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Michael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

join us today for the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks (VAST) seminar: vast-seminars.github.io @emily.space will tell us about building astronomy communities #astro #astrocode

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW! The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Physics)

The Department of Physics at Oregon State University (OSU) is seeking an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure/tenure-track faculty position.Any hiri...

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Michael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

today the new season of the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks kicks off: vast-seminars.github.io Some of the organizers will talk about their own projects this time. Join us at 11am (NY time). #astro #astrocode

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The only time I ever see a post from truth social is when it’s a screenshot of one of trump’s messages. I like the idea that he is literally the only person that posts there and the feed is just a list of his ramblings

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Philipp Mösta @handle.invalid · 05/08/2025

One more paper from the group out arxiv.org/abs/2508.00062 🎉 Led by Lieke Sippens Groenewegen, who finished her MSc in my group @grappainstitute.bsky.social in February, and with @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social we developed an end-to-end pipeline for kilonova lightcurves and spectra #highenergyastro 🔭🧪

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The Old SwitchAroo @theoldswitcharoo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, Nate Brown (NateBlackest on Twitch) joins us for Blast Corps, the 1997 action-destruction game for the Nintendo 64. Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "Blast Corps" with an illustration of two robots from Blast Corps and one remote controlled car. The additional text below the label reads "-or- I've Heard of a Crash Course, but this is ridiculous" and the text to the side reads "with Nate Brown"

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

What game do you play with your female dog in summer? Tick-or-teat

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Ethan Vishniac 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @ethan-vishniac.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

youtu.be/kBLkQIi3S18 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Amber Young on 2024PSJ.....5....7Y Amber Young (Northern Arizona University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on Earthlike exoplanets.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Some fun news to interleave in your TLs - the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program is an open sandbox for the astronomy community to collaborate on confirming and characterizing planets. It's totally voluntary, but apparently, if you build it, they will come! www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/exoplan...

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Exoplanet discovery database, ExoFOP, reaches 1 million files and counting

Discovering an exoplanet doesn’t mean having one, definitive eureka moment. Instead, it requires multiple observations, sometimes from multiple observatories, and the scientific community coming toget...

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"Why should my tax dollars go to fund your astrophysics research?" A thread. 🔭🧪 Brushing aside how absurdly little of the federal budget goes to science (according to the Planetary Society NASA accounts for only 0.3% of federal spending), the benefits of funding astronomy fall into two camps. (1/n)

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Hey I’m hiring a 4-year PhD student in #astronomy at UCC to work on studying massive black holes in cosmological simulations! Fast turn around on this bc it is so late (due 6 June) but please pass on to any interested and qualified students! Feel free to dm/email me! 🔭🧪 www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...

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Job Opportunities | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A haiku: Was gonna go out Laid down and took a quick nap Not gonna go out

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Midwesterners don’t want walkable cities because otherwise they wouldn’t know how to start a conversation with someone who just arrived

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Michael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

today's Virtual Astronomy Software Talks seminar: * Devarshi Choudhury (UvA): X-PSI—neutron star X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference. * Matthieu Schaller (Lorentz Institute): SWIFT—SPH with Interdepednent Fine-grained Tasking in ~2.5 hours (11am NY) vast-seminars.github.io #astro #astrocode

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I feel like the new EO has a lesson about tariffs

Snippet from the latest executive order on domestic energy production reading: “For example, when States target or discriminate against out-of-State energy producers by imposing significant barriers to interstate and international trade, American energy suffers…”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/04/2025

I've finished my extremely basic normie tariff discussion. Here's what it looks like.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRUMP’S TARIFFS
The quick version.
On April 2, Trump announced sweeping tariffs on every country except Russia, North Korea, Cuba,
and Belarus. Tariffs are a tax that are paid by the importer when goods enter our country. Prices on
everyday items will increase radically and responsive tariffs will harm US businesses. Ask your
federal representatives (numbers at reps.fyi) to revoke Trump’s ability to apply tariffs.
Who pays tariffs?
The country of origin does not pay tariffs. Whoever is importing the goods in the US pays the tariff,
and passes the cost along to regular consumers—in other words, we, the people will pay the tariff.
How did Trump calculate his tariffs?
Trump’s tariff sheet claims that countries charge the US exorbitant tariffs. This is a lie. The number he
lists has nothing to do with tariffs, but is instead a trade deficit ratio, calculated as the dollar amount
we import from that country divided by the amount we export to that country.
What is the difference between a trade deficit and a tariff?
Trade deficits are not tariffs. We buy more from some countries than they buy from us because many
Americans have disposable income and purchasing power. It is not possible, or beneficial, for
countries to have perfectly balanced imports and exports.
What impact will this have on your life?
You will pay more for everything you buy, and American businesses will lose overseas customers.
The last time America passed sweeping tariffs was in 1930; this is part of what made the Great
Depression last so long. Trump’s tariffs are higher than the failed 1930 tariffs.
Who is responsible?
• Donald Trump and his cabinet for imposing the tariffs.
• Every Senator and Representative who fails to block Trump’s tariffs.
What can you do?

• Contact your Senators and Representative (info at http://reps.fyi), and ask them to revoke the
so-called national emergency that Trump is using to impose these tariffs.
• Distribute this fact sheet so that people know who is responsible and how to join in.
• Join a protest against Trump’s damaging policies.
Sources for these claims & this sheet itself can be freely
downloaded at TrumpsTariffsExplained.com

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I agree it’s a deliberate choice, but you have no idea what’s happening in the vast majority of their lives. Have you asked any of them why they haven’t shared these posts?

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Why do you say they don’t care? Not posting about something doesn’t mean not caring about it

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

How do folks learn about rallies near them? Maybe I just missed it but I don’t remember seeing anything about the hands off rally today

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

On the up side I just learned the hands down easiest way to make a perfect hollandaise sauce. On the down side I just ate a whole stick of butter over chicken and noodles and spinach

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Are you a US scientist thinking of quitting the States for Europe? Would you be willing to talk about it — anonymity is possible? Send me a DM. (Please reskeet if you have US contacts!)

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/03/2025

This should be getting wider circulation

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

*At a WH press conference* Me: I have more of a comment than a question

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Sophia Gad-Nasr @astropartigirl.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Oh. My. Wow. This image here, THIS STUNNING PHOTO, was taken by Blue Ghost on the Moon. Because while we saw a lunar eclipse on Earth, the Moon saw a solar eclipse at the same time. That's us, Earth, eclipsing the Sun. And it just gives me goosebumps to see like this!!

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I get real “pigs in a farmhouse” vibes

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 09/03/2025

🔭 Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, ASI, INAF, JIRAM apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25030...

The image shows the north pole of Jupiter in red (infrared) light. Many cyclonic swirls surround the pole. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Please join us Wednesday, February 19 at 11am Eastern time for another installment of VAST! We have two great speakers: Rhys Taylor will be talking about FRELLED and Marc Pound will be talking about PDR Toolbox. Hope to see you there!

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I've convinced myself that Sonic would look stretched out. Since he's moving, by the time the light from his back gets to his front, he has covered some distance. That will make him appear stretched out. His observed length, Lobs, and his measured length, L, are related by Lobs = L / ( 1 - v )

A spacetime diagram showing Sonic the hedgehog's head at three times: once when light from the back of his head heads toward the observer, once (at a later time) when light from his nose heads towards the observer, and once showing how his head appears stretched out to the observer.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

nazi germany & physics
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle
APS April Meeting, January 2017
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Things are bad and scary in the US right now and it’s hard to think about anything else. For a brief distraction to folks, I got an email on behalf of a nine year old yesterday asking about Sonic and what he would look like when he’s running close to the speed of light. (1/3)

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Michael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

a lot of junior faculty are worried about tenure cases given the funding uncertainty. While it's not at the same level, invited talks carries weight with tenure as well. If you are on a colloquium committee this year, perhaps try focusing on some of the bright junior folks in our field. #astro

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NPR @npr.org · 28/01/2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built his fortune and reputation on disparaging the government scientists and institutions he's now in line to lead as HHS secretary.

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7 things about RFK Jr. you should know ahead of his Senate hearings

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built his fortune and reputation on disparaging the government scientists and institutions he's now in line to lead as HHS secretary.

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

One thing that I think may be worth remembering going forward is how fast the government is working right now. They could have worked this fast to criminalize guns, provide universal healthcare, feed the poor, house the homeless, etc. Change doesn’t have to be slow and now we have evidence of that

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Sam Dunham @astrodunham.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Declaring a national energy emergency immediately before halting any new leasing for offshore wind farms is quite a move

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

From Catherine Slaughter @catieslaughts.bsky.social : Recent research indicates that some supernova fail to ever explode. Today’s authors study what this means for our understanding of iron enrichment and star formation in nearby globular clusters. 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/01/17/f...

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Failure is Sometimes an Option: Supernovae and Star formation in Globular Clusters - astrobites

Recent research indicates that some supernova fail to ever explode. Today’s authors study what this means for our understanding of iron enrichment and star formation in nearby globular cluste…

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New episode is up! We talk to Derek Guy, @dieworkwear.bsky.social—aka the Menswear Guy—about how dense, walkable cities influence what people wear, what the great fashion capitals of the world have in common, how the housing crisis is affecting style, and much more. thewaroncars.org/2025/01/07/1...

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141. Cities and Fashion with Derek Guy, The Menswear Guy

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Sabina Sagynbayeva @sabinastro.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A reminder that you can (and probably should!) invite me to give a talk at your institution in California until June! C’mon, I need to collect UC schools visits like infinity stones.

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