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drgeoxymorons.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, operational researcher, mental health advocate, lover of coffee and nature. Views are my own. She/Her
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The @royalastrosoc.bsky.social NAM is opening for abstract submissions today, with a huge range of sessions on astronomy and adjacent fields. There are also sessions on the importance of astronomy technology in society, art, and much more! conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/prog... 🔭 #Extragalactic

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It’s Race Equality Week and this year’s theme is #EveryActionCounts Find out more about bitesized daily challenges that we can all do here: www.raceequalitymatters.com/5-day-challe...

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Calling all operational researchers, exciting opportunity with @theorsociety.bsky.social coming up this March 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Awful news but not at all surprising. Guess there really is no job security in academia 😠 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

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Fully funded PhD scholarships focusing on exascale computing model development and data analysis, as well as multidisciplinary training for students in Earth system processes and applications. Application deadline is 17th February 2025. 🔭🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM

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Great new blog by Voices of Academia 🧪🔭⚛️

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Happy new year all!

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If you’re a student between 16-19 years in the UK (Y12 or S5/S6), In2STEM is an opportunity for exploring what a career in STEM could look like. Application information is here: in2scienceuk.org/our-programm... Information on how to introduce this to your school: in2scienceuk.org/our-programm... 🧪👩🏾‍🔬

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surreal 🔭🧪 #PHANGS-JWST NCG628 imaging is being turned into a US POSTAGE STAMP ✉️ !! ✨The imaging has truly taken a life of its own. Grateful for the amazing village of collaborators, comms folks, USPS for bringing the universe to people's doorsteps.✨ #extragalactic www.space.com/usps-james-w...

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

For any PhDs thinking of transitioning out of traditional academia where the beans that get counted are high-impact, numerous pubs... just know that you have so many other skills that are highly valuable in other spaces! 🧪

submitted 74 days ago • 8 comments

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have released a new 2025 calendar, showcasing another year of images and discoveries 🧪 🔭 👩🏾‍🔬 ⚛️ Download here: ow.ly/UG3F50UqCLm 📷 ESA - European Space Agency/Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/James Webb Space Telescope

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025. FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor... #WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...

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Hello Bluesky 🙂 it’s my one-year viva-versary! And thought I’d take this occasion to share my astrophysics PhD thesis on interstellar dust and gas in the Andromeda galaxy: arxiv.org/abs/2403.19798 🔭⚛️ #extragalactic

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

@bot.astronomy.blue signup 🙂

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We are live! 🔭 ✨ PHANGS-JWST infrared imaging of 19 nearby galaxies ✨ ~100,000 PHANGS-HST star clusters and associations across 38 nearby galaxies 👉 data release archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/phangs 👉 press and image release webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

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The Astronomy feeds now include 11 (!!!) brand new specific subfeeds! 🔭 The subfeeds try to cover every part of astronomy research with at least one feed. All subfeeds automatically crosspost to the main Astronomy feed, too! Here's a thread with links to all of them ⬇️

submitted 168 days ago • 59 comments

Using our first ever Bluesky post to let you know more about our Scholars Programme! We work across the UK with students aged 8-18. A world-expert PhD researcher comes into your school and delivers a university-style course, usually based on their own research, to small groups of pupils.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Episode two of mine and @payeldas.bsky.social podcast is live! Join us as we delve into some cool astronomy papers from the last month 🔭🧪

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (213.12100, 24.63550). 49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

My latest tv offering: me and my rather fabulous MRI scanned, 3D printed brain. New two-part Horizon special coming in the Spring on BBC2.

submitted 102 days ago • 25 comments

NIRCam version of NGC 346. 🔭 🧪

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments