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Laura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 07/03/2025

AAS Alarmed by Rumored Deep Cuts to NASA and National Science Foundation Recent reports have indicated that the White House may soon be proposing drastic cuts to future budgets for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD). aas.org/posts/news/2...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/02/2025

Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...

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US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World

US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : Today’s paper puts forth an alternative explanation for the cause of recently detected X-ray emission around galaxies! 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/02/12/x...

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Cosmic Rays vs. Thermal Emission: An X-ray Showdown

Today's paper puts forth an alternative explanation for the cause of recently detected X-ray emission around galaxies!

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

NASA senior review reports from 2022 (the PDFs linked on this page) have been scrubbed from NASA websites. I am grateful to archive.org who retains these and other important reports for our field. 🔭🧪⚛️ science.nasa.gov/astrophysics...

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2022 Senior Review of Operating Missions - NASA Science

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) periodically conducts independent, comparative reviews of its operating missions. NASA uses the findings from these

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The people who voted for Trump because they thought he’d pull the U.S. back from foreign entanglements and overseas adventurism are really among the prime suckers of our era.

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If they "are serious about slashing NSF, the result would be catastrophic, the same program manager warned. Cutting the $10 billion grantmaking agency in half would “gut the intellectual center of U.S. leadership in science and technology,” the official said. www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Reassuring scared colleagues that their third shift work over the years supporting their community is valuable and good and they should get to own that, and I hope they can again.

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 18/01/2025

"pip install sk8plotlib" if you want to give it a try! Note that rescaling the skateboard to the data in the plot isn't supported yet, & the skateboard always spawns at (0,0) still, so if you have large or small numbers (or a log plot) then it won't like it Instructions on GitHub:

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GitHub - emilyhunt/SK8plotlib: Turn any matplotlib line chart into a line skateboarding game.

Turn any matplotlib line chart into a line skateboarding game. - emilyhunt/SK8plotlib

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Still not allowed back to our house for another night, but grateful that so far it looks like we have a home to return to. My heart goes out to all my friends and colleagues who lost everything today. #LAFires

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Bill Keel @ngc3314.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Solstice imaging with Celestron Origin - these all came from 2 ~hour-long exposures. Stay up late this time of year, you can see into the Realm of the Nebulae (plus an occasional photobombing actual nebula). M108/M97/M96/M105 and friends.

Edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3556 AKA M108, showing bright star-forming knots and a winding lane of dust absorption.

Owl Nebula (M97), nearly round greenish-blue cloud with blue central star and two darker patches line an hourglass (the owl's eyes, I think).

Disturbed spiral galaxy NGC 3368 (M96), with complex dust tendrils, ringlike outer spiral arms, and edge-on red background galaxy behindone of those outer wrms.

Galaxy triple NGC 3379 (M105),lenticular galaxy NGC 3384, spiral galaxy NGC 3389 in Leo. NGC 3379 is a photometric standard galaxy and extraordinarily round from our point of view (despite Doppler observations showing that it has net rotation along our line of sight. Go figure).

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Recently talked to a student who admitted to using ChatGPT as a study device - by feeding it all of the class lecture slides and having it generate summaries. So now OpenAI has ownership of all the slides my co-instructor and I created from scratch…

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Andrey Kravtsov @grumpy1.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

The Prime galaxy: the points in the plot have coordinates x = p*cos(p) y = p*sin(p) where p are prime numbers.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

The Oort cloud is full of comets or as Jupiter calls them, snacks. 🔭

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John ZuHone @jzuhone.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Is there life after proposals?

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

And people* wonder why I search for new planets. Look at this. LOOK AT THIS. It’s Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. Isn’t that just about the most evocative surface you could imagine? WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE? NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill *my mother

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John ZuHone @jzuhone.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Look, John Wheeler was a brilliant physicist, but I just read the famous “it from bit” essay and it is quite the hot jumbled mess.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

How you know Elon announced a new feature on Twitter

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 19/09/2023

Well, this is neat! People are already using my step-by-step guide on processing JWST images and producing results after I published the article yesterday. And look, they are following the way I outlined to pay proper credits to the science team 🥹🥹 (still need to stress the usage of alt-text pls!)

Tweet showing two images of JWST objects processed by the user. The text reads: CosmicRami
Spent pretty much the whole afternoon playing with JWST images. Managed to import different colour channels, learnt tons! That article was great! Thanks! Cant believe this data is just there for anyone to do what they want!

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NGC1365 - Credit: JWST/NASA/ESA/STScI/Lee, Janice(JW2107) - Filters: NIRCAM/F335

M16 Pillars of creation - Credit: JWST/NASA/ESA/STScI/Pontoppidan, Klaus M(jw02739) - Filters: NIRCAM/F090w

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Astronomers running to arxiv to read up on dimethylsulfide.

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John ZuHone @jzuhone.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

XRISM is out to prove that nature does not in fact abhor a microcalorimeter.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

GREAT NEWS! From the latest JAXA briefing: Solar panels deployed, nominal voltage seen, sun acquired, initializing thrusters and reaction wheels. XRISM LAUNCH SUCCESS!!! Congratulations JAXA

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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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Sophia Gad-Nasr @astropartigirl.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Today, we have new views of the Whirlpool Galaxy from the JWST! I laid the images taken by each instrument side by side, plus the composite, and the Hubble version. You can really see how the mid IR (MIRI) brings a whole new light to galaxies! Which version is your favorite?

Whirlpool Galaxy taken in (top to bottom): JWST MIRI, JWST NIRCam, MIRI + NIRCam, and Hubble's version

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John ZuHone @jzuhone.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

I am sorry if this offends anyone, but it is a fact beyond dispute that the Germans make the best beers in the world.

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John ZuHone @jzuhone.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Very excited for JAXA to allow us X-ray astronomers to finally jump into the world of high spectral resolution imaging with XRISM!

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