Astrophysicist at @RoyalObs studying galaxy formation with @NASAWebb and @EdinburghUni Chancellor's Fellow.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined February 2013
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The job ad has just gone live for a 3-year postdoc position in my group at Edinburgh University, working on high-redshift galaxy evolution with JWST and MOONS. The deadline for applications is a month today on 20th December elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
Very nice new article published on @astrobites about my most recent paper astrobites.org/2024/10/23/qu…
Aurora from Blackford Hill in Edinburgh this evening @RoyalObs @PhysAstroEd
Very happy to have contributed to this article in @NatureAstronomy about my Bagpipes software, and thanks very much to @dr_paul_woods, I think access code is a great idea! nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
Someone tell @Darudevil
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Happy to have contributed to this article on @ice_in_cosmos's excellent new paper!
Some galaxies hailing from the infant universe may already hold vast populations of old stars.
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Very much enjoyed my flying visit to #EAS2024Padova to present a review on the first massive quiescent galaxies. Many thanks to the organisers for inviting me, I’m sure it’ll be a great rest of the week.
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@midgov I moved out of Midlothian six months ago, notified you in advance, and I'm still getting demands for council tax. Obviously, I can't get through to anyone on the phone. Please sort out your pathetic organisation, stop threatening me, and pay me the money that you owe me.
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Just had an absolutely spectacular 20 minutes, way brighter than it was before and many more colours.
Mess about in Iceland for a week looking for them, then the next week they come right to your back door. #aurora #NorthernLights
Too much, too young, too fast? The first results from mine and @FergusLPCullen's EXCELS JWST Cycle 2 programme are out today. We show beautiful new spectra for 4 ultra-massive galaxies that formed way too many stars when the Universe was way too young 1/3 arxiv.org/abs/2405.02242
In fact these galaxies are right on the edge of what can be accommodated by our current model of cosmology, and only then by forming all their gas directly into stars, a process that's normally ~10% efficient. Many thanks to @chrisclovell for helping me set up this comparison 2/3
What do Australian hard rock band Airbourne and the first massive quiescent galaxies to appear in the Universe have in common with each other? Find out on tomorrow morning’s ArXiv
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The first half of mine and @FergusLPCullen's JWST Cycle 2 EXCELS programme was observed just before Christmas and the results are looking pretty stunning. For more than a year we've only had data like this for one high-redshift massive quiescent galaxy, now it's quite a few more!
Happy to have contributed to this BBC article about two years of JWST! I'm also popping up on BBC News throughout the day talking about JWST discoveries so far with Profs Gillian Wright and @markmccaughrean. bbc.com/news/resources/idt-6…
Massive respect to whoever asked for 500-1000 hours of JWST time
STScI received 1,931 proposals for #JWST Cycle 3 – a world record – requesting almost 48,800 hours of observing time. Get more proposal submission statistics: bit.ly/47cEvm1
An advert is now live for a PhD position working with me on @NASAWebb and @VLT_MOONS data, starting September 24. Details of the project and how to apply, along with the other astronomy projects on offer at Edinburgh can now be found at the link below. ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fell…
Job ad now live for two postdoc positions at Edinburgh, working with @FergusLPCullen and myself on spectroscopy of distant galaxies with JWST and MOONS. The application deadline is 9th November. More details at: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
It's been great working with Hin and @lagopede on this exciting paper out on arXiv this morning: rapid quenching in local galaxies is usually associated with an increase in stellar metallicity, previously thought to only result from very slow quenching arxiv.org/abs/2309.16626
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I'm very excited to have been awarded an @ERC_Research Starting Grant for my project OMG: The Origins of Massive Galaxies. Over the coming year I'll be hiring two postdocs and a PhD student at @PhysAstroEd to carry out research using @ESA_Webb and @VLT_MOONS.
🎉 The latest ERC Starting Grant competition results are out!
400 bright minds have been awarded over €628 million to fund ideas at the frontiers of science & scholarship.
Find out who, where and why 👉 erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…
🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCStG @HorizonEU
