Could I gently suggest a policy change to benefit everyone? Authors can continue to submit whenever, but all clocks are paused between Dec 15 and Jan 1? So if you accept something on Dec 14 with a 2 week review clock, you basically have 4 weeks? Or if you submit on Dec 14, the editor can send out

Friendly holiday reminder that people rush to submit before the holidays and declined reviews get even worse than usual. And editors want to enjoy holiday time, too. Patience and grace to all (and to all a good night)!

You've probably heard about how the rapidly increasing numbers of satellites are affecting #astronomy. A new paper in @nature.com looks at the possible future for space-based telescopes — and finds 96% of some images could be impacted. 🧪🔭🛰️ By @jennaahart.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In case you aren't already aware of one of the nerdiest, nich-est online games: TeXnique, where the goal is to type LaTeX formulae as quickly as possible. texnique.xyz It is "fun."

Remember that lovely aurora last week? Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱 🧵

Nancy Grace Roman telescope is out of the thermal vacuum chamber and getting ready to launch in 2026

This is pretty significant and that it’s been 11 years since they tried to build on Maunakea and Kanaka Maoli protectors have successfully impeded them is a major victory for traditional knowledge keepers and people fighting for Kanaka sovereignty. 🔭🧪 www.tmt.org/news/708

Detour Road, North Wangaratta. #AuroraAustralis #Aurora

Camera facing the right direction but it’s so big #Aurora Australis, South otago NZ

#CentresOfExcellence #CE26 ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes! It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications. www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

Today in PASA we published a new image of our Milky Way at low radio frequencies, in unprecedented colour and detail. Here's just a tiny piece of it -- the whole thing is ten times bigger! We're seeing high energy electrons whirl around cosmic magnetic fields from exploded stars, and more!

Or have a play with our interactive optical/radio viewer and watch our video about it here: www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Another superb image from the team at HEO! They're a Sydney-based start-up and are doing fantastic things. Super nice team too! What's gonna blow your mind is this is taken from another satellite in a higher orbit - looking down. All these objects are moving very quickly relative to each other! 🤯

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is flying past Mars today. Might get some cool views! skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Astronomers have long been blessed by the existence of #ADS - excited for the new @scixcommunity.bsky.social platform, expanding to other disciplines - developed via NASA #openscience funding. Look forward to trying it out! 🔭🧪

If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation. No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.

Someone once said the most utopian thing about Star Trek is that 7 coworkers can call a meeting in the conference room and adjourn after only 3 minutes with a definitive plan of action.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

I honestly don’t know how we ever recover from this loss of institutional knowledge. There’s no reason to do this…we learn nothing from history. Tomorrow I will go to work and train those who come after me as best I can, like always, because I truly love NASA #nasa 🧪🔭🚀🛰️ www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

More postdoctoral researchers secured access to sophisticated scientific instruments when an Australian facility made their application process anonymous go.nature.com/3J4AA3j

A fav inaccurate one is Stranger Things, it’s set in 1983 but has Livermorium which was discovered in 2000 and added officially to the table in 2012

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now. (Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are out! These were taken 5 hours ago. Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy. Best of luck to the researchers trying to write up papers for this... archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

KAT7 (2012), sheep!

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time. It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.

Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/v...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it zooms by us …

NASA scientists will apparently no longer be able to read @nature.com at their jobs, as the Trump administration has canceled all subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, per the agency. (1/3) 🧵

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the PASA Editorial Board. Please consider applying, Astro Bluesky. 🔭

Happy to have been a coauthor on this paper led by Maria Arias and @rtimmerman.bsky.social looking at the crab nebula with the full International #LOFAR Telescope that was put on arxiv yesterday! Lots of nice sub-arcsecond detail is revealed. Go check out the paper on arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2506.19460

Really bad, y'all. It's been shaky but this, what is getting announced right now? This is us losing Earth & Space Science in the US.

I think at least some of you follow because of NASA flavored things. And I am hearing some VERY bad things that are getting memory holed as quickly as they occur. Not only that, but significant chunks of leadership at NASA Centers have been taking early retirement offers, leaving staff unprotected

Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find. Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪 ➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer

the solar system data from Rubin is going to be amazing. I really hope I and a lot of other planetary scientists still have jobs when it really starts coming down from the main survey. Contact your elected officials to support the NSF and NASA and reject the current administration's budget requests!

Fascinating images released at this briefing showing the potential of Rubin. But when I submitted a question (via Zoom) asking about impact on Rubin of potential NSF budget cuts, it was rejected: "Only science questions." A reporter in the room was also similarly rejected. 🤔

Phil Diamond just announced the Naomi McClure Griffiths will be the new SKAO Chief Scientist! 🎉🔭📡 #skao2025

An absolutely fantastic textbook on statistics and machine learning by Prof. Yuan-Sen Ting came out this week - and it's free! #astromethods ☄️ I had a read and it's incredibly comprehensive and well-written - I expect this to become *the* foundation book on stats & ML basics in astro.

We’ve had EMU, POSSUM, and now FLASH (Pilot) survey papers come out recently!

Recently published in PASA: "The Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe’s Magnetism (POSSUM): Science Goals and Survey Description", Gaensler, B.M. et al. This is Figure 1. To read the paper visit doi.org/10.1017/pasa...

So, no more missing baryon problem? FRBs and a great result from DSA110.

I do like the poster advertising our report www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/vie... 🔭👩‍🔬

Access to radio frequencies enables key science from weather prediction to astronomy. A new @nationalacademies.org report discusses ways to protect scientific uses of the radio spectrum in advance of the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2027. www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/vie...

#skao2025 A brief introduction to DZA, the new German Centre for Astrophysics by Stefan Wagner. The location for DZA was a gift from the Saxon province; institute will grow over the next decade to employ of order a thousand people! 🔭📡