David Hogg has written a white paper on doing astrophysics in the age of LLMs. It looks to be thought-provoking. My initial reaction is that either LLMs will destroy the field or they will force a reckoning with and re-imagining of the current system that often prioritizes output over quality. 🧪

My first-author paper on the Ambiguous Nuclear Transient (ANT) AT2020adpi recently got published😄 Read it here 👇🏻 ANTs are a new class of transient events that do not fit into the broad categories of standard AGN variability or TDEs!

Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry. 1/? ⚛️🔭🧪 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Aurora Science 🔭🧪 What do the colors of the aurora tell you 👇

Excited to attend the @astrosociety.org gala tonight & receive the Nancy Grace Roman Award! I read about her life & career on my way here. Did you know she was responsible for making NASA data archives public so that everyone could benefit, not just PIs? Such an amazing impact on our field. 🔭

Another title for this article could be: “Superman Outshines Scary Barbie” www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/s...

Happy Halloween 🎃 from Lana Purr Ray

From Kylee Carden: Though moons are ubiquitous in our Solar System, we have not yet found one elsewhere (an exomoon). Today’s paper investigates whether we could find moons by precisely tracking the positions of a star and planet. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/09/25/e...

Did you know LUMA was founded 10 years ago by Prof. Catherine Espaillat? We celebrated our 10th anniversary at AAS this January 🎉 . Learn more about LUMA at our website

"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.

My first ever ToO got approved!! I am so excited for the new observations of the ambiguous nuclear transient I am studying. Paper coming soon to arXiv 😃

OSU astronomy undergrad alum Trinity Webb and OSU astro PhD student @astrojennifer.bsky.social led this Chandra program showing diffuse X-rays coincident with very young stars identified with JWST! Here's this great work: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....

Postdoc in #stellarastro at the ICCUB in Barcelona ☄️ Everyone I know from the astro community in Barcelona is lovely, so I can highly recommend it!

Magnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593.

RCW 38 a young star cluster about 5,500 light-years away containing roughly 2,000 stars. The cluster is rich in star-forming activity, with gas, dust, and newly formed stars, including some still wrapped in their birth cocoons! (Credit: ESO/VVVX survey)

Just saw the exciting news that Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (prof at @ucscscience.bsky.social and my PhD advisor) was named the president of the @astrosociety.org!! 🎉🔭 news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/enri...

The 2025 #NASA astrophysics senior review report is public. "Every mission received the highest possible rating for... scientific return", & are "producing important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner". Some important screenshots: assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/...

Introducing Dr. Alison Duck, PhD (Astronomy), The Ohio State University (and soon Jet Propulsion Lab)! @astroalison.bsky.social

I think the budget request for NASA just went up, cutting NASA astrophysics to 34% (and NASA science to 53%) of FY2024 levels and zeroing STEM engagement. 🔭 www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

Happy anniversary, Hubble! 🎂 Celebrate 35 years since this NASA/ESA space telescope was launched into orbit with four anniversary images! They roam from the planet Mars to dramatic images of stellar birth and death to a neighbouring galaxy. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #Hubble35 🔭 🧪

From Astrobites: There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2025 and provided some “peer review”. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/04/03/a...

Hubble data was combined with Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Spitzer, and ALMA Observatory data for this composite image of 30 Doradus, seen in X-ray, visible, infrared, and radio. The massive young stars in 30 Doradus send strong winds out into space. Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL /ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA. 🔭 🧪

It's April 1st but as a self-funded student I might actually need this! arxiv.org/abs/2503.24254

It’s April Fools Day, meaning astronomers write joke paper preprints on topics, so here’s one about Taylor Swift’s eras compared to the eras of the universe: arxiv.org/abs/2503.22795 🔭🧪

I love all the fake astro papers on arXiv 🔭🧪 today! (thread of links) 1/ Feng Shui in the Universe: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22800 One for the Swifties: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22795 Kepler’s Platonic model after all: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22793 Let’s just throw deep learning at it: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22786

CONGRATULATIONS to OSU astronomy grads @capricephillips.bsky.social, Dominick Rowan, & OSU astro alum @emilyjogriffith.bsky.social on being awarded the NASA Sagan Fellowships and Hubble Fellowships!!! 🔭🧪⚛️ Awesome scientists & wonderful people; very well deserved! www.stsci.edu/stsci-resear...

Today we say goodbye to ESA’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia! The Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning and will be switched off this morning.

Astronomy Plot of the Week is back! Submit a great plot/graph/diagram by tagging @plotastro.bsky.social It does not have to be yours, but it has to include a publicly accessible link (i.e. arXiv, ADS, etc.) 🔭

It’s Friday night. I did enough this week. You did enough this week.

Thanks to @fredrasio.bsky.social, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that our first black hole image paper is in the top 5 most cited papers in the Astrophysical Journal Letters! I'm also sort of shocked that the top 5 cited papers are all about black holes or neutron stars, not exoplanets?! 🔭🧪

Lights, camera, action! The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩 The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed

SPHEREx begins its journey

Packed house #TFS25

We are hiring several post-bac positions at NASA Goddard! This is a single application for 8+ positions where you can list your preferred project(s). I am involved in hiring at least one so please feel free to reach out with any questions! aas.org/jobregister/...

Question for astronomers- do you have students who got into grad school this year who did NOT have first author publications/ no post-bacc work? Or are they the new de-facto requirements? With ~6-10% acceptance rates for many astro programs this year, just curious what trends others are seeing. 🔭🧪🎢

The M.S in Astrophysics Virtual Open House is on 3/20/25, 4-5pm et! We will offer program description, degree requirements, application procedure, financial support, & answer questions! Register @ tinyurl.astroopenhouse25 #CUNY #cuny #cunygc #amnh #astrophysics #astro @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️! aspire.science.uva.nl

I hate spam emails unless its a predatory journal referring to me as Dr. Pandey 😌

Registration ends Feb. 15! 🔭🧪👩‍🔬 We encourage *all* professional astronomers/astrophysicists to attend (in person or remotely)! More at pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium

#NASARoman: NASA has successfully joined the sunshade to the Roman observatory’s ‘exoskeleton.’ The visor-like sunshade will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope: go.nasa.gov/4hQItFR

📢KM3NET DETECTS THE HIGHEST ENERGY NEUTRINO EVER OBSERVED This #KM3NeT_UHE event KM3-230213A is estimated to have a record neutrino energy of 220 PeV, or 220 million billion electronvolts ➡️For details: www.km3net.org/km3net-webin... #RecordNeutrino

The latest volume in The Ohio State Astrophysics Series has been published! Thanks go to everyone in The Ohio State Astronomy Department, but especially to the students in the graduate dynamics class.

The National Academy of Sciences announced the recipients of its 2025 awards in recognition of extraordinary scientific achievements, and among the recipients are two AAS members. aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭 @nasonline.org

Final week to apply for the Code/Astro workshop! Come learn about open-source software development in Python.

So excited to present my dissertation work in Transits III at 2pm at #AAS245

finding out halfway through thursday that it’s actually tuesday is really disappointing