The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

I'm a data SCIENTIST, not a data ENGINEER: what I build is primarily centered around what triggers my hyper-fixations, not what other people may at all find useful or reliable or what I was asked to do

Felt bad for Iraq on that one.

Technicians met the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at NASA Kennedy’s turn basin wharf and offloaded the trailer carrying the observatory from the barge, where they connected it to a truck that transported Roman to the servicing facility. #NASARoman 🔭

I remember irritating an important colloquium visitor when I asked a little too confidently “what happens when your experiment doesn’t detect WIMPs?”

The NASA FINESST call is finally out: nspires.nasaprs.com/external/sol... Somehow I missed this when it was originally posted, but it's due in a month #astro

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/...

Knicks!

"Across nearly all responses, students described a shared feeling of uncertainty about the future despite strong motivation and love for physics and astronomy." physicstoday.aip.org/features/und...

We're hiring! The NASA Exoplanet Archive at @caltechipac.bsky.social is hiring a staff scientist as we prep for Roman and Gaia. The role is a mix of programmatic support and independent research in my fabulous team in sunny SoCal at Caltech! Due July 10, 2026 - ask me anything! #jobs #exoplanets

Curious how NJ2 primary works out tonight.

Astrosky - come join me at UW and build the software that turns Rubin Observatory data into science! I'm not on the hiring committee but you can still AMA 🔭

Very sad news, so sorry to hear of the passing of the great Marcia Lucas. So many iconic films. Trailblazer. Making cinema great. Also, my favorite building at USC Cinema school was the Marcia Lucas Editing building. #RIP #MarciaLucas #film #cinema #editing #icon #movies #filmsky 📽️ 🎬

it's Friday Night

Oh, a major setback for a satellite constellation. What a shame.

Very sad news, so sorry to hear of the passing of the great Sonny Rollins, a Jazz saxophone legend. youtu.be/fdakJqKPRDE?... #RIP #SonnyRollins #jazz #music #legend #jazzsky #musicsky 🎷🎶

Update: www.gemini.edu/news/science...

I’ve got you. You’ve got me? But who’s got you?!

Rob Base #rip

I looked at the machine-readable table 1 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... I co-discovered 101 of these 3000 brown dwarf candidates. I also co-discovered 2 candidate wide binaries (image). 🟣🟣🔄 (violet because that is probably their real color)

📢 Join the AAS Team! We are seeking a Journal Data Editor to join the other three Data Editors on the AAS Publishing Team. The Data Editor will maintain all aspects of editorial workflows for the various publications. Full job description: aas.org/jobregister/... 🔭

“Oh, Professor DeWitt! Have you seen Professor Weinberg’s time machine? … It’s digital!”

This is worth watching.

Hard to express how important John Sterling was to me as a Yankee fan. Countless games on AM radio, then later with MLB.tv I’d put his call on even when watching the TV broadcast stream.

From the latest Rubin Observatory update: "We are happy to report good progress in the past few week... The izy bands are yielding the best median image quality". Those are the bands we need for the lowest luminosity stars and brown dwarfs.

Next President of the USA introducing the jazz concert. Yeah, I said it. #Pritzker

International jazz day concert live now on YouTube!

Happy International Jazz Day! www.youtube.com/live/y86vl1c... #JazzDay #InternationalJazzDay #jazz #music #jazzsky #musicsky

🔭 Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails Image Credit & Copyright: Uli Fehr ap260427

Köln 75 is fabulous. That is all. youtu.be/gwYhWPJjJ5k?... #jazz #film #cinema #KeithJarrett #movies #jazzsky #filmsky 📽️ 🎬

Just step over the corpse, everyone, this night of preening bullshit is far too important to us and if everyone goes home we won't be able to get smashed at the afterparties.

Remember the episode of the original V miniseries when humans were invited to the Visitors Gala but wore defiant pocket squares reading “coming to our planet to eat us would be wrong”? It was inspiring.

This is a majorly bad piece of news for the NSF 🔭🧪#astrosci

Hey do you like Hubble? (yes) and do you as an astronomer have Thoughts on what it should do in the coming decade? (also probably yes) Why not write a white paper on future science with Hubble? How to use its unique abilities in the Euclid/Roman era. Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thank goodness the NFL draft is finally here. I’ve just been endlessly bombarded with mock drafts and pointless analysis.

Day 23 of inserting "Weird Al" Yankovic into a Star Trek screenshot #WeirdTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeirdAlYankovic

Member of the public, after last night’s Vernon Lecture: Wow, there are so many exoplanets. How do people even keep track? Is there, like, a big excel spreadsheet somewhere? Me: Well, it’s an oracle database, but yes, that’s my actual job. 😂

Pope just told me to log off? What the fuck

I don’t think I’ve watched a Knicks playoff game since Ewing retired, but I happen to have the right streamers, time to jump on the bandwagon.

No one in Jersey has ever said “I wish we had a diner in our town” because they already have a diner in their town.

All the leather and suede jackets in The Search for Spock are pretty good, but Sulu's look has so much swagger

The Annie Jump Cannon Award is presented for outstanding research & promise for future research by a postdoctoral woman researcher. Know someone deserving? Submit nominations by 30 June (self-noms allowed). aas.org/grants-and-p... 🔭 📷 AAS President Dara Norman & 2025 winner Maya Fishbach

That was a ridiculous game for the Yankees. Former MVP Wild Pitch returned.

If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.

This is all so absurd compared to the shuttle landings.

The intrusive AI tools are so annoying. No, I don’t want helping “filling out this form.” I am reading an original PhD dissertation.

We are looking for two new PhD students to join our group at the University of Southern Queensland to work on exoplanet demographics and atmospheres. See AAS ad below. aas.org/jobregister/...

Well, finished the year 1065 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. What’s next?

Stanton going for the 50-50 club too