I have had the chance to meet Betty a couple of times, and hearing her speak about our role in science and humanity's development is always inspiring!

2/ Are you a woman interested in career opportunities at ESO? Join the Virtual Career Fair for Women in STEM 2026. Co-organised by ESO, it offers the opportunity to connect with representatives from ESO and other leading organisations. 🗓️ 19 March ℹ️ www.impactpool.org/vcf/events/3... 🔭 🧪

Advice number 1 literally saved my career when I was invited for PhD interviews.

#ESOjobs We are inviting students from European and Chilean Universities in their career's last period to participate in the Winter Internship 2026 programme at Paranal. The deadline to apply is 28 February 2026. Details: https://recruitment.eso.org/ 📷 ESO/G.Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com)

The application for the ESO Summer Research Programme 2026 has just opened! It‘s a six week programme in Garching close to Munich where pre-Ph.D students can work on a hands-on project. Working at @eso.org is a fabulous experience, so please help me spread the word ✨ 🔗 eso.org/sci/meetings...

Hopefully, it will allow us to refocus on what truly matters in science, on big problems, on intuition and insights, on theory building, and away from the brute mechanics of publishing and the bean counting that has put the breaks on true progress in science. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles. #JWST 🧪🔭✨

it’s time 🧛

I was there in the 2017 desert bloom. It's the most magical, once-in-a-lifetime experience.

For me, the hardest step of writing a paper is not starting, it's when you have written almost everything (except introducgion), have your plots almost as you want them, but the overall paper is just not. Good. Enough. And it's so close to completion, but it's just not there yet. What's yours?

New MINDS paper from Nicolas Kurtovic, focused on binary systems. Spectra, extended emission, variability, multi-observatory analysis -- there's something for everyone! arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02576

ALMA found evidence for complex organic compounds, such as sugars & amino acids, in a protoplanetary disc. Thus, discs may inherit these complex molecules from interstellar clouds. More in this press release by @mpi-astro.bsky.social : https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2025-05-v881-ori 🔭 🧪

Astronomers pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star. 🎬 Discover more with the latest episode of #ChasingStarlight ICYMI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-MH6_QlBA Full story: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2512/ 🔭 🧪

For those who may not know, July is #disability pride month. Within #academia (& #astronomy), there are still many pitfalls and barriers that make things difficult for astronomers with disabilities. So, I figured throughout the month, I would share some of what I have experienced with my disability

Given the looming massive budget slashes back in the US, any US early career researchers who are looking for options - Germany has several really great funding schemes! The Humboldt fellowship and Walter Benjamin (DFG) program are excellent for 2 year fellowships!

Interested in doing a Masters or PhD in one of the leading astronomical institutes in Latin America? Apply now to these fully funded positions! aas.org/jobregister/... 🔭🧪☄️ #exoplanets

🥳 Congratulations to @terevaldivia.bsky.social, who has been awarded both the prestigious #OttoHahnMedal and the #OttoHahnAward by @maxplanck.de for her outstanding dissertation! In this Interview she talks about her research, the award ceremony and her future work: www.mpe.mpg.de/8076532/news...

Completely coincidentally, we were all in different variations of blue in the CPT section Otto Hahn Medal ceremony @maxplanck.de © David Ausserhofer / MPG

Look, there's a me!

Had a great time at S4 and in #EAS2025 in general! Unfortunately my visit was quite short (for good reasons).

Want to download everything from today? Whether you want a new desktop background or an image to send to friends and family, we've got you covered! Head to rubinobservatory.org/gallery/collections/first-look-gallery and take your pick 🌌🔭🧪 (...or just download everything, no need to choose!)

Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why to Nature. #Academicsky #ResearchPublishing 🧪

Yes, we are made of stardust. But so is garbage.

Sorry, I can’t do that right now—I have an appointment in several hours that I need to stress over

Trump’s proposed cut to giant physics experiment could snuff out new form of astronomy Degrading @ligo.org ’s observations of gravitational waves would amount to “killing a newborn baby,” one astrophysicist says. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🔭⚛️

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

Check Engine xkcd.com/3096/

"Why should my tax dollars go to fund your astrophysics research?" A thread. 🔭🧪 Brushing aside how absurdly little of the federal budget goes to science (according to the Planetary Society NASA accounts for only 0.3% of federal spending), the benefits of funding astronomy fall into two camps. (1/n)

Leute, are there any good tools to help you build acronyms?? For data surveys preferably 🔭

Hello everyone! I’d like to advertise a recent paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.04699. Led by Lavinia Delfini, we use the Gaia XP spectra to derive accretion rates for 145 975 candidate YSO Hα emitters all-sky within 500 pc. We find a percentage of accretors of 70% at 2 Myr and 2.8% at 10 Myr.

Meet the 2025 Research Fellows in space science! They were selected to pursue their own independent research in space science at one of our establishments. Find out who they are and what kind of research they do here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... Congratulations to all! 🧪☄️

A big hug to all my dear warriors ploughing through the last 2 hours of ALMA proposal submissions 📡🔭

Speaking of the use of DMS as biosignature... 🔭 (tl;dr: there are viable abiotic chemical reaction to explain DMS observed in the ISM)

Just a little update for the busy, from the world of science: 1) There's no life on K2-18b 2) Vaccines cause adults 3) They are not Dire Wolves Carry on.

Shared some (highly skeptical) thoughts on today’s “habitable planet” #K218b news. Thank you @npr.org for the responsible reporting on this topic!

I would love to never see the phrase "little is known about" in a paper ever again. (1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be. (2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.

Registration extended to May 1! Don't miss out on your chance to attend the Multiplicity in Young Stars Conference in Copenhagen this August to discuss all things binary!

I have not taken the tutorial for sci. writing from Henri Boffin (co-author of this article), but I have heard only good things from it :) so yeah, checking this out after vacations!

"I cannot [bring] myself morally to spend Canadian taxpayers’ money in attending U.S. conferences." My latest story for @science.org—about international scientists rethinking conferences on U.S. soil. www.science.org/content/arti...

"Remember Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide? The answer is apparently 42, but nobody knows the right question. That's research in a nutshell"

For the high-school career visits' week here in Bayern, I want to teach the kids how to make azimuthally averaged profiles and create moment maps of ALMA data with Python. For various analysis. Am I too ambitious? Yes Have I procrastinated all week on this? Also yes

What happens when a young star captures some extra gas and dust? New observations of a dusty disk reveals how a late-stage infall event may be influencing planet formation in AB Aurigae. aasnova.org/2025/03/21/a... 🔭🧪

Enjoyed the latest #ESAEuclid images? Why not exploring them in depth? Go to sky esa urlzs.com/F6PeAo and choose between the Science or the Explorer mode to access them. 🔭🧪 #astrosci

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

💫 We are all stardust. It takes millions of years for dust grains to form planets. A six-minute ride into space revealed some secrets of planetary birth, showing how collisions trigger growth spurts in these baby planets. 🪨⏩🪐 From pebbles to planets: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

A catalogue of more than 380,000 #galaxies: the first comprehensive data release of the #Euclid space telescope provides insights into the depths of the #universe - thanks in part to strong German participation! www.mpg.de/24349746/euc... @mpi-astro.bsky.social @mpe-garching.bsky.social @esa.int

The full technical report will be submitted to the Chilean authorities later this month. We take this opportunity to thank the Chilean community, as well as all those in our Member States & around the globe who have supported this cause. 🧪 🔭 #astrosci 6/

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

Tonight we'll be awarding the 2025 Caroline Herschel Medal to Professor Dr Isobel Hook for her "pioneering" work on distant supernovae and the accelerating universe! 🌌💫🏅 We'll share pictures from the ceremony later. Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Wake up nerds, new JWST image! ✨ Two actively-forming stars (protostars) emit dazzling jets of twisting material. Millions of years from now when this dance is over, there will be two stars similar to our Sun that might even form planets of their own. 📸: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI