one week away from home and I’m already dreaming of douglas firs. Rain and fog in the pnw is so much prettier than elsewhere

Their political philosophy hinges on a vision of white supremacy in which people who aren’t white are here at the privilege of white people, which they can revoke at any time, which they expect to be received with gratitude.

Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.

cannot overstate how great an opportunity this is! 👀

i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)! i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social! apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...

Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.

I wrote this article! 🙂 This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪

The @herts.ac.uk astronomy MSc and PhD applications are open. I'm offering PhD projects on JWST spectroscopy of young stars in Tr 14 and star-cluster formation. I'm also offering an MSc project on variability of YSOs. www.herts.ac.uk/research/cen... #galactic #stellarastro #astro #Physics

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I had no idea every single last one of you was a baseball fan

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Are you a grad student interested in writing for Astrobites, or do you know one? We're recruiting! Apply by November 26 :) astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...

It's nearly impossible to make a living entertaining children in a sewer since Stephen king's "It"

Halloween is also #DarkMatterDay! 🎃🌌 Celebrate the invisible forces that shape our universe with @zacksavitsky.bsky.social, @clairelamman.bsky.social, and @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social. Studying the origins, elements, and mysteries of the cosmos — connects us all: youtu.be/xbrom_qFwsA #scicomm 💫

With SNAP benefits expiring tomorrow, I encourage you to donate to your local food bank. For those in the corvallis/willamette valley area, here’s a link www.southcorvallisfoodbank.org

teeny antlers

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110 Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger? ligo.org/science-summ... #O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

I think about this a lot.

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Astronomer here! Due to popular demand (and a kind volunteer editor), my solar system class lectures this fall are available on YouTube for FREE! Check it out, no prior knowledge of astronomy required! 🤩🪐 🔭🧪🎢 youtu.be/2KpyL8yX044

spot the llamas 🦙🦙🦙

On a happy note ... the ARCs of The Edge of Space-Time have arrived!!! After this went to press I rewrote parts of the last chapter and fixed the Hebrew and Arabic. So it's out of date, but it's still cool to see a first printing!! #BookSky Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social ! Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm

Congratulations to this year's winners of our Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications! Follow @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org to learn more about the winners and their work.

Congratulations to @callimcflurry.bsky.social for winning a 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications. Read Calli’s award-winning work:

I am excited to share with all of you the 2025 Winners of Eric & Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications. I am honored to support this program. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... @scicommexcellence #science #communication #scicomm #sciencejournalism #journalism

National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives

In Corvallis, Rev. Jennifer Butler created a microshelter program at her church despite neighborhood complaints. Butler is one of a handful of Corvallis residents working toward service and shelter options in Oregon's most rent-burdened city.

just our campus nbd

Breaking news: The Defense Department announced a “new media” press corps, largely hailing from right-wing outlets, nearly a week after some of Pentagon journalists turned in their press credentials when they refused to sign a new restrictive press policy.

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

At the empty USGS booth at GSA. More out of view on both sides

About 30 years after their discovery, Nobel-winning regulatory T cells are on the cusp of becoming new medicines; and as one of this year's laureates told me, they have the potential to become a "universal drug" 🧪 my deep dive into Tregs:

That’d be why. Very hard to find a place to store a change or a bus pass when you’re a deer.

my little college town (Corvallis) is so ridiculous, like why is a deer at the bus stop with me

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Racial profiling. All day every day. www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-s...

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

Grijalva not being sworn in means she doesn’t have access to funds as a member of Congress, which means she can’t help her constituents. She has repeated this multiple times and Mike Johnson knows this but he’s going to keep lying about it anyway. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/a...

My husband was bitten by a sea otter who climbed onto his board on Vancouver Island last spring. Thanks to a thick wetsuit, the bite left only an impressive bruise. Bottom line: they're the real locals. Like sharks and other marine life, the ocean is their home and we're guests when we visit.

chat is this hope

@sanjanacurtis.bsky.social she did this just for us

… UVA makes it 5 rejections; 4 remain (Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, UT-Austin, Arizona) www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Great video about my research group by the Oregon State College of Science team 🥹🪺🐣🐥 www.instagram.com/reel/DP2Isc4...

Great video about my research group by the Oregon State College of Science team 🥹🪺🐣🐥 www.instagram.com/reel/DP2Isc4...

Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW! The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...

Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW! The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...

Published in #MNRAS: "2D end-to-end modelling of kilonovae from binary neutron star merger remnants", Sippens Groenewegen et al. this is Fig. 1: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social