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Nathan Adams
@natadastra.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at the University of Manchester | Studying the first 10% of the Universe's history | JWST/VISTA/MeerKAT | STEM Outreach | Own Opinions
Well the time has come. Unfortunately the last 2 years of being on the academic job market in the UK hasn’t been fruitful, partly due to dwindling funding opportunities and partly to my own personal restrictions on location and moving. As a result I’ll be leaving Astronomy in a months time. 🫡
June 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by Nathan Adams
I wrote a research note about the recent publication of the MIRI/LRS spectrum of K2-18b. The authors had claimed the detection of potential signs of life. I find the data to be consistent with a flat line 🔭🧪
Are there Spectral Features in the MIRI/LRS Transmission Spectrum of K2-18b?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15916
Jake Taylor.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15916
arXiv abstract link
arxiv.org
April 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It’s April fools day, so why not take a look at our ABSURD (ALMA Band-3 Selection of Ultra-high Redshift Dropouts) galaxy we found in the COSMOS field with a highly constrained redshift of 40
arxiv.org/abs/2503.24312
ALMA Band 3 Selection of Ultra-high Redshift Dropouts: The final challenge to ΛCDM
The Lyman-break technique has been used to successfully identify high-redshift candidates in broad-band photometric data in the rest-frame optical and NIR using the dropout technique. We pioneer the a...
arxiv.org
April 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reposted by Nathan Adams
Sombrero galaxy via JWST: Young stars form in an extremely thin disk, even though this galaxy has a massive spheroid of old stars.

scienceblog.com/wp-content/u...
November 25, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Reposted by Nathan Adams
Jumping on the Lore bandwagon to introduce myself to the BlueSky peeps. Come distract me from getting my next paper submitted before Christmas 😬
1 like = 1 piece of Emily lore
I told my husband this morning that the thing I was saddest about having deleted from the internet with my Twitter account was the 40-tweet (one/day) countdown I did to his 40th birthday were I told the whole story of our relationship memory by memory.

Anyway, feel free to like this for more lore!
November 25, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Jumping on the Lore bandwagon to introduce myself to the BlueSky peeps. Come distract me from getting my next paper submitted before Christmas 😬
1 like = 1 piece of Emily lore
I told my husband this morning that the thing I was saddest about having deleted from the internet with my Twitter account was the 40-tweet (one/day) countdown I did to his 40th birthday were I told the whole story of our relationship memory by memory.

Anyway, feel free to like this for more lore!
November 25, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Guess I’m 30 now 😱
a man wearing glasses says i was young then in yellow letters
ALT: a man wearing glasses says i was young then in yellow letters
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Nathan Adams
You asked for more official institutional presence here… and now
The UK Space Agency has officially entered the chat! 🚀 🇬🇧

The first national space agency on BlueSky!
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Working on a space-based telescope from an office, it can be hard to appreciate all the infrastructure that’s required behind the scenes. Spending the day at the 76m wide Lovell Radio Telescope and Square Kilometre Array HQ last week helped contextualise just how big Astro projects are today! 🔭
November 19, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Made this account a year ago but never really kicked off with it. Maybe it’s time for take two! Everything seems much calmer over here 😅
November 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM