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...

i have been reflecting a bit over the past 24 hours since learning of the passing of bill paxton (creator of the MESA stellar evolution code) and the impact the code, the community, and specifically bill has had on mine and so many other junior scientist.

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

#iteachphysics folks, I'm working on putting up over a 15 years of open-source content for physics teaching. Looking for collaborators! Please follow @openphysicsed.org for updates or email me at: [email protected]

remember to breathe they want you to stop, but you shouldn't

THIS EVENING, I'm talking about those mysterious "Little Red Dot" galaxies seen with JWST in a public "Deep Space Dialogue" facilitated by the Space Telescope Science Institute. Little Red Dots are super weird! 4:00 PM Pacific / 7:00 PM Eastern, live on Youtube! www.stsci.edu/contents/eve...

my materials for my grad stars + planets class is online here: carlnotsagan.github.io/ast545sp25/. there will be typos and some straight up errors. but most the material worked well for a 50m 3 times a week class. a lot new examples and reused from other folks materials.

I successfully defended my thesis and am now Dr. Caprice Phillips (its got a nice ring to it!). So thankful for my advisors and mentors including Jackie Faherty and @ohdearz.bsky.social and friends who were here to support me. Im the 2nd Black women to get a PhD from my department. Full of joy.

Hey #Lansing area folks, I'm giving a public talk on the recent impacts on science education and ways we can advance science as part of @astronomyontap.bsky.social on Wednesday. Please consider joining. #SaveNSF

I see a lot of people talking about how "we just need to explain science more to the public". The state Space Grant programs (one issued in each state) does incredible deep and wide outreach work - supporting education at every age and stage, nurturing science interest.

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Almost $1300 to purchase my regalia!!! Lawd fix it! Renting the regalia is $330 dollars too! If anyone is feeling generous I would appreciate it lol: Venmo: @Caprice-Phillips 🥲🥹

The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration. I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪

Cancelling visas for Chinese students who’ve come to learn in the US is a retreat from the global stage. It’s also a racist and authoritarian action. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

final grades posted and the end of my first year as faculty.

Thanks for asking Lynne. A group of us called on scientists & orgs like AAAS, AAS, and APS to start actively defending academic freedom, which could have included educating their constituencies & lawmakers about the risks associated with these attacks. As educators, the least we can do is educate. 🧪

this is one of the best graphics i have found for the structure of an AGB star and i wish i had found it much sooner. ref: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

WEIRD UNIVERSE: this month, Professor Erika Hamden's book comes out! Her expertise shines through as she leads readers on an exploration of the strangest and most awe-inspiring phenomena in space. Secure a copy for yourself: bit.ly/4lU1idY @erikahamden.bsky.social

RCSA is offering two online sessions to help potential #CottrellScholar Award applicants prepare their proposals for submission by July 1, 2025. Please share this opportunity with eligible faculty in your department or professional circles. Thank you!

In August, Dr. Brittany Miles will join the Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory faculty, advancing UofA’s legacy in infrared instrumentation and innovation. Dr. Miles studies the atmospheres of exoplanets and isolated, rogue worlds. Read more: bit.ly/3R0m0uF

IPAC's Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship program is accepting applications!🥳 ✨Gain research experience and mentoring from IPAC scientists ✨Access large science datasets ✨Receive a monthly stipend Browse the research projects and apply by 4/30: www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduate-fellowship-2026

The American Astronomical Society — the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country — has put out a statment about Trump's proposed fatal cuts to NASA science. aas.org/press/aas-st...

Hello, I need to talk to a stellar physicist about the mechanics of supernovae! Is anyone around???

WHAT IS A NEUTRON STAR? And why should you care? Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟‍♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...