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Mariana Jaber (she/her) @marianajbr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This brings me so much joy: I'm so excited I can't believe it. Which I guess shows what a strange personal bond one can form with an author and their work.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

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The Open Journal of Astrophysics @ojastro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If anyone thinks it matters, as of last year (2025), the Open Journal of Astrophysics is a Q1 Journal. It is the only Diamond Open Access Journal with that status in Astronomy and Astrophysics. www.scimagojr.com/journalrank....

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Journal Rankings on Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Open Journal of Astrophysics is a Q1 Journal If the only reason you were not submitting papers to OJAp was that it wasn't a Q1 journal then you can start submitting them now!

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The Open Journal of Astrophysics is a Q1 Journal

If the only reason you were not submitting papers to OJAp was that it wasn't a Q1 journal then you can start submitting them now!

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Equinox – John Coltrane Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great John Coltrane, who was born on 23rd September 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina.

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Equinox – John Coltrane

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great John Coltrane, who was born on 23rd September 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina.

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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com · 22/09/2026

The wee ones have lost their spots!

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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a rock or something @rockorsmth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is adorable; highly recommend if your day could use a little cheer.

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Matthieu Schaller @mschaller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Th #COSMO26 conference has started. Big debate on-going in this session about the nature of dark matter, aka. Dutch salty liquorice (zout drop)

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Matthias Steinmetz @galacticrave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

and finally a HDR composite bit.ly/4wyBeu3 🔭#Astrophotography🔭

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 07/08/2026

One of the best things I've read in a while on exactly why academia is broken, summarised into just one word: empathy.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Say nice things to each other. And mean them. Don't ask questions to impress the audience. Ask them out of curiosity. A conference should not only be a stage for displaying status. It should also be a place where people feel seen. Stop making everything a performance.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

NOIRLab image of the week Distorted Sunset over Rubin Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/H. Stockebrand noirlab.edu/public/image... 🧪🔭

$A flattened Sun hovers beside NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory as the observing team prepares for another night of scanning the sky. To the left of Rubin are the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope (AuxTel) (left) and the Rubin Seeing Monitor (right), both of which help measure the atmosphere above the site. The flattening of the Sun is a mirage caused by atmospheric refraction, in which denser, colder air layers near the Earth’s surface bend sunlight more strongly than in the upper air layers, vertically compressing the Sun’s disk. The brilliant orange color of the sky is the result of a process called Rayleigh scattering. Because sunlight must travel through a thicker slice of the Earth’s atmosphere at sunset, blue and violet light with shorter wavelengths is scattered away, allowing only the longer-wavelength orange and red light to reach our eyes. Once the Sun sets and the sky darkens, Rubin Observatory begins another night of observations for the decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The distortion of light by the atmosphere continues into the night, but astronomers and engineers have devised solutions! For Rubin, the AuxTel measures atmospheric transmission, which is how much light passes directly through Earth’s atmosphere in a given area, while the Rubin Seeing Monitor measures atmospheric turbulence. Astronomers combine these measurements with other data in the monitoring system of the observatory to ultimately improve the precision of Rubin’s final images. Rubin is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE/SC). Rubin Observatory is a joint program of NSF NOIRLab and DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, who cooperatively operate Rubin. Hernán Stockebrand, the photographer, is a DevOps Engineer with Rubin Observatory and a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador. Credit text: NOIRLab$

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 04/08/2026

Zoom into the COSMOS field with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🔭🧪 Scientists have studied this field for decades using observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum. Rubin adds a wide-angle view while returning again & again to track changes over time. ➡️ skyviewer.app

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Well, like it or not, this is Lughnasadh - the first day of Autumn!

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 10/07/2026

A pair of Gatos Andinos, which are extremely rare Andean mountain cats, were recently spotted down the ridge from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory near the 4-m SOAR Telescope. 🔭🧪 Because they live in such remote mountain terrain, seeing them up close is a rare treat 🐱 📷: SOAR Day Crew

A small spotted wildcat blending into rocky terrain and dry shrubs.

A small wildcat with a spotted coat peers over rocks toward the left among dry shrubs.

A spotted wildcat leaps over rocky terrain with sparse vegetation.

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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics @perimeterinstitute.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Perimeter Institute is hiring! Manager, Prospect Research and Pipeline: perimeterinstitute.ca/jobs/manager... Major Gifts Officer: perimeterinstitute.ca/jobs/major-g... Coordinator, Advancement: perimeterinstitute.ca/jobs/coordin... View all current opportunities: perimeterinstitute.ca/careers

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born #OTD in 1868. She established the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, an essential tool for understanding the scale of our Universe. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭 Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

A black and white photograph of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She is wearing a white blouse with a large lace collar that covers her shoulders, upper chest, and neck. Her hair is pulled up and she is looking directly at the camera. She has dark eyes in tis photo, strong eyebrows, and a long, thin nose.

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Roberto Castillo @robertocastillo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“Un LLM es una máquina de escribir para cuando escribir te importa una mierda”

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 11/06/2026

🕳️⭐ Webb has found the strongest evidence yet for ‘black hole stars’! Webb's observations suggest that a little red dot called GLIMPSE-17775 is in fact a supermassive black hole enveloped in a dense cocoon of partially ionised gas. 🔭 🧪 ☀️ 1/2

$A field of galaxies against the black background of space. In the centre is a bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of the Abell S1063 galaxy cluster. Around the core are short, curved red lines, which are distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with Webb’s signature eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Toward the very bottom, slightly off center toward the right, is a small red dot that is highlighted by an orange square outline. A larger orange square in the top right corner shows the object in more detail. The object, labeled “GLIMPSE-17775” looks like a fuzzy red dot with a yellow core. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, V. Kokorev (University of Texas at Austin), A. Pagan (STScI)$

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 10/06/2026

Congratulations to the laureates of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics! 🔴 Vasily Belokurov, University of Cambridge, UK 🔴 Amina Helmi, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 🔴 Rodrigo Ibata, University of Strasbourg, France kavli-prize.vercel.app/prizes/astro... 🔭 🧪 1/2

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2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Overview over the 2026 Kavli Prize in astrophysics

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Nicolas Martin @nfmartin1980.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Very happy that my dear collaborator and friend Rodrigo Ibata was awarded one of the 2026 Kavli prizes @kavliprize.bsky.social today for helping show that our galaxy, the Milky Way, formed hierarchically, absorbing smaller galaxies! 🥳

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Laurel @editoriallaurel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

La historia detrás de los sorrentinos, la pasta rellena argentina que Virginia Higa convirtió en novela de éxito: elpais.com/gastronomia/... En Chile por Laurel: www.laurel.cl/libros/los-s...

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Los sorrentinos

A veces la historia de una familia es la historia de su lenguaje privado; de cómo –mientras se suceden las generaciones, las bellezas y las desgracias– ciertos modos de comunicarse persisten y se here...

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Nature @nature.com · 02/06/2026

A US federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration, preventing it from handing off a piece of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). See how we covered the battle over NCAR as it kicked off in court last month. go.nature.com/4u3jvIV

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World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court

Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The Milky Way looks like a rave.

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Mariana Jaber (she/her) @marianajbr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Day 41 at the new institute, still dealing with bureaucratic nonsense.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

🔊Calling #York: Carlos Frenk and I will be discussing "Space: the Final Frontier" at the York Festival of Ideas. Do come along and say hello - tickets are free! 🔭 📅 Thurs 4 June 2026, 10.30-12.45 Free🎟️: yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda...

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Space: The final frontier

With Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans and cosmologist Carlos Frenk, our panel asks where our knowledge, gleaned from our own small blue planet, fits in the vastness of an ever-expanding...

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 29/04/2026

🔭 Career Webinar: Astronomers in Aerospace 📅 Thursday, 30 April: 7:00 pm ET This free webinar hosted by AAS Committee on Employment will highlight career opportunities in aerospace and the defense industry as alternatives to pursing academic paths after a bachelor's degree. aas.org/posts/news/2...

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Career Webinar 30 April: Astronomers in Aerospace

This free webinar hosted by the AAS Committee on Employment will highlight career opportunities in aerospace and the defense industry as alternatives to pursing academic paths after a bachelor's degre...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species

The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 12/03/2026

Mapping the Milky Way is like mapping a forest from inside it 🌌 From our spot ~27,000 light-years from the center, the big picture is hard to see. NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory will detect and measure ~17B stars, creating a Milky Way map ~100× larger than we've had before. 🔭🧪

Rubin Observatory's shiny silver dome beneath a starry night sky. The dense glowing band of the Milky Way emanates from Rubin on the left toward the upper right.

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 02/03/2026

Women In Astronomy: Career Interview Series Vicky Derksen’s journey into #astronomy didn’t start with a childhood telescope or a university degree. Growing up in northern Idaho, she saw the Milky Way all the time & simply assumed everyone else did too. womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/02/care...

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Mariana Jaber (she/her) @marianajbr.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Christmas festivities in the tropics

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Mariana Jaber (she/her) @marianajbr.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Campeche, México. Colorful town where the winter never comes.

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armatofu.bsky.social @armatofu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

🐜 Un par de 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘀 fósiles de la Formación Green River de EUA, con una antigüedad aproximada de 𝟰𝟴.𝟲𝟲 millones de años (Eoceno). 📷 J. E. Bruce.

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭 inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718

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INSPIRE

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

VAR! In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star. Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Image: Carnegie Observatories

Photo plate of Hubble's famous "VAR!" discovery. This is a photonegative plate of an image of the Andromeda Galaxy, with several small annotations made in grease pencil. One of them was previously marked "N" for "nova," but the N has been crossed out and replaced with an excited "VAR!" to indicate a Cepheid Variable.

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