Glad to see pushback picking up in the media about the proposed massive cuts to UK particle/astro/nuclear physics 🧪🔭. Everyone understands that tough choices have to be made, but not investing in your future is a surefire way of, well, not having much of one 🤷‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I have officially transitioned from Dutch to British!

Great commentary on the recently announced budget cuts to physics and astronomy in the UK, by @chrislintott.bsky.social www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

In a dark world at least there’s Ezra Fuhrman #secretlivesofscientists

Meanwhile just returned from a fantastic conference at NYU Abu Dhabi on Cosmic Collisions. And I return bearing gifts. These are for my next group meeting, where we will be conducting a serious taste test of #Dubaichocolate to put the original Fix brand to the test!!

I had never thought of black holes in terms of 'evil vacuum cleaners' but that image is now stuck in my head.

Thanks to @hannahdevlin.bsky.social from @theguardian.com for the article about our first ever #BlackHole 🔭🧪 movie campaign 🎬 with the @ehtelescope.bsky.social, coming soon to a telescope near you! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

So excited to see this news, Debora’s work is amazing!!!

So you've probably heard about snowpocalypse in the Netherlands this week but check out this image of snowbound Amsterdam from above via @esa.int's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission! 🔭🧪 I can see my house! 😂 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

If you're a multi-messenger astrophysicist 🔭🧪 with a particular interest in gravitational waves and neutrinos, please consider applying to our open faculty position within @grappainstitute.bsky.social at the University of Amsterdam. It's a great place to work, and AMS is a great place to live!!

Just submitted my application for permanent EU residency, wish me luck!!

If you're a VLBI radio person 🔭🧪 and keen on imaging #blackholes and their jets, please consider applying for a postdoc position in my new research group at the @cambridgeastro.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Congratulations to @kazuakiyama.bsky.social on this amazing achievement!

Very happy that my EHT colleague (and Deputy Project Scientist) is joining me in the UK, and we'll be collaborating already via his successful Royal Society Faraday grant "TomoGRAV"!!

I know this is lowbrow but seeing the photos from a new story of a raccoon that trashed a liquor store and passed out in its bathroom has me LOL. This raccoon has it going on.

Our @api.uva.nl institute holiday party was yesterday and fellow faculty member Daniela Huppenkothen (I don't think she's on here?) is an amazing cake maker...behold what she crafted!

I love this study 🧪, because I really think people are in general more empathic than we give them credit for! news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

⭐️✨🔭Please help us get the message out about the 7th annual international ASPIRE program at @api.uva.nl. This summer 2026 school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. Applications are due 17 Dec! ⭐️✨🔭

. @profsera.bsky.social has been appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at @cambridgeastro.bsky.social 🔭 🌟 Explore more about her work with @ehtelescope.bsky.social and her new Fellowship role at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social 👇 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sera...

How timely! Looks like EHT has just decided on an acronym for their upcoming run:

Just finished our winter (online) @ehtelescope.bsky.social Collaboration meeting today, and someone came up with the awesome acronym for our Spring 2026 first ever #blackhole MOVIE campaign = "Multi-epoch Observations with VLBI of the Intensity Evolution of M87*"!! 🧪🔭⚫🎬

But wait, there's more! Here's a somewhat longer article about my new position at the @cambridgeastro.bsky.social 🧪🔭 and @kavlifoundation.org Institute of Cosmology, at the University of Cambridge, from their communications team: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sera...

Wow just saw this via a post on LinkedIn from Dr Anna Barnacka, I need this book!! Also alchemy is a great word to describe us 😂

I'm very excited and honoured to announce my new position 🧪🔭 in the UK, starting in January! See here for more info: www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Dit is een zeer mooie nieuwe mogelijkheid voor mij, maar gelukkig blijf ik ook deels als hoogleraar in Amsterdam (maar ik maak me wel zorgen over wat Engeland met mijn Nederlands gaat doen!!).

With a 32% higher budget (17% adjusted for inflation) than the last Ministerial agreement in 2022, ESA is demonstrating its strong commitment to leadership in space! 🔭🧪 And to supporting both L-class missions, hurray!! 🚀 🎉 www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...

⭐️🔭Applications open at Anton Pannekoek Institute in Amsterdam for the 7th ASPIRE program: aspire.science.uva.nl. This 2026 summer school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. [1/2]

On the way up to #ALMA around 4000m we had to make way for one of the two massive telescope dish transporters, “Otto”. It weighs 130 tons and can lift 110 ton telescope dishes to reconfigure the array! 🔭🧪

An unbelievable privilege and experience today visiting the world leading #ALmA telescope at 5000m in Chile! 🧪🔭 Plus we saw some local fauna!

My first ever view of the amazing #ALMA telescope 🧪🔭 at 5000m in Chile, that forms the core of the @ehtelescope.bsky.social!

Woke up to some unexpected good news today in the Netherlands: the centre-left party D66 won over the far right who were the lead party last election. Big sigh of relief. Also means: don’t listen to the polls.

Hey all if you feel like helping ppl make ends meet post Hurricane Melissa, a Jamaican friend suggested this group is reliable donate.wfpusa.org/page/Hurrica...

A letter from the age of truth. Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. We need more of this in our public discourse. Call vile ideologies and the people who peddle them out for who and what they are.

End of a long #caturday here

This ‘extra credit’ also awards people who put themselves first instead of eg promoting the careers of their students and junior collaborators. 🧪

We cannot wait! 🖖🤘

🔤EHT A–Z We’re breaking down the science behind the Event Horizon Telescope - one letter at a time. 📡 J is for Jet Black holes can launch powerful streams of particles moving at nearly the speed of light - we call these jets. Just look at the striking one in M87! #blackholes #EHTAZ #astronomy

Just one week until the @mayodarkskies.bsky.social festival! I'm excited to give a public talk, but also to see @paraphrasestudio.bsky.social again. Rae achieves the impossible by making insane visualisations of talks in real time! 🔭🧪Here's the one she made during my #blackhole talk back in 2022:

Wait a minute. Why aren't we celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's dissertation.

📈 Record interest in ERC Starting Grants 2026! 4,807 proposals - a 22% increase compared to last year’s call. 👩‍🔬 Women submitted nearly 43% of proposals - the highest share ever recorded in an ERC call. More stats 👉 bit.ly/4hcYJln #ChooseEurope

Leg up on a #caturday night

It’s starting!! @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social stage at #ESAOpenDay with mission update by ESA DG, Joseph Aschbachen. 🧪🔭 We’re up next!

Gearing up to channel my inner goth for the "Dark Side of the Universe" panel at tomorrows #ESAOpenDay, on the Space Rocks stage, together with JWST scientist Mark McCaughrean and EUCLID project scientist Valeria Pettorino! 🧪🔭 www.spacerocksofficial.com/news/come-se...

Bandida has a serious foot fetish. Caught in the act on a lazy #caturday.

I’m excited to be part of this event for #ESAOpenDay tomorrow, also celebrating their 50th bday! And I def need a photo op with the alien egg!

... For a snapshot of the awesome weekend ahead, hit the link below, and may the force be with you. www.spacerocksofficial.com/news/come-se...

We’re hard at work prepping for the ESTEC Open Days this weekend. As @esa.int celebrates its 50th, come see the Creative Space near the Space Rocks stage in Escape on Sunday to see a concept for long-term deep space travel...

I love it.