Dr Jake Taylor
@astrojake.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. Researching the atmospheres of exoplanets.
There is a couple breaking up outside my house, they’ve been going at it for the past hour
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
There is a couple breaking up outside my house, they’ve been going at it for the past hour
Congratulations to Dr Richard Chatterjee who just successfully defended his DPhil! I’m so proud of him! He is a rockstar and is revolutionising our understanding of atmospheric escape. Here’s to more science together 💜
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Congratulations to Dr Richard Chatterjee who just successfully defended his DPhil! I’m so proud of him! He is a rockstar and is revolutionising our understanding of atmospheric escape. Here’s to more science together 💜
Celebrating Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s appointment to Companion of Honour in the King’s Birthday Honours List
October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Celebrating Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s appointment to Companion of Honour in the King’s Birthday Honours List
Was doing some coding with ChatGPT and it told me to “copy+pasta” what has it been training on 👀
October 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Was doing some coding with ChatGPT and it told me to “copy+pasta” what has it been training on 👀
30 years ago was the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. This discovery kickstarted a whole new field of Astrophysics. Here is me in 2016 on an observing run at the observatory where it all happened. Little did I know I’d still be studying exoplanets nearly a decade later!
October 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
30 years ago was the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. This discovery kickstarted a whole new field of Astrophysics. Here is me in 2016 on an observing run at the observatory where it all happened. Little did I know I’d still be studying exoplanets nearly a decade later!
First time on a cruise ship and first time in Estonia, great day!
September 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
First time on a cruise ship and first time in Estonia, great day!
Went to Lonna Island off the coast of Helsinki to go to their sauna
September 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Went to Lonna Island off the coast of Helsinki to go to their sauna
Avi Loeb’s mysterious object
August 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Avi Loeb’s mysterious object
I want to be Walter the cat
August 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I want to be Walter the cat
Great location for proposal writing 🚀 🪐
August 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Great location for proposal writing 🚀 🪐
Getting inspired by the sea 🌊
August 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Getting inspired by the sea 🌊
My home for the next week. Thanks to the Landmark Trust, I’m staying at the Woodspring Priory for a writing retreat, cooking up some JWST proposals 🚀 🪐
August 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
My home for the next week. Thanks to the Landmark Trust, I’m staying at the Woodspring Priory for a writing retreat, cooking up some JWST proposals 🚀 🪐
Latest TikTok comment, I WISH aliens were paying me
August 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Latest TikTok comment, I WISH aliens were paying me
Mercury after being in retrograde for the past month
August 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Mercury after being in retrograde for the past month
A story in three parts, great paper on the arxiv today from Stevenson et al., concerning K2-18b and the MIRI/LRS analysis arxiv.org/abs/2508.05961
August 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A story in three parts, great paper on the arxiv today from Stevenson et al., concerning K2-18b and the MIRI/LRS analysis arxiv.org/abs/2508.05961
The AI overlords know who I am
August 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The AI overlords know who I am
Lecturer jobs are no longer permanent jobs, the UK is cooked
July 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Lecturer jobs are no longer permanent jobs, the UK is cooked
Every week as a professional Astrophysicist...
July 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Every week as a professional Astrophysicist...
There’s currently a lot of drama on US twitter because someone made an app called Tea where users had to upload their ID to access, and now all the data has been leaked. Meanwhile, UK MPs are praising their new ID verification to access the internet in the UK scheme and claiming it’s perfectly safe
July 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
There’s currently a lot of drama on US twitter because someone made an app called Tea where users had to upload their ID to access, and now all the data has been leaked. Meanwhile, UK MPs are praising their new ID verification to access the internet in the UK scheme and claiming it’s perfectly safe
The memes I made today at #ExoclimesVII when I saw the >1500 hours of observations of rocky exoplanets with JWST (observed/planned). Majority of which are not published.
July 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The memes I made today at #ExoclimesVII when I saw the >1500 hours of observations of rocky exoplanets with JWST (observed/planned). Majority of which are not published.
Over 1500hrs are dedicated to rocky exoplanets already with JWST. Please TAC, no more rocky planets!!!! Let’s get data of gaseous planets! Let’s get the first data sets of rocky planets published so we know where can optimise our interventional strategies… #ExoclimesVII
July 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Over 1500hrs are dedicated to rocky exoplanets already with JWST. Please TAC, no more rocky planets!!!! Let’s get data of gaseous planets! Let’s get the first data sets of rocky planets published so we know where can optimise our interventional strategies… #ExoclimesVII