working on a transient host galaxy paper and every time I mis-type "hsot" i get flashbacks to the HSLOT of 2021/22/23

Spot the cosmic imposters! 🔍 Help fine-tune NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s alert system and figure out which detected changes in the sky are cosmic events vs. imposters with Rubin Difference Detectives on @zooniverse.bsky.social!🧐 Join now: zooniverse.org/rubin

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

“She is dead,” Officer Auderer told Officer Solan, before bursting out laughing. “No, it’s a regular person,” Officer Auderer said, adding: “Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.”

like... idk if u missed ur turn lane + the lane is full now .... in michigan they teach u to loop around the block and try again. but i guess here they teach u to hold-up traffic + zipper in ala merging @ construction on a highway

driving in new jersey is so quirky cute fun

China's Chang'e-6 lunar lander may have solved one of the great Moon mysteries: Why does its far side look totally different than the side that faces us? A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided, according to a new study. 🧪🔭 eos.org/articles/pri...

Lot of great astronomers on the list this year! Congrats @yymao.bsky.social, among others!

🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?) File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space. The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇

Get to know some of our staff and scientists through Rubin Voices! Each feature introduces you to someone helping make NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory a reality. Bonus: each one includes a trading card, so you can start your Rubin collection. Can you collect them all? 🔭🧪 🔗: https://bit.ly/3ZvDHXm

happy international day of women and girls in science 🧪🔭👩‍🔬🦖✨🦎 How are you supporting #womeninSTEM today? some ideas below: www.unesco.org/en/days/wome...

Power! At The Fish Disco

These are long term drugs, you can't simply go off them, like any diet, the weight comes back. So this isn't a simply solution: It's a life long treatment.

If doctors can determine what weight a person "should" be at...what are the factors involved in that? Because we as a society really really stigmatize weight. And doctors are involved in that stigma just as much as anyone else.

Hi everyone! I am trying to look into demographics + potential recruitment/retention initiatives for minorities in astrophysics, particularly in the EU, and have no idea where to start. Any advice, papers, and academics would be super helpful!

2 more minutes of daylight tomorrow < 3

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

wait this is the first explanation of this to actually make sense to me; thank u dr katie mack 🙏

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

Galaxy Slam! Meet Marcia Rieke, Regents Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory. As principal investigator for NIRCam on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, she helps reveal the universe’s earliest galaxies using infrared light. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhxf...

42 kilonovae per year !!! we've only ever seen 8 !!! wow

The Winter Olympics start this week and you can step into Italy and out into space through our AstrOlympics project. Compare the amazing feats of the athletes with the spectacular phenomena across the cosmos. chandra.si.edu/astrolympics...

'reputation' is still that album btw

This is what taxpayer-funded open science plus decades of hard-won investment and expertise looks like

mmhmm mmhmm 'quadruple profits' i see i see

The ICE agents to be deployed to Milan are not from the same unit as the immigration agents cracking down in Minnesota and other U.S. cities. on.nbcboston.com/s7N5bTP

The UK is set to cut its budget for astronomy research by a third. Since the few high-profile projects they are likely to continue to support, like ELT, tend to be the most expensive, it means even more drastic cuts to the rest of the field. It is effectively the end. 🧪🔭 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Enter Rubin’s “alert brokers”: software that processes the alerts, adds extra info, and lets users filter for what they care about—basically cosmic hashtags and channels. ✨ Learn more: rubinobservatory.org/explore/how-... 🔭🧪☄️

honored honored honored to have spoken on Adele and the CMB at the recent @astroontapphilly.bsky.social and Liberty Science Center - Science After Dark events !! 📷: the Liberty Science Center photographer + Cole Meldorf

The winds have been carving some amazing formations into the snow along the highway. For size reference, these drifts are at least as tall as me.

Snow from this weekend's storm is Plain-ly visible from GOES-East this afternoon. Snow currently blankets a large swath of the central and eastern U.S. spanning from western Texas through New England.

It started as a half-joke, but the math worked out. MIT physicists wonder if a powerful neutrino was a sign of an exploding black hole formed in the first split second of the universe.

the world simply isn't ready for encrabbification

such a joy to have given a talk at the Liberty Science Center last week on the CMB + Adele : ) lsc.org/news-and-soc...

Astronomers have long searched for clues that a hidden companion star sits out of view near the red supergiant star Betelgeuse. Now, they’ve uncovered a new piece of evidence: a trail like the wake behind a boat, cutting through Betelgeuse’s upper atmosphere, likely forged by the unseen companion.

Skies over Greenland beautifully captured by📷@nackstrand_photography

The sun will rise in #Baltimore #Maryland tomorrow at 7:19, 40 seconds earlier than the day before. It will set at 17:18, 69 seconds later than the day before.

this is very nice to listen to on repeat music.apple.com/us/album/bal...

Antonella Palmese has received the 2025 INFN Bruno Touschek Award for her pioneering work integrating galaxy surveys with gravitational wave astronomy. Her research is reshaping how we study the universe’s most fundamental forces. 🧪 ⚛️ #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

kitt peak i love u

jan 6 and jan 7 2014 "The University cancelled classes for the sixth time in the university's history." you will always be famous to me onthebanks.msu.edu/Timeline/162...

new on GRB 250702B !!! : )

so many familiar faces here incl. Kate Alexander, @astrobites.bsky.social alum Mia de los Reyes, + MSU alum @carlnotsagan.github.io !! so great to see and so well deserved !! 🔭

It's Penguin Awareness Day! 🐧 Dyan deNapoli played a pivotal role in one of the largest wildlife rescue operations ever: the 2000 Treasure oil spill penguin rescue. 12,500 volunteers 556,000 hours of labor 140 bird experts >90% of the oiled penguins returned healthy & able to breed. #WomenInSTEM

why “Hello” by Adele is actually about the CMB

Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about 'Ablaut reduplication.' If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.' -tic-tac-toe If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’ -click-clack -King-Kong

About 4:15 am Almost due east

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