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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Starting my scie-comm journey over on Instagram and Tiktok so my bluesky baddies get all my reposts 🌌📷

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Next Astrobite is out and shockingly it's about black holes! It has also already had an interesting comment about not liking metaphors, similies etc. in scie-comm articles, what are your thoughts? 🤔 🌌

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Over the last two weeks I had the pleasure of attending the Harley Wood School of Astronomy in Kioloa Australia, as well as the ASA’s Annual Scientific Meeting at ANU! ✨ Highlights: great people, talks from Nobel prize laureate Brian Schmidt and dinner at the National Museum! 🌌🦖

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Bit of a controversial one this month but had a lot of fun writing it!

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Last week, I spent three nights awake from 10 pm to 3 am to attend a global online conference on Little Red Dots. Despite the late hours, it was an incredible experience and I even had the opportunity to give a short presentation on some of the work I'm currently undertaking as part of my PhD. 🌌 🔭 🔴

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Its that time again: go check out my latest Astrobite 🤩

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Low key love doing a little bit of work at the airport. I’m sure everyone else loves overseeing my coding escapades. ✈️ 🔭

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Ever wondered what an Australian Masters of Research Programme is like? Well i finally wrote a blog post on my website about it! 🔭🌌 jaydewillingham.github.io/Rd2Dr_Pages/MRes_Thesis.html

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My Masters Thesis

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Was so fun being among the first people to present in Swinburne’s Virtual Universe! I had the great opportunity last week to show a group of work experience students what amazing things they can see and learn in Astrophysics. 🔭🌌

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

One of the best parts of working in astro is that you never really have to say goodbye to friends. Yes, you may move for this that or the other but likely a conference will come up where you both get to meet again. 5 stars to see you later. 👋 🌌

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In honour of my very first paper going live on the journal website, I have made annotated version of the paper! 🌌 🔭 Checkout the official version of the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/pasa... And the annotated version here: drive.google.com/file/d/18tCUE9Rrloppf7DJyV0QPKngZ1pnLvmt/view?usp=sharing

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Day in the life of an astrophysicist: Sat down to finally catch up on papers and the literature… only to discover I’ve somehow accumulated twice as many new ones to read in the process. 🌌 😅 🔭

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Masters Degree ✔ Last week I trekked back to Sydney to collect my Masters of Research Degree and officially graduate! I am continuously grateful for the time spent at Macquarie, exploring the universe from my computer.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

From Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social and Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social : Literally and figuratively, Australia is closing its eyes to the future of astronomy. Where does that leave its next generation of students? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/05/01/a...

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Australia is closing its Very Large eyes to the Universe

Literally and figuratively, Australia is closing its eyes to the future of astronomy. Where does that leave its next generation of students?

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Found out that the Euclid team needs help classifying some gravitational lensing through @mpe-garching.bsky.social. This was much better than looking at my emails while I had my coffee. (60 done today - i'll update my stats as I go on). 🔭 🌌

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Every person ever when you first start reading papers says to just look at the plots... well what do you do when they need Fort Knox level knowledge to decipher? Read my newest astrobite, that's what!

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This is doing something for the existential dread (good or bad I have yet to decide)

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

fun perk of working on simulations of the universe: increase in existential dread. 😅

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This was certainly interesting to be involved with 😂

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Are we totally wrong about how much dust there is at high redshifts? 🌌 🔭 ☄️ ...You'll have to read my very first paper to find out! It just became available on arxiv, but I'll be posting a simplified annotated version and a blog post in the coming weeks too. arxiv.org/abs/2603.17429

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EMU/GAMA: Refining Dust Extinction Corrections for Hα Luminosity Functions Using Radio-Based Calibration

We present a novel approach to correcting H$α$ luminosity functions for dust extinction by calibrating against radio-based star formation rates (SFRs), using data from the Evolutionary Map of the Univ...

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Growing up is realising that my 2016 galaxy leggings were in fact 2016 nebula leggings.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

From @astroryan.bsky.social: There’s no sugar on this doughnut – might we need to ditch tori for large nuclear disks around active galactic nuclei? Today’s authors peer deep into NGC 4151 to find out! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/17/ngc-4151-with-my-binocular-eyes/

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I spy with my large binocular eyes: a dusty torus around a supermassive black hole?

There’s no sugar on this doughnut – might we need to ditch tori for large nuclear disks around active galactic nuclei? Today’s authors peer deep into NGC 4151 to find out!

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I bought these freeze dried strawberries to try but good to know that the US government hasn’t cut funding to space food. 🛰️ 🔭 😂

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Idk if these big guys are real but they are part of my research 🔥

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Trying to explain my Monday work to my family: I’m running a simulation that is in a virtual box with side length approx 10000000000000000000000000 kilometres to see how many black holes I find. Surely that makes sense 😅

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've recently started making little astro images to procrastinate reading 70+ page review papers. If you want to see more, like this post 🔭🌌 ☄️

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I think my biggest compliment while teaching came when I was running a physics unit for environmental science students. I showed one student some Excel hotkeys and they said: “Wow, you’re a weapon, miss!” 💪 When I'm struggling with some code I think: No, You're a weapon Jayde.

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Okay now I can reveal the exciting news that this year i became a part of the @astrobites.bsky.social writing rotation, that means you can see writing from me on the internet every few weeks. And the first one has just come out!

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I believe my complaints about the lack of rain has backfired because I saw no glimpses of a super epic blood red lunar eclipse last night. However, I will always have the The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 🐺🦇

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The three books i'm begging my Sci-interested folk to read 🔭👽🚀

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Everyone told me when I moved to Melbourne to get ready for the rain. Joke’s on them — I love the rain. Joke’s on me — the forecast keeps promising rain and then… no rain.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

the world is making me sad again and i need some space from it all.

A field filled with stars and covered by clouds of gas and dust. In the centre, a thick column of dark black dust blocks light from stars that light it up from behind. More clouds behind those stars are illuminated in pale colours. Complex, layered filaments of red dust lie to the left and right. Blue, white and gold stars in various sizes can be seen around, within and through the colourful layers of dust.

The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and brightly coloured ribbon in space.

Against star-studded black space, an orange nebula surrounds a star.

Misty, bluish-white gas nearly fills this image. A few scattered stars shine through the gas. To the bottom left and just near a bright star, a dark cloud of dust interrupts the glowing, nebulous landscape.

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

*chooses a PhD to challenge myself and learn a ton of new things 🙂* me this week: wait… I actually have to learn all these things 😳

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Well actually my first week of PhD was two weeks ago but I spent it over in Perth at the Aus National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics science workshop! 🤓 An insane first week but it was good to get to know the simulation tools I’ll be using over the next 3 years! UWA is beautiful btw 🌱

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I’ve been totally MIA on socials because over the last few months I’ve been organising my move to th big city. 🏙️ Ya girl just started her PhD @ Swinburne Uni in Melbourne! Very excited for this new chapter and much news on the way 📚

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Thread of things I’ve learnt at the Mount Stromlo Student Seminars over the last few days: 1. The pythagoreans were a cult of triangle loving, bean haters. #MSSS2025

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

ooo! Adding to the reading list!

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

What are some of the things you do between projects? Astro or unAstro related. #astro #research

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Finally got around to writing a Blog Post about my experience at @eso.org as a Summer Research Student, so go check it out if you're curious! jaydewillingham.github.io/Rd2Dr_Pages/... #astro

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My time at ESO - Rd2Dr

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I had the pleasure of being a part of Macquarie University's Astronomy Open Night talk line up a few weeks ago. It was such a cool night and I always love an opportunity to talk about our Universe's history!

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and tell me if this is a thesis worthy quote: “When she was a teenager D’Agostino told a friend that she wanted to go to university to study Death, Stars and Mathematics.” Either way that’s what I’m telling people I do from now on. 💀✨🧮

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

And just a few days after getting back to Australia, I was at Macquarie University’s Higher Degree Research poster session, showing off the work behind my Master’s thesis. 🎆🤓

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Last week I finished my 6-week research programme at @eso.org with a presentation highlighting my work. It was such an amazing opportunity, I had the best time, met cool people, saw beautiful places and learnt so many things! Definitely would recommend the experience and the institution! 🌌🔭

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Can we take a moment to appreciate how cool the names "Cosmic Dawn" and "Cosmic Noon" are? So dreamy 🤩🌌✨

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Today I had the pleasure to present at the ESO journal club. It was very scary but I am so excited to develop my sci-comm skills! 🌌🎤

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Biggest shock of 2025: I'm using viridis instead of plasma 💀

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Only the coolest thing you will read all week 🌌🏃‍♀️

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

For the next three nights me and the other summer students get to play with ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT). Here’s a nice little pic of a YSO! ⭐️✨💫

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Spent way too much time this morning looking through the ALMA archive, here are some pretty sources 🤩🔭🌌

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Aus is being blessed with so many @astrokatie.com events right now and I’m devastated to be missing them 😭 But here’s my contribution to the Dr. Mack hype: Check out the 11 ep podcast she co-hosts with John Green. I found it last year and it's an absolute gem! open.spotify.com/show/5sdOcHY... 🌌🔭🎤🎧

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Crash Course Pods: The Universe

Podcast · Crash Course Pods, Complexly · Dr. Katie Mack, a theoretical astrophysicist, walks #1 New York Times bestselling author John Green through the history of the entire universe - including the ...

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