Many different bird species have been affiliated with the Seattle Seahawks’ mascot, but none is technically a “seahawk”

The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets go.nature.com/4tfz7dr

More than half of the Pandora mission’s leading scientists and engineers are early-career researchers This is “really unheard of elsewhere in the NASA mission space”, says one. By @jennaahart.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 🪐 🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New for @nature.com: the early-career researchers behind NASA's newest telescope, Pandora. “People talk about having a seat at the table. I think that Pandora has taken a step further and helped early-career people be involved in choosing the menu of what we’re eating at the table.”

New for @sciam.bsky.social: Behind astronomers' recent victory protecting Chile's skies, and why other battles—including those against satellite megaconstellations—may not be so easily won www.scientificamerican.com/article/astr...

Still reeling from the finale of #StrangerThings? Dive back into the physics of parallel universes with @jennaahart.bsky.social over at @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes go.nature.com/3XxRL1u

In the latest from Nature: with half a million satellites set to launch in the next decade, more than 96% of images from some space telescopes could be obscured. “We will have fewer discoveries, less interesting images, and in general, less knowledge.” 🔭🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system... This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️

New: Researchers are broadly rejecting the Trump administration's compact. In faculty votes and student protests, they have mobilized to pressure their universities—to some effect: 6 of the original 9 universities have rejected the compact With @alexwitze.bsky.social and @jennaahart.bsky.social:

Is this the elusive ultra-long GRB ???

babe wake up, an entirely new type of object just dropped

ICYMI: Astronomers are finally solving the mystery of JWST’s little red dots, and they seem to be a hybrid sort of black hole star!! 🔭🧪 “It’s almost a shame that we’re starting to figure them out,” Anna de Graaff told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A consensus is emerging that these mysterious little red dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe. go.nature.com/4hjIGm4

First exoplanet story since August—reclaiming my brand

Not common to see a 7-byline story in the wild, but that's what the situation calls for when the government shuts down and every science agency needs to be checked in on for RIFs, grant terminations, and general dysfunction. Our update on what the chaos means for science here:

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development. go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. “Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems” 🧪 #academicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who said the science part of Nobel week is over!? In my new analysis for Nature, over 30% of science laureates from this century have immigrated, and two thirds came to the US. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Of the 202 Nobelists who have been awarded prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize, a Nature analysis shows. go.nature.com/48UbZJp

You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds. @jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Big day for physics teachers who tell their students “If you slap the desk, there’s a 1 in 5.2^61 chance that your hand will pass right through”

Researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable. Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy Nobel week to you and yours!🏅 In the latest from @nature.com: Could AI take home a science Nobel—no human needed? Some say yes, and soon. 🧪 For more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

That's quite the headline

"This detection will quickly 'become one of my favourites', says David Reitze, executive director of the LIGO laboratory" @jennaahart.bsky.social reviews some of our greatest discoveries, including the new #GW250114 in Nature News www.nature.com/articles/d41... #GW10Years 🧪⚛️🔭

Happy birthday to GW150914, our first (of many) #GravitationalWave discoveries, detected 10 years ago today! #GW10Years 🧪⚛️🔭 🖼️: @chirpmass.bsky.social

Ten years ago, the #LIGO gravitational-wave detectors in Louisiana and Washington first heard the ripples in spacetime created by some of the most violent cosmic collisions. For @nature.com, @jennaahart.bsky.social looks back at LIGO's greatest hits: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #physics 🧪

New from Nature: Latest LIGO results from GW250114 confirm Hawking’s black hole area theorem with 99.999% confidence!! “It was the perfect 10-year anniversary present.” More on this detection and LIGO’s other greatest hits from its first decade of discovery 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Amazing early birthday present for GW detections !!

Do you drink Budweiser or Sam Adams? Here's @jennaahart.bsky.social with the latest science on what that says about the chemistry of your taste preferences 🍻🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New from Nature on last week’s ACS meeting: the science behind your favorite beer Can next year’s meeting explain the magic of pink whitney @acs.org? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 reut.rs/3UPKubN

Trump's new executive order "looks like an explicit attempt to destroy peer review for federal science grants,” a physicist in Texas tells @dangaristo.bsky.social. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The marketing for Avatar 3 is getting a bit ridiculous

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, ALPHA CEN A b!!! First hinted at in Wagner+21, now Chas Beichman, Aniket Sanghi and team have published new JWST images of alpha Cen A showing another hint of this Saturn-sized planet candidate! exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/alp...

New from Nature: “I had to take a moment of silence to appreciate what I was seeing.” Astronomers reveal what could be the first ever image of a planet in its star’s habitable zone—and in the same star system as Avatar, no less www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“It’s a ransom to release funds.” During my conversations with Columbia scientists about the university’s new settlement, the word “foreboding” came up in just about every interview. Hear their thoughts in my @nature.com story with @alexwitze.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Columbia scientists say they are relieved, yet unsettled, after last week’s deal with the US government to restore university research funding — and they’re figuring out how to get back to work. go.nature.com/3Ja40wY

NEW from our @ucscscicomm.bsky.social classes for @nature.com: @jennaahart.bsky.social and Rita Aksenfeld on the early-career foreign scientists now planning to leave the US www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"I wanted to stay here." - an early-career stem-cell biologist who is now looking to leave the US for a career in Europe. Reporting by Rita Akensenfeld & @jennaahart.bsky.social, for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking for Columbia researchers to talk to for a Nature story on the university’s recent settlement! If you/anyone you know might want to share their experiences, please message me!

Now on @sciam.bsky.social, by @nadiadrake.bsky.social: The U.S. has axed CMB-S4, its boldest cosmology experiment in generations. Tight budgets and crumbling infrastructure helped doom the project, which was meant to test cosmic inflation. RIP. www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

How fittingly ironic it was to write this story on a Friday!

We should add a slop factor to the Drake equation, 9 out of 10 alien civilizations fail because they drown in self-made AI slop