Dr Gayathri Eknath
@drgeoxymorons.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, operational researcher, mental health advocate, lover of coffee and nature. Views are my own. She/Her
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Michelle's second paper reports on Cloud-9, a proposed 'star free' galaxy (or reionization limited HI cloud, RELHIC). They follow it up with very deep HST imaging, but still can't find any stars there. So is it star free? Listen to learn more! arxiv.org/abs/2508.20157
September 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Do you want to make a difference to the third-sector? Here’s how to get involved in Pro Bono OR 🧪
Use your OR or analytics skills for good!
Pro Bono OR has open projects looking for volunteers to support charities and third-sector groups.
See how you can get involved here: https://f.mtr.cool/fwblhykpcm
#ProBonoOR #DataForGood #OperationalResearch #Volunteering
Pro Bono OR has open projects looking for volunteers to support charities and third-sector groups.
See how you can get involved here: https://f.mtr.cool/fwblhykpcm
#ProBonoOR #DataForGood #OperationalResearch #Volunteering
September 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Do you want to make a difference to the third-sector? Here’s how to get involved in Pro Bono OR 🧪
We start off today’s @theorsociety.bsky.social Simulation Workshop day with a keynote on a fantastic urban digital twin model of the University of Bordeaux campus #SW25 #Modelling #Simulation
April 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
We start off today’s @theorsociety.bsky.social Simulation Workshop day with a keynote on a fantastic urban digital twin model of the University of Bordeaux campus #SW25 #Modelling #Simulation
Great to be at @theorsociety.bsky.social Simulation Workshop #SW25 learning about simulation uses in healthcare, airline and military settings today, as well as a bespoke discrete event simulation tutorial using open source software #Modelling #Simulation
March 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Great to be at @theorsociety.bsky.social Simulation Workshop #SW25 learning about simulation uses in healthcare, airline and military settings today, as well as a bespoke discrete event simulation tutorial using open source software #Modelling #Simulation
A recent post on the @a4e.org slack has sparked my attention to this fascinating paper on a rigorous estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Follow up with different future scenarios: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... #Extragalactic 🧪🔭 #WomenInSTEM
Follow up with different future scenarios: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... #Extragalactic 🧪🔭 #WomenInSTEM
Estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures - Nature Astronomy
Astronomical research facilities, such as space telescopes, space probes or ground-based observatories, are the largest contributor to an astronomer’s carbon footprint, well beyond other activities su...
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A recent post on the @a4e.org slack has sparked my attention to this fascinating paper on a rigorous estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Follow up with different future scenarios: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... #Extragalactic 🧪🔭 #WomenInSTEM
Follow up with different future scenarios: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... #Extragalactic 🧪🔭 #WomenInSTEM
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
National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025
Image credit: Durham University The Royal Astronomical Society is proud to present the next National Astronomy Meeting, NAM2025, at Durham University from Monday 7th July to Friday 11th July, 2025. It...
conference.astro.dur.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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
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...
February 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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...
Calling all operational researchers, exciting opportunity with @theorsociety.bsky.social coming up this March 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
Join us at the 12th Simulation Workshop!
🗓️ 31 March – 2 April 2025
📍Mercure Rougemont Hotel, Exeter
Discover the latest in #modelling & #simulation with:
✨Keynote presentations and panel discussions
✨Networking opportunities
✨Exhibits of cutting-edge tools
Book now: www.theorsociety.com/sw25
🗓️ 31 March – 2 April 2025
📍Mercure Rougemont Hotel, Exeter
Discover the latest in #modelling & #simulation with:
✨Keynote presentations and panel discussions
✨Networking opportunities
✨Exhibits of cutting-edge tools
Book now: www.theorsociety.com/sw25
January 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Calling all operational researchers, exciting opportunity with @theorsociety.bsky.social coming up this March 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
Awful news but not at all surprising. Guess there really is no job security in academia 😠
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
Cardiff University job cuts as 400 roles at risk
Staff say they are in shock as nursing, modern languages, and music are among degrees under threat with 400 jobs academic jobs at risk
www.walesonline.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Awful news but not at all surprising. Guess there really is no job security in academia 😠
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
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
📣 Six Weeks Remaining to apply for fully funded PhDs for September 2025 Entry via the ExaGEO DLA 🌍💻🧠🧑🎓 www.exageo.org
January 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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
Great new blog by Voices of Academia 🧪🔭⚛️
Latest Voices of Academia blog 📝
It’s Also Okay Not to Talk About Your Mental Health by Anonymous
"The lying about being fine became so exhausting on top of everything else ...the unintended effect was that I became even more isolated."
#AcademicMentalHealth
voicesofacademia.com/2025/01/10/i...
It’s Also Okay Not to Talk About Your Mental Health by Anonymous
"The lying about being fine became so exhausting on top of everything else ...the unintended effect was that I became even more isolated."
#AcademicMentalHealth
voicesofacademia.com/2025/01/10/i...
January 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Great new blog by Voices of Academia 🧪🔭⚛️
Happy new year all!
January 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happy new year all!
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... 🧪👩🏾🔬
Application information is here: in2scienceuk.org/our-programm...
Information on how to introduce this to your school: in2scienceuk.org/our-programm... 🧪👩🏾🔬
December 21, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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... 🧪👩🏾🔬
Application information is here: in2scienceuk.org/our-programm...
Information on how to introduce this to your school: in2scienceuk.org/our-programm... 🧪👩🏾🔬
Reposted by Dr Gayathri Eknath
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...
#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...
Webb mail: US Priority Mail stamps to again star deep space images in 2025
For the second year in a row, the USPS is giving priority status to James Webb Space Telescope images.
www.space.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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...
#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...
Reposted by Dr Gayathri Eknath
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! 🧪
December 14, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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! 🧪
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
Download here: ow.ly/UG3F50UqCLm
📷 ESA - European Space Agency/Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/James Webb Space Telescope
December 14, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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
Download here: ow.ly/UG3F50UqCLm
📷 ESA - European Space Agency/Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/James Webb Space Telescope
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...
FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
#WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund
Apply now to the innovative fund instigated by leading physicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Institute of Physics to encourage greater diversity in physics.
www.iop.org
December 13, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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...
FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
#WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
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
December 11, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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
Reposted by Dr Gayathri Eknath
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...
✨ 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...
January 29, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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...
✨ 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...
Reposted by Dr Gayathri Eknath
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
September 12, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
Reposted by Dr Gayathri Eknath
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.
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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.
Reposted by Dr Gayathri Eknath
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 🔭🧪
Get motivated for the week by listening to a brand new episode of the StarXiv! This month, Payel and Michelle discuss papers on a disappearing star, news moons, star formation in extreme galaxies and unusual stars in the Milky Way disk. Check it out at starxiv.com/2024/11/18/e... or on Spotify! 🔭
Episode 2: November
This month, Payel and Michelle sit down to discuss a range of exciting new results including a disappearing star, news moons of Uranus, star formation in extremely metal poor galaxies and unusual y…
starxiv.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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 🔭🧪
Reposted by Dr Gayathri Eknath
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.
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.
November 10, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Dr Gayathri Eknath
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.
November 17, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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.