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not us ending virtual group meeting today by saying don't breath the cigarette air outside and don't eat your vegetables 😭 #MichiganLife

flying back from Japan be like

We're back with Part II - A detailed analysis of the starspots on the young solar analog V1298 Tau as viewed with JWST @jwstobserver.bsky.social and LCO led by MSU postdoc Matthew Murphy 🌟 #stellarastro check out the manuscript here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2606.16782 👈 and the big takeaways below!

💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀@afeinstein20.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is all cool because planets are cool, but what about the spots? Well... Stay tuned for a follow-up paper in the next few weeks where we fully characterize the spots on this young solar analog to see how they differ from the Sun 👀🌟

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide

Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules

A federal judge ordered the ​Trump administration on ‌Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on ​topics like slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationw...

reuters.com

btw did I mention all of the data behind the figures in the manuscript are publicly available? 👀 github.com/kronos-jwst/...

💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀@afeinstein20.bsky.social · 2mo ago

after a wild ride, I am so so so excited to have the first paper of our JWST KRONOS program out! "KRONOS I: The 1−2.8µm JWST Transmission Spectrum of the 23 Myr V1298 Tau c" led by MSU postdoc Matthew Murphy 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2606.03740 👈 (short summary thread below) #stellarastro #planetsci 🧪

after a wild ride, I am so so so excited to have the first paper of our JWST KRONOS program out! "KRONOS I: The 1−2.8µm JWST Transmission Spectrum of the 23 Myr V1298 Tau c" led by MSU postdoc Matthew Murphy 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2606.03740 👈 (short summary thread below) #stellarastro #planetsci 🧪

Elise Koo reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how researchers have taken advantage of the unique TOI-3884 system to directly probe a starspot with JWST. aasnova.org/2026/06/02/t... 🔭

The First Starspot Spectrum Revealed by JWST

Astrobites reports on how researchers have taken advantage of the unique TOI-3884 system to directly probe a starspot with JWST.

aasnova.org

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

Britt Wilson@britterson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

#nsf canceled #geoscience postdocs. That’s nifty. Let’s pretend we aren’t messing up the planet and be super sure to stop training people who can help. eos.org/research-and...

NSF Eliminates Geoscience Postdocs - Eos

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has eliminated its postdoctoral fellowship funding for Earth scientists.

eos.org

Michigan State's Darryl Seligman discusses how interstellar interlopers and dark comets are challenging our understanding of the behavior and properties of comets and asteroids. Today's lecture is part of the weekly 2026 Spring Colloquium talks at STScI.

ready to go!!!

Welcome to the new fellows selected to pursue their research in space science at ESA! Their projects span a broad range of topics from investigating the nature of dark matter to learning how Jupiter’s atmosphere works. Discover more about them 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

scim.ag

astro hive mind - a student in my intro to astro for non-majors class asked about good astronomy documentaries they could watch. does anybody have any recommendations? 🔭 🌟#astronomy

Just released: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval" - Minority Staff Report Prepared for Members of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

This administration really hates Goddard Space Flight Center. I hope we can save it. 🧪 #planetsci 49197025.hs-sites.com/assessing-th...

a little delayed, but congratulations to MSU grad student Sydney Petz for receiving an NSF GRFP 🥳 astro.natsci.msu.edu/news-events/...

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII

Anti-war demonstrations occurred all across Israel this evening. US media decided you really didn't need to know about them.

go #ArtemisII!! 🚀👨‍🚀

Is this a new headline or did they just translate from the original German?

Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn

nytimes.com

the number of times I've been mistaken for an undergrad on campus is now up to 5

1) Let's 2) Go 3) Mets

August (Gus) Muench@augustfly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1) Red Sox 2) Cubs 3) Phillies 4) who ever is playing the yankees

we were talking about solar flares and solar activity cycles in the intro astro for non-majors class today and somebody asked, "Do solar flares happen more frequently if a star spins faster?" ngl, I was shook by this intuition 💪

Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.

really exciting work lead by Catriona Murray! TOI-3884 b is a planet on a polar orbit around an M dwarf. The transit has a persistent starspot crossing event. Using JWST, we measured the properties of the starspot and the Prot of the star 👀 arxiv.org/abs/2603.15414 🔭 #astronomy 🌟 #stellarastro

end of week cat cleanser