DR℮W 🪿🏳️⚧️
@giantmolecular.cloud
Astrophysics PhD student; Studies star formation, stellar feedback, galaxy evolution; Astrobites author; Artist; Weirdo and also fun dude; Webmaster at https://giantmolecular.cloud; Uses they/them pronouns; Transgender;
Drew Lapeer reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on an intriguing new object that may be an early universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon. aasnova.org/2026/04/07/a... 🔭
A Potential New Piece of the “Little Red Dot” Puzzle
Astrobites reports on an intriguing new object that may be an early universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon.
aasnova.org
There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2026 and provided some “peer review”. astrobites.org/2026/04/06/april-fools-2026/
The April Fools Paper Review Process – 2026
There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2026 and provided some “peer review”.
astrobites.org
If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭
Don't give them ideas... xkcd.com/3225/
ESO@eso.org · 4mo agoSoon we may see 1 million more satellites in Earth's orbit. The consequences to astronomy would be devastating. Fighting for a fair & sustainable use of space for astronomy and humanity — that's Betty Kioko's job as ESO’s Institutional Affairs Officer 👉 www.eso.org/public/blog/... 🔭 🧪 #DarkSkies
Astrobites is partnering with @blackinastro.bsky.social this year for Black Space Week! If you’d like to register to participate as a writer or interviewee you can fill out the Google Form below or in the QR code in the flyer! The deadline is Friday March 6th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
seeing talk about un reviewed GRFP applications. super disappointing. when i applied during undergrad (2023) i had one reviewer who clearly didn't read my material. put a single period in each review box and scored me straight middle-of-the-road. don't know how common this was at the time. 🧪
The NRAO released some radio astronomy valentines and NGL this one is making me giggle 💘 🔭🧪
CONFIRMED BY SCIENCE: anyone more online than me is a loser phone addict and everyone less online than me are basic underdeveloped normies
Elizabeth Nolan Brown@enbrown.bsky.social · 6mo agoA huge Australian study of tweens and teens finds best mental health among moderate social media users — not total abstainers reason.com/2026/02/09/a...
my flight from NL to Boston was cancelled so i now have a 2 hour layover in Detroit on my new flight this is just enough time to smash one (1) coney dog at the airport Coney Island before returning to massachusetts
I KNEW A MAN HE SAT BEHIND A DESK THAT WAS A MILLION FEET WIDEEEEE BUT HE LAID DOWN HIS HAMMER AND HE DIEDDDDD
DR℮W 🪿🏳️⚧️@giantmolecular.cloud · 7mo agoafter substantial pushing from friends (i.e. state propagandists) i have finally listened to the Geese album and have to begrudgingly admit that it is Good
“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection.” One of the 32 stunning illustrative plates to feature in Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750): publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
if i had a nickel for every replica of JWST i saw in Leiden i would have two nickels
sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive
i have been trying to slowly push people towards exactly this (especially in astronomy)👁️hosting your own slightly weird website and joining web rings is a great way to not hate your time spent socializing online
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert@elakdawalla.bsky.social · 6mo agoI keep saying it’s time we go back to Web 1.0. Everybody do their own website and link rings to other actual humans who know things.
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact
very related is the deep seated feeling of home sickness. god i miss the midwest
DR℮W 🪿🏳️⚧️@giantmolecular.cloud · 6mo agono gloves no jacket just fueled by corn and a fear of god
asserting my dominance over the new englanders by shoveling my car out of 2 feet of snow wearing nothing but a fur cap and sweatshirt
From Drew Lapeer @giantmolecular.cloud: Today’s paper presents an intriguing new object, which may be a early-Universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/26/x...
A Potential New Piece of the “Little Red Dot” Puzzle
Today's paper presents an intriguing new object, which may be a early-Universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon!
astrobites.org
waiting for important (dare i say "life changing") emails is a unique form of torture which is all too prevalent in the modern world
love a good garbage ape in these trying times
actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 6mo ago25 Jan 2026
