A new paper by Alex Ziampras from QMUL School of Physical and Chemical Sciences showing that low mass planets do not stall in their inwards migration towards their parent star when buoncancy torques are properly accounted for (1/2) arxiv.org/abs/2406.08555

Wonderful talk by Roland Bacon on the decades of work that led to ESO VLT MUSE AT #EAS2024 . I am very excited for the future of integral field spectroscopy that is coming

What a time to be studying external photoevaporation 🤩. Great review talk from Sierk van Tereisga at #EAS2024

It always feels rough when a proposal you are really excited about is first quartile but not selected 🫠. Not a complete wipeout this year for ESO #P114 this year though...

Massive congratulations to Marie Goldman MP 🔶. I can't remember ever having such strong conviction in my vote before.

QMUL School of Physical and Chemical Sciences 's Gavin Coleman has an extremely cool paper out today providing the first predictions of the mass distributions of free-floating planets (FFPs), also known as rogue planets, that do not orbit a parent star arxiv.org/abs/2407.05992 (1/6)

Also probably my best ever #ALMA cycle, with a large number of super exciting co-I proposals given time. Congrats to all of the successful PIs

And a fantastic day two as well. Tomorrow we have a day at the Royal Astronomical Society for group discussions and collaborative work

This is a video. This is not a rendering. There are real persons in the video. Having been there half a year ago, it sounds incredible to me, but it is true. History in the making ESO

And now for something completely different... It feels odd but somehow nice as an astronomer being on a paper in the journal "photosynthesis research" link.springer.com/10.1007/s11120…

A pair of externally photoevaporating discs in Orion. JWST observations from the dataset of Mark McCaughrean

#QMPAW24, #LovePostdocs, Thomas Haworth , QMUL School of Physical and Chemical Sciences

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion

A cool paper today from QMUL School of Physical and Chemical Sciences's Alex Ziampras. Sometimes the inner part of a planet-forming disc can misalign, casting a shadow on the outer disc (left image). This can lead to all sorts of observable dynamical features (right images). Read more here arxiv.org/abs/2410.13932

🇬🇧🇮🇳 Queen Mary University of London and Shoolini University announce dual master's degree programme, allowing students from India to earn both Indian and UK qualifications. "It will equip students with competitive skills for today's market," said Professor Helen Bailey. Read more⬇️ qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202…

It’s giving rainbows and unicorns, like a middle school binder 🦄🌈 Meet NGC 602, a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where astronomers using NASA Webb Telescope have found candidates for the first brown dwarfs outside of our galaxy. esawebb.org/news/weic2425/

Today we have a paper from Luke Keyte and Thomas Haworth studying the role of externally driven winds in planet-forming disk chemistry. Planet forming material is shone upon by nearby stars, which may affect the chemistry. (1/4) arxiv.org/abs/2501.05172

Adieu, X