John Stott
@jpsastro.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at Lancaster University. Mainly galaxy evolution, environment and feedback. Recent foray into machine learning and icebergs.
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
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🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: AGN variability: hidden signals in the noise
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: AGN variability: hidden signals in the noise
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
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Last night Shakira the Seestar and I went deep on Andromeda 😍🔭
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Last night Shakira the Seestar and I went deep on Andromeda 😍🔭
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We grabbed a timelapse of the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) tonight at the Alston Observatory. This is the comet that has broken apart.
It is really moving. This motion is only over about 40 minutes.
youtu.be/xDL_k6tpGOA
It is really moving. This motion is only over about 40 minutes.
youtu.be/xDL_k6tpGOA
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)
YouTube video by Mark Norris
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
We grabbed a timelapse of the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) tonight at the Alston Observatory. This is the comet that has broken apart.
It is really moving. This motion is only over about 40 minutes.
youtu.be/xDL_k6tpGOA
It is really moving. This motion is only over about 40 minutes.
youtu.be/xDL_k6tpGOA
The "ignore forever" option is an excellent way to not see things again by "independent researchers" on the Rubin forum 🧪🔭
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The "ignore forever" option is an excellent way to not see things again by "independent researchers" on the Rubin forum 🧪🔭
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NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield - and the planet Uranus - on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its 2 stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation.
science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪🔭 #Europa #EuropaClipper
science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪🔭 #Europa #EuropaClipper
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield - and the planet Uranus - on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its 2 stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation.
science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪🔭 #Europa #EuropaClipper
science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪🔭 #Europa #EuropaClipper
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Had a few enquiries recently about #Seestar smart-telescopes for #scicomm or xmas gifts for keen-kids. If you are lucky enough to have the cash (£369), these are a great investment & super easy to use.
👇These images were all taken in just a few mins in the light polluted city of Edinburgh. 🤩🔭
👇These images were all taken in just a few mins in the light polluted city of Edinburgh. 🤩🔭
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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This Black Friday - Every Course Must Go!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This Black Friday - Every Course Must Go!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
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Well that’s a first. My only mildly sarcastic answer to a question about how we know 3I/ATLAS is a comet made it onto Have I Got News For You.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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After squandering millions on Castle Meadows purchase, University of Nottingham is now axing modern languages & music
It also plans to cut its nursing programme
Leaders of the bungleocracy continue to draw handsome salaries
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It also plans to cut its nursing programme
Leaders of the bungleocracy continue to draw handsome salaries
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
After squandering millions on Castle Meadows purchase, University of Nottingham is now axing modern languages & music
It also plans to cut its nursing programme
Leaders of the bungleocracy continue to draw handsome salaries
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It also plans to cut its nursing programme
Leaders of the bungleocracy continue to draw handsome salaries
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Quick update video on the real science (plus some hopefully not ill-informed speculation) of 3I/ATLAS around it's closest approach to the Sun.
Rapid brightening! Changing colour? non-gravitational acceleration! It is Aliens yet?
No. But it's still cool.
youtu.be/oX8vBXhFQ5o
Rapid brightening! Changing colour? non-gravitational acceleration! It is Aliens yet?
No. But it's still cool.
youtu.be/oX8vBXhFQ5o
All The Latest Real Science on 3I/ATLAS
YouTube video by Mark Norris
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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There are currently no permanent academic positions for astrophysics in the UK 🔭🧪 #academicsky
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
There are currently no permanent academic positions for astrophysics in the UK 🔭🧪 #academicsky
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I never thought it was but, okay
November 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I never thought it was but, okay
These are galaxy colour magnitude diagrams from a different article surely? 🧪🔭
I think this paper about the relationship between screen time and ADHD (and related brain structure) is very interesting... but at the same time, I'm looking at the plots and grind my teeth.
These are really terrible correlations (and possibly data biases). 🧪
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
These are really terrible correlations (and possibly data biases). 🧪
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
These are galaxy colour magnitude diagrams from a different article surely? 🧪🔭
As it's Halloween here's a bit of Type O with black No. 1 🤘🎃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwY...
Type O Negative - Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare -All) [HD Remaster] [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
YouTube video by Roadrunner Records
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October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
As it's Halloween here's a bit of Type O with black No. 1 🤘🎃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwY...
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Our interstellar comet has reappeared from behind the Sun! (I note there’s no sign of it having fired any engines while hidden from us….)
Comet 3I Atlas is back in the field of view of the PUNCH WFI instruments. Here is co-added stack of all of the images from the clear filter (centered around 550nm) from October 27th.
October 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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I made a (relatively) short video looking at the 8 reasons Avi Loeb thinks 3I/ATLAS has a 40% chance of being aliens.
I’m not impressed.
youtu.be/y-oQ44pQdCU?...
I’m not impressed.
youtu.be/y-oQ44pQdCU?...
3I/ATLAS: Does it Really Have 40% Chance It's Alien?
YouTube video by Mark Norris
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Welcome to our Open Day 👋
Unfortunately, due to the clocks change, our ANPR cameras have fined all Open Day guests who have parked in our car parks between 8-9am. The fines cannot be cancelled, but 5% will go back into improving the student experience.
Unfortunately, due to the clocks change, our ANPR cameras have fined all Open Day guests who have parked in our car parks between 8-9am. The fines cannot be cancelled, but 5% will go back into improving the student experience.
October 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Welcome to our Open Day 👋
Unfortunately, due to the clocks change, our ANPR cameras have fined all Open Day guests who have parked in our car parks between 8-9am. The fines cannot be cancelled, but 5% will go back into improving the student experience.
Unfortunately, due to the clocks change, our ANPR cameras have fined all Open Day guests who have parked in our car parks between 8-9am. The fines cannot be cancelled, but 5% will go back into improving the student experience.
Best quote referring to the comet going behind the Sun “Was this hideout planned as an opportune time for technological action?”… No 🔭🧪
Loeb latest: “If 3I/ATLAS is a massive mothership, it will likely continue along its original gravitational path and ultimately exit the Solar system.”
Getting his excuses in early. Even if moves like a comet and leaves the solar system it’s still aliens.
🤦♂️
avi-loeb.medium.com/the-imminent...
Getting his excuses in early. Even if moves like a comet and leaves the solar system it’s still aliens.
🤦♂️
avi-loeb.medium.com/the-imminent...
The Imminent Solar Conjunction of 3I/ATLAS
On October 21, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will be exactly on the opposite side of the Sun relative to Earth, constituting a…
avi-loeb.medium.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Best quote referring to the comet going behind the Sun “Was this hideout planned as an opportune time for technological action?”… No 🔭🧪
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Loeb latest: “If 3I/ATLAS is a massive mothership, it will likely continue along its original gravitational path and ultimately exit the Solar system.”
Getting his excuses in early. Even if moves like a comet and leaves the solar system it’s still aliens.
🤦♂️
avi-loeb.medium.com/the-imminent...
Getting his excuses in early. Even if moves like a comet and leaves the solar system it’s still aliens.
🤦♂️
avi-loeb.medium.com/the-imminent...
The Imminent Solar Conjunction of 3I/ATLAS
On October 21, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will be exactly on the opposite side of the Sun relative to Earth, constituting a…
avi-loeb.medium.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Loeb latest: “If 3I/ATLAS is a massive mothership, it will likely continue along its original gravitational path and ultimately exit the Solar system.”
Getting his excuses in early. Even if moves like a comet and leaves the solar system it’s still aliens.
🤦♂️
avi-loeb.medium.com/the-imminent...
Getting his excuses in early. Even if moves like a comet and leaves the solar system it’s still aliens.
🤦♂️
avi-loeb.medium.com/the-imminent...
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Irritated by all the publicity hungry nonsense about 3I/ATLAS and aliens I made a video describing what we actually know about this unusual tourist from deep space and deep time that is racing through our solar system.
Spoiler: it's a comet, a cool one, but still a comet.
youtu.be/clrp8aW4RJk?...
Spoiler: it's a comet, a cool one, but still a comet.
youtu.be/clrp8aW4RJk?...
It Came From Deep Space! - 3I/ATLAS in the first 100 days
YouTube video by Mark Norris
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Irritated by all the publicity hungry nonsense about 3I/ATLAS and aliens I made a video describing what we actually know about this unusual tourist from deep space and deep time that is racing through our solar system.
Spoiler: it's a comet, a cool one, but still a comet.
youtu.be/clrp8aW4RJk?...
Spoiler: it's a comet, a cool one, but still a comet.
youtu.be/clrp8aW4RJk?...
It Came From Deep Space! - 3I/ATLAS in the first 100 days
YouTube video by Mark Norris
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Irritated by all the publicity hungry nonsense about 3I/ATLAS and aliens I made a video describing what we actually know about this unusual tourist from deep space and deep time that is racing through our solar system.
Spoiler: it's a comet, a cool one, but still a comet.
youtu.be/clrp8aW4RJk?...
Spoiler: it's a comet, a cool one, but still a comet.
youtu.be/clrp8aW4RJk?...
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🤩The @4most-eu.bsky.social (#4MOST) facility on @eso.org VISTA telescope in Chile achieved first light.
#MPE scientists played a leading role in developing the Operations System, enabling to link #eROSITA’s X-ray universe with large-scale structure of galaxies.
➡️ More: www.mpe.mpg.de/8102833/news...
#MPE scientists played a leading role in developing the Operations System, enabling to link #eROSITA’s X-ray universe with large-scale structure of galaxies.
➡️ More: www.mpe.mpg.de/8102833/news...
4MOST Begins its Journey of Cosmic Discovery
4MOST embarks on a cosmic journey, capturing spectra of thousands of celestial objects simultaneously, unlocking secrets of the universe.
www.mpe.mpg.de
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🤩The @4most-eu.bsky.social (#4MOST) facility on @eso.org VISTA telescope in Chile achieved first light.
#MPE scientists played a leading role in developing the Operations System, enabling to link #eROSITA’s X-ray universe with large-scale structure of galaxies.
➡️ More: www.mpe.mpg.de/8102833/news...
#MPE scientists played a leading role in developing the Operations System, enabling to link #eROSITA’s X-ray universe with large-scale structure of galaxies.
➡️ More: www.mpe.mpg.de/8102833/news...