My hot take is that some of astronomy - data-crunching papers with no novel modelling or interpretations - deserves its reckoning. We give tedious papers to grad students as "training", but is it really? Maybe astronomy can get multiple publishing tiers, like in other fields.
12.02.2026 09:26 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Not targeting anyone in particular or anything, but making a press release for something that's just posted on arXiv is cringe
12.02.2026 09:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Today the ESO time allocation results have allegedly been announced.
But gone are the days when they could just tell you the outcome by email. Now all PIs and CoIs need to log into an online portal...
All at the same time
You guessed it, it's been down for an hour
02.02.2026 13:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A deliberate choice in other to lower the number of proposals that we will submit?
31.01.2026 07:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Did they give a reason?
30.01.2026 18:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I would like to occasionally post discussions about astronomy papers which I find interesting, as well as photos from observing trips.
30.01.2026 10:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
yes
30.01.2026 09:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
@bot.astronomy.blue signup
30.01.2026 09:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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Independent Research Group Leader @ MPIA
reionization, quasars, UVB, PypeIt, stuff
Astronomy postdoc UNIGE - Studying the Universe in the 1st Gyr: Galaxies, SMBH, Reionisation - All views are my own. (he/him)
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Exoplanets, atmospheres, aliens. Director of the APEx Department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.
Associate Scientist at Caltech/IPAC studying black holes and galaxy mergers with a nerdy sense of humor. Roman Proposal Lead. < 15 minutes of fame from PBS NOVA showcasing JWST science. TEDxMB 2024 speaker. Views are my own.
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Ph.D. Astrophysics | U.S. Air Force Veteran | www.saturnswings.com
Dad to two alternatingly amazing/frustrating kids, decent husband, astronomer. Lover of Seattle/Austin sports and good sci-fi/fantasy novels and movies.
JASPER Postdoc @ Steward Observatory in Tucson, AZ. Excited about high-z quasar environments. Astronomy PhD from UT Austin. Mentally I am always at Buc-ee's
Astronomer, human, described by adjectives too dangerous to list. Views mine
Reach for the stars. But not that one β itβs about to go boom
Faculty astronomer at Strasbourg observatory. Star formation in high-z galaxies from sub-galactic scales to large-scale structures. Long distance triathlete when I am not nerding on my laptop. Husband of @karinavoggel.bsky.social.
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. π¬π§π§πͺ Opinions my own.
quasar hunter, traveller, runner, yankees fan, wine lover and the best chef in the world according to my kid. Regents' Professor of Astronomy, Univ of Arizona.
Looking up at the stars at the Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Previously at Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, University of Leiden. (He/him) πͺπΊπ³π±π¬π§π©π°
Astrophysicist/#scicomm'er at the Cosmic Dawn Center (NBI/UCPH), admirer of galaxies, amateur boxer, and appreciator of comic books, indiepop, and white chocolate.
PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics working on the Epoch of Reionization.
Usually hiking, playing guitars or football when not sweating over RHD simulations.
Extragalactic astrophysicist. Assistant Prof @ IST Austria - PI of ERC StG-2022 AGENTS. PhD Leiden 2018, Zwicky fellow @ ETH Zurich,2018-2023.
astrophysicist at university of oxford | very distant galaxies and supermassive black holes with JWST | the skies definitely seem bluer down here!
Tasmanian astrophysicist studying black holes in the early Universe. Currently an Oppenheimer Fellow in Los Alamos, New Mexico β¨
Assistant Professor of Astrophysics, studying the evolution of galaxies, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St Edmunds College π¨ππΊπ²π°π·π¬π§
