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There are many ways to study rocks up-close! 🔬💎 These thin section drawings and images are of feldspar-pyroxene xenoliths, brought up from beneath Fagradalsfjall, Iceland, by erupted basalts🌋 #ThinSectionTuesday #Petrology

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A most instructive introduction to a very important topic. You all should take the time (about 15 minutes) to play around with the interactive charts.

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Spectroscopy is an incredibly useful tool for #NASAWebb to study objects in more depth. For example, transmission spectroscopy is useful for characterizing the composition of exoplanets’ atmospheres: webbtelescope.pub/3uJUKoW 🔭 🧪

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Nice piece from Jess Wade on @spie.org ‘s 20 years of showcasing women in optics, photonics and STEM 🔭🧪 spie.org/news/women-t...

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Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️! aspire.science.uva.nl

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The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

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NASA: Webb Reveals the Ancient Surfaces of Trans-Neptunian Objects. blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2025/02... 🔭 🧪

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Miljoenentekort Open Universiteit leidt tot ontslag medewerkers Da’s uni #2 (tenzij ik er ook nog gemist heb) nos.nl/l/2555970

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Scientists: sign and share! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Mission accomplished!

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Looks like @acs.org just sent this email to the full membership. Links www.acs.org/policy/membe... www.acs.org/about/strate... "If you have feedback you’d like to share, you can send it to us at [email protected]." The excision of "diversity" language is not addressed chemsky 🧪

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Waking up to the news that the @nasawebb.extwitter.link scheduled our Red Rectangle observations for Tuesday. I am still in awe at the idea that I am using a space telescope to do science. Such a privilege 🔭

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Some days ago, the astronomer @rosedf.bsky.social reported on #socialmedia that her bio had been "deleted" from #NASA website she worls for. So I contacted her and tried to find out more. Here the interview for @wireditalia 👇 #STEM #womeninstem #womeninscience www.wired.it/article/inge...

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An extraordinary American astronaut and science communicator for #BlackHistoryMonth: Mae Carol Jemison (born 1956) is a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992. 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 #histsci 🧵

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Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom... #ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience

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International Day of Women and Girls in Science—a moment to celebrate, but also to ask: why do the numbers still drop so sharply from PhD to professor? In our department, just 13 female academics, only 3 professors. Progress? Yes. Enough? Not even close. #WomenInSTEM

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The falsehood came from the right. How (radical/ extreme) right shares mis/ disinformation more online. Good to see @uva.nl colleagues @pettertornberg.bsky.social and @julianachueri.bsky.social’s research featured in @theguardian.com #polisky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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#ChemTogether. Forever. #RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry

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🔭 The Universe is a dusty place. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, the most productive star-forming region in the nearby Universe, home to the most massive stars known.

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SUMMER SCHOOL: TRACES OF EARLY LIFE Join the European Astrobiology Institute’s “Traces of Early Life” Summer School, held from 3rd to 13th June 2025, at the Stirling University in Scotland. europeanastrobiology.eu/summer-schoo... Application deadline is 1 March 2025!

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Anticipatory obedience wins again. #chemsky

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"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

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I'm giving a TEDx talk tomorrow at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus about the history of our imagined futures on Mars, alien life, & why studying Mars matters beyond the search for Martians. You can tune in live at 4:30PM ET on YouTube: youtube.com/live/OmLPMYt...

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The European Astro Society meeting will be held in Cork, Ireland this year, and I'm advertising our session on Intersectional EDI. Abstract submission open, closing beginning of March :D #lgbtstem 🧪🔭 eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

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Dear astro folks, with the current crackdown on science in the US, we probably cannot rely on all services provided to the scientific community from the US to function properly in the future and we may need to think about moving them elsewhere. What services would you think of that are […]

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De @lnvh.nl nieuwsbrief van januari is er! Met een nieuwjaarsbericht van onze voorzitter, een terugblik op ons overleg met OCW Minister @eppobruins.bsky.social, de AWiB fonds laureaten 2024-25 & - als altijd - tips om te lezen, luisteren & bezoeken, benoemingen & prijzen: www.lnvh.nl/newsletters-...

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This just in! The Gaia spacecraft has detected its first exoplanet. In this video you’ll hear how scientists can detect these planets. Check out the link in our bio if you want to read more ⭐ #science #astronomy #exoplanet#wetenschap #sterrenkunde #api #uva #esa #gaia #amsterdam #space #universe

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6 days left to apply! Please repost! #jobposting #Astrosky #ChemSky #PlanetaryScience

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This is what a protoplanetary disk looks like edge-on. A young star, blasting jets of material from its poles, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. Where planets are being born. HH 30. By JWST.

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🧵 🔭 🧪 #planetsci 1/ The Reasons (REsolved ALMA and SMA Observations of Nearby Stars) survey analyzed 74 belts of planetesimals belonging to stars within 500 ly from the Sun and found an incredible variety of ages, shapes and sizes. Source➡️ www.iac.es/en/outreach/...

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An helicopter intruding the Moon-Venus dialogue.

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Welp. First scientist had to drop out of Skype a Scientist because their workplace shut down all public engagement. Hang tough out there, people.

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The last 4 days I was in charming Cardiff to my 1st outreach hackathon! I learnt about ludology and we developed new resources: 5(!) serious games and printable material for the Nanospace COST Action. 🙏 to @chrisewels.bsky.social & Simon Scarle for organising and Cardiff Met Uni for the hospitality!

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Do you think #Titan is the best moon? Do you like chemical modelling? Come and work with me at @api.uva.nl to model hydrocarbon chemistry on Titan! I have an opening for a postdoc! more details below. #Hiring #PlanetaryScience #AstroSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Bye X 👋🏼 Dutch science foundation NWO drops X. Reason: “public discourse on X is increasingly characterized by the spread of misinformation and hate speech” NWO will use their website, newsletter and LinkedIn for announcements. #AcademicSky www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-...

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As a female academic in her 40s, I think it is extremely important to pay attention to ways in which you get worn down by the constant mini-struggles. As you age, it accumulates and you get to a point where you just can't anymore. This is not just about the extra mentoring or household labor.

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Part-time (2 days per week) editor position at the RAS, working on their members' magazine A&G. Based remotely in the UK. Looks like the role would suit a (current or former) researcher in astronomy or geophysics, who has experience in written science communication for a broad audience. 🔭🧪⚛️

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📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...

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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

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It’s disheartening to see well-known figures in physics normalize poor behavior by joking about being difficult to work with or claiming superiority. Acknowledging harmful actions without accountability isn’t funny—it sets a damaging example for our community. We must do better.

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