Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

🔭 Heads up, #Denver! Our next FREE star party is happening this Saturday! Come on over to look through our telescopes, tour the historic building, and meet our amazing @uofdenver.bsky.social physics students! ✨ Bonus: Saturn is back! 🪐 www.denverastro.org/events/open-...

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

The Fall/Autumnal Equinox is TODAY at 2:19 PM EDT. That's the time at which our Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, signaling the start of Northern Hemisphere astronomical fall. The Earth’s northern hemisphere will continue to tilt further from the sun through the Winter Solstice on Dec 21.

The entire point of writing is discovery. You don’t know what you don’t know. And if you approach it from a point of view of efficiency and optimization (to no end) you never will.

Hey folks, I hate to do this but I have a birthday around the corner and what I'd like most of all right now would be to know for sure my phone won't get turned off on the second. My links: ➡️ cash.me/$redconversa... ➡️ paypal.me/RedConversat... ➡️ ko-fi.com/RedConversat... ➡️ venmo.com/u/Redconvers...

🧪🔭 Really enjoying exploring this comic-style summary of stellar evolution!

Man, people who complained about cancel culture really love cancelling people, huh?

Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable

NEW WRITING: "We are living through the worst time of my lifetime, and astrophotography has helped me remember that, as my mom Margaret Prescod once reminded me, the universe is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us." 🔭 As promised, with a prettier image of Andromeda! 🎉

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

Always love seeing our astronomy grad students in @uofdenver.bsky.social promo materials! (around 1:30)

Nice to see WR140 popping up in my timeline! This was a fantastic project by my amazing grad student Emma Lieb (@emmalieb.bsky.social). Here's my thread about it: bsky.app/profile/astr...

It’s not considered political violence to dehumanize people until they’re so ostracized by society that they take their own lives. It’s not considered political violence to make policy choices to intentionally kill people by depriving them of life saving healthcare.

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

I need you to call your reps and tell them to oppose the HHS appropriations bill. They are trying to sneak a nationwide total trans healthcare ban in it regardless of age.

Please help, folks — just $60 lets Toya keep her car.

My friend Yessenia's husband Carlos is raising money for his immigration lawyer in advance of a hearing in January 2026. I realize there are a lot of asks right now and a lot of need, so if you can't give, please share. They have three children, all born in the US. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Slightly diminish a book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Uncharted Backwaters of the Unfashionable End of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy

Slightly diminish a book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Uncharted Backwaters of the Unfashionable End of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy

Slightly diminish a book The Acquaintanceship of the Ring

Thanks to @slavkobogdanov.bsky.social for pointing me to this really cool 🔭 history paper! arxiv.org/abs/2509.04127

Hey folks, please send Toya some support if you can!

🚨 Breaking News | Judge Rules Harvard Funding Freeze Illegal A federal judge said the Trump administration violated the institution's First Amendment rights when it froze billions of dollars in research grants. https://bit.ly/42bh3oH #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

CW: SA Please help Toya if you can - she’s dealing with a horrible situation and can use all the assistance she can get. Every little bit helps 💛

RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇

DOOOO ITTTTT

Late summer trip up Mt. Blue Sky. Aspens are still green, but there’s a dusting of snow at the summit!

When called to speak, our folks absolutely did it wrong bsky.app/profile/chan...

Interesting #astronomy angle here: one of the environmental violations motivating the judge's injunction was light pollution. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 🧪🔭

My institution, folks. File under "unsurprising but still fucked."

BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge in Miami orders Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, to be dismantled within 60 days and blocks any new detainees from being brought into the facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Astro folks, how are we feeling about serving on NSF review panels these days, given *gestures vaguely at everything*? I'm torn between "they can use all the help they can get" and "don't particularly want to be a part of whatever BS process is going on at the moment".

A Southern California tribe is regaining ancestral land. “To see it come full circle back to us again, it’s very healing.” www.latimes.com/environment/... @nohaggerty.bsky.social @julianayamadaphoto.bsky.social

I spoke with @histoftech.bsky.social about AI hype, how tools are used to amass power and reshape systems, expertise, and more! www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...

Love this & will use in my classes!

Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.

Love this, and not just because it bears a passing resemblance to this recent photo in a profile of me. Will have to learn more about Lamson! www.denverlifemagazine.com/jennifer-hof...