Re-upping this today, citing the concluding paragraph we wrote as I just responded to a frustrating survey about integrating GenAI into humanities education at my institution.

Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops? .. According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

update: it was a terrible last night of 4.5-5 arcsecond seeing 🫩 i love feeling cold front weather but i hate observing as one rolls in

out observing targets for my thesis (and some running survey programs) with IGRINS. Had some great weather the past few nights and hoping for more! 🔭✨

WOW! An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action. 🧪🔭 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

They're tearing Goddard apart for scraps and I'm supposed to write as many proposals as I can to scramble for a fraction of the money NASA has left? Depressing, degrading, and dehumanizing in a time when the future of planetary science can be measured in the number of people it leaves behind.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

Chat… Are Black Holes Dark Energy?? In my new longer-than-usual piece for @astrobites.bsky.social, I do a deep dive into the background of the controversial 2023 paper which claimed black holes expand in step with the universe and can therefore explain dark energy. 🧪 astrobites.org/2025/10/30/a...

daaaaaamn the bottom left figure of the spectrograph is super great!

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

NYC I LOVE YOU

a little change in hue (*´∇｀*)

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

SPIDERS is out of the clean room and almost ready to ship — it’s really happening! #instrumentation #exoplanets

targets with molecular hydrogen emission HATE to see me coming ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ it was truly an amazing night of observing 🔭 *･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*

about to have a prolific observing night with IGRINS @ McDonald

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

In this bite, the Astrobites authors discuss recent changes to the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/04/n...

obsessed with this

Welcome to the official 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) Bluesky account! Stay tuned for our first-light events coming very soon, and updates on all of the amazing science we will be completing over the years to come! 📷: Y. Beletsky/ESO #4most #ESO #telescope #astronomy

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

ASTRO FRIENDS! Apply to work with some really cool people (and me)! VAST organizing has been a rewarding, LOW time commitment (~2hr/month), experience!

This is a great opportunity to get a bit of funding for putting on an event in your community! It's a very easy, low-key application. 😊 Deadline is October 8.

I’ve keeping a little bit of a secret for the past four months 🤫 I’m excited to share that I was selected as a ⭐️2025 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) Fellow!⭐️ You can read more about the unique fellowship here 🚀💫: #instrumentation #astro

From Erica Sawczynec @ericasawczynec.bsky.social : In today’s bite we discuss the use of inclusive teaching practices in physics classrooms and why physics professors are unlikely to implement more even though they help all students learn more effectively! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/13/i...

🚨 new article for astrobites! 🚨 today we’re talking about inclusive teaching practices in the physics classroom: what are they? are professors implementing them as well as they think they are? why are they reluctant to implement more? give it a read and lmk your thoughts in the comments! 👩🏼‍💻💬

🚨 new article for astrobites! 🚨 today we’re talking about inclusive teaching practices in the physics classroom: what are they? are professors implementing them as well as they think they are? why are they reluctant to implement more? give it a read and lmk your thoughts in the comments! 👩🏼‍💻💬

Great article from the Simons Foundation about the open source MESA stellar evolution code, which has a had a huge impact on astrophysics over the past 15 years. I had not heard that the code's architect, software guru Bill Paxton, had passed away in July. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/12/a...

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced." By @maddipow.bsky.social

For the last two years, I've been paying for the Astronomy feeds hosting myself. It has been a privilege to grow our community here, but I also shouldn't keep doing it for free 😅 That's why I'm delighted to announce that we now have a donations page on Open Collective! 🔭☄️ #astrophotography

wowowow wake up nerds, new JWST image! This gorgeous image is of the star cluster Pismis 24. It’s approximately 5500 light years away and is home to some of the most massive stars known—66 and 74 solar masses. 📸: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; A. Pagan

🌋 Meet Hawai‘i’s Nēnē — the state bird + one of the world’s rarest geese! This #BirdOfTheWeek was once down to just 30 birds in the 1950s, today ~3,800 roam, thanks to conservation efforts. 🎶 Their name comes from their soft “nē-nē” calls. Have you heard them? Learn more: abcbirds.org/bird/nene/

Looking to fill up your seminar talk slots? Consider utilizing the Queer Speaker List to get in touch with some fantastic queer astronomers! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.

We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

i don’t use any AI tools to write code or fix code bugs, instead i use the old fashioned way: pestering my postdoc until he helps me

Ever wondered what the "MAST Sky" looks like, from our ~6 PB of data spanning 3 decades...check this out! spacetelescope.github.io/mast-blog/ma... Really fun project led by the very talented Julie Imig at MAST, showing mission coverage sky-projected! They make VERY good video backgrounds, btw. 🔭

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