Slightly diminish a band, prog rock edition: Hurry Beginning Maybe

I did it. I finally did it. I found something worse than “dessert hummus.” Behold this abomination — the sushi hot dog.

Some amazing aurora tonight, visible from Boulder! Some highlights from tonight here. (The views from Minnesota are -spectacular- based on what I’m seeing from friends there!) Go look up!! (And north.) 🧪🔭⚛️☀️

NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!

An amazing story by my friend & colleague, @dbseaton.bsky.social, highlights the personal, professional, & societal value of NSF’s REU undergrad research program, & the irreplaceable losses if planned funding cuts are enacted. A must-read. 🔭⚛️🧪☀️ #scicomm #citsci www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@philplait.bsky.social looks like you’re a clue in today’s @sciam.bsky.social crossword! www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...

My daughter just described light as “flavored energy.”

The documentary about our Citizen CATE 2024 project, that engaged with 36 teams of community volunteers to observe the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, premieres next week, April 23 at 7pm MDT. Register to attend in person or online! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...

The documentary about our Citizen CATE 2024 project, that engaged with 36 teams of community volunteers to observe the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, premieres next week, April 23 at 7pm MDT. Register to attend in person or online! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...

Our community-participation project for the total solar eclipse, Citizen CATE 2024, was featured on #AGU24 TV! We’re so grateful to our 225+ community scientists who helped us on this exciting project. We’re processing over 2 TB of data and will have new eclipse visuals soon! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci

Our upcoming CubeSat, CubIXSS, was featured on #AGU24 TV. Launching in late 2025, CubIXSS will study solar flares & the Sun’s multi-million-degree corona. Together with @suncetcubesat.bsky.social, we’ll make groundbreaking new observations of solar eruptions and the hot corona! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️

Our community-participation project for the total solar eclipse, Citizen CATE 2024, was featured on #AGU24 TV! We’re so grateful to our 225+ community scientists who helped us on this exciting project. We’re processing over 2 TB of data and will have new eclipse visuals soon! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci

Our upcoming CubeSat, CubIXSS, was featured on #AGU24 TV. Launching in late 2025, CubIXSS will study solar flares & the Sun’s multi-million-degree corona. Together with @suncetcubesat.bsky.social, we’ll make groundbreaking new observations of solar eruptions and the hot corona! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️

OMFG I just discovered “Human vs Hamster” on Magnolia Network where people run a human-sized rodent gauntlet in a race against a hamster — who wins half the time — and the hosts are straight out of the Panem Capitol from Hunger Games and I feel like I’m having a stroke

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

good news everyone! the science continues! check out Physics & Astronomy 2 (electric boogaloo): go.bsky.app/4Kr3B48

attempting to collect #scicomm focused #physics and #astronomy accounts into one #starterpack! this list is by no means complete—if I've missed you, please just shoot me a DM. go.bsky.app/NvQERru

#Astrophyicists, please let ADS know what you like, don't like, would like to have, and complete the survey below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @scixcommunity.bsky.social #DigitalTransformation #planetaryscience #heliophysics #NASA #Science #astrophysics

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure, like a dipshit.

I have a joke about the Cyclops but it’s one I can’t repeat.

Tomorrow! ⬇️⬇️ 🧪🔭⚛️ #CitSci #SciComm

Houston-area folks, I’ll be at the Lunar & Planetary Institute (LPI) on Thursday, Oct 24 to give a public talk — open and accessible to everyone — on solar eclipses and awesome experiments! Hope to see you there! 🧪🔭⚛️ #CitSci #SciComm www.lpi.usra.edu/features/202...

Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪

Aurora from Boulder! 🔭🧪⚛️

Higher than I thought, but still a young elder I suppose.

My amazing partner, @heathercaspi.bsky.social, has been picked up by a literary agent, a huge and well-deserved recognition of her immense talent! Can’t wait until she’s all over bookshelves near you! #author #writer #kidlit

🎉🎉 Thrilled to announce that I am now represented by ‪@heathercashman.bsky.social‬ at @stormliterary.bsky.social! It's a dream come true to connect with such an amazing champion for this story!

I have concepts for a grant proposal. That’s enough, right?

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Electrostatic discharge. (Only half a joke. We actually have to be really careful about it since it can fry sensitive electronics!)

If anyone knows anyone who might have gone to this event, please please please urge them to get in touch with the Colorado DPHE as soon as possible, ideally yesterday. They need shots and they need them *now*. Signal-boosting out to extra networks. 🧪🌱🦑🐠 coloradosun.com/2024/08/09/c...

Gilligan’s ISSland?

We recently launched a new games section in Scientific American with quizzes, puzzles & more. Here's this week's quiz, and I'll thread a link to all games and to a recent package we did all about fun & games. Happy summer! 🧪 (1/3) www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...

Hey healthy people, could you repost this to your audiences of currently healthy people, in case a few of them are slowly starting to realize they are no longer healthy people after their last COVID infection? Getting up to speed on a new chronic illness can be hard without some help.

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Spocking Fives is my new emo art rock band name

Can confirm this is 100% PI life. A few months ago I spent 3 hours looking for a piece of foam I couldn’t find and ultimately had to cut a different piece of foam to approximate the missing piece of foam because reasons, and that was my day. And it took two people to do that.

Today the papers on CATEcor came out -- a wholly new coronagraph we designed last summer as part of the NSF/NASA sponsored CATE project. CATEcor is an "open science" instrument -- full plans are available online and linked from the paper. 🧪🔭 doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Last October, several of us traveled to mountains in CO and NM to catch a glimpse of the Sun's corona using a novel instrument, CATEcor. The article is now out. We imaged the solar corona with a commercial telescope and under $100 of plastic, carbon fiber, and epoxy. 🧪🔭 doi.org/10.1007/s112...

The inverted information hierarchy is important! Scientists think a certain way because we've been trained to - the interested non-scientist absorbs information differently.

Helpful instructions for confused pre-coffee moments

If you've spotted the Aurora tonight, report it to aurorasaurus.org! It's crowdsourcing aurora location and intensity data. This kind of citizen science is genuinely valuable!

In a meeting today, I described something in units of “milli-keV” (milli-kilo-electron volts)… instead of just saying “eV”. Yikes.

Oh hi! I’m Amir; I study the Sun, specifically to learn how and why solar flares & eruptions happen, how they affect Earth & planets, how the Sun’s corona gets to be so hot & form a constant solar wind… and what we can learn about other stars from this. 🔭🧪⚛️

Still in awe at these new results ⬇️ of the corona in polarized visible light and new wavelengths of infrared from 50,000 feet! Already planning our next iteration in August 2026. Iceland here we come! 🧪⚛️🔭 #citsci

This is what I was doing for 2 years for the eclipse: two missions, one by air and one by land. Both really intense and both successful! Come see our first images of the 2024 eclipse corona in polarized visible light and in multiple infrared wavelengths! 🔭🧪⚛️ #citsci www.swri.org/press-releas...

Last October @dbseaton.bsky.social led me, @drzowie.bsky.social, & others on a phenomenal expedition to Loveland Pass to celebrate Colorado’s history in founding U.S. solar physics & to perform an ingenious experiment. WaPo’s Carolyn Johnson wrote a spectacular story! 🔭🧪⚛️ (Gift link) wapo.st/496GbgQ

In Houston today for a test flight of NASA’s WB-57F with the SAMI instrument — a multispectral camera suite measuring nine bands of visible and infrared light — that we’ll use to observe the total solar eclipse in just 12 days, on April 8! I can’t wait for this unique and exciting mission! 🧪🔭⚛️

In Houston today for a test flight of NASA’s WB-57F with the SAMI instrument — a multispectral camera suite measuring nine bands of visible and infrared light — that we’ll use to observe the total solar eclipse in just 12 days, on April 8! I can’t wait for this unique and exciting mission! 🧪🔭⚛️