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

Finally! Poland can into space 🇵🇱 super emotional to see that flag up there 🚀 The only previous Pole in space, Mirosław Hermaszewski, spent 8 days aboard a Soviet space station all the way back in 1978.

Try “turn on asteroids” in the Rubin skyviewer.app/explorer it makes things even more awesome. This is what sky is really like. Everwhere. Every Day.

the solar system data from Rubin is going to be amazing. I really hope I and a lot of other planetary scientists still have jobs when it really starts coming down from the main survey. Contact your elected officials to support the NSF and NASA and reject the current administration's budget requests!

Want to set eyes on the @vrubinobs.bsky.social First Look images in good company? There are public Watch Parties taking place around the UK and all over the world. Check out your nearest event rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f... 🔭

The Rubin Observatory is just stunning! Discovered this gem while making live-stream-tech-failure-back-up slides for the big 23rd June First Look reveal! 🤓 Watch parties are taking place across the globe. If you're in #Edinburgh, join us at Dynamic Earth.🔭🧪 ℹ️: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

I'll be there! Join us of you want to get astronomers' first impression 🤩

New paper day! In 'Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery', we show that scaling up use of launch vehicles 🚀 has a point where the healing of the ozone layer is affected 🧪🛰️ Open access, free to read & share

Today's a big day for the Sorcha team that I lead. We've just released a series of papers and software to predict how the the exciting new @vrubinobs.bsky.social will discover and observe Solar System objects 🧵

Waiting for the final results of Polish presidential elections be like 🫣😱 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

All in all, the Earth being round is a major inconvenience. [This post is brought to you by trying-to-organise-a-meeting-across-multiple-timezones shenanigans]

Scotland! 🤩

Here is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson as seen by Lucy’s LORRI camera! It’s a contact binary/bi-lobate asteroid 🎉🎊 Image taken on April 20, 2025 from a range of approximately 1100 km. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... #PlanetSci #SciComm 🧪

Oh my world, is that material sliding from the smaller lobe to the larger? Can't wait to see what the modellers will model 🤩 @raducan.bsky.social ?

The world is what it is - but there are flowers. Welcome to the tulip extravaganza. #tulip #bloomscrolling #keukenhof 1/21

No, I don't want an AI assistant for any of my apps ever.

JWST has released a blog post about our 2024 YR4 observations and findings, in case you're looking for more 2024 YR4 content! 🔭 webbtelescope.org/contents/ear...

Today in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society: Rivkin et al. 2025, "JWST Observations of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 YR4" - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #2024YR4