⭐️🔭Applications open at Anton Pannekoek Institute in Amsterdam for the 7th ASPIRE program: aspire.science.uva.nl. This 2026 summer school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. [1/2]

Please share. Akram has been desperate to get any assistance to rebuild his family's home. Not as a vanity project; they have nowhere else to sleep. And now his mom has emergency medical needs. Won't someone listen? Give / find their link here. 12 hours left. 97/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...

5 hours left, please share ⚠️ Rather than gloat about how correct we are in our analysis about the ceasefire, can we refocus on keeping Palestinians alive? Help six families in Gaza with urgent: - Food - Shelter / tents - Winter items - Newborn supplies - Transport back north Last check 441/1000

I have started a new job as a Research Data Scientist at the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service (part of @sdruk.bsky.social) at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social From looking at planets far away to one so close, trying to using smart data to make places healthier and more sustainable.

Terrifying and sad, 242 people on board. I just flew with Air India on a similar route 2 days back.

I know there was a lot going on in American politics today, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight how much I admire the work that Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla are doing. They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.

Graduating soon and still looking for an astronomy research project for Sep 2025? 🔭 I'm offering a Masters by Research (MSc) project on #exoplanet atmospheres 🪐 at the University of St Andrews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Join us to work on modelling JWST spectra! 📜 Application details: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...

The Guardian has an 'explainer' about the India-Pakistan conflict that manages to avoid stating that the border between the countries was originally drawn by an Englishman who had never been to India and signed off on in a hurry by Lord Mountbatten because he had to get back to Britain for a party.

Logic of my uni: Will stop paying me when I hand in my PhD thesis, then block me from doing the temporary full-time job I found - until viva, corrections, and getting the degree in hand. Brilliant.

ALL HANDS needed sharing these campaigns for folks whose funds GFM has refunded / frozen 🚨 Akram @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social lost his GFM: 170/500 tinyurl.com/Help-Akram 🚨 Mai @mai2698.bsky.social has had funds frozen but owes rent TOMORROW or else she’ll be evicted: 36/530 tiny.cc/Mai-Funds

Please share - for 2 days we’re focusing on the survival fund for these siblings who are facing escalating catastrophe in northern غaza. They're displaced again which means they need help with food and urgent supplies. Goal for 2 days is 300—$5 is great!! chuffed.org/project/help...

Next up is @riobanerjee.bsky.social talking about oddball planet L98-59d - a possibly rocky world orbiting an M dwarf. Transit spectroscopy observations with JWST reveal hints of sulphur species SO2 and H2S in the atmosphere, indicating potential volcanic activity on a possible exo-Io. #ukexom25

Nathan Mayne (who isn't on Bluesky) is advertising a PhD position working on dust in the Martian atmosphere. I worked with Nathan as a postdoc, and both he and his group are wonderful. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Exciting PhD opportunity at @exeter.ac.uk: Forecasting Martian Dust Storms (funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social)! Please share widely! More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

8 hours left on this 48-hr drive to get urgent funds for Mohamed & family. Their situation was already catastrophic before 3/18 and now with displacement, we need to help with their hourly survival. A $5 is amazing, I promise. And share.

Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️! aspire.science.uva.nl

Waited 9 hours in the emergency waiting room last night to get stitches yesterday. By then, the wound had formed scabs within. The doctor said it can't be stitched anymore, and glued it. Thanks NHS for the fun night out.

Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Juan Alday, and Oxoplanets members Joseph Penn, Prof Patrick Irwin, and Jingxuan Yang, on the publication of archNEMESIS! ArchNEMESIS is a fully pythonised version of the code NEMESIS, widely used to study planetary atmospheres. arxiv.org/abs/2501.16452

1 week left to apply to do a PhD in the new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews 🪐🔭 Feel free to reach out if you're interested in applying!

Astronomy PhD opportunity at St Andrews 🔭 Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️ Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Deadline: 1 February Project details ⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

OU PG research students & staff are warmly invited to the Roc Soc/Grad School Ceilidh & Burns Night Celebration on 31 Jan 2025 in the Hub Theatre, 17:00. Tickets are £10 (PGR) & £15 (Staff). forms.office.com/e/cMwkyM5px4 @riobanerjee.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

looking for another postdoc position to apply to? look no further! aas.org/jobregister/... I'm hiring a postdoc to join our JWST large program kronos 👀⏳🪐 application materials are due January 23. I'll be at #AAS245 if anyone is interested and wants to chat about it!! 🧪🔭⭐ #academicjob

PhD position available at the University of Bristol! Come work with me to model convection in sub-Neptune atmospheres! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Are you an Open University PGR with an idea for a meme on your research, the doctoral journey or Milton Keynes life? Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes. Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19... @riobanerjee.bsky.social

I’m not against encouraging young people to consider science as a career but I think we ought to be honest with them about how much time they’ll spend managing python environments

I have an exciting PhD project (starting September 2025) based at the University of Edinburgh. You will study the exotic world of a Venus-like exoplanet with a focus on the atmospheric chemistry and physics: (ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fe...). Deadline 6th January 2025. @kenrice.bsky.social

Hey new followers! I'm a PhD student exploring exoplanet atmospheres using telescopes like JWST! 🪐🔭✨ I'm also on the lookout for postdoc (and non-postdoc) jobs starting ~summer 2025. If you know of any, I'd love to hear from you. Here's an article about a recent project I worked on:

To all new Bluesky users, I highly recommend the Quiet Posters feed (bsky.app/profile/did:...) to find posts from people you follow who don't post that often

Empire. Wherever you get your podcasts

Could this exoplanet be home to fiery volcanoes? Read on to find out at @uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/a-distant-pl...

I have an exciting PhD project (starting September 2025) based at the University of Edinburgh. You will study the exotic world of a Venus-like exoplanet with a focus on the atmospheric chemistry and physics: (ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fe...). Deadline 6th January 2025. @kenrice.bsky.social

JWST received 2,377 unique proposals for the latest call, ~20% more than the previous one. The oversubscription rate at the hours requested : available level is 9:1. The pie chart below shows the breakdown by science category. 🧪 www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

I’ve been thinking about this map a lot lately. Progress on climate change is hard because a lot of money has been spent to maintain the status quo.

Paper Day! Title (also a TLDR): Atmospheric retrievals suggest the presence of a secondary atmosphere and possible sulfur species on L 98-59 d from JWST NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy 🧵 #exoplanets arxiv.org/abs/2408.15707

TIL: Conda has a feature called revisions to roll back to a previous version. I'm now ready for the next time I break an environment

Five years in prison for organising a peaceful protest about the most pressing issue of our times. What kind of country do I live in? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Me + WASP-39b #summerscience #JWST1styears

That counts as a Trappist transmission spectrum right? #exoplanets5

Another JWST news day - combined findings from two teams studying incredibly fluffy planet WASP-107b. I worked with a team using NIRSpec led by David Sing; together with a team using NIRCam led by Luis Welbanks we've found that another planet has a methane deficit! webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

It's new paper day for the JWST Transiting Exoplanets ERS Team! We used MIRI to map the temperature and chemistry of hot Jupiter WASP-43b. WASP-43b orbits its star in just 19.5 hours, which allowed us to stare at the system throughout an orbital cycle. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GIFS! Yes! I'm Jo, I study the atmospheres of mostly-hot, mostly-made-of-gas planets orbiting other stars. In case you were wondering, it's NEVER aliens. 🔭🧪🪐

You can try ESASky yourself to look at data - there's also an explorer mode with a dice button that takes you to a random object every time! #dotastro 🔭 sky.esa.int

At #dotastro 13 at the ESAC in Madrid. A very different feel to regular conferences! Loving it and looking forward to more Also my first time in Spain! #astronomy 🔭

Having a 'good' passport can help a lot. Widespread awareness of the issues faced due to visas can also help. I'm on a visa to do a PhD (costs £££) and need one to go to almost anywhere. Even going through all the hoops doesn't guarantee visas due to no appointments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Funded PhD studentship opportunity: investigate jet/environment interactions over cosmic time using LOFAR surveys with my group at the Open University. More info here: www5.open.ac.uk/science/phys... - contact me if interested! Deadline 18th April.

For new users just exploring the fact that you can choose your algorithms here, I highly recommend the "Quiet Posters" feed (which highlights users you follow who don't post that often, but have finally chosen to speak up): bsky.app/profile/did:...

Looks like the UK is about to make it so postdocs no longer count as skilled workers (!) for Visa purposes. There are many astronomy postdoc salaries less than (or close to) £35k, so this change could rule out non-UK postdoc astronomers from coming to the UK 😔 🔭 www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...

🚨 Attention TRAPPIST-1 fans 🚨 We just published the first JWST spectrum of one of the TRAPPIST-1 planets, so I'm excited to share in this thread what we saw! Our findings could have important implications for the TRAPPIST-1 planets in the habitable zone. Read on! 🔭