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Kareem El-Badry Named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow Kareem El-Badry Named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded Kareem El-Badry, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, with a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, an honor that comes with a "no-strings-attached" grant of $800,000.

www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...

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Keep your ν-eyes open: Messengers from a Common Envelope Today's bite explores how neutrinos might inform us about a neutron star being engulfed by another star!

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how neutrinos might inform us about a neutron star being engulfed by another star! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/28/n...

Writing a scientific paper as a first author for the first time is so so daunting, intimidating, terrifying 🥺

But it doesn't have to be this way.

What are some tools, support, encouraging frameworks that professors, mentors and advisors share with their students to write their first papers? ✍️🏼🙏🏼🔭

Today for @blackinastro.bsky.social's theme of #ShareTheUniverse for 🪐 Black in Space Week 🔭, we have two very special interview articles with black astronomers Logan White and Phoenix-Avery Sarian! Summaries for each article and links in the thread below ⬇️!

Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Saavik Ford Today we interview Dr. Saavik Ford, a professor at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and a plenary speaker at #AAS246

From Neev Shah: Today we interview Dr. Saavik Ford, a professor at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️

astrobites.org/2025/06/10/m...

Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Danny Milisavljevic Today we interview Dr. Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor at Purdue University and a plenary speaker at #AAS246

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today we interview Dr. Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor at Purdue University and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/08/m...

Job Opportunities | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Hey I’m hiring a 4-year PhD student in #astronomy at UCC to work on studying massive black holes in cosmological simulations! Fast turn around on this bc it is so late (due 6 June) but please pass on to any interested and qualified students! Feel free to dm/email me! 🔭🧪

www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...

Poster advertising the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18 at Rutgers University. There is a QR code on the bottom left, and there is also information about the conference + the invited lecturers.

Excited to announce the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18! To offset the uncertain funding landscape, we are offering a hybrid option + requiring NO registration fee. Non-faculty are especially encouraged to apply!

Please apply by May 31! More in the replies!

🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro

The Song of Urania Podcast · Joe Antognini · A history of astronomy, from antiquity to the present.

there's this podcast on the history of astronomy (across different civilizations) that *may* have an overlap with what you might be looking for

open.spotify.com/show/412pyUr...

For Pride month this year, Astrobites is looking to highlight transgender astronomers and we want YOU! We are planning to interview four astronomers about their experience being transgender in science, how they've dealt with barriers throughout their career . . . (1/4)

It's the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday. I see a lots of pictures being posted, for me the most important images it took were the images that uncovered what stars look like that explode as core-collapse supernovae.

E.g. this from Mattila et al. (2008) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ....)

Sagittarius A* only eats half its lunch, but where does it come from? The Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today's bite explores where those binaries came from.

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today’s bite explores where those binaries came from. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/08/s-stars-around-sag-a/

Astronomers - if you're submitting to the prestigious Acta Prima Aprilia journal and could use a peer review, make sure you shoot us a link so we don't miss you!
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YouTube video by Simons Foundation Anna Watts - Neutron Stars: The Supranuclear Density Zombies of the Cosmos (March 26, 2025)

WHAT IS A NEUTRON STAR? And why should you care?

Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟‍♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...

Space Drafts #105: Cosmic Collisions & Cosmic Dawn We hope you're excited for Space Drafts #105 next week! This month, we'll be joined by two Steward Observatory graduate students: Aafaque Khan will be telling us about how to use small satellites to study the collision between our very own Milky Way and its nearest neighbor, and Lily Whitler will be talking about the very earliest galaxies to exist in the universe. And Steward postdocs Jackie Champagne and Danny Krolikowski will be updating us on all the latest and greatest in the astronomical world! We'll be out on the patio of the downtown location of Borderlands Brewing Co. at 7:30pm AZ time on March 18, or you can join our livestream at bit.ly/SpaceDrafts105 if you can't make it in person. If you're interested in hearing about future events, you can follow us right here on Facebook, find us on Bluesky @spacedrafts.bsky.social, or join our mailing list at bit.ly/SpaceDraftsMailingList As always, our show is free and open to all ages. Please feel free to forward and share this event, all space enthusiasts are welcome!

Space Drafts #105 is happening on March 18 at 7:30pm Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts105. Aafaque Khan will be talking about cosmic collisions and Lily Whitler (@astronomicalily.bsky.social) will be telling us about cosmic dawn!

Most important events in history: A timeline from left (long time ago) to the right (2024), on the far left two events are noted: fire and the wheel, on the right one event is noted: astropy.units

@astropy.org

CCA Pre-Doc Program Stage 1 Applications (2025)

Applications are open for our visiting grad student program (pre-doc program) at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org!

Reach out if you're a student interested in:
- Preparing for Gaia DR4
- Stellar streams
- Data-driven methods for spectroscopy
(and want to apply!)

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Improving Undergraduate Astronomy Students' Skills with Research Literature via Accessible Summaries: An Exploratory Case Study with Astrobites-based Reading Assignments Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, but reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in ma...

Congrats to @briles34.bsky.social on this cool paper! #Undergrad #College #Science arxiv.org/abs/2309.05822

The Art of Planetary Science is in full swing at @uarizonalpl.bsky.social Come visit this weekend!

Too big to fit? Recipes on how (not) to create the black hole binary that you find in your backyard Curious about how Gaia BH3 formed? We have the next best thing! Today's bite explores how it may not have formed.

From Neev Shah: Curious about how Gaia BH3 formed? We have the next best thing! Today’s bite explores how it may not have formed. 🔭✨
astrobites.org/2025/02/17/g...

YouTube video by sciencejedi LIGO -- Dave Reitze We have Detected Gravitational Waves

Nine years ago we announced to the world that we have detected #GravitationalWaves we did it!

youtu.be/lslUF9gdYI8

Every semester, our graduate students are awarded three nights of observing time on the Kuiper 61" telescope for eyepiece observing! It is a truly unique opportunity to use research-grade facilities to connect with the dark skies near Tucson 🔭

Image credits: Mahdi Naseri