You deserve joy. I deserve joy. Things are a dumpster fire right now, but we can only be prepared for future challenges when our hearts & spirits have joy. Joy is respite. Joy is love. Joy is fuel. Get your joy.

To be clear, this isn’t an AI tool, it’s a form with prompts that breaks the process of composing a comment into smaller pieces with specific guidance on each piece on how to make it an effective comment. Useful!

Last week, I uploaded my first first-author paper as Dr. Prinoth to arXiv, and I finally have time to tell you about it. This one has been a long time coming, and I'm incredibly happy and proud that it's finally out in the #exoplanets world! 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2606.14490 1/n

🔴 We have a fun thing for you today in @nature.com - a game! We took the latest research into Mars terraforming and transformed it into an interactive adventure. 🌿 How would you make the red planet green? Try your hand and see if you can win. 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Very happy to share that I got awarded the IAU PhD Prize of Division F for my thesis on “Transmission spectroscopy of hot gas giant #exoplanets ” 🪐 I’m incredibly proud and happy, but also immensely grateful for all the support from supervisors, collaborators, friends and family through all this! ❤️

The news from Scientific American this week has been heartbreaking. While the magazine itself will go on under its new owners, many *extremely talented* writers and editors have been let go. I do worry about the future of #science #journalism… 😔

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

Every time I make the typo "grabity" part of me wants to argue that it should have been called that all along.

I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)

⚠️ Today, we are posting on #arXiv not only 1, nor 2, but 3 papers on the fascinating system #HIP41378. This system hosts 6 and maybe 7 planets 🪐. These papers are the results of a long-lasting investigation on this system initially discovered by the K2's mission, reported in 2016. (🧵 1/6 👇)

From undergrad honors thesis to a published paper! 🎉 Massive congrats to my former UCI undergrad Hajar Aziz (current 1st year PhD student at UCR with Gaby) on her first first-author publication, recently accepted and out on arXiv now! arxiv.org/abs/2606.21007

Dan is my husband, as well as a phenomenal science reporter and editor with experience at not just SciAm but NatGeo, USAT, BuzzFeed, and Science News, too (and has a background in aerospace engineering to boot). You should definitely hire him. I don't know anyone who hustles more to get a story.

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Visibility matters: A conversation with the co-founder of 500 Queer Scientists “It's hard to see yourself in a career where you don't see other people who are like you”. #PrideMonth #LGBTQinSTEM #QueerInSTEM https://bit.ly/4wP7VnD

I need you to know that the shipping container into which the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was packed for transport to the launchpad is called the Chariot, and the barge pulling the container to Cape Kennedy is called the Pegasus. So yes, this is a picture of a Pegasus pulling a Roman Chariot.

(vicious) little baby 🥺🦦

🛰️ ⬇️ 🔥 🌏 ☠️ but wait 🚀 🤖 + 🛰️ ⤴️ will it work? Words by me 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are you an astronomy graduate student interested in science communication? Apply for the AAS Media Fellowship by this Friday, 26 June! More details about the position here: aasnova.org/2026/04/08/a... 🔭

Applications for this amazing postdoc opportunity close next week! #jobs #exoplanets

We're hiring a software developer! Help bring the next generation of coding practices and tools to the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and work with my team in sunny SoCal! Applications are due July 6th, please let me know if you have any questions! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...

Happy Monday from the one billion wildflowers my husband planted for me and all of the pollinators that live here now. I sure hope one of our neighbors has hives. Also if you’ve ever thought let’s just till that grass and plant wildflowers. Yes (This is one of four large strips!)

Time to vote on our art competition submissions! 1 like = 1 vote. The entry with the most votes wins! 🧵👇

Good new, everyone! Pirates did not capture Roman. science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/...

1/18 A giant underground eye is spying on elusive particles…and it has already made a big result! JUNO — a huge sphere with 20,000 tonnes of transparent liquid buried in China — delivered impressive #antineutrino measurements with its first 59 days of data (late 2025). 🔭🧪⚛️ juno.ihep.cas.cn

Hi everybody, I organized the #Artemis2 photos for you. Index pages containing all ~10,000 images in chronological order with time stamps and focal lengths, color coded by which of three cameras was used to shoot them. countlessworlds.com/data/artemis/

Relevant for the astrosci feed ☄️ Tl;dr: you need to disclose AI use if it's anything beyond basic language improvements, search, or coding when submitting to @aanda-journal.bsky.social

Congressional pushback has apparently worked to pause the NSF from dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Fascinating that this didn't work re NSF's plans to dismantle NCAR. Perhaps because the ocean constituency in Congress is larger & more powerful & more bipartisan? 🧪

I took a break from science policy to step back and write about the beguiling mystery of dark matter and how much we've learned about how little we know. A spoiler: It's a story without an ending. No one's directly detected dark matter yet, and there's no guarantee of when that will happen—or if.

New by me for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social : how slowing spin makes gravity win (over centrifugal acceleration) for the peanut asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, visited by the Lucy mission last April skyandtelescope.org/uncategorize...

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Hello! We have a very-off-cycle postdoc fellowship at UC Santa Cruz. Open to any area of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Applications are due July 15th. It is funded by the Moore Foundation. Looking for someone to start Oct 1, 2026 (!, approx), see details below. aas.org/jobregister/...

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

Meet Roman experts to learn more about the mission, how to work with Roman data, and get some stickers! 👾 Come visit the IPAC and STScI booths in Pasadena Convention Center Exhibit Hall A throughout the week. #AAS248 #ExpandOurView #NASARoman

It’s #BlackSpaceWeek 2026! We’re starting off with our annual roll call.  If you’re a Black person who does Space-related things, introduce yourself and tell us what cool things you do using the hashtags #BSW2026, #BlackSpaceWeek2026!

Happy Flag Day! @emilylrice.me is at #AAS248 in Pasadena, just for the day! She has a few Space Pride flags to share - find her and say “Space for Everyone” to take one home! #ExploreAstronomy #SpacePride

New paper alert! tl;dr: parts of what we thought were the oldest rocks on Venus might in fact be among the youngest. This story involves the "tessera" on Venus, which is some of the weirdest stuff in the Solar System. A thread:

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

From Kaz Gary: As part of Black Space Week 2026, Astrobites is highlighting members of the Black in Astro community who will be presenting at the 248th AAS meeting starting next week! If you’ll be attending, we encourage you to check it out. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/06/12/bia-highlights-for-aas/

This case could be absolutely huge for AI-related law. I don't see why tech companies should get a free pass when they generate harmful material

It’s been 10 years since @sumrtime.bsky.social made the One Sun design, our first solo design that was popular enough to sell (with proceeds going to the Ali Forney Center in NYC). We’ve finally updated it and made it available in our online shop! ☀️ 🌈 shop.startorialist.com/products/one...

Arrakihs is a go! Congratulations to the whole team, I'm so happy and excited! And to my colleague @derkal.bsky.social who has put in a huge amount of effort to this awesome mission 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🔭☄️😊

Timeline cleanse

When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.

NASA isn’t on Bluesky but they are on Threads and they put out a statement about the selection of an all-male #Artemis III crew.

news.ucsc.edu/2026/06/blac... The press release is here! @blackinastro.bsky.social #BlackInAstro

GLP-1s might help boost your mood not through your brain, but through a little microbe in your gut! 🧪🦠 my latest on a super cool new study www.fiercebiotech.com/research/glp...

Fantastic astronomy book sale ends this month!!! www.asplibraryproject.com

A rough @nature.com poll of >1,900 researchers found: ~48% feel negative towards AI 63% say that risks for data analysis outweigh benefits ~60% felt AI FOMO: that they would be left behind if they did not use AI tools in their work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm doing an outreach talk on Friday! I'm going to talk about my research and about how the ATProtcol can be used as a tool for science outreach, including with @astrosky.eco 🔭 If you're in Vienna 🇦🇹, you can come and watch it live AND get a free tour of our observatory! There's also a livestream.