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Sarah Kendrew

@sarahkendrew.bsky.social
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European Space Agency Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. Team Lead for the MIRI instrument on JWST. Runner, dog mum, cyclist. 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Opinions my own.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 3h
Really fascinating discussion on ageing 👇
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h
please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/10/2026
We’re heading to the #IAC2026 🔴 Watch live on Monday: ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher in the plenary “Why Does the World Need More Space?” 📅 5 October at 10:00 CEST ▶️ Watch on ESA Web TV 🔗 esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/ESA_at_the_77th_International_Astronautical_Congress
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reminder also that if you have thoughts, ideas, feedback about JWST, you can talk to the JWST Users Committee (JSTUC) members, who meet directly with STScI twice a year. Their input is taken very seriously. You can see the JSTUC members here: www.stsci.edu/jwst/science...
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JWST Users Committee
The JWST Users Committee provides user advice to the observatory as a whole and ensures operations proceed as expected to maximize the observatory's scientific performance.
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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Calling all Exoplanets folk! MIT has an opening for a new tenure track assistant professorship in planetary sciences. This is a unique opportunity to help build a new future of exoplanet research at MIT. Applications close Oct 15. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32450
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences
Job #AJO32450, Faculty Position in Planetary Science, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you to @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for naming me an AI2050 Senior Fellow. The program asks: "AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to society. What happened?" Answering it requires beginning to understand the cumulative effects of AI use; that is my project. www.ias.edu/news/alondra...
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Alondra Nelson Receives AI2050 Senior Fellowship from Schmidt Sciences
Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been named by Schmidt Sciences as a 2026 AI2050 Senior Fellow. Nelson is one of six senior researchers to receive this $...
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Incredible pictures of dogs www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Barking beautiful: the 2026 Dog Photography awards – in pictures
The 18 winning images chosen from about 1,900 entries to the annual contest from 50 countries across the globe
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Arxiv will limit users to 2 submissions per month. How do people feel about this? Seems reasonable to me. blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
not bad for a theorist! try an infrared detector next.
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Cycle 6 JWST 🔭 Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to October 1, at 5 pm Eastern Time (US) due to APT server issues. For updates, please check: “Late Breaking News” at the Call for Proposals jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportu...
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Me Using James Webb Telescope To Find Who Asked
ALT: Me Using James Webb Telescope To Find Who Asked
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do check the Late Breaking News section of the Call for Proposals for latest info. jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportu...
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JWST Call for Proposals for Cycle 6 - JWST User Documentation
STScI solicits proposals for JWST General Observer (GO), Survey, and Archival Research (AR) programs.  This document establishes the goals, requirements, and po
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My bike is very discreet too
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me
A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My Co-I's are actually amazing and very supportive, no shade ❤️
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ah, the co-I who shows up a few hours before the deadline and suggests that all the figures should be redone.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
\vspace this, \vspace that, I just want data from the James Webb \vspace Telescope!
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#JWST proposers, lest you not have enough to worry about already, check out some new language on use of the much-beloved \vspace parameter in your proposal jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportu...
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Carry On Queen Charlotte
ALT: Carry On Queen Charlotte
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a bleak read but very Interesting reporting on the US culture of regulation via the court system and the vast amounts of $ involved In that.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We went to All Things Go DC on Sunday and what a little gem of a festival. Very manageable in size & scale, good facilities, great vibes and an incredible line up.
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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TMT turns down €1 billion and the offer of a host site (La Palma) where they can actually build 🤷‍♂️ The project prefers to stick with Mauna Kea, so remains stuck in legal limbo and without sufficient funding. ☄️🔭
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
This conversation was oodles of fun and I especially love the conversation about the Ricardo Montalbán theater and @robinince.bsky.social’s impression of the announcement there and also our discussion about Star Trek Convention in Vegas and how much I learn there every year.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every August I’ve spent in Baltimore I’ve been convinced that wearing jackets and being cold is a thing of the past and then every September The Day arrives and I get to wear a jacket again.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would *really* like to know what efforts were made at UKRI to validate this approach. As a funding body for research, one would assume (!) that some serious research was done before adopting an AI triage strategy, and if I were based in the UK, I'd want to see some receipts on that.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At least this book got it right - even before I gave my notes - that a professor fancying a student is not usually the start of a cute rom-com. Anyway, check out See the Stars by my friend Eleanor Ray (I don’t think it’s available in the US yet)
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Beth Johnson @planetarypan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Bi Visibility Day and Sea Otter Awareness Week to everyone who refuses to choose between two things and also holds hands so they don't drift apart. 🩷💜💙🦦
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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
arXiv has received a 17.2 million investment from three leading philanthropic organizations. Thank you to Simons Foundation International, Siegel Family Endowment, and XTX Markets for your support of arXiv! Read more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This thread is validating my habit of always packing toothbrush & toothpaste and a change of clothes in my hand luggage. (great thread, not fun situation)
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"If you’re constantly willing to alienate and de-energize a percentage of your base in exchange for an undefined handful of moderate votes, you’ll eventually find yourself with no coherent political constituency at all." --> so relevant in UK politics as well.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A piece I knew was coming but wasn’t ready for @nhannahjones.bsky.social revisits her decade old piece now that her daughter is 16.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyone #baltimore know what happened in Edgemere today? big police presence, inc dogs and helicopter, all around North Point State Park?
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our Exoplanet Era is just getting started ✨🪐
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מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the people of canada must know the painful suffering of sitting down for a four hour ryanair flight at six in the morning, only to find the rows both behind and in front of you occupied by a stag do who are already drunk
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Took the day off, rambled around the woods for a few hours with Tycho. 10/10, highly recommend.
Black shepherd-like dog up to his ankles in a shallow stream, his tail high. There is dense green vegetation along the banks of the stream, and there’s faint steam coming off the water’s surface.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New paper day! 🥂 Check out some beautiful spectra of Cosmic Noon galaxies with MIRI’s brand new wide-field slitless spectroscopy mode and what we can learn from the PAH features we can now detect very efficiently over a wide redshift range. arxiv.org/abs/2609.16239
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Cosmic Noon Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field with MIRI Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy
We present results from a survey of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field using the Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopic (WFSS) capability of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on JWST, demonstrating the capabilit...
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The next paper in our #MIRI PRISMS program, led by Borja Pérez-Díaz from INAF-Roma, analyzes the spectrum of galaxy GHZ1 at z=9.878 taken with MIRI LRS (paper is submitted, not yet reviewed) arxiv.org/abs/2609.14574
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PRISMS. GHZ1. A standard tale of galaxy evolution with atypical ionizing conditions at $z=9.878$
[Abridged] The first operating years of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a surprising number of $z \gtrsim 10$ UV-bright objects, many of them characterized by their compactness, an...
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yesss great news for @esa.int ’s latest Earth obs satellites!
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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cool paper from @rami.spaceaustralia.com and collaborators on one of our favourite millisecond pulsars doing some funky stuff in the radio! (it appears to be boring in a good way in the X-ray, thankfully...) arxiv.org/abs/2609.15263
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Discovery of Two Consecutive Profile Change Events in the Millisecond Pulsar PSR J0437-4715
The closest and brightest millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J0437-4715, is a high-priority pulsar for precision timing experiments, including the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project, where it is use...
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How did I miss this?!
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NASA Roman is set for a long lifetime! Congrats friends 🙌🚀
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Space 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
At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
exactly -> "This is [...] not a cycling problem. It’s a law-enforcement problem. It’s therefore also a political problem, not least whether or not any ministers are willing to crack down on a food-delivery industry heavily reliant on riders using illegal bikes." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads | Peter Walker
As a cyclist I want the authorities to act with clarity. Lime bikes and renters can be annoying, but the true threat is those who dangerously flout the law, says the Guardian’s senior political corres...
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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 14/09/2026
The American Astronomical Society today announced that Dr. Emily Levesque (University of Washington) has been confirmed as the next Editor in Chief of the AAS journals. 🔭https://aas.org/press/emily-levesque-named-editor-chief-aas-journals @publishing.aas.org
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm at @greshamcollege.bsky.social tonight (in London and online) at 7pm talking about @vrubinobs.bsky.social and @lsstuk.bsky.social - tickets still available here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sky.... 🔭
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The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky
Nb. This lecture was moved from its previous date in April due to delays receiving data from the Vera Rubin Observatory, which is a key element of the talk. Those who reserved tickets for the original...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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