Many congratulations to ALL's Dr Katriona O'Sullivan, MU Psychology who has done the double -🎉🎉🎉 winning both @lstwrdThe Last Word Listeners' Choice Award & Biography of the Year for her biography 'Poor' @penguinIEbooks An Post Irish Book Awards #APIBA #Education #Transformation Maynooth University

🚀 LIFTOFF of Ireland's first satellite #EIRSAT1 from SLC-4E in California! #FlyYourSatellite

#jobfairy This is a fantastic opportunity to work with an amazing mentor & scientist… and what a great project & environment! 🧑‍💻 #datascience Irish Immunology

Congratulations Tom, this is such a significant honour, for you, for DIAS Astronomy & Astrophysics, for the Institute as a whole, and for Ireland. Just five years since Ireland joined ESO and already we have an Irish President 👏

Festive season in the Experimental Physics laboratory

Found myself with a couple of free hours today and treated myself to a stroll around the parts of my city where I grew up. Nothing more beautiful than #Dublin on a sunny winters day. We all should show it some love this Christmas

🆕 The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded the 2024 Group Achievement Award in Astronomy to the team responsible for designing and building Webb’s MIRI instrument! 🎉 Read more: esawebb.org/announcements/… or 🧵👇

Congratulations to the international #MIRI team who have been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award in honour of their work on the James Webb Space Telescope (#JWST). 🎖️🥳 Find out more 👉ukatc.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Royal-As…

Huge congratulations to Paddy Kavanagh from Maynooth University Physics for his share of the Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award for the #JWST miri instrument.

Fly me to the moon … with ⁦Ryanair⁩! Great shot of flight FR2970 from Tenerife to Edinburgh on Thursday evening by ⁦DIAS⁩ and ⁦(old handle) Armagh Observatory & Planetarium⁩ PhD Scholar ⁦Jeremy Rigney⁩ ⁦#DIASDiscovers irishtimes.com/photography/20…

DIAS Dunsink Observatory DIAS Astronomy & Astrophysics Ryanair DIAS (old handle) Armagh Observatory & Planetarium Jeremy Rigney JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Profs Alex Thompson (L) and Denis O'Sullivan (✝️1938-2020), present the DIAS Astronomy & Astrophysics detectors to Nigel Monaghan (R)

The Department of Physics at Maynooth University is hosting an exciting spring school this April. Registration is now open! sites.google.com/view/yrs-topo-…

Despite over 35 years of study what lies at the centre of Supernova 1987A has remained a mystery. 🤔 Until now. 💡 Using #JWST astronomers have found the first strong evidence of a neutron star at heart of SN 1987A. 🌟 Find out more 👉 ukatc.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Astronom…

🌟🔭A new study published in Science Magazine & co-authored by Paddy Kavanagh of Maynooth University Physics, has provided the first conclusive evidence for the presence of the elusive neutron star produced in the supernova SN 1987A. maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotl…

The amazing ESO MUSE image made by Dr. Andrew Kirwan looking super in the The Irish Times today. Thank you Claire O’Connell Maynooth University Physics MU Research irishtimes.com/science/space/…

I was so lucky this week to attend inspiring events organised by inspiring people! Thank you MU Women in STEM Society for the invitation and congratulations on organising a wonderful event! MU Research Maynooth University

Astronomer, astrophotographer and writer Annie Russell Maunder, born #OnThisDay in 1868, battled misogyny to become a leading solar astronomer and one of the first female Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society. Her work transformed our understanding of the Sun: bit.ly/3vOQM2y

Great trip today to St. James’s and St. Luke’s Hospital for our fourth year students as part of their nuclear and particle physics module with James McGrath. Students experienced the real world application of physics in both diagnostics and nuclear medicine.

Postdoc Position Maynooth University Physics to work on JWST observations of SN1987A with Paddy Kavanagh aas.org/jobregister/ad… Please share!

Opinion: On Instagram I see the body of a Palestinian toddler, an ad for a wetsuit, Oprah talking irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0… via Irish Times Opinion