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Tom Bickle

@astrobicks.bsky.social
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Astro PhD student at the University of Hertfordshire. Interested in the atmospheres of young brown dwarfs & planetary mass objects | Can usually be found shouting obscenities at python. he/him

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 13/09/2026
it would be so much easier to be excited about the immense technological progress that LLMs bring to the table if the frontier labs weren't total assholes
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The email I used for papers before I got my institutional email has been beset with random spam. Is this normal for the emails that go on papers as corresponding author?
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Any astro folks got any advice for an incoming PhD student that you wish you'd received when you started?
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Desperately sad news. Whatever you think of the situation, this was the worst possible outcome. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Emergency services said a man was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It begins…
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Helm'S Deep King Theodin
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is amazing to see, and is testament to how keen members of the public are to get involved and help us push science forward!
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Guess who got accepted for an astronomy PhD 😱😅
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Ah yes, my favourite day to check arxiv has arrived again
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Hmm... 2nd quintile in my first ever JWST proposal as PI. Not sure whether to be annoyed or pleased lol.
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Recently my very first 1st-author paper was published! (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AJ.....) It's about the discovery of a suuuuuuper red free-floating L/T transition dwarf and likely member of the ~20-25 Myr old Beta Pictoris young moving group. It's ~1100 K and ~7 MJup.
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Discovery of the Remarkably Red L/T Transition Object VHS J183135.58-551355.9
We present the discovery of VHS J183135.58‑551355.9 (hereafter VHS J1831‑5513), an L/T transition dwarf identified as a result of its unusually red near-infrared colors (J ‑ K <SUB>S</SUB> = 3.633 ± 0...
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I guess my transition to this site is a good time to let everyone some things about me. I'm a citizen scientist who loved working on space-related projects so much that I decided to pursue a degree in Astronomy! I'm currently in my final year of undergrad.
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Tom Bickle @astrobicks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I'm here now!
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