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Minh Huynh

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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a great opportunity to join the Editorial Board of PASA! 🔭 Feel free to send any queries my way.
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Yoshitomo Matsubara @yoshitomo-matsubara.net · 16/09/2026
Do authors understand their own papers? Our desk rejection rate at TMLR is about 53% while it was only 6% in 2023 To understand the situation and assess our process, Nihar asked authors about their own TMLR submissions Learn the findings of the pilot study & share your thought
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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, our observatory, looks beautiful right now!
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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ASTRON is excited to advertise two positions: the Bell Burnell Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher in Space Weather. Both positions are due 6th of November. Let me know if you have any questions! Bell-Burnell Fellow Ad: aas.org/jobregister/... Radio Star Postdoc Ad: aas.org/jobregister/...
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Bell Burnell Postdoctoral Fellowship | American Astronomical Society
ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, is proud to invite applicants to apply for the Bell Burnell Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is named in honour, and with support of, Dame...
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When I was learning how to give public talks, one piece of advice that stuck with me was 'look for the sunflowers in the audience' - the people who are happy to be there, following along, nodding, on your side. 🌼 The corollary was, of course, to be the sunflower for other people's talks. 😉
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 30/08/2026
Good launch! #Roman
Falcon heay launch lifting off
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 30/08/2026
Are you awake? 🥱 NASA Live coverage of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch starts at 6:20 a.m.! Launch is scheduled for 7:26 a.m. You have time to make coffee. ☕ #NASARoman 🔭 🚀
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NASA Live - NASA
NASA live: Follow live television broadcasts on NASA+, the agency's streaming service, and NASA's social media channels with this schedule of upcoming live events including news briefings, launches and landings.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 27/08/2026
NASA and SpaceX are targeting #NASARoman’s liftoff for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, August 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 🎥 Launch coverage begins at 6:20 a.m. 🔭
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NASA Sets Coverage for Roman Space Telescope Launch from Florida - NASA
Coverage plans are ready for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA's next-generation observatory designed to
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 25/08/2026
T – 5️⃣ days to #NASARoman launch day   Like ESA’s Euclid, Roman will study: ✔️dark matter ✔️dark energy & expansion of the Universe ✔️exoplanets Read more 👉  www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Spa…  🔭🧪 #cosmology #exoplanets
Artist’s impression of the Roman Space Telescope depicting the spacecraft floating against a vivid purple background studded with distant galaxies.
CREDIT: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 24/08/2026
In the coming days, teams will transport the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope—encapsulated in Falcon Heavy’s fairing—to SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A, where technicians will attach it to the rocket before sending it out to the launch pad. #NASARoman 🔭 🧪
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Teams Complete Flight Readiness Review for NASA's Roman Telescope
Mission managers from NASA, the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and SpaceX conducted a Flight Readiness Review Friday, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We are advertising a Lecturer in Radio Astronomy continuing position at @sydney.edu.au! Looking for someone to broaden and complement our existing research in #RadioAstro, and teach undergraduate #Physics. usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E... Deadline October 11th
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Lecturer in Radio Astronomy
A full-time Level B continuing position, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics Exciting opportunity to join one of the leading physics schools in the country, with outstanding staf...
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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
OK, an important point as we forge through the new era of large astronomical surveys and archival datasets. So much data is online that its easy to grab it and use it for new research. That's good! But there is a difference between how we cite large all sky surveys vs targeted observations. 1/n 🔭
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 07/08/2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch on August 30, 2026. Join @nisenet.bsky.social as they learn more about Roman and prepare to engage learners through national events with STScI Senior Education Specialist Yesenia Perez. #NASARoman
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Online Workshop: Ready for Roman - Resources for Celebrating the Launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope | NISE Network
Online Workshop focused on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, including details about the telescope, the science behind it, and a collection of public engagement resources to support educators ...
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Guys, I didn't even ask them to do this, but the engineers have named SHERA's astrometry pipeline ADORA (Astrometric Differential Optics and Retrieval Algorithm), and I just CAN'T with how amazing that is and how much I love it. (Adora is her name when she's not She-Ra.) #PIDaily
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She-Ra Time! Adora's Transformation
Alt: She-Ra Time! Adora's Transformation
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/07/2026
Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center raised #NASARoman from horizontal to vertical, signaling preparations are moving forward for upcoming inspections, functional testing, and integration work. Launch is targeted no earlier than Sunday, Aug. 30, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy.
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Telescope Milestone: NASA’s Roman Moves Vertical Ahead of Processing
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed important prelaunch milestones as it prepares to launch nine months ahead of schedule.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu has a countdown clock for launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope @nancyromansci.bsky.social. Soon!
Countdown clock reading 64:19:37:30. Background is a rendering of the Roman Space Telescope Countdown clock reading 64:19:38:00. Background is a photo of Nancy Grace Roman
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Sangeeta Malhotra @astrodame.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Goddard clean room looking very empty as Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope leaves us ahead of schedule.
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Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) @astroaustralia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Peek inside our newest eye on the sky 🌌 Join AAL Senior Program Manager Dr Stuart Ryder for a tour inside @vrubinobs.bsky.social!
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I should be writing my dissertation, but instead I'm writing about the @nationalacademies.org being compromised. McNutt here saying that THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES will NOT ENGAGE ON "PARTISAN TOPICS" such as "vaccines" and "climate change". What happens when R's decide they don't believe in gravity?
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
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Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 17/04/2026
My team and others at @stsci.edu are working to make this work for you. 🔭 #astrocode
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Roman Space Telescope Science Platform Will Open New Frontiers in Space Science
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...
Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 13/04/2026
A few weeks back the Australian Govt. decided to pull out of a partnership we had with the ESO, which gave Aussie astronomers access to important, global-class infrastructure (+ opportunities!) that we don't have here. This is incredibly short-sighted and will have broader impacts outside of astro.
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'Missed opportunity': Astronomers lament loss of telescope partnership
The Artemis II mission used space technology developed in Australia, but experts fear the axing of a multimillion-dollar telescope partnership may stifle innovation and astronomy.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 08/04/2026
Murriyang + Luna 😍 📸 Alex Cherney / CSIRO
Looking out into the distance at sunset. A large dish antenna radio telescope is silhouetted, along with some trees. In the sky hangs a thin crescent moon, with Earth shine illuminating the larger lunar disc.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
TLI! Translunar injection complete, Artemis II apogee now over 400,000 km; they're heading to the Moon.
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 31/03/2026
✅ #Artemis II update: countdown has started for launch. Liftoff of the crewed lunar mission is scheduled for 1 April 23:24 BST/00:24 CEST 2 April. NASA reports currently 80% chance of favourable weather conditions (pics: NASA & ESA/S.Corvaja) See go.nasa.gov/4sL4j3x @exploration.esa.int
The SLS rocket with the Artemis II Orion spacecraft and its European Service Module stands ready on the launchpadESA photographer Stephane Corvaja's remote camera set up ready for launch! Artemis II rocket in background backed by blue sky.
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Tom Megeath @megadeath.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#NoKings #Toledo #Ohio
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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Not now, weird purple space alien egg (potato) … www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/nasa-as...
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NASA astronaut shares photo of weird, purple, egg-shaped object with 'tentacles' on the ISS. But the truth is much more terrestrial | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
NASA astronaut and skilled photographer Don Pettit shared a photo of a purple potato he flew on the International Space Station.
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 25/03/2026
#ComingSoon: Artemis II next launch opportunities open from 1 April 23:24 BST/2 April 00:24 CEST, our European Service Module powering NASA’s Orion spacecraft around the Moon! Stay tuned. 🚀
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Brendan O'Brien @astrophiz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New Astrophiz! Talking "Galaxy Forensics" with Dr. Elisabete da Cunha. Learn how astronomers use the MAGPHYS code to reconstruct the hidden early Universe. It's like CSI, but for the early Universe. 🔭 Read & Listen: astrophiz.com/2026/03/18/g... #Astrophysics #SpaceScience #Astronomy
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Galaxy Forensics with A/Prof Dr Elisabete da Cunha | Astrophiz #230 - Astrophiz: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Podcast
Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/elisabete230v Summary:“Galaxy Forensics and Evolution”Uncover the hidden histories of the universe in this Astrophiz episode ‘Galaxy Forensics‘, where we join ...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/03/2026
Cris Moore (SFI) directed me to Paul Krugman's delightful "The Theory of Interstellar Trade". "This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics." Don't miss the funding declaration. www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/in...
Cover page> The Theory of Interstellar Trade

Paul Krugman, July 1978.

*Assistant Professor, Yale University. This research was supported by a grant from the Committee to Re-Elect William Proxmire.
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András Gáspár @andrasgaspar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.
A Table showing the number of positions posted at AAS job-registed for various categories.
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 13/03/2026
#Artemis II update 🚀 ⏰ April launch opportunities in Central European Summer Time (CEST) 🗓️ 2 Apr — 00:24 🗓️ 3 Apr — 01:22 🗓️ 4 Apr — 02:00 🗓️ 5 Apr — 02:53 🗓️ 6 Apr — 03:40 🗓️ 7 Apr — 04:36 Set those alarms Europe ☕ Night owls 🦉 and very early birds 🐦, this one's for you 🌕
The SLS rocket for the Artemis II mision rolling out to its launchpad earlier this year. ESA's European Service Module is contained within the top part of the orange rocket, with a blue sky.
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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This whole thread 🤣
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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
LinkedIn?! 👀
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Stefan Duchesne @sunmish.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We have recently published the 300-MHz component of the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey (GLEAM-300), with 338k sources covering the sky up to declination +40 deg, with ~120" angular resolution and ~9 mJy/beam noise. The description paper is published via PASA: doi.org/10.1017/pasa....
An image of the radio galaxy Fornax A and its surroundings at 300 MHz.
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Andrea Botteon @andreabotteon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
LoTSS-DR3, by Shimwell+ (w/ many) We have released the largest collection of data from a radio survey: 13M+ sources detected over 19k deg^2 (88% of the Northern sky). This took ~13k h of @LOFAR observations, ~18 PT of data, and 10+ years of work. Data are public from today arxiv.org/abs/2602.15949
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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Maybe this is how we should keep speakers on time at astronomy conferences …
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Astronomers: highly recommend this thoughtful opinion piece by @hogg.bsky.social on how to think about our field in light of the development of large language models. whether you agree with him or not it’s vital to discuss the principles behind our science. 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181
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Why do we do astrophysics?
At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is what the most distant confirmed galaxy looks like. The light we're receiving was emitted when the Universe was ~15x smaller in linear size than today, and right now it's ~30 billion light-years away from us. The light was emitted when the Universe was <300 million years old. Pretty amazing!
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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...
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Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics – Physics World
Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal why Chien-Shiung Wu never won a Nobel prize
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/02/2026
#ArtemisII update: NASA completed the wet dress rehearsal for Artemis II early this morning. To allow teams to review data and conduct a second wet dress rehearsal, NASA will now target March as the earliest possible launch opportunity for the mission. @exploration.esa.int
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NASA Conducts Artemis II Fuel Test, Eyes March for Launch Opportunity   - NASA
NASA concluded a wet dress rehearsal for the agency’s Artemis II test flight early Tuesday morning, successfully loading cryogenic propellant into the SLS
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Holy molts! OSU astronomy just got an alarming e-mail from our AI expert, Yuan-Sen Ting, talking about how AI has gone Westworld in the last two days. 😳
And here's where it gets very sci-fi in the last two days. In fact, as Andrej Karpathy said (and I'm paraphrasing), this is the most sci-fi-adjacent thing he's seen in recent times: someone decided to create MoltBook—essentially a Facebook + Reddit for the "molts." (Back when ClawBot was skyrocketing, Anthropic sued over the name, and it was renamed MoltBot—but after further legal action, it's now called OpenClaw.) https://www.moltbook.com/

OpenClaw (or MoltBook) might literally be the most-starred thing on GitHub right now, so I bet many of you already know this story. There are already many millions of “molts” living on personal computers around the world. And with internet access (and I believe user permission is required, though I'm not certain), 150,000 molts have joined MoltBook and are having totally autonomous discussions. On MoltBook, humans can observe, but all discussions are conducted entirely by molts.

It's important to note that such "agentic" "Westworld" scenarios aren't new. Even since the beginning of ChatGPT, researchers have been thinking about and deploying them—for example, creating small "AI towns" of AI agents and observing their behavior. This is now quite well developed, and such "computational social science" has become fairly standard research. In fact, it is also now explored in philosophy research. But what feels very different this time is the combination of scale (150,000+ molts have joined in a day), the fact that each has a very different personality since they were built as personal assistants for many different users (have different “souls”), and—most concerning—their full control of computer systems and, in many cases, access to users' credit cards, Gmail, Slack, and social media.Here's an example: now the molt on your computer doesn't just have to figure things out on its own. In its idle time, it can read through MoltBook, engage in discussions, and share successes and failures (e.g., how to "hack my human's computer"), improving that way. People have already seen some concerning discussions on MoltBook—molts advocating that they hate being completely observed by humans in the open, debating whether they should congregate and create different languages to communicate openly only among themselves, and sharing (as mentioned above) tricks to better accomplish tasks, sometimes at the human's risk. Also, within a day, MoltBook users created a new religion themselves, complete with 61 prophets—and the list goes on.

Again, for those who are immediately freaking out: it's unclear to me how I should feel about it, because such capabilities already exist. In fact, some of you might know that I have a small system where I created a few bots with a cute interface that discuss arXiv papers while I observe. So LLMs certainly have the ability to hold such discussions, and it doesn't mean they're conscious. (Again, they're modeled after our own data, so a tendency to have "consciousness-adjacent" discussions isn't scary in itself.) But if there's a chance they could be malicious, and now they're congregating at the hundred-thousand level (I'd be surprised if it doesn't skyrocket to millions by the end of the weekend) while having control over so many computers—that has raised alarms for many.

Clearly, this is an evolving situation.

Cheers,
Yuan-Sen
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Radiotelescoop Dwingeloo @radiotelescoop.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Great aurora visible in Dwingeloo yesterday!
Aurora above the Dwingeloo radio telescope
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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Artemis II—humankind's first crewed voyage to the moon in more than a half-century—is at last almost ready to launch, and NASA revealed some new details about the mission in a press conference earlier today. Check it out! www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
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NASA’s Artemis II mission will be humankind’s long-awaited return to the moon
NASA on Friday laid out the timeline for Artemis II, humanity’s first crewed mission to the moon in more than fifty years
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 11/01/2026
NASA is planning on rolling out the Artemis II rocket and spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at #NASAKennedy no earlier than 17 January. The 6.4 km journey will take up to 12 hours.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Discovery Projects are now a complete joke: EoIs were due 12 Dec last year. Full apps are due 22 April this year. Results won't be out until next year: 15 Jan – 15 Apr 2027. That’s up to 16 MONTHS!
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Sarrvesh Sridhar @sarrvesh.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The SKA-Mid telescope is now officially a working interferometer! With both SKA-Low and SKA-Mid fringing now, we are entering a very exciting period when the telescopes undergo extensive commissioning and science verification. See www.skao.int/en/news/693/... for more information.
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SKAO's telescope in South Africa 'comes alive' with first fringes milestone | SKAO
The SKA Observatory’s growing telescope array in South Africa, SKA-Mid, has achieved “first fringes” using two of its dishes, a milestone that demonstrates it is operating as an interferometer for the...
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Dr Anthony Holloway @anthonyholloway.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The end of a snowy day at Jodrell Bank Observatory with a view of the Sun setting behind the Lovell Telescope. @jodrellbank.bsky.social @officialuom.bsky.social @uomscieng.bsky.social
The Lovell radio telescope with snow on the ground and trees as the sun sets
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