Bucks, almost uniquely, favours mayonnaise with chips.* And rightly so. * No, it really won't be salad cream.

Hey, astronomers. Can you imagine astronomy research without ADS?!?!? No? So, have you filled out the ADS survey yet? Help archives help you! (Help archives keep funding!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Starting to explore LinkedIn more seriously as I enter the final couple of years of my Webb Fellowship. Any advice on how to make it useful (and not just another social feed)?

To be or not to be .. #Shakespearian

A toothy critter cosplaying Betelgeuse for Halloween? :) This Yellowhead moray was...not thrilled I interrupted his evening hunt. This is something of a threat posture, the eel deepening its yellow head and grey stripes as a warning. One of the few species you want to be cautious around. :) 📷🌿🐟🦑

What a view from the observatory this morning

Brain exploded Picasso died in 1973!!!!!! I thought it was at least 50-100 years earlier. How have I not any TV clips on him.

The JWST Users' Committee (JSTUC) will host a Community Forum on Oct 27th at 12 pm Eastern Time - community members are encouraged to submit questions and feedback. Details here 🔭 >> www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

A part of you has existed since almost the moment of creation. 🌌💥🧪 Astrophysicist @erikahamden.bsky.social ‬breaks down how the hydrogen in your body was formed within the first 20 minutes after the Big Bang.

Updated plot — now with <<Peeples>> Time 😅

So, we are tracking well above Cycle 4. Figure by @mpudoka.bsky.social and Yongda Zhu. 🔭

We are at least at 2308 submissions right now. 🔭

This has made our day. www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35...

Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles. #JWST 🧪🔭✨

Morning its #JWSTcycle5 deadline day. It seems like proposals are running high with numbers rapidly rising overnight. My approximate numbers are ~1500 currently in!

The JWST Cycle 5 "Procrastination Monitor", i.e. Molly's proposal counter submission form, is up an running. Please fill it out if you have data to add to it. And do share! #JWSTCycle5 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I note this is currently the only permanent astro job being advertised in the UK 😮

My inbox right now: JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 5 received. JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 1 received. JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 6 received. JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 1 received. JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 2 received.

By my estimates, there have been ~1000 JWST proposals already submitted, and there are over 24 hours before the deadline!! 🔭

Jwst proposal numbers are running high!

Today's reading begins with Lise Meitner, who co-discovered nuclear fission (she wrote the paper!) and was in general an INCREDIBLE trailblazing scientist. Except, as a Jew, she had to flee Nazi Germany to Sweden and lost her professorship in Berlin. The men she worked with got the prize instead 🧪🔭

how to win a nobel physics prize 🔭✨☄️

Sent my collaborators a JWST proposal idea and it’s either absolutely 🤪 or completely 🧐🤩🤓💡 On a side note I now have Dizzee Rascal's song Bonkers stuck in my head.

🔭 I love plotting a new JWST stellar catalogues and colour magnitude diagram for the first time. Seeing new stars and populations. They are just so clean and beautiful. All the features you can see, from stars I have just detected for the first time ever 😊 It's a rather giddy feeling.

My periodic reminder for #astrosci #astrodon #exoplanets Early Career Researchers to please, please, please have a simple web site with your current email address on it - rationale here: kenworthy.space/advice/

I want to rage at narrative cv’s. Why require 2000 words when you could have a nice concise list version instead. And who wants to review that instead.

esawebb.org/news/weic251... MIRI on JWST keep delivering. We have looked into the body of the butterfly nebular and seen such fantastic structures. The death of stars like the sun is alot more dynamic than you could imagine. Very happy to be a member of both the science and MIRI teams.

Does anyone here / at @rasjournals.bsky.social know then the MNRAS journal went fully electronic?

Running @conornally.bsky.social STARBUGII code for JWST PSF photometry. Seen this in the installation messages: “Downloading The Junior Colour Encyclopedia of Space” 😂

Haha! It worked! I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh? #Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

How gorgeous is that?

For the latest image of the month, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope revisits the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The deep observations reveal more than 2500 sources sparkling in this tiny patch of sky ✨ Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭🧪 #extragalactic

Spain getting some very very soft free kicks. #engesp

Reading the RAS demographic survey for 2023. 🔭 Rather surprised that there is some major difference in JWST usage between genders give the dual anonymous proposal proces.

After we found the dust survived in this harsh environment, I led a team to ask the question: Is it long-lived for all of the harsh environments? So, we proposed for JWST observations in Cycle 2, and finally had observations taken last summer. Here are the four systems we observed

I guess it's a good time to post a comparison between the field of view of @vrubinobs.bsky.social and the instrument I work with: JPCam at @cefca-oaj.bsky.social Ours is at a 2.5 m telescope vs. their 8.4 m, and we have 14 9.2k×9.2k science CCDs vs. their 189 4k×4k organized in 21 "rafts" of 3x3. 🔭

Happy to announce that the line-detector.oca.eu website is now online! It allows the user to select the stellar type, [M/H], λ- range, and resolving power and the page returns: -purity of the line and minimum S/N required to detect it. -interactive plot to identify the lines in the spectra

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

🔭 Paper day: Want to know the properties of ALL the Nearby (300 pc) evolved stars - we have just the catalogue for you! arxiv.org/abs/2506.10542 FYI: There are 852 evolved stars close to us.

The final set of JWST MIRI EC observations are scheduled for tomorrow! Looking forward to completing the picture of Cen A.

Physicist Helen Quinn was born #OTD in 1943. She is best known for Peccei-Quinn theory, a proposed explanation of the Strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics. It implies the existence of a very light particle – the axion – which is also a dark matter candidate. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Image: H. Quinn

🔊Calling #Scotland: are you in the minority when surrounded by your fellow experts? Heard of "if you can't see it, you can't aspire to be it" and want to make a difference? Then this free online 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿STV Expert Voices #mediatraining is for you! 👩‍🔬 #blacksky #scicomm ℹ️: www.linkedin.com/posts/nichol...

I have just arrived back in Japan, bringing home the 1:20 scale model of the JAXA Hayabusa2 spacecraft that has been on display at the London Science Museum. Five customs officials examined the model. There was nothing amiss with the paperwork. They just wanted to see the model 😂

#Astro-bluesky I am talking to 11-13 year olds next week about astronomy-related careers. If you have a cool picture of you doing your job (especially from women) be it in science, engineering, IT, business support, project management etc. I would love to have a picture to show what we do. 🔭🧪

"We'd like to interview you about the future of marine research infrastructure #FMRI in the UK" 🤔 Erm - are you sure you have the right Catherine? When it comes to building big infrastructure to answer big scientific questions, turns out that the Astronomers have some useful experience to share!🧪

Made in Saddleworth, Oldham and Manchester: Annie Kenney (1879-1953), born in Springhead, started working in cotton mills at age 10 and became a leading suffragette in the Women's Social and Political Union. She was jailed 13 times and repeatedly force-fed. 1/9

My office mate told me I might want to look at the astronomy picture of the day. apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropi... I am very pleased to see that it's my JWST image of NGC 346. This pic has been proudly printed as a MASSIVE poster and covers most of the wall behind me.

Been an exciting week for @galaxyzoo.org - our relaunch with JWST imaging has resulted in highest daily classification rate since March 2020. www.galaxyzoo.org. 🔭👩‍🔬🎉

Looking for Webb's stunning images? 🤩 Look no further. Check out this link 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... for the latest and greatest visuals from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. For a deeper delve, go to esawebb.org 🔭