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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/09/2025

Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”

✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

very confused why im seeing so many people devastated after ut's loss, i thought we were all aware that the longhorns were a chronically dogwater football team

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

are we allowed to have outro music for out phd defense?

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

i would crash juno into jupiter before letting this happen wtf

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19

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Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the sky with multi-object...

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

just found out my conference poster got printed in the wrong dimensions brb gonna die

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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...

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NSF and NASA Budget Requests Pose an Unprecedented Threat to Astronomy

The president's budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. This post summarizes the major cuts and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against thi...

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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

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Jeremy Gibbs @gibbs.science · 29/05/2025

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”

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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.....

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 05/05/2025

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...

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 17/04/2025

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

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Mark Popinchalk @markpopinchalk.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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 🔭🧪

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

giving the biggest boooooo in the world on that decision

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

this week in fascism, summarized:

brooklyn 99 meme with gina dancing with text saying cosmologists, while theres a fight in the background titled "the rest of the science community"

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snackowski @snackowska.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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

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Peter Gao @planetarygao.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

me staring at my data

Daniel Craig saying “It makes no damn sense. Compels me though.” from Knives Out

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

how we've been feeling in the chat lately

two men shaking hands, one hand says powerlifting, the other says grad school. the top text says going till failure

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bitch aries 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @spaghetbb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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

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Josh Dubnau @joshdubnau.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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.

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

got that mad spectral synthesis rizz

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

my gf asked wanted some white noise so i played wonderwall for her

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

i agree with doug ford?? wild times

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Shane Madej @shanemadej.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is BlueSky, where I get real with you about my cat eating spiders, but for some momentary self-promotion: my wonderful puppet show is coming back next week and I hope everybody enjoys it as we've worked incredibly hard on this very zany season.

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Puppet History Is BACK! • Season 7 Trailer

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This week has been garbage but my second ever first author paper was published yesterday and I want to celebrate that, dammit 😤 It’s not actually my primary work but rather Astronomy Education research that I’ve gotten involved in over grad school! 🧪🔭 journals.aps.org/prper/abstra...

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Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course

Students in an astrobiology massive open online course showed increased motivation, and the sources of motivation changed since the pandemic.

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

worst january to do dry january

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

i wouldn't trust the utah legislators to be able to empty a colander full of water

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✨amaya✨ @astroamaya.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

she has a magnetic personality?!? i thought she was anemic

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Academic freedom means you can't be fired for pursuing your research, not that other academics (or people outside of the academy) have to take your ideas seriously. Part of the deal is that if you come up with dogshit ideas, people have to be willing and able to call them dogshit.

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