This situation in the #CentralAsianFlyway is reflected in the report by @stateofindiasbirds.in - most high priority sps were migrants: ducks & wadersv that were once very common.
Wonder about the situation of #passerines with very little data
@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @anandchau.bsky.social
"Saving it together" - the new video from SoIB, featuring Praveen J and Neha Sinha, about the impact of SoIB!
Watch now!
(A film by Trailing Wild Productions.
Created for State of India's Birds by The Habitats Trust.)
youtu.be/RYBaLGNvcr8
US tech companies shouldn't get to decide that European (or any other!) telescopes are now obsolete in the name of profits, and we need to find ways to get policymakers to care about them & to fight back 🔭☄️
This is a really nice analysis of the impact of proposed satellite constellations on ground-based astronomy. 🔭☄️
One thing that might otherwise get lost in the margins is that these satellite constellations would waste many, many billions of euros of government funding spent on telescopes.
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
🧪🔭☄️👩🔬
I’ve seen some posts recently, about the value of basic research, in light of funding cuts and demands that research have immediate economic justification.
Let me collect some info here, in a thread, about why it’s a bad idea to attach those sorts of demands to funding. 🧵 🧪 ⚛️
☄️ Comet watchers: March targets
• C/2026 A1 (MAPS) racing toward the Sun ☀️ could it become naked-eye?
• C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) back and possibly brightening into binocular range
• C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) still observable with small telescopes 🔭
Guide:
cometografia.es/cometas-visi...
#astronomy #comet
#3i/ATLAS as seen by ESA JUICE!
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Today, on Women in Science Day, we remember Maria Winkelmann — a pioneering astronomer who, from Berlin, discovered a comet on April 21, 1702. She became the first woman to achieve this feat, and her perseverance left a lasting mark on early astronomy 👇
cometografia.es/maria-winkel...
#Astronomy
1/ Happy International Day of #WomenAndGirlsInScience!
To mark the occasion, women from across the @eiroforum.org organisations, including ESO, shared one piece of advice that helped them in their professional journeys 👇
Discover more: www.eiroforum.org/news/eirofor...
PRL Newsletter "The Spectrum" - November 2025
zurl.co/lY6gA
India’s Cosmic Dust Experiment - Ground-breaking Hunt for Interplanetary Secrets!
@Bhardwaj_A_2016 ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation
zurl.co/Xvchc
@anil.bhardwaj.52643
@Bhardwaj_A_2016
@ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation @PRL-Physical Research Laboratory @Indian National Science Academy -INSA
PRL, in collaboration with ASI, is currently hosting a 3-day symposium on Optics & Instrumentation in Observational Sciences. Inaugurated by Shri A.S. Kiran Kumar & Prof. Anil Bhardwaj, over 150 scientists have gathered to discuss the future of indigenous space technology.
We are increasingly aware of the impact of space weather on spacecraft in space and, occasionally, on electrical power transmission on Earth, but what about its impact on the Earth’s atmosphere? Explore with this podcasthttps://astrotalkuk.org/episode-131-space-weather/
More field sketches and drawings are up in my Etsy store! These are some of my favorites out of my field sketchbooks.
The great horned owl is a drawing based off a photo I took where she flew right over my head.
etsy.com/shop/DaneaFidlerCreations
#sciart #art #sketches
For 3I/ATLAS's closest approach to Earth, have an accepted paper: as it got closer to the Sun, 3I's production of atomic nickel and iron in its coma evolved to a ratio like that of Solar System comets and 2I ☄️🔭
Hutsemékers et al. A&A arxiv.org/abs/2509.26053
[2511.16247] Goldy Ahuja & Shashikiran Ganesh: Dynamical simulation of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. link
Reposting this since many are doing some holiday shopping. I’m not sure if you can use the discount code AND benefit from the current “Black Friday” sale… hoping someone will order and let me know! 🧪🔭
188! wow!
PRL Mount Abu Observatory telescopes report images and spectra of the interstellar comet #3I/ATLAS, showing spectral features similar to those seen in solar system comets. 🧪🔭
The press release:
www.isro.gov.in/Observations...
Astronomer's Telegram:
www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17502
Live in the Northern Hemisphere and want to see a comet older then the Solar System? Nice overview of upcoming pre-dawn visibility for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with small amateur telescopes 🔭🧪
In a crumbling four-story wada in Pune’s old quarter, an upstairs room stayed stubbornly off the grid.
There, a small woman in a plain cotton sari wrote longhand by daylight or by kerosene lamp.
This was Hema Sane, a botanist who turned her life into an experiment in ecological consistency.
I would love to get the hashtag #blessedunrest going (after the book by Paul Hawken.) To celebrate, in the face of all the madness, the quiet (or not) voices and actions all over the world that are conserving the good and repairing the shattered.
#environment #nature 🌿
📸🔭 October promises to be spectacular for comets:
☄️ C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) will reach magnitude 3–2 and be visible to the naked eye in dark skies.
☄️ C/2025 R2 (SWAN) will shine in binoculars, with long ion tails in photos.
We’ll keep following them day by day on these feeds so you don’t miss the show ✨
What a difference a decade makes! Announcing the clearest #GravitationalWave detection ever #GW250114
youtu.be/2XmZ8-XQ9jU
📓: doi.org/10.1103/kw5g...
🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #O4IsHere
A comet with a thin and long tail and a small green coma.
A rather bright comet has been discovered in images of the spacecrafts SOHO/SWAN & STEREO - preliminary designated SWAN25B. It's 7-8 mag and w/ a nice tail. No orbit yet, but from the available data I suspect it could pass very close to Earth soon.
Image by M. Mattiazzo, groups.io/g/comets-ml/...
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