That seems odd, and something I personally am not aware of. I can imagine students mass emailing for summer research internships but asking to review their work is something new.

4x4” acrylic painting of a green and orange gas giant planet with an astronaut & spaceship hovering in the bottom center

Adrian 💚👎

#ProjectHailMary

Black holes aren’t black A half century after the discovery of Hawking radiation, we are still dealing with the quantum puzzle it exposed.

So happy to finally share this: I made a long-form comic about Hawking radiation for Physics Today! Although it's a short read, I hope it sucks you in ;)
physicstoday.aip.org/features/bla...

A quarter century of observing the Crab Nebula with Hubble 🤩🦀 What a stunning view. We've learned so much! Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

Your daily reminder

Laura Lopez: A Multiwavelength View of Feedback and Outflows from Nearby Galaxies YouTube video by CfA Colloquium

Check out @ohdearz.bsky.social great talk at the CfA colloquium on feedback and outflows from nearby galaxies at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Nh.... And thanks for the shout-out for the AtomDB CX model!

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. 🧪

Thank you 😊

My first-author paper on the Ambiguous Nuclear Transient (ANT) AT2020adpi recently got published😄
Read it here 👇🏻
ANTs are a new class of transient events that do not fit into the broad categories of standard AGN variability or TDEs!

Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding

Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
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science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Aurora Science 🔭🧪

What do the colors of the aurora tell you 👇

I discussed this paper in OSU astro coffee today and a fellow graduate student came up with the title "Treebeard vs Scary Barbie" 😃

Excited to attend the @astrosociety.org gala tonight & receive the Nancy Grace Roman Award! I read about her life & career on my way here. Did you know she was responsible for making NASA data archives public so that everyone could benefit, not just PIs? Such an amazing impact on our field. 🔭

Another title for this article could be: “Superman Outshines Scary Barbie”

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/s...

Happy Halloween 🎃 from Lana Purr Ray

Finding Avatar’s Pandora: Exomoons with Astrometry Though moons are ubiquitous in our Solar System, we have not yet found one elsewhere (an exomoon). Today’s paper investigates whether we could find moons by precisely tracking the positions of a star ...

From Kylee Carden: Though moons are ubiquitous in our Solar System, we have not yet found one elsewhere (an exomoon). Today’s paper investigates whether we could find moons by precisely tracking the positions of a star and planet. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/09/25/e...

Congratulations Emily 🥹♥️🥰🫶🏻

LUMA The League of Underrepresented Minoritized Astronomers (LUMA) is a peer mentoring community for Black/Indigenous/Latinx womxn who are graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, and…

Did you know LUMA was founded 10 years ago by Prof. Catherine Espaillat? We celebrated our 10th anniversary at AAS this January 🎉 . Learn more about LUMA at our website

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

My first ever ToO got approved!! I am so excited for the new observations of the ambiguous nuclear transient I am studying. Paper coming soon to arXiv 😃

OSU astronomy undergrad alum Trinity Webb and OSU astro PhD student @astrojennifer.bsky.social led this Chandra program showing diffuse X-rays coincident with very young stars identified with JWST! Here's this great work: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....

Postdoc in #stellarastro at the ICCUB in Barcelona ☄️

Everyone I know from the astro community in Barcelona is lovely, so I can highly recommend it!

Magnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593.

RCW 38 a young star cluster about 5,500 light-years away containing roughly 2,000 stars.

The cluster is rich in star-forming activity, with gas, dust, and newly formed stars, including some still wrapped in their birth cocoons!

(Credit: ESO/VVVX survey)

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz named president of Astronomical Society of the Pacific UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist is the first Latino president in society's 135-year history

Just saw the exciting news that Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (prof at @ucscscience.bsky.social and my PhD advisor) was named the president of the @astrosociety.org!! 🎉🔭 news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/enri...

The Panel appreciates the significant budget uncertainties facing NASA, SMD, and APD. The Panel recognizes the particular gravity of this report relative to those reports in the recent past. The Panel nevertheless strongly believes that each mission under review continues to be capable of producing important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner and would do so if allowed to continue operations into the next extended mission cycle. This belief remains true if missions had to be extended with reduced capability, reduced community resources, or both. Cuts to community resources or capabilities will reduce the science output of these missions, but the missions remain viable and productive. Furthermore, many of the most insightful science results arise from combining the observations of more than one mission in NASA’s fleet, leveraging complementary capabilities.

The 2025 #NASA astrophysics senior review report is public. "Every mission received the highest possible rating for... scientific return", & are "producing important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner". Some important screenshots: assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/...

Introducing Dr. Alison Duck, PhD (Astronomy), The Ohio State University (and soon Jet Propulsion Lab)!
@astroalison.bsky.social

Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.