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Martin Bourne 🏳️‍🌈
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Astrophysicist (at least in theory) and beagle dad! (he/him) UKRI Hawking Fellow & Senior Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire. Views are my own.
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If, for any reason, you’d like to spend 30 minutes listening to me ramble on about my research, my talk from the “Unveiling a Universe of Black Holes: The Next Generation of AGN Surveys” workshop at MIAPbP is now on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z488...

#astro #cosmology
Simulating supermassive black holes from event horizon to cosmic web and back again by Martin Bourne
YouTube video by MIAPbP
www.youtube.com
Well look who decided to show up in the new expansion today 💡🐑❤️

#Pokemon #TCG #Ampharos
Our latest MandelZoom paper, led by Eun-jin Shin (Postdoc
@cambridgeastro.bsky.social) is out on arXiv today!

This work explores the impact of different stellar feedback mechanisms on black hole growth in dwarf galaxies!

#astro #astrocoding
The MandelZoom project II: the impact of stellar feedback on black hole accretion through an $α$-disc in dwarf galaxies with a resolved interstellar medium. Eun-jin Shin et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23548
It’s been a pleasure to work with Nick Maragkakis (PhD student @icrar.bsky.social) and collaborators on his recently submitted paper, just out on arXiv today: “On the consistency of jet feedback modelling across different astrophysics hydrodynamical codes”

#astro #astrocoding
On the consistency of jet feedback modelling across different astrophysics hydrodynamical codes. N. Maragkakis et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18293
Was great fun to help organise and co-chair this special discussion meeting at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

Thank you to all of the speakers and attendees that made it such a great day!

#astro #AGNOutflows
First up in our black hole discussion meeting is a talk by Prof Debora Sijacki. 💫⚫

She says the field is moving in a "very exciting" direction, citing a "pioneering idea that black holes in dwarf galaxies could be driving powerful, fast outflows that could influence their star formation rates".
Remember getting Pokémon Red as a kid when it came out and the “MissingNo. Glitch” 😅.

Suddenly feeling very old 👴

#pokemon #gaming #gameboy
Well brunch from Love at First Bite certainly provides ample reason for further #Berlin visits 😋
On my way to see Arsenal vs London City Lionesses in the WSL today

#ArsenalWomen #COYG
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Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
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This diagram is excellent and 100000% correct.
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
Surely an opportunity for “live long and paws-per” 🐾
It’s #InternationalDogDay

Thanks for always being such a good boy, Otis! ❤️🐶
If, for any reason, you’d like to spend 30 minutes listening to me ramble on about my research, my talk from the “Unveiling a Universe of Black Holes: The Next Generation of AGN Surveys” workshop at MIAPbP is now on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z488...

#astro #cosmology
Simulating supermassive black holes from event horizon to cosmic web and back again by Martin Bourne
YouTube video by MIAPbP
www.youtube.com
Quite possibly my new favourite Pokémon TCG card design ⭐️
Thank you Dubrovnik and Rome (especially the cats) for what has been a wonderful (if a little hot) week 🇮🇹 🇭🇷 🐈
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Yet again, a Green Party chooses gardening (environmentalism without socialism)
🚨NEW | Green leader candidates Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns say they want trans women **banned** from women's spaces + sports.

In a Q&A, they said "gender and biological sex are not the same" and claimed "evidence" was needed for trans women to be allowed into women's spaces
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Could this new left-wing party transform British politics?

I sat down with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social to discuss what's currently known as 'Your Party' - and what the future could bring.

Watch here 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jp...
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Please join us for the Royal Astronomical Society Special discussion on AGN-driven multiphase outflows: Toward Consensus between Theory and Observation

10th October 2025 at Burlington House, London.

Details/abstract submission: ras.ac.uk/events-and-m...

@royalastrosoc.bsky.social

#astro
AGN-Driven Multiphase Outflows: Toward Consensus Between Theory and Observation
RAS Meetings | Friday, 10 of October 2025 - 10:30 | AGN-Driven Multiphase Outflows: Toward Consensus Between Theory and Observation
ras.ac.uk
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Another reason for loving workshops in Sesto ⛰️ 🏔️

The science has been great too 😄
I rue the day that someone told me that weissbier tastes like bananas… 🍌
I wonder why I love coming to Sesto for workshops 😋
Please join us for the Royal Astronomical Society Special discussion on AGN-driven multiphase outflows: Toward Consensus between Theory and Observation

10th October 2025 at Burlington House, London.

Details/abstract submission: ras.ac.uk/events-and-m...

@royalastrosoc.bsky.social

#astro
AGN-Driven Multiphase Outflows: Toward Consensus Between Theory and Observation
RAS Meetings | Friday, 10 of October 2025 - 10:30 | AGN-Driven Multiphase Outflows: Toward Consensus Between Theory and Observation
ras.ac.uk
Was an amazing day!
the Uni of Herts showed out today at London Pride 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️💖

@uhlgbtqstaff.bsky.social