Lecture taught, students supervised, revised manuscript submitted for review and uploaded to the ArXiv. Hello weekend!

1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

On my way to Amsterdam to my first #DamtotDam with team @api.uva.nl

I have been watching the mini series “Mussolini: Son of a century” and it is incredible how again and again so called “liberals” are they main cause of far-right ideas and violence (verbal and actual) becoming main stream.

As a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) I support our statement on the war in Gaza. www.knaw.nl/en/news/stat...

De @vpro.nl -Tegenlicht-docu starring @casperfar.bsky.social over de jacht op aardachtige exoplaneten en de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven is hier terug te kijken #tip youtu.be/osbSv4tG4KU?...

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

Het laatste #Mars nieuws (van einde middag) nu al in de podcast!

Folia maakte een fantastische rapportage van ons evenement van zondag 🔭🌒

✨ #EPSCDPS2025 Press Release: Planetary scientists in a new study by Elise Wright Knutsen (University of Oslo) et al. believe they can now predict the green glow of an aurora in the night sky above Mars, and they have the images to prove it 👉 bit.ly/epscdps_marsaurora

Congrats @timlichtenberg.bsky.social !! For the Early Science Award by the @europlanetmedia.bsky.social super well deserved and amazing talk 🤩🥳🥳🥳!

Goodbye @europlanetmedia.bsky.social #EPSCDPS. Thanks for the new collaborations ☄️🪐the great science🤩, reconnecting with people after 10 years 😍 and the friendly vibe! See you next year in The Hague 🇳🇱@ingeloes.bsky.social

If you're at #EPSCDPS2025 come to the Aerosols session happening now to hear me talk about this brand new paper! (My talk is in an hour but cool Titan aerosol science currently in progress 🪐)

Great story about @capricephillips.bsky.social by @tatyanazaria.bsky.social in the OSU alumni magazine! 🔭 alumnimagazine.osu.edu/story/capric...

If folks at #EPSCDPS enjoyed my talk about Mimas, its giant impact basin, and how it connects to its young ocean, the paper JUST came out at Earth and Planetary Science Letters: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Our galaxy is full of clouds of dust and gas. We can guess that they probably move, but it's hard to tell for sure. Until now! A groundbreaking new paper by Martin Piecka et al. at @univie.ac.at presents the first *ever* direct measurement of the proper motion of the ISM! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic

Today I learned that Titan has "ephemeral islands" i.e. islands or something floating that wasn't there in one (satellite radar) image, then appeared in a subsequent image. That's really cool. #EPSCDPS2025

Off to my first @europlanetmedia.bsky.social @aas.org #EPSCDPS meeting, first time to Helsinki and first time presenting my group’s work on #Titan! very excited! 🪐☁️🔭 #planetsci

Trying a new recipe, Ugly Prosecco Pralines #ChemistWhoCooks

I think Duolingo is onto something

Mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck was born #OTD in 1942. She is known for her work on PDEs, calculus of variations, topology, and gauge theory, and was the second woman (after Emmy Noether!) to give the plenary lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians. 👩‍🔬 🧪

I guess you are old when your 9yr wears a vintage type t-shirt with the year you were born printed on it.

Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86. Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

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The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐 Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre... ⤵️

New seasonal motto!

Finally I had to chance of seeing Michelangelo’s David. Mesmerising!

Goddard Director resigned…

Whoever it is going round Glasgow putting daft signs on stuff, please keep up the good work. Thanks.

A very insightful thread about the complexity of gender and sex definition.

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF

That is a disaster.

I see this all the time!

This 👇🏾. A different set of rules, expectations on women, and perceptions of workloads is all part of the hidden curriculum of academia. If all leaders/senior colleagues can do is tell women to learn to say ‘no’ rather than ditching the double standards, they are very much a part of the problem.

U.S. astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a "sprite" blazing to life above an intense thunderstorm — and she did this while orbiting 400 km above Earth aboard the International Space Station (ISS)

Today I visited a beautiful exhibition about gold and its role in society and culture at the WereldMuseum in #Leiden. I love it starts with a movie about the origin of gold via neutron ⭐️ collision and supernova 💥.

Lecturer position for physics or astrophysics in Malaysia's best university, Universiti Malaya! Contact @norhaslizayusof.bsky.social‬ for more details! Great department, great colleagues, great food, great weather! What more do you want. career.um.edu.my

Deze zin vat de kern van onze kritiek op de publieke uitingen van de NWO-baas extreem goed samen. www.folia.nl/nl/opinie/16...

While this was long time in the making, and for good reasons, I am sad. Part of my PhD thesis was based on data taken with UKIRT and I have fond memories to observing there with nice people.

I'm very honoured with the awarding of the 2025 Stevin prize for my research. And I'm particularly pleased that this prize goes to a philosopher, as it recognizes that we not only do blue sky research, but also analyses that can make a difference to the world. www.nwo.nl/en/prof-dr-i...

We hadden dinsdag een receptie in een gevangenis en vanavond het conferentiediner in een Gaelic games-stadion #cork #EAS2025Cork

I think at least some of you follow because of NASA flavored things. And I am hearing some VERY bad things that are getting memory holed as quickly as they occur. Not only that, but significant chunks of leadership at NASA Centers have been taking early retirement offers, leaving staff unprotected

This month we highlight a score of Black astronomers trying to pursue their ambitions without fear, and Black In Astro, an organization supporting predominantly early-career Black people working in the space sciences. Editorial: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #BlackSpaceWeek #EquityInSTEM 🔭

An absolutely fantastic textbook on statistics and machine learning by Prof. Yuan-Sen Ting came out this week - and it's free! #astromethods ☄️ I had a read and it's incredibly comprehensive and well-written - I expect this to become *the* foundation book on stats & ML basics in astro.

Me at the start of every semester. 🫠

Yesterday I gave my "Pride in Physics" lecture at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics. This was my personal story of my academic career and how my journey in understanding myself and transitioning is intertwined with it.

On this fine #Juneteenth and #BlackSpaceWeek, let me (re)introduce myself! I'm officially Dr. Caprice Phillips. I'm the current vice president of @blackinastro.bsky.social and incoming Hubble Sagan fellow to UCSC. I study brown dwarfs and love them! #BSW2025

🧵 12 June 1922: Margherita Hack, astrophysicist, talented scientific communicator and activist, was born in Florence. "...We are all made of the same matter, all matter that was built inside the stars. So we are a product of the Universe..." — Margherita Hack 🔭 🧪 #HistSci #Science #WomenInStem

If you are a researcher whose federal funding has been terminated, the Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response grants to close the gaps. Application deadline is June 13: (h/t to @agu.org's Planetary Sciences Section newsletter for the info!) www.spencer.org/research-gra...