Anne-Marie Weijmans

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

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CHILES X: Molecular and atomic gas at intermediate redshift. Kelley M. Hess et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07966

📃Check out this paper:

"SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): revealing the structure of the Rosette Nebula"(ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA...)

if you want to see the Rosette Nebula with LVM ✨🔭

Postdoctoral Researcher in Extragalactic Astrophysics Haverford College invites applications for our full-time (37.5 hours per week), fixed-term (2 year appointment), exempt, benefits-eligible Postdoctoral Research in Extragalactic Astrophysics opportuni...

I'm hiring at Haverford - a 2 year NASA funded postdoc to work on Galaxy Zoo with Roman Space Telescope Data: www.haverford.edu/human-resour... 👩‍🔬🔭

We welcome applications for consideration for this year's Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme. Internal deadline is 3rd Nov. Please email physdor@st-andrews.ac.uk for the UstA Leverhulme ECRF application form. Call details are on: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

The little Twin Dome is now on a road trip back to the big Twin Dome in St Andrews. Starting at the shore in Cellardyke

Currently recruiting

https://wahl.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/08/21/currently-recruiting-3/

YouTube video by Sloan Digital Sky Surveys Mapping the chemistry of our Galaxy with SDSS

Also, check out his amazing video visualising the @milkywaymapper.bsky.social survey on our YouTube Channel, by Szabolcs Mészáros of the MWM Survey Calibration working group: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w2...

🔭LVM is a robotic SDSS facility at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies✨
Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...

The SDSS-V DR19 is now online at www.sdss.org 🎉
For the first time, LVM data is released.
Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨

A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻

This image shows the Orion Nebula as observed by Local Volume Mapper, and published in Kreckel et al. 2024 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26A...689A.352K/abstract). Different emission lines (hydrogen, silicon and oxygen) are represented with different colour, tracing the ionisation structure of the nebula, carving a bubble in the surrounding dense gas shown by WISE 12micrometer imaging. The ionized gas emission traces wispy, filamentary structures and dusty eroding clouds and clumps. Figure taken from https://www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/about/.

@localvolumemapper.bsky.social is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and other Local Volume Galaxies. Read more about what they are doing here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/abo... #DR19

This image shows the location of Black Hole Mapper targets on the sky, with each purple point depicting an object. All fields are in the North taken with the Sloan Telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, US. Fields in the South by the du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory will be part of the next data release, DR20. There is a pink blob around right ascension = 9 hours, which are the eFEDS fields (eROSITA Full Equatorial Depth Survey) released in DR18. Figure taken from https://www.sdss.org/dr19/bhm/

@blackholemapper.bsky.social had already released a few spectra in DR18, but they are going all out for DR19, with lots of galaxy and quasar spectra #DR19

The figure is the banner from the SDSS website www.sdss.org. In the middle it has an image of the Milky Way, showing the bulge, disc and dust lanes. On the left we see an stylised version of the Hertzsprung Russel diagram, while on the right the image transforms into the cosmic web. This image showcases the range of science covered by the three mapper programs in SDSS-V.

Yesterday we released our nineteenth data release into the wild: www.sdss.org/dr19, let’s now take a closer look on what is in this data release. #DR19

Data Release 19 - SDSS DR19 is the second data release for the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V). Its content is described in detail on the DR19 data release paper. What's New in DR19 Data Access Scope DR...

We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #DR19

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial objects to constrain...

Today they trusted me with the @sdssurveys.bsky.social account to post about Data Release Day! It's the nineteenth already, and you can read all about it already in the DR19 paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093. And more on SDSS-V in the Overview paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989 #DR19

Still more little squares of brass for the installation #BeingSunny at the Twin Dome. A long way still to go

New work under construction for the twin dome #BeingSunny in collaboration with @amweijmans.bsky.social and tracking research at @sdssurveys.bsky.social under the #curious banner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Decks of cards marked Event, Time and Science Goal. Some of the cards lie face up. A scoresheet lies next to the cards.

How do astronomers decide that objects to observe? You and your students can now map the cosmos with our new card game.

We've distributed copies of to several SDSS institutions and anyone can download and print their own copy from the link below

voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act...

Quite a few more flowers are starting to appear in the Twin Dome meadow. I’m expecting poppies, corn flowers and ox-eye daisies but it’s looking like we might also have white campions, field pennycress, Malcolm maritima and anchus arvensis (if my phone app is to be believed)

Internal selection for the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships is now open. Internal deadline is 30th June 17:00. Interested candidates should go to the website and follow the instructions. astronomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/stfc-ernest-...

Looking back to detail of “in the event of always falling back down again”. Installation at the School of Physics and Astronomy. Still looking good.

Heiße Sterne, Schockwellen und riesige Blasen: Eine neue Erforschung der Milchstraße und der Magellanschen Wolken Dieser öffentliche Vortrag begleitet die Tagung des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konsortiums, das die Himmelsdurchmusterung "Sloan Digital Sky Survey" (SDSS) organisiert. Im Mittelpunkt steht ei...

Following this weeks SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting in Heidelberg, there will be a public talk about LVM and its science at Haus der Astronomie on Wednesday, June 4 at 7 pm. Come and join our SDSS scientists! ✨🔭
More information can be found here: www.haus-der-astronomie.de/events/41361...

The first colour of the year in the wildflower meadow at the Twin Dome. It’s all about to start happening

Want to hear about how SDSS scientists are studying huge bubbles and shockwaves in the Milky Way and beyond?

Then come to our public talk next Wednesday evening at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. The talk will be in German

Ankündigung des Abendvortrags "Heiße Sterne, Schockwellen und riesige Blasen" mit Tom Herbst und Niv Drory am 4. Juni 2025 um 19:00 Uhr im Auditorium des Hauses der Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg. Eintritt 6 Euro. Im Hintergrund eine Falschfarbendarstellung der Gasblasen in der Großen Magellanschen Wolke in Braun- und Blautönen

Tom Herbst und Niv Drory zeigen euch am 4. Juni um 19 Uhr am HdA wie man die riesigen Blasen und Schockwellen, die von heißen Sternen in unserer Milchstraße und ihren Begleitgalaxien erzeugt werden kartiert. Tickets erhaltet ihr online unter ztix.de/hp/events/27... und an der Abendkasse 🔭

University Research Fellowship | Royal Society This scheme is for outstanding scientists who are in the early stages of their research career and have the potential to become leaders in their field. These long-term fellowships provide the opportun...

We are taking applications for the URF call (royalsociety.org/grants/unive...). Candidates should submit their application documents (draft for the 4 page proposal (royalsociety.org/-/media/gran...) and an up to date CV) by 1 July to physdor@st-andrews.ac.uk. Candidates will be informed by 4th July.

An Evening of Cosmic Exploration - Edinburgh Science Celebrate cosmic exploration at this intergalactic night out that's just for adults!

This weekend the Planetarium team and Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans are at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/an-eve... & www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/family... Anne-Marie will give a talk at both events, and be available at the ‘Ask an Expert!’ stand.

It has now been exactly 1 year since the planetarium started up again and had their first visit on the 20th of Feb 2024 to the Strathkinness Scouts. They have since delivered over 50 shows in 15 different locations! Thank you to the Planetarium team for all their hardwork and dedication.

Getting the Twin Dome ready for the Observatory Open Night. An installation from day into night. 15th March 6pm - 9pm. University of St Andrews

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!