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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I just need to see comeuppance for people who do evil things at some point in my life, this whole thing of letting them do the most deranged shit with no consequences has been a disaster, I don't think it's good for anyone's soul to see monsters get away with it every day.

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The NITARP 2027 application is now available! NITARP gets teachers involved in real astronomical research. We partner small groups of educators with a mentor professional astronomer for an original research project. The program runs Jan-Jan. Applications due 15 Sep 2026. 🔭🧪🎢

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Separated at birth? 🔭🧪🎢😜 original (astronomy) image from apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26042...

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

ok so what is the deal with the bouncy building at #aas247? as someone who lives in an earthquake prone area, this is anxiety producing. good LORD it is a large-amplitude shake! it seems like we are too far from the light rail to be trains but what else could it be??? exhibit hall configuration??

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🔭🧪🎢 Hard to believe, but I’ve been doing research with teachers at IPAC for 20 years. All these fabulous people I’ve had the pleasure and privilege to know!! www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/20-year...

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20 years of high school teachers and students doing astronomy research at IPAC

The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) is celebrating 20 years of high school teachers and students doing astronomy research at IPAC.

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Nice summary of the mess at Chicago

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Unpopular opinion (maybe I am just grumpy?): your last slide, which you leave up during your questions, should NOT be a content-free "thanks!" but instead your conclusions slide. Leave that puppy up for slower consideration, don't wipe it from the screen for a one-word slide. 😠 🔭🧪

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

really interesting. this is the most interesting use of AL/LLMs in research that i've seen.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

As I wrote in @thehill.com, federal science funding isn’t just about labs, it’s about livelihoods. Cuts to NIH, NSF & NASA mean lost jobs today, stalled discovery tomorrow, and fewer opportunities for the next generation. When we invest in research, we are investing in workers and communities. ⬇️

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🔭🧪 SPHEREx data are at IRSA! irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/sph...

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IRSA - SPHEREx

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My #NITARP teachers are arriving soon! Can't wait!! ❤️ 🔭🎢

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

High school teachers! 🔭🧪🎢 Want to do real astronomy research with NASA astronomers? The application for NITARP for 2026 is now available! It's available at our website: nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu (thread with a bit more information follows)

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!

Three people in the vast open space of the desert southwest (Arches NP). All of us are wind blown and messy-haired but happy. 16 yo manchild, me, and husband

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is me, wearing my IRSA hat. There are ... a LOT of videos showing how to use our web-based services to get data. I have updated a bunch. There are a bunch still to go! Check out the updated videos in this thread to see all the latest features. More videos coming as I can get to them. 🔭🧪🎢

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

🔭🧪 This is wonderful. Bernie's got peanuts and a lunar scarf and a Lunar Trailblazer model! Go Lunar Trailblazer!!

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

whoops, forgot the 🔭🧪🎢 !

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Here's the annual NITARP press release! (We couldn't put this out last week because we had a skeleton crew as a result of the fires, but it's still a really big deal how many people we had there.) www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/high-sc...

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High school teachers and students continue doing real astronomy research

It’s time! At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 12 through January 16 in National Harbor, MD, 14 astronomy educators and 14 of their students from the...

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

🔭ZTF DATA RELEASE 23: Now available! ZTF is an optical time-domain survey covering the northern sky visible from Palomar. This adds 4 months of observations, up to 31 October 2024. 61.3e6 exposures, 178,000 co-added images, 937e9 sources, 4.97e9 light curves. irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/ztf...

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Ok. It’s the last full day. 24 hours from now, I should be taxiing to the runway. I can do this. Let’s gooooo. #aas245

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#nitarp folks being interviewed by their hometown morning tv show! #aas245

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Here we gooooooo.... Taught all day yesterday, booth-ing it today, plus meetings and talks... woo hoo! #aas245

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

We saw/heard the lightning & thunder!!

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our new episode of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers is up, in which Ben blows Jessie's mind: Jessie, face in hands: Oh my gosh. It's an ocean world because it has a MAGMA OCEAN? @benmontet.bsky.social: Exactly. It's the first ocean planet discovered! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSP0...

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Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 17 Ben Montet (part 1)

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🔭🧪 Things that make me happy: This is the first image from Mars, taken July 1965. Why does it look like this? Because computers were slow and it was going to be hours before the computer processed it enough to make an image. The scientists and engineers were impatient. 1/5

Shades of brown and red colored in on top of strips of paper on a bulletin board. It's a fairly large board, though you can't really tell that from the photo! The lower right is dark and the upper left is brighter.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

New in my shop! I am SO EXCITED AND PROUD about these. Gemstone necklaces that are a full, continuous spectrum, red to blue, interrupted by black beads for the strongest absorptions in the solar spectrum. I aim to maximize both beauty and geekery. www.etsy.com/listing/1829...

A tall black velvet necklace stand. On it, a 32-inch string of beads,a rainbow of color from red at the wearer's left shoulder, through orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet on the wearer's right. Interspersed with the colored beads are black disks at the positions of solar spectrum absorption features, such as the pair of disks within the orange beads symbolizing the sodium absorption.

The same necklace as in the previous photo, looped twice about the neck, so blue and red/orange are most featured. A tall black velvet necklace stand. On it, a 32-inch string of beads,a rainbow of color from red at the wearer's left shoulder, through orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet on the wearer's right. Interspersed with the colored beads are black disks at the positions of solar spectrum absorption features, such as the pair of disks within the orange beads symbolizing the sodium absorption.

A 32-inch string of beads,a rainbow of color from red through orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Red and violet are separated by a larger ball-shaped silver clasp with a stardust finish. Interspersed with the colored beads are black disks at the positions of solar spectrum absorption features, such as the pair of disks within the orange beads symbolizing the sodium absorption.

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I followed a bunch of science communicators yesterday and now several have followed me back, so I feel pressure to skeet something useful/interesting and I don't have anything so I'm reskeeting this from February. . . 🔭🧪🎢

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #698,144!

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

🔭🧪🎢🧑‍🔬 The deadline's soon! Educators: Do real research with NASA Astronomers! The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) invites US-based teachers to apply for its 1-year program. Travel costs included! Deadline: Sep 13, 2024 for the 2025 program year. nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu

Two women educators working intently on astronomy data on a laptop

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

🧪🔭 Come work with me at IRSA! It's a great place to work! :) phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...

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