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Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

Time to abandon my career, return to STEM, and propose the most ambitiously high-risk-of-mauling zoological research project of all time

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

submitted 23 days ago • 39 comments

Do not miss the first AtLAST Forum tomorrow 6 Feb at 8 UTC. This is a platform for the community to exchange ideas and opinions about AtLAST and anything related to it. There will be two talks followed by a plenary discussion session, see: www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve... 🔭🧪

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

A great thread about the (VERY VERY UNLIKELY!) chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Earth. 🔭 If it impacted above a city, it would cause tremendous damage - so even though its chance of impact is vanishingly small, we may need to think about an asteroid redirect mission to play it safe.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

📢 New Athena Science Community: Call for Membership Now OPEN Until March 16! For full information, visit 🔗https://indico.ifca.es/e/NASC_AO2025 Please share this with your colleagues who may also be interested in joining our community!

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Vuelve chatea con una astrónoma! 👩‍💻💫 🗓️ 19 de febrero, de 10:00 a 22:00h (peninsular) 🔗 www.sea-astronomia.es/comision-muj... #11F #11febrero @11defebreroes.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Made an RNA Biology starter pack for folks moving over from Twitter go.bsky.app/77FHCU1 #rnabiology 🧪 #rna

submitted 111 days ago • 61 comments

A handy starter pack for anyone wanting to follow @bas.ac.uk people and projects. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/TaqF39K

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Even for someone who has studied galaxies his entire career, it is still deeply satisfying and somewhat surprising that I can plonk a 🔭 on our patio in the middle of Nottingham, point it over the roof of our 🏠, and see this.

submitted 31 days ago • 35 comments

Hello out there scientists. If you're having meetings or grants or anything else impacted by freeze of NSF meetings, please feel free to reach out to me to share your story. Signal: thealexknapp.79 Email: [email protected]

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

Do you have recommendations for books, web pages and other resources that can help get one started with learning about astronomy? Super beginner level? Please post them in the replies! 🔭

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government. This means meaving e.g. large numbers of scientists without income, with nothing to live on, devastating their lives and ending their work. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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A new result led by my former student Ziteng (Andy) Wang and colleagues: "20 mysterious radio bursts" found using our new Commensal Realtime ASKAP Fast Transient COherent (CRACO) system. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01... (With commentary by @astrolaura.com) #RadioAstronomy

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

NGC-891 Photo credit R. Jay GaBany Constellation Andromeda Discovered W. Herschel 1784 Distance 30 million light years Equipment, $53K half-meter Officina Stellare Pro RC 500 telescope Exposure 34 hours For his amazing photos Jay won the Chanbliss Amateur Achievement award

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 31 days ago • 1664 comments

I really appreciate that so many astronomers put their data up online! In my particular case, it makes lecture preparation much easier. Here is NGC 3198, which I built from separate B, V and R filter images on the SINGS page of the galaxy. As you can see, we see that disk from the side. 1/ 🧪🔭

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Really need to sell a few more tickets for Thursday science comedy: come to the basement! You’ll laugh a lot and think a bit. wegottickets.com/f/13642/

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Spiders can fly using Earth’s electric field I think a herd of goats doing this would be pretty terrifying

submitted 32 days ago • 23 comments

Let’s play around with cosmic distances shall we? Because I don’t think the human brain can actually understand it. But I’m gonna use rice, and say 1 grain = 10,000 miles (~16,000 km). That means the circumference of Earth is just under two and a half grains. These contain all our lives 🧪🔭 (1/n)

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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 94 days ago • 49 comments

My latest for @newscientist.bsky.social is a response to a reader question about how we know that dark matter isn't just dust! It's a nice thing to take a break with, given everything else happening in our corner of the universe. Ask your library for access! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

submitted 34 days ago • 30 comments

Well. Just saying.

submitted 35 days ago • 358 comments

Colleagues (🧪), an excellent thread:

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

submitted 36 days ago • 33 comments

Boulders on Mars are Headed Downhill Features on the surface of Mars change over time for many reasons, but one process that’s universal to all planets is gravity. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_08... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

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Just after NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope began science operations, astronomers noticed something unexpected in the data: small red objects in the distant, young Universe. They became known as 'little red dots' (LRDs)... 🔭 More on these mysterious objects👇 🔗 esawebb.org/images/littl...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

If you want to join our starter pack please do comment below - we are going to start a third one soon And if you asked to be in in the past but now feel you are at risk for being in them, do DM us and we will remove you. #StaySafeStayStrong go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ

submitted 35 days ago • 48 comments

Three Square Kilometre Array Commissioning Scientist jobs available to work at the SKA-Low Science Operations Centre in Perth, Western Australia. recruitment.skao.int/vacancy/skal... Deadline February 23rd. Contact George Heald (@georgeheald.bsky.social) for more information. #RadioAstronomy

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Just dropped a new SK8plotlib update! The game now has camera smoothing and framerate/physics timestep smoothing, making the skateboard feel all around more fun to control

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

The thing that’s most striking about this is that they set up an e-mail account specifically for people to report on each other for any attempt to implement “DEIA or similar ideologies” and threatened “adverse consequences” for NOT reporting.

submitted 36 days ago • 87 comments

How many folks at NASA went into astrophysics or the ‘discovering things about space’ business bc they oppose diversity, equity & inclusion, do we think? This is gonna be a fucking disaster…

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

submitted 36 days ago • 78 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 36 days ago • 835 comments

A timely cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments

Looks like Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS’s days may be numbered… the comet has faded & may have broken up post-perihelion as the nucleus fades from view, leaving a ‘tail-less wonder’ crossing the sky. Here's a great parting view w/ESO’s Paranal Observatory by Yuri Beletsky: www.instagram.com/p/DFF3LKtpIz4/

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

One Headlight. Shooting the Milky Way and having composed this image, a vehicle emerged from the fog-laden valley below. Initially annoyed, I was to delete this file. But this image has become my favourite from that night's shoot. Take-away, don't delete files in camera. #photography #milkyway

submitted 37 days ago • 294 comments

Well, big news. I am planning to move the Space Library to a new home. And I need some help - in 35 years I've never asked for funding, donations or subscriptions for my Space Report, to keep it independent, but now I need to raise some additional funds. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonat...

submitted 37 days ago • 25 comments

New big paper out! It is the first on a series on the prototypical major cluster merger Abell 754. This is a beautiful system that we studied with @SKA_Africa MeerKAT UHF and L band + @ESA_XMM. Main results highlighted below (fasten your seatbelt!) 1/11 https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18983

submitted 244 days ago • 1 comment

Well nobody here needs this post, but if you colleagues are looking to make the jump...From Lindsey Gordon @lcgordon.bsky.social : The community of astronomers on the Bluesky platform is rapidly growing, and invite you to join them. 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/01/21/b...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Two Different Episodes of Water Flow From these different shapes, we can determine that one of the channels is older while the other is younger, indicating at least two different times when water flowed in this region. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_08... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA

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For anyone who needs this today 💚 💪

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