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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 5h

sorry 🙈🙈🙈 I’m always rooting for more Astro hires

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 7h

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...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Physics)

The Department of Physics at Oregon State University (OSU) is seeking an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure/tenure-track faculty position.Any hiri...

jobs.oregonstate.edu

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 15h

OSU spent many thousands of $$ on booth registrations for SACNAS earlier this year. Now they said they would rather take the financial loss than let us recruit at this meeting of >6000 scientists.

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 15h

Here is the email from the provost reversing the decision & saying we can attend if presenting research. However, we still cannot recruit or attend without research benefit. Also many students did have registration cancelled (or missed registration deadlines) when OSU was prohibiting attendance.

SACNAS NDiSTEM conference update
Hi All,

Please see the email below from the provost with new guidance related to the SACNAS conference.

Best regards,
Todd

From: Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda <ADMIN-Provost@osu.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
To: Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda <ADMIN-Provost@osu.edu>
Cc: Garcia, Anne <garcia.680@osu.edu>
Subject: SACNAS NDiSTEM conference update

Hi everyone,

Our office has been working with the Office of Legal Affairs regarding participation in the upcoming SACNAS NDiSTEM conference in light of the outreach the university received last week from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Based on our conversations, the Office of Academic Affairs is recommending the following as it relates to participation in this year’s SACNAS conference:

If an Ohio State faculty member or student is scheduled to present research or participate in sessions that advance their research at the SACNAS conference, then the faculty member or student can attend and use university funds to do so.

If an Ohio State faculty member or student is NOT scheduled to present research or participate in sessions that advance their research (e.g., the purpose of attending is solely for recruitment) at the SACNAS conference but wishes to participate in the conference, they may still attend but must use personal resources to do so.

For participation as a research presenter or in sessions that advance their research, we are requesting that a designee within each college or unit (e.g., the Associate Dean of Research) affirms that the participation is in fact to present or advance research as part of the approval process for university funding.

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RAS Journals @rasjournals.bsky.social · 22h

Published in #MNRAS: "2D end-to-end modelling of kilonovae from binary neutron star merger remnants", Sippens Groenewegen et al. this is Fig. 1: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

Sketch of the merger remnant, showing outflows (left) and their associated (non-)thermal emission components (right), including red and blue kilonova emission.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Darren Incorvaia @megadarren.bsky.social · 8d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is here and it's a doozy: the discovery of regulatory T cells! I woke up at 2am to write this story so if you see any typos, no you didn't:

3 immunologists win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of regulatory T cells

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three pioneering immunologists for their work on regu | The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three pion...

www.fiercebiotech.com

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13d

tyyy 🥰

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13d

yes but that will remain unposted haha

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13d

And I yours!! what a gorgeous summer of love we’ve had 🥰

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13d

You two are the absolute best and I miss you so much !! 🥰

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13d

What’s left of them after this academic job cycle 😂

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you!

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13d

and !! outfit change !!

my husband and I walking into our wedding reception hall in traditional Indian outfits, I’m wearing a red lehenga with gold embroidery and he’s in an embroidered deep purple sherwani

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 13d

from our wedding this June 🤍

my husband and I cheek to cheek looking at the camera, he’s wearing a blue suit and I’m wearing a lacy off shoulder dress

My husband is hugging me from behind and I’m holding my wedding bouquet. We’re both looking at the camera and smiling.

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 14d

🙏🏽💚

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16d

this is quickly becoming a load bearing post for me

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 15d

thanks! I hope the artisanal cheese and jam rations last through the winter

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 15d

The only war they need to fight in Portland is the war on invasive blackberry bushes.

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 16d

if the troops want something actually useful to do in Oregon they can pull out the thistle in my yard

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 17d

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

A simple sign on a building in upstate New York that that reads “Books & Cake”

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 17d

sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 19d

someone do the same for NSF please

Darren Incorvaia @megadarren.bsky.social · 19d

To understand how budget cuts could impact the NIH, economists looked to the past--and their alternate history revealed how Trump-level defunding would have undercut breakthrough new medicines of the 21st century 🧪 my story:

'Alternative history' of the NIH shows how a 40% budget cut may thwart new medicines

An “alternative history” has revealed the potential impacts a smaller National Institutes of Health would have had on past drug development—and the results

www.fiercebiotech.com

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Darren Incorvaia @megadarren.bsky.social · 19d

To understand how budget cuts could impact the NIH, economists looked to the past--and their alternate history revealed how Trump-level defunding would have undercut breakthrough new medicines of the 21st century 🧪 my story:

'Alternative history' of the NIH shows how a 40% budget cut may thwart new medicines

An “alternative history” has revealed the potential impacts a smaller National Institutes of Health would have had on past drug development—and the results

www.fiercebiotech.com

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Carl Rodriguez @carlrodriguez.bsky.social · 19d

I'm hiring 1-2 postdocs this year! If you're interested in:

GW astrophysics
(Binary) Stellar Evolution
Stellar dynamics (esp. w/ massive BHs)
Galactic dynamics (inc. stellar streams)

plz consider applying! You don't need letters initially, just a list of references.

🔭🧪

aas.org/jobregister/...

Postdoctoral Associate Positions in Theoretical/Computational Astrophysics | American Astronomical Society

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill invites applications for postdoctoral associates to conduct research in theoretical and computational astrophysi...

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 20d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis: