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Hey @asrivkin.bsky.social, picked up something nice today! 🛰 🪨

Just a friendly reminder that there's less than a week left to submit abstracts (and for early registration fee) for the largest conference in the small solar system bodies' field! acm2026.eu Happening in the best city ever, Poznań 💙🐐🐐 🥔 📡☄️🔭🛰🪨

Slightly diminish a book The Acquaintance of the Ring

Who wants to host Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2029?

Today in APOD: my current (space sustainability) and past (Solar System science) disciplines in one picture 🔭☄️📡🛰 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26042...

Just learned about passing of one of my favourite Astronomy Professors, Piotr "Dybol" Dybczyński 🪨☄️🔭 www.astro.amu.edu.pl/pl/z-gleboki... (1/..

I didn't realise Acta Prima Aprilia had a proper journal page. Udder respect to all the authors for following-up with some deliciously wild ideas 🤩 🔭

It's that time of year again... arxiv.org/abs/2603.29324

Lego Rosetta and Philae? shutup and take my money! Definitely worth an upvote 🔭☄️🧪

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

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I do not like the space race where billionaire corporations launch as much as they can, as fast as they can, until 😱 🛰️💥, now nobody gets to use space anymore www.pcmag.com/news/blue-or...

My child asked me about how many moons Saturn has and proceeded to produce this absolutely perfect illustration. Featuring Saturn with all her moons, a tiny bit of Jupiter on top and constellations of Orion and Big Dipper in the background 🔭

Today on arxiv, a preprint of Richard Cannon's (my excellent PhD student) freshly accepted paper! If you enjoyed the Rosetta mission to comet 67P, you'll like the looks of this space-duck asteroid, as revealed by radar 🔭☄️ 📡🪨

4-Year Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship in Physics/Astro @ Edinburgh! - early career - personal background currently under-represented in the School - Pay Grade: Lecturer (~Assoc. Prof.) - ***Deadline 20 April 2026*** 🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧪 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Happy International Women's Day! Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general). arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465 🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬

Amazing snap 🤩

It's impressive how clueless British commentators are about ski jumping ⛷️

📣The open letter from early-career researchers across STFC has now been formally sent to its intended recipients.📨 We need a change in strategy to protect people, projects, and the future of UK fundamental research. 🧪🔭📡🛰️⚗️ Read & share: ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io/index.html #stfc #ukri #saveSTFC

📣"RAS Fellows urged to lobby against unprecedented cuts" 📣 🔭The @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is calling on its members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science.🧪⚗️🚀🛸🛰️🌌 #stfc #ukri #saveSTFC Read and share: www.ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Featuring Cyrielle Opitom, who's been leading our 3I/ATLAS observing campaign with several instruments on the mighty VLT

Ah, the annual quest to figure out the pronunciation of poems in Scots 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Meanwhile in space www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🔭

Hey, so that was a fun thing to do 🙂

It's tiiiiiiiiiiime 🎄

I did a thing today! Thanks @glasgowscience.bsky.social for having me over to talk to teenagers about becoming an astronomer and planetary defense! 🪨🔭🚀

Just going to say that it is hurtful when a systematic study effort by the global small-body community, with many of the campaigns led by women, with results being pushed to free open-source arXiv & data repos for scicomm as quickly as possible, is described as lacking coordination/communication

I'll for global coordination for ISO follow-up, but it's telling that no one who's actually coordinating follow-up was actually asked to participate in this proposal or thought of to be even suggested as names on committees in this proposal

I’ve been lucky but I’m unusual. Many friends followed the standard advice, only to find that tenure came too late for their biological clock. Others broke under the pressure of trying to balance it all, reluctantly leaving academia for more family friendly careers. 7/9🧵

Check out our tiny rock featured by @eso.org ! Now available in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We measured the size using the new lightcurve shape models and old radar data #TeamRadar 📡🪨🔭🧪

A good day to follow @theguardian.com Europe Live for reliable information about Polish (and not only) reactions to the overnight violations of Polish airspace by Russian drones. @jakubkrupa.bsky.social provides helpful translations from 🇵🇱 incl political context www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Emptied brain On a page Proposal season

As a mother of three, I strongly identify with themes of doing your best to protect humans in your care from harm when they do their best to not heed your warnings while all you wanted to do is consume high quality media

Pay what you want for great summer reading with the Martha Wells' Murderbot and More bundle, supporting @wck.org | https://bit.ly/4lFLFFL

This excellent piece describes the deceptive practices used by quacks to advance false claims. Beware! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Listening to Andy Serkis' rendition of LoTR with my kids (first read through for all of us, I only ever got to the gates of Moria in my previous attempts) and I am astonished by the missed opportunity that was LoTR the Musical

🚀🚀 Could I have made it to interstellar object 3I/ATLAS? Find out in our latest research note! 🚀🚀 Analysis of Trajectories to 3I/ATLAS with a Comet Interceptor-like Spacecraft doi.org/10.3847/2515... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

That arxiv submission reads like a poorly done version of: arxiv.org/abs/2507.15755 The @cometinterceptor.bsky.social also notes what could have happened if they launched way back when iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Check out Rosita Kokotanekova’s TEDx talk all about ME ☄️

unmpteenth AI-rendering of a baby shark boarding a plane emits final bit of carbon emission that plunges world into irreversible global catastrophe

I get the excitement to publish fresh results on a hot topic quickly, but the outcome is rushed papers, and people who cannot work through nights and weekends excluded from the fun 😶

New paper on arXiv, analyzing Rubin Observatory data of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. This is the first science paper with data from LSSTCam!!!!! arxiv.org/abs/2507.13409

It's paper day! The first science paper with data from @vrubinobs.bsky.social's survey camera, the mighty LSSTCam, is a VERY quick turnaround of Rubin's observations thus far of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. ☄️ Chandler et al., submitted 🔭 A 🧵

The search for technosignatures and astrobiology are both very important! But crying "aliens!" everytime we don't understand something about an interstellar object is dangerous: said astronomer might get some attention, but is doing an enormous damage to the space science community in the long term.

Asteroids Comets Meteors Conference ‘26 SOC seeks nominations of researchers, including recent PhD recipients, active in small bodies studies to receive an asteroid named after them. Please contact a SOC member with your nominations by 28/Nov/2025. acm2026.eu 🔭☄️

Davide Farnocchia describing the trajectory of #3I/ATLAS : www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vza...

ESA's astronomers are actively tracking 3I/ATLAS, which is now the third confirmed interstellar comet to pass through our Solar System! More info at: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

El objeto interestelar 3I/ATLAS visto anoche el el Observatorio del Teide con el 2m TTT. Ver www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17264