Andrew Fullard

Hey, astro peeps! I am on job market this Fall! Let me know if you have a postdoc position available! I am an expert (that’s a scary word, but I am) in exoplanets 🪐 and stars ⭐️!!! Doing lots of data analysis! Please, check out my website to know more about my work!

ssagynbayeva.github.io

This summer I have been working with Prof @afeinstein20.bsky.social at MSU, I presented my research via a poster at the Mid-SURE undergraduate symposium. I have loved Michigan’s “hiking” and lakes and the entire research group - pictured here.

Thank you everyone!

Nancy Drew Speedathon $8,322.99 raised for A4TE

Thank you to every single person who participated and donated to this year's Speedathon! We are so proud of our community for raising so much for @transequality.bsky.social ($8,322.99) and can't wait to see what we can raise in the future.

Last night we reached two separate milestones for the event! We still have three incentives to unlock, starting with an incredibly fun trivia party tonight!

Join us at 12PM EDT today to get back to raising more money for @transequality.bsky.social !

www.twitch.tv/nancydrewspe...

We usually wait until the event starts before we announce our stretch goals, but this year we're just too excited to wait!

$750 by the end of Message in a Haunted Mansion on Friday- TOT Mouse% with Magpie!

$900.14 at any point- Official milestone of $25,000 raised across ALL Speedathons so far!

Who's ready? 👀👀👀

See you all at 7PM EDT on twitch!
www.twitch.tv/nancydrewspe...

🎉 GIVEAWAY! 🎉

The Speedathon is TOMORROW and we’re hosting giveaways throughout the event!

- SCK - FIN set
- CLK, VEN, SHA, DOG
- SSH in box
- Nancy Drew 2-Pack: CAP & TMB
- Around the World pack: HAU/DAN/VEN/CRE/ICE
- So many books!

See you tomorrow!

#nancydrew #nancydrewpcgames #cluecrew

I remember my dad saying "that new lad is doing much better" after you'd been on Sky at Night for a few years :)

Curious about our recent paper and our brand new JWST image of Apep? Take a look at this great writeup in The Conversation from Ben!

Of course, the article image is AI-generated

A Graduate Curriculum for Reproducible Computational Workflows | Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration

You can find the paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

and my colleague also published her paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

PEARC presentation went well, lots of good questions and connections

Undergraduate student talking to three people at their research poster

Undergraduate student talking to someone at their research poster

summer project presentations from Ryan and @adalyngibson.bsky.social at the @michiganstateu.bsky.social MidSURE conference today!

The image shows a false-colour image of the Apep colliding wind nebula as taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the mid-infrared. In the centre of the image, there is an orange-coloured spiral coil of dust, not dissimilar in shape from a snail's shell. There are two concentric repeats of the coil that are larger and encompass the inner shell, and these further out shells of dust are coloured red and get dimmer as they get further from the centre of the image. These far out coils of dust look somewhat like translucent spheres. At the very centre of the image is a small spikey object which are the three stars in Apep that create and hide behind the dust shells. There are stars scattered throughout the image, each with a snowflake-like 'point spread function' that spreads the central brightness of the stars into diffraction spikes. Image credit: Shashank Dholakia for R M T White et al 2025. 'The Serpent Eating Its Own Tail: Dust Destruction in the Apep Colliding-Wind Nebula'. PI: Yinuo Han.

Exciting news! My second first-author paper is out on the arXiv today!! arxiv.org/abs/2507.14610

We present a brand new JWST image of the Apep colliding wind binary in the mid-infrared, and we study what this nebula can tell us about the THREE stars in it's centre. Read on for more... 1/?🔭🧪

www.youtube.com/@Geeze this developer is doing a remake/port!

If you see this, post a video game that transports you to your childhood.

I’ve stood up three versions of this code. Learned a ton and now gonna build a generic resource.

Check out @openphysicsed.org for future updates.

Pythonistas or front end accessibility folks who write better code than me (that is everyone) please reach out.

#iteachphysics folks, I'm working on putting up over a 15 years of open-source content for physics teaching.

Looking for collaborators!

Please follow @openphysicsed.org for updates or email me at: danny@openphysicsed.org

Open Science at NASA - NASA Science NASA's commitment to open science encourages transparency and collaboration to drive scientific innovation and maximize research impact.

It's been moved to science.nasa.gov/open-science/. Of course, a lot of small edits were made to remove mentions of things "unaligned" with the "administration's priorities".

Hi friends, happy to announce that we’ve opened applications for the second round of URSSI early-career fellows!

tl;dr: $10k-25k for US-based early career researchers to do projects related to topics in scientific software (see post for specifics). Applications due 25 July

urssi.us/blog/2025/07...

There is no escape from Jackson

At Kavli IPMU, we have openings for postdocs who were displaced from their previous jobs for whatever reason.

Please consider if this is applicable! IPMU is an international research institute working on astro, math and physics, with English as the working language.

www.ipmu.jp/en/job-oppor...

Shame about the book. But straw and floor definitely rhyme :P

Carbon-rich dust injected into the interstellar medium by Galactic WC binaries survives for hundreds of years Some carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet stars (WC stars) show an infrared excess from dust emission. Dust forms in the collision of the WC wind with a companion star's wind. As this dust is carried towards the IS...

I am delighted to announce that my paper was accepted to the Astrophysical Journal this morning. Here's the submitted version to arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11616

A blue and grey crocheted case, folded in half like a book

A blue and grey crocheted case. It is open and various crochet hooks and circular knitting needles are held in play by pink surface crocheted lines.

I made a case for my crochet hooks and circular knitting needles!

The 🧶 is hand spun Jacob wool and rayonized bamboo plied together :)

In response to the ever-increasing number of submissions to the Open Journal of Astrophysics, I'd like to invite more astrophysicistsonto our Editorial Board. We're looking for volunteers with expertise in any area of astrophysics!

Please contact me or @ojastro.bsky.social

astro.theoj.org

The US is completely ceding our primary advantages in science and technology: we were a place that smart people from around the world wanted to be. The Trump administration is actively antagonistic toward that goal, and we will pay a steep price for it.

A sketchbook on an easel open to a page showing a pointillism landscape of a path through reeds. In the distance of the landscape are mountains and a blue sky.

Pointillism is fun but also this is 6 hours of work lmao

A four paneled figure, showing the different Wolf-Rayet colliding wind binaries WR48a, WR112, WR125, and WR137 (left->right, top->down) as observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. There are scale bars in the bottom left corner of each image showing how large 25000 astronomical units is compared to each nebula at their respective (estimated) distance. Each panel shows a bright spikey feature at the centre of each nebula (this is the two binary stars that power the nebula), surrounded by concentric rungs of dust that manifest as a bumpy diffuse structure. Source: Richardson et al (2025).

Four more colliding wind nebulae have been observed with JWST, and just yesterday put on the arxiv! arxiv.org/abs/2505.11616
Yes, those rungs of dust are real and not an imaging artefact!
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The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

It seems impossible to overstate how drastic the proposed cuts and other changes are. There is no vision, no purpose, no guiding light, just a desire to stop scientific understanding.

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...