I’m excited to announce my latest astronomy research publication! 📝☀️📡 “First Detection of an Ultracool Dwarf at 340 MHz: VLITE Observations of EI Cancri AB” arxiv.org/abs/2512.11120 A quick low-down in the comments!

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Protest planned to save NASA from Trump cuts! Join us in DC Monday, June 30, from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

Looking for some respite-escapism from <horrified looks at the news>? Join a #RubinFirstLook watch party on Mon 23rd June: the cosmos is calming.🔭🧪 #Edinburgh - come to Dynamic Earth (🎟️ almost sold-out): dynamicearth.org.uk/event/rubin-... 🍿: Watch live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Am...

I got together with some mom friends tonight sans kids and we ate mac & cheese and made s'mores and talked about our gardens. It's so nice to have casual friends you can unwind with every month or so. Busy or out of town this month? No worries, you can see them next month.

It’s like people forget that NASA has been through these ups and downs, developing processes and rigorous check systems to ensure mission safety and success. But no, we’re going to pay for rich billionaires’ pet projects to reinvent the wheel.

Tell Congress: Save NASA Science www.congressweb.com/PlanetarySoc...

Astronomy is in trouble, but you can help! 🔭🧪 I made this video as part of the @aas.org #savescience week of action. Check out their resources on how you can help here aas.org/advocacy/get...

And I said HEEEY-EEEY-EEEY-EEY-EY, HEEEY-EEEY-EEEY…I said HEY! What’s GOIN’ ON

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent & stable enforcement of regulations, &if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala… “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods…”

Why Are Rare Earth Metals So Precious? www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Museum and Planetarium Friends, Many of you use NASA SVS material. Right now it is critical that we are able to document SVS's impact. Please let us know how you are using our content (use my email address at the bottom of this page: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov). Thank you!

So is this the time when we advise the people whom we have a duty of care not to go to the US for academic conferences?

Look you know you needed some feel-good news today.

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

Farewell #aas245. It was a week where almost nothing I’d planned happened, and instead I found myself in amazing conversations, surprising sessions, and new experiences. So many friends. Lots of new ideas and goals. Exactly what a big conference should be!

The @aasoffice.bsky.social will issue full registration refunds for all of our colleagues impacted by the devastating fires in CA. If you are an #AAS245 registrant and in CA standby for an email on how to request your registration. We at the AAS are heartbroken for you and ready to support.

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

We have at least one impersonator on our hands! There are two accounts claiming to be the Hubble space telescope...

If you’re interested in simulated data products for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, this paper is for you! Great work from my @spacetelescope.bsky.social colleagues >> arxiv.org/abs/2411.11978

For papers, I export my whole Zotero library and attach it as a .bib file. However, I don't want to expose all my references, or other info Zotero attaches to the .bib. So I created a tiny Python script that scans my main.tex and keeps only cited items in the .bib. Is there demand for this? 🔭 🪐

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Reposting this now that the US holiday weekend is over! 🧪🔭

Excellent advice, and not just for academic writing. An editor of mine once summarized this nicely: "Your article should not be a memorial to all the work you did putting it together."

Yes 😂

Pretty depressing day at work today with lots of staff updating their resumes as we grapple with NASA's decision to shut down Chandra, the world's only ever high resolution X-ray space telescope, still returning fabulous science discoveries. Still hoping this can be reversed

Hey Bluesky! I’ve updated my 2018 review chapter on stellar dependencies of #exoplanets. Here are some of the key new developments (1/🧵)

My work here is done.

Hmmm

Big layoffs coming at JPL tomorrow. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-wor...

Leaving academia was hard. Being an academic was arguably the most important part of my identity for almost a decade. But it wasn’t right for me anymore. Leaving has taught me that who I am is not job-dependent and that I have the power to create a better life for myself when things aren’t working.

If your holiday plans are important to you, now and the next few weeks would be a really good time to be extra careful when indoors around others. Covid rates are high and rising and flu and RSV are up there too.

Alert to observers in Phoenix and Tuscon: looks like the Falcon 9 from tonight's Starlink launch may have made its deorbit burn around 1912 MST right above you, so if you spotted something weird in the sky about an hour ago, that may have been it.

Wastewater is pretty much the only reliable source of information about current infection levels, since testing is barely being done and it’s unclear how hospitalization is counted. This is a decent source: biobot.io/data/ (though I think it’s being discontinued soon)

Did you know you can change your mac terminal prompt to whatever you want? :D

Astronomers just discovered a small asteroid (~1 meter wide) that will pass just 4,000 km above Earth's surface in 90 minutes! Close, but a clear miss. Even if it hit it would just put on an amazing light show; no danger from something that small anyway. 🧪🔭 neo.ssa.esa.int/documents/d/...

me: correct me if I’m wrong- the internet: sir, we will correct you even if you’re right

free advice: if you're running a virtual or hybrid event and you are (of course) leaving dedicated time for your online attendees to ask questions or respond to a prompt, remember to leave ample time for people to type/unmute. Mobility + other impairments may mean folks are slower!

Has anyone transitioned from *some physical science* to a job in environmental preservation / anti-clinate change? I might be leaving astronomy in a couple years and I want to do something useful I feel like the most useful thing right now would be helping fight climate change 🧪

Hey I made a quick welcome guide to BlueSky :) There's tons more, but I think these few steps will get you up and enjoying it quickly.

New to Bluesky? I just made a blog post with tips and information to help you get started on the platform, including tips on how to find people here and information about feeds. Check it out! 🔭 emilydoesastro.com/posts/230824...

Got spare invite codes? Astro folks here on Bluesky, reach out to folks you interacted with on Twitter and invite them here! The astro community is starting to really grow here. You can make it grow more by inviting people - and we can get back the community we once had on Twitter 🔭

I worked at NASA. And now I don't. I started at Goddard in Aug 2019. I just turned in my badge & office key. A weird feeling now being outside the gates. I'll return for things like the taekwondo club, but now it's "a new era," as someone told me. Well, I just wanted to put this out into the void.