Too bad the university run isn't for another week. No way I'll be able to save it long enough to inflict on the whole family down the M1

Happy Thursday to those who celebrate

I'm here for it when we get to "R Party"

Amazing things are happening. I've just seen actual WEAVE data for my Open Time project.

Spent half the morning trying to figure out why my guide star disappeared between 2MASS and JWST. Proper motions, eh?

First ESO proposal submitted two weeks early. I don't recognise myself.

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

Taken a bit longer than we hoped, but our MUSE NFM observations of nearby lens SNL1 are on arxiv today... arxiv.org/abs/2509.01732

Different walk today

Interesting in context of astro, where we could live without google scholar I think, but not without NASA ADS

Oof, this is sneaky from ESO

Very pleased with today's "image" of (a very tiny piece of) NGC 5128

here's the branding we were asked to use by our lot, a few years back

"Beyond is a conceptual destination ... The Voice of Beyond is always one step ahead..." I've finally looked at that Warwick "Beyond!" rebrand. It's even worse than the posts suggest. Beyond reason. Beyond belief. Beyond parody... brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...

Fortunately if you really want to avoid human interactions there’s a plasma physics session.

All purpose astro conference programme

Cheeky midweek bimble

I see the Durham ucu event at the brewery has been cancelled at short notice

Have seen this justly mocked elsewhere, but came across it myself for the first time today...

well I'll be doing a python workshop later, so she's got a point tbh

Christmas