A cake to celebrate the outgoing CCAPP director, John Beacom! John is a special person who has built a warm, welcoming environment and we all love him so much. Good science happens within good communities :) He also fills the department with happy plants, so I was quite excited to make this.

I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Another excellent full-paper doodle annotation. This one is beautiful. Congratulations Jayde!!

Jayde Willingham@jaydewst.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In honour of my very first paper going live on the journal website, I have made annotated version of the paper! 🌌 🔭 Checkout the official version of the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/pasa... And the annotated version here: drive.google.com/file/d/18tCUE9Rrloppf7DJyV0QPKngZ1pnLvmt/view?usp=sharing

This was a great opportunity! Thank you to the organizers. If you are an early-career scientist who is interested in how astronomy is organized at a high level, I highly recommend applying next year!

AURA Astronomy@aura-astronomy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Astronomy is always looking to the future! Thanks Future Leaders for attending the AURA Annual Meeting in Tucson this week! 🔭💫 @clairelamman.bsky.social

My favorite fact about this image: Light from the furthest galaxies shown is 11 billion years old by the time it reaches Earth. It left those galaxies when the universe was just ⅕ its current age and ⅓ its current size.

Claire Lamman@clairelamman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My visualization of @desisurvey.bsky.social data is NASA's APOD! 🔭🌌 apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropi...

My visualization of @desisurvey.bsky.social data is NASA's APOD! 🔭🌌 apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropi...

🌌 Major milestone for DESI: full originally planned survey footprint was completed on April 15, ahead of schedule! 47M+ galaxies & quasars mapped → the largest 3D map of the Universe ever made. Keep posted: Observations continue through 2028. More: tinyurl.com/Y5DESI #DESI

An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky! DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/d...

DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and will continue.

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DESI finished its originally planned survey last night!! ..and will keep going :) I made a cake to celebrate. 🌌🔭 @desisurvey.bsky.social

New paper on the arXiv today!! We discover constellations in DESI’s galaxy map and explore their cosmological implications. Here’s a thread of the key results. 🧪🔭 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.29912 Website where you can find your own galactic constellations: cmlamman.github.io/galactic-con...

Galactic Constellations in DESI DR1 and the Scales of Cosmological Homogeneity

We present galactic constellations: charming shapes in large cosmological surveys. By exploring a dense subset of DESI's first data release, we discover distinctive constellations including "Pisces Gr...

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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...

Black holes aren’t black

A half century after the discovery of Hawking radiation, we are still dealing with the quantum puzzle it exposed.

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I had a joke about a light cone but you had to be there to get it.

Saavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford@saavikford.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have a black hole joke but I’m not sure you’d get anything out of it

This year's gingerbread is the Vera Rubin Observatory! @vrubinobs.bsky.social

Thread of my Christmas gingerbreads 🌌⬇️

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Optimal intrinsic alignment estimators in the presence of redshift-space distortions" by Claire Lamman (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Jonathan Blazek (Ohio State U.) and Daniel J. Eisenstein (Northeastern U.) doi.org/10.33232/001...

Happy Thanksgiving :) @desisurvey.bsky.social

Another full paper annotation! I LOVE this one - be sure to read through the end. The drawings of a star trying to make a hole in the nebula cracked me up👷

Ryan White@astroryan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

To finish it off, I've also done an annotated version of the paper complete with silly drawings and accessible language! These are inspired by @clairelamman.bsky.social , and you can read this and more here: ryanwhite1.github.io/wolf-rayet.h... 4/4 ⚛️🔭🧪

Even in the middle of Columbus ❤️

Halloween is also #DarkMatterDay! 🎃🌌 Celebrate the invisible forces that shape our universe with @zacksavitsky.bsky.social, @clairelamman.bsky.social, and @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social. Studying the origins, elements, and mysteries of the cosmos — connects us all: youtu.be/xbrom_qFwsA #scicomm 💫

Cosmology: Our Quest to Understand the Universe

YouTube video by SciComm Excellence

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Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social ! Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm

Another full paper annotation, done in TWO languages!! Really nice job @astroaure.bsky.social !

Aurélien Genin@astroaure.eurosky.social · 12mo ago

And there is also an english version 🇬🇧 Come discover how I measured the shape of 340 000 galaxies using images from the James Webb Space Telescope ! Have a good reading 😉 astroaure.github.io/assets/Paper...

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Happy 4th! I made a patriotic pie, celebrating America's leadership in space sciences (historically).

Someone please talk me out of this impulse buy so I can view the @vrubinobs.bsky.social images.

My article was just published! A few people have already told me how much they appreciate seeing a change from the local narrative. Major kudos to the McClintock Letters organizers for a well-coordinated and impactful program. www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2025/06/13/c...

Cañon City High School graduate Dr. Claire Lamman: Cuts to science hurt Cañon City residents

My time in Cañon started me on a path that led to the forefront of science. But this path and the research that benefits our community are collapsing. I was 7 when I first saw the dinosaur tracks o…

canoncitydailyrecord.com

Claire Lamman@clairelamman.bsky.social · last yr.

This is an excellent high-impact initiative! All scientists should consider sharing their stories in hometown papers.

This is an excellent high-impact initiative! All scientists should consider sharing their stories in hometown papers.

Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP)@cornellasap.bsky.social · last yr.

Scientists, let's share our work with the public, so they can know how our work benefits their everyday health and wealth. Share your research & story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm #DefendResearch Sign up & learn more: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

Just finished 22nd grade :)

Science news outlets need cartoons.

Every single one of you reading this have benefitted from publicly funded science in a thousand ways. This cannot be the end. Carl Sagan called science a "candle in the dark." It is up to all of us to make sure that candle does not go out.