A deer casually trimming the grass outside of STScI on a beautiful Baltimore morning

In London with nothing special happening today? Come along and say hello at the #JWST exhibit The Royal Society #SummerScience - I'll be helping the Sussex Astronomy Centre team for the next couple of days.

Two years ago, the first images from NASA Webb Telescope were released. So we're catching up with scientists across the UK to find out what they've learned since then. Tune into BBC4 at 10pm on Monday to find out all about Hannah Wakeford's unexpected exoplanet discoveries 🪐

At the airport ready to head to the Bay Area for nearly 3 weeks of collaborative work with the awesome people at UC Santa Cruz and the visitors to OWL Summer Program. But first, I got a talk to give Pixar University 🤩 tomorrow and my presentation needs some finishing touches 🎨

If you missed last night's special episode on the first two years of science with the James Webb Space Telescope, you can catch up now on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

🎙️Exocast🎙️ is back for 2024 with tons of interviews with #exoplanet experts lined up for you. Kicking us off is Jason Wang and his fabulous direct imaging discoveries and movies!

Had an amazing once in a lifetime day visiting Pixar to talk about measuring #exoplanet atmospheres with ESA Webb Telescope/NASA Webb Telescope with a deep dive into some cloud physics. There are so many parallels with the creative and scientific process I love it when the two come together.

This is a banner time for science from Hubble, with a recording-breaking number of papers in 2023!(Source: Space Telescope Users Committee mtg last month.) Green=new Hubble observations; purple = archival data; cyan=a combo of new and archival; light blue not assigned.

Hubble is still going strong! The HUSTLE (#Hubble UV-optical Survey of Transiting Legacy #Exoplanets) submitted its first paper yesterday 🥳 work led by Cornell University grad-student V. Abby Boehm & we are UC Santa Cruz for the next week to build an open source pipeline for the community 🤓

New Exocast: The Exoplanet Podcast episode out this month! I get the pleasure of catching up with an old friend, introducing them to the team, and hearing about what they are doing in their grad-work UC Santa Cruz

The new National super computing facility is going in University of Bristol. So much potential for all kinds of research. I can’t wait to see what Sotiria Fotopoulou and her team learn from ESA's Euclid mission with this in their tool belt 🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨‍💻

#Exoplanet science just got a little bigger University of Bristol 🤩🪐🌍 So excited for Denis to join School of Physics - University of Bristol Astro group and start his own team simulating the climate of some strange new worlds

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈Balloons 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈 #BristolBalloonFiesta Had an amazing day with the privilege to watch two mass ascents! Amazing day! BBC Radio Bristol however seem to only have license to play 7 songs on loop, all day, for 17 hours 🤪

#MentalHealthMatters! This year with the help of @simonoxphys & friends I will be raising money for Movember UK by painting 30 #warhammer Space Marines for the 30 days of November. Help us help people like Mark and raise #MentalHealthAwareness uk.movember.com/mospace/151752…

hey folks, we want to make sure we're serving the whole community's interests with STELa (our 625 orbit LyA program on HST). if you have nearby (<~50 pc) targets that you think could be great for LyA, please ping me and/or Parke Loyd!

Latest episode of Exocast: The Exoplanet Podcast is out! We had a great chat with Néstor Espinoza and his inspiring journey into astronomy 🤩 #exoplanets #podcast #astronomy #AcademicChatter

I will never not be in awe at the awesomeness of our ParalympicsGB athletes. What a spectacular showing Paralympic Games Paris🤩 And always fun watching The Last Leg celebrate in their own special way 😋

Applications are open for Max Planck Research Group Leaders! this is an amazing opportunity to build an independent research group that comes with 2.7 MEuro support over 6 years. If you're interested in being hosted MPI für Astronomie, please contact me! mpg.de/career/max-pla…

🎧 Ep 203 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is out Weds: 🤩 It’s a special on location at Holst Victorian House celebrating 150th anniversary of his birth with Laura Kinnear 🪐 Holst inspired event at CheltSciFest 📲 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jo-… 💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com