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2026 LAD Laboratory Astrophysics Prize

Daniel W. Savin will receive Laboratory Astrophysics Division's highest honor in recognition of contributions to studies in X-ray astrophysics & early universe star formation & extensive service to the laboratory astrophysics community. aas.org/posts/news/2...

2026 LAD Early Career Award

Gabi Wenzel is being honored for transformative discoveries of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules (PAHs) in the interstellar medium through high-resolution microwave spectroscopy and radioastronomical observations. aas.org/posts/news/2...

YouTube video by Bad Boy of Science Ep 0: The Rise of the Science Populists

I haven’t seen this label used before but it seems apt. The video contains a good discussion of what “science populism” is and how it’s harmful.

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Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples - NASA The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As

From NASA: Sugars and supernova dust found on asteroid. go.nasa.gov/48pazoA

The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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Always fascinating to watch: a young woman brings up a systematic problem and this is dismissed : “you need to develop resilience!”. Senior man does the same: “ This is an important issue and needs to be addressed” #AcademicSky

Rubin While at Palomar Observatory in 1965, astronomer Vera Rubin discovered the building had no women’s restroom. “She went to her room, cut up paper into a skirt image,” said a colleague, “and stuck it on

Similar story for astronomer Vera Rubin as first woman allowed to observe at the Palomar Observatory www.laphamsquarterly.org/contributors...

This image shows four shells of dust expanding out from a bright central star. The innermost shell is bright and spirals like a snake around the star. The next shell is fainter and orange and echoes the serpent-like shape. The third shell is even more diffuse and faint and shown in red. The fourth and outermost shell is incredibly diffuse and seen as dusty pink streaks. Two foreground stars are also shown with JWST's tell-tale refraction spikes.

#PPOD: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding beyond the next in precisely the same pattern. (The fourth is almost transparent, at the edges of JWST's image.) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Martian sunset: the sun, low on the horizon, settles on the planet's dark, rocky profile like a huge, brilliant, whitish disk. Its outline, like the background, is greenish.

Completely fascinated by this Martian sunset, captured by the Navcam aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover on May 2, 2024 (Sol 1137).

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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🔭 🧪 #planetsci #science #Mars #NASA #Perseverance

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With a 32% higher budget (17% adjusted for inflation) than the last Ministerial agreement in 2022, ESA is demonstrating its strong commitment to leadership in space! 🔭🧪 And to supporting both L-class missions, hurray!! 🚀 🎉

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I encourage women to claim their space in astrophysics and beyond Debarati Chatterjee’s mission is to make science in India more welcoming towards women.

Required reading from @astroroamer.bsky.social 🔭

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#TalDíaComoHoy nos dejaba Ada Lovelace. Se la considera la primera persona programadora porque creó el primer algoritmo para ser procesado en la máquina de Charles Babbage. Firmaba sus notas con sus iniciales por miedo a ser censurada por ser mujer. Tiene un lenguaje de programación.

#WomenInSTEM

Great piece, thanks!

The Hidden History of Women Game Designers - JSTOR Daily Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.

The Hidden History of Women Game Designers daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-h...

ONDE DI SCIENZA - Rivedi il Video - Eredità delle Donne

Ho incontrato Enrica Porcari, la nuova Chief Information Officer al CERN, prima donna ma anche prima persona con una formazione umanistica a ricoprire questo ruolo. Ci trovate insieme in questo video.

ereditadelledonne.eu/2025/rivedi/onde-di-scienza/

WHAT IF? INTELLIGENZE FEMMINILI - Rivedi il Video - Eredità delle Donne

Ho avuto il piacere di essere ospite nel salotto fiorentino di Serena Dandini in occasione del festival L'Eredità Delle Donne, mi trovate al 30' minuto. ereditadelledonne.eu/2025/rivedi/...

a cluster of stars with a red star in the middle ALT: a cluster of stars with a red star in the middle

Werk! werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/co... #bijons #werk #vacature

The Moon-forming impactor Theia originated from the inner Solar System The Moon formed from a giant impact of a planetary body, called Theia, with proto-Earth. It is unknown whether Theia formed in the inner or outer Solar System. We measured iron isotopes in lunar sampl...

A giant impact between proto-Earth and a planet called Theia produced the Moon. Hopp et al. use isotopic measurements of lunar samples and cosmochemical modelling to show that Theia formed in the inner Solar System, probably closer to the Sun than Earth. ☄️ #planetsci
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Our special November issue, celebrating 30 years of exoplanets, is now here! https://bit.ly/483MH9I
#astronomy #exoplanets

⭐️✨🔭The ASPIRE 2026 summer astronomy research programme runs Jun 15th-Aug 7th, with applications due 17 Dec! Please help us get the message out! apply at: aspire.science.uva.nl! [2/2]

⭐️🔭Applications open at Anton Pannekoek Institute in Amsterdam for the 7th ASPIRE program: aspire.science.uva.nl. This 2026 summer school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. [1/2]

The ASPIRE 2026 summer astronomy research programme runs Jun 15th-Aug 7th, with applications due 17 Dec. apply at: aspire.science.uva.nl! Help us to get the message around! 2/2

🔭🪐Applications open at @api.uva.nl in Amsterdam for the 7th ASPIRE program: aspire.science.uva.nl. This 2026 summer school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. 1/2

Canada has announced an additional $528.5 million investment in ESA programmes at #CM25.
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University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed

Nottingham University plans to axe music & languages

Cuts always hit academics & lower-level professional service staff

They never touch the bloated upper bureaucracy

The Vice Chancellor's entourage stays untouched (or even expands)

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Organic geochemical evidence for life in Archean rocks identified by pyrolysis–GC–MS and supervised machine learning | PNAS Throughout Earth’s history, organic molecules from both abiogenic and biogenic sources have been buried in sedimentary rocks. Most of these organic...

Our new biosignatures paper is out in @pnas.org! This time we're using machine learning trained on organic chemical data to identify signs of life—including photosynthetic life—in ancient rocks.

*now* 😏

A white hand holds a copy of the book WHEN TREES TESTIFY by Beronda Montgomery

Book recommendation for 2026: WHEN TREES TESTIFY by Beronda Montgomery coming January 20th 2026.

“Trees hold the transformed breath of decades of human life... and testify to history and those of their past”

I quick thread 🧵 reviewing this book!

#booksky #womeninscience #botany🌱 #BlackHistory

I am intrigued! It is know in my Christmas wishlist 🤩

Love the idea! We need more of this workshops in the Netherlands, where girls’ disaffection for STEM starts early. Maybe this is something @particleclara.bsky.social might be interested too? :)