Really disappointing news to hear the funding cuts affecting Jodrell Bank. When I moved to the UK for a MSc in Radio Astronomy in 2017, Jodrell Bank was one of the main deciding factors! It’s such a great place of active research and almost unmatched in its education and science outreach.

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

bbc.co.uk

🌌 Major milestone for DESI: full originally planned survey footprint was completed on April 15, ahead of schedule! 47M+ galaxies & quasars mapped → the largest 3D map of the Universe ever made. Keep posted: Observations continue through 2028. More: tinyurl.com/Y5DESI #DESI

Beautiful aurora tonight! Don’t forget to look outside. Arthur’s seat in the background.

New Paper! 🔭🧪✨ The direct N, O, Ne, S and Ar abundances of 49959 star-forming galaxies in DESI DR2. arxiv.org/abs/2601.02463

Electron temperature relations and the direct N, O, Ne, S and Ar abundances of 49959 star-forming galaxies in DESI Data Release 2

We present the largest direct-method abundance catalogue of galaxies to date, containing measurements of 49$\,$959 star-forming galaxies at $z < 0.96$ from DESI Data Release 2. By directly measuring e...

arxiv.org

Managed to pack in some amateur astronomy on holiday. Not often you get the chance to see the night sky in its full glory. Look out for the andromeda galaxy at the bottom of the image, even visible to the naked eye. Taken in Teide national park (Tenerife) after moonset around 3am. 🔭 #andromeda

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

I was not expecting to find my face in the RAS A&G magazine this month 😂 But it was great to read the article on @orbyts.bsky.social ! It’s such an impactful initiative! All credit to the great people who make it happen!

Figured I would get in on this whole starter pack thing and list (in whatever order bsky chooses) scientists working on studying galaxies (broadly defined, including galaxy formation/evolution + near-field cosmology). If I missed you and you'd like to be added, let me know! 🧪🔭 go.bsky.app/5ZZtqDy

It’s bad enough the sun gives up at 3:30pm, but now it’s freezing too?! At least it's pretty! 🌄

DESI in the 2024 list of best inventions! Nice to see this beautiful instrument and experiment get some praise 🔭 time.com/7094947/desi...