Thomas Haworth

Adieu, X

@ilaria_pascucci Looking forward to seeing the paper. These long lived disks are quite the mystery

🎉 Congratulations to LPL Sagan Fellow Feng Long for the discovery of a 30 Myr-old primordial disk! 🚀 The gas inside the snowline is strikingly carbon-rich – key for planet formation. Don’t miss the paper and the press release! 🔗 #JWST #Exoplanets news.arizona.edu/news/james-web…

Today we have a paper from Luke Keyte and @TomHaworthAstro studying the role of externally driven winds in planet-forming disk chemistry. Planet forming material is shone upon by nearby stars, which may affect the chemistry. (1/4) arxiv.org/abs/2501.05172

It’s giving rainbows and unicorns, like a middle school binder 🦄🌈 Meet NGC 602, a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where astronomers using @NASAWebb have found candidates for the first brown dwarfs outside of our galaxy. esawebb.org/news/weic2425/

🇬🇧🇮🇳 @QMUL and @ShooliniUniv announce dual master's degree programme, allowing students from India to earn both Indian and UK qualifications. "It will equip students with competitive skills for today's market," said Professor Helen Bailey. Read more⬇️ qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202…

A cool paper today from @QMULSPCS's Alex Ziampras. Sometimes the inner part of a planet-forming disc can misalign, casting a shadow on the outer disc (left image). This can lead to all sorts of observable dynamical features (right images). Read more here arxiv.org/abs/2410.13932

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals. The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program. Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization. A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies. You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program! These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time. If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.

#QMPAW24, #LovePostdocs, @TomHaworthAstro , @QMULSPCS

A pair of externally photoevaporating discs in Orion. JWST observations from the dataset of @markmccaughrean

And now for something completely different... It feels odd but somehow nice as an astronomer being on a paper in the journal "photosynthesis research" link.springer.com/10.1007/s11120…

This is a video. This is not a rendering. There are real persons in the video. Having been there half a year ago, it sounds incredible to me, but it is true. History in the making @ESO

And a fantastic day two as well. Tomorrow we have a day at the @RoyalAstroSoc for group discussions and collaborative work

Also probably my best ever #ALMA cycle, with a large number of super exciting co-I proposals given time. Congrats to all of the successful PIs

That said, many great new ideas and easily addressed problems have appeared following the talks and discussions today. Exciting!

A fantastic first day at the @royalsociety discussing externally irradiated discs. One takeaway is there is so much going on, so quickly, that noone actually has a good view of the state of the field.

@QMULSPCS 's Gavin Coleman has an extremely cool paper out today providing the first predictions of the mass distributions of free-floating planets (FFPs), also known as rogue planets, that do not orbit a parent star arxiv.org/abs/2407.05992 (1/6)

Massive congratulations to @mariecgoldman. I can't remember ever having such strong conviction in my vote before.

It always feels rough when a proposal you are really excited about is first quartile but not selected 🫠. Not a complete wipeout this year for @ESO #P114 this year though...

What a time to be studying external photoevaporation 🤩. Great review talk from Sierk van Tereisga at #EAS2024

Wonderful talk by Roland Bacon on the decades of work that led to @ESO VLT MUSE AT #EAS2024 . I am very excited for the future of integral field spectroscopy that is coming