Event graphic for a workshop titled "Building Coalitions for Radical Change." The text announces it is hosted by Black in Astro and Movement Consulting, taking place online on Friday, November 7th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET. The words "SEE YOU THERE!" are at the bottom.
Join us this Friday for a special workshop from Movement Consulting: "Building Coalitions for Radical Change," presented by founder Dra. Nicole Cabrera-Salazar. For more information about the event, or to register, make sure to check out our website!
03.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩🔬⚛️
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
20.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 121 🔁 114 💬 3 📌 4
Ayanna Mann is representing AAS and @blackinastro.bsky.social on the Hill today! Join her in advocating for federal funding for science by calling and writing your members of Congress today! aas.org/advocacy/get...
06.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
As president and founder of @blackinastro.bsky.social , AJ an amazing force within space law, an outspoken advocate for the people, and dear friend. I also agree with @ohdearz.bsky.social that this too makes me question my presence and the presence of @blackinastro.bsky.social on this site.
06.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Bowl featuring solar eclipse surrounded by clouds with left half of sky in warmer light and right half in cooler light.
Bowl featuring solar eclipse surrounded by clouds with left half of sky in warmer light and right half in cooler light. Side view: right.
Bowl featuring solar eclipse surrounded by clouds with left half of sky in warmer light and right half in cooler light. Side view: left.
Bowl featuring solar eclipse surrounded by clouds with left half of sky in warmer light and right half in cooler light. Detail of eclipse.
Fired version of the commission prize for K'Andra, who won the @blackinastro.bsky.social Art Contest! ✨
05.09.2025 21:58 — 👍 318 🔁 82 💬 16 📌 4
Applying for a postdoc fellowship can be tricky! Join our virtual panel on Sept. 17th to learn about the ins and outs of the application process from past and present fellows! Registration open to all LUMA, @blackinastro.bsky.social, and @VanguardSTEM members! 🚀 🔭
26.08.2025 14:02 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Bowl featuring a solar eclipse with clouds on each side. The left is lighter and brighter while the right is darker and bluer. A streak of light shines on the left of the eclipse.
Bowl featuring a solar eclipse with clouds on each side. The left is lighter and brighter while the right is darker and bluer. A streak of light shines on the left of the eclipse. (Side view)
The commission prize for K'Andra, who won the @blackinastro.bsky.social art contest! I had so much fun painting this transformation of a solar eclipse 🤩
21.08.2025 00:05 — 👍 369 🔁 79 💬 13 📌 4
✨ AAS Publishing is celebrating #BlackSpaceWeek 2025 with a series of AAS Journal Author video chats in collaboration with @blackinastro.bsky.social.
Amber Young (Northern Arizona Univ, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on Earthlike exoplanets: youtu.be/kBLkQIi3S18%...
24.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
(Votes are at time of competition closing)
23.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder of their prizes from @amyraehill.bsky.social, Laci Brock and @startorialist.com. Thank you so much for sponsoring this competition and for your continued support! We’re sure pit winners will LOVE their prizes! 🥹🫶🏼
23.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Congrats to our winners of the #BlackSpaceWeek art competition! We added up votes from X (Twitter) and Bluesky to get our top 3!
🥇 K’Andra - 34 votes
🥈 mynameisblueskye - 18 votes @mynameisblueskye.bsky.social
🥉 Arfa - 16 votes
✨ Viewers choice - Caprice - 18 votes @capricephillips.bsky.social
23.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
Voting is now closed!
23.06.2025 18:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by AAS
AAS Journal Author Series: Arianna Long on 2024ApJ...970...68L
✨ AAS Publishing is celebrating #BlackSpaceWeek 2025 with a special series of AAS Journal Author video chats in collaboration with @blackinastro.bsky.social.
Arianna Long (Univ of Texas at Austin, Univ of Washington) chats about her article on quiescent galaxies: youtube.com/watch?v=3BtA... 🔭
23.06.2025 15:28 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Rubin First Look Watch Parties | Rubin Observatory
Our First Look at imagery from Rubin Observatory is nearly here — learn about how to host or attend a Rubin First Look Watch Party and join in the global celebration
Tomorrow there are watch parties all over the world to see the Rubin Observatory’s first public release of images. You can find one near you: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f.... Here in Edinburgh, start time is 3 pm ish, with the images flowing later. @blackinastro.bsky.social, @lsstuk.bsky.social
22.06.2025 19:06 — 👍 47 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0
And that’s a wrap! #BlackSpaceWeek 2025 is over. Brb going to cry now. While I cry, check out a recap of our events on YouTube: youtube.com/@black_in_astr…
Like. Comment. Subscribe.
And sign up to our list serve at blackinastro.com to stay up to date on all our shenanigans!
22.06.2025 19:34 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
Selfie of K'Andra smiling
Totality of solar eclipse from Cabot, Arkansas
By K'Andra Perkins - Totality of solar eclipse from Cabot, Arkansas
22.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 33 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of Caprice smiling and holding a bouquet of flowers
Watercolour of a astronaut with clouds, rocket and planets
Special entry by our very own @capricephillips.bsky.social - Watercolour of a astronaut with clouds, rocket and planets
22.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Selfie of Megan
A square image of a blue summer sky filled with puffy white clouds, in the center of the image there's a circle of stars where the white clouds change to a colorful nebula. A nightingale is perched on the upper edge of the circle.
By Megan Hutto - A square image of a blue summer sky filled with puffy white clouds, in the center of the image there's a circle of stars where the white clouds change to a colorful nebula. @cassieoh.bsky.social
22.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Selfie of mynameisblueskye
A sankofa gate closed with blinds in front of projected lights and stars.
By mynameisblueskye (@mynameisblueskye.bsky.social) - A sankofa gate closed with blinds in front of projected lights and stars.
22.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Headshot of Arfa
Quirky quasar is an oil pastel drawing of a quasar ejecting mass into the depths of the universe
By Arfa (@ArfaKhan2051089) - Quirky quasar is an oil pastel drawing of a quasar ejecting mass into the depths of the universe
22.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Full body photo of Sven with a cityscape in the background and “Sven Nemeth” written on the right
The astrophotography picture in Matjiesfontein, in the Karoo Desert in South Africa.
By Sven Nemeth. The astrophotography picture was shot in February 2024 in Matjiesfontein, in the Karoo Desert in South Africa. (@nemethstarproductions.eu)
22.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you for all your breathtaking submissions into our art competition this year! 😍
You, our Bluesky community get to be the judges! Help your favourite piece win by liking & sharing!
1 like = 1 vote
Open the thread to see the artist vs the art 🧵
22.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3
I came in second last year and got a really cool @stellerarts.com work of art! You should participate!!
21.06.2025 18:41 — 👍 48 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Last day to let us know you got BINGO!
21.06.2025 18:42 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📣📣 LAST DAY TO GET YOUR ENTRIES IN!!
21.06.2025 18:34 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Can’t believe it’s the last day of #BlackSpaceWeek but ok the bright side, today we’re #CraftingTheUniverse! Register your interest 👇🏼
21.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today is all about #ReadingTheUniverse and we’re really looking forward to this panel. There’s still time to register! 👇🏽
20.06.2025 12:59 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
@tatyanazaria.bsky.social is a great science journalist who does outstanding work on space stories at Ohio State and freelances as well! Eg her recent feature on heavy elements produced in the r-process: news.osu.edu/study-reveal...
18.06.2025 13:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
astronomer, soccer lover, procurer of chill vibes ☘️ | she/her
“Genuinely funny astrophysicist”
“Artemis reincarnated”
“I want to be her when I grow up”
Cat mom! Expert in space, folklore, & worldbuilding. Host of things, writer of stuff, speaker of words, actor apparently
moiyamctier.com
Computational Astrophysicist and Assistant Professor @uarizona.bsky.social & @stewardobservatory.bsky.social. #Forbes30u30, Science 2021. He/Him. carlnotsagan.github.io.
Indigenous/Cultural Astronomy, Science & Technology Studies, Documentary Filmmaker
Assistant Professor at SF State | Black In Physics director | Researching brown dwarf atmospheres and their clouds in the Cloud | #BlackandSTEM | #LatinaInSTEM | lindy hopper
Ohio State Astronomy PhD student 🌟 Afro-Latino 🇲🇽🏳️🌈 he/him
Astronomer, Learning and Education Design specialist @harvard.edu @cosmicds.bsky.social
Comments, RTs, likes are all me and represent on one else
Postdoc at Stanford interested in stellar streams and dark matter
https://caganze.github.io/
NHFP Sagan Fellow at Carnegie EPL | Exoplanets 🌍 | Avid Scuba Diver 🤿
Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona. Astronomer. Aunty.
She/Her.
https://bemiles.github.io/
infraredastronomy.tumblr.com
Data Scientist • Physicist • Soccer ⚽️ • Gamer 🎮
🚀Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University
🪐Planetary Seismologist & Astrophysicist
📍Providence, RI
Staff Scientist @ HelicitySpace |
Solar Physics Connoisseur |
#BlackinAstro, #BlackinPhysics |
M.S. Space Physics @ UCLA |
B.S. Physics/Astronomy @ UT Austin |
He/Him
https://brandonjlazard.github.io/
astrophysics researcher🔭
undergrad at Vassar College '25🎓
just a young black girl trying to explore the galaxy 🌌
#BlackInX are movements to address anti-Black racism, social justice, help others, & celebrate excellence. Acknowledging all X orgs prior. retweets≠endorsements #unityminusracists #officialaccount
Planetary Scientist & Astronomer. Physics PhD student at the University of Texas at Dallas. Interested in the study of Exoplanet Detection and Characterization
professor studying galaxy evolution & cpo at vanguardstem
servant to my dog. simultaneous coffee + tea snob. dancer. writer.
#BlackinSTEM | autizzy | she/they
To God be the Glory | Aerospace Engineer | PhD Student | NASA Space Fellow | #ForbesUnder30 | Future Astronaut ✨ she/her | opinions mine
https://linktr.ee/astronaia
NHFP Sagan Fellow@UCSC 🍌🐌|brown dwarfs & exoplanets|Black In Astro VP|plan(e)t mom 🪴/🪐|she/her/hers
Website: https://capricephillips.space