Excited and honoured to be giving the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture on Thursday 20th November at the @uniofbath.bsky.social and online 🔭 I will be talking about all things supermassive black holes and quasars! 🌌 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social

New paper by PhD student Devang Liya 🎉 This study demonstrates the power of JWST photometry to constrain the SEDs of AGN 📈 Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26884

The @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social team will be at this year's #stemfest in Newcastle! We'll be exploring invisible light and space with ~3000 students across 3 days! ✨ #rtcnorth

Congratulations Ann Njeri! 🎉

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Congratulations to Ann Njeri from the School of Maths, Stats & Physics on being shortlisted in the Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science. With ‘Educate a girl, educate the community,’ she’s empowering girls in rural Kenya & Uganda to thrive in STEM. Good luck in the finals tinyurl.com/3c7n985a

Houda Haidar presenting her poster on dust in nearby AGN with JWST ✨

Lots of @newcastleuni.bsky.social representation at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week! ✨ First up, @astrofawcett.bsky.social talking about evidence for a blow-out phase in dusty QSOs 💨 #NAM2025Durham

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A few photos from the Discover Festival at @newcastleuni.bsky.social - great event with lots of engagement from the public! ✨ Karthika Bhuvanendran @astrofawcett.bsky.social @rosedshepherd.bsky.social

Great watching the 3 Minute Thesis @newcastleuni.bsky.social final, featuring 3 of our brilliant astro PhD students! ✨ Rose Shepherd, Carola Zanoletti & Julie Thomas

Very honoured the our project Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East won the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Engagement and Place Award for Engaging for Cultural Benefit ✨ Thank you to all the team! 🔭 Find out more here: www.spaceinvestigators.com #EngageAwards2025

📢New paper alert! Carola Zanoletti explores how using PCA-based cuts can provide tighter constrains on modified gravity theories 🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2503.20951

📢New paper alert! Charlie MacMahon explores new ways to train cosmological emulators in order to constrain cosmological models 🖥️🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2504.00552

Amazing news to hear that @newcastleuni.bsky.social astronomy PhD student Houda Haidar has been awarded #JWST time to study dust and shocks in AGN ✨

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The #JWST Cycle 4 General Observer Program selections have been made. Find out what JWST will study in its fourth year of science, which begins July 1, 2025: ow.ly/k2T250VfMlR

Amazing to hear that two of our @newcastleuni.bsky.social astronomers, @astrofawcett.bsky.social & @bethmg.bsky.social, were celebrated at the inspirational women of Newcastle event for #IWD2025 ✨

Published in #MNRAS: "The Quasar Feedback Survey: zooming into the origin of radio emission with e-MERLIN", Njeri et al. This is Fig. 9: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

🎉It's paper day!!🎉 Our latest paper explores the connection between radio spectral slopes and dust extinction in quasars using data from the uGMRT 📡 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2501.10501

Connection between steep radio spectral slopes and dust extinction in QSOs: evidence for outflow-driven shocks in dusty QSO

Recent studies have found a striking positive correlation between the amount of dust obscuration and enhanced radio emission in quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). However, what causes this connection remai...

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What drives radio emission in the faintest radio-quiet quasars? Are these radio-AGN quasars distinct from other similar compact radio sources? Ann Njeri and collaborators present the highest-ever spatial resolution radio studies of these targets: e-merlin.ac.uk/news.html#QFS

I’m so happy to have organised my first conference: DEX at @newcastleuni.bsky.social ✨🎉 Very grateful to my amazing LOC who made everything run so smoothly! @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social @bethmg.bsky.social Steph Campbell, Carola Zanoletti, Carolyn Mill, Rose Shepherd

Excited to host the DEX extragalactic conference at @newcastleuni.bsky.social for the first time ever! ⭐️

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Excited that our museum exhibition Space Investigators is open tomorrow at the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle ✨ This exhibition explores the role the North East of England has played in worldwide astronomy 🔭 www.spaceinvestigators.com

Tonight Astro-Obs researcher Samuel Ward gave a wonderful Insights NCL talk "An Extragalactic Murder Mystery: Can Black Holes Kill Galaxies?"

New Blog Post! Two new papers: How do powerful supermassive black holes impact upon molecular gas? blogs.ncl.ac.uk/astro-obs/20...

Huge congrats to Newcastle Astro-Obs researcher Carola Zanoletti whose first paper is out on the arXiv today! Go read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2310.19871 In it she and her collaborators explore effects of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and constrain an untested area of its parameter space!

We'll miss Cora when she leaves us, but our loss is Bielefeld's gain! Excited to see what Cora and her group achieves and hope to build strong ties between Newcastle and Bielefeld 🌌

Cosmo Cora@cosmocora.bsky.social · 3y ago

I am excited to say that I will start my ERC Starting Grant “Probing cosmic large-scale structure beyond the average” and a professorship at Bielefeld University in March 2024. I am hiring 2 postdocs to join my group in autumn 2024 - learn more on my webpage cosmocora.de and please share it!

I am excited to say that I will start my ERC Starting Grant “Probing cosmic large-scale structure beyond the average” and a professorship at Bielefeld University in March 2024. I am hiring 2 postdocs to join my group in autumn 2024 - learn more on my webpage cosmocora.de and please share it!

🔊Calling early career researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. The Royal Society has announced new 4yr fellowships. The 1st yr pilot invites applications from researchers (Phd with <24 mo postdoc experience) with Black heritage. Deadline 24thJan. 🧪👩🏾‍🔬🔭 royalsociety.org/grants-schem...

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This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM, with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successf...

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Congrats to our very own Samuel Ward whose lecture has been shortlisted for the SAgE PGR Insights public lecture here at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! You can vote to see Samuel's lecture 'An Extragalactic Murder Mystery: Can Black Holes Kill Galaxies?' here: www.ncl.ac.uk/events/notic...