Agnibha Banerjee
@riobanerjee.bsky.social
Research Data Scientist
Leeds, UK
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Leeds, UK
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I have started a new job as a Research Data Scientist at the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service (part of @sdruk.bsky.social) at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social
From looking at planets far away to one so close, trying to using smart data to make places healthier and more sustainable.
From looking at planets far away to one so close, trying to using smart data to make places healthier and more sustainable.
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⭐️🔭Applications open at Anton Pannekoek Institute in Amsterdam for the 7th ASPIRE program: aspire.science.uva.nl. This 2026 summer school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. [1/2]
ASPIRE
aspire.science.uva.nl
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
⭐️🔭Applications open at Anton Pannekoek Institute in Amsterdam for the 7th ASPIRE program: aspire.science.uva.nl. This 2026 summer school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. [1/2]
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Please share. Akram has been desperate to get any assistance to rebuild his family's home. Not as a vanity project; they have nowhere else to sleep. And now his mom has emergency medical needs. Won't someone listen?
Give / find their link here.
12 hours left. 97/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give / find their link here.
12 hours left. 97/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Please share. Akram has been desperate to get any assistance to rebuild his family's home. Not as a vanity project; they have nowhere else to sleep. And now his mom has emergency medical needs. Won't someone listen?
Give / find their link here.
12 hours left. 97/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give / find their link here.
12 hours left. 97/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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5 hours left, please share ⚠️ Rather than gloat about how correct we are in our analysis about the ceasefire, can we refocus on keeping Palestinians alive? Help six families in Gaza with urgent:
- Food
- Shelter / tents
- Winter items
- Newborn supplies
- Transport back north
Last check 441/1000
- Food
- Shelter / tents
- Winter items
- Newborn supplies
- Transport back north
Last check 441/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
5 hours left, please share ⚠️ Rather than gloat about how correct we are in our analysis about the ceasefire, can we refocus on keeping Palestinians alive? Help six families in Gaza with urgent:
- Food
- Shelter / tents
- Winter items
- Newborn supplies
- Transport back north
Last check 441/1000
- Food
- Shelter / tents
- Winter items
- Newborn supplies
- Transport back north
Last check 441/1000
I have started a new job as a Research Data Scientist at the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service (part of @sdruk.bsky.social) at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social
From looking at planets far away to one so close, trying to using smart data to make places healthier and more sustainable.
From looking at planets far away to one so close, trying to using smart data to make places healthier and more sustainable.
October 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I have started a new job as a Research Data Scientist at the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service (part of @sdruk.bsky.social) at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social
From looking at planets far away to one so close, trying to using smart data to make places healthier and more sustainable.
From looking at planets far away to one so close, trying to using smart data to make places healthier and more sustainable.
Terrifying and sad, 242 people on board.
I just flew with Air India on a similar route 2 days back.
I just flew with Air India on a similar route 2 days back.
Air India flight to UK crashes in Ahmedabad in India shortly after takeoff – latest updates
Air India flight to UK crashes in Ahmedabad in India shortly after takeoff – latest updates
An aircraft has crashed in India’s western city of Ahmedabad, fire service officials have told Agence France-Presse
Air India have released a statement, reading:
Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad-London Gatwick, was involved in an incident today, 12 June 2025. At this moment, we are ascertaining the details and will share further updates at the earliest on http://airindia.com and on our X handle (https://x.com/airindia). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Terrifying and sad, 242 people on board.
I just flew with Air India on a similar route 2 days back.
I just flew with Air India on a similar route 2 days back.
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I know there was a lot going on in American politics today, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight how much I admire the work that Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla are doing.
They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.
They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.
June 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I know there was a lot going on in American politics today, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight how much I admire the work that Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla are doing.
They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.
They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.
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Graduating soon and still looking for an astronomy research project for Sep 2025? 🔭
I'm offering a Masters by Research (MSc) project on #exoplanet atmospheres 🪐 at the University of St Andrews 🏴
Join us to work on modelling JWST spectra!
📜 Application details:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...
I'm offering a Masters by Research (MSc) project on #exoplanet atmospheres 🪐 at the University of St Andrews 🏴
Join us to work on modelling JWST spectra!
📜 Application details:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...
May 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Graduating soon and still looking for an astronomy research project for Sep 2025? 🔭
I'm offering a Masters by Research (MSc) project on #exoplanet atmospheres 🪐 at the University of St Andrews 🏴
Join us to work on modelling JWST spectra!
📜 Application details:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...
I'm offering a Masters by Research (MSc) project on #exoplanet atmospheres 🪐 at the University of St Andrews 🏴
Join us to work on modelling JWST spectra!
📜 Application details:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...
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The Guardian has an 'explainer' about the India-Pakistan conflict that manages to avoid stating that the border between the countries was originally drawn by an Englishman who had never been to India and signed off on in a hurry by Lord Mountbatten because he had to get back to Britain for a party.
May 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The Guardian has an 'explainer' about the India-Pakistan conflict that manages to avoid stating that the border between the countries was originally drawn by an Englishman who had never been to India and signed off on in a hurry by Lord Mountbatten because he had to get back to Britain for a party.
Logic of my uni:
Will stop paying me when I hand in my PhD thesis, then block me from doing the temporary full-time job I found - until viva, corrections, and getting the degree in hand.
Brilliant.
Will stop paying me when I hand in my PhD thesis, then block me from doing the temporary full-time job I found - until viva, corrections, and getting the degree in hand.
Brilliant.
May 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Logic of my uni:
Will stop paying me when I hand in my PhD thesis, then block me from doing the temporary full-time job I found - until viva, corrections, and getting the degree in hand.
Brilliant.
Will stop paying me when I hand in my PhD thesis, then block me from doing the temporary full-time job I found - until viva, corrections, and getting the degree in hand.
Brilliant.
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ALL HANDS needed sharing these campaigns for folks whose funds GFM has refunded / frozen
🚨 Akram @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social lost his GFM: 170/500 tinyurl.com/Help-Akram
🚨 Mai @mai2698.bsky.social has had funds frozen but owes rent TOMORROW or else she’ll be evicted: 36/530 tiny.cc/Mai-Funds
🚨 Akram @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social lost his GFM: 170/500 tinyurl.com/Help-Akram
🚨 Mai @mai2698.bsky.social has had funds frozen but owes rent TOMORROW or else she’ll be evicted: 36/530 tiny.cc/Mai-Funds
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ALL HANDS needed sharing these campaigns for folks whose funds GFM has refunded / frozen
🚨 Akram @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social lost his GFM: 170/500 tinyurl.com/Help-Akram
🚨 Mai @mai2698.bsky.social has had funds frozen but owes rent TOMORROW or else she’ll be evicted: 36/530 tiny.cc/Mai-Funds
🚨 Akram @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social lost his GFM: 170/500 tinyurl.com/Help-Akram
🚨 Mai @mai2698.bsky.social has had funds frozen but owes rent TOMORROW or else she’ll be evicted: 36/530 tiny.cc/Mai-Funds
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Please share - for 2 days we’re focusing on the survival fund for these siblings who are facing escalating catastrophe in northern غaza. They're displaced again which means they need help with food and urgent supplies.
Goal for 2 days is 300—$5 is great!! chuffed.org/project/help...
Goal for 2 days is 300—$5 is great!! chuffed.org/project/help...
Help Remas and Toleen Escape from Death
Greetings to all who believe in new beginnings!
chuffed.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please share - for 2 days we’re focusing on the survival fund for these siblings who are facing escalating catastrophe in northern غaza. They're displaced again which means they need help with food and urgent supplies.
Goal for 2 days is 300—$5 is great!! chuffed.org/project/help...
Goal for 2 days is 300—$5 is great!! chuffed.org/project/help...
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Next up is @riobanerjee.bsky.social talking about oddball planet L98-59d - a possibly rocky world orbiting an M dwarf. Transit spectroscopy observations with JWST reveal hints of sulphur species SO2 and H2S in the atmosphere, indicating potential volcanic activity on a possible exo-Io. #ukexom25
March 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Next up is @riobanerjee.bsky.social talking about oddball planet L98-59d - a possibly rocky world orbiting an M dwarf. Transit spectroscopy observations with JWST reveal hints of sulphur species SO2 and H2S in the atmosphere, indicating potential volcanic activity on a possible exo-Io. #ukexom25
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Nathan Mayne (who isn't on Bluesky) is advertising a PhD position working on dust in the Martian atmosphere. I worked with Nathan as a postdoc, and both he and his group are wonderful.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Nathan Mayne (who isn't on Bluesky) is advertising a PhD position working on dust in the Martian atmosphere. I worked with Nathan as a postdoc, and both he and his group are wonderful.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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Exciting PhD opportunity at @exeter.ac.uk: Forecasting Martian Dust Storms (funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social)! Please share widely!
More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
March 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Exciting PhD opportunity at @exeter.ac.uk: Forecasting Martian Dust Storms (funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social)! Please share widely!
More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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8 hours left on this 48-hr drive to get urgent funds for Mohamed & family.
Their situation was already catastrophic before 3/18 and now with displacement, we need to help with their hourly survival.
A $5 is amazing, I promise. And share.
Their situation was already catastrophic before 3/18 and now with displacement, we need to help with their hourly survival.
A $5 is amazing, I promise. And share.
Help Mohammed's family bear the heavy burdens of life in Gaza
We write to you with hearts filled with sorrow and despair. I am Mohammed, writing on behalf of my family from our tent, where we shiver in the bitter cold of winter after our home was destroyed…
tiny.cc
March 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
8 hours left on this 48-hr drive to get urgent funds for Mohamed & family.
Their situation was already catastrophic before 3/18 and now with displacement, we need to help with their hourly survival.
A $5 is amazing, I promise. And share.
Their situation was already catastrophic before 3/18 and now with displacement, we need to help with their hourly survival.
A $5 is amazing, I promise. And share.
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Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️!
aspire.science.uva.nl
aspire.science.uva.nl
ASPIRE
aspire.science.uva.nl
February 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️!
aspire.science.uva.nl
aspire.science.uva.nl
Waited 9 hours in the emergency waiting room last night to get stitches yesterday. By then, the wound had formed scabs within. The doctor said it can't be stitched anymore, and glued it. Thanks NHS for the fun night out.
February 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Waited 9 hours in the emergency waiting room last night to get stitches yesterday. By then, the wound had formed scabs within. The doctor said it can't be stitched anymore, and glued it. Thanks NHS for the fun night out.
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Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Juan Alday, and Oxoplanets members Joseph Penn, Prof Patrick Irwin, and Jingxuan Yang, on the publication of archNEMESIS! ArchNEMESIS is a fully pythonised version of the code NEMESIS, widely used to study planetary atmospheres. arxiv.org/abs/2501.16452
archNEMESIS: an open-source Python package for analysis of planetary atmospheric spectra
ArchNEMESIS is an open-source Python package developed for the analysis of remote sensing spectroscopic observations of planetary atmospheres. It is based on the widely used NEMESIS radiative transfer...
arxiv.org
January 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Juan Alday, and Oxoplanets members Joseph Penn, Prof Patrick Irwin, and Jingxuan Yang, on the publication of archNEMESIS! ArchNEMESIS is a fully pythonised version of the code NEMESIS, widely used to study planetary atmospheres. arxiv.org/abs/2501.16452
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1 week left to apply to do a PhD in the new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews 🪐🔭
Feel free to reach out if you're interested in applying!
Feel free to reach out if you're interested in applying!
Astronomy PhD opportunity at St Andrews 🔭
Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️
Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴
Deadline: 1 February
Project details ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️
Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴
Deadline: 1 February
Project details ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
1 week left to apply to do a PhD in the new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews 🪐🔭
Feel free to reach out if you're interested in applying!
Feel free to reach out if you're interested in applying!
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Astronomy PhD opportunity at St Andrews 🔭
Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️
Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴
Deadline: 1 February
Project details ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️
Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴
Deadline: 1 February
Project details ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Astronomy PhD opportunity at St Andrews 🔭
Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️
Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴
Deadline: 1 February
Project details ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️
Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴
Deadline: 1 February
Project details ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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OU PG research students & staff are warmly invited to the Roc Soc/Grad School Ceilidh & Burns Night Celebration on 31 Jan 2025 in the Hub Theatre, 17:00.
Tickets are £10 (PGR) & £15 (Staff).
forms.office.com/e/cMwkyM5px4
@riobanerjee.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social
Tickets are £10 (PGR) & £15 (Staff).
forms.office.com/e/cMwkyM5px4
@riobanerjee.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 2:47 PM
OU PG research students & staff are warmly invited to the Roc Soc/Grad School Ceilidh & Burns Night Celebration on 31 Jan 2025 in the Hub Theatre, 17:00.
Tickets are £10 (PGR) & £15 (Staff).
forms.office.com/e/cMwkyM5px4
@riobanerjee.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social
Tickets are £10 (PGR) & £15 (Staff).
forms.office.com/e/cMwkyM5px4
@riobanerjee.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social
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looking for another postdoc position to apply to? look no further!
aas.org/jobregister/...
I'm hiring a postdoc to join our JWST large program kronos 👀⏳🪐
application materials are due January 23. I'll be at #AAS245 if anyone is interested and wants to chat about it!! 🧪🔭⭐
#academicjob
aas.org/jobregister/...
I'm hiring a postdoc to join our JWST large program kronos 👀⏳🪐
application materials are due January 23. I'll be at #AAS245 if anyone is interested and wants to chat about it!! 🧪🔭⭐
#academicjob
Posdoctoral Position in Exoplanet Atmospheres/Stellar Activity with JWST | American Astronomical Society
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at Michigan State University working with Prof. Adina Feinstein on infrared transmission spectra of young planet atmospheres. This study is funded ...
aas.org
December 9, 2024 at 11:23 PM
looking for another postdoc position to apply to? look no further!
aas.org/jobregister/...
I'm hiring a postdoc to join our JWST large program kronos 👀⏳🪐
application materials are due January 23. I'll be at #AAS245 if anyone is interested and wants to chat about it!! 🧪🔭⭐
#academicjob
aas.org/jobregister/...
I'm hiring a postdoc to join our JWST large program kronos 👀⏳🪐
application materials are due January 23. I'll be at #AAS245 if anyone is interested and wants to chat about it!! 🧪🔭⭐
#academicjob
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PhD position available at the University of Bristol! Come work with me to model convection in sub-Neptune atmospheres! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 6, 2024 at 10:52 PM
PhD position available at the University of Bristol! Come work with me to model convection in sub-Neptune atmospheres! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Are you an Open University PGR with an idea for a meme on your research, the doctoral journey or Milton Keynes life?
Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes.
Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...
@riobanerjee.bsky.social
Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes.
Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...
@riobanerjee.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Are you an Open University PGR with an idea for a meme on your research, the doctoral journey or Milton Keynes life?
Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes.
Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...
@riobanerjee.bsky.social
Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes.
Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...
@riobanerjee.bsky.social
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I’m not against encouraging young people to consider science as a career but I think we ought to be honest with them about how much time they’ll spend managing python environments
February 27, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I’m not against encouraging young people to consider science as a career but I think we ought to be honest with them about how much time they’ll spend managing python environments