Oooh! Also good one for the #heliophysics feed

Interesting! 🧪

Oh, that guy's at it again...

OOOH I'll play! I propose that the United Nations name ME the Director of Citizen Science and gift me 500 hours of over-subscribed telescope time to share with amateur astronomers.

If you’re a science journalist who likes to talk about the people angle, I really do think there is a story here. I see endless coverage of this Maverick Genius who is doing what nobody thought possible, in the face of scornful resistance from colleagues. But it’s bullshit, and there’s a story there

I’m a loud voice in support of ISOs as technosignature targets. There’s no thought policing or gatekeeping going on. A tenured prof at the richest Uni in the world isn’t being silenced. THE headline here is: disrespect & arrogance of a loud voice, dominating over earnest work and community

If anyone from the UN wants to talk, here’s a nice summary. The astronomy community does NOT endorse this proposal, just take it from one of THE EXPERTS on ISOs with Rubin. Meg (and many others) has helped the community plan for +10yrs for these kinds of studies.

Am I the only academic who can't give a straight answer to the question, "what days and times work best for you?" mid-semester. I have a patchwork quilt schedule that changes from week to week due to every-other-week and one-off meetings. #AcademicSky

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Prudent thinking for the way forward, at least in education when we feel it's getting stuffed down our throats. And with a great comparison to how teaching about website reliability has drastically changed. #education #InformationLiteracy

#HigherEd #AcademicSky

The commentary 🤣

Evergreen...

"This is the email <file> concerning academic workload I intend to send my Head of Department. Remove the aggrieved tone." 🤣

I was at SDO's launch 15 (!) years ago, and I never tire of these images 😁 #SDOisGO

This goes from hilarious to inspirational on a dime 👏🏻

Can't stop the rovers!

Can't stop APOD!

🎢 🧪 🔭

Just covered this in class the other day! We were using the discovery of 51 Pegasi b to explore the Doppler effect a la "Learning Astronomy by Doing Astronomy" lecture tutorials. 🎢 #AstroEdu Had a MOMENT when I realized it's been 30 years... PHEW!

This piece is from February, but I just now found it languishing in my to-read pile and it's exactly what I needed right now on so many things... resistance, organizing, human connection, and just a little more compassion for ourselves and others. organizingmythoughts.org/how-to-be-a-...

FUCK DESPAIR

AYFKM Now I need to figure out if that fireball my entire Astro101 class saw Wednesday night was actually a space rock as I told them it was...

This is definitely something good to wake up to

Possible #comet 3I/Atlas detection from Perseverance rover on the surface of #Mars! ☄️🔭🔴

Fun opportunity to contribute to science coming up this month!

Bookmarking this for when I have spoons...

Trying to unravel latest bluesky issues and all I'm left with is confusion and a hankering for waffles.

I did get to overhear, "Oh shit! Saturn's rings!" ❤️❤️❤️

Finally got a decently clear night for my Astro 101 lab and we got a FIREBALL across the whole sky 10 minutes in. According to the American Meteor Society's "pending reports" page, a LOT of people got to witness it. 🔭

AGREED. Get with the program, weather!

Sabbatical application submitted...

Woo hoo! Happy launch day, @scixcommunity.bsky.social ! Just included an acknowledgement to you in my internal research report today. 🧪🔭☀️

WOOOOO!!!!!

The snark and the memes are giving me life

OOO I'm going to need to sprinkle these in my astrophysics course next semester...

I will always love her songs and you should check them out, too ❤️

My colleagues create some of the COOLEST scholarship ❤️

Yesterday a student said of my gen ed astronomy class, "this class is so healthy for my brain" and honestly this is the best praise of my pedagogy anyone could give me right now. 🔭🎢 #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Decided to delete old posts. But not before archiving them. That was a weird time...

I left a single sock behind at my mother's house during my last visit. Here is what ensued...

RITOS 4EVA!

SO happy for my Magrat cosplay this year!

Well I learned a thing. Thanks, @melmall.bsky.social !

TEETH