Francesca Fragkoudi
- Another proud supervisor moment today 🤩 Alex has their awesome paper out on the arXiv about what sets bar rotation in the cosmological context: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20941 Alex finds that galaxies with lower stellar mass and lower baryon-dominance have slower bars ✨ 🔭🧪 #astrosci #astro
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- Very proud of PhD student Thomas Tomlinson, who's awesome paper is out on the arXiv today, on bar-induced substructures in stellar haloes 🤩🔭 #astrosci arxiv.org/abs/2601.14409
- Cakes for Good: an initiative by Durham astronomy's wonderful PhD students reported on in Nature 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Last month we had the privilege of having Durham U's Chancellor, Dr Fiona Hill, record the narration for a new VR movie we're developing about the life of our Milky Way, using the new Auriga Superstars simulations 🔭☄️✨ We're really excited to share this soon with you all 👀 #astronomy #astrosci
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- oh dear, scary, but good to know since I often use google for quick calculations and unit conversions 😱
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- Our sister institute at Durham, the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, are advertising for a five year lectureship position 🔭☄️ Advertisement is here, have a look and come join us in pretty Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #astrosci
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- My awesome PhD student 🤩
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- am I... the only person who likes the game of "submit to arXiv at exact time to be first"? 👀 I totally understanding those who don't want to play it and submit at any time. I always go through the whole list anyway, or lately tend to use something like benty-fields which sorts the papers for me
- allowing myself a small moment of pride to say that I'm really happy to have been promoted to associate professor 😊
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- wow look at how deep the VRubin image is!
- much stars, very beautiful 🤩
- Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
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- correction: it's a bar within a star-forming oval overdensity INSIDE A WEAK BAR WITHIN A LARGER DISC. WHAT! A *chef's kiss* fractal galaxy. I think it's my new fave 🥰
- my office mate today, seriously slacking off
- very proud of Paula Lopez, PhD student in Argentina, on her paper out on arXiv today 🤩🥳 Paula explored the formation and evolution of boxy/peanut bulges (the vertically extended part of stellar bars) in the Auriga cosmological simulations ☄️🔭 #astronomy arxiv.org/abs/2505.13590
- This galaxy is mad tings. It's a bar within a star-forming oval overdensity WHAT IS GOING ON
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- short documentary on the actions of scientists to create public awareness about the climate emergency we are currently in www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvk...
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- NAM abstract submission closes *today* don't forget to submit yours and join us in beautiful Durham in July! 🔭 #astrosci
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- Speaking to poet friend about a conference he attended: F: So did you just argue about the meaning of poems? E: No, we mused on it. F: Hmm in our conferences we argue about galaxies. E: Poems, the galaxies of the mind. F: I like that. Does that make galaxies the poems of the Universe?
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- as a native greek speaker, this hurts my brain
- Reposted by Francesca FragkoudiTook a while to go through this material. Highly recommend reading even just his papers with 1000+ citations. A phenomenal legacy. On first meeting him as starry eyed grad student remember wondering where the bodyguards were 🧪⚛️
- A huge loss for our community, Peter was a lovely person and colleague
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