Summer undergrad internships at QUB's Astrophysics Research Centre (Deadline is May 8) www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen... 🔭☄️

Before installing the detector it's essential to take some time out and see the gorgeous spectrum with your own eyes. It's impossible to capture what the eye sees but this photo gives you an idea ...

It's so exciting to see the HARPS3 instrument coming together in real time at the Isaac Newton Telescope! Looking forward to the first light soon

I have had a few students go through this program and strongly recommend it!

Thank you! Those LCs will be very useful I think.

One more question: the paper mentions you're providing the LCs detrended with unpopular as a HLSP on MAST - are those already available ?

Thank you for the info! I was just slightly surprised that these uncertainties don't depend at all on the amplitude of the signal, but then I thought maybe once the signal is detected, it's detected, and a larger amplitude doesn't necessarily lead to a smaller period uncertainty...?

This is a really impressive piece of work. I have a question about the period uncertainties. Did I understand correctly that these are obtained using the empirical methodology in Boyle et al. (2025b)? And that this means period uncertainty follows simple linear dependency on the Prot itself?

This sounds like a really cool paper, definitely going on my reading list!

Well actually... when in July? If you're around 20-24 that's the week of the National Astronomy Meeting (in Birmingham this year...) uobevents-national-astronomy-meeting-nam-2026.eventsair.site/callforabstr...

TFW you tick an item off your todo list and you realise it's over 5 years old...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science PRIMARY DETAIL - Salary Package: $109,272 - $117,108 (HEW Level A.6-A.8) - plus 17% employer's superannuation contribution and annual leave loading. - Full time, 3 year fixed-term role - Macquarie Uni...

Very happy to advertise a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science position with me and Christian Schwab at Macquarie University in Sydney.

We'll be working on applying machine learning & differentiable physics models to extremely precise radial velocity surveys.

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"Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people"

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Expert Comment: Cuts to fundamental research will hurt the UK’s Chris Lintott, Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford’s Department of Physics, responds to the news that University funding for astronomy and physics research will be cut by almost a third.

Great commentary on the recently announced budget cuts to physics and astronomy in the UK, by @chrislintott.bsky.social

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

We're recruiting international MRes and PhD students at Macquarie across stars & planets, galaxies, and instrumentation.

Sign up here by February 8!

In particular, I'm recruiting for exoplanet projects generally and have funding for RVs in particular. Submit your expressions of interest here!

Here's a fun piece of code I wrote to visualize the astrometric orbital elements. To run the visualization for yourself, check it out here: github.com/sblunt/show-...

Black dashed is the line of nodes, and lighter purple indicates the part of the orbit that is behind the plane of the sky. Enjoy!

Thank you so much for the tip, Giorgia! I did manage to get what I needed via Vizier yesterday, but it's useful to have the options for the future!

Anyone happen to know how I can query GAIA DR3 given ESA servers are down? 🔭 Interested in light curves specifically

That image just blows my mind

It was an absolute pleasure hosting you, @johannavos.bsky.social, and hearing about the exciting work going on in your group. What fantastic datasets. I'm looking forward to learning lots more about the variability of ~Jupiter-sized objects in the coming months/years!

It's been a fantastic RAS awards year for @ox.ac.uk researchers! bsky.app/profile/mpls...

I'm absolutely delighted to have been awarded the 2026 George Darwin Lecture by the RAS @royalastrosoc.bsky.social !

This week we are hosting the @terrahunting.bsky.social science team in Oxford. Terra Hunting will use HARPS3 which is right now being installed on the Isaac Newton Telescope in La Palma to search for nearby Earth analogues. Exciting times! @oxfordphysics.bsky.social @oxoplanets.bsky.social

Summer internships

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I know, right...!?

We are currently working with a Masters student, Jerry Cao, to test whether expanding the range of durations searched helps find more real transits and whether that's outweighed by an increase in the rate of spurious detection or not. Jerry is great and applying for astro phds right now BTW...

Is the lack of detections (black points) outside the red box real, or a selection effect? We won't know until we search for them

The green shaded area in figure shows the range of durations where transits could exist, when non-zero impact parameters and eccentricities are accounted for. The red line encloses the usual range searched.