Dr. Nick Attree

@nickattree

Planetary scientist @iaacsic.bsky.social, working on @esa.int Rosetta & @cometinterceptor.bsky.social (Nucleus WG chair). Prev @TU-Braunschweig.de, @LAM, @QMUL, @physicsuol.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇪🇺 ORCID: 0000-0003-3344-6693

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Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· 1d

@themerl.bsky.social, I thought you might like to know; we travelled to Burgos to see the eclipse and there appears to be a mighty hög who lives nearby and goes for a little promenade every evening and morning. I hope he had some eclipse glasses for last night!

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· 1d

Incredible experience. Totality and then a partial #eclipse sunset from just outside #Burgos, northern #Spain. Spectacular! #IberianEclipse #Eclipse2026

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· 2d

Arrived back in #Spain from a brief trip to #France, and now in #Burgos for the #eclipse... Where it is apparently customary to promenade your pig in the evening? 😂

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· 25d

#Vamos #España!!! 🇪🇸 Absolute scenes here in the centre of #Granada Don't think I've ever cheared anything like that goal, and my team won the league this year!

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Jul 14

Well I was rotting for France, but I must admit the party's gonna be good here now... #VamosEspaña!

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Jul 14

Allez España! Vamos les blues! 🇫🇷🇪🇸

A crowd and a big screen showing football.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Jun 30

The best thing about living in a hot country? Ice cream at midnight coming home from a gig 😀 #Granada #ThePainsOfBeingPureAtHeart #PlamtaBaja

An ice-cream held up Infront of a lot nighttime street.

A band on stage with red lights and a crowd.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Jun 26

The rest of the day I am attending the @iaacsic.bsky.social's Severo Ochoa day celebrating all the projects sponsored by this programme (which includes the #JAEIntro students!). First talk in this block is @theakozakis.bsky.social talking about exoplanet chemistry and ozone

People sit in an auditorium and listen to a woman standing Infront of presentation slides with the earth and sun.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· May 28

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· May 20

The time has come. All coffees are ice coffees from now on

screenshot of the weather report for Granada. The daily maximum for the next seven days reads 29, 29, 31, 31, 29, 39, 29, and 28 degrees,

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· May 18

🎵 It's student presentation time 🎵 #JAE-Intro day at @iaacsic.bsky.social. Students are presenting the work they've been doing in their JAE internship and PhD projects. My student, Alba, is presenting her project on the analysis of historic #comet ☄️ non-gravitational forces and orbits

A woman stands Infront of a presentation saying investigating costs from their dynamics.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· May 6

A not unpleasant place to read with not unpleasant company

A laptop screen, with, behind a cat, and a sunlit courtyard with trees.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· May 4

Also had a nice time visiting #Alicante city and nearby beaches over the weekend 😀

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· May 4

Seminar delivered @ua.es. Of course I had to wear this t shirt today... #Maythe4th #StarWars. And I even got to have a full English breakfast before, courtesy of Alicante being quick the destination for UK tourist 😅

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 30

Only been back a week and I'm travelling again! We are doing a home exchange on the coast near #Alicante for the 'puente' long weekend. After, I will take the opportunity to visit @ua.es and give another seminar on #comets thermal modelling and dynamics :)

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 28

This is great! And I have to say, I am very happy with mine... a line of #lava 🌋 aaand a crater ☄️! Awesome science.nasa.gov/mission/land...

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 28

Filing my expenses claim for this trip and I might just keep one of these, it looks so fancy! @esa.int ☺️

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 23

Managed to have a wander around #Leiden on the way back to Schiphol for an early flight back to #Granada tomorrow morning. Lovely in the sun! And I very much enjoyed this sign pointing to the observatory/botanic gardens! 🪐🌿

Bustling terraces packed with people and sun shades next to a canal with canal boats, all under bright blue skies.

Flowers and a tree frame a view of a classic ditch scene: canal, boat, lifting bridge, and windmill.

A round purple sign saying planten and planten or plants and planets.

Green trees, canal, and observatory dome under blue skies.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 23

Phewph, full-on morning @cometinterceptor.bsky.social SWT giving a talk on our trajectory analysis on incoming comets and then updates from the recent #Rosetta #DustWorkshop in Graz! Plus a little advertisement for #Granada next year! (pics from yesterday and last night's sunset from the beach 😀⛱️)

Green garden with pond under a blue sky. Behind are flags of various nations and a large model of a satellite.

A yellow sun setting into a dark blue sea with yellow/orange sandy bsch in the foreground.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 22

Day two of Comet Interceptor SWT. Searched for @esa.int 's space cat, but no luck so far !

Laptop screen and rows of people looking at a screen saying comet interceptor meeting.

Cat tree, bowls and sign saying space cat. But no space cat!

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 21

Lovely walk along the beach and across the dunes to ESTEC @esa.int, for the first day of the @cometinterceptor.bsky.social science working team meeting ☄️🛰️. Excited to be finally visiting ESA so I've got my cap on! 🧢

Selfie of a man in a black hat saying ESA Infront of a large office building with flags and a model satellite outside.

Various models of satellites and space probes, one labeled juice.

A small river with green trees and a path under a blue sky.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 20

Excellent day @ TU Delft giving a seminar on #comets, catching up with Pieter and Maxime, discussing his Masters thesis, and touring the impressive labs. You can tell it's an aerospace department when there's a plane hanging from the roof, rockets in the lab, and they have their own simulator!

Large entrance foyer with rocket engine, and small plane hanging from the ceiling.

Three rockets against a wall with a sign saying Delft aerospace rocket engineering.

A large white box sits on piston legs, an aerospace simulator.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 20

Good flight over last night with views of the #SierraNevada again, though a lot less snow this time! Now I'm on the train to Delft to give a seminar this morning on comet physical properties from their dynamics. Changing... anywhere (not Liverpool or Rome)

View from an aeroplane of distant snow capped mountains.

View of a train station platform saying Rotterdam Central.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 19

Tavelling to the Netherlands tonight 🇳🇱 Tomorrow I will give a seminar @ TU Delft, and catch up with my old project student, Pieter. Then I'm off to ESTEC for a @cometinterceptor.bsky.social meeting. Looking forward to visiting @esa.int for the first time! 😀 bsky.app/profile/nick...

Silvery aeroplane wing and jet engine with a white terminal building behind, and distant view of snow capped mountains.

An aeroplane sits on the tarmac with a low mountain range behind.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 17

For some reason the remote for the TV/screen in the meeting room opposite my office is kept at the front desk. Sometimes it randomly turns on very loud and I have to walk all the way there to turn it off. Today it's muted but playing this... Actually very calming 😅

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Apr 1

Took a walk up the hill (to a friend's house to feed their cat while they're away 😸) and now having an evening stroll along the river... Always good to appreciate the city you live in! #Granada

Green hills, a distant town, and snow capped mountains.

The curve of a riverside walk lined by old metal lamp posts, with verdant greenery to one side and a distant view of snowy mountains.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Mar 19

Well I think that went well! Presented at the #Rosetta #DustWorkshop, hosted a thermal modelling spinoff meeting, and even persuaded everyone to select #Granada for the next meeting! So I will be running a #PlanetaryScience workshop this time next year. (Assuming I am still employed!)

A group of men (yes, I very much need to improve the gender balance!) sit around laptops in a meeting room.

View of a distant church tower down a busy but pretty street lit by the evening light.

Wooden interior of a traditional Austrian restaurant.

Candlelit table with plates of more hearty Austrian food.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Mar 19

Final day of the #Rosetta #DustWorkshop. Very nice social dinner (and drinks) last night, but today is going to be a struggle! I will be presenting my #67P thermal modelling results just before lunch, and then leading a spinoff discussion this afternoon - hopefully I can stay awake! #PlanetSci

Montage of various plates of hearty looking Austrian food on a table.

A small red car sits inside a restaurant.

Lots of people sit at three large tables in a traditional looking Austrian restaurant.

Nighttime view of a river, church tower, and distant castle on a hill .

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Mar 18

Cool! I really did think it was 67P at first.

Dr. Nick Attree@nickattree· Mar 17

More pics from day one of the #DustWorkshop. In which I learned of the existence of Hydrodium, saw the lab, acquired a new mini #comet #67P, and am now back in the hotel watching #Arsenal 🙂