Published in #MNRAS: "Lightning activity on a tidally locked terrestrial exoplanet in storm-resolving simulations for a range of surface pressures", Sergeev et al. This is Fig. 4: to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

Fresh off the press: lightning activity in high-res simulations for TRAPPIST-1e! Just a nice little study that began as James's and Lottie's undergraduate research project. We find less lightning for higher surface pressures. It's only one model though! academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

Over 5,000 worlds we’ve seen beyond our sky, Some could host life, some just float by! 🌍🪐 Gas giants, lava lands, icy charms, The universe is full of alien farms! 👽✨ #Exoplanets! s-ink.org/known-exopla... 🔭

If you are interested in supporting NASA science and exploration, and saving it from capricious budget cuts, here's one thing you can do: sign this petition being sent to Senate and House members of their respective appropriations committees. Two days left to sign! www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

🌦️ Webb's Titan forecast: partly cloudy with occasional methane showers. A science team has combined data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope to see evidence of cloud convection on Saturn’s moon Titan in the northern hemisphere for the first time! 🔭 🧪

Some of my most recent #spaceart. NOT AI. Please repost. No new followers in ages. ☹️ #sciart #scicom #astronomy

Jupiter Core xkcd.com/3083

I wrote a research note about the recent publication of the MIRI/LRS spectrum of K2-18b. The authors had claimed the detection of potential signs of life. I find the data to be consistent with a flat line 🔭🧪

Less than a month till the deadline to apply for this PhD place!

Sarah’s rules of looking for life with only chemical signatures: 1) the smaller the molecule(s) the more likely they can also be produced by abiotic processes 2) one molecule, if it can be produced by any abiotic process, will never be enough to definitively claim detection of life

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

We're advertising 2 fully-funded PhD positions in atmospheric science @exeter.ac.uk for entry in September 2025. Both are open to UK and international appliants. The first project is with me looking at Atmospheric heat transport across a range of planetary climates 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...

This account is biased towards my professional interests, so with the caveat there are a litany of reasons to protest those in power in the US, GO PROTEST. Keep protesting. Protest until there is actual change.

Exciting opportunity to gather, work with and model orographic 🗻💨🗻flow in the European Alps as part of the TeamX (www.teamx-programme.org ) project based at UEA vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

We are really pleased to announce a 3-year postdoc at Bristol to work on tuning a state-of-the-art CMIP7 model using paleoclimate data, and using the tuned model to make future climate predictions. More details available from me, or here: tinyurl.com/mvx5wmet . Closing date: 15th Feb

Resharing this UK Visa route for recent US university graduates (undergrad or PhD), for anyone who may need to leave the US on short notice (3 week decision time).

The fantastic podcast "Countering Climate Skepticism" has reached its 17th episode. Co-presented by my former PhD student Mark, it is well worth a listen. It will help you identify and counter the dizzying array of denial arguments peddled by clueless folk. ccspod.podbean.com/e/ep17-summa...

From Tom Wagg: Today’s bite tells a tale of how 1920s meteorology helps us peer inside pulsating stars. ✨🔭 astrobites.org/2025/01/20/b...

Registration deadline for #ExoclimesVII is coming up!🚀 Make sure to submit your application before next Friday, January 24th! Fill out the google form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... And make sure to check out our website for more information! exoclimes.org ☄️🔭🌌🪐

ExoSLAM summer school aims to introduce attendees to low- and high-resolution data analysis, as well as an introduction to current uses of machine learning in astronomy! Make sure to stay tuned for more announcements of the program! exoclimes.org/exoslam/inde...

Definitely worth following @simonoxfphys.com - one of the best climate communicators out there. Check out the YouTube stuff in particular

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

We are really pleased to announce a super-exciting opportunity for a 2-year postdoc to work understanding changes in latitudinal temperature gradient in Earth’s past history. University of Bristol, UK. More info and apply here: tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y @drsturobinson.bsky.social

Terrific essay on cyberpunk (lower and uppercase “c”), well worth your time.

The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025. FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor... #WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...

🚨 SPECIAL FIRST POST 🚨 Applications to @exoclimes.bsky.social (7-11 July, 2025 at @umontreal.ca) is now OPEN until Jan 24, 2025! Join us for a week of exciting talks on planetary atmospheres interspersed with ample opportunities to discuss and forge new collaborations! forms.gle/mpeZ3LXGoFb9...

**Black UK PhD students** Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend -Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences -Faculty of Health and Life Sciences **Tell everyone** www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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

🚨🚨 I'm hiring!!! 🚨🚨 Postdoc and PhD positions available to join my ERC project Exo-PEA at @tcddublin.bsky.social. The project aims to understand weather in giant extrasolar worlds ☁️⚡🪐 📆 Deadline: Jan 6th Postdoc ad: tinyurl.com/2ufcwvxf PhD ad: tinyurl.com/5amcea6p Please share widely! 🔭🪐

Exciting PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of weather and climate modelling: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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

What an awesome project! I'd do apply myself if I could!

PhD Advertisement! 4-yr PhD position as part of the EPSRC Aerosols CDT to work with me and Prof Jonathan Reid at Bristol on Laboratory experiments to measure the Optical Properties of Silicate aerosols for applications to exoplanet atmospheres. See Application instructions and details via link

Advertising for a PhD position at Oxford working with me and Tad Komacek. Project is on climate modelling using automatic differentiation with Enzyme in SpeedyWeather.jl applied to Earth and exoplanets. Plenty of space for ML/GPU/HPC/data visualisation projects within that PhD position too!

Titan in front of Saturn - From Val Klavans - https://flic.kr/p/sAJDww

#Jupiter's stormy atmosphere is erupting... a new convective outbreak in the South Equatorial Belt (SEB) started on November 11th near 106W, these can often develop to span the whole belt. PVOL are asking for images to track the storm evolution. 📸: Christopher Go pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/v...

Just updated/refreshed my starter pack for planetary climate (generally non-Earth) people. Please let me know if you'd like to be added. #planetaryscience go.bsky.app/BzJ8PXY

🌍 New resource: Debunking 33 Myths About Solar, Wind, & EVs! Thanks to the Sabin Center, we adapted their report to tackle myths on clean energy costs, reliability & more into 33 individual rebuttals. These are all available now and we'll highlight one of them each week! sks.to/sabin33-blog...

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

#ExoclimesVII is coming to Montreal on 7-11 July 2025! Join us in discussing all things climate from solar system to #exoplanets & brown dwarfs! Please fill out this interest form to stay informed t.co/H0h6bik77x

hiiiii I'm 🚨 hiring a postdoc to join our JWST kronos (kronos-jwst.github.io) collaboration!! 🚨 candidates should have an interest in exoplanet atmospheres, stellar activity, and/or young planetary systems full job ad is here: careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/52... spread the word! 🔭🪐🧪

Did an AI write this? diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2024/11/01/d...

At the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen we are looking for 2 PhD students in the fields of exoplanets and planetary science, see: aas.org/jobregister/... www.rug.nl/research/kap... Please share these positions with potentially interested students and your network. 🙂

Time to reshare this after the spectacular aurora displays last night! #ChemSky 🧪

Great new reconstruction - years in the making - for global temperatures over the last 500 million years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Decided to create a planetary climate starter pack. Let me know if you'd like to be included, and I'll add as I see more people. go.bsky.app/BzJ8PXY

All* of your favorite** planetary scientists on Bluesky, collected into one starter pack for your convenience! Sometimes, we'll even discuss planetary science! Is your favorite planetary scientist missing? Have them DM me to be added. :) 🧪🔭 go.bsky.app/SdZsrfw *OK, many of **plus me