Honoured that Bénite will be doing her PhD with me! Congratulations to her on this well deserved scholarship - I know she'll be a great Bell Burnell Ambassador

Institute of Physics@iop.org · last mo.

Congratulations to Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship awardee Bénite Tantely!👏 Bénite is working at @durham.ac.uk to understand the role that active galactic nuclei and star formation play in the evolution of distant galaxies. Read her interview here: www.iop.org/about/suppor...

Well done @rtimmerman.bsky.social on getting this brilliant paper published!

Roland Timmerman@rtimmerman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today is paper day again! Right now on arXiv: LOFAR-VLBI observations of Abell 2199, revealing a set of steep-spectrum synchrotron threads for the first time. Also, the radio lobes show an almost perfectly homogeneous CRe population. (arxiv.org/abs/2606.30714 w/ @andreabotteon.bsky.social)

Lord Vallance's office wrote to my MP about my concerns with STFC cuts. In two pages, they: 1. Misspell Stephen Hawking's name 2. Get my university wrong 3. Decide to strip me of my PhD The "reassurances" and commitments were hollow, promising not to worsen an already collapsed baseline. #astro

Super proud of my MScR student Pombili Christian who gave her first scientific presentation today!

everyone was super happy for you to visit! They say come back soon <3

Martin Bourne 🏳️‍🌈@astromartin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Visiting Durham, staying at @astroradioleah.bsky.social’s and surrounded by so much cute fluffiness 🥰 Don’t tell Otis, he might get jealous 🤭 #dogsofbluesky #catsofbluesky

Don't ignore error messages: just thought I'd figure out exactly where "Mean of empty slice" warnings were coming from and found a fairly major bug in my code!

Very nice earlier this week to run into former DARA (Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy) student Sambatriniaina Rajohnson, who is now a postdoc! From Hartebeesthoek basic training to a Radio Astronomy master class at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen ❤️

Amazing work by a former student!

RAS Journals@rasjournals.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Published in #MNRAS: "Wiggling through the ICM: multiresolution radio imaging of a tailed radio galaxy in MACS J1354.6+7715", Gani et al. These are Figs. 1 & 6: please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... to read the paper. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

Today's the day - the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey is done! Huge congratulations to the entire team. Honoured to have been (a very small) part of it. If you haven't yet started using LOFAR as your go-to for radio in the Northern hemisphere, you are missing out! www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/la...

Largest Ever Radio Sky Survey Maps the Universe in Unprecedented Detail

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What a great week ... two papers from former students accepted and now live on arXiV! The second is from Abdul Gani - his first paper which is absolutely beautiful, showing a detailed analysis of a head-tail galaxy on its first infall to a cluster: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04962

What a great week ... two papers from former students accepted and live on arXiV! The first is from Emmy Escott, showing the first LOFAR sub-arcsecond resolution image of the Boötes field. She shows a connection between radio emission and kpc-scale outflows of ionised gas! arxiv.org/abs/2602.05318

From the US Air Force to pioneering astrophysicist✨🔭 @astroradioleah.bsky.social shows how diverse experiences lead to scientific innovation. Leah's research is reshaping our understanding of galaxy evolution 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @durhamphysics.bsky.social #DUinspire #DUSpotlightOn

"The Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory (GRAO) marks a pivotal advance in African radio astronomy ..." So true! Read all about it in this new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.10784

The Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory

The Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory (GRAO) marks a pivotal advance in African radio astronomy through the successful transformation of a decommissioned 32 m satellite communication antenna into a sc...

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Had a great time last week at the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) MScR symposium last week watching my students and others around the UK give presentations on their work! And since we were at Jodrell Bank of course we got a telescope tour :)

I am a very proud no-longer-supervisor today! Massive congratulations to Dr. Emmy Escott

congratulations to @rtimmerman.bsky.social for winning a research excellence award in the Physics Department at @durham-university.bsky.social !

🥳 It's #RubinFirstLook day and the Universe sure is beautiful! Here's the evidence backing up my BBC Radio 4 Today assertion that Rubin's Trifid nebula image looks just like a jellyfish! You are welcome 🤗🔭 Join the watch party online today at 16:00 UK time! 🎥: www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Am...

Rubin LSST:UK@lsstuk.bsky.social · last yr.

At LSST:UK HQ we're excited for the release of the Rubin First Look images on Monday. If you want to understand more about all the ways the UK is contributing to the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST, read our latest news story. 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-06...

🚨 Announcement! 🚨 Dr Victoria Fawcett, of @newcastleuni.bsky.social, has been named as the winner of the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship, awarded by the Herschel Society and RAS. Her lecture topic will be: 'Unveiling the secrets of hidden supermassive black holes'.

Very honoured to be giving this year’s Caroline Herschel prize lecture on dusty black holes! ✨

Royal Astronomical Society@royalastrosoc.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Announcement! 🚨 Dr Victoria Fawcett, of @newcastleuni.bsky.social, has been named as the winner of the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship, awarded by the Herschel Society and RAS. Her lecture topic will be: 'Unveiling the secrets of hidden supermassive black holes'.

This is the kind of April Fools content I can get behind!

NAM abstract submission closes *today* don't forget to submit yours and join us in beautiful Durham in July! 🔭 #astrosci

NAM 2025 Durham@nam25-durham.bsky.social · last yr.

Abstract submissions for NAM 2025 close tomorrow at 1pm! Make sure to submit your abstracts for a talk or poster as this is the final deadline! Submit your abstracts here: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/abst... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

New here! Who should I be following? Looking for astronomers / professional astronomy groups, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds