: 'Astronomy is a hobby, disguised as a profession, paid for by the tax payers. I think the least we can do is to make our work accessible to the tax payers.’

If you’re at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week, check out the North East Astronomy exhibition in TLC39! ✨

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First ever talk at the EAS! #EAS2025Cork @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social

Enjoying my first ever EAS at @ucc.ie Cork! 🇮🇪🚀 Come along to session SS26 on Wednesday to hear about outflows and shocks in dusty quasars ✨

Very honoured to be giving this year’s Caroline Herschel prize lecture on dusty black holes! ✨

Choose the best plan: - Take a break from work, or… - Take a break from work to exchange black hole theories with a student🌌 As we wrap up #VolunteersWeek2025, join Vicky! She has been taking part since 2023 and was one of the most active scientists last term.

I'm attending EAS this year in Cork, speaking at the AGN outflow session (SS27) 🌌 If anyone attending would like to have a chat about dusty AGN, please reach out! #EAS2025Cork

Remember to register to be a part of NAM 2025! Presenters need to register by 6th June (next Friday), this includes anyone giving a talk or presenting a poster! All other participants have until 20th June! #NAM2025durham #community #sciencethroughconnection

Very honoured the our project Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East won the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Engagement and Place Award for Engaging for Cultural Benefit ✨ Thank you to all the team! 🔭 Find out more here: www.spaceinvestigators.com #EngageAwards2025

Enjoyed visiting Scarborough over the weekend and giving a talk at Scarborough & Ryedale Astronomical Society 🔭

Really cool paper by Carolina Andonie today describing the design and predictions for the 4MOST IR AGN survey, the first large-scale optical spectroscopic survey targeting obscured IR AGN and quasars ✨ arxiv.org/abs/2504.10596

📢New paper alert! Charlie MacMahon explores new ways to train cosmological emulators in order to constrain cosmological models 🖥️🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2504.00552

📢New paper alert! Carola Zanoletti explores how using PCA-based cuts can provide tighter constrains on modified gravity theories 🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2503.20951

Congratulations to the nominees in the Engaging for Cultural Benefit category at this year's Engagement and Place Awards. Find out more 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/e... #WeAreNCL

If you're in the North East of England, come along to the Discover Festival hosted by @newcastleuni.bsky.social on the 7th June! ⭐️ The @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social team will be hosting a drop-in session: Seeing the Invisible in Space 🔭 www.ncl.ac.uk/discover-fes...

Abstract submissions for NAM 2025 have been extended to 1pm on Monday 31st March! With over 60 different sessions running across 10 strands, there are so many ways to get involved. Submit your abstracts here: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/abst... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

New @desisurvey.bsky.social data release just dropped! ✨ Check out all the papers and read about how dark energy might be stranger than we thought...

Abstract submission deadline for NAM is only a couple of weeks away! (30th March) ✨ I've heard there will be a great session on AGN... 👀

Amazing news to hear that @newcastleuni.bsky.social astronomy PhD student Houda Haidar has been awarded #JWST time to study dust and shocks in AGN ✨

Amazing to hear that two of our @newcastleuni.bsky.social astronomers, @astrofawcett.bsky.social & @bethmg.bsky.social, were celebrated at the inspirational women of Newcastle event for #IWD2025 ✨

Looking forward to giving my first seminar of 2025 (virtually) at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ⭐️

📢Calling all AGN astronomers in the UK! Registration for the National Astronomy Meeting at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social is now open! We encourage everyone to submit an abstract to the AGN session: "Active Galactic Nuclei – from ISCO to CGM and from cosmic dawn to the present day" ✨

Always enjoy answering students questions on @imascientist.org.uk Space is big! ✨

🎉It's paper day!!🎉 Our latest paper explores the connection between radio spectral slopes and dust extinction in quasars using data from the uGMRT 📡 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2501.10501

What drives radio emission in the faintest radio-quiet quasars? Are these radio-AGN quasars distinct from other similar compact radio sources? Ann Njeri and collaborators present the highest-ever spatial resolution radio studies of these targets: e-merlin.ac.uk/news.html#QFS

A couple of pics from #CelebrateScience last October in Durham ✨ Image credit: @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

I’m so happy to have organised my first conference: DEX at @newcastleuni.bsky.social ✨🎉 Very grateful to my amazing LOC who made everything run so smoothly! @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social @bethmg.bsky.social Steph Campbell, Carola Zanoletti, Carolyn Mill, Rose Shepherd

@astrofawcett.bsky.social kicking us off!

Dr Jürgen Schmoll giving a great talk about astrophotography on our cruise 📷🌌 @gostargazing.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

Northern lights spotted on my first cruise! @gostargazing.bsky.social 🚢 🇳🇴

Excited that our museum exhibition Space Investigators is open tomorrow at the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle ✨ This exhibition explores the role the North East of England has played in worldwide astronomy 🔭 www.spaceinvestigators.com

Lego ELT progress!! 🔭🧱 Our @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social team have been working hard over the last few months building this 5000 brick monster! See the finished model at our Space Investigators exhibition at the Great North Museum: Hancock from March-September this year ✨ www.spaceinvestigators.com

Updated website! ✨ www.astrofawcett.com

Great work from Gaby Calistro Rivera on arXiv today (and not just because my paper was cited)! Using the LOFAR deep fields she confirms the continuous relation between radio detection fraction and dust reddening in quasars: arxiv.org/abs/2312.10177

I am excited to say that I will start my ERC Starting Grant “Probing cosmic large-scale structure beyond the average” and a professorship at Bielefeld University in March 2024. I am hiring 2 postdocs to join my group in autumn 2024 - learn more on my webpage cosmocora.de and please share it!

Huge congrats to Newcastle Astro-Obs researcher Carola Zanoletti whose first paper is out on the arXiv today! Go read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2310.19871 In it she and her collaborators explore effects of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and constrain an untested area of its parameter space!

In Leiden for my first Lorentz Centre meeting on jet-induced feedback ✨🇳🇱

Looking forward to seeing more from @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social fascinating projects exploring observational cosmology and galaxy evolution 🌌 🔭 #WeAreNCL