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Pia Cortes Zuleta @piacortes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@mmattamala.bsky.social and I adopted this beauty directly from the streets of Glasgow. Momo is the nicest cat we've ever met, we already love her very much. She will be co-author in all the papers of this household 🐈‍⬛ #cat

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Matías Mattamala @mmattamala.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Our review "Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots" is now out. We discuss technical challenges but also societal issues when deploying quadrupeds and humanoids in the real-world. Science Robotics: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2607.28952

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Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots

This Review surveys the current state, key challenges, and emerging directions in the development of legged robots.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

World View: A change in UK policy jeopadizes the future of UK astrophysics - By Catherine Heymans

The latest budget proposal announced by the largest UK science funding agency threatens to severely affect UK astrophysics research. My colleagues and I are fighting back.

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Alessandra Candian @donnainfiorino.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

56 of our wonderful colleagues at in the #Physics & #Astronomy department in Nottingham (UK) received “at risk of redundancy” letters. Their University is planning to reduce the size of the Physics department by a third. Consider sign the open letter: 🔭 nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

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Save Nottingham Physics and Astronomy

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 12/03/2026

📢 Applications are open for the 2026 LSST Discovery Alliance Data Science Fellowship! 🔭🧪 Learn the skills needed to work with the huge datasets from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey. Apply by Mar 27: lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/lsst-discovery-alliance-programs/data-science-fellowship

Collage of participants from previous LSST-DA data science fellowship program years.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The future of UK Astronomy & Particle Physics is at risk from proposed 30% funding cuts that, if implemented, will be "genuinely catastrophic". Great to see this detailed BBC report on the issue by @pallabg.bsky.social 🔭🧪⚛️ #STFCcuts #SaveUKAstronomy 🗞️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The future of Uk scientific research. Several research projects face funding cuts. Here are some projects under threat.

Words over a picture of the extremely large telescope (ELT) under construction in Chile

Scotland's Astronomer Royal, Catherine Heymans, speaking for the UK community of astronomers, told the science select committee that the proposed cuts were "genuinely catastrophic and will be devastating for the UK."
She, along with a particle physicist, told MPs most of the potential cuts would lead to British scientists having to greatly reduce their involvement or withdraw altogether from some of the world's most important international astronomy and particle physics experiments.
Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how the Universe began and how it will end, finding the first ever signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars, detecting black holes that ripple space time, mapping newborn planets around distant stars and analysing their atmospheres for signs of life. All of these are experiments in which, historically, the UK played a leading role. But now, British scientists could be largely locked out of them in the future, if the STFC does not pay its way.

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St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy @physastrostand.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Congratulats to Dr Pía Cortés Zuleta who has been awarded the L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science UK and Ireland Young Talent Award in the category of Physical Sciences. The prize was awarded for her work on developing novel techniques for the detection and characterisation of low-mass exoplanets.

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Dr Ryan MacDonald @distantworlds.space · 07/05/2025

Graduating soon and still looking for an astronomy research project for Sep 2025? 🔭 I'm offering a Masters by Research (MSc) project on #exoplanet atmospheres 🪐 at the University of St Andrews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Join us to work on modelling JWST spectra! 📜 Application details: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...

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Pia Cortes Zuleta @piacortes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

@mmattamala.bsky.social wrote this article about a robotic horse concept

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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Are you a school student eager to come to #CERN and work on a real particle detection project? Apply now for the Beamline for Schools #BL4S competition! Winners will get the chance to experience hands-on lab work at either #CERN or #DESY. Deadline: April 10th, 2025 beamline-for-schools.web.cern.ch

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Pia Cortes Zuleta @piacortes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm slowly moving to this side of the internet so I'll share my latest paper here! We report the discovery of one of the closest exoplanets to us! ✨Gl 725 A b✨ is potentially a super-Earth orbiting the primary component of a M dwarf binary system at only 3.5 pc. arxiv.org/abs/2411.09506

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Gl 725A b: a potential super-Earth detected with SOPHIE and SPIRou in an M dwarf binary system at 3.5 pc

We report the discovery of a super-Earth candidate orbiting the nearby mid M dwarf Gl\,725A using the radial velocity (RV) method. The planetary signal has been independently identified using high-pre...

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Pia Cortes Zuleta @piacortes.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

is it the postdoc life just having meetings everyday? 🫠🧪

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Pia Cortes Zuleta @piacortes.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

someone had 169 slides for a 15min talk. help

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