Minh Huynh

If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.

No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.

Someone once said the most utopian thing about Star Trek is that 7 coworkers can call a meeting in the conference room and adjourn after only 3 minutes with a definitive plan of action.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

I honestly don’t know how we ever recover from this loss of institutional knowledge. There’s no reason to do this…we learn nothing from history.

Tomorrow I will go to work and train those who come after me as best I can, like always, because I truly love NASA #nasa 🧪🔭🚀🛰️

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Postdocs get more equipment time when applications are anonymized Early-career researchers’ access to neutron-beam instruments jumped from 61% to 78% at one Australian facility.

More postdoctoral researchers secured access to sophisticated scientific instruments when an Australian facility made their application process anonymous

go.nature.com/3J4AA3j

A fav inaccurate one is Stranger Things, it’s set in 1983 but has Livermorium which was discovered in 2000 and added officially to the table in 2012

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.

(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are out! These were taken 5 hours ago. Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy. Best of luck to the researchers trying to write up papers for this... archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.

See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional.
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At least they don’t give off radio frequency interference, because that would be baa’d …

KAT7 (2012), sheep!

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.

It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.

Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it zooms by us …

NASA scientists will apparently no longer be able to read @nature.com at their jobs, as the Trump administration has canceled all subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, per the agency. (1/3) 🧵

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

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NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.

I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the PASA Editorial Board. Please consider applying, Astro Bluesky. 🔭

Happy to have been a coauthor on this paper led by Maria Arias and @rtimmerman.bsky.social looking at the crab nebula with the full International #LOFAR Telescope that was put on arxiv yesterday! Lots of nice sub-arcsecond detail is revealed. Go check out the paper on arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2506.19460

Really bad, y'all. It's been shaky but this, what is getting announced right now?

This is us losing Earth & Space Science in the US.

I think at least some of you follow because of NASA flavored things. And I am hearing some VERY bad things that are getting memory holed as quickly as they occur.

Not only that, but significant chunks of leadership at NASA Centers have been taking early retirement offers, leaving staff unprotected

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At left is a large elliptical galaxy, smooth like a polished stone. At right lies a large spiral galaxy that is nearly a ring, with bright golden core. To its lower left is a smaller spiral with a barred core. At top and bottom, two bright stars shine brightly with multi-colored diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies are just smudges of various colors.

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top left is a large galaxy that is smooth like a stone, with wisps like cotton candy spiral from left and right. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. / A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At bottom left is an elegant two-armed galaxy, with arms extended like a dancer viewed from above. The bright points of three stars form a triangle at top center. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top right is a large galaxy with two whirling spiral arms wrapping around like a hug. At bottom left, two smooth elliptical galaxies appear near each other, like champagne glasses in the midst of a cheers. A bright star above the pair has red, green, and blue diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors.

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center is a spiral galaxy peppered with tight, knotted clumps of vivid blue, young stars. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.

Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find.

Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪

➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer

the solar system data from Rubin is going to be amazing. I really hope I and a lot of other planetary scientists still have jobs when it really starts coming down from the main survey. Contact your elected officials to support the NSF and NASA and reject the current administration's budget requests!

Fascinating images released at this briefing showing the potential of Rubin. But when I submitted a question (via Zoom) asking about impact on Rubin of potential NSF budget cuts, it was rejected: "Only science questions." A reporter in the room was also similarly rejected. 🤔

A fireside chat with Naomi and Phil on the conference stage.

Phil Diamond just announced the Naomi McClure Griffiths will be the new SKAO Chief Scientist! 🎉🔭📡 #skao2025

Statistical Machine Learning for Astronomy -- A Textbook This textbook provides a systematic treatment of statistical machine learning for astronomical research through the lens of Bayesian inference, developing a unified framework that reveals connections ...

An absolutely fantastic textbook on statistics and machine learning by Prof. Yuan-Sen Ting came out this week - and it's free! #astromethods ☄️

I had a read and it's incredibly comprehensive and well-written - I expect this to become *the* foundation book on stats & ML basics in astro.

We’ve had EMU, POSSUM, and now FLASH (Pilot) survey papers come out recently!