#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

⚛️🔭 Hey physics/astronomy science communicators: apply to come to @perimeterinstitute.ca for a workshop in October on how to engage the public in science! Anyone can apply, working in any kind of scicomm (video, audio, text, live performance, whatever it is you do). Check the link for more details!

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

The release of The Edge of Space-Time is so close that some people in Canada have gotten their copies and some bookstores are already putting them out!! Don’t forget that preorders really help! Preorder today! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

i'm so sorry we've sent these souls to the moon and they're using outlook?

Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenter in the conversion therapy case 😞 It's so upsetting, and I just want to remind folks that Trans Lifeline is a resource you should take advantage of right now if you need it. Your life is precious. +1-877-565-8860 translifeline.org

All the news today caused the major outlets to forget that we are taking the first human flight to the moon tomorrow in >50 years! I think about all the wonder & inspiration that came from the Apollo and Voyager missions & how we are missing that now bc of all the terrible things happening. 🔭🚀

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. As we close out the 2026 iteration I will remind you that women’s health issues are underfunded and under-researched and many of us struggle for decades with no answers and no help. 5 days after my wedding last year I finally got mine…

Registration is ✨OPEN✨ for the 2026 Rubin Community Workshop! Join us July 27–31 at SLAC (250 spots) or virtually. With Data Preview 1 out and LSST Camera data starting to flow, it’s an exciting time for NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory science! 🔭🧪 🔗 project.lsst.org/meetings/rubin2026/

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY FOR THIS (PAID!) FELLOWSHIP!

A decade ago, I did make a reading list to help scientists get started! 🧪 medium.com/@chanda/deco...

If you want an accessible book that introduces the cosmos through visual art, check out Painting the Cosmos by Nia Imara, an astronomer at UC Santa Cruz. All the images are in color! 🔭🧪 #BookSky #BlackInAstro www.simonandschuster.com/books/Painti...

TLDR: Your high school GPA is a much better predictor of college success and graduation than your SAT score.

#AAS248 The Society's FAMOUS Travel Grants program helps members from historically underrepresented groups attend AAS meetings. Grant requests for the summer meeting (14-18 June 2026) are due by 16 April. aas.org/grants-and-p... 🔭

With Earth Week just over a month away, this year’s theme is "Green telescopes for the pale blue dot": how can we build and design the instrumentation and hardware that we use every day in a sustainable manner? Save the dates and join the conversation! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪

Happy vernal equinox! You may know this as one of 2 dates when the day and night are roughly equal length, or as the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere and fall in the southern. But to astronomers, the vernal equinox has an additional fun significance... 🧪🔭 (1/8)

My PhD advisor, Professor Yuk Yung, has passed away. The suddenness of this - I had only become aware of his illness a week ago - is shocking and it’s surreal that he’s gone. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

My first time holding my new book!! 🥹🤓 You can preorder MOTHERS OF INVENTION to tell my publisher I deserve a big marketing push 🙏🏽

It’s Friday night! I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week.

My 1st first-author paper has been submitted to ApJL and is available on arXiv! We found that elevated water vapor abundances in Mars-like exoplanet atmospheres suppress abiotic oxygen accumulation via CO2 photolysis by an order of magnitude relative to past studies. 🧪🔭🪐 arxiv.org/abs/2603.11017

📢 Applications are open for the 2026 LSST Discovery Alliance Data Science Fellowship! 🔭🧪 Learn the skills needed to work with the huge datasets from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey. Apply by Mar 27: lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/lsst-discovery-alliance-programs/data-science-fellowship

The @aas.org is conducting a search for the AAS Editor in Chief, who is responsible for developing and implementing a long-term editorial strategy for the Society’s journals portfolio. See this link for more details of this full-time position and the application process. journals.aas.org/eicsearch

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The AAS has selected 21 astronomers who will form the 2026 cohort of AAS Shapley Visiting Lecturers. These lecturers will visit a number of schools and community institutions across the US to share their science, inspire wonder about the universe, and build lasting connections to these communities.

That’s 125% of the National Science Foundation’s annual budget, for anyone keeping track.

This is the entire budget of NASA's Planetary Science Division for *four years*

I am halfway through the Project Hail Mary book and if I don't get a 🪨 plushie ASAP I am simply going to LOSE IT. Also protect 🪨 AT ALL COSTS!

This represents wasting an astronomical (no pun intended) amount of work. IIRC Dragonfly’s CSR was almost 1000 pages and represented years of work from many people.

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Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙 Please preorder it! 🧵

Just casually reminding everyone that my book comes out in a few weeks, it REALLY helps if you preorder, and if you want a signed copy, you can get one shipped to you from Loyalty Books in DC 🖖🏽

Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🫩 🔭

Astronomers for Planet Earth are submitting a statement about some of the proposed megaconstellations that would ruin ground-based astronomy to the FCC. You can read the statement below: 🔭☄️

Is Zoom down for anyone right now?

Oh man it's amazing to see Dianna back at it! 🥹

Art. Astronomy. April 13. Join us for "Envisioning Joint Futures in Art & Astronomy," a one-day virtual workshop sponsored by @aas.org! Learn more and register here: forms.gle/k8Y5xd3NyAcN...

Big news drop on a Friday afternoon. 😅 @caltechipac.bsky.social 2027 Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship applications are open! The VGSRF is a 6-month predoc at Caltech working with IPAC scientists. www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduat... (1/2)

Two new JWST COMPASS papers on arXiv today! ✨ Transmission spectra of HD 15337c (led by @nicolewallack.bsky.social & @planetarygao.bsky.social) and TOI-260 b (led by myself & @planetarygao.bsky.social): arxiv.org/abs/2602.22327 arxiv.org/abs/2602.22329

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

I apologize in advance because this account is going to become a shameless book promotion page for the next 6 months 😅 MOTHERS OF INVENTION is now available for preorder! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/moiya...

Join a Free Monthly Rest Circle Looking for a way to support your health and wellness? Join Aomawa Shields (UC Irvine) in a free monthly rest circle geared toward academics. The next rest circle session will be held on 20 March at 3:00 pm ET. Register to join: uci.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔭

Subscribe to the Space Telescope Science Institute's YouTube channel to watch our collection of videos explaining fascinating concepts in astronomy! 📹 🔭 ⭐ #STScI #YouTube #astronomy

Yesterday: pls no, no more snow what do you mean there's a snow storm coming?? 😩😩 Me today: IT'S SO PRETTY, I LOVE IT, IT'S THE PERFECT AMOUNT HERE AND SO BEAUTIFUL WHEN THE SNOW STICKS TO THE TREES 😍❄️

Incredible piece that I recommend everyone to read

I also want to add it's during these [tough] times, that if you're in grad school, your institutions can make you or break you. I'm so grateful for my home institution, my department, my committee and my advisors/mentors, who have been so kind and nurturing to me 💜

I've been pretty quiet on social media for a long time now. So much happening at the same time. Our country and especially our communities going through so much every day. Personally trying to finish my PhD, find employment post-PhD, deal with really tough family circumstances. It all feels so heavy

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis