Interesting stats from Isabel Torres of Mothers In Science... mothers and fathers publish significantly more papers than childless people (across a range of sciences) 🤔 #EAS2024Padova

Hopefully today is the last day the Tories will be in power for a long long time. Thirteen years of crippling cuts to public services and of course let's not mention #Brexit. #Elections2024 #vote #vote #vote #ToriesOut

"Unlike politicians, astronomers always deliver more than they promise..." --- Richard Ellis #EAS2024Padova

Waking up to a new world today... hopefully.

What a boon to astronomy Gaia has been... and for such a reasonable cost.

For followers based in England - it's Office for Students' regulation day. The The Office for Students (OfS) has published its regulations and prevalence survey on harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education. Our thoughts - it's stronger than expected. Thread: officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/c…

Came across a wonderful typo (I presume): "the spin magnitude of stellar-sass binary black holes". Would that imply the existence of super-sassy black holes? Intermediate-sass black holes?

Dream job? Testing and reviewing mattresses and other sleep products! Makes me tired just thinking about it.

I know nearly everyone has left Twitter now, but any last stragglers are welcome to take part in the annual #NAstroCoverComp...

Rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth: amino acids and nucleobases. They also carry ammonia that formed billions of years ago in cold, distant regions of our Solar System. Daniel Glavin et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

#OSIRISReX sample return papers out today!

Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage go.nature.com/4hXBFGr

State-of-the-art computer simulations show that the first water in the Universe formed in primordial supernova remnants 100 Myr after the Big Bang, enriching future sites of planet formation to levels nearly those in the Solar System today. Whalen et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Yay, AAS journal articles now have a facility to specify author contributions to a paper: journals.aas.org/author-contrib… But they are not mandatory 😩

Breaking news: ArXiv ordering to become randomised (soon, as soon as new software is in place). #EASCork2025