New solar system lecture! Cratered worlds- comparing Mercury and the moon 🔭🧪🎢 youtu.be/HBSMDVs9VKI?...

We’re hiring a new staff writer at Fierce Biotech! Come join me and the rest of a stellar team to cover the craziness that is the biopharma industry—trust me, there’s never a boring day 🤪

Gender-affirming care saves lives

The NSBP/SAO EHT Scholars Program is now accepting applications for Summer 2026! Apply by Dec. 15th by contacting [email protected]

This was such a relatable article. So many spaces online where I once found it easy to connect with friends and family are now so filled with AI slop, sponsored content, and misinformation they've become nearly unusable.

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes] I'm working on these ✨amazing✨ hand-painted #mars #rover pendants as part of my collab with celestial pottery artist @amyraehill.bsky.social 🤩 All one-of-a-kind, launching soon: sciencesocks.co/page...#BehindTheScenes]#mars🔭🐡🧪🎨

It's that time of year

To finish it off, I've also done an annotated version of the paper complete with silly drawings and accessible language! These are inspired by @clairelamman.bsky.social , and you can read this and more here: ryanwhite1.github.io/wolf-rayet.h... 4/4 ⚛️🔭🧪

Thinking of applying for the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund? Have questions? Come along to a live Q&A webinar with panel members to learn more about the fund’s mission, and gain insight and guidance on the application process. 📆 8 December 12pm-1pm 🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4oRNGRI

For the astronomers: I found an accretion disk diagram cheese. A quesar.

We have a PhD opportunity at the University of Reading focused on analysing Jupiter and Saturn auroral observations! Title: Investigating Earth-like responses to the Solar Wind in Gas Giant Upper Atmospheres Supervisor: me! Full description/application portal: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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

Astronomers, question! If you have a dedicated astronomy major, what upper level *physics* classes do you require your students to take? We are getting our Astro major together at Oregon, and while I think a class of classical+E&M, we’re wondering if a class in QM is actually useful 👀

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM! 🧪⚒️

Alright, last day to join my email list before Scientifically Accurate Star prints return! early access: Nov 19 2pm MST public access: Nov 20 2pm MST ☀️ 106 prints available across 3 sizes 📦 starting at $95 + shipping stellerarts.com/pages/scient...

Good to see a space agency actually celebrating the wonderful diversity of humanity and the ideas and perspectives they bring

My paper (the one discussed below) has been accepted to the Astrophysical Journal!!! I mean, no doubt that it would be, but it's always a good feeling. 😎 We'll aim for a press release once it's officially published because this is just such a darn interesting object... 🔭🧪🎢

I love my Curiosity Rover socks and stickers!! They always cheer me up. Get a treat now and part of your purchase also goes to charity!

Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch. Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026* Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... Reach out to me if you have any questions! 🧵 1/5

Helpful, but possibly more helpful to those with low vision: Fewer words, bigger.

RT for the afternoon/evening crowd! Shop small for a big impact this holiday season 🥰

🎂 It's #ScienceSocks 6th anniversary! 🥳 Celebrate with me by raising money for #STEM! 🤑 For the next 48h I will donate: * 20% of sales on sciencesocks.co#ScienceSocks👈 * $1 per repost Get a head start on #holiday shopping 😎 Please like, repost and let's party🕺💃 🔭🐡🧪🎨#bsnm

Good morning Bluesky friends! We have started our holiday sale early so you can take your time to shop small this season! 💖 20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒 shop.startorialist.com

Astronomer here! Want to learn more about what caused the big northern lights display this week? Check out this free lecture on Earth’s magnetosphere from my class on the solar system! 🔭🧪🎢 youtu.be/zRfr1mPjml4

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

After a bruising 42-day shutdown, the government has finally reopened. We took a look at what's next for federal science—how quickly things will get back up to speed and whether there will be long-term consequences. With Jeff Tollefson and @alexwitze.bsky.social:

"Starting masking again in 2025 means I – we – have to confront the fact that maybe we should never have stopped. It’s scary to admit that we might have been harming ourselves and our communities; that our government might not have our best interests at heart." @onqueerstreet.bsky.social

I can't believe the holidays are already around the corner 😱 So I must inform you that I have the most stellar #JWST designs for all your gifting needs 😉 🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...#JWST Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧪🐡🔭🎨

Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes: www.aurorasaurus.org

Planetary scientist Adeene Denton is investigating why some icy worlds, like Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are so geologically active. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/adeene-denton-pluto-moon-formation

It's a dark time for artists. Many are struggling! It's easy to buy gifts online. When you buy from *artists*, you're supporting working people, instead of making rich jerks richer. This fall, send your present $$ to an artist's shop! Artists! Drop your shop links! & check out SquidFacts.net 😘

Astronomy’s first gap-clearing planet fills in our “missing link” We've seen protoplanetary disks with gaps, and fully mature systems with directly imaged planets. For the first time, we've found them together: a disk-gap with an exoplanet inside. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #planet

Morning snuggles!

Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb. "zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong" sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

New paper! Led by PhD student Bas Dorsman, and continuing the fine tradition of @api.uva.nl studies of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 (discovered many moons ago by Rudy Wijnands and Michel van der Klis AT THIS VERY INSTITUTE). #highenergyastro 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2511.07152

i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)! i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social! apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

At work, I was invited to present my passions to another department for their monthly wellness mtg. “I’ve never seen so many beautiful bugs!” “Inspired to sit by my garden.” “I want up live life with more ‘open eyes.’” ——— Remember, these are the same thing, just arranged differently:

Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

When supernovae explode, they send a fast-moving shock wave into the interstellar medium, changing the local landscape significantly. A recent publication hones in on one supernova remnant to determine how fast it's expanding and where it may have come from. 🧪🔭

Like finding a needle in a haystack, MIT scientists have found the tell-tale cellular signatures of a tuberculosis infection, which can be used as targets for new vaccines for a disease that kills 4,000 people every day 🧪 my story:

Writing for Astrobites helped me realize my passion for science communication, and I would not have made the jump from academia to the field of science writing without it. Astrobites is an amazing organization and I highly recommend applying ⭐

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What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

Hey, astronomers. Can you imagine astronomy research without ADS?!?!? No? So, have you filled out the ADS survey yet? Help archives help you! (Help archives keep funding!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Next video in my solar system lecture is up- the phases of the moon! What's the science behind the most common astronomical observation of your life? 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🔭🧪🎢 youtu.be/Gl052yUrrjo

Cosmo wants to remind everyone to go vote if there are elections happening in your area!

It’s always weird when it feels like everyone else is voting but you. Go vote if you have an election!