Oliver Newton

New press release about our new paper led by my PhD student Mariana Pouseiro Júlio! 🔭🧪☄️

English version here: www.aip.de/en/news/dark...

27.10.2025 10:45 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Simulating accurate observations of star clusters is really annoying! So as a part of this paper, we open sourced all of the code we used to simulate them, and there's a Python notebook that explains how to do it right here: 🔭☄️ #galactic #astrocode

22.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 31    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

There are two kinds of email inboxes:
0-5 unread emails
>10,000 unread emails.

🧪🔭

03.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 54    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

Episode 14 – A cosmic owl, misaligned planetary systems, and the Milky Way as an outlier In this episode, we had Payel and Nicole filling in for Michelle who’s away on holiday. Nicole is a PhD student, also at the University of Surrey Astrophysics research group. They discuss the…

I'm back from two weeks of leave, and having caught up on email, I'm now into the arxiv! Have to be ready for recording the next @starxiv.bsky.social this Friday! Check out the last episode from @payeldas.bsky.social and @nbuckley0810.bsky.social on our website! 🔭☄️🧪 starxiv.com/2025/06/22/e...

30.06.2025 11:48 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Physics Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the leading science faculty in New Zealand and one of...

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12.05.2025 21:39 — 👍 53    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 1

The annual running costs for OJAp remain lower than the APC for a single article at many journals.

16.04.2025 13:42 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

04.12.2024 19:36 — 👍 37484    🔁 7101    💬 567    📌 787

Astrophysicists theorize that 85% of the day is spent doing “dark work” which cannot be directly measured but is implied by how tired I feel

28.03.2024 13:18 — 👍 1981    🔁 620    💬 12    📌 20

Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.

I will never recover from this student email.

27.11.2023 21:48 — 👍 9458    🔁 2354    💬 382    📌 456

The 21 Group – a Guest Post by Wyn Evans Here's an important piece by Professor Wyn Evans of Cambridge University relating to the theme of harassment and bullying which I've returned to several times on this blog. I strongly support the crea...

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26.10.2023 11:54 — 👍 2    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Nice to see big collaboration papers being published with @ojastro.bsky.social !

22.10.2023 19:46 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

hello, world

Let's see what this is all about!

07.10.2023 22:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0