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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📢 Paper day! 📢 We explore [OIII] outflows in DESI quasars to understand what is driving the previously found radio-dust connection, whereby more dust in quasars = more likely to be radio detected. We find this radio-dust connection is dominated by sources with high velocity outflows.

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Always enjoy a public talk! Today I gave a webinar to the Institute of Astronomy, Sri Lanka on supermassive black holes and active galaxies ✨

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Final conference of the summer! ✨ Myself, C. Andonie, J. Petley, E. Glikman, and T. Costa organised a Lorentz Center workshop on the role of obscured AGN in galaxy evolution. It was a really fun and inspiring week, meeting lots of amazing astronomers and learning a lot about dusty AGN! 🌌

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Another great conference this week at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social National Astronomy Meeting (#NAM) in Birmingham ✨🐂 I am also honoured to have received the RAS best postdoc poster prize!

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Enjoying sunny Ascona ☀️ Learning all about galaxies this week (and talking to galaxy people about dusty quasars)! 🌌

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Had a great (busy) week helping to organise the @eso.org AGN Feedback Across all Scales and Time conference ✨ Lots of interesting discussion and familiar faces! Next stop Ascona, to attend The Many Scales of Galaxy Environments conference 🌌

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I will be at #EAS2026Lausanne this year on Wednesday 1st July, running the AGN populations in large sky radio surveys session SS13 📡 If you are around on Wednesday, come and say hi!

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Looking forward to giving this month's public talk at @eso.org about supermassive black holes ✨ There are still a few tickets left if anyone is in Munich: supernova.eso.org/programme/de...

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Excited to get more involved with 4MOST @4most-eu.bsky.social, exploring the first spectra from the AGN survey ✨ Great talk at the all hands meeting by Carolina Andonie

Screenshot of first slide of talk at 4MOST conference about the AGN survey visual inspection efforts

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

📢 Abstract submission deadline for NAM 2026 is on the 2nd April!

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Amazing first ever paper by @durham.ac.uk PhD student Ciera Sargent, exploring the link between radio spectral slopes and morphology in red and blue quasars Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2603.24739

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Registration and abstract submission for this year's National Astronomy Meeting in Birmingham is open! ⭐️ There are several AGN sessions, including one I am leading: From horizon to galaxy and beyond: the role of jets, winds and outflows in AGN 💨 Link: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Deadline for EAS abstract submission is tomorrow (3rd March)!

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Visiting the US east coast to attend the AGN & Energy Flows Workshop next week at the @flatironinstitute.org New York! 🗽 I'll also be visiting @princeton.edu, the CfA @harvard.edu, and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to give seminars - let me know if anyone is around and wants to chat about AGN! ✨

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Abstract submission for EAS 2026 is now open! Myself and Emmanuel Bempong-Manful are chairing a session on AGN in large sky radio surveys ✨📡 eas.unige.ch/EAS2026/sess...

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Had a great week helping out at the VLT Beyond 2030 conference @eso.org ✨ Also two seminars at ESO and MPA @maxplanck.de 🪐

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Great paper on arXiv today by @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social PhD student Houda Haidar! ✨ Using #JWST data, she finds a strong morphological link between the warm dust, radio, and coronal [SiVI] emission (tracing shocks), implying shocks heating the dust ⚡️ Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2601.02865

Panels showing the JWST, radio, and SINFONI images for four local AGN, showing all three wavelength maps are co-spatial.

Dust temperature versus bolometric luminosity for four local AGN, demonstrating illumination by the AGN alone cannot reproduced the observed dust temperatures.

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📢 AGN Feedback across all scales and time, @eso.org 6-10th July 2026 ✨ Abstract deadline 15th January! www.eso.org/sci/meetings...

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📢 The Many Scales of Galaxy Environments, Ascona Switzerland, 13-17th July 2026 ✨ Abstract deadline 15th December! astro.dur.ac.uk/ascona/

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📢 AGN Feedback across all scales and time, @eso.org 6-10th July 2026 ✨ Abstract deadline 15th January! www.eso.org/sci/meetings...

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Excited to start my next adventure as an @eso.org Fellow in Garching! 🇩🇪🔭

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Excited and honoured to be giving the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture on Thursday 20th November at the @uniofbath.bsky.social and online 🔭 I will be talking about all things supermassive black holes and quasars! 🌌 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social

Poster outlining title and date of the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture: Unveiling the secrets behind supermassive black holes by Dr Vicky Fawcett

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Had a great time visiting @unisouthampton.bsky.social, presenting my latest work on outflows in DESI QSOs ✨ Now on to Portsmouth!

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

That's a wrap on another great #STEMFest in Newcastle! It was a great event, talking to thousands of primary, secondary, and sixth form students about space! 🚀 It's been a busy #WorldSpaceWeek, speaking to students, giving a school talk, and being part of Meet a Scientist with Dynamic Earth 🌎

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Looking forward to this tomorrow! I will be discussing my latest work, linking outflows, radio, and dust in DESI QSOs ✨

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social team will be at this year's #stemfest in Newcastle! We'll be exploring invisible light and space with ~3000 students across 3 days! ✨ #rtcnorth

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Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) @aippotsdam.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Über 150 internationale Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler diskutieren diese Woche am AIP beim 18. Potsdamer Thinkshop. Der Thinkshop mit dem Titel „The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Formation“ bietet Raum für neue Ideen und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. 💫 #astrophysics #galaxy #potsdam

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

First time visiting @aippotsdam.bsky.social this week presenting a poster on my recent dusty QSO work 🔭

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Lots of @newcastleuni.bsky.social representation at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week! ✨ First up, @astrofawcett.bsky.social talking about evidence for a blow-out phase in dusty QSOs 💨 #NAM2025Durham

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Great talk at the @nam25-durham.bsky.social EDI session by @izgarland.bsky.social Favourite (paraphrased) quote on why outreach is important: 'Astronomy is a hobby, disguised as a profession, paid for by the tax payers. I think the least we can do is to make our work accessible to the tax payers.’

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

If you’re at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week, check out the North East Astronomy exhibition in TLC39! ✨

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We need your help to create immersive and accessible educational experiences! Are you interested in helping make science engaging and accessible to a wider audience? If so, please fill out this short survey about using sound to represent scientific data and concepts in educational shows.

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Enjoying my first ever EAS at @ucc.ie Cork! 🇮🇪🚀 Come along to session SS26 on Wednesday to hear about outflows and shocks in dusty quasars ✨

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Very honoured to be giving this year’s Caroline Herschel prize lecture on dusty black holes! ✨

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I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here @imascientist.org.uk · 06/06/2025

Choose the best plan: - Take a break from work, or… - Take a break from work to exchange black hole theories with a student🌌 As we wrap up #VolunteersWeek2025, join Vicky! She has been taking part since 2023 and was one of the most active scientists last term.

The screenshot of an I'm a Scientist Chat reads: Student "Rae": @Vicky F, do you believe that anything is in the centre of a black hole? If you do, what do you think? Vicky: the short answer is that no one knows what is in the centre of a black hole! Because the gravity is so strong nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole. Rae: I heard a theory once that if anyone was to ever make it through a black hole it would open up into a 'light hole', which could be said was the big bang! Would something like that be possible?? Vicky: It's an interesting theory! Some people think black holes are wormholes that transport you to another time and place. However it is all theoretical and no one really knows what happens when you go into a black hole. So if we sent a drone into a black hole, it would not be able to escape or send a signal to tell us what it found. Some people think that if you fall into a black hole you keep falling forever, and that it is a literal "hole" in space!

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'm attending EAS this year in Cork, speaking at the AGN outflow session (SS27) 🌌 If anyone attending would like to have a chat about dusty AGN, please reach out! #EAS2025Cork

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NAM 2025 Durham @nam25-durham.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Remember to register to be a part of NAM 2025! Presenters need to register by 6th June (next Friday), this includes anyone giving a talk or presenting a poster! All other participants have until 20th June! #NAM2025durham #community #sciencethroughconnection

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very honoured the our project Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East won the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Engagement and Place Award for Engaging for Cultural Benefit ✨ Thank you to all the team! 🔭 Find out more here: www.spaceinvestigators.com #EngageAwards2025

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Enjoyed visiting Scarborough over the weekend and giving a talk at Scarborough & Ryedale Astronomical Society 🔭

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢New paper alert! Charlie MacMahon explores new ways to train cosmological emulators in order to constrain cosmological models 🖥️🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2504.00552

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢New paper alert! Carola Zanoletti explores how using PCA-based cuts can provide tighter constrains on modified gravity theories 🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2503.20951

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Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Congratulations to the nominees in the Engaging for Cultural Benefit category at this year's Engagement and Place Awards. Find out more 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/e... #WeAreNCL

'Engaging for Cultural Benefit: Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East,' Dr Vicky Fawcett.
Featuring an adult supervising a child using an interactive astronomy exhibit.

'Engaging for Cultural Benefit' Concrete Dreams, Farell Centre.
Image of several individuals viewing an exhibit titled 'Concrete Dreams' at the Farrell Centre.

Engagement for Cultural Benefit - 'We All Come From Somewhere: An Exhibition of Welcome at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art' Sophie Ellis

Featuring a banner with the text 'Together With Refugees' inside a heart shape.

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If you're in the North East of England, come along to the Discover Festival hosted by @newcastleuni.bsky.social on the 7th June! ⭐️ The @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social team will be hosting a drop-in session: Seeing the Invisible in Space 🔭 www.ncl.ac.uk/discover-fes...

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NAM 2025 Durham @nam25-durham.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Abstract submissions for NAM 2025 have been extended to 1pm on Monday 31st March! With over 60 different sessions running across 10 strands, there are so many ways to get involved. Submit your abstracts here: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/abst... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

New @desisurvey.bsky.social data release just dropped! ✨ Check out all the papers and read about how dark energy might be stranger than we thought...

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Abstract submission deadline for NAM is only a couple of weeks away! (30th March) ✨ I've heard there will be a great session on AGN... 👀

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Amazing news to hear that @newcastleuni.bsky.social astronomy PhD student Houda Haidar has been awarded #JWST time to study dust and shocks in AGN ✨

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