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astronomie.nl @astronomienl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Video over het filterwiel-mechanisme dat gereed is voor transport (en inmiddels geïntegreerd is bij MPE in Duitsland). Taart voor het team bij de NOVA Optische/IR-groep in Dwingeloo dat de afgelopen 18 jaar hieraan heeft gewerkt. youtube.com/shorts/c6etr...

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18 jaar ontwikkeling, en nu is het zover!

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Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Skills I used to have when living in Groningen...

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ESO @eso.org · 20/08/2026

This weather also affected our La Silla observing site, leading to the temporary suspension of scientific operations. As weather conditions are now finally improving, operations are slowly returning to normal at all sites.

Night-time panoramic view of ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal, with its four Unit Telescopes surrounded by snow beneath a star-filled sky. The Milky Way stretches across the horizon behind the telescopes.

Snow-covered view of the Cerro Murphy Observatory, with several telescope domes lining the mountaintop beneath a bright blue sky and low clouds.

Wide view of a vast snow-covered landscape in Chile’s Atacama Desert, with rolling hills and distant mountains stretching beneath a clear blue sky.

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ESO @eso.org · 20/08/2026

Over the past days, unusually severe weather has affected northern Chile, where our observatories are located. This brought snow to Paranal and to the ELT construction site. It left stunning images, while causing severe flooding and damage to several cities within the Antofagasta Region. 🔭 1/2

Snow-covered view of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope construction site at Cerro Armazones. The telescope dome and cranes rising through low clouds as the Sun shines brightly near the horizon.

Aerial view of a vast snow-covered mountainous landscape in Chile’s Atacama Desert, with ESO facilities and access roads visible in the foreground beneath a clear blue sky.

Wide view of ESO’s Paranal Observatory after snowfall, with the Very Large Telescope’s four Unit Telescopes visible atop the snow-covered Cerro Paranal under a blue-grey sky.

Snow-covered landscape at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, with the Residencia building stretching along the right and the Very Large Telescope’s Unit Telescopes visible atop Cerro Paranal in the distance under a clear blue sky.

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Frau Monk 🌻 @fraumonk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Passend zur Dürre ein paar treffende Torten der hoch geschätzten @katjaberlin.bsky.social Wenn ihr die Chance habt, sie noch auf ihrer Tour zu sehen, geht hin!

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@tcsmtutu.bsky.social and @utu.fi communications wrote a nice article about my recent research visit to @eso.org Chile: www.utu.fi/en/news/news... Thanks to the ESO Chile visitor programme and the FINCA mobility programme for making it possible!

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Visiting the largest telescope in the world – Dr Johanna Hartke’s research visit to Chile

Collegium Researcher and Junior Group Leader Johanna Hartke recently visited Santiago de Chile and Paranal Observatory for a research collaboration.

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Matthias Steinmetz @galacticrave.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A rare shot onto the Extremely Large Telescope form a construction platform some 55m high (went where few man/woman have gone before)

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Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So in 2026, during a global climate crisis and fuel shortages, Finnair decides to reinstate flights between Turku and Helsinki, about 170 km apart. According to the city of Turku, it's a strong sign of Turku's attractiveness. Make it make sense 🤦‍♀️

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Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

When you have spent enough time looking at Hydra to realise that North is not up 🙃 🔭

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Sebastian Wilken @sebwilken.net · 19/05/2026

Hurra, #Turku bekommt eine Straßenbahn 🥳 Ein kurzer Recap, was gestern Abend im Stadtrat passiert ist, und wie es nun weitergeht: postausfinnland.de/turku-tram-b...

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Historischer Beschluss: Turku bekommt eine Straßenbahn

Nach fünf Stunden Marathon-Sitzung gab der Stadtrat grünes Licht. Ab 2033 soll die Tram durch Turku rollen.

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ESO @eso.org · 27/04/2026

Chasing sunsets! Over 70% complete, our ELT is glowing in the sunset light of the Chilean Atacama Desert, surrounded by massive cranes hard at work to get this telescope up and running. 1/2 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

An aerial image showing, at its centre, a large metallic dome illuminated by the sunset, on top of a mountain that takes up the entire bottom half of the frame. On the background there's a desert mostly obscured with shadows.

An aerial image showing a huge dome from above, partially split into two halves. Along the edges of each half there’s a complex network of metallic beams and catwalks. The opening reveals part of the metallic frame of a huge telescope inside the dome.

Top-down view of a telescope structure under construction, showing a large circular metal framework with radial support beams and a central tower, surrounded by parts of the observatory building.

Aerial view of a telescope dome surrounded by cranes and construction equipment, in a desert landscape.

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Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Great news from my former home! I wish something like this could be considered in city centres in Finland, too. But car-centric Turku could never...

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Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Wild ride trying out different AI-based literature research tools endorsed by our university library. So glad the astro community has been blessed with the ADS for decades and hoping that it'll remain free from hallucinating AI-bots for the foreseeable future. 🔭

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

„[KI] ist nur dann allgegenwärtig, wenn wir das zulassen“ — this!! Viele Diskussionen gehen von der Prämisse aus, dass wir der Entwicklung ohnmächtig ausgeliefert sind & jetzt alle KI nutzen müssen. Das ist 1 Bankrotterklärung an die Selbstwirksamkeit der Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft. We can do better!

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ESO @eso.org · 11/02/2026

1/ Happy International Day of #WomenAndGirlsInScience! To mark the occasion, women from across the @eiroforum.org organisations, including ESO, shared one piece of advice that helped them in their professional journeys 👇 Discover more: www.eiroforum.org/news/eirofor...

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Ich kann diese Postings von wegen „spätestens wenn Männer Töchter haben“ oder „ihrer Frau zuliebe“ zum Thema (sexualisierte) Gewalt gegen Frauen & Mädchen echt nicht mehr lesen. Basic Menschenrechte sollten unabhängig vom individuellen Familien- & Beziehungsstatus gelten & durchgesetzt werden.

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ESO @eso.org · 02/02/2026

AES Andes announced that it will step back from the project INNA, planned near our Paranal Observatory. We welcome this and expect the project to be withdrawn from Chile's Environmental Assessment Service soon, which would formally confirm the cancelation: www.eso.org/public/news/eso2602 🔭 🧪

The Milky Way stretches across the night sky above a dark mountain ridge. An astronomical observatory is silhouetted on the summit.

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Sebastian Wilken @sebwilken.net · 30/01/2026

So viel Sonne 😌 #Turku #Finnland

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Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Me this week with new data 🤩

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ESO @eso.org · 27/01/2026

Dive into this ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor Galaxy! Based on observations made with our VLT, it was created by stitching together over 100 exposures, covering an area about 65 000 light-years wide. Read more: www.eso.org/public/images/eso2510b 🔭 #flashback 📷 ESO/E. Congiu et al.

An image of a spiral galaxy, showing only the light from specific gasses within, looking like much of the galaxy has been replaced with empty space and only an outline remains. This outline is composed of specks of different coloured light, with a cone of white-ish light at the centre. Nearby the dots are a warm orange, replaced with pink light as you get to the edges of the grand spiral.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

A recent cartoon for @theguardian.com

title: The Writer in January

Panel 1.
“A short stroll...” says the writer aleaving the house. The sun has begun to peek over the horizon.

Panel 2.
“Then back to my desk for a good day's writing in the winter sun.” The sun has risen a little higher.

Panel 3.
“Surely it's not going down yet?” The sun is indeed on its way down.

Panel 4.
“Perhaps I'll catch the last rays.” Says the writer breaking into a sprint.

Panel 5.
The writer is back at home sitting at a desk saying “Damn!”. The sun is gone. The sky is gloomy.

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 22/01/2026

Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org

Median time under review (time intervened from submission to acceptance) of articles indexed in PubMed with a female first author (n = 2,562,262), a male first author (n = 3,405,821), a female corresponding author (n = 975,010), a male corresponding author (n = 1,946,469), a female first author and a female corresponding author (n = 757,878), a male first author and a male corresponding author (n = 1,357,835), all-female authors (n = 650,280), and all-male authors (n = 2,146,799)

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Guidance, Skills & Opportunities for Researchers @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

📣 Apply now for the GSO Leadership Academy 10 and secure one of 25 fully funded fellowships. 📅 Application Deadline: March 1, 2026 (CET) 🔗 More Information: gsonet.org/foerderprogr...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Speaking as a scientist who studies the cosmos but who’s never been that interested in doing it with telescopes, it’s both humbling and awe-inspiring to get out and truly see the full night sky with your own two eyes in an area without light pollution. We’re losing something that’s invaluable.

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Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch · 17/12/2025

The application for the ESO Summer Research Programme 2026 has just opened! It‘s a six week programme in Garching close to Munich where pre-Ph.D students can work on a hands-on project. Working at @eso.org is a fabulous experience, so please help me spread the word ✨ 🔗 eso.org/sci/meetings...

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ESO - SummerResearch2026

ESO is the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. It operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.

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Turun yliopisto - University of Turku @utu.fi · 17/12/2025

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) new instrument in Chile can quickly detect fleeting cosmic events. The SOXS spectrograph opens exciting new opportunities for Finnish astronomy. www.utu.fi/en/news/news...

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New SOXS instrument ready to observe fleeting cosmic events

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) new instrument in Chile can quickly detect fleeting cosmic events. The SOXS spectrograph opens exciting new opportunities for Finnish astronomy.

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Liste von Dingen, die ich an der Wissenschaft nicht vermissen werde (wird fortlaufend ergänzt). #IchBinHanna 1. Nie Feierabend haben.

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Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I have recently been invited to write a mini review on planetary nebulae as tracers of accreted stellar populations, which has now been published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 🔭👩‍🔬

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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.eurosky.social · 20/10/2025

Vielleicht haben „die Töchter“ auch keinen Bock mehr darauf, dass ihre Rechte und ihre Sicherheit für Friedrich Merz immer genau dann von Bedeutung sind, wenn er sie nutzen kann, um seine vollkommen rückwärtsgewandte Politik zu rechtfertigen?

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

I'm offering a funded PhD position on nighttime lights #RemoteSensing in the Institute of #Geography at the @ruhr-uni-bochum.de jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/… I'd love for the ad to be seen by as many potential candidates as possible, so […]

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Matthias Steinmetz @galacticrave.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Sunset: Paranal eclipsing Armazones with the ELT #astrophotography

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15/10/2025

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

„Dauerstellen sind notwendig, aber nicht hinreichend für echte Gleichstellung“, so @mariehuber.bsky.social in dieser eindrücklichen Replik auf uns, die reich an Bsp. ist, was bzgl. Gleichstellung in der Wissenschaft nach wie vor schiefläuft — & Vorschläge macht, wie es besser geht. 🙏 #IchBinHanna

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Alleinerziehend in der Wissenschaft: Was Dauerstellen nicht lösen

Ein Kommentar, angeregt von "Ziel erkannt, Ziel verfehlt?" von Amrei Bahr und Kristin Eichhorn

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Soziopolis @soziopolis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Aus gegebenem Anlass: Unser neues Dossier thematisiert Geschlechterungleichheiten im Wissenschaftssystem – von den historischen Wurzeln der Differenzkategorien über die politische Semantik der Exzellenz bis hin zu alltäglichen Mechanismen. www.soziopolis.de/dossier/wiss...

Zu sehen ist das Titelbild des Dossiers mit der Überschrift "Wissenschaftlerinnen. Zur Situation von Frauen in Academia". Abgebildet ist eine weibliche Person am Schreibtisch, vor ihr ein Laptop, diverse wissenschaftliche Bücher, über die die Person gebeugt auf dem Tisch liegt, die Hand noch an der Kaffeetasse, scheinbar sehr erschöpft. Um sie herum liegen zahlreiche Utensilien auf dem Tisch verteilt: Kinderbücher und Spielbausteine, eine volle Einkaufstasche mit Lebensmitteln, Produkte zur Pflege von Angehörigen usw. Im Hintergrund steht ein volles Bücherregal mit wissenschaftlicher Literatur.

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Eva Puschautz @eve9445.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Ein Beitrag von @drkeichhorn.bsky.social und @amreibahr.bsky.social zu Frauen i.d. Wissenschaft, aus dem ich alles zitieren könnte, weil es so treffend ist. Bitte den ganzen Artikel lesen! - und ja zum Fazit: Die beste Frauenförderung sind faire Arbeitsbedingungen www.soziopolis.de/ziel-erkannt...

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Ziel erkannt, Ziel verfehlt?

Warum wir allen Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen zur Förderung von Frauen in der Wissenschaft zum Trotz auf der Stelle treten

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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Got distracted while getting ready for work. The combination of a fox and autumn colours in our garden was irresistible. Started with my phone but then had to grab my proper camera. #autumn

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Christina Clemm @clemm.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Ich bin ja gegen Sprachverbote und für geschlechtergerechte Sprache und gesundes Essen.

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Marcel S. Pawlowski @8minutesold.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for winning the Nobel Price in Physics … for Johns. By my count from last year, this should now make it 12 men named John who were awarded the Nobel, versus a total of five women (of any name). 🧪

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Cite. Women. Looking at yet another case where there are 7 papers that should be cited, 6 led by men. Only one not listed is the one led by a female ECR (even though it is more up to date than one of the male-led papers).

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Can you believe that ultra diffuse galaxies have been some for 10 years? Neither can I, they're actually typically billions of years old after year. But we are having a conference anyway #10yearsUDGs

A view of the sunrise over the mountains. In the foreground you can see a river surrounded by hedges and trees

Jonah Gannon showing us pictures of himself from 10 years ago! Back then he designed funny t-shirts for the maths society, including triganom nom nometry

A histogram of papers and citations to udg papers in the last 10 years. Hundreds of papers and 18000 citations

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Thomas Heine @thomasheine.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Please retweet! We are looking for highly committed scientists with an individual scientific research career plan. You will work in an excellent consortium and have top research conditions. Work share is 80-20, that is you have one day per week to work on your own ideas.

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