We are at an exciting point in the SKA Observatory project with lots of rapid changes. The team at Nature Astronomy have perfectly captured the excitement we all have, but also the long path we still have to walk. Nice work @drpaulwoods.bsky.social and B. Kim. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Awesome news @profsera.bsky.social! Cambridge and the UK are lucky to get you.

This spectacular stellar system never ceases to amaze! Amazing science Ryan, Yinuo, Ben and team! science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Nature research paper: Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection go.nature.com/3JyIByp

📣 For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed seeing a giant explosion on a star other than our own! Our XMM-Newton observatory and the LOFAR telescope contributed to making this long sought-after discovery 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 1/

Thrilled to announce our new Springer Nature paper is now live! We’ve tuned into a massive stellar storm on the radio! 🌟📡

To message or not to message aliens? This short video by the BBC is excellently produced with fun visuals. www.bbc.com/videos/crl24...

One of the worst reference letter submitting experiences is with the International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics. They ask you absurd questions outside of just uploading your letter, such as asking for arbitrary rankings of the student. There is no clarity how such information is used.

Vidi voor astronomen @astrojoe.bsky.social en Matus Rybak www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/vidi-...

I am privileged to be one of only two astronomers awarded an NWO (Dutch Research Council) Vidi grant this year! I will be using the 850,000 euros to create space weather reports of distant worlds. The grant will be hosted by @astronnl.bsky.social and @api.uva.nl www.astron.nl/vidi-granted...

Check out this awesome work by Ben and his team! Really amazing stuff they can pull out of James Webb

More cool state quantum work awarded the Nobel!

Are you looking to do a PhD in astronomy? Are you interested in radio stars and exoplanets? Then you should apply to do a PhD at @api.uva.nl with me! You can find more about the exciting project below. Applications are due 3rd of November! api.uva.nl/vacancies/ph...

Universities are coming to a crossroads with demographic shifts, bloated administrations, and the raise of LLMs. What will they do in response? www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

What an absolutely amazing result. May science erradicate this terrible disease www.bbc.com/news/article...

Are you excited about playing with some of the coolest radio telescopes in the world? Want to discover something new about the Universe? What independence to explore novel ideas? Well then I have the job for you! At @astronnl.bsky.social we are advertising for the Bell Burnell Fellowship.

It would be absolutely awesome if Australia formally joined Horizon Europe. I am sure we would get more back than we put in based on the calibre of scientists in the country.

I have a desk companion today

A sentiment I agree with!

At CSIRO today to talk all about wide-field radio monitors. Exciting times ahead. Thanks Josh Pritchard for organising. Great opening talk by Ron Ekers on the history and future of all-sky monitors

I am enjoying learning about all things that go *bang* in the radio sky in Sydney this week. Thanks Dougal, Tara and team for organising!

A great result! Michele is awesome

Once more to the old country. This time for The Dynamic Radio Sky Conference. Will be in Australia for 2 weeks (visiting CSIRO and USyd).

What an amazing image and a fantastic result by @astroryan.bsky.social. This JWST image casts a completely new light on the first image we made of this star in 2019 with @eso.org's VLT. Well done Ryan and team!

Halifax completed another module in his PhDog - a visit to a radio telescope (along with some tinkering)

Last chance to register for our upcoming conference "The Dynamic Radio Sky 2025" Join us @sydney.edu.au from July 28th to August 1st, 2025 to discuss radio transients of all kinds! #RadioAstronomy #AstroSci

Largest number of flowers I have got from a single orchid - 47!

Another great result by @astrosanne.bsky.social. She has found an new long-period transient and found it contains another white dwarf - which is doing a weird dance in the sky with another star. Hear about it all here at this snazzy video: www.youtube.com/shorts/i8Re1...

A very exciting time for the SKA project! It is in good hands with Jess! www.skao.int/en/news/654/...

It was fun talking to @forbes.com about all the great science the SKA Observatory will do (and LOFAR is starting) in the field of radio stars and exoplanets: www.forbes.com/sites/bruced...

What a cool result led by @astroilin.bsky.social ! She has shown that a close in planet can induce flares on its host star. Silly planet. Read all about it here : www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

🆕For the first time, astronomers using our Cheops mission have caught a planet triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits 🪐💥 These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet’s wispy atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year. Find out more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

Meet your new cosmic neighbors ☄️ Introducing a swarm of over 2100 new asteroids discovered by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! Rubin discovered these asteroids in about 10.5 hours of observing across 7 nights. They've never been seen by humanity before...until now.🔭🧪 youtu.be/DTuq-vBsDJE

What a fun meeting #skao2025! I can not wait to see all the amazing science that will come from the SKAO. It was also great to catch up with so many fantastic scientists - including all these Dutch-affiliated (past, present and/or future) astronomers!

At the #skao2025 conference in Germany this week. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and new (not to mention discussing all the awesome science we can do with the SKA)

Some interesting changes! It is going to be hard to only have 2 extra pages in part 2 to elaborate on part 1 in an substantial way... but at least it is less work for submission.

Come along to my talk on the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) at NAC! I have a quiz and a prize!

And that is a wrap! Thanks to everyone that came and had fun at the Beyond Earth Conference #beyondearthconf. Here is to the future of radio space missions!

Mary Knapp @mknapp.bsky.social from @haystack.mit.edu presenting to #beyondearthconf about a megaconstellation for low frequency radio astronomy (GO-LoW). So cool!

And the Beyond Earth: Lunar and Space Missions conference is underway! Great to have space scientists, energisers and policy makers at @astronnl.bsky.social this week #beyondearthconf

Ik ben Nederlander geworden / I have become Dutch Yesterday, I attended my naturalisation ceremony to become Dutch! It is pretty wild to think that 8 years ago this Australian arrived in the Netherlands for a quick 3 year postdoc, with every intention of moving after that.

Off to visit the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory in Munich! Hit me up if you have any suggestions of cafes/restaurants (or want to talk science!)

Very excited to have formed the program for the Beyond Earth: Lunar and Space Radio Missions conference. Lots of awesome science, engineering, tech, missions and people! You can find the program here: www.astron.nl/~callingham/...

The team at ESA mission control has initiated Gaia's final manoeuvre. The spacecraft is now moving away from the second Lagrange point to prevent it interfering with any current or future missions near this scientifically valuable point in space.

Great to have Gummi Stefansson here from @api.uva.nl presenting the @astronnl.bsky.social colloquium on finding rocky worlds!

Even Einstein had a rough time with referees (original and translation) @ethzurich.bsky.social

Awesome to have this result by Iris de Ruiter and team out officially. This paper is a huge step forward for the field of long-period transients as it identifies the systems are all likely white dwarf-non degenerate binaries! www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/wh...

Just a reminder that abstract submission for the Beyond Earth: Lunar and Space Radio Missions is in ~10 days. You can find more information here: www.astron.nl/~callingham/...

Come and work with us at @api.uva.nl this summer!

Another day, another inch closer to this boy’s PhDog degree