Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Slightly diminish a band, prog rock edition: Hurry Beginning Maybe 010
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I did it. I finally did it. I found something worse than “dessert hummus.” Behold this abomination — the sushi hot dog. 140
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Some amazing aurora tonight, visible from Boulder! Some highlights from tonight here. (The views from Minnesota are -spectacular- based on what I’m seeing from friends there!) Go look up!! (And north.) 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ 311717
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! 04332
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 21/08/2025An amazing story by my friend & colleague, @dbseaton.bsky.social, highlights the personal, professional, & societal value of NSF’s REU undergrad research program, & the irreplaceable losses if planned funding cuts are enacted. A must-read. 🔭⚛️🧪☀️ #scicomm #citsci www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comSmall, affordable undergraduate research programmes changed my career and strengthen US science. Why cut them?Like so much else, this small scientific programme is on the Trump administration’s hit list. This will hurt the United States, says Dan Seaton. 48023
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 19/08/2025@philplait.bsky.social looks like you’re a clue in today’s @sciam.bsky.social crossword! www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...scientificamerican.comScience Crossword: A Trip Down Memory LanePlay this crossword inspired by the July 2025 issue of Scientific American. 132
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 11/05/2025My daughter just described light as “flavored energy.” 020
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The documentary about our Citizen CATE 2024 project, that engaged with 36 teams of community volunteers to observe the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, premieres next week, April 23 at 7pm MDT. Register to attend in person or online! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...news.ucar.eduScreening of 2024 eclipse documentary Gathered in Darkness | NCAR & UCAR News 091
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The documentary about our Citizen CATE 2024 project, that engaged with 36 teams of community volunteers to observe the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, premieres next week, April 23 at 7pm MDT. Register to attend in person or online! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...news.ucar.eduScreening of 2024 eclipse documentary Gathered in Darkness | NCAR & UCAR News 091
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Our community-participation project for the total solar eclipse, Citizen CATE 2024, was featured on #AGU24 TV! We’re so grateful to our 225+ community scientists who helped us on this exciting project. We’re processing over 2 TB of data and will have new eclipse visuals soon! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci 0154
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Our upcoming CubeSat, CubIXSS, was featured on #AGU24 TV. Launching in late 2025, CubIXSS will study solar flares & the Sun’s multi-million-degree corona. Together with @suncetcubesat.bsky.social, we’ll make groundbreaking new observations of solar eruptions and the hot corona! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ 0173
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Our community-participation project for the total solar eclipse, Citizen CATE 2024, was featured on #AGU24 TV! We’re so grateful to our 225+ community scientists who helped us on this exciting project. We’re processing over 2 TB of data and will have new eclipse visuals soon! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci 0154
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Our upcoming CubeSat, CubIXSS, was featured on #AGU24 TV. Launching in late 2025, CubIXSS will study solar flares & the Sun’s multi-million-degree corona. Together with @suncetcubesat.bsky.social, we’ll make groundbreaking new observations of solar eruptions and the hot corona! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ 0173
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 07/12/2024OMFG I just discovered “Human vs Hamster” on Magnolia Network where people run a human-sized rodent gauntlet in a race against a hamster — who wins half the time — and the hosts are straight out of the Panem Capitol from Hunger Games and I feel like I’m having a stroke 041
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.camwing @camw.ing · 05/12/2024In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget. 366110628256
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 29/11/2024good news everyone! the science continues! check out Physics & Astronomy 2 (electric boogaloo): go.bsky.app/4Kr3B48 53111
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 29/11/2024attempting to collect #scicomm focused #physics and #astronomy accounts into one #starterpack! this list is by no means complete—if I've missed you, please just shoot me a DM. go.bsky.app/NvQERru 53349105
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Jennifer Lynn Bartlett @bartlettastro.bsky.social · 30/10/2024#Astrophyicists, please let ADS know what you like, don't like, would like to have, and complete the survey below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @scixcommunity.bsky.social #DigitalTransformation #planetaryscience #heliophysics #NASA #Science #astrophysicsdocs.google.comAstrophysics Data System (ADS) User Feedback SurveyThank you for taking the time to provide feedback on the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) digital library. Your insights will help us improve the platform and better serve the scientific community. This... 01811
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 25/10/2024No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure, like a dipshit. 041
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 24/10/2024I have a joke about the Cyclops but it’s one I can’t repeat. 010
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Houston-area folks, I’ll be at the Lunar & Planetary Institute (LPI) on Thursday, Oct 24 to give a public talk — open and accessible to everyone — on solar eclipses and awesome experiments! Hope to see you there! 🧪🔭⚛️ #CitSci #SciComm www.lpi.usra.edu/features/202...lpi.usra.eduIn-Person Event: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Chasing the Shadows of Solar EclipsesJoin the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) for an in-person presentation by Dr. Amir Caspi from the Southwest Research Institute. 0344
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪scientificamerican.comThe Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female ScientistsMarie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science 171241325
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 22/09/2024Higher than I thought, but still a young elder I suppose. 020
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 19/09/2024My amazing partner, @heathercaspi.bsky.social, has been picked up by a literary agent, a huge and well-deserved recognition of her immense talent! Can’t wait until she’s all over bookshelves near you! #author #writer #kidlit 030
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Heather Caspi @heathercaspi.bsky.social · 18/09/2024🎉🎉 Thrilled to announce that I am now represented by @heathercashman.bsky.social at @stormliterary.bsky.social! It's a dream come true to connect with such an amazing champion for this story! 0245
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 11/09/2024I have concepts for a grant proposal. That’s enough, right? 131
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 05/09/2024What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Electrostatic discharge. (Only half a joke. We actually have to be really careful about it since it can fry sensitive electronics!) 1181
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 11/08/2024If anyone knows anyone who might have gone to this event, please please please urge them to get in touch with the Colorado DPHE as soon as possible, ideally yesterday. They need shots and they need them *now*. Signal-boosting out to extra networks. 🧪🌱🦑🐠 coloradosun.com/2024/08/09/c...coloradosun.comHealth officials sound alert after puppy at Colorado adoption event tests positive for rabiesColorado health officials are trying to find anyone who attended an adoption event where one of the puppies later tested positive for rabies. 3210511083
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 27/07/2024We recently launched a new games section in Scientific American with quizzes, puzzles & more. Here's this week's quiz, and I'll thread a link to all games and to a recent package we did all about fun & games. Happy summer! 🧪 (1/3) www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...scientificamerican.comScience Quiz: Friday, July 26, 2024Put your science knowledge to the test with this week’s news quiz. Play now. 25718
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 21/07/2024Hey healthy people, could you repost this to your audiences of currently healthy people, in case a few of them are slowly starting to realize they are no longer healthy people after their last COVID infection? Getting up to speed on a new chronic illness can be hard without some help. 9412380
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 23/06/2024Spocking Fives is my new emo art rock band name 010
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 13/06/2024Can confirm this is 100% PI life. A few months ago I spent 3 hours looking for a piece of foam I couldn’t find and ultimately had to cut a different piece of foam to approximate the missing piece of foam because reasons, and that was my day. And it took two people to do that. 000
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Dr. Craig DeForest ☀️ @craig.deforest.org · 10/06/2024Today the papers on CATEcor came out -- a wholly new coronagraph we designed last summer as part of the NSF/NASA sponsored CATE project. CATEcor is an "open science" instrument -- full plans are available online and linked from the paper. 🧪🔭 doi.org/10.1007/s112... 1132
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Dr. Craig DeForest ☀️ @craig.deforest.org · 10/06/2024Last October, several of us traveled to mountains in CO and NM to catch a glimpse of the Sun's corona using a novel instrument, CATEcor. The article is now out. We imaged the solar corona with a commercial telescope and under $100 of plastic, carbon fiber, and epoxy. 🧪🔭 doi.org/10.1007/s112...doi.orgObservations of the Polarized Solar Corona During the Annular Eclipse of 14 October 2023 - Solar PhysicsWe present results of a dual eclipse expedition to observe the solar corona from two sites during the annular solar eclipse of 14 October 2023 using a novel coronagraph designed to be accessible for a... 1197
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 10/06/2024The inverted information hierarchy is important! Scientists think a certain way because we've been trained to - the interested non-scientist absorbs information differently. 0577
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 21/05/2024Helpful instructions for confused pre-coffee moments 030
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 11/05/2024If you've spotted the Aurora tonight, report it to aurorasaurus.org! It's crowdsourcing aurora location and intensity data. This kind of citizen science is genuinely valuable!aurorasaurus.orgAurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground UpAurorasaurus is a citizen science site where you can report sightings of the aurora. The site contains forecasts of the Northern Lights, user-reported aurora sightings along with Tweets and photograph... 2309264
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 26/04/2024In a meeting today, I described something in units of “milli-keV” (milli-kilo-electron volts)… instead of just saying “eV”. Yikes. 010
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 26/04/2024Oh hi! I’m Amir; I study the Sun, specifically to learn how and why solar flares & eruptions happen, how they affect Earth & planets, how the Sun’s corona gets to be so hot & form a constant solar wind… and what we can learn about other stars from this. 🔭🧪⚛️media.tenor.comSunrise GIFALT: Sunrise GIF 0262
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 26/04/2024Still in awe at these new results ⬇️ of the corona in polarized visible light and new wavelengths of infrared from 50,000 feet! Already planning our next iteration in August 2026. Iceland here we come! 🧪⚛️🔭 #citsci 1134
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 23/04/2024This is what I was doing for 2 years for the eclipse: two missions, one by air and one by land. Both really intense and both successful! Come see our first images of the 2024 eclipse corona in polarized visible light and in multiple infrared wavelengths! 🔭🧪⚛️ #citsci www.swri.org/press-releas...swri.orgSwRI-led eclipse projects shed new light on solar coronaAirborne, ground-based observations provide unique data and engage the public 35815
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 23/03/2024Last October @dbseaton.bsky.social led me, @drzowie.bsky.social, & others on a phenomenal expedition to Loveland Pass to celebrate Colorado’s history in founding U.S. solar physics & to perform an ingenious experiment. WaPo’s Carolyn Johnson wrote a spectacular story! 🔭🧪⚛️ (Gift link) wapo.st/496GbgQwapo.stThe tricky quest to create an artificial solar eclipseFor scientists, a total eclipse is a brief quirk of orbital mechanics that offers a grand view of one of the most consequential parts of our star: the corona. 2123
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 27/03/2024In Houston today for a test flight of NASA’s WB-57F with the SAMI instrument — a multispectral camera suite measuring nine bands of visible and infrared light — that we’ll use to observe the total solar eclipse in just 12 days, on April 8! I can’t wait for this unique and exciting mission! 🧪🔭⚛️ 2449
Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 27/03/2024In Houston today for a test flight of NASA’s WB-57F with the SAMI instrument — a multispectral camera suite measuring nine bands of visible and infrared light — that we’ll use to observe the total solar eclipse in just 12 days, on April 8! I can’t wait for this unique and exciting mission! 🧪🔭⚛️ 2449