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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Just reviewed the demands letter the government sent to Harvard. Strong McCarthy vibes with this administration. Here are just a few of the most insane. Full letter here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Very sad to hear of the passing of my former colleague astrophysicist Bob Kurucz from CfA. Bob's expertise in stellar atmospheres was legendary. His countless hours of discussion on spectra with me during SSP coffee was effectively a free graduate level class taught by the grandmaster himself.

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Igor Levit @igorpianist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

29. Januar 2025 Der Tag beginnt im Bundestag damit, dass man der Shoah gedenkt und er endet damit, dass Nazis jubeln.

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Joanna Drążkowska @astrojoanna.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

This may be the most important paper in the planet formation field in recent years - showing how to go from dust to a chain of massive planets 🟤🪐🔵🔵 If you are at #Exoplanets5 you can talk to the first author, Tommy Lau 😉 arxiv.org/abs/2406.12340 With @birnstiel.bsky.social @stammler.bsky.social

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Sequential giant planet formation initiated by disc substructure

Planet formation models are necessary to understand the origins of diverse planetary systems. Circumstellar disc substructures have been proposed as preferred locations of planet formation but a...

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Til Birnstiel @birnstiel.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

🥳Congratulations to Dr. @astrothomas.bsky.social for defending his excellent thesis with distinction! 👏Next up: @flatironinstitute.org Fellowship! They grow up so fast! 😅

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Til Birnstiel @birnstiel.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

🚨⚠️ Job alert ⚠️🚨 Postdoc & PhD positions in computational astrophysics / planet formation in Munich. Details here: jobregister.aas.org/ad/c541e053

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Postdoc positions in planet formation at LMU Munich (up to 5 years) | AAS Job Register

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Sebastian Stammler @stammler.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Yo, Bayern, was geht? www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/e...

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Igor Levit @igorpianist.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

“Nie wieder” ist jetzt.

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Til Birnstiel @birnstiel.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Today we were in Garching for the „Maus“ open House day with the kids. Good timing! Congratulations to Ferenc Krausz!

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Steve Desch @deschscoveries.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Since so many have asked, here’s my hot take on the spherules Loeb found and the manuscript he’s loudly rushed to the world. These are pretty typical cosmic spherules. Had he done the *obvious*--a control sample 100 km away from the meteor--he’d have found the same thing. 1/20

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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Thanks to Dan Clery for this Science article on Avi's latest. www.science.org/content/arti... Lots of interesting details here! A few stand out to me. 1) The paper has been submitted for publication in the peer reviewed journal Ocean Science. That's good for the scientific process.

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