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Illustrated graphic with the boot-shaped Rubin Observatory atop its site on Cerro Pachón beneath a sparkling night sky and the glowing band of the Milky Way stretching from lower left to upper right. Sprinkled throughout are many "Data alert!" popups, labeled with icons that represent supernovae, asteroids, hungry black holes, and more.
A 3-by-4 grid of grayscale astronomical images zoomed in on single objects. From left to right, the columns are labeled Template, New image, and difference. From top to bottom, the rows are labeled supernova, variable star, active galactic nucleus, and solar system object.
The largest spot-the-difference effort EVER has begun!🚨
On the night of Feb 24, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially released its first ~800,000 public alerts of detected changes in the night sky!🔍
A new era of discovery is here✨ 🔭🧪☄️
🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/first-a...
Article screenshot: LIGO Legacy: 10 incredible gravitational wave breakthroughs to celebrate observatory's landmark 2015 find By Robert Lea published September 14, 2025 A lot has happened in gravitational-wave astronomy over the past decade. An illustration of binary black holes ringing space-time with gravitational waves (Image credit: LIGO/T. Pyle)
What has happened in the 10 years since #GW150914?
@space.com picks their top 10 discoveries. What are yours?
www.space.com/astronomy/li... by
@robleascijorno.bsky.social
#GW10Years 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪
A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...
#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
The image shows Katherine G. Johnson smiling working at the Spacecraft Controls Branch of NASA in 1966.
🧪 🔭🧵 #histsci
#February11 is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. So I would like to highlight Katherine Johnson, #NASA mathematician and computer scientist.
A biography➡️ nasa.gov/centers-and-...
She was a trailblazer in the quest for racial equality and, as a champion of STEM education,
More on catastrophic cuts to UK astronomy & particle physics. Costs of facilities & international subscriptions go up so grants line and individual projects are cut. If the Government is serious about backing science & technology, they need to fix this. www.space.com/astronomy/uk...
Elon Musk et al are totally fucking up the night sky ALREADY and they plan to make it worse 🔭
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/satelli...
Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.
Here's the data:
Starts With A Bang podcast #125 – Large-scale structure
Here at the start of 2026, the biggest puzzles in the expanding Universe are the Hubble tension and the question of whether dark energy evolves.
Two cosmologists, me and Kate Storey-Fisher, discuss.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro
Eine Geburtstagsparty für die Schrödingergleichung gibt's am 22-23 Jänner am @esivienna.bsky.social
www.esi.ac.at/events/e596/
Cartoon showing academic publisher at the end of a plank over the black void, supported by the weight of academics on the land-end, while one turns away (saying 'fuck this'), the publisher says: 'You will write papers for us & pay us to publish them. You will review those papers fo free. You will also pay us to read those papers'.
How recently have we understood the Universe?
The Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years.
But it's really only over the most recent millennia, centuries, and decades that humanity has understood it at all.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #universe #cosmos #astro
Brightest-ever lensed supernova reveals astronomy’s coming revolution
Astronomers found our first gravitationally lensed superluminous supernova.
With the Vera C. Rubin Observatory now operational, hundreds, maybe thousands more should be coming.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #supernova
It's as if there is a pattern...
#ScienceUnderSiege
My linocut print of a young Grace Hopper in uniform in dark navy blue with Mark I computer behind here in dark green and grey and the famous moth in dark gold.
Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 #histsci
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) 🧵#artAdventCalendar
This is Figure 15 of the paper, a Mollweide projection of the distribution of the DESI DR1 Fundamental Plane sample (blue) in Right Ascension and Declination compared to the Cosmic Flows 4 catalogue (Tully et al., 2023, black) and the DESI EDR sample (Said et al., 2024, orange).
Wow 98,000 peculiar velocities
The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: Fundamental Plane Catalogue
by C.E. Ross and co-authors
arxiv.org/abs/2512.03226
For comparison: the Great Attractor was discovered with 400 PVs, Laniakea with 8000 PVs, South Pole Wall with 18,000 PVs
#Cosmicflows #Cosmology 🧪
A cartoon by Charles Barsotti, from 1994. Shop your favorite cartoons:
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Der #FWF fördert 3 neue #Spezialforschungsbereiche für mehr Grundlagenwissen in der Medizin, Quantenforschung und Kosmologie. Die neuen Netzwerke werden von Forscher:innen der @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social, der @unisalzburg.bsky.social und der @tuwien.at koordiniert. 📚
www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...
Very excited and honoured that we got funding for this exciting new research network with a fantastic group of people.
Very excited and honoured that we got funding for this exciting new research network with a fantastic group of people.
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.
youtu.be/sQnOFGWsXNM?...
LiteBIRD Mission Takes One Step Forward
The next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization satellite has been approved to move forward, following a review held at JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. #LiteBIRD 🧪 #Cosmology
www.ipmu.jp/en/20251201-...
Der Beschluss des Grünen-Parteitags gegen eine Erstattung von Homöopathie durch gesetzliche Krankenkassen ist ein wichtiges Signal. Es geht nicht (nur) ums Geld. Es geht auch um Abgrenzung: Was durch die Solidargemeinschaft finanziert wird, muss wissenschaftlich belegt sein. Die Erstattung führt…
Two red spinning balls are shown, one labeled +1/2 and its spin oriented positively and another labeled -1/2 and oriented negatively. Caption: "Electron spin explained: imagine a ball that's rotating, except it's not a ball and it's not rotating"
Still among my favorite science memes lol
I didn’t know it was this bad at Goddard. Infuriating. 🧪
It was a huge pleasure to be back at the Royal Institution last month! I gave a lecture all about the mysteries of dark matter, which is now up on YouTube. 🧪🔭
(As a bonus, my demo actually worked, unlike in my 2021 Ri talk...!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
Speaking out for science ... My subjective conclusions to a short talk on "From Einstein to Astrology: On Misquotes, Scepticism, and Speaking Out for Science" at the VISESS doctoral school in Vienna
Enjoyed giving a short talk "From Einstein to Astrology: On Misquotes, Scepticism, and Speaking Out for Science" at the #VISESS doctoral school, remembering our open letter to Austrian public TV ultimately cancelling an astrology show. A small victory given the constant attacks on science...