My favorite tidbit so far at the AAS: you can write an astropy table to your disk as a LaTeX formatted object and never chase ampersands in your paper again! I had no idea…🔭

Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?

Going to be at the AAS meeting in Phoenix next week? Find me (or visit my poster on Monday) to pick up an AstroSky Ecosystem sticker! Send your friends too.

Got a Seestar and got to play around a little bit before clouds rolled in. No extra processing other than what the Seestar does. Pretty happy with this as a starter scope that doesn’t require a ton of effort while I’m still finishing my degree. Back yard, Bortle 9 site 🔭

NASA's #habitableworldsobservatory building a #superhubble in the race to answer fundamental questions about life in the Universe, the place of humanity in the cosmos, and where explorers could dare to go next✨🧪🔭☄️ #exoplanet #extragalactic

For personal, “I’m way too busy right now” reasons, I chose not to present at the 3 Minute Thesis Competition this year, but I’m excited to support to incredible people I know sharing their work!

Found a cool bookstore in Fayetteville, Arkansas that deals in out of print books. Found some couple cool books including a first printing of Einstein on the development of physics.

Emily has been fantastic and generous about building the Astronomy feeds and larger ecosystem. Let’s help out!

I have no shame admitting, I’m so happy British Baking is back!

Excited to kick off the Habitable Worlds Observatory 2025 Meeting! If any AstroSky people at here as well I’d be happy to meet and chat! 🔭

In Washington DC for the Habitable Worlds Observatory 2025 meeting. Today was an “explore day” and here’s a few highlights.

I feel like this is a good time to have discovered this quote: “People need to know that we live in a universe that is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us.” -Margaret Prescod @chanda.bsky.social

When your research is going so well, even your violin plots start looking like coffins 💀

Congratulations to @astroclay.bsky.social who defended and passed his dissertation defense today! Congrats Dr!!

Are we alone? To find out, NASA is building the Habitable Worlds Observatory. This powerful space telescope uses proven technologies from Hubble, #NASAWebb, and #NASARoman to look for signatures of planets that can support life—and maybe life itself: go.nasa.gov/44KCbT7 🔭 🧪

I can’t explain how excited I am for this observatory!

Accepting any and all recommendations on giving insulin to a diabetic dog that is ready and willing to fight like hell to avoid the shot… Tried comforting/petting, sticking while distracted/eating, etc. works once then…then she’s on to me😮‍💨

Great article! 🔭🧪👏

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

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Yes please!

Looking at old code and not sure if this is a moment I love “old me” or dislike him. Amusing though… Definitely requires clicking the picture.

When your Monday starts by finding out the latest Mac update broken your conda environments….

@rafeeadnan.bsky.social is now talking at the KAAS on the internal structure of massive elliptical galaxies using strong lensing. 🔭☄️

Next up at the KAAS Meeting is @benneholwerda.bsky.social talking anything except his normal extragalactic astronomy. Today's topic, Milky Way M-Dwarfs in CEERS. 🔭☄️

Gary Ferland giving life advice and his journey to create the CLOUDY code at the Kentucky Area Astronomical Society Annual Meeting! 🔭☄️

@astroclay.bsky.social is now discussing his dissertation research on the dust properties of the overlapping galaxy pair VV 191 at the Kentucky Area Astronomical Society Meeting. 🔭☄️

Excited to have Wes Ryle (Cincinnati Observatory) kick off the 2025 Kentucky Area Astronomical Society Annual Meeting hosted by Berea College! Looking forward to two days of regional astronomy!🔭☄️

Happy to say Wes Ryle (Cincinnati Observatory) has officially kicked off the 2025 Kentucky Area Astronomy Society Annual Meeting! Here’s to two great days of regional astronomy! 🔭 ☄️

After an academic year of planning, Day 1 of the Graduate Student Regional Research Conference is complete!. A huge thanks to all our presenters, volunteers and judges to for making this event amazing!

It has been an honor to represent the University of Louisville at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools 3 Minute Thesis Competition. Congratulations to the finalists!

I literally have no content in my dissertation document yet. Title page, chapter titles and such only. It’s already 19 pages 🤣

The thing that Target seems to not get is they promised to be an ally. They said they were there to support black people and businesses, they would support LGBTQIA+ communities. Yet the second the political climate turned they dropped us. Nothing hurts like a broken promise.

One of the officers active on Jan 6 makes a good point here:

This Cheeto really wants me to believe there are people older than social security in the social security database… Never since such an obvious made up string of numbers thrown out.

The new #AstroSci feed has been a while in the making, and I am SO excited for it! ☄️ The main Astronomy feed is great to get a 'firehose' of space content, but it's too much if you're a professional astronomer who just wants to keep up with colleagues. AstroSci is a new feed just for science!

Happy Black History Month! To all the black people who have helped make the US what it is despite the struggles and injustices you have suffered, I see you and I thank you. 1/9

Here’s what really bothers me with the anti-DEI attacks. Even with them in place, women and minority groups are underrepresented in the workplace, and that’s without any discussion on gaps in pay. It was far far worse before these initiatives went into place. 1/5

How come every time a new semester starts, I get something fun like bronchitis?

Shocking…

Yikes! It’s not just trees burning y’all.

Found an old meme of mine from Twitter, and realised that the alt text was a little Easter egg of its own. Proud of past me for this!

The LADUMA team has put out a new paper on the neutral hydrogen mass function in the local Universe (HIMF)! Neutral Hydrogen (HI) is the mid step in the evolution of hydrogen in galaxies. 1/3 🔭 #extragalactic arxiv.org/pdf/2412.11426

Glad to participate (online) in the first WAVES Team Meeting! Excited to learn more about 4MOST and WAVES and find how I can contribute effectively. The 12 hour time difference means I’ll have to catch some talks on recording!🔭

I asked my sister (mother of 4) for help testing a web form I am working on for our Graduate Student Regional Research Conference. Her test responses did not disappoint! She’s ok, I promise.

The “best” part of research is being mad at the past you for not making things easy on present you…

Ok random dog pic. Our girl is just too cute sometimes

Seriously, that plugin though…

Walking across campus and hearing a rather peppy, and horn-dominated version of “Jolene” coming from the stadium just seems like a nice capstone on this Monday.

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1. Looking for/at strong gravitational lenses and submm galaxies with Euclid+LSST 2. Can life exist inside a neutron star? 🔭🧪