Otis will tell you it’s tiring being a beagle❤️ 🐶 #DogsOfBlueSky

Well look who decided to show up in the new expansion today 💡🐑❤️ #Pokemon #TCG #Ampharos

Our latest MandelZoom paper, led by Eun-jin Shin (Postdoc @cambridgeastro.bsky.social) is out on arXiv today! This work explores the impact of different stellar feedback mechanisms on black hole growth in dwarf galaxies! #astro #astrocoding

It’s been a pleasure to work with Nick Maragkakis (PhD student @icrar.bsky.social) and collaborators on his recently submitted paper, just out on arXiv today: “On the consistency of jet feedback modelling across different astrophysics hydrodynamical codes” #astro #astrocoding

Was great fun to help organise and co-chair this special discussion meeting at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Thank you to all of the speakers and attendees that made it such a great day! #astro #AGNOutflows

Oh! Well isn’t this adorable ☺️ #pokemon #TCG #Shuckle

Remember getting Pokémon Red as a kid when it came out and the “MissingNo. Glitch” 😅. Suddenly feeling very old 👴 #pokemon #gaming #gameboy

Well brunch from Love at First Bite certainly provides ample reason for further #Berlin visits 😋

On my way to see Arsenal vs London City Lionesses in the WSL today #ArsenalWomen #COYG

Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."

This diagram is excellent and 100000% correct.

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

It’s #InternationalDogDay Thanks for always being such a good boy, Otis! ❤️🐶

If, for any reason, you’d like to spend 30 minutes listening to me ramble on about my research, my talk from the “Unveiling a Universe of Black Holes: The Next Generation of AGN Surveys” workshop at MIAPbP is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z488... #astro #cosmology

Quite possibly my new favourite Pokémon TCG card design ⭐️

Thank you Dubrovnik and Rome (especially the cats) for what has been a wonderful (if a little hot) week 🇮🇹 🇭🇷 🐈

Yet again, a Green Party chooses gardening (environmentalism without socialism)

Could this new left-wing party transform British politics? I sat down with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social to discuss what's currently known as 'Your Party' - and what the future could bring. Watch here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jp...

Please join us for the Royal Astronomical Society Special discussion on AGN-driven multiphase outflows: Toward Consensus between Theory and Observation 10th October 2025 at Burlington House, London. Details/abstract submission: ras.ac.uk/events-and-m... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social #astro

"I’m afraid once again the Royal Society has failed to stand by its own code of conduct, which must now be regarded as a meaningless document." @scurry.bsky.social Story by Nicola Davis. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Another reason for loving workshops in Sesto ⛰️ 🏔️ The science has been great too 😄

I rue the day that someone told me that weissbier tastes like bananas… 🍌

I wonder why I love coming to Sesto for workshops 😋

Please join us for the Royal Astronomical Society Special discussion on AGN-driven multiphase outflows: Toward Consensus between Theory and Observation 10th October 2025 at Burlington House, London. Details/abstract submission: ras.ac.uk/events-and-m... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social #astro

Was an amazing day!

On my way to this year’s @eas-meeting.bsky.social I promise my slides will be ready in time! #EAS2025Cork #astro

Perfect for a sunny Sunday afternoon 😋

Enjoying the sun too much to be bothered by the pigeon ☀️

"For every $100 the US government spent, it put 40¢ in the bucket for NASA. And what do we get for that? ✨The Universe ✨" "One of these bills represents, to scale, the federal budget & the other with NASA’s total budget trimmed off the edges. Can you tell the difference?" @philplait.bsky.social

A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write: “We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.” Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just the right t-shirt for my first run of the month #pridemonth

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

NSF budget would close down one of LIGO's sites. This would be, to put it lightly, a catastrophe for gravitational wave astronomy. "In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites and will support a reduced level for technology development." bsky.app/profile/hast...

I know there are devastating cuts to many different areas here, none more important than the other, but just focusing on the radio regime .... ~70% cut to Green Bank Observatory and huge reduction in funding for next generation instruments like ngVLA ... that's gonna bring big global science ripples

Here's the NSF summary of major facilities, some astro changes noted. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... 🔭📡🧪 VLA: "Very Large Array and Central Development Laboratory will operate at reduced levels of service at the FY2026 Budget level" LIGO: "NSF will operate only one of the two sites" 1/2

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want. In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive potential, but we need to start now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Such a happy boy!

⚪️🔴🏆 ARSENAL WOMEN CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE 🏆🔴⚪️

Please sign this petition to halt a programme of redundancies at Newcastle University. chng.it/6YYNJh5fHH

Deeply ironic that this is published by Wiley....

Ready for the latest K2-18b drama? Madhusudhan is claiming *even stronger* evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all. Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵 #exoplanets 🔭

🔗 Quick reminder that unlike most platforms, Bluesky doesn’t algorithmically penalize posts with links! So if you are posting some striking image or screenshot from elsewhere you don’t need to bury the link in a reply; just include it in your post so everyone will have the context right away.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

Beagle with a Petal Earring

Happy to have been a part of this work led by Eun-jin Shin (Postdoc @cambridgeastro.bsky.social), using high-resolution simulations to explore how black holes grow in dwarf galaxies! #astro #astrocoding

It was great to collaborate with Stephanie Buttigieg (PhD student @cambridgeastro.bsky.social) on her paper, just out on arXiv today: "Premature supermassive black hole mergers in cosmological simulations of structure formation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.17549 #astro #astrocoding #cosmology

Someone had a busy weekend, fortunately his snoring is cute

𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet