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You will be visited by three spirits..

Symbolic milestone in sight, 29,9% of full profs female in the Netherlands. But growth remains slow and parity not expected before 2044 www.lnvh.nl/a-4100/monit...

A constellation of amateur astronomers observed a disintegrating exoplanet for @unistellar.bsky.social & @setiinstitute.bsky.social professional astronomers. It's thought it has a comet like appearance, so I made a gif. Our data shows a dimming of the star as the planet goes in front. #Astronomy

Glowing below the full Moon, the ELT dome might look small in this image. Yet the full 30-minute walk via the set of stairs from the entrance of the dome to its top indicates its gigantic size: 80 m high & 93 m wide! Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2549a/ 🔭 🧪 📷 L. Sbordone/ESO

Also because we had it on vhs.

Not really up to date with astronomy stuff, but is this basically the space equivalent to the Vera Rubin Observatory. Also in that the main improvement is the wide field? 🔭

Wanneer wordt de KNSB-prijs voor scheikunde eigenlijk uitgereikt?

Really nice modelling study that reproduce the properties of Titan's polar clouds. de Batz de Trenquelléon+ www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🔭☄️

Een komeet? Nee, dit is de planeet Mercurius. Hij heeft een uiterst ijle dampkring waaruit de druk van het zonlicht natriumatomen wegblaast. De staart is alleen te zien met een filter dat het licht van natrium op de golflengte van 589 nm door laat. Foto Steven Bellavia. Bron spaceweather.com

🎶"... FIIIIIIVE GOLD RIIIIIINGS... Four calling birds, Three French hens, Two turtle doves..."🎶 ... But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made...

Interested in finding transiting planets at long periods, e.g. with the @platomissioncon.bsky.social? We just published a Research Note led by Geert Jan Talens, showing that such transits can be much longer or shorter than usually assumed iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Ik heb in de @snob2000.bsky.social gestemd. Mijn top 14: stemmen.snob2000.nl/gestemd/bzr1 #snob2000

I'm no expert, but "A specially trained algorithm" does not sound like Artificial *Intelligence* to me. I wish they would stop using the term AI in science communication.

Lol "hoe" is just "How" in Dutch. Tits probably referred to the birds. But otherwise I love swearing ;)

Just checking @profanity.accountant

Why do schools teach you the exact year of the battle of Hastings, but do not teach you how to deal with your thoughts and emotions? Or how to raise kids? Or how to help people in need? I'm not sure leaving that up to the parents is optimal.

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

Volcano Hayli Gubbi erupted today in Ethiopia for the first time.

I do love me some spacecraft selfies :)

If your planet's not too big, and your transit spectrum is flatter than you'd think, your aerosols might be clumpy. Owen+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.19013 🧪🔭🪐 #exoplanets

This was such a relatable article. So many spaces online where I once found it easy to connect with friends and family are now so filled with AI slop, sponsored content, and misinformation they've become nearly unusable.

Ik geef de schuld van alles aan het #sinterklaasjournaal. Die geven toekomstige kiezers toch de boodschap dat alles goedkomt, ook als je incompetente leiders hebt.

Remember that lovely aurora last week? Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱 🧵

Nice high signal-to-noise detections of atoms in an ultra-hot Jupiter. There are velocity offsets in iron, which suggests strong winds in certain layers in the atmosphere (but not the other layers that are probed by e.g. Na). Householder+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.14175 🧪🔭🪐#exoplanets

With painting, blue is cool and red is warm, which clashes with the things I know about stars.

Everyone take a look at #comet #K1ATLAS, it has fragmented! ☄️🔭

Saw this 1904 Picasso painting and assumed the dude was looking at his phone.

Lol no one likes my posts despite the lack of rudeness, but some useful info here.

No opinion about this specific claim, but I do think we need more humanities in our lives and hearts and minds. And more arts. More history, more literature, more painting, more moral philosophy, more poetry. More thinking about and cherishing what makes human life special.

Painting #3! Happy with the colours (hard to make a good picture of it though), but painting hair sucks

Enjoying this glorious day.

A welcome spring in an absolute drought of good news.

Now listening to what used to be by album to clean by at uni: Absolution by Muse. Do you have any chore albums?

Had a good week and finally managed to scrape my brain together a bit for a little bit of writing. About rainbows and labels. weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...

Had a good week and finally managed to scrape my brain together a bit for a little bit of writing. About rainbows and labels. weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...

In my personal experience, the rat race in astronomy is far worse than in Earth sciences. Not only papers, but also fancy presentations and websites, outreach, software packages... steeper career pyramid as well I think.

Still way too many racist, anti-intellectual Dutch people, but at least no further escalation yet(?)

Stemmen, mensen! Voor een eerlijkere samenleving met minder haat.

It's Trump, isn't it? He was annoyed by the nokings demonstrations and just wanted a crown.

I hope these massive protests everywhere are also a good signal to opposition parties to not join the race to the bottom/right. This is not what people want.

Only recently realised that the big Sigma in maths is the S of Sum, and big Pi is the P of Product.

Great resource to also find original curse words. You dirtwaffle. colinmorris.github.io/blog/compoun...

From 1264 to 1827, anyone who received a Master of Arts degree from Oxford had to swear that they would never forgive Henry Symeonis. By 1608, no one knew who he was or what he had done.

Omg the sun!

Lol the brand name NASA is so strong in the Netherlands that they put it on (groundbased) kids' telescopes. Should say ESO of course!

At least our floor squeegee seems happy.

At least our floor squeegee seems happy.

Morning all. Here’s a cat thing. You’re welcome. xx