From Drew Lapeer @giantmolecular.cloud : Today’s paper looks at a galaxy hosting not one…not two…but three potential supermassive black holes! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/11/13/d...

Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'

Drew Lapeer reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the impact of galactic outflows on the formation of stars in the local starburst galaxy Messier 82. aasnova.org/2025/10/27/o... 🔭

What do marine microplankton have to do with high energy cosmic rays? Astrobites author Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social explains! 🔭✨☄️ You can learn more by checking out Ryan’s piece “What doesn’t kill them makes them (marine microplankton) stronger”: astrobites.org/2025/10/15/m...

email inbox is currently a solid page of 'proposal-submission' headers ☄️🔭 #jwstcycle5

8 more hours 🫩 🔭 ☄️ #jwst

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

There was also a really good article in Science the other week with stories of some of the students affected. It's heartbreaking. www.science.org/content/arti...

@giantmolecular.cloud, Bill Smith and I wrote about why the new modification to the eligibility rules for the premier NSF graduate fellowship is actually A Really, Really Big Deal -- and not in a good way.

I love that you like it!

new from me and a few others at astrobites 🧪 🔭

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...

@jeffehobbs.bsky.social i'm assuming you're the saint responsible for the curb alerts western mass bot and i want to thank you for such an incredibly niche and useful tool

📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday. We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition! *nearly 900! @danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social

i don’t care what my bones are gonna look like 200 years from now i just hope they get to do the skeleton dance

9/29/25

30 Sep 2025

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We created an urgent petition about the devastating #GRFP eligibiilty changes - please sign and share if you can! bsky.app/profile/omfi...

found most of @aptshadow.bsky.social 's works at my local used bookstore last week, finishing up the Final Architecture series and having a blast

i've gotten my fair share of scam publishing emails but 'Concepts of Dairy' is a new one

one of my favorite essays ever is now only available on the Wayback Machine. Christopher Llewellyn Smith (former director of CERN) talks about the importance of science for the sake of doing science. 🧪 web.archive.org/web/20220119...

i am not cut out for this

True meaning of Transness

some lil dudes

(watching one battle after another) no way theres another battle after this one

It’s fat bear week ! 🧸🤭

okay man

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...

woah i know that paper! 🔭

Anyone have insight as to WHY this is now the case??? 🧪

Hilarious—they claim the solicitation was posted on September 8th, which is literally just false

It seems the GRFP solicitation is FINALLY released (like 5 minutes ago)! Due dates have also been pushed back, thankfully! 🧪 🔭 www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

You know, with Griffith, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him......I mean this guy was a real jerk.

22 Sep 2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

many people may have seen that the GRFP was finally announced the other day. the official solicitation has yet to be announced, but the application instructions released by the NSF (www.research.gov/research-web... ) seem to imply that 2nd year graduate students may not be able to apply this cycle

i think if i encountered a genie one of my wishes would be rooted in a desire to cause temporary widespread mischief

9/12/25

straight white guy from utah: i'm going to kill charlie kirk every republican: we need to put all transgender people in concentration camps.

"NO CLEAR PATTERN TO THIS" says only nation where mass shooters routinely quote /k/ memes

This is the shit they’re defunding. Scientists can make your teeth see so you can get back to balling and they want to take that away from you forever

Just wow 😵‍💫 #MolluscMonday

You can preorder the book by the way (super beneficial for a first time author!). He's not asked us to promote it, but it was so impactful to read that I've been SUFFERING waiting for it to be publicly available for months so I could share it with everyone. bsky.app/profile/skwi...

one of my favorite plots ever is the 9/11 memorial bird density map (source: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ; note that this is not even close to my field of study, i just find the plot very illustrative and interesting)