From Tori Bonidie and Skylar Grayson: The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/16/budget-request-fy2027/

From @qwasistellar.bsky.social: Artemis, AI, Astronomy, and our place in it. The author asks why do astrophysics at all. To produce results faster, or to turn graduate students into inefficient stand-ins for software? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/10/tell-me-why-a-case-for-humane-astrophysics/

Join us for a #WeekofAction to #SaveScience. Today, take a few minutes to write to your congressional offices. Here's an easy form with a suggested message about the importance of science funding: aas.org/reject-2027-...

Help us ensure a strong year for US science. The deadline for Congress to sign letters in support of robust funding for NSF and NASA Science is March 10 and 11, respectively. Take two minutes to urge your Rep to sign on today: aas.org/urge-your-re... aas.org/urge-your-re...

From Tori Bonidie and Magnus L’Argent: Giant mirrors in space to create sunlight at night and an AI data center made up of 1-million satellites are undergoing regulatory approval. How did we get here? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/26/reflect-orbital-ai-data-center/

From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social : Was Venus involved in a catastrophic hit-and-run? Read this astrobite to find out! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/12/a...

Unions typically bargain for pay, vacation, health insurance and safety. At Pitt, unionized graduate students want academic freedom protections too, but the university has largely rejected their demands.

In this bite, the Astrobites authors discuss recent changes to the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/04/n...

Tori Bonidie reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems. aasnova.org/2025/10/01/p... 🔭

Have you ever wondered how we might go about finding microscopic black holes from the dawn of time? Check out my new article for @supercluster.com — my first published piece of science writing outside of @astrobites.bsky.social! ✨⚫️🔭 www.supercluster.com/editorial/da...

The official number of exoplanets has surpassed 6,000! And you can access data on all 6,007 of them right here at IPAC 📈 🪐 Watch the video & read all about the center of the exoplanet universe (also known as NExScI!) here: www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/the-nas...

Do you love WASP-107 b? Do you love making use of *both* ground VLT + space JWST obs to detect molecules in a "warm" (Teq<800K) #exoplanet in transmission, even in a crazy confusing cloudy atmosphere?! 🚨 It's PAPER* DAY! Which means #scicomm thread! 🧵⬇️🔭🪐🧪 *pre-print! arxiv.org/abs/2508.18964

From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social : Using data from NASA’s Juno mission, the today’s authors have discovered plasma conditions that don’t exist anywhere else we’ve ever explored in the solar system, giving rise to a whole new type of plasma wave mode. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/23/s...

Want to learn what 5 nights of high res emission spectra of an ultra hot jupiter can get ya? Come on down to my poster at #exoclimesVII today 🤪

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Your Senators have until tomorrow to request robust levels of funding for NASA, NSF, and the DOE Office of Science - use our easy form to request that they do so today! aas.org/advocacy/get...

From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social: This astrobite will summarize the recent constraints of biosignatures on K2-18 b, answer important questions like “are there aliens?” and “how bad does this biosignature smell?”, and discuss some critiques it has drawn. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/13/s...

From Tori Bonidie: Was Venus always a formidable hellscape, or did it once have a temperate climate with liquid water on its surface? 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2024/12/24/i...

From @toribonidie.bsky.social: The authors of today’s paper put forth theoretical models of how habitable exoplanets might appear to the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) using the molecules present in the Earth’s atmosphere from earlier eons 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/11/04/l...

Let's investigate the case of shrinking exoplanets! astrobites.org/2024/03/28/t...

From the Astrobites collaboration: The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our colleagues. 🔭 astrobites.org/2024/03/27/a...

Using my first Bluesky post to promote my first Astrobites post!