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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Maura McLaughlin Today we interview Dr. Maura McLaughlin, who is a professor at West Virginia University and one of this year's #AAS247 Plenary speakers!

...Dr. Maura McLaughlin talk about the NANOGrav project! #AAS247
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Meet the AAS 247 Keynote Speakers: Xavier Siemens Today we interview Prof Xavier Siemens, Professor at Oregon State University. He and his colleague, Maura McLaughlin, will accept the Bruno Rossi Prize on behalf of the NANOGrav Collaboration at #AAS2...

A double feature at 11:40am #AAS247: Dr. Xavier Siemens and....
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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Maya Fishbach Today we interview Dr. Maya Fishbach, assistant professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto, winner of the 2025 Annie Jump Cannon Award and a plenary...

Dr. Maya Fishbach's plenary on gravitational waves: #AAS47
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Check out all the action from the first two days of #AAS247 with our summary wrap posts! ☄️🔭✨🧪
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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Tonima Tasnim Ananna Today we interview Dr. Tonima Tasnim Ananna, who is a professor at Wayne State University and one of this year's #AAS247 Plenary speakers!

At 4:40pm: Dr. Tonima Tasnim-Ananna's plenary on current and future surveys of AGN #AAS247
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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Priyamvada Natarajan Today we interview Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan, a professor at Yale, winner of the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics and a plenary speaker at #AAS247

At 3:40pm: Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan's plenary on the first black holes in the universe #AAS247
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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Alexander Furnas Today, we interview Dr. Alex Furnas, a political science researcher at Northwestern University and one of this year's #AAS247 Plenary speakers!

At 11:40am: Dr. Alexander Furnas's plenary on science in policymaking and the current state of affairs #AAS247
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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Adam Leroy Today we interview Dr. Adam Leroy, who is a professor at the Ohio State University and one of this year's #AAS247 Plenary speakers!

At 8:10am: Dr. Adam Leroy's plenary on the ISM of nearby galaxies #AAS247
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Its day two of #AAS247 and we have more talks from our authors!

Catch Drew Lapeer ( @giantmolecular.cloud ) in room 224A at 2:00 PM and Annelia Anderson ( @astroannelia.bsky.social ) in room 228B at 2:30 PM!

Later in the day at 2:00 PM, Niloofar Sharei ( @astroneal.bsky.social ) will be giving a talk in room 229b!

Come support our authors and learn about the scientists behind Astrobites! #AAS247 🔭

Want to hear about some of the cool science our authors are doing at #AAS247? Two of our authors are giving talks today!

Kicking us off at 10:10 AM in room 222c is Skylar Grayson ( @skylargrayson.bsky.social ) with her dissertation talk! 🔭

Astrobites will be covering #AAS247 Jan 4-8 from beautiful (sunny!?) Phoenix AZ! We'll have liveblogging here on this account & daily summaries and interviews with the plenary speakers over at astrobites.org ☄️✨🔭🧪

Are you at #AAS247 and want to learn more about Astrobites? 👀 You can find us in the Exhibition Hall all week (near the Sky & Telescope booth, next to the iPosters)! You can also find us tonight at the Grad School & REU Fair!

Come by to say hi, ask questions, and learn about who we are! 🔭 ☄️ 🧪

Spinning into the merging binary black hole family tree Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today's bite!

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
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Not Their First Rodeo: Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before The gravitational wave events GW241011 and GW241110 provide strong evidence for the growth of black holes through successive mergers.

Spinning into the merging binary black hole family tree

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@astrobites.bsky.social report on the potential implications of our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110

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Kareem El-Badry Named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow Kareem El-Badry Named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded Kareem El-Badry, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, with a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, an honor that comes with a "no-strings-attached" grant of $800,000.

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👋 I'm here 😂

Keep your ν-eyes open: Messengers from a Common Envelope Today's bite explores how neutrinos might inform us about a neutron star being engulfed by another star!

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how neutrinos might inform us about a neutron star being engulfed by another star! 🔭✨☄️
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Writing a scientific paper as a first author for the first time is so so daunting, intimidating, terrifying 🥺

But it doesn't have to be this way.

What are some tools, support, encouraging frameworks that professors, mentors and advisors share with their students to write their first papers? ✍️🏼🙏🏼🔭

Today for @blackinastro.bsky.social's theme of #ShareTheUniverse for 🪐 Black in Space Week 🔭, we have two very special interview articles with black astronomers Logan White and Phoenix-Avery Sarian! Summaries for each article and links in the thread below ⬇️!

Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Saavik Ford Today we interview Dr. Saavik Ford, a professor at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and a plenary speaker at #AAS246

From Neev Shah: Today we interview Dr. Saavik Ford, a professor at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️

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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Danny Milisavljevic Today we interview Dr. Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor at Purdue University and a plenary speaker at #AAS246

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today we interview Dr. Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor at Purdue University and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️
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Job Opportunities | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Hey I’m hiring a 4-year PhD student in #astronomy at UCC to work on studying massive black holes in cosmological simulations! Fast turn around on this bc it is so late (due 6 June) but please pass on to any interested and qualified students! Feel free to dm/email me! 🔭🧪

www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...

Poster advertising the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18 at Rutgers University. There is a QR code on the bottom left, and there is also information about the conference + the invited lecturers.

Excited to announce the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18! To offset the uncertain funding landscape, we are offering a hybrid option + requiring NO registration fee. Non-faculty are especially encouraged to apply!

Please apply by May 31! More in the replies!

🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro

The Song of Urania Podcast · Joe Antognini · A history of astronomy, from antiquity to the present.

there's this podcast on the history of astronomy (across different civilizations) that *may* have an overlap with what you might be looking for

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For Pride month this year, Astrobites is looking to highlight transgender astronomers and we want YOU! We are planning to interview four astronomers about their experience being transgender in science, how they've dealt with barriers throughout their career . . . (1/4)

It's the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday. I see a lots of pictures being posted, for me the most important images it took were the images that uncovered what stars look like that explode as core-collapse supernovae.

E.g. this from Mattila et al. (2008) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ....)

Sagittarius A* only eats half its lunch, but where does it come from? The Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today's bite explores where those binaries came from.

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today’s bite explores where those binaries came from. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/08/s-stars-around-sag-a/

Astronomers - if you're submitting to the prestigious Acta Prima Aprilia journal and could use a peer review, make sure you shoot us a link so we don't miss you!
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Anna Watts - Neutron Stars: The Supranuclear Density Zombies of the Cosmos (March 26, 2025) YouTube video by Simons Foundation

WHAT IS A NEUTRON STAR? And why should you care?

Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟‍♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...