Hi #exoplanets people! Just popping by to remind you of the upcoming abstract deadline (31 May) for "Bridging Horizons: Harnessing ESO's current facilities for the dawn of exoplanet populations studies" happening in November! 🪐🔭 www.eso.org/sci/meetings...

The kids are all right

“The Thurrock datacentre will produce more emissions than an international airport, and Elsham Tech Park’s peak emissions will reach 1m tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2033-34 – just short of the 1.2m tonnes of carbon emissions of all the UK’s domestic flights “ www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 🧪

Wait for it .... 11 seconds and BOOM! Some breathtaking footage from Fuego 🇬🇹 and @boisestate.bsky.social scientists in this great science update on infrasound sensors. eos.org/science-upda...

If you are paying for Claude and you claim to care about astronomy or the night sky - think again. 🔭☄️ SpaceX's orbital data center plans would *ruin* ground-based astronomy & the night sky. Anthropic are partnering with them.

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

“South Korea's air force suspended the wingman pilot, who has since left the military to work for a commercial airline.” We’re supposed to feel better about this? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Will community air monitoring bring 'Cancer Alley' cleaner air? Armed with sensors and real-time data, community groups further their fight against dangerous air pollution in Louisiana. Read more: cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

#astromethods #astrocoding #astrocode ☄️🔭

#AprilFools Still the best prank our summer students have ever pulled. 😅 This photo is not edited - the students physically placed an "L" and "G" on the NRAO building! #Astronomy #Astrology #NRAO #RadioAstro

“Germany's new defence spend target is 5% of its GDP….But still those spends fall short of Russia's, estimated 7.1% on its military in 2024.” BBC not able to do arithmetic. German GDP is more than twice Russia’s. Germany outspending Russia on defence in absolute terms. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fairly sure there shouldn’t be a boot mark on the flaps

Forensics: National Academies of Sciences says no to political demands it remove climate info. 🧪 State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
— Read on arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/

Good for starmer.

Time is ticking! There isn’t much time left to vote for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People's Choice Award. 📸🥇 Discover the images selected and vote until 18 March: brnw.ch/21x0HTQ

What’s the difference between horns and antlers? 🫎 If you didn’t know there was one, you’re in good company (at least with our social media team…) 👀 Find out what horns and antlers are made of, who has them and how they differ in this week’s Surprising Science!

WATCH: Fourteen-year-old Ariana spent more than 45 days at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. In January, we asked detainees whether their children would be willing to write letters or draw pictures about their experiences. Listen to Ariana tell her story: 📽️ @joannashan.bsky.social

NYT Magazine Crossword puzzle today, 94 down, “alternative to X” Friends, our website for 40 year olds has arrived!!!

Bezos is supporting the antiscience regime including via censoring science in WaPo coverage. please buy from a local vendor. Or find it used on ebay. 🧪🔬🌏🔭 #StandUpForScience #GrabYourWallet

We reinvest back into our journals through our expert Editorial Office, ensuring a high-quality peer review process. Additionally, we promote authors’ work & showcase the research we publish through blogs, online lectures & in-person events, making science accessible to all (3/4). 🌍🧪

Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍 The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)

This is important! A locally tailored, big-push intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of marriage from 86% to just 21% 🧪 #policy #education www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out the front page today for our local paper, Eugene’s own Register-Guard!!! 🤩 🔭🧪

'We are losing the stars. Not all at once, but quietly, one streetlight, one neon sign, one expanding suburb at a time.' 🧪 🔭

Happy s39th birthday to SN 1987A- the closest to us since the invention of the telescope! 🥳 Always a good excuse to share my cross stitch evolution over time in radio of SN1987A. Everything is to the correct scale etc bc cross stitch is the original pixel art. 🔭🧪 #sciart

New temperature record in Taylor Valley, Antarctica

Trump’s crackdown on environmental defenders and peaceful protestors - targeting groups like XR with FBI investigations - should concern us all. Trump will stop at nothing to appease the billionaire polluters that helped get him elected. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Even aside from how do deal with LLMs, he has collected a dense set of pretty deep observations on astronomy and the astronomical community.

"Every person is a human being, whose personal development is more important than our short-term scientific accomplishments" - and more bangers in this from David Hogg (spoiler: it's about AI!) arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181 🔭

Hello everyone! I interviewed Assist. Prof. Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf from Michigan State University recently. He has a quite intriguing career with graduate works, observatories, supernovae, and also computational metascience. Check it out >> youtu.be/6kq09EICVZk?... #astrosci

Some of Saturn’s moons sculpt its rings with gravity. Here’s Prometheus (right) dragging ripples through the F ring as it passes. Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute #astronomy

This is why we put 🔭 in Chile.

It’s good to be home again. 🔭🧪

Oh eff off www.bbc.com/news/article...

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: 17 minutes in a single image captured by a Gemini North Cloud Camera on Maunakea. Star trails, the glow of Waimea, & a U.S. Space Force vehicle launch all appear in this long-exposure composite of 18 photos. #astronomy Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

🔭🔭🔭🔭🧪 www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

what a crock of .... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

@nytimes.com is so last year 😀 #www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/crosswords/daily-puzzle-2025-01-06.html www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/c...

"Americans passionately committed to being ripped off because that’s what capitalism demands" 😜 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A splendid cold walk to Fiddlers Gill to see the fab but rusting Victorian #Braidwood Telescope! Once part of the now long-gone Lanark Observatory, its optics are safe at the Lanark Museum. Sadly I see no hope in restoring this beauty tho, that's been long-abandoned in this field ☹️ #histsci 🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

↖️ The Space Telescope Science Institute is the Science Operations Center for NASA's Webb, Hubble, and the upcoming Roman space telescopes, and the Mission Operations Center for Webb. 🔭 We help humanity explore the universe with advanced space telescopes and a large data archive.

“The secret that scientists don’t want you to know about!” 🧪

Happy belated birthday to JWST, which was launched on Christmas Day 2021. I hope it has many more years of transformative science ahead of it. 🧪

Face pareidolia is what AI suffers from.

In 1977, American physicist John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth elements, one sentence leaps out: "Miss Frank and I made the relevant calculations." Who was Amelia Frank? theconversation.com/who-was-amel...

You know who’s s good person. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk is.

Every year, people mock this tree. But I love it anyway. It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything. Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨

so who would be the Peter Ustinov of today? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1G...

🚨BREAKING: Physicians speak out against RFK Jr! Doctors made the promise to do no harm, and they’re calling out harm where they see it. Medical professionals, your voice has value. Join us in taking action to #ImpeachRFKJr. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

One month in a minute and a half! Enjoy this video highlight reel from our 2025 OOI-RCA maintenance cruise, and check out our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@interactive...) for more underwater video and sea life highlights. Happy Holidays! 🌊🚢🧪