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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah, the co-I who shows up a few hours before the deadline and suggests that all the figures should be redone.

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We have a JWST brainstorming meeting tomorrow. I guess it’s not too late!

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New paper day! 🥂 Check out some beautiful spectra of Cosmic Noon galaxies with MIRI’s brand new wide-field slitless spectroscopy mode and what we can learn from the PAH features we can now detect very efficiently over a wide redshift range. arxiv.org/abs/2609.16239

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Cosmic Noon Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field with MIRI Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy

We present results from a survey of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field using the Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopic (WFSS) capability of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on JWST, demonstrating the capabilit...

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wanted to find the feedback on the JWST proposal I submitted last year, and the first keyword I searched in my email was “regret.” It worked immediately!

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's Friday night. I've done enough this week. YOU'VE done enough this week.

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I detest, loathe, and hate driving in Maryland!

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s not as humid as I expected here in College Park, so that’s already a win!

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#JWST observations of LRDs in the news once again! Nice story on the Saguaro LRD (it has arms!), based on work led by our @stsci.edu postdoc Pierluigi Rinaldi. We'll be reobserving Saguaro with JWST in the coming year to learn more about it. science.nasa.gov/missions/web... 🔭

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NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects - NASA Science

Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the subject of great interest to astronomers.

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I know I’ll have my heart in my mouth throughout the entire game! Go Argentina!

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I actually screamed for both the jokes and the scares on this show, soooo recommend watching

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Starting Monday with watching the Messi et al. match!

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Another #AAS248 badge for the collection, loaded with pins!

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Hey #AAS248! Where are you going to be at 6:30pm!?! Room 106!!

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

From @astroneal.bsky.social: Meet Dr. Carolyn Kierans: 2025 HEAD Early Career Prize winner and the astrophysicist chasing the antimatter at the center of our galaxy. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/06/15/aas248-carolyn-kierans/

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Meet the AAS 248 Plenary Speakers: Dr. Carolyn Kierans

Meet Dr. Carolyn Kierans: 2025 HEAD Early Career Prize winner and the astrophysicist chasing the antimatter at the center of our galaxy.

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Catherine 🌌 @catieslaughts.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

We need to start looking some folks in the face and saying "I don't think you have enough real problems in your life"

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

And if you look reaaaal close, you’ll see Mercury as well! But it’s very faint.

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AURORA _UCR @auroraucr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A big thank you to Greta Toni for a fascinating AURORA webinar on Galaxy Clusters, Groups, and Protoclusters Over Cosmic Time. We are grateful for sharing your research and insights with our community! The recorded webinar is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhff... #AURORA #Astronomy #Galaxies

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Galaxy Clusters, Groups and Protoclusters over Cosmic Time, With Dr. Greta Toni

YouTube video by AURORA at UCR

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The best part of my day was meeting someone who gets left and right mixed up even more than I do. I finally feel seen!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month to everyone who brings a little more color to our world 🏳️‍🌈🫶🏳️‍⚧️

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Brought the telescope to an outreach event today to see the Sun. The fog had other plans.

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Catherine 🌌 @catieslaughts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I need this week to fucking end oh my lord

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

What do (real) physicists think about the big unanswered questions in fundamental physics? Niayesh Afshordi @nafshordi.bsky.social has made a page presenting results of an APS survey he did with Phil Halper. nafshordi.github.io/aps-dashboard/

Example responses from a survey of physicists, in this case their opinions about what is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. 25% say time-varying field, 24% say cosmological constant, and then others.

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

At @galaxyzoo.org we uploaded new images based on the early data from the NSF Vera Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) today. Exciting times. www.zooniverse.org/projects/zoo... 🔭🧪✨

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Galaxy Zoo | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Few have witnessed what you're about to see

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Calling it a day and choosing to believe I found an LRD in my data. Tomorrow’s problem is figuring out where I’m probably very wrong.

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Pooyan @pooyan.xyz · 06/05/2026

Multitasking in academia:

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

#Baltimore folks! @stsci.edu is hosting a "ST-Arts with Science" community event TODAY, showcasing science-inspired art by local artists & creators, with drinks and live music. 6-8 pm - see poster below for details.

poster advertising the "ST-Arts with Science" event at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, in collaboration with the Baltimore Art Gallery and Waverly Brewing. The background image shows a painting of the JWST telescope flying in the night sky over the Domino Sugar factory in Baltimore. The text reads: "opening reception 6-8 pm/ 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD. As part of its mission to make the world's astronomical information accessible to all, STScI is hosting a unique public exhibit celebrating the universe as we begin to understand it through the amazing achievements of current and future space telescopes"

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I guess finally trying to learn harmonica after years of thinking about it is truly a mid PhD crisis!

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This will have me spiraling for the next 4 hours. I can't pick just one!

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Had the randomest dream last night that the Artemis crew was casually walking around our campus!!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/04/2026

Y’all are killing me out here with these intense coughs in public and no mask on

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

People’s reactions after their first look through a telescope at the Moon or Sun never get old for me! Always brings me a big smile!

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A great talk by @jjfplanet.bsky.social on some literally cool stuff here at UCR!

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 20/04/2026

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The weather has been so perfect here in Riverside that it’s hard to believe summer is coming!

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week. You deserve a bunny.

A brown rabbit sits in a garden and looks askance at the photographer.

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Listing meetings as tasks just so I can check them off and call it productivity. What a day!

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Not sure which is worse, speaking up and ending up disappointed or already knowing you will be:-?

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite paper of the day so far! arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29771

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Okay I just noticed there’s Quantum Hockey at APS. This is so cool! We should definitely have something like this at AAS👀.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My 3yo has autism, & in parent support groups, many parents think they caused their kids' autism w/ vaccines or won't vax their other kids out of fear it will cause autism again. Misinformation causes so much damage & heartache, & it is unclear how to reach people if they don't trust science. 😞

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 16/03/2026

In this documentary by Ben Proudfoot, Jocelyn Bell Burnell tells her story about being raised as a Quaker, her struggle being the only woman in the room in STEM & how hard it was to pursue that path against the attitude that women were to be in the home. womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/03/i-ch...

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I'm going to expand this statement to say that astronomers should actually look at their data whatever the format. Yes pipelines and high level science products are great, but you learn a lot from just spending some time exploring the counts-on-pixels images, even for spectroscopy. 🔭

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Ava Polzin @avapolzin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day! Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general). arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465 🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬

Cover of "Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics", which features an illustration of a 19-year-old Vera Rubin looking through a telescope over a backdrop of a first light image of spiral galaxies from the Rubin Observatory.

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Faezeh Manesh @astrofaezeh.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

After a week in Aspen, it only snowed on the last day, AND in that short time I still managed to get the car stuck in the mud and snow.

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