This was posted on LinkedIn. Looks like a new record, possibly 3500 proposals. Good luck everyone on the JWST roulette. We really should have made two.
Matthew Kenworthy
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Professor of astronomy working at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands on the direct imaging of extrasolar planets and transits of giant ring systems || Opinions my own || Will tell Dad jokes for cash. https://kenworthy.space/
\vspace this, \vspace that, I just want data from the James Webb \vspace Telescope!
Sarah Kendrew@sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 5d ago#JWST proposers, lest you not have enough to worry about already, check out some new language on use of the much-beloved \vspace parameter in your proposal jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportu...
Good luck to everyone submitting their #JWST proposals today. My first version is in the bag, now to read it and find the O(dozens) of mistakes I made…. Scientific method FTW! #exoplanet #astrodon
The number of times I've taken off my glasses and pinched the bridge of my nose keeps going up and up....
Paul Voosen@voosen.me · 7d agoNew Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
In memoriam Frank Israel (1946 – 2026) www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/in-me... English: www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/in... 🔭
In memoriam Frank Israel (1946 – 2026)
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Witnesses say his belch was continuous and loud for almost four minutes.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w agoCoalition vows to 'take a chainsaw' to climate laws and offshore wind
I was one of the people interviewed for this article in Bristol Magazine and I spoke a bit about attitudes towards space science among the young people I've met through my work. thebristolmag.co.uk/space-expert...
It’s rocket science! | We chat to experts at the Bristol Astronomical Society and We The Curious - The Bristol Magazine Online
Are Bristol in the space race? We chat to experts at the Bristol Astronomical Society and We The Curious.
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Congratulations to the whole team for this, I know people have been trying for a while to get radio emission from an exoplanet but it's fantastic to finally get a solid location and confirmation!
Yvette Cendes@whereisyvette.bsky.social · 2w agoIf @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! 🔭🧪🎢 What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧵 www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
I remember visiting that place last year, or was it three years ago?
Night Shades ⏾@nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 2w ago🛸 new today from @elizabethtwist.bsky.social 🛸’“The red represents the blood—from the seven wounds—the five wounds of—” The guide shuts her mouth.’ www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-churc...
“I WILL NOT GO TO CHAT WITH YOU BABS I CAST YOU OUT UNCLEAN SPIRIT IN THE NAME OF-”
First radio emission detection for an exoplanet? Interpreted as aurora (and hence a magnetic field for the planet). Ortiz Ceballos+ arxiv.org/abs/2609.16720 🧪🔭 #exoplanets
Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet $β$ Pictoris b
Planetary magnetic fields shape atmospheric escape, mediate interactions with stellar winds, and encode information about planetary interiors, yet they have not been directly measured for planets beyo...
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I now have to pause when replying to a slightly weird/clueless comment on social media, because it may be a bot and this is simply a training gambit for some #ChatGPT word salad farm somewhere.
Happy tenth anniversary (+ 2 days) to @weratedogs.com for helping both Brênt and the rest of us understand that they are all good dogs.
Oh, great. Now I'll be spending my whole week muttering "Wine O'Horse" under my breath on the bus, at the airport, at faculty meetings....
greggy@greggy.org · 4mo ago
Having genuine terrors wondering how many wall socket power supplies can (safely!) deliver 240 W...
Michael Brown@mjibrown.bsky.social · 3w agoHad to look and surprised usb c can deliver 240 W so a USB electric blanket isn’t as comical as I initially thought.
Location saved for next time I'm visiting Oxford....
Benjamin Pope@benjaminpope.bsky.social · 3w agomaybe my favourite place in England outside of major cities
Every time the chair of a meeting says “I’m sure we don’t need to take the full 90 minutes” at the start of the meeting, my left eyelid starts twitching uncontrollably until the end of the meeting some two hours later.
Also my view on driverless cars, AI + harmful algorithms is if the tech billionaires wanted me to trust them on this, maybe they shouldn't have adopted "move fast and break things" as their motto!
Teachers Series: B-B-B-B-Bingo!
ALT: Teachers Series: B-B-B-B-Bingo!
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Just a normal camera, if “normal” means: 🔭 A 3.2-billion-pixel sensor 🌌 A field of view that could fit ~45 full Moons ⏱️ A new 8-gigabyte image every ~40 seconds NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera is the largest ever built (thanks SLAC!). Ok, maybe that's not normal. 🔭🧪
Great to read BBC Sky At NIght interview with Cyrielle Opitom (@physicsastronomyed.bsky.social) on why comet 3I/ATLAS is a big deal. There's also a nod to how @vrubinobs.bsky.social can help us better understand interstellar objects 🔭 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/3i-atla...
"We had a visitor from a distant corner of our Galaxy" Scientist reveals why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was so special – and why we'll find many more very soon | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Interview with astronomer Cyrielle Opitom who co-led a study of comet 3I/ATLAS using the Very Large Telescope
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If I understand this, two mathematicians (one at Anthropic) combined a great deal of human effort with LLM input to come close to a famous problem, showing that the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid mechanics developed singularities. But someone from OpenAI might have peeked at their ChatGPT logs...
Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 4w agoDancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
If the implication here is correct, nobody should use OpenAI models for anything that might compete with them. Even if it's not, it's still clear that OpenAI has behaved in a really shitty way.
Micah Warren@micah541.bsky.social · 4w agocloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
The problem with people is, there's a god shaped hole in our heads where we want Something Important to live, and we insist on filling it with *something*, which might be god or king or astrology or jumped-up autocorrect.
Very cool! We really should be getting #exomoon transits with JWST....
David Kipping@davidkipping.bsky.social · 4w agoThe most sensitive search for exomoons ever - moons 2.5x smaller than Europa are excluded! And around a temperate Earth-sized planet to boot. What’s really neat is that, for the first time, we can confidently say another Earth does not enjoy total Solar eclipses. arxiv.org/abs/2609.05301
Note of caution for the MC Escher museum : it has a spiral staircase running up the middle of the building, but it's filled with hooded figures who seem to walk endlessly up and down the stairs....
Richard Alexander@richardalexander.bsky.social · 4w agoMany of my colleagues are at #EPSC2026 in Den Haag this week. Just a reminder to everyone that there's an MC Escher museum in the centre of the city (Escher in het Paleis), which is *awesome*. Plus everyone should go to Madurodam at least once in their lives. 😀
When I was a graduate student, the administrative assistants had TWO FULL FILING CABINETS crammed with all the alternative theories sent into the #astronomy department. So much time and thought went into them, too.
Rosemary Mosco@rosemarymosco.com · 4w agoI’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades
