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András Gáspár @andrasgaspar.bsky.social · 1d

The JWST Cycle 5 "Procrastination Monitor", i.e. Molly's proposal counter submission form, is up an running. Please fill it out if you have data to add to it. And do share! #JWSTCycle5

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JWST Cycle 5 Proposal Procrastination Monitor

An anonymous way to monitor JWST proposal submission times In the email from proposal-submission@stsci, the subject line will be like, "JWST Phase I Proposal 3434 submission 4 received". Here, 3434 =...

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 1d

And minute by minute gets you through a plane flight (I would tell myself back when traveling with a toddler)

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 1d

🙋🏼‍♀️ Raises hand as white person who has been (warmly!) welcomed at NSBP for many years.
Also from a state (Michigan) that has been operating under an “affirmative action ban” for almost two decades … so our lawyers know that it’s perfectly legal to attend these events

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 1d

Uuuugh. In MI we’ve been operating under a state affirmative action ban since 2006 and so our lawyers have extensive experience in determining what is/isn’t permissible. And we get to have a booth at SACNAS

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 1d

Take care 💛

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 1d

😬

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 3d

YES. And also Mathnet, Schoolhouse Rock, …

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5d

Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!

US Astronomy Graduate Admissions, AY 2025-2026

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 6d

Sharing in the interest of amplifying good things (and combating doomscrolling) 🤩

Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 6d

#NASAWebb is clearing up some mysteries about star formation thanks to its infrared capabilities—ideal for seeing the coolest, dimmest stars. ✨ Building on Hubble’s look at the Flame Nebula, Webb revealed new details, including the region’s low mass objects. 🔭 🧪

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 7d

There are so many horrible things going on in world, in and out of the US, but this form of the US deciding to let vulnerable folks die is just so heartbreaking and enraging

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 8d

Let me know if you want to sign up! 😉

Sean D. Johnson @seanjohnson.bsky.social · 8d

We should form a list of astronomers devoted to telling each other when one of us has gone off the rails. We’ll call it Emily’s List.

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 8d

😂

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 8d

Please let me know if I ever get to this level of ridiculous

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 11d

Since someone just encouraged me to tell “them”: please stop making the lights on electronics blue. These are the things that are going to be glowing in my otherwise dark room at night, so if there must be a light, please at least make it red!

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 12d

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 12d

a person with a pumpkin on their head is holding a starbucks cup of coffee .

Alt: a person wearing a pumpkin on their head and a pumpkin sweater is riding skateboard and holding a starbucks pumpkin latte, which they then pour onto the mouth part of their pumpkin head

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 13d

🙄😂

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 13d

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 13d

But with the extra nuance and I personally despise the taste of chocolate

a black and white photo of a woman in a chef 's hat standing in front of a counter .

Alt: a black and white video of Lucille Ball in a chef 's hat standing in front of a conveyor belt, trying and failing to deal with the chocolates rolling by

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 14d

The number of scam texts I’m receiving is also on the rise 🤦‍♀️

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 16d

I sat on a thesis defense that started at 8am this morning (in my time zone) 😴

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 16d

☂️

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 16d

If any of you fine folks are planetarians in (or want to be in) mid-Michigan, the Abrams Planetarium is hiring a full-time-staff position for the first time in 11 years!! Come work with the astro, scicomm, and informal ed folks at MSU!! 🔭 🧪 (reskeets welcome) careers.msu.edu/jobs/educati...

Educational Program Coordinator II - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The program coordinator will maintain the planetarium, present live shows, and create new planetarium visualizations. In addition, this position will assist customers, assist in educa...

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 16d

Today I have: one thesis defense, two oral exams, four research meetings, (more than) eight hours of work, … 😵‍💫 Happy Monday 😆

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