Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”

very confused why im seeing so many people devastated after ut's loss, i thought we were all aware that the longhorns were a chronically dogwater football team

are we allowed to have outro music for out phd defense?

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

i would crash juno into jupiter before letting this happen wtf

Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19

just found out my conference poster got printed in the wrong dimensions brb gonna die

From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...

Welcome to June. Here’s a diagram illustrating how stars’ colours depend on their temperatures as approximated by their equivalent black body curves. #astronomy #PrideMonth

me: i finally turned in my latest manuscript draft. 11yo: i already read the abstract. me: oh? 11yo: yeah, it says <pushes glasses up and speaks in a whiny voice> “According to my calculations, nerd nerd nerd”

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Astronomer: Well its only a gap with our current instruments. Next generation facilities like Rubin and JWST should resolve the gap within uncertainties! Unless they don't,, in which case next-next generarion facilities such as.....

found a catastrophic error in my code so basic that im considering how my brain might actually be the smoothest material in the known universe

went straight from high dry desert utah to fullbore spring thunderstorms in texas felt like whatever the reverse of paul atreides is

Thank you for all your action today! Keep sharing how you are engaging in advocacy using #SaveScience and #WeekOfAction. We have many more advocacy actions to look forward to this week: aas.org/posts/news/2...

yknow i knew it was the 2005 pride and prejudice and i ofc knew revenge of the sith came out in 2005 but i never actually put together that they came out in the same year, let alone in the same week

Every astronomer on socials for the next 24-48 hours will now be spending their time highlighting the importance of: - peer review system - awaiting astro community feedback - not inflating/sensationalizing headlines - independently reproducing results - multiple lines of evidence - unlikely aliens

Describing the impact of the NASA budget cuts from the astronomers' perspective, combined with clear, easy, sub 1-min actions you can take to help. Great work by the @astrobites.bsky.social writers 🔭🧪

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finally got a letterboxd

*playing mario kart* my gf: i worry im being too competitve for you me: ill start worrying when you're not in tenth

giving the biggest boooooo in the world on that decision

My newest astrobite!!! it's on is a great *interdisciplinary* paper that discusses how passage through the Radcliffe wave could've contributed to global cooling in the Miocene period

yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content

no way pete hegseth just texted me the origin of the imf

this week in fascism, summarized:

it's an interesting experience, watching the demise of a university system that wouldn't have ever provided me with a stable job and livelihood anyway. kinda like watching a bunch of houses burn down that you know you could never afford to live in anyway

x-ray astronomers wear everything and a backpack bc they can only work with upper limits

me when im disc crossing

You're going to grad school. Shaggy said life's one big party when you're still young and you're going to grad school

me staring at my data

i wasnt aware people *ever* expected anything but poor decisionmaking from their university presidents

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

how we've been feeling in the chat lately

me to my millennial girlfriend: let's go to the parking lot and do a heckin fuckerino

Scientists need to face the reality that this is not some temporary funding crisis while a bumbling administration sorts out their priorities. This is an intentional assault on academia by accelerationist extremists who wish to break society. Fascism must be met in the streets.

yknow im actually chill with all the microplastics in my body. i mean my forebearers were similiarly nerfed by lead and asbestos and look at the world we've built

got that mad spectral synthesis rizz

my gf asked wanted some white noise so i played wonderwall for her

i agree with doug ford?? wild times

This is BlueSky, where I get real with you about my cat eating spiders, but for some momentary self-promotion: my wonderful puppet show is coming back next week and I hope everybody enjoys it as we've worked incredibly hard on this very zany season.

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

This week has been garbage but my second ever first author paper was published yesterday and I want to celebrate that, dammit 😤 It’s not actually my primary work but rather Astronomy Education research that I’ve gotten involved in over grad school! 🧪🔭 journals.aps.org/prper/abstra...

worst january to do dry january

hard 7

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

i wouldn't trust the utah legislators to be able to empty a colander full of water

she has a magnetic personality?!? i thought she was anemic

Academic freedom means you can't be fired for pursuing your research, not that other academics (or people outside of the academy) have to take your ideas seriously. Part of the deal is that if you come up with dogshit ideas, people have to be willing and able to call them dogshit.