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Ankit Barik
@astrodoc.bsky.social
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Assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Studying planetary interiors and dynamos. Developer of codes. Lover of fluid dynamics and MHD.

https://ankitbarik.github.io
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internetperson69.bsky.social
Captain Picard, from Star Trek TNG, is running down a hallway with a black and white tiled floor, being chased by a floating Q. Q has his arms outstretched showing off the big wizard sleeves on his funky judges robes. Both of them are blurred with movement. Captain Picard is labeled "me just trying to enjoy the weekend" and Q is labeled "Monday morning."
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
astrodoc.bsky.social
PSA: if you're writing a numerical simulation paper, please add the initial and boundary conditions as clear separate equations or at least bullet point sentences. It is incredibly hard to decipher them if they're written in vague language inside a paragraph somewhere.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
astrodoc.bsky.social
I know it's a difficult time for funding right now. But should we change how it is structured in general? Very few sectors outside academia would hire you and tell you "please go find money for your own salary. Good luck!" #academia 🧪⚛️
October 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.

This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
In the foreground is Saturn's giant moon Titan, its hazy, peach-coloured atmosphere extending into space. Behind is Saturn itself, its upper hemisphere crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system.
September 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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antarctic.bsky.social
🌀The stratospheric polar vortex is a belt of high-speed cyclonic winds around 12-20km high over the poles. When temperatures in the stratosphere – which contains the ozone layer – start rising in the southern spring, the ozone hole over the Antarctic grows.

2025 ozone: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
astrodoc.bsky.social
Being in #academia means having constant FOMO about what people are working on. 🧪⚛️
September 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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timkrief.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
astrodoc.bsky.social
First proposal as PI submitted! 🥳🎉
Wish me luck!

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September 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
astrodoc.bsky.social
Wow! Excited! 😍😍
September 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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orb-ksb.bsky.social
☀🌕 On September 7, there will be a #totallunareclipse. However, totality will only be visible in Belgium between 20:17 (moonrise) and 20:53 (end of totality), local time in Uccle. For better observation, find a place with a clear horizon between east and south-east. robinfo.oma.be/en/as...
Copper red full moon
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
astrodoc.bsky.social
The Europa clipper is on its way to investigate the ice shell and ocean of the Jovian moon Europa. Here's what the interior of Europa looks like as we know today. Values of layer depth estimates taken from Vance et al., 2018. 🧪⚛️

#EuropaClipper #PlanetaryScience #FluidDynamics
A picture showing the interior layers of Jupiter's moon Europa. It shows an inner core, on top of which is a hot mantle, an ocean overlying it and finally covered by ice. The surface texture is also included showing crisscross "chaos" terrains, craters etc.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
astrodoc.bsky.social
I just learned that one of the most brilliant science minds I ever met during my PhD "quit" academia. I say it in quotes because I really hate that language. It keeps so many people feeling guilty about want to leave a system that does not value their skills, experience and knowledge. 🧪⚛️ (1/n)
August 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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aussiastronomer.bsky.social
'Who killed Hannibal'? meme from the Eric Andre show. In the top panel a man in a grey suit (labeled 'NATURE') kills a man sitting in a chair (labeled 'NULL RESULTS'). In the bottom panel the man in the grey suit turns to the camera and says "WHY DON'T SCIENTISTS PUBLISH NULL RESULTS?"
July 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
astrodoc.bsky.social
WTAF?! Can we just not?! The only people I would like to chat with about a paper are the authors. Keep your dirty AI hands off it.
doctorapatite.bsky.social Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · Jul 22
THE ARTICLE IS NOT ALIVE I CANNOT "CHAT WITH IT"
screencap that says: Chat with an article Save up to 50% of your literature research time by asking your questions to an article.
July 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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planetdr.bsky.social
In case you were wondering what it was like at home tonight…very similar to this
denagoldblatt.bsky.social Dena Goldblatt @denagoldblatt.bsky.social · Jul 17
Incredible — close enough to see, too far away to hear… @capitalweather.bsky.social from Bethesda
July 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
astrodoc.bsky.social
My 3-5 key metal bands

Black Sabbath
Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Katatonia
Tool
drerinmac.bsky.social Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · Jul 15
My 3-5 key metal bands

Nightwish
Týr
Eluveitie
Korpiklaani
Feuerschwanz
jordankurella.com Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · Jul 15
my 3 - 5 key metal bands

Beast in Black
Battle Beast
Powerwolf
Lord of the Lost
Feuerschwanz
July 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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neurograce.bsky.social
Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.
Science Funding Process
=====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
astrodoc.bsky.social
Cool cool great timing, just as I was about to finish up a thesis report ...
July 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
astrodoc.bsky.social
Hi online hive mind, looking for advice. Has anyone recently applied for an NSF grant? Is it currently worth it? 🧪⚛️
Fields : Earth/planetary science, astrophysics
July 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
astrodoc.bsky.social
Intel compilers:

icc: command line warning #10121: overriding '-xHost' with '-xHost'

What??! ⚛️🧪
May 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
astrodoc.bsky.social
#NewPaper alert! 🧪⚛️
We simulate the dynamo of ancient Mars and provide a possible explanation of its anomalous magnetic field.
April 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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mpsgoettingen.bsky.social
#IMPRS interview week is here! Applicants for @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy, lovingly called
#SolarSystemSchool, are at #MPSGoettingen to learn more about the institute and its research. Enjoy your week of tours, lectures, interviews and socializing!
March 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i
June 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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elakdawalla.bsky.social
I would really like to pay an astro or planetary grad student to do some odd-job coding work for me and also to tutor me in python for basic stuff like batch processing in imagemagick, drawing data plots and orbits, and generating html to display tabular data. Anyone interested?
March 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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physicstoday.bsky.social
Vera Rubin has been selected to be featured on the back of a quarter. She is the first astronomer to be honored this way. Read about her research on the Andromeda galaxy and how it led to the discovery of dark matter in this article written by Rubin herself. doi.org/10.1063/1.24...
🔭 #WomenInStem
A black and white photo of Vera Rubin measuring spectra
March 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM