🎥 2026 AAS Journals Author Series Update!
Frank Timmes, AAS Journals Scientific Editor, shares the “why” behind the series — why we create these videos, what the metrics show, how we reached 500+ videos, and how featured articles are selected. 🔭 youtu.be/1_U5WsSXzmU
@publishing.aas.org
Finally made a Blue Sky account! Also yay read our paper on the destruction of my favorite galaxy!
computational science postdoc fellowship here at Stony Brook, through the SUNY Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth Plus (PRODiG Plus)
apply.interfolio.com/179315
such a joy to have given a talk at the Liberty Science Center last week on the CMB + Adele : )
lsc.org/news-and-soc...
👏🏽
RCSA, @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, the Leinweber Foundation, and Kevin Wells are funding the research of 7 collaborative teams in the 2nd year of #Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST, a 3-year initiative to ignite discovery with the @vrubinobs.bsky.social's Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
Do you ever just stop and think about how great Charles Yu's writing is?
Anyway the first chapter of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME is called "How to Live Safely in a Science Factual Universe" -- iykyk
Preorder here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
final grades: posted! it’s been so inspiring working with our AMAZING senior undergraduate students this semester in my theoretical astro (stars) class @stewardobservatory.bsky.social.
looking forward to hear about all the great things they go on to accomplish — admit them to your grad programs! 💥
impo class tomorrow !
and closing out the session, my STELLAR grad student, logan white @ @stewardobservatory.bsky.social, sharing how phifty one ergs blow up a star! 💥
isabelle jones, grad student @ @ucscscience.bsky.social, sharing recent results on variable accretion in low mass stars.
chris hernandez, phd candidate @ u pitt telling us about the pitt-google alert broker for rubin!
some excellent talks to finish off day 2 of the ASTRO sessions here at the NSBP/NSHP 2025 Joint Conference! #nsbp #nshp
real
also, i’ll be at NSBP next week and AAS in January, if you want to chat about the position in person. also available to chat over zoom anytime about what my group is working on!
it is important to me that a candidate is passionate about advancing equity, community building, and whose work demonstrates inclusive scientific practices in computational astrophysics. if this sounds like you, please consider joining us here @stewardobservatory.bsky.social!
i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)!
i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social!
apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...
Happy to share that our book on computing in physics education has just dropped, @ioppublishing.bsky.social
You can get all the chapters written by some of incredible colleagues who are improving physics education through computing right now.
iopscience.iop.org/book/edit/97...
#iteachphysics
Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW!
The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...
Glad to see an amazing astronomer on the list of MacArthur awards this year - congrats to Kareem El-Badry! 🔭
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
A black and white photo of Enrico Fermi standing at a blackboard, explaining a scattering problem. He is wearing a charcoal wool three-piece suit, with a striped tie and a light-colored shirt. Fermi is looking to the right of the photographer, smiling at someone in the audience.
Enrico Fermi, one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century, was born #OTD in 1901. While most physicists focus on either experiment or theory, Fermi excelled at both.
Now, estimate how many new physicists will be born today. 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢 (1/n)
Image: New York Public Library
Astronomy 🔭 and physics ⚛️ GRFP applications are due Nov 14! Only seniors and 1st-year grad students can apply now (no second years).
Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off. aasnova.org/2025/09/24/k... 🔭🧪
Got my physical copy!
Screenshot of research.gov after logging in, showing link for "Prepare and Submit Proposals" on the left in a red oval.
Screenshot of "Prepare New Full Proposal" on research.gov, with "add a new role" and "NSF 22-621" circled in red. In order to see the listing of the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, one must change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
that part! working on what this looks like for me
you already know all my tricks from my online notes, but I do have some stuff buried in homeworks, like this exercise of fitting to Cephids:
zingale.github.io/computationa...
first day of year 2 as an assistant prof done ✅.
very excited to be teaching 29 very bright undergraduate students in our upper level stars course this semester!
ps. looking for engaging in class exercises for the 3rd/4th year level, so please share what has worked for you in the past! 🙏🏽
