NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

We need you to help classify shapes and features of galaxies detected by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🔭🧪 Join Rubin scientists and the @galaxyzoo.org team on @zooniverse.bsky.social in the new citizen science project, Galaxy Zoo: Rubin 🌌 www.zooniverse.org/projects/zoo...

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

Our REU renewal was funded! We found out today so we are accepting applications now! Like right now! Application review is going to happen swiftly as we know we’re are late in the typical cycle. pa.msu.edu/undergraduat... #reu #physics #astronomy #research

THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME DEBUTED AT #9 ON THE INDIE BESTSELLER LIST!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!! What I love most about this is that it means people are supporting indie bookstores ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ www.bookweb.org/sites/defaul...

Members of the AAS & the American Association of Physics Teachers are on the Hill today to advocate for science and STEM education funding! Join them by requesting a meeting with your local congressional office: aas.org/posts/news/2... #WeekofAction #SaveScience 🔭

The Annie Jump Cannon Award is presented for outstanding research & promise for future research by a postdoctoral woman researcher. Know someone deserving? Submit nominations by 30 June (self-noms allowed). aas.org/grants-and-p... 🔭 📷 AAS President Dara Norman & 2025 winner Maya Fishbach

Outstanding itemization of how the FY27 budget request for NASA, NSF, and DOE impacts astronomy by the @aas.org Policy Team, Colin Hamill and Roohi Dalal 🔭🧪: aas.org/posts/news/2...

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Among the firsts of Artemis II, it will be the first time a person of color and Black astronaut (Victor Glover), first woman astronaut (Christina Koch), and first Canadian and non-US citizen astronaut (Jeremy Hansen) travel beyond low Earth orbit and to the Moon. 🚀

👇🏽 great example of how the NYT continues to — has never stopped — engaging in platforming anti-Black, genocidal rhetoric and how it is so normalized that it is not discussed in those terms (not a criticism of Victor, just noting the way our cultural vocabulary shifts for discussions anti-Blackness)

OSU astro coffee was so fun today! We talked about @clairelamman.bsky.social's Hawking radiation comic, OSU undergrad Mya Smedley presented on how lessons from SpongeBob (kindness, empathy, and passion) can be applied to astronomy, & we saw new XRISM results on M82! arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24674 🔭

very grateful to have finally made it in person to visit OSU since my virtual Price Prize talk in 2020. thanks to everyone for the invitation and especially @ohdearz.bsky.social for hosting! also love to brag about my awesome grad students!

Honored to have @carlnotsagan.github.io visit OSU today and give an outstanding colloquium on next generation simulations of massive star death & predictions for multi-messenger signals! 🔭🧪⚛️

#AAS248 The Society's FAMOUS Travel Grants program helps members from historically underrepresented groups attend AAS meetings. Grant requests for the summer meeting (14-18 June 2026) are due by 16 April. aas.org/grants-and-p... 🔭

Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.

📢 Applications are open for the 2026 LSST Discovery Alliance Data Science Fellowship! 🔭🧪 Learn the skills needed to work with the huge datasets from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey. Apply by Mar 27: lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/lsst-discovery-alliance-programs/data-science-fellowship

Had fun at #APSSummit26 receiving the 2026 Edward A. Bouchet Award, celebrating with the other APS awardees, attending the @rescorp.org reception, and meeting the 2010 APS Bouchet awardee, Dr. Herman White! 🔭🧪

Help us ensure a strong year for US science. The deadline for Congress to sign this letter in support of robust funding for DOE Office of Science is 18 March. Take two minutes to urge your Rep to sign on today. aas.org/urge-your-re... 🔭 @policy.aas.org

🎥 2026 AAS Journals Author Series Update! Frank Timmes, AAS Journals Scientific Editor, shares the “why” behind the series — why we create these videos, what the metrics show, how we reached 500+ videos, and how featured articles are selected. 🔭 youtu.be/1_U5WsSXzmU @publishing.aas.org

Finally made a Blue Sky account! Also yay read our paper on the destruction of my favorite galaxy!

computational science postdoc fellowship here at Stony Brook, through the SUNY Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth Plus (PRODiG Plus) apply.interfolio.com/179315

such a joy to have given a talk at the Liberty Science Center last week on the CMB + Adele : ) lsc.org/news-and-soc...

RCSA, @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, the Leinweber Foundation, and Kevin Wells are funding the research of 7 collaborative teams in the 2nd year of #Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST, a 3-year initiative to ignite discovery with the @vrubinobs.bsky.social's Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

Do you ever just stop and think about how great Charles Yu's writing is? Anyway the first chapter of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME is called "How to Live Safely in a Science Factual Universe" -- iykyk Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

final grades: posted! it’s been so inspiring working with our AMAZING senior undergraduate students this semester in my theoretical astro (stars) class @stewardobservatory.bsky.social. looking forward to hear about all the great things they go on to accomplish — admit them to your grad programs! 💥

some excellent talks to finish off day 2 of the ASTRO sessions here at the NSBP/NSHP 2025 Joint Conference! #nsbp #nshp

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/...

Happy to share that our book on computing in physics education has just dropped, @ioppublishing.bsky.social You can get all the chapters written by some of incredible colleagues who are improving physics education through computing right now. iopscience.iop.org/book/edit/97... #iteachphysics

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...

Glad to see an amazing astronomer on the list of MacArthur awards this year - congrats to Kareem El-Badry! 🔭 www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Enrico Fermi, one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century, was born #OTD in 1901. While most physicists focus on either experiment or theory, Fermi excelled at both. Now, estimate how many new physicists will be born today. 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢 (1/n) Image: New York Public Library

Astronomy 🔭 and physics ⚛️ GRFP applications are due Nov 14! Only seniors and 1st-year grad students can apply now (no second years).

Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off. aasnova.org/2025/09/24/k... 🔭🧪

Got my physical copy!

NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

you already know all my tricks from my online notes, but I do have some stuff buried in homeworks, like this exercise of fitting to Cephids: zingale.github.io/computationa...

first day of year 2 as an assistant prof done ✅. very excited to be teaching 29 very bright undergraduate students in our upper level stars course this semester! ps. looking for engaging in class exercises for the 3rd/4th year level, so please share what has worked for you in the past! 🙏🏽

Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today! We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars 📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082 🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4

once again reminded how much the grad school experience is shaped by your phd supervisor, and thanking the universe for my mentors. If I can do for my students what my advisor did for me, I’ll call myself a success 🙏🏽

Sometimes I lose faith in the book but then I go in to do a little edit and I’m like wow, I love this book I hope you will too 🤓 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

what are some of your go to self care practices for managing the stress with the start of the academic year?

Carl Sagan: We’re all stardust Evil Carl Sagan: We’ll all be stardust

To kick off here on bluesky I wanted to share some recent work from the group. First off arxiv.org/abs/2504.11537, the first science paper produced with our new GPU-accelerated GRMHD code GRaM-X.

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...