Michelle Collins

Say hello to one the 7th known triple double radio galaxy! Its three distinct pairs of lobes likely trace three distinct periods of activity from the central black hole. Very cool stuff 🔭🧪☄️

It's @starxiv.bsky.social day! New episode is out. Join us and learn about lots of cool astronomy stuff. Including triple double radio galaxies which I did not know about until I read a paper for this episode 🤩☄️🧪🔭

Voice of Victim

"There was a University lectureship competition

My friend was in pole position. My Head of Department asked me if she was likely to go on maternity leave

I refused to answer

My HoD has not spoken to me since she was appointed -- & then went on maternity leave"

Me and @readdark.bsky.social are advertising aPhD position in our lovely group here at Surrey university. We're looking to understand unusual globular clusters and faint dwarf galaxies. Check out the advert and get in touch if you have questions 🔭🧪 www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’ Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before it’s too late.

Excellent piece from @astrokiwi.bsky.social @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & Laura Revell.

This one sentence is the crux of it all 👇

"There is no public mandate for a single company in one country to make changes on that scale to the planet’s atmosphere."

Highly recommended.

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"Progressives were told how to vote"

... what sort of frothing BS is this as an excuse? 'Telling people how to vote' is what campaigning is. If enough people do as told to achieve victory, that's democracy.

If you don't like it, leave the country. I'm sure I've heard that sentiment elsewhere...

Exactly this. Can we get one of those Trump baby balloons, but for Farage? Populist babies.

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, astronomers—the sky is calling.

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

By @meghanbartels.bsky.social

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

Or if astronomy isn't your bag, check out our many other physics, maths, engineering, chemistry and computing projects! share.google/WBCxAnIX8xI6...

Our colleagues, Eugene Vasiliev and @payeldas.bsky.social are also hiring! The dynamical dream team! 🧪🔭 www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

Me and @readdark.bsky.social are advertising aPhD position in our lovely group here at Surrey university. We're looking to understand unusual globular clusters and faint dwarf galaxies. Check out the advert and get in touch if you have questions 🔭🧪 www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

STFC CEO responds to @jonbutterworth.bsky.social

"it is important for all of our ... programmes ... to contribute to us making savings across our entire portfolio"

No mention that *all* is disproportionately falling on the particle-astro-nuclear programme 🤷‍♀️😡

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

As @chrislintott.bsky.social points out in the thread, this is becoming an issue of Super Moon proportions 😬🔭

The Seestar S50. It's great!

Crikey O'Reilly 😬

The Orion nebula takes up most of the image. A bright red bumble surrounds a bright star at the top, and then a skirt of illuminated gas falls beneath it

The horse head nebula! A dark silhouette of a horse head sts in a red band of gas

Last night, it was finally clear! So naturally I got out the Seestar 🔭😍

Nigel Farage grifting about the Chagos Islands

Fighting age man attempts to enter British territory illegally on a small boat

Good luck and enjoy it!

This is devastating for Carl’s family, and for his IPAC friends and colleagues. We are all shocked and saddened. His contributions to exoplanets and infrared science and the astronomy community will not be forgotten. 💔

😍 MORE little red dot stuff! I'll have to note this one down for the next @starxiv.bsky.social ... 🔭☄️

Oh! Sure, makes sense 😉

Does this paper that @payeldas.bsky.social discussed finally explain little red dots??? We are excited! Although we're always excited about little red dots... ☄️🧪🔭

What will we learn from faint, low surface brightness features with LSST? Lots, according to this paper that Nicole discussed on the @starxiv.bsky.social ❤️🔭🧪☄️

Payel discussed this near result. A high resolution map of dark matter! Fiendishly tough to map, but just another example of where JWST shines ☄️🔭🧪

Episode 30 is live! Listen too @payeldas.bsky.social and @nbuckley0810.bsky.social chat about the latest cool astro papers from the arxiv 😍🔭☄️🧪

Always brutal 😉

Brutal.

Only 8 runners left and we're not even in fun run territory yet!

Omg it has begun!

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."