🎉 A huge congrats to Tufts grad Edgar Vidal on the first (of hopefully several) paper from our FIRESIDE (Far-InfraRed Extragalactic Survey and Instrument Design Exploration) project! It has been submitted to ApJ and is out on arXiv today! 🔭🧪 #JWST #MIRI #obscuredAGN #FIR 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2509.15331

thoughts and prayers

AAS Social Media Task Force The AAS is seeking members for a social media task force to strategically increase the Society's social media presence, including communicating the value of astronomy & science funding to the broader public and promoting advocacy actions. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔭

TIL: dear fellow astronomers, if you're ever looking for AAS info online, be very specific. A generic search might just lead you to a different American society—one with a cover photo and icon that can send chills down your spine... unless you happen to like crawlers 🥶🕷️

This was a great experience giving back to the community whose taxpayer dollars help funded my research - and learning that they deemed it worthy 🥹 @caltechipac.bsky.social

Paper day 🎉🔭 Congrats to my student Raymond Remigio on acceptance of his 1st first-author paper! We mapped [O III] gas in nearby Sy 1s with @keckobservatory.bsky.social: gas kinematics align w/ stars at large scales, but many show twists/outflows near nuclei + large NLRs arxiv.org/abs/2508.14304

Safe travels @marinabianchin.bsky.social, all the best with everything. Thanks for the past 3 years, you’ll be missed!

Relics gifted to me to help me on my job (back when #Spitzer was called #SIRTF) #iykyk 🔭

Missing JustinK & Yiqing, but this may be the last time our group gathers for lunch before Hajar leaves for PhD, @marinabianchin.bsky.social leaves for next postdoc, and JustinP leaves Cal-bridge summer program. With JustinK's departure in a month, this is one of those end-of-an-era moments for me 🥺

COVID is airborne and still with us, evidenced by hospitalisations and deaths data. Many feel in a better place than at the height of the pandemic, but protections still matter, such as ventilation, booster vaccines, and testing. Long COVID, maligned by some, continues to affect millions of lives.

Nice essay about a project near and dear to my heart!

what a week for our future✨ #HWO25 🧵coming soon🔭🧪☄️ @mmacgreg.bsky.social @hbhammel.bsky.social @bmacastro.bsky.social @dawngelino.bsky.social @aussiastronomer.bsky.social @stsci.edu @aura-astronomy.bsky.social @justtheletteru.bsky.social @vividreams.bsky.social @leefeinberg.bsky.social +500 others

There. I've now talked about IMBHs. (Photo courtesy of Chris Packam)

Like Vivian, I’m excited to represent the ExoPAG community on this new Science Interest Group! And very happy to work with this great team. ❤️‍🔥

It was also announced that I am one of the co-chairs for the new HWO crossPAG SIG! #HWO25

Folks should be following @drjovian.bsky.social for a play by play of the #HWO25 conference this week!

I am hiring a postdoc to work with me on time domain astrophysics, primarily in prep for Rubin LSST. Job ad here: lnkd.in/esamU7gy Please share! :) Start date is flexible & can be as early as this Fall. There have been Q's about the application portal, so do not hesitate to email me for help!

Not one but TWO papers from my group are published on ApJ within this past week! 🎉🎉 Tianmu Gao led the work on compiling nuclear SEDs of (U)LIRGs; Justin Kader studied cluster winds as engines of feedback in starburst galaxy 🔭 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Happy to share that I've been selected to join the leadership team of the new Habitable Worlds Observatory Science Interest Group, representing the Cosmic Origins community in particular. I look forward to working with my awesome co-chairs on furthering this inspiring mission! #HWO25

Nearly 3,000 people are leaving NASA, and this director is one of them arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Maybe the silver lining is that I'll no longer be called an astrologer? #astronomer #Coldplay

If you see this, post a video game that transports you to your childhood

We’re #Hiring! Aspen Center for Physics is looking for a Development Officer & Donor Liaison to support a major capital campaign + donor engagement at a world-renowned science nonprofit. Based in Aspen, CO. 💵 $70–95K 🔗 aspenphys.org/home/staff/ #Fundraising #Science #Aspen #DonorEngagement #Jobs

Senate CJS bill is passed out of committee, with strong support for NASA and NSF (basically flat budgets) and strongly supportive language for many facilities. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

Ok autocorrect, there's no need for you to underline, "you to be" in my sentence "...didn't expect you to be emailing me..." and provide the alternative suggestion of "youtube" 🙄

Back in my element - observing! I'm on @keckobservatory.bsky.social tonight with @marinabianchin.bsky.social for an OSIRIS run. This time I'm in the IfA remote obs room, which I had really only used for UH 2.2m observing as a 1st and 2nd year grad. Fingers crossed for a smooth sailing night!🤞🏻🔭

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

Are you an astronomy student (Master & above) or junior researcher based in Germany or Thailand? Interested in learning about cosmology and galaxies for a week in Thailand? 🧪☄️🔭 Then apply for this school by July 11 for full funding (incl. travel & accommodation!): indico.narit.or.th/event/223/ov...

Gorgeous pie!! 🥧 And I particularly appreciate and at the same time lament the perhaps soon-to-be-historical golden era of NASA science at the rate current things progress...

I was cleaning up my grad-school pile that hasn't been touched for years and found this gem: a beautifully framed recognition for my NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-doctoral Fellowship. Who was Harriett G. Jenkins and what was this fellowship, you may ask? 1/

We celebrated undergrad Hajar Aziz's next adventure - PhD program at UCR - with a fun U group lunch. Look at those beaming faces! 😁

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

In light of NSF being kicked out of their building, maybe it's a great time to highlight some of our group's work as funded by NSF: postdoc Justin Kader's newly accepted paper "Shockingly Effective: Cluster Winds as Engines of Feedback in Starburst Galaxy" dropped on arXiv 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2506.16624

Today, a student fretted because they found a bug in the code that previously led to a weird plot in our draft, which perplexed us for awhile. I congratulated them on finding it before paper publication (submission, even) and welcomed them to a life of making (and hopefully correcting) mistakes.

Want to download everything from today? Whether you want a new desktop background or an image to send to friends and family, we've got you covered! Head to rubinobservatory.org/gallery/collections/first-look-gallery and take your pick 🌌🔭🧪 (...or just download everything, no need to choose!)

📷 Enter the Royal Society Publishing 2025 Photo Competition This annual competition, which includes an #astronomy category, celebrates the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience. Deadline for entries: 15 August. aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭 @royalsociety.org

Today's the day — it's officially T-0! GET READY: Your full First Look at images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is just hours away! We're about to reveal the preview of the greatest cosmic movie ever made 🎬 #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪 ⌚️ 11am US EDT 🔗: ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

The universe will still be there to marvel at, despite brutal cuts set to hit NASA and the National Science Foundation's budgets. But the damage to future research will be long-lasting, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Wait, usually the aurora forecast would cover most of the US, stopping just short of southern California (where I live). And now that I'm in Alaska, this is the forecasted map?! I see how it is... 😠😭

If you are interested in supporting NASA science and exploration, and saving it from capricious budget cuts, here's one thing you can do: sign this petition being sent to Senate and House members of their respective appropriations committees. Two days left to sign! www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

This is a message to the enemies of immigration enforcement: Gov. Newsom’s fate will be yours should you stand in the way of national purity,” an anonymous plainclothes ICE agent wearing a balaclava theonion.com/ice-rel...

A shout out to everyone taking to the streets, from coast to coast to speak out in support of our communities. What is happening right now is authoritarianism and fascism. The marines are being deployed in a city with no rational or provocation. They are being deployed to control Angelenos.

Don’t miss our interactive AGN SIG session TODAY at 10am AK! Come to Egan Rm 11/12 to learn about the progress we’ve made since the last Astro2020, the upcoming NASA mission capabilities, and where we go from here. #AAS246 🔭 cor.gsfc.nasa.gov/copag/meetin...

Checking on the sunset at 11:30pm and found this looking out from my hotel window 🌈🌄 #alaska #aas246 #rainbow

Happiest of Mondays: my postdoc Justin Kader's paper on cluster winds as engines of feedback just got accepted!!! Good thing I haven't written my #AAS246 talk that will be on Thursday yet.... I mean 😂

Come one come all - Roman Call for Proposals splinter session is happening now! Egan Rm 11/12 is a bit hidden - head down stairs and circle to the back hallway. @nancyromansci.bsky.social #AAS246 🔭

Please find me at #AAS246 *if I can get in by tonight: *Mon 12:30-2pm: Preparing for Roman's 1st call for proposals splinter (Egan 11/12) *Mon 2-3:30pm: IPAC booth Tues 10:00-11:30am: AGN SIG splinter (Egan 11/12; webex available) Thurs 10:10-10:20am: AGN session 410 (Dena'ina Tubughnenq' 3) 🔭

joining everyone else here on bsky

The 2025 #NASA astrophysics senior review report is public. "Every mission received the highest possible rating for... scientific return", & are "producing important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner". Some important screenshots: assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/...