Reposted by Lisa WillSarah E Moran @offallingstars.bsky.social · 29mStill server issues. Now Laura Watkins (head of science policy at STScI) is saying new deadline tomorrow, Oct. 1st at 5pm EDT for all proposers. 0910
Reposted by Lisa WillAAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 29/09/2026European Space Agency: Successful Earth Flyby Improves Juice’s Course to Jupiter www.esa.int/Science_Expl...esa.intSuccessful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to JupiterThe European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter usi... 043
Reposted by Lisa WillStuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You might want to sit down for these... 5,014 days after it landed, the Curiosity rover sent back these absolutely stunning images of Mars. The rover's incredible team deserves some credit from NASA's bosses for their achievement. Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/Additional processing S Atkinson 512031
Reposted by Lisa WillCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 19/09/2026Did you see this really neat image from my thread yesterday? It was taken by AS Fruchter at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and is an H-alpha image (hydrogen gas emitting as the 21cm photon). Here is an updated, annotated version from me. We don't see the pulsar here, only the WD. 36517
Reposted by Lisa WillSpace Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 18/09/2026Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location at the edge of our Milky Way. It contains two massive molecular clouds from which clusters of stars are actively forming, as captured in this #NASAWebb image: bit.ly/4fRIdZ4 06118
Reposted by Lisa WillAAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 16/09/2026NASA: Newfound "Baby" Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World science.nasa.gov/universe/new...science.nasa.govNewfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World - NASA ScienceAstronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using data from NASA-funded archives. Called Elias 2-24 0105
Reposted by Lisa WillRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026From NASA The Moon’s got a big new crater! 🕳️ Spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the McGetchin crater formed when a rock as big as a six-story building crashed into the Moon. It’s 141 feet deep and wider than the length of two football fields. 🪨💥🌕 go.nasa.gov/3TzHqUf 2204
Reposted by Lisa WillKevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New postcard from Curiosity using Navcams taken on Sols 5000 & 5003 science.nasa.gov/photojournal...science.nasa.govCuriosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA ScienceWhile parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times 313743
Reposted by Lisa WillPhysgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"...NSF was the largest federal funder of the physical sciences in higher education for all but one fiscal year since 2003." This is a huge blow to university-based physics & astronomy research. 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢physicstoday.aip.orgThe shrinking NSF support for the physical sciencesThe agency has awarded fewer grants in the physical sciences this year than most years in its history. 05127
Reposted by Lisa WillSpace Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc 8327107
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just to update this. The kidnapped driver was indeed a student. A member of our Haitian population, which ICE is targeting in its most recent terrorist activities. 100
Reposted by Lisa WillRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Nice photo but pretty easy to scroll past until you realize it was taken on Mars. 2350121
Reposted by Lisa WillRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One of the many things about Pluto that is more interesting to me than whether it's called a planet or not. 1284
Reposted by Lisa WillDr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Let's try this again, since I forgot I don't actually give my name on this account and not everyone knows me by my acafanmom username: I'm Lori (Hitchcock) Morimoto, I do media fan studies and dabble in Japanese popular culture. If you use any of my academic work on your syllabi, can you ping me? 03522
Reposted by Lisa WillLandru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity 2026-09-10 Sol 5010: Mast Camera #Mastcam mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger 1186
Reposted by Lisa WillESO @eso.org · 09/09/2026The heart of the scorpion 🦂 Join the trip to the iconic red supergiant star Antares, shining with a strong red tint at the centre of the constellation of Scorpius. Yet observations revealed something unexpected in its atmosphere. Discover more: www.eso.org/public/news/eso1726 🔭 2328
Reposted by Lisa WillBenjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's been really exciting to work with @jayke.io, @gradientrider.bsky.social and the rest of this amazing team using JWST's AMI mode to find a fifth candidate planet in the classic HR 8799 system! 14710
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Celebrating #StarTrek60 by watching my favorite episode. Yes, "Subspace Rhapsody," my beloved, I need you after this exhausting day. (When it becomes obvious the episode is a love song to Uhura, I always sob.) #StarTrek 050
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Unmarked ICE vehicles stopped a car at my college, San Diego City College. Passenger (a student) fled to the safety of our buildings. The driver (possibly a student?) was kidnapped by ICE. Here is a statement from our chancellor. youtube.com/shorts/L1JSm... #AbolishICEyoutube.com090826 Chancellor ICE Response CITY VerticalYouTube video by San Diego Community College District 231
Reposted by Lisa WillSpace Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/09/2026To shed light on an early stage of planet building in our solar system, Hubble and #NASAWebb examined Trans-Neptunian Objects—mysterious, frozen planetary building blocks that never formed into planets. This is the deepest such survey to date: news.stsci.edu/4zX3fgY 🔭 05412
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I want almost everything in this collaboration. OMG. 030
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Gmail. Google drive. All of these things are down for me right now and have been for hours. Google searches moving slow, too. Seeing some other sporadic reports of this. (Yes, I plan on finding other options, but in some cases, I don't have the ability to do so.) Anyone else having problems? 331
Reposted by Lisa Willjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world. 16858921180
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I live about one mile from the beach in San Diego. The ocean temps have been about 6-7F higher than average. It is 87F and stifling. 😡 140
Reposted by Lisa WillKevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 5004 drive this week. The drive target was that little gray/blue rock in the center. flic.kr/p/2szd9j2 15010
Reposted by Lisa WillStuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Perseverance rover team are paying a lot of attention to this rock.Just look at the stunning detail visible in this close-up image, taken just a few hours ago on Mars... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson 3296
Reposted by Lisa WillRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Semi-random, unpublished shot of an unnamed fresh crater on the far side of the Moon, courtesy of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Zoom in scroll around to find the car-sized boulders. 2479
Reposted by Lisa WillSarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Nice Dragonfly update including the recently approved name of the dune field where we will land We’re going to Ahmakiq undae. go.nasa.gov/4zTQdAAgo.nasa.govNASA’s Dragonfly Gets Wired Up While Titan Landing Area Is Named - NASA SciencePeeking into the clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, it might be one of the first things you notice about 314135
Reposted by Lisa WillSpace Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 02/09/2026Meet Saturn’s decagon, seen in recent images from Hubble. The new 10-sided atmospheric wave at the planet’s southern pole resembles the famous hexagon at the Saturn’s northern pole, but is also distinct: news.stsci.edu/4g9Gm1U 318053
Reposted by Lisa WillSonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591apol-recruit.ucsd.eduAssistant Professor of Developmental BiologyUniversity of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now! 3150129
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026And to think I was about to start using Apple Maps because I don't want to use Google Maps anymore. Glad I have a paper atlas in my car still. Seriously. 130
Reposted by Lisa WillDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 01/09/2026New way to form the Moon just dropped, featuring new modelling by yours truly: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...swri.orgSwRI-led modeling identifies new scenarios for Moon formation | Southwest Research InstituteGeologically realistic modeling changes how a giant collision forms the Earth-Moon system 88726
Reposted by Lisa WillMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Have physicists finally directly detected dark matter?!? The best bet is “no”, but it’s an intriguing signal that will rightly trigger a lot of follow-up scrutiny and analysis in multiple experiments. 95911
Reposted by Lisa WillKevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Large dust devil near the Mars Perseverance Rover on Sol 1966 (yestersol). NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill 216735
Reposted by Lisa WillDr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Nancy Grace Roman was paid 60% of her male colleague's wages. 'the Nobel prize-winning physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ... told her: “We don’t discriminate against women. We can just get them for less.”' #WomenInSTEM 🧪 🔭theconversation.comNasa’s new telescope is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman – but who was she?The US astronomer battled discrimination in a male dominated field. 9613280
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Looking forward to the science the Nancy Grace Roman telescope will do! 🔭 science.nasa.gov/mission/roma...science.nasa.govNancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - NASA ScienceThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics. 010
Reposted by Lisa WillDane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 29/08/2026DO NOT APPLY TO OR ATTEND THIS SHOW. I don't care if it's in your backyard. You can bet that every convention runner is watching this and the bad ones are salivating at this idea of $150 application fees, plus jacked up booth rates. If it works for this show, they WILL try it at theirs. 7802678
Reposted by Lisa WillThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/08/2026New footage exclusively obtained by The New York Times showed the aftermath of the moment a giant glacier broke away from the top of a ridge in the Himalayas, setting off a torrent of mud, snow, floodwaters and debris to the valley communities below. nyti.ms/4x0ckTw 20528248
Reposted by Lisa WillGreg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hey, here's Amelia. 2362
Reposted by Lisa WillFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 26/08/2026On July 8th, we published a piece on AI in Heated Rivalry fic fandom. On July 30th, the New York Times ran a piece on the same subject. We weren't surprised—because we knew a Times reporter had read our coverage. A tale of two fandom articles, part of a longstanding dynamic in the media industry:fansplaining.comLessons From a Heated Media RivalryHow we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account. 5504173
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Can see a thin silver crescent through the clouds. 🔭 030
Reposted by Lisa WillRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 22974328
Reposted by Lisa WillESO @eso.org · 24/08/2026A bubbling Betelgeuse ⭐️ 🫧 This ALMA image is one of the most detailed views yet of the surface of the iconic star Betelgeuse. The surface is uneven & lumpy, with peaks and troughs originating from giant bubbles of hot gas rising from deep within the star to its surface. 🔭 🧪 1/2 318855
Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The fall semester starts Monday. Am I ready? No. Did I spend the afternoon with @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social at a screening of the THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 25th anniversary release? Yes. Do I have my priorities straight? Absofuckinglutely. That movie is glorious on a large screen and good sound. 050
Reposted by Lisa WillGreg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Just saw The Fast and the Furious 25th anniversary re-release in a big room on a big screen with good sound. Damn, I love that movie: 1143
Reposted by Lisa WillESO @eso.org · 19/08/2026One for the record books 🏅 ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy. Named S301, it orbits Sagittarius A* — the supermassive #BlackHole at the centre of the #MilkyWay — reaching speeds of 25 000 kilometres per second. 🔭 🧪 1/3 311946
Reposted by Lisa WillPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Well, shit. Sounds like Swift only has a few more months before it re-enters and is destroyed. 912826
Reposted by Lisa WillGreg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Parents, do your teens know what it means to zone out? 311
Reposted by Lisa WillPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/08/2026THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU SLAM A ROCKET INTO THE MOON New images just dropped from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the crater formed by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage when it hit the Moon on 5 August 2026. The new crater is 18 m across and 3 m deep. 1620162