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Jeremy Bailin

@astrobailin.bsky.social

Astronomy, coffee, politics, music, cats, sports, computing. Not always in that order. Canada/Alabama/Arizona. He/him.

961 Followers  |  644 Following  |  2,478 Posts  |  Joined: 07.05.2023
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I think one Alaska seat is an easier flip than Ohio.
I think a second Alaska seat is an easier flip than Iowa.

04.03.2026 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Somehow missed that it's erev Purim! I'm not home to bake, need to see if I can find some.

03.03.2026 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! I’m jealous!

28.02.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What kind?

28.02.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hot take: the pivotal senate seat is not Sherrod Brown, it is Lisa Murkowski.

27.02.2026 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Professor Dame Carole Jordan.

Professor Dame Carole Jordan.

We are saddened to hear of the death of Professor Dame Carole Jordan – the first female president of the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social.

Read more about her life and career: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

26.02.2026 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Wake up, astronomersβ€”the sky is calling.

@vrubinobs.bsky.social has unleashed its first rapid-fire alerts of new celestial activity. 800k of 'emβ€”a nightly number that will soon rise to a million+!

By @meghanbartels.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/rubi...

26.02.2026 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This galaxy is one of the most enigmatic in our PHANGS surveyβœ¨πŸ”­πŸ§ͺβ˜„ Today's @apod.shinyakato.dev compares our Webb infrared and Hubble optical images...
(Find these color-composite images, science-ready imaging data, plus catalogs of star clusters at archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/phangs ) #extragalactic

26.02.2026 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the state of the onion is tearful

25.02.2026 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This isn't funny, Chief Justices only do this when they are in extreme distress.

25.02.2026 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A composite black-and-white photograph honoring astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, famous for her 1967 discovery of pulsars. The main central image shows a young Jocelyn Bell (in her late 20s) smiling warmly at the camera, wearing cat-eye glasses, her hair styled in ponytail, and a collared coat. She stands in front of the iconic large radio telescope array at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (near Cambridge, UK), a massive wire-mesh parabolic structure with a central feed horn and supporting framework towering behind her, evoking the instrument she used to detect the first pulsar signals. In the lower-left inset is a modern color portrait of an older Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (with gray hair in a practical style, wearing glasses and a blue blazer over a patterned blouse), smiling brightly and looking directly at the viewer, representing her later years as a celebrated scientist and advocate for women in STEM. The side-by-side images beautifully contrast her groundbreaking early career moment with her enduring legacy. #physics #astrophysics

A composite black-and-white photograph honoring astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, famous for her 1967 discovery of pulsars. The main central image shows a young Jocelyn Bell (in her late 20s) smiling warmly at the camera, wearing cat-eye glasses, her hair styled in ponytail, and a collared coat. She stands in front of the iconic large radio telescope array at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (near Cambridge, UK), a massive wire-mesh parabolic structure with a central feed horn and supporting framework towering behind her, evoking the instrument she used to detect the first pulsar signals. In the lower-left inset is a modern color portrait of an older Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (with gray hair in a practical style, wearing glasses and a blue blazer over a patterned blouse), smiling brightly and looking directly at the viewer, representing her later years as a celebrated scientist and advocate for women in STEM. The side-by-side images beautifully contrast her groundbreaking early career moment with her enduring legacy. #physics #astrophysics

In 1967, physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars.

#OTD in 1968, Burnell, Antony Hewish, and 3 other male colleagues published a paper on the discovery in π˜•π˜’π˜΅π˜Άπ˜³π˜¦--but, the 1974 Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery was awarded only to Hewish.

#MatildaEffect #WomenInSTEM

24.02.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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a group of men are dancing on a stage in a dark room . Alt: extremely cheesy gif of Front 242 from Belgian tv circa 1985, they're dancing like a bunch of goobers on a sound stage that looks like it's made of corrugated steel and heat lamps

IT'S EBM DAY 24/2 NEVER STOP #musicsky #ebm

[thread of EBM bangers commences]

24.02.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Went out for dinner a couple of hours ago so we wouldn't be tempted to watch SOTU. Just got back and turned on my computer and IT'S STILL GOING??

25.02.2026 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello Bluesky, join us for our first event at Druid City Brewing Company on March 8th at 6:00pm! University of Alabama graduate students Annelia Anderson and Peter Gwartney will be presenting "The Little Red Dot Debate". More info: astronomyontap.org/event/astron...

24.02.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PV is in Jalisco

23.02.2026 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The curfew appears to have been a false rumour but it’s still remarkably quiet out this evening.

23.02.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If anyone is concerned, we're safe and there doesn't seem to have been anything happening here since the initial flood of fire-bombed OXXOs this morning. But the state is under curfew starting at 3pm local. #Guanajuato

22.02.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is horrible. Carl was one of the titans of observational stellar halo streams.

22.02.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ship of Yeasteus

22.02.2026 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

We admire your sacrifice.

21.02.2026 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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STScI is opening its doors for a celebration of creativity at the intersection of art, science, and community on May 6 at 6 p.m.!

The evening will feature an art exhibit of works by local artists inspired by space and astronomy.

More information: https://www.facebook.com/share/17HoRP1ZxM/

19.02.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a whole lot of cat!

13.02.2026 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today's colloquium speaker "Astroseismology gives us stellar ages that are good to 10%. For astronomy, that's amazing! Most people can't even guess my age to a factor of 2."

12.02.2026 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Translation: all of our operators have taken edibles to get them through the job.

11.02.2026 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Link? It sounds intriguing.

10.02.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The perfect map doesn't exi...

Why is Chile called Chile? Find out: brilliantmaps.com/the-perfe...

08.02.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

07.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1854    πŸ” 338    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 155

(To be clear I think it’s funny!)

06.02.2026 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Retcon it!

05.02.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ruined by the mediator not using Yoda grammar.

05.02.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0