Hannah Wakeford
@stellarplanet.bsky.social
Exoplanet scientist. Science communicator. Author. Podcaster. Miniature painter. Wife. Cat mum.
Here's a little highlight reel of our @latitudefestival.bsky.social 2026. Full panels and podcast and more to come! From killer crabs to astronauts and puppet cows to battery tech, there really was something for every type of curious mind in the Cosmic Shambles Forest this year. See you in 2027!
Latitude Festival 2026 | Highlights from the Cosmic Shambles Forest of Science & Culture
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So excited to bring the ExoClimes conference series to Asia where we have a load of amazing Exoplaneteers. See you in Tokyo next summer!
ExoClimesVIII@exoclimesviii.bsky.social · last wk.🔈Save the date! ExoClimes VIII will take place at the Institute of Science Tokyo, from 11–16 July 2027. The conference will bring together the international community studying planetary climates, atmospheres, and habitability🌏 Stay tuned for more updates! exoclimes.org
We recorded our podcast live at Latitude, with (R-L) me, Hannah Wakeford, @catherineloveday.bsky.social, Steve Pretty and @pennysarchet.bsky.social (here talking about the "ageogenic" environment we live in). Thanks to @cosmicshambles.com for an epic weekend!
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.
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Had a fantastic weekend @latitudefestival.bsky.social with the @cosmicshambles.com crew doing our exoplanet panel, the @newscientist.com podcast, and @realmsunknown.bsky.social podcast. The #ShamblesForest is the best balance of science, comedy, & music there is for both adults and kids alike 💜🔭🧪😆🎶
Loving #latitudeFestival and spending most of our time between @cosmicshambles.com Forest just seen astronaut Helen Sherman 👩🚀 and the comedy stage where @marcusbrig.bsky.social, Madeline Brettingham have been brilliant so far today so far. Loving it!
You always discover something when you have a new instrument with higher sensitivity - Mahapatra+ on Planet-wide, Concentric Density Waves in Venus’s Upper Atmosphere Revealed through Polarimetry? in which you can see a bullseye on the day-lit side of our sister planet! #exoplanets #astrodon
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JWST Observer@jwstobserver.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Cycle 6 Call for Proposals for the James Webb Space Telescope (#JWST) General Observer and Survey time and funding for Archival Research has been released. Read more: ow.ly/g9q150Zq3Ww
It is going to be a fun science/music/comedy packed festival in the @cosmicshambles.com Forest this Latitude. So excited to be part of it this year. I hope to see a lot of people there!
The Cosmic Shambles Network@cosmicshambles.com · 3w agoHere it is, your jam packed schedule for The Cosmic Shambles Forest at this year’s Latitude Festival. Two stages of science, comedy, music, poetry and more, a Museum Street and vendors to explore plus other Shambles shows around the festival. Download the Latitude app for any last minute changes!
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Had a great time @bristoluni.bsky.social graduation today seeing the 2026 class of physicists graduate. My first time as staff at one of my students graduations (sorry Lili & Charlotte) & seeing Dr Matt Lodge = #ProudAdvisor. Also, lovely to wear my @exeter.ac.uk gown for the first time in a decade!
Hide-and-seek champion award goes to the newly discovered beta Pic d! 🏆 Please welcome the newest member of the exoplanet zoo, and be kind, it’s a little shy, it’s been hiding in direct imaging data for over a decade!
ESO@eso.org · 3w agoTen years of hide-and-seek! 🫣 Astronomers used our VLT to find a new #exoplanet orbiting the famous star Beta Pictoris — hiding in archival ESO observations spanning over a decade! And it's shyer than any exoplanet we've imaged before. 🔭 🧪 1/3 📷 ESO/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al.
cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas
All these UK cuts to basic science, while the Labour government not only continues £800 million for ARIA's broken funding model (including actively harmful engineering development for geoengineering deployment) but also gave them another £200 million. Disgraceful, and performative.
Nice work from @distantworlds.space!
Dr Ryan MacDonald@distantworlds.space · last mo.🚨 New research alert 🚨 We have found an atmosphere on a planet orbiting a dead star 🔭✴️💀🪐 Our James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of the white dwarf planet WD 1856b give us a preview into the fate of planets like Jupiter after the death of the Sun. 🧵⬇️ (1/10)
Advertising international Masters and PhD scholarships in astronomy at Macquarie, one of Australia's leading institutes! Submit an Expression of Interest by 12 July to start your studies in January 2027. We have projects on offer on stars, planets, and galaxies; and instrumentation and data.
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Macquarie University is seeking outstanding candidates for PhD and Masters of Research scholarships commencing January 2027.
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Stay tuned for a paper coming soon!
L. C. Mayorga@mayorgalc.bsky.social · last mo.In Maguire et al. in prep, they find that the morning limb is cloudier than the evening limb, the morning limb is also ever so slightly colder Harmonica and Catwoman were consistent in their limb spectra This concludes skeets sponsored by @offallingstars.bsky.social #exoplanets6 #exo6
I'll be at #Exoplanets6 next week with a poster on MiTHOS, our Astrophysics SMEX mission concept out of @jhuapl.bsky.social MiTHOS studies the climates of hot Jupiters with a large population study of spectroscopic phase curves 🌈 Come find me to grab a sticker and learn about MiTHOS! 💫 🪐🔭🧪
You've seen Euclid's dazzling image of the Milky Way’s crowded heart. Now explore it yourself. Zoom in, zoom out, go wherever your curiosity takes you 🤩 – in #ESAsky 👇 sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ... 🔭 🧪 ☄️
Heading to London for the next few days to attend the UK HWO meeting held at UCL. Pretty damn worried about the heat! This is not normal and is not okay. What we are seeing in the UK is just the start of extreme weather due to climate change. It will be worse in El Niño years like 2026.
Job ad: postdoc on exoplanet atmospheres at @stsci.edu, working with the lovely Leo dos Santos and @jlothringer.bsky.social. Applications due Aug 31. 🔭 stsci.slideroom.com#/permalink/p...
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**** This is not a drill **** The Met Office has issued a red warning for parts of the UK this week. That means that you *should not* expect to carry on your normal activities. There is a real danger of power supplies & transport failing. Plan now. weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
I am here at Glastonbury Abby to talk on BBC Radio 3 about the Solstice 🌅 you can join around 9:20 when the North Pole is pointed the most towards the sun. As well as hearing some fun facts about the solstice on other planets. #science #solstice
Hannah Wakeford@stellarplanet.bsky.social · 2mo agoGot my nails done for all my trans friends and for all those feel unseen or too seen right now. Love you all, just be you! #pridemonth #transally
Got my nails done for all my trans friends and for all those feel unseen or too seen right now. Love you all, just be you! #pridemonth #transally
We are hiring a postdoc to research Earth's Energy Imbalance using Earth system model simulations and satellite observations. I appreciate anyone spreading the word! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Postdoctoral Research Associate Position in Earth’s Energy Imbalance
Postdoctoral Research Associate Position in Earth’s Energy Imbalance Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The Department of Climate, Mete...
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ANOTHER JOB AD! #jobs #exoplanets #aas248 NExScI is advertising for a postdoc to come and join our fabulous team in sunny SoCal. The role involves both programmatic support and independent science research, so it's perfect for someone thinking about a career at NASA!!! aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Scholar - NExScI | American Astronomical Society
Job Summary Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions. IPAC,...
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Hello! We have a very-off-cycle postdoc fellowship at UC Santa Cruz. Open to any area of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Applications are due July 15th. It is funded by the Moore Foundation. Looking for someone to start Oct 1, 2026 (!, approx), see details below. aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz | American Astronomical Society
The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship position at the University of California, Santa Cruz, funded by the Moore Foundation. The searc...
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Caltech IPAC: Oddball Exoplanet Challenges What It Means to Be a Hot Jupiter www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/oddball...
Oddball exoplanet challenges what it means to be a hot Jupiter
New research led by a scientist at IPAC—a science and data center for astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech—studying the hot Jupiter CoRoT-2 b has settled on one of the three leading hypothese...
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