There's a nice short review article on arXiv today by Mike Turner. I wasn't going to share it because it hasn't got any pictures in it, but changed my mind. Here is the abstract The current cosmological paradigm, ΛCDM, is characterized its expansive description of the history of the Universe, its deep connections to particle physics and the large amounts of data that support it.

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By Vance Wheeler, Andrey Kravtsov & 3 more. Using numerical simulations to model the stellar metallicities of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, finding agreement with current observations

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Now that all the excitement about the Nobel Prize for Physics has died down I thought I would do a quick post to follow up my previous one about the election for the next President of Ireland (Uachtarán na hÉireann). Only three people gathered enough support by the deadline to be named on the ballot paper, namely: Catherine Connolly (an independent TD standing as a unified leftist who has the support of Sinn Féin, Labour, the Social Democrats and People Before Profit); Jim Gavin a former GAA player and football manager for Dublin, Civil Aviation Authority bigwig, and flying instructor in the Air Corps who was picked up by Fianna Fáil as their candidate; and Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys.

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Billy Kelleher, who ran against Jim Gavin for the Fianna Fáil nomination, said the process to select a candidate were ‘quite chaotic’.

By Jonah S. Gannon, Lucas C. Kimmig & 6 more. Identifying the possible high-redshift progenitors of low-redshift ultra-diffuse galaxies in cosmological simulations