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...

Paper day! Izzy Gray proposes a new model for NSC formation in very low mass dwarfs. Model prediction: NSCs should have CMDs with >2, distinct, main sequence turnoffs. Some nearby CGs like OCen and M54 show exactly this behaviour, suggesting they could be accreted NSCs! 🔭

arxiv.org/abs/2405.19286

My final plug for this event at The Royal Institution on Monday
- find out how algorithms and physics combine to teach us about the universe... www.rigb.org/whats-on/uni...

Interested in more than one position? No problem, apply for one and indicate that you would like to be considered for other positions in your covering letter. Come and join us! We are great 😊🔭🧪

Perhaps instead you are interested in low frequency gravitational waves from supermassive black holes? Then Alessia Gualandris has the research fellowship for you! 🔭🧪 jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Maybe understanding the formation of globular clusters is your jam. No problem, come and work as a research fellow with @readdark.bsky.social 🧪🔭 jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Hello there! Are you on the job market? Do you love astrophysics? Then how about applying for one of our 3 open Research Fellow positions at the University of Surrey? One of them is with me! Find and study dwarf galaxies with Michelle! 🔭🧪 jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Want to learn about astrophysics from international experts? 🔭🧪 Check out this new series of interviews shot at our IAU Symposium #IAUS379. The first video on "Dwarf Galaxies" featuring the fantastic @runningastronomer.bsky.social is online now (next one in January):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQJI...

We're back with our stargazing nights at the university of Surrey! This is the first time we've been able to host one since COVID, and true to form, the skies are cloudy 😅 but, we have an excellent talk from @readdark.bsky.social to make up for it 🧪🔭

We're hiring cosmology / large-scale structure postdocs at UT Austin! If you're interested in analysis or cosmological interpretation of HETDEX (BAO survey) data, or related science, please apply! More info is linked below; feel free to be in touch with me as well.

Referee: "I feel the paper could be more concise and less repetitive. Or, to put it another way, it could be less repetitive and more concise."

Since so many have asked, here’s my hot take on the spherules Loeb found and the manuscript he’s loudly rushed to the world. These are pretty typical cosmic spherules. Had he done the *obvious*--a control sample 100 km away from the meteor--he’d have found the same thing. 1/20