This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social looks at Eun-Joo Ahn's recent @hsnatsci.bsky.social article on how perilous road construction in the San Gabriel Mtns, undertaken by immigrant Japanese laborers, made Mount Wilson Observatory possible. 📷 from Huntington Library.

From the AIP History Weekly Newsletter: Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory by Rebecca Charbonneau, American Institute of Physics www.aip.org/history/arti... 🧪🔭 @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social @aiphistory.bsky.social

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social looks at a new issue of Centaurus examining what is and is not distinctive about the new era of "multi-messenger" astronomy. 📷IceCube Laboratory and South Pole Telescope, Moreno Baricevic, IceCube / NSF.

I’m excited to share this opportunity for an early-career social scientist on the @aip.bsky.social research team. Please share with anyone interested in putting social science research skills to work to empower positive change in the physical sciences. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

NRAO has summer research opportunities for undergrads! science.nrao.edu/opportunitie...

My textbook on SETI is published! I hope you like it! Please see if your libraries offer a free download—mine does! iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/97... 🧪🔭

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, we look at recent articles by @rhiggitt.bsky.social and Yuto Ishibashi, which show how record-keeping, history, and institutional governance intertwined during the centuries-long evolution of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.

tragic news for historians of astronomy... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

It can sometimes feel like the history of the physical sciences is on its back foot. The AIP History Weekly Edition set out to show that, globally, there's so much going on that you can talk about it weekly and not get to everything. Here's some of what we couldn't get to in 2025. #histsci

Before the holiday break, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social queued up a spotlight on Peter Pesic's @physicspip.bsky.social article on Einstein's sockless ways. It addresses not only Einstein's motivations, but also the cultural reasons behind why it was a topic of fascination www.aip.org/history/pete...

The semiannual AIP History Newsletter is out! The feature article highlights a surge in scholarship around experiments on quantum entanglement. The topic is most associated with tests of Bell's theorem but the history predates and is broader than those efforts. aip.brightspotcdn.com/83/0f/cc825f...

Luisa Bonolis and Stefano Furlan have a pair of articles in European Physical Journal H on the emergence of scientists' understanding of the universe as awash in physically extreme phenomena. @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social looks at how this shift in perspective transformed the culture of astronomy.

Come work with us at Penn State! The Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds is hiring postdocs, and welcomes applicants who can make connections with its sibling centers like @pseticenter.bsky.social doing SETI, Astrobiology, and Planetary Systems Science: aas.org/jobregister/...

We've squeezed in one last AIP Lyne Starling Trimble Public Event for 2025. Come to our DC location at 6pm on Wednesday, December 10 to catch David DeVorkin's lecture, "The Quiet Genius of George Carruthers." RSVP here: www.aip.org/history/davi...

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Hello again, #HSS2025! Despite the Sheraton's weird elevator system, I've made it to the Oak Alley Room for a panel on Astronomical Futures during the #ColdWar. Our 1st speaker, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social, is discussing the history of #SETI, including Project Ozma. www.seti.org/research/set...

Hope everyone had a good break over Easter. We're back to our regular opening hours from today: Monday-Friday 09:00-21:00, Saturday 10:00-17:00. Don't forget to check out our #NewBooks display if you are in the Library! 📚📚😊

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, guest contributor Don Opitz looks at the multitudinous scholarly and professional contributions of the late Margaret Rossiter in creating a historiography of women in science. #HPS

🚀 We’re hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellow in history of science/STS to join my team at the American Institute of Physics! If you're looking for a fellowship opportunity in the history of the physical sciences post-1850, please see our ad for more details: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

At AIP we've launched a new policy research program to go deep on current questions and pull together more comprehensive pictures. Leading this work, Lindsay Milliken has produced her first public product, a primer on the new $100,000 fee on H-1B petitions.

📣 AIP's Niels Bohr Library and Archives is collecting personal stories from scientists, engineers, students & others in the physical sciences whose careers have been impacted by recent U.S. policy & funding changes. Learn more about how to get involved here -> www.aip.org/library/ex-l...

The August edition of the AIP History Monthly is out—and it’s packed with exciting updates, new resources, and ways to get involved in preserving and interpreting the history of the physical sciences. -> www.aip.org/history/aip-...

Despite working in a time of tense diplomatic relations, proxy wars, and budget cuts, many US and Soviet scientists collaborated productively during the 1970s and 1980s, writes Anna Doel. Prior exchanges help better understand the challenges to scientific cooperation today. https://bit.ly/4neNFWQ

Huge thank you to AIP (@aip.bsky.social) History and Rebecca Charbonneau (@rebeccacharbon.bsky.social) for spotlighting my latest article! 🤩 #ligo #physics #history #histstem

For the fuller story of how NSF took over site selection and decided to place the detectors at Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, check out Tiffany's lecture here at AIP this past spring

AIP historian @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social has a new article out in @physicstoday.bsky.social looking at a US-Soviet collaboration in the 1960s to combine observations of radio telescopes across the globe, a powerful early initiative in very long baseline interferometry.

In this week's history newsletter from AIP, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social spotlights the new article by @tiffanynichols.bsky.social in Isis, digging into the rise and fall of an early proposal to site a @ligo.org detector in Maine's Blueberry Barrens.

I wrote a short article on my research in the history of VLBI for Physics Today this week :-) pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

A huge loss for NASA science. Another self-inflicted wound to our national science portfolio.

Finished knitting my fishy sweater! Now I’m ready for fall.

It gets worse and worse. If you're interested in the slow-motion train wreck that is Avi's sci-comm on this, here are some of the latest (it's very hard to keep up!) In which spacecraft can have comae, 3I/ATLAS has a 60% chance of being alien, and new papers validate and adopt his calculations.

More photos from @aip.bsky.social Early Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences! Too bad they couldn’t find us a meeting space with better views ;-)

Monkey spotting at lunch during @aip.bsky.social Early Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences in Salvador, Brazil 😆🐒

We're heading to Salvador, Brazil, for the Sixth AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences. This #histsci meeting gathers young scholars from the world over to exchange work and build a supportive global community. Check out what folks are working on these days:

I've long been a fanboy of the Cambridge HPS / National Maritime Museum Board of Longitude project. It recovered a rich institutional history from a heavily mythologized narrative and digitized the board's papers too. Its capstone book is an excellent contribution to #histSTM & #scipol studies.

Doing a SETI History AMA on r/AskScience, if anyone is curious :-) www.reddit.com/r/askscience...

🔭 Last month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory wowed the world with its first ultra-high-resolution images. Ahead of Rubin’s 97th on July 23rd, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social spotlights Rubin's 1989 oral history with Alan Lightman in this week’s AIP History Weekly. -> www.aip.org/history/oral...

For those who missed it over the 4th, Women in the History of Quantum Physics is a great example of what a multi-author effort can accomplish. Available now from Cambridge UP www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Excited to speak @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #shafr2025 this week - I'll present on Cuba & communications satellite regulation in the global Cold War Honored to join the panel Empire, Security & Militarism in the Final Frontier w Andrew Ross, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social, @aaronbateman.bsky.social

It was a gravitational spring here at AIP, with our three excellent Trimble lectures: -Peter Galison on imaging black holes -Jaco de Swart on the hunt for dark matter particles -Tiffany Nichols on siting the LIGO gravitational wave detectors Videos here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

Hey @jaimealyse.bsky.social we’re shelf mates :-)

Delighted to be on the shelves of Bristol's Storysmith Books with such excellent company as @helenlpgordon.bsky.social Damian LeBas, Nicholas Jubber and @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social

I'd like to thank @tiffanynichols.bsky.social for visiting us at AIP on Friday and giving us a great #histsci talk on how the sites of LIGO's twin interferometers were chosen. The video is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTeX...

“The total solar eclipse of 1869 and American astrophysics” great new article today from @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social for the new weekly edition of AIP’s history newsletter 🗞️☀️🔭 ww2.aip.org/history/the-...

In AIP History's Weekly Edition, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social spotlights a new @physicspip.bsky.social article by @bartlettastro.bsky.social & Thomas Hockey on the 1869 total eclipse and the emergency of physical astronomy in America. #histsci

Happening tomorrow!

Rebecca Charbonneau on space wars & why space, while always a point of optimism & exploration, has often equally served as a militarised space in the latest episode of our So, now what? podcast on #astronomy @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social @christscollegecam.bsky.social #GatesCambridge25

3 Gates Cambridge Scholars - @luiswel.bsky.social, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social & Yinuo Han - debate planets, space and the meaning of life in the latest episode of our So, now what? podcast - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/w... @uniofcam.bsky.social @cambridgeastro.bsky.social #GatesCambridge25