✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good. Please read and consider signing ✍🏻 t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

Post-landing image from Chandrayaan-3, from the official ISRO birdsite account.

You can catch me live on TalkTV in ~15 minutes providing some live comment on the landing attempt by Chandrayaan-3.

🔭 Are you on the postdoc job market? Interested in star formation in nearby galaxies with JWST? Apply for this postdoc with my wonderful colleague Dr Ana Duarte Cabral! Deadline 15th Sept. Two years (+possibility of extension) https://tinyurl.com/2vyaryxa

Wow! 16 pro-amateur astrophotographers imaged the Whirlpool Galaxy, then combined their data to produce an image with 255 hours integration time. This is the result. 🧪🔭 Credits and results in here: https://www.astrobin.com/7hwtz0/?fbclid=IwAR1pAzvCnwViMAZebbwJ0ypUHmzZ9YFLWNyM_ZMT8Id1W_nRcix5A7ajLRg

Recently group member Ilaria Ruffa had an exciting new paper hit the arXiv. We find the existence of a 3D plane connecting the masses of supermassive black holes to their nuclear millimetre and X-ray luminosities, in our sample of AGN! Check it out here https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13872

Exciting news today, as my institution has finally allowed me to learn to read, after years of only (seniorly) lecturing. Looking forward to tackling my to-read pile now!

Great summary figure from Crain & van de Voort (2023) review of hydrodynamic simulations showing length scales from stellar interiors to the size of the Universe, along with regimes where baryonic physics can be treated explicitly versus approximately in simulations. 🧪🔭https://tinyurl.com/y3shhxft

How do you do a thread here? Or do you just have to post each, and reply to yourself?

Psst... new skeeters... do you like astronomy? Then you should check out the astronomy feed!

Made the leap over. Thanks, @spacedramber.bsky.social for the invite!