It's definitely not perfect but hopefully a good start!
It's definitely not perfect but hopefully a good start!
Went to a fun workshop today ran by @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social about how to optimise using AI for creative tasks. We put together a design brief for creating an infographic for a research paper and I eventually got this. I like it! You can find out more at academic.oup.com/mnras/articl....
Episode 31 β Near Earth Objects, Little Red Dots, bursty star formation and life around massiveΒ stars
In this podcast episode, Michelle and Payel discuss theories on little red dot formation, bursty star formation, and the origins of asteroids like Apophis. They also discuss the potential for lifeβ¦
Our latest episode is live! Tune in to hear about where the Apophis asteroid came from, bursty star formation at high redshift, truple-double radio galaxies and more! Available below and wherever you get your podcasts π βοΈ
This is why we love doing Starxiv! Definitely one of the coolest objects that I had never heard about.
Can help but love such a simple model to explain the MUV-M* observations.
I was amazed that the Habitable Zone makes a comeback post Main Sequence.
Another exciting theory to explain Little Red Dots!
Let's hope those calculations are accurate!
I'm very excited to announce a PhD position that will be supervised by Eugene Vasiliev and myself on the dynamical modelling of barred galaxies. Check it out!
I like this theory too! It's like watching a very slow release Netflix series...
Paper time! @amerygration.bsky.social develops a general method for constructing the joint mass function of a stellar population that hosts binary stellar systems. And no it's not the same as the initial mass function!
I love that we're pushing back major epochs of galaxy evolution further back in time!
I couldn't helping thinking that we're possibly uncovering the merger history of GSE itself from its chemical abundances?
Chatted about this again over lunch with Surrey Astro! Very exciting paper.
Really interesting result here that the faint tidal tails tell us most about merger activity.
My favourite statistic from this week's podcast - JWST sees 100,000 galaxies in the area spanned by the moon!
JWST and machine-learning are definitely recurring favourites!
Recovery of total mass profile, dark matter mass profile, and flattening of the dark matter halo with 3D phase-space information.
Excited about the latest paper with collaborators! We find that in the case of missing phase-space coordinates, equilibrium dynamical models can recover the mass distribution and inclination of disc galaxies well but not the dark matter halo flattening! Find out more at arxiv.org/abs/2511.10445.
Episode 22 is out!!! With a Tolkien theme π
Just coming back from holiday and didnβt check arxiv? Absolutely no worries. Catch up on Starxiv! Episode 20 being recorded very soon.
Episode 18 is being recorded later today and for the first time Iβll be a listener! Excited to sit back and catch up with the papers I missed whilst in China.
Finding it tricky to keep up with the arxiv over the summer between holidays and childcare? Let @runningastronomer.bsky.social and i help you out with @starxiv.bsky.social!
Episode 17 has dropped! Tune in to hear Payel & Michelle talk about about a dark matter subhalo detection, the problem(s) with super massive black holes, massive star clusters in the Sparkler, speedy white dwarfs and more! πβοΈ starxiv.com/2025/08/04/e...
In short, dynamical processes donβt quite do enough. Have we massively under-predicted the lensing effect?
A neat little explanation to tie some JWST loose ends.
Some beautiful new artwork to help you listen to the Starxiv!
Whatβs better than passing time on the train catching up on arxiv papers?
Catching up with papers after a weekβs worth of work travel. Itβs going to take a whileβ¦π³