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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 02/03/2026

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

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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 · 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 · 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

Bonus post of some of my travel pics 📸

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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 · 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 · 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 · 10/07/2025

Hey Siri, play “Supermassive Black Hole” by Muse

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

Real sky or @eso.org Supernova Planetarium? 🌌

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I am very excited to announce that over the next few weeks I’ll be a summer research student at @eso.org. Stay tuned for some cool science and beautiful pics! #ESOSummerResearch.

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Just Out: EMU/GAMA: A new approach to characterising radio luminosity functions. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11453 I have been lucky enough to be a part of my first publication, go check out the awesome work being done in radio astronomy! 🌌📡

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Just got back from Japan and visited the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno Park—easily the coolest museum I’ve ever been to. Loved all the exhibits on Japanese Nobel physics winners, the space displays were incredible… and yes, there was even a surprise Maxwell jump scare.

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Coming out of my Masters Hyperfocus to show some pictures from the AIP Poster Event today @ Macquarie University. This was my first poster event so it was very scary but I learnt a lot from all the awesome presenters and posters. Poster will be added to my website sometime in the next few weeks 🌌

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

What a year it’s been already! Last week was my final week at CSIRO with the amazing Space and Astronomy team. I’m forever grateful for the learning and friendships I’ve developed over the last 2+ months. This week I jump fully into my masters and am excited to see where the rest of the year goes.

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My special interest this week is pretending I know things about football to trick people into talking about the Super Bowl half time show with me.

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My desk @ Macquarie has a label!!! This is a momentous day!

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Have a crunchy picture from my goodreads! Also 9 as of this morning:

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A goal of mine this year is to learn how to process images from my favourite telescopes. I started that journey this afternoon with JWST data of the M74 galaxy, so here is my day one progress! If anyone has any helpful links or videos feel free to share them below 🚀🌌🔭

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Digesting some starbursts this afternoon and not the lollies! This team just submitted some cool work on how intense radiation fields may affect the flow of molecules in starburst galaxy M 82. I love the diagram included too! Check out the preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.14893 🔭

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Finally getting my hands deep into my masters research this weekend… 🚀🌌🔭

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Picture of my kitty doing important space work 🤓🌌🐱

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

By voting me in as president, I promise to make eating pastries and drinking coffee a compulsory event on Sundays 🫡

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The first draft of my website is ready! I can now start filling it with some content 🎉 🌌 If you want to check it out ➡️ jaydewillingham.github.io

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This feels a little too relatable this week 😅🌌

Astronomers being swallowed by the constant build up of data reduction work to do instead of researching and observing.

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝗠𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲. 𝘼 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 🧵🌩️ Last week, I was set for my first unsupervised observing run with the ATCA. It was supposed to be an exciting milestone—but instead, Sydney’s worst storm in years turned it into something I’ll never forget. Part 1/8

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Jayde Willingham @jaydewst.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

How learning html for my website is going 😅😂 In good news, a first version is almost complete!

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