Excited to announce the first data release from our ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients survey is now available! doi.org/10.1017/pasa... This is a database of 6.4 million measurements of 0.5 million radio sources in our survey footprint. (By @ozgrav.bsky.social Iris de Ruiter) #RadioAstronomy

Here at Gettysburg College for the Central Pennsylvania Consortium Astronomers' Meeting! I'm excited to hear about cool science and give a talk on radio transients and the valuable work still being done with Arecibo data.

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/

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

beautiful @astrobites.bsky.social by @qwasistellar.bsky.social on AI in astronomy; strongly strongly recommend giving it a read!! 🔭🧪☄️ "We need humane astrophysics because astrophysics is one of the places where humanity rehearses what kind of species it wants to be." astrobites.org/2026/04/10/t...

The AAS Policy team has published a detailed breakdown of the proposed FY27 budgets for NASA, NSF, and DOE. aas.org/posts/news/2... Take action now by asking your Senators to sign letters in support of NSF and NASA Science: 1️⃣ aas.org/urge-your-se... 2️⃣ aas.org/urge-your-se... @policy.aas.org 🔭

and it is still infinity times better to be the kind of person who loves monarch butterflies, and the mosaic tilework on an ancient mosque, and kids whose names you'll never know running around a field kicking a soccer ball, than the kind who views them with indifference, but it is also painful

These are the moments we live for in science 😍 Artemis II science officer Kelsey Young's reaction to the astronauts reporting that they saw at least FOUR impact flashes on the Moon during their observations.

2027 PBR just dropped. 🧪🔭🪐 NASA Science gets a 50% cut, again. 40 missions terminated. I don't have anything else to say right now. I knew we'd have it again this year, but we *just* finished winning this fight for the 2026 budget. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

The White House just unveiled a budget with a 50% cut to NASA science (astrophysics, climate change, etc) and overall 23% cut to NASA The goal: make NASA only for things like Artemis, which is explicitly a militarization and commercialization mission 🔭🧪 www.instagram.com/p/DWrEWbyFto...

I was once at a lab with a small particle accelerator and they hadn't upgraded some of the computers since the 90s because upgrades would have broken the entire system. Also, the building had some round windows because, IIRC, the Navy funded the building and they really liked portholes.

In a world full of problems, I hate that this technology boils our engines of hope down to empty non-interaction. My school recently polled to see how the faculty feels about using AI for GRADING. At what point is it just robots talking to each other? Where is the humanity in these humanities?

Hey, at least it's not Teams.

We don’t actually need to send humans to space. One of the big reasons we do it is because of how it gets the public involved in the excitement of science and exploration. It’s not often we get to directly witness science in action. Now more then ever we need this kind of experience.

They’re going around the horn and the astronauts finish by saying ‘We are going for all humanity’.

Why is it a big deal that there’s more diversity in the Artemis II crew? Because this is what everyone who has gone to the moon up to this point looks like: 🔭🧪

The #ArtemisII crew includes the first person of color, the first woman, and the first non-American to (hopefully) fly beyond Earth orbit. You won't hear much on this from NASA, which has rolled back DEI initiatives over the past year. www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

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. 🚀

Need to catch up on #ArtemisII science ahead of today's launch attempt to the MOON? See our explainer at @nature.com 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nice coverage of the Blue Ridge Rising Dark Skies Initiative, a collaboration of Appalachian colleges and non-profits collecting light pollution data this spring. 🔭 cardinalnews.org/2026/03/31/p...

Don't give them ideas... xkcd.com/3225/

Our Python client for streaming/sending data in real time is now updated! Lots more to do, but I think it's a nice start:

“The long and great history of astronomy teaches us that discovery comes from looking where no one has looked before, and I see no reason to stop now.” Jackson Taylor leads the search for Pulsar-Bound Exotrojans. ✨🤩 gwac.wvu.edu/blog/2026/03... @wvuphysastro.bsky.social @westvirginiau.bsky.social

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If you are not impressed by the picture of a Black Hole, clearly you do not understand the gravity of the situation…

BREAKING: New Jersey has sued the Trump administration to block the conversion of a Roxbury warehouse into a 1,500-person ICE detention center, the latest legal challenge to the administration's nationwide detention expansion program.

Winter Parts was my college roommate and XC/track teammate; they're an exceptional person and friend. I'm so proud that they're leading this boycott, and I hope more runners share their empathy for Sadie and other trans athletes targeted by Princeton and other universities. Boycott these meets!

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

More disastrous cuts to American science: “This effectively sets X-ray astronomy back by a decade, with the earliest realistic timeline for an X-ray flagship now looking like the 2050s or even 2060s.” 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪 bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

„Honestly, I am convinced that real performance in graduate school wasn’t understanding these men. The real performance was pretending you did.“ Amen. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

In this documentary by Ben Proudfoot, Jocelyn Bell Burnell tells her story about being raised as a Quaker, her struggle being the only woman in the room in STEM & how hard it was to pursue that path against the attitude that women were to be in the home. womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/03/i-ch...

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

Some people should never have access to students. “AI requires no ramp-ups, no meetings, and absolutely no emotional support…The issue is not whether my students are valuable. In long run, they are invaluable. The issue is that their value emerges slowly, whereas AI delivers immediate returns.”

The president of the university sent an email round announcing the permanent closure of the planetarium because it does not fit with the “strategic plan”.

I literally have this comic printed out and taped to my desk.

I'm super excited to share a HUGE paper out from Young Worlds Lab team member Andy Boyle. I present for you, ~900,000 rotation periods from TESS! 🤯🔭🧪⭐ #exoplanets #stellarrotation arxiv.org/abs/2603.05586

Happy International Women's Day! Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general). arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465 🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬

I hope everyone who checked out @hogg.bsky.social’s white paper on the implications of LLMs in astronomy and shared it across slack channels similarly perused and amplified this white paper of best practices for broadening participation in astronomy!

Welcome to the ATNF SkyViewer: www.atnf.csiro.au/research/sky... * Enjoy 🤩 #radioastronomy #astronomy #AstroSci

We're financing war crimes at a rate of roughly 1 postdoc's annual salary every 7 seconds.

It’s weird how this doesn’t say “oops we accidentally pushed out/incentivized to leave/fired” a lot of engineers and it turns out engineering projects need those.

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Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories. Men: What a scary time for men this is.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

“And it is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure and, in the process, fill the pockets of a few.” 2/2