Virtual Astronomy Software Talks comes early this month! Come (virtually) hear about Julia in Astro tomorrow, with 2 talks focusing on Julia: Paul Barrett: JuliaAstro Paul Tieda: Comrade.jl show starts at 11am US East Coast time vast-seminars.github.io #astro #astrocode

December's VAST seminar is on Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 11 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/16:00 UTC. Presenters are: Paul Barrett: JuliaAstro Paul Tieda: Comrade.jl: a Julia package for VLBI After the presentations, we will have Q&A and open discussion. vast-seminars.github.io 🔭 #astro

Bsky just asked for my birth date. I gave it the same bogus date I provide to all other social media sites that ask for my birth date.

Today in my email box: "On behalf of the Journal of Oral Care Journal of Clinical Oral Medicine and Maxillofacial Surgery We are delighted to extend an invitation to you to submit a paper to our esteemed journal."

Wow! Big news!

🔭 Though the main NASA #APOD page isn't being updated due to the US Govt shutdown, APOD continues on; you can catch your daily dose of #astro goodness at a mirror site, such as www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... See the About APOD page for others: apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/abo... #astro

What is #SciX? Think of it as your one-stop platform for exploring #research across #EarthScience, #EnvironmentalScience, and #SpaceScience, including #PlanetaryScience, #Heliophysics, #Geology, #Geophysics, #AtmosphericScience, and #Oceanography. Watch our new video! bit.ly/WelcomeToSciX

#SciX is created by the #ADS team & operates out of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA Cooperative Agreement. Created and developed by scientists, for scientists, SciX builds on decades of open research infrastructure and collaboration: https://bit.ly/CfASciXNews

Anti-fascists (Antifa) storming the beaches of Normandy.

From me, @mhmdhsini.bsky.social, and @scedmunds.bsky.social Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

This Wed, Aug 20, 11:00 EDT/15:00 UTC Virtual Astronomy Software Talks seminar: Teaching Computational Astrophysics in an AI World Panelists are: Dr. Stella Offner Dr. John Wallin Dr. Michael Zingale Info: vast-seminars.github.io Join mailing list: groups.google.com/g/virtual-as... #astronomy 🔭

This Wed, Aug 20, 11:00 EDT/15:00 UTC Virtual Astronomy Software Talks seminar: Teaching Computational Astrophysics in an AI World Panelists are: Dr. Stella Offner Dr. John Wallin Dr. Michael Zingale Info: vast-seminars.github.io Join mailing list: groups.google.com/g/virtual-as... #astronomy 🔭

🦉🪶 #birds Not the first time a bird has looked at me this way... Cedar Waxwing Houghton, MI

🔭 Please help this EAS registration find a good home!! I have an in-person registration for next week's European Astronomical Society (EAS) meeting in Cork, Ireland, already paid for, but now am unable to go. Rather than cancel the registration, I would prefer to transfer it to someone -- free

I’m 39. 3 years ago I left academia. My biggest regret? Not building a network outside it. I thought great science would be enough. It wasn’t. Visibility builds trust Visibility opens doors — especially when you leave the lab. Start showing up. Share your Science. Start now. 🧪 #SciComm

I’d be getting a new phone now if I were you. If you are an iPhone user, this video has some steps to prevent downloading. youtu.be/fDm5e_-600I?...

Bitterns be bitterns where'er they be No matter what kind, never easy to see #birds 🦉🪶

🔭 Solar Eclipse Image Credit & Copyright: Fred Espenak apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061...

Protesting yesterday--seeing & being with so many others who are not OK with the US's dive into fascism--was good for my soul. Small town, most of the protesting was done on a (packed!) pedestrian overpass; responses from those driving under the overpass were overwhelmingly positive. Yay!!

Four #birds from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan 🦉

This Ring-billed Gull has a question and a comment about your behavior last night... #birds 🦉

Join the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks (VAST) mailing list to get the Zoom link: groups.google.com/g/virtual-as... And please, (please!) when you ask to join, include your real name and institution if they are not part of your email address. Thanks!

Virtual Astronomy Software Talks seminar! Wed, 3/19 11 AM Eastern Time/15:00 UTC Nikhil Sarin presents REDBACK, a Bayesian inference pkg for fitting electromagnetic transients Bryna Hazelton presents pyuvdata, a pythonic interface to interferometric data sets #Astronomy 🔭 vast-seminars.github.io

Look out for Mercury and Saturn in the dusk sky this evening. They will be tricky to spot but worth the effort. Make sure the Sun has set before searching with any optical aid. Try from around 18:00 UT. They will be below Venus and close to the horizon. #Astronomy

Another short video from the series: The Quantum Atlas - published by The University of Maryland www.olenashmahalo.com/project/quan... Ion Trap Qubits. Info: link ↑ / ALT 🧪 ⚛️ #physics #scicomm #SciArt #3Dart #C4D #mograph #NoAI

Have you checked our Graduate Trainee opportunities? 👉 jobs.esa.int/ If you’re in the final year of a Master’s degree (or recently graduated) in engineering, science, IT or business, don't miss this out 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Car... 🧪🔭

Hey American astronomers! Did you know you can apply for European Research Council grants while in the US and, were to bring an ERC to University College Cork, you would *automatically* get a permanent position!? ERC starting grants (2-7 yrs post PhD) are €1.5M for 4 yrs with. ~10% success rate! 🔭

The European Astronomical Society 2025 Meeting is in Cork 23-27 June! There are lots of awesome sessions planned, including one chaired by myself and John Regan! If you work on massive black holes in the Early Universe, consider submitting an abstract! (Due 3 March) 🔭 eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

Virtual Astronomy Software Talks (VAST) returns this Wed, Feb 19, 2025, at 11 AM ET via Zoom! Presenters are: Rhys Taylor for FRELLED—The FITS Realtime Explorer of Low Latency in Every Dimension Marc Pound for PDR Toolbox—PhotoDissociation Region Toolbox #Astronomy 🔭

Not late, because every day should be a Superb Owl day! Four #birds 🦉🪶

Our government is being dismantled in a fast-moving coup because a bunch of ostensible adults are afraid of mean tweets from a spent 78 year old skin bag who wears Oompa Loompa makeup.

🔭 The Variable Nebula NGC 2261 Image Credit & Copyright: Tommy Lease (Denver Astronomical Society) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25013...

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

🔭 Hydrogen Clouds of M33 Image Credit & Copyright: Pea Mauro apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25013...

8 years ago, at AAS 231 in DC, I started my Astro Vlog! If #aas245 is your first time attending, or you want to see what a big astronomy conference is like, check out my daily vlogs from a bunch of AAS meetings! youtu.be/nliApj5M59Y?...

Four local #birds I walked around a nearby lake some days ago -- before the snow came (so cold!!) -- and saw a few things. Here are four of them. 🦉🪶

The @aasoffice.bsky.social will issue full registration refunds for all of our colleagues impacted by the devastating fires in CA. If you are an #AAS245 registrant and in CA standby for an email on how to request your registration. We at the AAS are heartbroken for you and ready to support.

Walked on the C&O Canal Towpath with a couple of friends on Wednesday on New Year's Day and saw a few birds; here are four of them.

‎⁨This pic came up in my memories today; I took it five years ago today at Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve⁩ in ⁨Honolulu. I did not travel again, except alone, car-camping, fully self-sufficient, for a long time after this. Western Cattle-Egret 🦉🪶

Once you see the dog's face on a duck's bill, it's hard to unsee it! Mallards Riley's Lock, C&O Canal Towpath, MD 🦉🪶 #ducks

Happy Boxing Day to all cats who celebrate! 📦🐈‍⬛

I never saw whooping cough during my medical training in India in the 1990s because of childhood vaccination To see this unfolding today in the US is truly heartbreaking and stunning Whooping cough cases in the US are the highest they’ve been in a decade edition.cnn.com/2024/12/25/h...

Open rank position alert (share away): The Dept. of Biology at the U of Maryland, College Park invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology using microbial systems for a tenure-track or tenured position at any rank bit.ly/ecoevomicro-...

I've never programmed in python, but suuuuure, I should be able to edit this python script for the ASCL to improve its performance, right? #astro #programming

Very important work here by Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser @propublica.org If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life www.propublica.org/article/misc... #pregnancy #reproductivehealth #miscarriage #abortion

Four minutes from now! #astronomy