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astrojake.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. Researching the atmospheres of exoplanets.
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People my age are getting married and having babies. I, on the other hand, am in my pyjamas making TikToks.

Pride in STEM is looking for new trustees!! If you fancy getting involved as we approach our 10th year of operation, get in touch! More info below: prideinstem.org/2025/02/17/p...

🚀The Lunar Trailblazer Launch window opens today. The Lunar Thermal Mapper, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at Department of Physics @ox.ac.uk will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission if all goes to plan today. www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/lunar-t...

My voice is shaping the future of UK live music, yours could too! Please share your thoughts on the UK music industry by taking the #MusicFansVoice survey 👉 musicfansvoice.uk

I blame The X Factor for making me think that being over 25 is old and that past this age you are a has been.

Jonathan Bailey would make an amazing Gilderoy Lockhart in the upcoming HBO Harry Potter TV show.

I have gaydar but for people who went skiing as a kid

🔭 Interested in exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres? 🪐Just want to come visit Ireland this summer? Submit an abstract to our symposium at #EAS2025, New Frontiers in Characterising Gas-Giant Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs! The deadline is less than two weeks away! eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

Some column inches for WASP-107b on page 2 :) str.llnl.gov/str-octobern...

I’m currently experiencing lots of joy from embracing Nostalgia Core, so I’m gonna post something nostalgic to me everyday. Day 1: Theme tune to Round The Twist. youtu.be/5-Cmf8wkrw4?...

Harrison Whitaker of Darwin College, just wow, he is so good! #UniversityChallenge

Tired of wondering which atomic lines are in your spectra? You need: *whose line is it anyway?* An interactive tool for identifying atomic spectral lines. 🧪🔭 #stars install: pip install whoseline source: github.com/bmorris3/who...

A direct imaging claim by Lagrange+ [https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15081](“Evidence for a sub-jovian planet in the young TWA7 disk”) - a very clear point source but only one epoch… but it’s in the gap in the disk around the star. Will be exciting to see follow up. 🔭🪐 #astrodon

Palworld is SO GOOD. It’s like the Pokemon game I’ve always wanted. It’s still in early access, I can’t wait for the full game.

I wanted to get some work done today but I couldn’t connect to the cluster, seems like the gay science gods decided for me that today was not a day for work.

This summer we need another eat out to help out

This is the first album I bought with my own money from HMV, I had previously bought a knockoff version of Destiny Fulfilled from Nine Elms market

Adblockers don’t work the way they used to, actually they barely work anymore.

As a gay man it’s very scary to see the rise of Nazism in the US (Musk, Bannon, etc…) and the implications this will have around the world.

Is Musks first language English?

There are a few tickets left for our Out Thinkers event at the Norwich Science Festival next week!! Come along, it's free!! norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/out...

I think Gen Z brains didn’t form correctly because they didn’t experience Glee airing in real time

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only

I go to a website, I reject cookies, I go to another website, I reject cookies, I go to another website, I reject cookies, I revisit a website, I reject cookies, I revisit another website, I reject cookies

For someone who owns a space company, Elon Musk sure does tweet a lot of negative things about publicly funded space initiatives.

We don’t talk enough about climate changes impact on the production of chocolate

The Fellows Garden looking beautiful yesterday ☀️🌼 #ExeterCollegeOxford #OxfordUniversity

One of my favourite pubs in Oxford has slowly been taken over with people working on their laptops, well past 5pm! What is going on?! Stop taking up spaces!

Some opinions should not be said out loud

📢 Congratulations to Exeter Supernumerary Fellow Dr Jake Taylor (astrojake.bsky.social), who was recently awarded Outstanding ED&I Champion – Staff at the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion awards within the Mathematical, Physics and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division. . Read more ⬇️ ow.ly/9tIM50V1cwP

Kelly Rowland’s album “Talk A Good Game” was so good I can’t believe we haven’t had a new album from her in over a decade

Why does Grindr now have a For You section?

RIP David Lynch you would have hated Lydia Butthole Kollins impression of you on the Snatch Game

It's many many more now. Yesterday when I signed it I was 2069th or something. Learned societies have a long and problematic history but then are very powerful and need to show that they want to be actors of positive change. @royalsociety.org we believe in you 🙏❤️ stand with us for science 🔭🧪