I remember 2004 at Glastonbury when they played and I’d say Edinburgh council is maybe being too polite www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

The K2-18b saga deepens with a great new paper out today by @luiswel.bsky.social (arxiv.org/abs/2504.21788). Turns out hydrocarbons can explain K2-18b's new JWST MIRI spectrum *without* the need to invoke DMS or DMDS as biosignatures. Read on to find out more! 🧵 #Exoplanet 🔭🪐

About that new paper on K2-18b, which headlines with "Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system," evidently prodded by a Cambridge U. press release. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12267 . It's not actually any kind of evidence for life, and here I'll give my take on the paper.

I wrote a research note about the recent publication of the MIRI/LRS spectrum of K2-18b. The authors had claimed the detection of potential signs of life. I find the data to be consistent with a flat line 🔭🧪

Wow… brutal JWST Cycle 4 results out. So many brilliant proposals couldn’t be awarded time… but amongst the carnage of rejections in my inbox, I see some successes. Congratulations and commiserations to colleagues today #astronomy

@exoclimes.bsky.social hey have accepted participants been notified ? If so; will you be sending out rejections so unsuccessful applicants can plan their summers ?

This is bittersweet.. phenomenal mission. Truly game changing. Amazing achievement. But sad it’s going dark. All good things…. 🔭

Quick bbc 3CR interview w/ @milesblumsom.bsky.social to start day thanks to my partner for leaving for work late so the 6 yo didn’t interrupt. Now the school run. our fantastic new physics, astronomy and maths outreach and public engagement manager is also starting today… it’s a good day already!

Come and check it out next Friday! Tickets selling fast: www.eshop.herts.ac.uk/search?cid=459 #hertfordshire 🔭 #astronomy #herts #BedsBucksHerts

Technicians have successfully integrated NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s payload—the telescope, instrument carrier, and two instruments—to the spacecraft that will deliver the observatory to its place in space and enable it to function while there. 🔭 🧪

Tickets for the next @bayfordburyobs.bsky.social open night selling fast! We’ve got 4 planets on show in the early evening this month, so don’t miss your chance to see them through our telescopes! 🔭 #hertfordshire #astronomy

Excited to share our interdisciplinary work on developing new methods to subtract off the glare of the star to reveal fainter exoplanets. We show in simulation that we can build a full optical model of JWST/NIRCam and generate images of the star to subtract off and reveal faint planets (1/3)

Tickets now on sale for 1st @bayfordburyobs.bsky.social open evening of 2025! 17th Jan will be JWST night. Public lectures from Webb Fellow Dr Emma Curtis-Lake, Dr Mike Kuhn, and kids space telescope quiz + more. Get them here: www.eshop.herts.ac.uk/search?cid=459 #astronomy 🔭 #hertfordshire

Many problems in mathematics and physics can be simplified by assuming that any solid body is approximately a sphere, but this approach is likely to lead to a rounding error.

We’re looking forward to supporting this!

He's making a list He's checking it twice Of the fuzziness things that clutter the skies Charles Messier is coming to town

6 yr old so asked me how many people it would take to hold up Jupiter if it came close enough to Earth, and was hard instead of gas. Short time later find myself trying explain Roche limit to him. He appears to have left the room

Yet again the culture warriors showing their selective free speech. Nice to see the new gov agrees previous outfit were out of order. Also, if you haven’t listened to Kneecap - do. They’re fantastic www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

Worrying times for many

He’s not always keeping me up. Sleepy #sheltie

It will also make it tricky for people to know what they are eligible to apply for in the upcoming round.. due early March

D/H and PH3 in the coldest brown dwarf. 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2411.14541

Really great work here from Melanie Rowland , @astrocaroline.bsky.social , @blkschlr-bmiles.bsky.social , and the rest of the team. I was very pleased to be involved in this, albeit in a minor way. First time we’ve confirmed the planetary mass of an object in this way! #browndwarfs #exoplanets

This is my dog. I love my dog. But right now he is canis non grata. He is on a run of getting me up every night. Last night 3 times: sometimes for toilet, but mostly because he wants to “investigate”. I think our house goes through phases of being on a badger highway. I need it to stop

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I rarely get very invested in the well being of public figures, but am well chuffed that we’re going to be getting @laurenlaverne.bsky.social back in our kitchen in the mornings!