Graduating with a bachelors or masters in astronomy (or related field)? Want to keep your eyes on the skies without a PhD? Opening for YOU at @stsci.edu: Science Support Analyst on Hubble 🔭 recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

What is the mass and radius of your m dwarf

Did you know bungee gum has the properties of both rubber and gum?

Astronomers! @stsci.edu has open Scientist positions to support our missions; these are science-staff positions with guaranteed research time. Check out the details here: recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/... 🔭

This paper has been accepted! Please use the updated catalog from Zenodo. Among other changes, the harmonic classifier has been improved and we have more rotation periods overall. ⭐🔭🧪 Updated version hitting the archive soon. zenodo.org/records/1991...

My OCD demands that TESS observe the final missing block as soon as possible. 🧪🔭⭐

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

Stars are uniform spheres. 🧪🔭

We've reached that point in pointless bureaucracy where I'm sent a 3-page document explaining how I sign my biosketch. 🧪🔭

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

As a parent of someone with nut allergies, it is interesting to learn just how many things don't actually have nuts. My favorite of these is Honey Nut Cheerios - which would be more accurately named Honey Cheerios. That hazelnut creamer you add to your coffee also probably has no hazelnuts. 🥜🧪

Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.

1/9; I'm happy. #JWSTcycle5 🔭🧪

I forgot to mention this. The paper is still under review, so we welcome comments/questions. The goal was for this catalog to be a community resource and helps if people flag issues and let us know.

I'm super excited to share a HUGE paper out from Young Worlds Lab team member Andy Boyle. I present for you, ~900,000 rotation periods from TESS! 🤯🔭🧪⭐ #exoplanets #stellarrotation arxiv.org/abs/2603.05586

2 faculty meetings in a week is 2 too many 🧪

Giant (900K) catalog of TESS rotation periods dropping on Monday. Email me for a preview. 🧪🔭⭐#exoplanets

Me: Gemini, please help me fix this tiny issue with my code. I'm stumped. Gemini: Here's an entirely new code with 12 brand new bugs. Also when you get it to run it won't actually do what you needed. But I did fix that bug. 🤖🧪🔭

"If you don't keep an eye on your theorists, they will come up with whackier and whackier ideas" -UNC Journal Club 🧪🔭

how do you all pronounce the wifi network eduroam: edge-you-roam (or ed-you-roam) or e.d.u roam (ee-dee-you-roam) ? 🔭🧪🧑‍🏫🎓

🔭🧪#exoplanets

Oh I’m sure the Supreme Court will find a reason to say the Texas gerrymander is constitutional and the California one is not.

"I really need to have more Slack Workspaces" -No one ever. 🔭🧪

TIL There's more than 1 paper per day published using TESS data: 🔭🧪

Yay Pandora and SPARCS!

Several days of working on the logistical crap around a proposal (biosketch, C&P, budgets, compliance, etc) really makes me want to quit. This is, by far, the worst part of being an R1 professor. 🧪🔭

Another professor told me to watch out for radiation while teaching this semester. They weren't joking... #iteachphysics 🧪🔭

⭐️ TWO papers hit the arXiv right before Thanksgiving! Check out TIDYE IV and SOYSAUCE I ⭐️ arxiv.org/abs/2511.10734 arxiv.org/abs/2511.14838

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... Excellent coverage of a major result from our team! 🧪🔭 @sciam.bsky.social

I wrote this! The Pleiades are up high to the south after sunset now for northern hemisphereans, so take a look at them tonight after reading my article.

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... Excellent coverage of a major result from our team! 🧪🔭 @sciam.bsky.social

Weird to have a call for TESS cycle 9 when money hasn’t been approved from the cycle 8 call… 🧪🔭💩💰🤑

Read about some of the cool things happening within the UNC Astro teams: college.unc.edu/2025/12/capt... 🧪🔭💥

Astronomers of BlueSky, I generally use Conda to manage my many python environments. I am being told (by a developer friend) that UV is far better. I'm timid taking advice from a programmer that doesn't know how bad astro code is... What does everyone else use? 🔭🧪💻🖥️

AAS be like: Nice paper you got there. Give me $3K. 🔭🧪

Some have argued to me strongly that even if Loeb is wrong, he’s getting people interested in 3I/ATLAS and that’s a good thing for science. But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997. sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

The third paper in as many weeks from the Young Worlds Lab. This paper from @madysonbarber.bsky.social (her third for the year) is focused on the spin-orbit alignment of a 3 Myr planet IRAS04125+2902b 🧪🔭⭐ #exoplanet #exoplanets arxiv.org/abs/2511.14838

The third paper in as many weeks from the Young Worlds Lab. This paper from @madysonbarber.bsky.social (her third for the year) is focused on the spin-orbit alignment of a 3 Myr planet IRAS04125+2902b 🧪🔭⭐ #exoplanet #exoplanets arxiv.org/abs/2511.14838

I'm just testing out these Legos for my kid. Gotta make sure they are tested. Like really test them to the limits. Call me in 4 hours for the test results. 😜

🧪🔭⭐ #exoplanets #exoplanet #youngplanets New paper from our group and @madysonbarber.bsky.social today! We report a brand-new planet around a <50 Myr star—adding to a very small (but rapidly growing!) population of the youngest known transiting planets. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10734

New paper from my group! Stars aren’t born alone—they form in massive associations. If we want to understand how stars and planetary systems form, we need to figure out where today’s clusters came from… and where all their long-lost siblings ended up. arxiv.org/abs/2511.07533

Check out NYT coverage of the latest results from Young Worlds Lab graduate student Andy Boyle. 🧪🔭✨⭐️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/s...

One day the universe will contain only dark energy and JWST proposals.

This is so cool. Siblings of the Pleiades strewn over the entire sky. Within some of the oldest written languages in the world, from Sumerian to Eblaite to Akkadadian and Hebrew, the name for Pleiades has etymological links to the word "family," and now that family is much bigger.

Check out NYT coverage of the latest results from Young Worlds Lab graduate student Andy Boyle. 🧪🔭✨⭐️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/s...

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

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