Dr Libby Jones
Infrared Astronomer 🔭 - space dust and stars in local galaxies.
Webb Fellow @ UK Astronomy Technology Centre
Love sports, history, 🐶 and UK politics.
- Reposted by Dr Libby Jones🧵1/6 Chien-Shiung Wu shattered one of physics' core assumptions. ⚛️ In 1957, she proved that nature does distinguish between left & right in weak interactions. Before her, physicists thought mirrors didn't matter in fundamental laws. She flipped that on its head.🧪 #histsci #WomenInSTEM #science
- Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...
- Reposted by Dr Libby JonesThis letter more or less confirms that once again the need to fund the ‘fixed’ costs of STFC - essentially the labs - those of us who work in areas funded by the council can go swivel. So stupid and shortsighted.
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- What a joy to podcast again - perfect timing for the 20‑year Jodcast anniversary! 😅 Thanks @seldomsirius.bsky.social for making it happen and the OG @officialjodcast.bsky.social for the memories and laughs. Felt like we never left. Catch us chat here: seldomsirius.net/archive/024/
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- When I was a phd student loved chatting to the old guard at Jodrell and the antics they got up to and how they pranked the spooks a lot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- One of the 24 here! 😅
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- Starting to explore LinkedIn more seriously as I enter the final couple of years of my Webb Fellowship. Any advice on how to make it useful (and not just another social feed)?
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- What a view from the observatory this morning
- Brain exploded Picasso died in 1973!!!!!! I thought it was at least 50-100 years earlier. How have I not any TV clips on him.
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- Morning its #JWSTcycle5 deadline day. It seems like proposals are running high with numbers rapidly rising overnight. My approximate numbers are ~1500 currently in!
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- My inbox right now: JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 5 received. JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 1 received. JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 6 received. JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 1 received. JWST Proposal [Redacted] submission 2 received.
- By my estimates, there have been ~1000 JWST proposals already submitted, and there are over 24 hours before the deadline!! 🔭
- Jwst proposal numbers are running high!
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- Sent my collaborators a JWST proposal idea and it’s either absolutely 🤪 or completely 🧐🤩🤓💡 On a side note I now have Dizzee Rascal's song Bonkers stuck in my head.
- 🔭 I love plotting a new JWST stellar catalogues and colour magnitude diagram for the first time. Seeing new stars and populations. They are just so clean and beautiful. All the features you can see, from stars I have just detected for the first time ever 😊 It's a rather giddy feeling.
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- I want to rage at narrative cv’s. Why require 2000 words when you could have a nice concise list version instead. And who wants to review that instead.
- esawebb.org/news/weic251... MIRI on JWST keep delivering. We have looked into the body of the butterfly nebular and seen such fantastic structures. The death of stars like the sun is alot more dynamic than you could imagine. Very happy to be a member of both the science and MIRI teams.
- Does anyone here / at @rasjournals.bsky.social know then the MNRAS journal went fully electronic?
- Running @conornally.bsky.social STARBUGII code for JWST PSF photometry. Seen this in the installation messages: “Downloading The Junior Colour Encyclopedia of Space” 😂
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- Spain getting some very very soft free kicks. #engesp
- Reading the RAS demographic survey for 2023. 🔭 Rather surprised that there is some major difference in JWST usage between genders give the dual anonymous proposal proces.
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- Reposted by Dr Libby JonesThanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
- 🔭 Paper day: Want to know the properties of ALL the Nearby (300 pc) evolved stars - we have just the catalogue for you! arxiv.org/abs/2506.10542 FYI: There are 852 evolved stars close to us.
- The final set of JWST MIRI EC observations are scheduled for tomorrow! Looking forward to completing the picture of Cen A.
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