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

Dear Picasso toys. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy

It's been a long journey from a child who hated going to Synagogue to an adult that hasn't been inside a synagogue in 20 years. But all those years of being a terrible Jew have finally paid off.

Is this satire? I hope this is satire… www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Prediction for this JWST cycle 🧪🔭

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

I’m a collaborator on 5 proposals submitted AFTER the deadline.

So, we are tracking well above Cycle 4. Figure by @mpudoka.bsky.social and Yongda Zhu. 🔭

At least 2000 jwst proposals. 🧪🔭💩🍑🍉⛈️🏖️

My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭 inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718

My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭 inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718

52 hours before the deadline is a good time to start a JWST proposal, right? 🧪🔭

The UNC employee healthcare has now gotten so expensive and bad that it makes the most financial sense (for me) to decline it. #tarheels

Brief life update: On Monday I resigned from my appointment at Lowell Observatory. I wish my remaining friends and colleagues the best of luckin their endeavors in increasing new visitor center visitation, and continuing to pursue world-class research in the face of having ended tenure today.

I was once again overlooked for the Nobel peace prize.

Remember, if tenure were gone tomorrow, Loeb would certainly be untouched (he brings in tons of private money). The people criticizing him, that’s a bit less clear. Loeb is an example of why we need tenure, not a reason to get rid of it. 🧪🔭

Extrapolating from growth just at my house, one day the entire universe will be nothing but Rosemary and toddler fingernails. 🧪🔭💅

There are two kinds of email inboxes: 0-5 unread emails >10,000 unread emails. 🧪🔭

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

What happens when a star cluster disperses? Well, it forms a stream of stars - and those streams are all around us! In a new paper by Sebastian Ratzenböck at the CfA / @univie.ac.at, we looked into streams near to the Sun, and found that the Milky Way's disk is *full* of streams! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

What's one more plot when you've already maxed out the AAS publication charges? 🔭🧪🤑💸💰

This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.

So… will there be an NSF GRFP call this year? 🧪🔭

Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Some personal news. 🔭 aas.org/press/ethan-... Announcing one’s retirement two years in advance may strike a lot of people as excessive notice, but I expect the search for my successsor to be time-consuming (and I was determined not to extend my tenure beyond the announced date).

Apparently zero TESS proposals were "selected" because they don't know about funding. Best ranking you can get is "selectable". 🧪🔭 #exoplanets

I’m only familiar with two songs about rainbows 🌈 and yet one of them opens with a question asking why there are so many such songs.

I have bad news for all of you, while the AIs can't tell how many Rs there are in Strawberry, they can absolutely replace [at] with @ and [dot] with . Scrapers could do this a decade ago. You aren't protecting your email from anything. Get a better spam filter.

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We were able to get the application portal closed for the astronomy graduate program at @michiganstateu.bsky.social for the upcoming cycle. Not an ideal circumstance, but we wanted to communicate this to the community as early as possible.

Sign of the times- Michigan State, one of the biggest astronomy programs in the USA, is not accepting ANY applications for its graduate program this year 😖 🔭🧪🎢

2+2 = 3.99999999999 and you can't convince me otherwise.

Little do you know that the easiest form of interstellar space travel is just hopping on existing interstellar comets. For that reason any comet-like thing furthers my hypothesis and any not-comet-like thing also furthers my hypothesis. Infinite non-falsifiability trick. (This is sarcasm)

Doc office: Please arrive 30m early! Me: arrives 30m early Me: waits an hour Doc office: come into a room Me: waits another 30m Doctor: "sorry for the wait" Me: "why the f do I come early every time?"

Here’s why this is bad for democrats -someone