astroamaya.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

astroamaya.bsky.social

115 posts 1,172 followers 89 following

Posts 34 Comments 16

From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Welcome to June. Here’s a diagram illustrating how stars’ colours depend on their temperatures as approximated by their equivalent black body curves. #astronomy #PrideMonth

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

it appears that the nasa/nsf budget cuts seem to have made the decision for me on whether ill be staying in astronomy after grad school

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

me: i finally turned in my latest manuscript draft. 11yo: i already read the abstract. me: oh? 11yo: yeah, it says <pushes glasses up and speaks in a whiny voice> “According to my calculations, nerd nerd nerd”

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 32 days ago • 151 comments

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Astronomer: Well its only a gap with our current instruments. Next generation facilities like Rubin and JWST should resolve the gap within uncertainties! Unless they don't,, in which case next-next generarion facilities such as.....

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

found a catastrophic error in my code so basic that im considering how my brain might actually be the smoothest material in the known universe

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

went straight from high dry desert utah to fullbore spring thunderstorms in texas felt like whatever the reverse of paul atreides is

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you for all your action today! Keep sharing how you are engaging in advocacy using #SaveScience and #WeekOfAction. We have many more advocacy actions to look forward to this week: aas.org/posts/news/2...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

yknow i knew it was the 2005 pride and prejudice and i ofc knew revenge of the sith came out in 2005 but i never actually put together that they came out in the same year, let alone in the same week

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Every astronomer on socials for the next 24-48 hours will now be spending their time highlighting the importance of: - peer review system - awaiting astro community feedback - not inflating/sensationalizing headlines - independently reproducing results - multiple lines of evidence - unlikely aliens

submitted 68 days ago • 12 comments

Describing the impact of the NASA budget cuts from the astronomers' perspective, combined with clear, easy, sub 1-min actions you can take to help. Great work by the @astrobites.bsky.social writers 🔭🧪

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Interested in following our wonderful Astrobites authors? Check out the starter pack! 🔭 go.bsky.app/5Ab7NLu

submitted 220 days ago • 1 comment

finally got a letterboxd

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

playing mario kart my gf: i worry im being too competitve for you me: ill start worrying when you're not in tenth

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

giving the biggest boooooo in the world on that decision

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

My newest astrobite!!! it's on is a great interdisciplinary paper that discusses how passage through the Radcliffe wave could've contributed to global cooling in the Miocene period

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content

submitted 89 days ago • 140 comments

no way pete hegseth just texted me the origin of the imf

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

this week in fascism, summarized:

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

it's an interesting experience, watching the demise of a university system that wouldn't have ever provided me with a stable job and livelihood anyway. kinda like watching a bunch of houses burn down that you know you could never afford to live in anyway

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

x-ray astronomers wear everything and a backpack bc they can only work with upper limits

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

me when im disc crossing

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

You're going to grad school. Shaggy said life's one big party when you're still young and you're going to grad school

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

me staring at my data

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

i wasnt aware people ever expected anything but poor decisionmaking from their university presidents

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

submitted 115 days ago • 34 comments

how we've been feeling in the chat lately

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

me to my millennial girlfriend: let's go to the parking lot and do a heckin fuckerino

submitted 122 days ago • 4 comments

Scientists need to face the reality that this is not some temporary funding crisis while a bumbling administration sorts out their priorities. This is an intentional assault on academia by accelerationist extremists who wish to break society. Fascism must be met in the streets.

submitted 122 days ago • 22 comments

yknow im actually chill with all the microplastics in my body. i mean my forebearers were similiarly nerfed by lead and asbestos and look at the world we've built