Research scientists have no shot at having a permanent position, ever. But at my university, we're now required to send annual reports of our activity in order to be evaluated. For what exactly? Just to be able to keep our jobs? 🧪⚛️

Mercury was only 50 arcminutes (0.8°) above a very young waxing crescent Moon this evening. KAS member Pete Mumbower captured this image from his home in Vicksburg, MI.

Incredible, using Tikz to animate precession and nutation of the Earth! ⚛️🧪

Ha, I was one of the reviewers for this, nice to see it out! Really good work indeed! 🧪⚛️

An advice for young folks learning to code. Please get comfortable coding the old school way, looking up solutions on stackoverflow etc before you start getting AI assist. You can trust AI with menial tasks but not with critical code components. It is nowhere even close to the human brain. 🧪⚛️

Me, from Baltimore: "It's going to be cold on the weekend" My partner: *laughs in Ottawa*

I'm tired of the rhetoric around the "young academic", the age old saying that after 30+x, you have no research potential left. Some of us, especially ones who are first generation in academia, need a few years to even fully understand the "rules of the game". (1/3)

PSA: if you're writing a numerical simulation paper, please add the initial and boundary conditions as clear separate equations or at least bullet point sentences. It is incredibly hard to decipher them if they're written in vague language inside a paragraph somewhere. ⚛️🧪

I know it's a difficult time for funding right now. But should we change how it is structured in general? Very few sectors outside academia would hire you and tell you "please go find money for your own salary. Good luck!" #academia 🧪⚛️

Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan. This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans

🌀The stratospheric polar vortex is a belt of high-speed cyclonic winds around 12-20km high over the poles. When temperatures in the stratosphere – which contains the ozone layer – start rising in the southern spring, the ozone hole over the Antarctic grows. 2025 ozone: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Being in #academia means having constant FOMO about what people are working on. 🧪⚛️

First proposal as PI submitted! 🥳🎉 Wish me luck! 🧪⚛️

Wow! Excited! 😍😍

☀🌕 On September 7, there will be a #totallunareclipse. However, totality will only be visible in Belgium between 20:17 (moonrise) and 20:53 (end of totality), local time in Uccle. For better observation, find a place with a clear horizon between east and south-east. robinfo.oma.be/en/as...

The Europa clipper is on its way to investigate the ice shell and ocean of the Jovian moon Europa. Here's what the interior of Europa looks like as we know today. Values of layer depth estimates taken from Vance et al., 2018. 🧪⚛️ #EuropaClipper #PlanetaryScience #FluidDynamics

I just learned that one of the most brilliant science minds I ever met during my PhD "quit" academia. I say it in quotes because I really hate that language. It keeps so many people feeling guilty about want to leave a system that does not value their skills, experience and knowledge. 🧪⚛️ (1/n)

WTAF?! Can we just not?! The only people I would like to chat with about a paper are the authors. Keep your dirty AI hands off it.

In case you were wondering what it was like at home tonight…very similar to this

My 3-5 key metal bands Black Sabbath Porcupine Tree Opeth Katatonia Tool

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

Cool cool great timing, just as I was about to finish up a thesis report ...

Hi online hive mind, looking for advice. Has anyone recently applied for an NSF grant? Is it currently worth it? 🧪⚛️ Fields : Earth/planetary science, astrophysics

Intel compilers: icc: command line warning #10121: overriding '-xHost' with '-xHost' What??! ⚛️🧪

#NewPaper alert! 🧪⚛️ We simulate the dynamo of ancient Mars and provide a possible explanation of its anomalous magnetic field.

#IMPRS interview week is here! Applicants for @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy, lovingly called #SolarSystemSchool, are at #MPSGoettingen to learn more about the institute and its research. Enjoy your week of tours, lectures, interviews and socializing!

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

I would really like to pay an astro or planetary grad student to do some odd-job coding work for me and also to tutor me in python for basic stuff like batch processing in imagemagick, drawing data plots and orbits, and generating html to display tabular data. Anyone interested?

Vera Rubin has been selected to be featured on the back of a quarter. She is the first astronomer to be honored this way. Read about her research on the Andromeda galaxy and how it led to the discovery of dark matter in this article written by Rubin herself. doi.org/10.1063/1.24... 🔭 #WomenInStem

Massive stars have a region of turbulent convection near the center of the star, while the region outside is what is known as a "radiative zone" where no convection takes place. This region can host waves. Shown here is an equatorial slice of a simulation of a 3 solar mass star. 🧪⚛️ #Astronomy #Stars

Uranus with its magnetic field lines and the trajectory of Voyager II near closest approach to Uranus. Red/Blue show the radial component of the magnetic field. #MagneticFields #Planets 🧪⚛️

My fave meme of the week goes to: #AI #DeepSeek 🧪

Is there a reason why universities can't provide us with business credit cards instead of trying to go through tedious booking/reimbursement processes? #Academia

We've had some infrastructure providers drop out of the mybinder.org federation lately, and some instability with others, so Binder may be slow or unreliable.

Inspiring Girls* Expeditions hosts tuition-FREE, multi-day expeditions for high school girls* that blend science, art, and backcountry travel. It’s not too late – apply for our summer 2025 expeditions today! Start your application at inspiringirls.org/apply.

Please share: I have a friend with access to food trucks in LA that is looking for locations to set them up this weekend that will be useful to the largest number of people and will allow a food truck to park there. Not looking for suggestions but actual contacts

We are inviting applications for a Science Programme Manager as of April 1, 2025. Do you have a doctorate in #Astronomy and #Astrophysics, #PlanetarySciences, #Heliophysics or #EarthSciences, and want to join the ISSI team, apply here: www.issibern.ch/science-prog...

Had a lovely interaction at #AGU24, Person : "is someone funding you to write / code community tools?" Me: "no ..." Person : "you should be funded for this! You're saving everyone hours of work." I wish more people thought this way. #Academia

Yet more faculty applications to send, knowing full well that the chances of getting a position are extremely low ... #Academia

Wow! 🌍 Over 30,000 attendees from around the globe joined us in Washington, D.C., and online to explore What’s Next for Science at #AGU24. THANK YOU for an incredible week of collaboration and discovery! 🤝✨ We can’t wait to see you next year at #AGU25 in New Orleans! 🚀🌆

And with that, #AGU24 comes to an end. 🧪🌏 #Physics #Academia

#AGU24 chilling with @jrekier.bsky.social and @ututuy.org (taking the picture).

Chaired my first oral session this year. And got the real reason we come here. 😉 #AGU24

One week into #AdventOfCode and I'm pleased all of my solutions so far are < 55 lines of Python code (with black formatting ha) 🐍 My solve for day 6/part 2 was initially super frustrating and under-optimised (tip for next year: use complex numbers). But today's day 7/part 2 was ⚡ fast 🏃‍♀️💨

I'm excited to announce our latest paper in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics with @ututuy.org and others. It analyzes the transition to turbulence in the spherical equivalent of the Taylor-Couette system - the spherical Couette system. #NewPaper #FluidMech (1/2) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Is there an open source software maintainer in your life? Are you one? GitHub has a private community you can apply for at maintainers.github.com! Folks discuss common problems/solutions, there’s a direct line to GitHub product & betas, and I post funding opportunities. Spread the word please :)

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪