Instead of "here is a pay rise and some job security"

Watch out, next he's coming for the "whilst"s

*Me, opening my overleaf to see you on there*
I feel attacked...

De possibles signes d’une vie extraterrestre ont-ils été détectés sur une exoplanète ? En utilisant le télescope Webb, une équipe britannique assure avoir trouvé une potentielle « biosignature » dans une atmosphère. Les spécialistes restent circonspects.

Des astronomes de l'université de Cambridge ont-ils trouvé de la vie sur une lointaine planète?
Je vous épargne tout suspense : non 😬
Les astrophysiciens que j'ai interrogé sont plus que dubitatifs (pour rester poli)
www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/une...

Congratulations to Dr Chloe Fisher (@astrochloe.bsky.social) on her talk concerning the hot rocky super Earth TOI-1685b. She presented the results from her PI JWST program, where she obtained 4 transit observations with NIRSpec/G395H 🔭 #ukexom25

In Our Time - The Habitability of Planets - BBC Sounds Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.

I had the great pleasure to join Melvyn Bragg and two of my colleagues, Oli Shorttle and Saidul Islam, on BBC R4's In Our Time recently! A fun discussion on the Habitability of Planets, you can catch up online, or tune in for the repeat at 11pm on Sunday (UK time) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Forming Earth-like and Low-Mass Rocky Exoplanets Through Pebble and Planetesimal Accretion The theory of pebble accretion (PA) has become a popular planet formation theory during the past decade. However, PA studies generally rely on large planetary embryos, much larger than those expected ...

Congratulations to 1st year DPhil student Mitchell Yzer on his recent publication "Forming Earth-like and Low-Mass Rocky Exoplanets Through Pebble and Planetesimal Accretion", read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02571

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