Agnibha Banerjee

Terrifying and sad, 242 people on board.
I just flew with Air India on a similar route 2 days back.

Greta Thunberg in a keffiyeh speaking aboard the FFC aid ship end route to Gaza

I know there was a lot going on in American politics today, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight how much I admire the work that Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla are doing.

They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.

Congratulations! 🎉

Project: Modelling and Interpretation of Exoplanetary Atmospheres Theme: Astrophysics Supervisor: Dr Ryan MacDonald (rm400@st-andrews.ac.uk) Description: Our knowledge of exoplanet atmospheres is undergoing a paradigm change following the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). High-quality spectroscopic observations of exoplanet atmospheres necessitate a careful reassessment of model assumptions that were sufficient in the pre-JWST era, in order to ensure the reliable inference of atmospheric properties (e.g. the chemical composition, temperature profile, and aerosol properties). In this MSc (res) project, you will investigate new ways to improve state-of-the-art models of exoplanet spectra. You will also have the opportunity to apply these models to JWST observations of giant exoplanets, which will allow you to measure the atmospheric properties of worlds around other stars.

Graduating soon and still looking for an astronomy research project for Sep 2025? 🔭

I'm offering a Masters by Research (MSc) project on #exoplanet atmospheres 🪐 at the University of St Andrews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Join us to work on modelling JWST spectra!

📜 Application details:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...

The Guardian has an 'explainer' about the India-Pakistan conflict that manages to avoid stating that the border between the countries was originally drawn by an Englishman who had never been to India and signed off on in a hurry by Lord Mountbatten because he had to get back to Britain for a party.

Logic of my uni:
Will stop paying me when I hand in my PhD thesis, then block me from doing the temporary full-time job I found - until viva, corrections, and getting the degree in hand.
Brilliant.

ALL HANDS needed sharing these campaigns for folks whose funds GFM has refunded / frozen

🚨 Akram @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social lost his GFM: 170/500 tinyurl.com/Help-Akram

🚨 Mai @mai2698.bsky.social has had funds frozen but owes rent TOMORROW or else she’ll be evicted: 36/530 tiny.cc/Mai-Funds

Help Remas and Toleen Escape from Death Greetings to all who believe in new beginnings!

Please share - for 2 days we’re focusing on the survival fund for these siblings who are facing escalating catastrophe in northern غaza. They're displaced again which means they need help with food and urgent supplies.

Goal for 2 days is 300—$5 is great!! chuffed.org/project/help...

Next up is @riobanerjee.bsky.social talking about oddball planet L98-59d - a possibly rocky world orbiting an M dwarf. Transit spectroscopy observations with JWST reveal hints of sulphur species SO2 and H2S in the atmosphere, indicating potential volcanic activity on a possible exo-Io. #ukexom25

Congratulations! 🎉 Bishal to

Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

Nathan Mayne (who isn't on Bluesky) is advertising a PhD position working on dust in the Martian atmosphere. I worked with Nathan as a postdoc, and both he and his group are wonderful.

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

3D visualisation of dust and wind currents in the atmosphere of Mars as simulated by the UK Met Office Unified Model. Image credit: Danny McCulloch (U. Exeter).

Exciting PhD opportunity at @exeter.ac.uk: Forecasting Martian Dust Storms (funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social)! Please share widely!

More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Help Mohammed's family bear the heavy burdens of life in Gaza We write to you with hearts filled with sorrow and despair. I am Mohammed, writing on behalf of my family from our tent, where we shiver in the bitter cold of winter after our home was destroyed…

8 hours left on this 48-hr drive to get urgent funds for Mohamed & family.

Their situation was already catastrophic before 3/18 and now with displacement, we need to help with their hourly survival.

A $5 is amazing, I promise. And share.

Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️!

aspire.science.uva.nl

Waited 9 hours in the emergency waiting room last night to get stitches yesterday. By then, the wound had formed scabs within. The doctor said it can't be stitched anymore, and glued it. Thanks NHS for the fun night out.

archNEMESIS: an open-source Python package for analysis of planetary atmospheric spectra ArchNEMESIS is an open-source Python package developed for the analysis of remote sensing spectroscopic observations of planetary atmospheres. It is based on the widely used NEMESIS radiative transfer...

Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Juan Alday, and Oxoplanets members Joseph Penn, Prof Patrick Irwin, and Jingxuan Yang, on the publication of archNEMESIS! ArchNEMESIS is a fully pythonised version of the code NEMESIS, widely used to study planetary atmospheres. arxiv.org/abs/2501.16452

1 week left to apply to do a PhD in the new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews 🪐🔭

Feel free to reach out if you're interested in applying!

Artist concept of a M-dwarf star covered in star spots, orbited by a rocky planet. Image credit: Benoît Gougeon, Université de Montréal

Astronomy PhD opportunity at St Andrews 🔭

Interested in searching for rocky exoplanet atmospheres and understanding their host stars? 🪐✴️

Come join our new Exoplanet Atmospheres group at St Andrews in beautiful Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Deadline: 1 February

Project details ⬇️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Ceilidh flyer. Full description of contents in the Bluesky post.

OU PG research students & staff are warmly invited to the Roc Soc/Grad School Ceilidh & Burns Night Celebration on 31 Jan 2025 in the Hub Theatre, 17:00.
Tickets are £10 (PGR) & £15 (Staff).
forms.office.com/e/cMwkyM5px4

@riobanerjee.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

looking for another postdoc position to apply to? look no further!

aas.org/jobregister/...

I'm hiring a postdoc to join our JWST large program kronos 👀⏳🪐

application materials are due January 23. I'll be at #AAS245 if anyone is interested and wants to chat about it!! 🧪🔭⭐

#academicjob

AI-generated image of a thunderstorm

PhD position available at the University of Bristol! Come work with me to model convection in sub-Neptune atmospheres! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Image from the film 50 Days of Summer of the male and female characters looking at each other in a record store, repeated vertically. in the upper image, the male character says 'I love MK' and the female character says 'Me too'. In the lower image, the man has a series of Mariokart images on him, the woman has images of Milton Keynes: the concrete cows, a roundabout and the OU headquarters at Walton Hall.

Are you an Open University PGR with an idea for a meme on your research, the doctoral journey or Milton Keynes life?

Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes.

Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...

@riobanerjee.bsky.social

As a very young kid, I used to think India and "America" were right next to each other.

Need more observations of the cup to confirm findings.

I’m not against encouraging young people to consider science as a career but I think we ought to be honest with them about how much time they’ll spend managing python environments

I have an exciting PhD project (starting September 2025) based at the University of Edinburgh. You will study the exotic world of a Venus-like exoplanet with a focus on the atmospheric chemistry and physics: (ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fe...). Deadline 6th January 2025.
@kenrice.bsky.social

Thanks for making this. Could I be added?

Hey new followers!
I'm a PhD student exploring exoplanet atmospheres using telescopes like JWST! 🪐🔭✨

I'm also on the lookout for postdoc (and non-postdoc) jobs starting ~summer 2025. If you know of any, I'd love to hear from you.
Here's an article about a recent project I worked on:

To all new Bluesky users, I highly recommend the Quiet Posters feed (bsky.app/profile/did:...) to find posts from people you follow who don't post that often

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