It was a great talk! Thank you!

People’s reactions after their first look through a telescope at the Moon or Sun never get old for me! Always brings me a big smile!

A great talk by @jjfplanet.bsky.social on some literally cool stuff here at UCR!

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

The weather has been so perfect here in Riverside that it’s hard to believe summer is coming!

A brown rabbit sits in a garden and looks askance at the photographer.

It’s Friday night.

I’ve done enough this week.

You’ve done enough this week.

You deserve a bunny.

This is beautiful!!

Listing meetings as tasks just so I can check them off and call it productivity. What a day!

Not sure which is worse, speaking up and ending up disappointed or already knowing you will be:-?

This is my favorite paper of the day so far!
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29771

Go Mighty Atomic (no idea, just following my partner:))!

Okay I just noticed there’s Quantum Hockey at APS. This is so cool! We should definitely have something like this at AAS👀.

My 3yo has autism, & in parent support groups, many parents think they caused their kids' autism w/ vaccines or won't vax their other kids out of fear it will cause autism again. Misinformation causes so much damage & heartache, & it is unclear how to reach people if they don't trust science. 😞

In this documentary by Ben Proudfoot, Jocelyn Bell Burnell tells her story about being raised as a Quaker, her struggle being the only woman in the room in STEM & how hard it was to pursue that path against the attitude that women were to be in the home. womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/03/i-ch...

I'm going to expand this statement to say that astronomers should actually look at their data whatever the format. Yes pipelines and high level science products are great, but you learn a lot from just spending some time exploring the counts-on-pixels images, even for spectroscopy. 🔭

Cover of "Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics", which features an illustration of a 19-year-old Vera Rubin looking through a telescope over a backdrop of a first light image of spiral galaxies from the Rubin Observatory.

Happy International Women's Day!

Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general).

arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465

🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬

After a week in Aspen, it only snowed on the last day, AND in that short time I still managed to get the car stuck in the mud and snow.

An image from part of the GOODS-South portion of the FUEL Survey showing random pointings of scattered around the area and a mosaic of pointings covering the UltraDerp Field.

Introducing the Far-Ultraviolet Extragalactic Legacy (FUEL) survey! We uniformly reduced and aligned all Hubble far-UV imaging in the extragalactic legacy fields. Shout out to my student Aliakbar Kavei for the great work completing this project. Check it out! 🔭

arxiv.org/abs/2603.04511

Wow! Looks great!

Happy to share Neloura, a web based platform for interactive astronomical image analysis, available publicly and runnable on the CANFAR Science portal! Built for coding, visualization, interaction, and cataloging workflows.

neloura.com
🛰 www.canfar.net/science-port...
📦 github.com/hamidnpc/Nel...

How it started (maybe let's call these things Little Red Dots???) // How it's going (xkcd #3212) 🔭🧪

Winter Olympics side effect: I’m now commuting to campus on inline skates.

As promised yesterday: a new alternative model for Little Red Dots. Maybe they're not stars powered by black hole accretion ... maybe they're globular clusters in formation! That's the suggestion in a new paper led by John Chisholm, anyway. It sounds impossible, but hear me out: 🧪🔭☄️

I already reposted this earlier, but wanted to highlight the contributions of our @stsci.edu postdoc Pierluigi Rinaldi who is going hard after these LRDs & doing awesome work. His paper on Virgil is based in-part on our MIRI deep imaging survey, MIDIS, find it here: scixplorer.org/abs/2025ApJ.... 🔭

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Clumps and Inward Migration Something is missing in the middle. In JWST JADES galaxies, young clumps drop out in the inner regions, while clump structure shifts from the outskirts to the center.

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : Something is missing in the middle. In JWST JADES galaxies, young clumps drop out in the inner regions, while clump structure shifts from the outskirts to the center. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
astrobites.org/2026/02/11/s...

Why do we do astrophysics? At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...

David Hogg has written a white paper on doing astrophysics in the age of LLMs. It looks to be thought-provoking. My initial reaction is that either LLMs will destroy the field or they will force a reckoning with and re-imagining of the current system that often prioritizes output over quality. 🧪

I almost thought this was a cosmic web simulation! Look at those filaments and voids! 🔭

This is what the most distant confirmed galaxy looks like. The light we're receiving was emitted when the Universe was ~15x smaller in linear size than today, and right now it's ~30 billion light-years away from us. The light was emitted when the Universe was <300 million years old. Pretty amazing!

The Landscape of Undergraduate Astronomy and Astrophysics Degree Requirements In this document we summarize the results of a survey of undergraduate degree-granting programs conducted by the 2024-2025 American Astronomical Society Education Committee's Subcommittee on UndeRgrad...

Our AAS Education Committee report on 'The Landscape of Undergraduate Astronomy and Astrophysics Degree Requirements' is now available on arXiv: www.arxiv.org/abs/2602.03959. Please give it a read!

PRISMS. UNCOVER-26185, a metal-poor SFG at z=10.05 with no evidence for a X-ray-luminous AGN This work presents the first results of the PRImordial galaxy Survey with MIRI Spectroscopy (PRISMS), a JWST cycle 4 program (PID 8051) aimed at the characterization of a relatively large sample of te...

On the #arXiv today: first 2 papers from the PRISMS program (PRImordial galaxy Survey with MIRI Spectroscopy), a 130-hr program using the #JWST MIRI Low-Res Spectrometer to get 5-14 µm spectroscopy of galaxies at z~10. arxiv.org/abs/2602.02323 & arxiv.org/abs/2602.02322 🔭