Anke Ardern-Arentsen
@ankeaa.bsky.social
🇳🇱 Galactic Archaeologist 🔭✨, postdoc at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. Married to @zachary-ardern.bsky.social, evolution-explorer
Before being locked in a basement at the TNG offices for two days of WEAVE Science Processing & Analysis meeting (my first as part of the CASU team!), I managed to check out the southernmost tip of La Palma 🌋
October 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Before being locked in a basement at the TNG offices for two days of WEAVE Science Processing & Analysis meeting (my first as part of the CASU team!), I managed to check out the southernmost tip of La Palma 🌋
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Big news! @astroeth.bsky.social has his Nature paper on the Emergence of Globular Clusters out today! His simulations have globulars forming naturally, as well as some cool globular cluster like dwarfs! Check it out! 🔭🧪☄️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs - Nature
The results from a state-of-the-art suite of hydrodynamical cosmological zoom-in simulations show how globular clusters naturally emerge in the Standard Cosmology and also reveal the existence of a ne...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Big news! @astroeth.bsky.social has his Nature paper on the Emergence of Globular Clusters out today! His simulations have globulars forming naturally, as well as some cool globular cluster like dwarfs! Check it out! 🔭🧪☄️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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August 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
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Our sister institute at Durham, the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, are advertising for a five year lectureship position 🔭☄️
Advertisement is here, have a look and come join us in pretty Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#astrosci
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#astrosci
Lecturer in Observational Astronomy (Research %26 Education)
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July 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our sister institute at Durham, the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, are advertising for a five year lectureship position 🔭☄️
Advertisement is here, have a look and come join us in pretty Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#astrosci
Advertisement is here, have a look and come join us in pretty Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#astrosci
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Hanyuan Zhang won for the paper: "Kinematics and dynamics of the Galactic bar revealed by Gaia long-period variables" by Hanyuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov, N Wyn Evans, Sarah G Kane, and Jason L Sanders.
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Hanyuan Zhang won for the paper: "Kinematics and dynamics of the Galactic bar revealed by Gaia long-period variables" by Hanyuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov, N Wyn Evans, Sarah G Kane, and Jason L Sanders.
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
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At NAM 2025 in Durham @nam25-durham.bsky.social Anke Ardern-Arentsen is speaking on Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars as probes for early chemical enrichment. Anke has published in #MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Predicting metallicities and carbon abundances from Gaia XP spectra for (carbon-enhanced) metal-poor stars
ABSTRACT. Carbon-rich (C-rich) stars can be found at all metallicities and evolutionary stages. They are often the result of mass transfer from a companion
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July 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
At NAM 2025 in Durham @nam25-durham.bsky.social Anke Ardern-Arentsen is speaking on Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars as probes for early chemical enrichment. Anke has published in #MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
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"Ending bullying and precarity should be Cambridge chancellor’s focus" says Prof Wyn Evans
"There is a need for University ombudsman to investigate cases of mismanagement or misconduct
I urge my fellow candidates for chancellor to back this call"
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/endi...
"There is a need for University ombudsman to investigate cases of mismanagement or misconduct
I urge my fellow candidates for chancellor to back this call"
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/endi...
Ending bullying and precarity should be the Cambridge chancellor’s focus
In recent decades, the post has been seen as purely ceremonial. But there is precedent and justification for a more interventionist role, says Wyn Evans
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"Ending bullying and precarity should be Cambridge chancellor’s focus" says Prof Wyn Evans
"There is a need for University ombudsman to investigate cases of mismanagement or misconduct
I urge my fellow candidates for chancellor to back this call"
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/endi...
"There is a need for University ombudsman to investigate cases of mismanagement or misconduct
I urge my fellow candidates for chancellor to back this call"
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/endi...
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A story about Annie Walker, a 19th cent. astronomer who worked at the Cambridge Observatory, a forerunner to the IoA ... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Unsung observatory worker was UK’s first professional female astronomer, experts say
Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy is trying to find a photo of Annie Walker, who died in 1940, to give her star billing
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A story about Annie Walker, a 19th cent. astronomer who worked at the Cambridge Observatory, a forerunner to the IoA ... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Happy to announce that the line-detector.oca.eu website is now online!
It allows the user to select the stellar type, [M/H], λ- range, and resolving power and the page returns:
-purity of the line and minimum S/N required to detect it.
-interactive plot to identify the lines in the spectra
It allows the user to select the stellar type, [M/H], λ- range, and resolving power and the page returns:
-purity of the line and minimum S/N required to detect it.
-interactive plot to identify the lines in the spectra
June 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Happy to announce that the line-detector.oca.eu website is now online!
It allows the user to select the stellar type, [M/H], λ- range, and resolving power and the page returns:
-purity of the line and minimum S/N required to detect it.
-interactive plot to identify the lines in the spectra
It allows the user to select the stellar type, [M/H], λ- range, and resolving power and the page returns:
-purity of the line and minimum S/N required to detect it.
-interactive plot to identify the lines in the spectra
Nice view of the Sun 🌞 today from @cambridgeastro.bsky.social - thanks to Robin Catchpole 🔭
June 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Nice view of the Sun 🌞 today from @cambridgeastro.bsky.social - thanks to Robin Catchpole 🔭
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Wyn Evans of 21 Group is standing
If we can put together an alliance of everyone who is left out of decision-making in our universities, we can bring about real change
In universities, power is controlled by a tiny elite
Let's make this election about the principle of academic self-governance
If we can put together an alliance of everyone who is left out of decision-making in our universities, we can bring about real change
In universities, power is controlled by a tiny elite
Let's make this election about the principle of academic self-governance
Ten candidates will contest the election to become the University of Cambridge’s next chancellor, reports @jgro-the.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #EduSky
#AcademicSky #EduSky
Ten candidates make Cambridge chancellor election shortlist
Race lacks obvious frontrunner with Mohamed El-Erian largely unknown outside academia and Sandi Toksvig proving divisive
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Wyn Evans of 21 Group is standing
If we can put together an alliance of everyone who is left out of decision-making in our universities, we can bring about real change
In universities, power is controlled by a tiny elite
Let's make this election about the principle of academic self-governance
If we can put together an alliance of everyone who is left out of decision-making in our universities, we can bring about real change
In universities, power is controlled by a tiny elite
Let's make this election about the principle of academic self-governance
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The 2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to Professor Max Pettini (IoA) and Professor Ryan Cooke (who is currently faculty at Durham, and was an IoA PhD student 2008-2011). www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-gr...
2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize awarded to Max Pettini and Ryan Cooke | Institute of Astronomy
The 2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to Professor Max Pettini (IoA) and Professor Ryan Cooke (who is currently faculty at Durham, and was an IoA PhD student 2008-2011). The collaboration t...
www.ast.cam.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The 2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to Professor Max Pettini (IoA) and Professor Ryan Cooke (who is currently faculty at Durham, and was an IoA PhD student 2008-2011). www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-gr...
Such a good view for a meeting room, and the view at the dinner was amazing too 😍 @ Pristine collaboration meeting, Nice Observatory @obscoteazur.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Such a good view for a meeting room, and the view at the dinner was amazing too 😍 @ Pristine collaboration meeting, Nice Observatory @obscoteazur.bsky.social
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In person voting for Chancellorship of Cambridge will break for University's candidate
If you did degree at Cambridge, you can vote online but must register beforehand
Deadline to register for online voting is 2 May
Act now
Please repost to ensure wide electorate
www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...
If you did degree at Cambridge, you can vote online but must register beforehand
Deadline to register for online voting is 2 May
Act now
Please repost to ensure wide electorate
www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...
How to register for online voting
You can vote in this election if: you have been awarded (in person or in absence) a qualifying degree (see also Degrees conferred under Statute B II 2) from the University of Cambridge at a degree
www.cam.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
In person voting for Chancellorship of Cambridge will break for University's candidate
If you did degree at Cambridge, you can vote online but must register beforehand
Deadline to register for online voting is 2 May
Act now
Please repost to ensure wide electorate
www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...
If you did degree at Cambridge, you can vote online but must register beforehand
Deadline to register for online voting is 2 May
Act now
Please repost to ensure wide electorate
www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...
Recommend going through your spam folder after an academic rejection: "The paper with the title (...) has left a deep impression on us", "We believe your insights would be highly valuable to our readership", "I understand that you are an outstanding researcher" ✨
April 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Recommend going through your spam folder after an academic rejection: "The paper with the title (...) has left a deep impression on us", "We believe your insights would be highly valuable to our readership", "I understand that you are an outstanding researcher" ✨
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Deadline is tomorrow!
Exciting PhD opportunity to work with me to build a whole new way to model chemical evolution in galaxies using networks! Find out more at www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...
Reconstructing EVolutionary histories for organisms on EArth and stars in gaLaxies (REVEAL) | University of Surrey
www.surrey.ac.uk
April 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Deadline is tomorrow!
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This seems like a valuable use of the position of Chancellor of Cambridge University. I have nominated Wyn Evans and encourage anyone else eligible (anyone with a Masters or PhD from Cambridge) to do the same.
Please nominate me to stand in the election for Chancellorship of Cambridge_University
If you have a degree from Cambridge, this web page tells
you how to nominate me. I need 50 nominations
21percent.org?page_id=373
It shouldn't take more than 5 or 10 minutes of your time
If you have a degree from Cambridge, this web page tells
you how to nominate me. I need 50 nominations
21percent.org?page_id=373
It shouldn't take more than 5 or 10 minutes of your time
April 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This seems like a valuable use of the position of Chancellor of Cambridge University. I have nominated Wyn Evans and encourage anyone else eligible (anyone with a Masters or PhD from Cambridge) to do the same.
For a recent outreach talk I created this visualisation of real stellar spectra (from the LAMOST survey) - showing a metal-rich, a very metal-poor, and a carbon-enhanced very metal-poor star with similar temperatures (~5000K). Look at those massive molecular carbon bands for the CEMP star! ✨🔭
April 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
For a recent outreach talk I created this visualisation of real stellar spectra (from the LAMOST survey) - showing a metal-rich, a very metal-poor, and a carbon-enhanced very metal-poor star with similar temperatures (~5000K). Look at those massive molecular carbon bands for the CEMP star! ✨🔭
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I love all the fake astro papers on arXiv 🔭🧪 today! (thread of links)
1/
Feng Shui in the Universe: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22800
One for the Swifties: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22795
Kepler’s Platonic model after all: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22793
Let’s just throw deep learning at it: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22786
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Feng Shui in the Universe: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22800
One for the Swifties: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22795
Kepler’s Platonic model after all: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22793
Let’s just throw deep learning at it: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22786
arxiv.org
April 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I love all the fake astro papers on arXiv 🔭🧪 today! (thread of links)
1/
Feng Shui in the Universe: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22800
One for the Swifties: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22795
Kepler’s Platonic model after all: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22793
Let’s just throw deep learning at it: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22786
1/
Feng Shui in the Universe: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22800
One for the Swifties: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22795
Kepler’s Platonic model after all: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22793
Let’s just throw deep learning at it: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22786
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NAM abstract submission closes *today* don't forget to submit yours and join us in beautiful Durham in July! 🔭 #astrosci
Abstract submissions for NAM 2025 close tomorrow at 1pm!
Make sure to submit your abstracts for a talk or poster as this is the final deadline!
Submit your abstracts here: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/abst...
@royalastrosoc.bsky.social
Make sure to submit your abstracts for a talk or poster as this is the final deadline!
Submit your abstracts here: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/abst...
@royalastrosoc.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
NAM abstract submission closes *today* don't forget to submit yours and join us in beautiful Durham in July! 🔭 #astrosci
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Spring is springing at the Institute of Astronomy!
March 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Spring is springing at the Institute of Astronomy!
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Astronomy Plot of the Week is back!
Submit a great plot/graph/diagram by tagging @plotastro.bsky.social
It does not have to be yours, but it has to include a publicly accessible link (i.e. arXiv, ADS, etc.)
🔭
Submit a great plot/graph/diagram by tagging @plotastro.bsky.social
It does not have to be yours, but it has to include a publicly accessible link (i.e. arXiv, ADS, etc.)
🔭
March 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Astronomy Plot of the Week is back!
Submit a great plot/graph/diagram by tagging @plotastro.bsky.social
It does not have to be yours, but it has to include a publicly accessible link (i.e. arXiv, ADS, etc.)
🔭
Submit a great plot/graph/diagram by tagging @plotastro.bsky.social
It does not have to be yours, but it has to include a publicly accessible link (i.e. arXiv, ADS, etc.)
🔭
I love singing with the #Cambridge University Gospel #Choir 😍 so enjoyed our concert at Great St Mary’s tonight! 🎶
March 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I love singing with the #Cambridge University Gospel #Choir 😍 so enjoyed our concert at Great St Mary’s tonight! 🎶
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March 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM