#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet. www.space.com/space-explor...

Are you a grad student interested in writing for Astrobites, or do you know one? We're recruiting! Apply by November 26 :) astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...

anybody else hit that stage of a paper where you no longer know whether anything you’re doing is useful or is that just me

Excited to announce that I’ll be starting a PhD at Uppsala University early next year!

Frankfurt airport made me TAKE MY MASK OFF AND SEND IT THROUGH THE LUGGAGE SCANNER???

Elon Musk has joined the war against cancer ON THE SIDE OF CANCER.

look just because they want to take over the government doesn’t mean we have to fucking let them

Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit? That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather. Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...

changing “Astrobites author” to “Former Astrobites author” in my bio is sad but I’m so excited to read what all our new authors have to write ❤️

A simple shift from "I told you so" to "I was scared this would happen" is an opening. Follow that up with, "how can I help" and links and numbers to immigrant rights orgs, labor orgs, and community health and you are, in fact, building solidarity.

I know it’s the German thing to complain when your neighbor is playing music that’s audible in the next apartment through noise-canceling headphones but consider: I’m not a snitch

The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.  This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/ 🔭  📷 ESO/P. Horálek

The gender affirming care ban in Montana has been BLOCKED by the MT Supreme Court in a unanimous decision. Montana has a constitutional right to privacy, including in our healthcare decisions. And today our constitution continues to protect individuals from government overreach.

ugh I have a sore throat. still we must persevere.

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school: I’m Kat, and if I don’t start getting As in every physics class I’ll never get into grad school

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school: I’m Catherine, and I’ll never be cut out for a graduate program

oh huh it turns out when you get put on a list people start following you. Hello! I’m Kat, I do cosmology and galactic archeology, I’m applying for PhDs, and I’m slowly slipping under the surface of a sea of yarn

ok now nobody else follow me

TWENTY COUNTRY STRIKE! 20 COUNTRIES!!! PASS IT ON!!! Amazon workers are on strike WORLDWIDE!!!! DO NOT CROSS A STRIKE LINE BY BUYING FROM AMAZON. FUCK THEIR BLACK FRIDAY DEALS. #solidarity #strike #union #UnionStrong #sagaftra #wga #blackfridaydeals #blackfriday2024 #Thanksgiving #thanksgiving2024

people say no obsession or hobby will fill the emptiness inside or do the work of repairing the hurt we carry. you know what kind of people say this. quitters

every time I use ADQL it comes up with a new error just to spite me

as an American I do feel like my country has exported its culture worldwide in a way that is ultimately harmful. however. we do have one piece of advice that I feel is valuable to German residential building designers specifically. add ventilation. please. I am so cold.

all right I’m in @bot.astronomy.blue signup

Updated periodic table with origin of elements in the Solar System (for boron and lithium at least)

November 18 is the International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM! Today more than ever we want to stress the importance of communities, building connections, and raising each other up. Let's keep leaving our mark for the betterment of us all! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #QueerinSTEM prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/

none of my dnd players follow me on here so I can safely say: the battle I’m about to run for them is gonna be so fucking cool

Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 27th. ✨🔭 astrobites.org/2024/10/27/a...

"A UN special committee has found that Israel’s tactics of starvation and mass civilian slaughter in Gaza are 'consistent with genocide,' in one of the strongest worded reports by a UN group yet on the Israeli siege."

“There is a cost for success in STEM academia. The few minoritized people who seem to thrive might be doing what psychologists call ‘high-effort coping’” True words by Jean King, and gosh, do I not feel it.

Yesterday was the start of UK Disability History Month - but how can we think about disabled voices in the past in a way that recognises their agency? Our new series does just that! @beckierutherford.bsky.social introduces the idea that we can historicise disability as more than a medical identity.

oh huh it turns out when you get put on a list people start following you. Hello! I’m Kat, I do cosmology and galactic archeology, I’m applying for PhDs, and I’m slowly slipping under the surface of a sea of yarn

hi! overseas voter here. can promise that I am registered to vote in the US and that in fact this is checked an incredibly annoying amount of times.

From Katherine Lee: Climate change is bad (a sadly controversial statement), but we can solve it. Chapters 4-6 of Climate Change for Astronomers take us through why and how. 🔭 astrobites.org/2024/09/06/c...

From Katherine Lee: What happens when we break a galaxy down to its fundamental building blocks? Today’s authors try to find out! 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/08/03/p...

it is nice that we live in a world with birds in it

Ja, vi skal vera aktivistar. Vi skal kjempa hardt mot urett og hat. Vi skal skapa ei betre verd for alle menneske. Men vi skal òg stoppa og lukta på syrinene. Vi skal eta og drikka godt. Vi skal klemma, le og dansa til langt på natt. Livet kan ikkje berre viast til kamp. Det skal levast òg!

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

Getting word that Larry the Chief Mouser of Downing Street has coasted to another peerless victory with no opposition and 100% of the vote, truly Britain’s greatest statesman

I've heard a lot of people are in a slump lately, so here are some words to take to heart

livet mitt har berre gått nedover sidan eg lærte om pytagoras

From the Astrobites collaboration: There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2024 and provided some “peer review". 🔭🧐 astrobites.org/2024/04/01/a...

Quality Mimic, for all your DnD / ttrpg needs.

yknow I should probably post something here huh. here’s some photos I took in the woods?