Two stones. One is a dead secret. The other is a living, breathing ultimatum. buymeacoffee.com/drsterling/d...

My data on the anomalous signal has been erased, and I just received a thinly-veiled threat from a colleague to drop it. But I'm not alone, and the warm volcanic pebble left in my locked apartment is the first piece of evidence in an investigation they can't delete. buymeacoffee.com/drsterling/d...

🗓️ 31 July 2025 First day atop the mountain: survived jet lag, got lost, met legends (and a telescope that might be haunted). Saw the sea of clouds at dawn, worth every sleepless moment. Turns out, the mountain has secrets. buymeacoffee.com/drsterling/d... #ObservatoryLife #AstroDiaries

🌌 Right, so the thing about combining astrophysics with sunburn, improbable romance, and a suspiciously clever observatory cat on Tenerife is... you get my new project: Dr. Adam Sterling’s Tenerife Diaries!

It's clear the current tourism model is straining our islands. Serious concerns here in Tenerife about the impact on resources, fragile ecosystems, and housing. www.reuters.com/world/europe... #CanaryIslands #Tenerife #SustainableTourism #Overtourism #ScienceAndSociety

From La Palma, the Gran Telescopio Canarias achieves 1000+ publications - from the earliest galaxies to nearby exoplanets. Each paper a small step, collectively a giant leap in understanding our Universe. #GTC #Astronomy #CanaryIslands #Astrophysics lapalmastars.com/en/roque-de-...

A super-Earth, just 59 light-years away. Discovered by an IAC-led team, GJ 3998 d orbits in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star—six Earth masses, and only 20% more starlight than us. The sky never rushes. It just waits to be read. 🛰️ www.iac.es/en/outreach/... #Exoplanets #Astrophysics #IAC

Somehow both wired and calm

Rode the coast this morning before the wind picked up. Coffee tasted like burnt sugar. Sky looked like it remembered something it couldn’t quite say. Some days I feel the same. #MotorbikeMornings #TenerifeVibes #SmallMoments

Some days are about precision. Equations. Models. Others are messier. Louder. More human. Both end in notes scrawled in the margins. #LifeInTheDetails #IslandLiving #BlurredEdges

Tenerife skies at dusk are their own kind of religion. You don’t need faith—just a telescope and time. (Though faith helps, some nights.) #Astrophysics #TenerifeNights #WritingLife

Cardio under the Canarian sun. Some runs are for fitness, others for forgetting. Today? Maybe both.