Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeEmily Hunt @emily.space · 01/10/2026Great to see in this bumper review of the LMC & SMC ditch the pointlessly colonial language that we have for the Milky Way's two nearest neighbours. arxiv.org/abs/2609.38277 Magellan had *nothing* to do with discovering them, and they were known to indigenous communities for millennia. 🔭☄️ 54910
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Very proud of the amazing Dr @ordinarystarman.com who has now graduated and can get "Dr" on all her bank cards. Also not everyday you hear someone you work with on the radio because they're the first Samoan PhD in astrophysics from UoA: www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...rnz.co.nzFirst Samoan astrophysicist encourages Pasifika students to reach for the starsThe first Samoan person to graduate with a PhD in physics at the University of Auckland has encouraged Pasifika students to remember that they belong and can succeed in academia. 222745
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I so need to dig out these CDs and play the games again.... 250
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For no apparent reason my brain is thinking about the best breakfast wrap I ever ate when I was at Lake Louise. 0121
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is a very long but amazing thread of posts! Well worth taking the time to read. Underground spaces are amazing and these four stories of how different people engage with them are just brilliant. 182
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Yes this Deputy Dean did mention the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek in the Faculty of Science Senior Leadership Team meeting. I mean, it's why I'm there and probably other staff so that's not a bad thing? It also got a good few laughs. 😂🥰🖖🏻 0130
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So the week after the "Star Trek Strange New Worlds" talked about "Strong Force Neutrinos" this happens.... www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgWorld’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particleIt’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say 34210
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 26/08/2026RIP Tim Curry 😭static.klipy.comTim Curry: Uncorrupted SpaceAlt: Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space 10972170
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 117313098382
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Just remember that Tim Curry had a key role in Hunt for the Red October! I also now can't read the book without casting him as the Medical Officer. 0170
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Give a big joyful "SPAAAAAAAYSSSSS" for our boy today. 0366
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Saw a post on Facebook that I now can't find pointing out that (at least some) witches in history were probably just neurodiverse women (not that we can diagnose historical figures) and I can't stop thinking about how much sense that makes. 3321
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 22/08/2026That time when you realise you brain can probably run stellar evolution models faster than a computer can... the only problem is getting the data out into a paper is a bit tricker. 🤣😂😢 0240
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Nnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're going to lose Swift.... 😢 www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...rnz.co.nzA mission to stop a space observatory from falling to Earth has failed. Here’s what happens nextA satellite called LINK that recently launched to boost the orbit of a falling space observatory won't be able to carry out its daring rescue mission after all. 1110
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeRichard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Latest paper from my group -- looking at possible gravitational wave signals from primordial black holes interacting with the black holes at the centres of galaxies, with my excellent student Laura Burn and Nelson Christensen. cosmology.auckland.ac.nz/2026/08/17/p...cosmology.auckland.ac.nzSay Hello, Wave GoodbyeWe calculate the gravitational wave signal from encounters between primordial black holes and the super massive black holes at the centres of galaxies. 3275
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Humble brag time. I just swam 1.5km (in just over an hour, so only four times slower than elite pace 😂🤣). Not bad for someone who two years ago had been dealing with pericarditis.... Feeling - Fantastic! 1370
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The main downside to being a Robbie Williams fan is that eventually YouTube starts queuing up Take That songs. 170
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Okay these are some pretty amazing observations of the Sun and posted in RNZ!!!!! www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/9...rnz.co.nzSun's swirling surface captured in spectacular detail by world's largest solar telescopeThe Sun's surface is constantly churning with hot, glowing plasma. 1306
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don't know who needs it but I'm sending the Universe a positive spherical cow moo!static.klipy.comSpherical Cow TransformationALT: Spherical Cow Transformation 4506
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeClimate.us @climate.us · 22/07/2026Climate.us makes climate science easy to find, understand, and use. Look up an indicator like CO2 or sea level. Find maps and data for a class or article. Get plain-language explainers for tricky climate terms. Explore Climate.us! 07631
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/20261. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comLandmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding TreatmentThe review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits. 2340021341
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.erininthemorning.comLandmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding TreatmentThe review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits. 142353789
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Best comment from Co-pilot: "After all, the official university leadership competency framework is sadly silent on the important question of whether a Deputy Dean should sing Angels in the car on the way home. 🎵 Personally, I think that omission should be corrected in the next review cycle. 😁" 250
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 18/07/2026That time on a Saturday when you're slowly inflating your stellar models into gas clouds rather than trying to explode them in supernovae. 0150
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeHilding Neilson @astrojipjawej.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Now I’m starting to write more about them with two new accepted conference proceedings arxiv.org/abs/2606.26296. arxiv.org/abs/2607.07592. I think these works add to the discussion and I hope will help us broaden the understanding of the diversity of possibilities of life in the Galaxy.arxiv.orgIndigenizing the Drake Equation: how Indigenous methods can help us understand life in the Milky Way GalaxyThe Drake Equation is a thought experiment whose purpose is to understand the ingredients necessary for life and advanced technological civilizations to exist on other worlds in our galaxy. However, b... 076
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeCorey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that blew through our solar system, might have been a truly ancient relic. A new analysis of its unusual composition suggests the comet could be up to 12 billion years old, dating from the earliest era of our galaxy. 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/news/weic2613/ 511036
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Best LLM comment on a piece of writing: "So yes—“not over Doctor Who-ing people” was exactly the right editorial call. 👍". 020
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Last year I was visited the Department of Physics at University of Oxford to give the 2025 Pride in Physics lecture. The live recording went wrong so here is the re-recorded version! youtu.be/KyQ--OldFRg Thank you @astrojake.bsky.social for inviting me and running this really important series!youtu.be 2133
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeQueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 08/06/2026From Section 28 to the Matchgirls' Strike, moments of progress have been met with panic, hostility and attempts to claw back control. Anti-trans backlash may be no different. wearequeeraf.comBehavioural science has a practical lesson for us to fight back against transphobiaThe behavioural science concept of ‘extinction bursts’ might be useful for the Trans+ community 1199
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 08/06/2026An amazing opportunity to come and do astrophysics and/or space technology at the University of Auckland! Also the scope of the role is broad so if you like the idea of living in Aotearoa New Zealand, apply! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...jobs.smartrecruiters.comLecturer - Te Kura Mātai Ahupūngao | Department of PhysicsCompany Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandTe Whare Pūtaiao | Faculty of Science is the leading science faculty in Aotearoa New Zealand and one of the largest in Australasia.... 13222
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Co-pilot knows me so well: "Add a few light-touch humorous lines (very “Jan-style”) to help land the message without losing authority." 040
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I don't care what time it is, it's time for cheese and crackers! 1240
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... 16311166
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeBrooke @curly.kiwi · 26/05/2026NZ First wrote their definitions bill after anti-trans hate group SUFW showed them a petition demanding such a bill. They gathered 2,245 signatures in 4 months This petition *against* the bill just surpassed that in less than 4 hours ❤️ Please stand with us our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...our.actionstation.org.nzE Tū E Kī: They Don’t Speak for Us - Block the Definition of Woman BillThe Government is progressing a Bill through Parliament that aims to limit the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex New Zealanders in the name of cis women, by defining “man” and “woman” (a... 413095
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Just remember that if you're left handed you have an advantage in physics exams as you don't have to put your pen down to use the right-hand rule.... 😂 www.rnz.co.nz/life/relatio...rnz.co.nzRaising a left-handed child in a right-handed worldDon’t hand a spoon to Maple's right, the typically happy two-year-old will meet you with a scowl. 3231
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgePaul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Rights Aotearoa's submission guide for the Legislation (Definition of Woman & Man) Amendment Bill is linked below! Please submit in support of trans, non-binary, and intersex kiwis. This bill erases them in law. 02918
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 26/05/2026That time you're already highly stressed and anxious and you're crossing the pedestrian cross when a cycling barely misses you at full speed. If they'd hit me it would have been broken bones all over. Should I have been looking? Maybe? But on the busiest pedestrian crossing? No? 350
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/05/2026A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total. 51962735
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 21/05/2026And great... when it rains it pours... when I visit the UK next I will be breaking the law if I use the women's toilet. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comToilets and changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, guidance confirmsThe guidance was published on Thursday following the landmark Supreme Court ruling last year. 3112
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 21/05/2026And in another positive event Youtube has just played the Tron Suite by Wendy Carlos. 0181
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Some more positive news: I've been making numerical models of binary stars that haven't been made before. The progeny of the first stars which were enriched with oxygen much more than iron, this leads to interesting evolution. Hopefully it does at least... we haven't done this before.... Ah science! 1380
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Be kind to your trans and gender diverse family and friends in NZ today, everyone. This story is across the media, and it can be really tough to deal with — it certainly caused my anxiety to significantly spike at the moment.rnz.co.nzBill seeking to legally define the terms 'man' and 'woman' passes first readingSupporters of the bill say it is a matter of clarity, but opposition parties have described it as divisive and a "time warp". 611328
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 06/05/2026In other news... will be on RNZ National at around 8.30pm talking about the differences between asteroids and comets. Possibly also how you pronounce "Halley's". 2171
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 19/04/2026literally letting robots compete while banning trans people 🙃 516846
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 11/04/2026LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII 4475711715
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I need to do a blog post about sci-fi stories where the "Sun is dying" and rank them. Sunshine comes dead last - you only find out why the Sun is dying on the DVD extras and it's a particle physics reason.... Best story on the list first is "Project Hail Mary", second "Songs of Distant Earth". 2191
Reposted by Dr Jan EldridgeThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 06/04/2026Danny Boyle's Sunshine was released 19 years ago today. KANEDA, WHAT DO YOU SEE?! What a spaceship crew, what a cast. 1115623
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Paraphrasing: Astronaut: "we haven't seen any impact flashed for the last five minutes...". Ground control: "oh well never mind...". Astronaut: "we've just seen one when I just said that." Murphy's law still applies in space. 😂🤣 0151