Last week Thursday was my inaugural lecture here at @cambridgeastro.bsky.social (it's been a whirlwind with family in town so only posting about it now). The talk is about #blackholes 🧪🔭, pitched for non-experts, and you can follow it on Youtube (QR code on poster, or youtu.be/60hx7MXzxC4)!

The beans have been spilled 🫘Gaia DR4 date is released! 2 December 2026, mark the date for another overwhelmingly huge release www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dat...

A fully immersive pop-up planetarium experience is coming to schools across the East of England – completely free for pupils 🚀 Astronomers at @cambridgeastro.bsky.social say it will revolutionise how they inspire the next generation of scientists. Find out more 👇 https://bit.ly/4sBgEpW

Our 1909 Professor Hiranya Peiris has a new Nature article titled "Large language models are not the problem". If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. Perhaps it says we should be doing something better. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our 1909 Professor Hiranya Peiris appeared on The Life Scientific, talking to Jim Al-Khalili about pioneering the modern era of precision cosmology and revolutionising our understanding of the universe. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our 1909 Professor Hiranya Peiris appeared on The Life Scientific, talking to Jim Al-Khalili about pioneering the modern era of precision cosmology and revolutionising our understanding of the universe. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our 1909 Professor Hiranya Peiris has a new Nature article titled "Large language models are not the problem". If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. Perhaps it says we should be doing something better. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our doors are open for the 2026 Cambridge Festival Open Day! Come along between 2-6pm to launch rockets, see yourself in invisible light, have your face painted like a galaxy, and more!

Our new Plumian Professor Sera Markoff joined the Quirks and Quarks podcast to talk about her work capturing the first video of a black hole. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... Plus, an accompanying article on this fascinating research: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Plato is getting ready for launch! 🧪🔭

Plato is getting ready for launch! 🧪🔭

Our new Plumian Professor Sera Markoff joined the Quirks and Quarks podcast to talk about her work capturing the first video of a black hole. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... Plus, an accompanying article on this fascinating research: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Amazing moon photo, taken by PhD student Lily Duan Yi Ong through the IoA's 16" telescope! 🧪🔭

Everyone should see the moon with their own eyes through a telescope or binoculars at least once, and the IoA is a great place to do it! (Or at least, was when I went to their open evenings around 2008/09, and I assume still is!)

Amazing moon photo, taken by PhD student Lily Duan Yi Ong through the IoA's 16" telescope! 🧪🔭

We now have an orginal architects drawing of the Cambridge Observatory - hanging in the entrance to the Cambridge Observatory!

An unusual signal initially picked up by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors and subsequently by optical telescopes around the world may have been a “superkilonova” – that is, a kilonova that took place inside a supernova. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/unusual-as...

Undergraduates: Curious about a career in astronomy? 🔭 Take your first step with @cambridgeastro.bsky.social’s Summer Internship Programme and gain 8 weeks of research experience. Applications from underrepresented groups in astronomy are encouraged. Apply by 27 February 👇 https://bit.ly/4qYR0LD

The Eddington Medal has been won by Prof Debora Šijački, of @cambridgeastro.bsky.social, who said she was "profoundly honoured". She's made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the role Active Galactic Nuclei play in the evolution of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the universe. ⤵️

If you're a VLBI radio person 🔭🧪 and keen on imaging #blackholes and their jets, please consider applying for a postdoc position in my new research group at the @cambridgeastro.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

But wait, there's more! Here's a somewhat longer article about my new position at the @cambridgeastro.bsky.social 🧪🔭 and @kavlifoundation.org Institute of Cosmology, at the University of Cambridge, from their communications team: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sera...

I'm very excited and honoured to announce my new position 🧪🔭 in the UK, starting in January! See here for more info: www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

📡 Last week ICCS Senior Research Software Engineer Jack Atkinson delivered his RSE skills course to researchers at @cambridgeastro.bsky.social. The course teaches key tools and techniques that researchers can start implementing now to improve the quality of their work.

For over a decade, #ESAGaia mapped our galaxy with stunning precision, rewriting the story of the Milky Way 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... While Gaia no longer collects new data, its scientific mission is far from over! Upcoming are the Gaia Data Release 4 and the final legacy catalogue. 🔭

Institute of Astronomy researcher awarded Schmidt Sciences fellowship to ensure AI benefits society : www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/institu...

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

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

KICC success in ESA’s 2025 Call for Missions www.kicc.cam.ac.uk/news/kicc-su...

Professor David Tong from @trincollcam.bsky.social @cambridgemaths.bsky.social will give our first lecture on 'Our Chiral Universe'. Larmor Lecture - 13 October, 18:00–19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. Booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Stars are interesting in many ways and seeing them is more complex than one may imagine. They also change on timescales from seconds to years. Read about Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Prof Gerry Gilmore's project @cambridgeastro.bsky.social media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil... #WorldSpaceWeek 🚀

Our Travel Grants are now open for application. Deadline for applications is 01 Nov 2025 Deadline for references is 08 Nov 2025 For more information and to apply: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/trav...

Tickets are now available for The PdOC Research Showcase 2025 on 10th November 2025 at West Hub, Cambridge. @westcamhub @CamPostdocs Book tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thewe... Sponsored by the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Having led strategic coordination in optical astronomy for twenty-five years, Professor Gerry Gilmore is now building a sustainable alliance for the European-wide network of observatories initially built to support the Gaia mission. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil... @cambridgeastro.bsky.social

Having led strategic coordination in optical astronomy for twenty-five years, Gerry Gilmore is now building a sustainable alliance for the European-wide network of observatories initially built to support the Gaia mission media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil...