mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social online diary sometimes mimismartypants.com
she/her. Chicago. an okay person.
.Astronomy @dotastro.bsky.social Conference series about what happens when hackers, astronomers and the web all get together.
Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social Entertaining & educational conversations about science, tech, + more. Hosted by Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman. From WNYCStudios.
Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
@miaandthesky.bsky.social @miaandthesky.bsky.social 
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social Exoplanet astrophysicist and avid petter of dogs.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social Astronomer | Science communicator | Adult Lisa Simpson
Freelance writer and editor. Former Education and Outreach Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (@stsci.edu) supporting JWST.
Also on Mastodon: @KellyLepo@scicomm.xyz
Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State.
Son, father, partner, scientist, teacher, student, human, Earthling.
Mostly posting astronomy. Mostly.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social Astronomer at UW, data pipeline wrangler for Rubin Observatory, satellite mitigation leader via IAU CPS SatHub, mom, violist, Ballardite (Seattle), family cargo e-bike evangelist, Episcopalian, etc. Opinions all mine
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social Astronomer, professor, birder, singer, cat communer (she/her)
University of Denver, @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social
Past Grand Canyon Astronomer in Residence
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social Mama told me not to but I did it anyway
L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social I have arrived.
One existential crisis from being productive.
John Debes @johndebes.bsky.social ESA/AURA astronomer at STScI. Opinions my own. I study exoplanets and disks around stars.
EAS Annual Meeting @eas-meeting.bsky.social Official Account of the EAS Annual Meeting #EAS2026Lausanne
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2026/
Brian @brianwlevine.bsky.social 
Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social NHFP Sagan Fellow@UCSC 🍌🐌|RCSA Fellow| Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellow| brown dwarfs & exoplanets| Black In Astro VP|plan(e)t mom 🪴/🪐|she/her/hers
Website: https://capricephillips.space
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
David Hillyard @davidhillyard.bsky.social Musician, Knowledge Seeker. The Slackers. Rocksteady 7.
Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social Science communicator, writer, artist | She/They 🏳️🌈 | Views = mine
📃 Online Portfolio (rachellense.com)
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
Kym @ The Evening Sky Map @skymaps.com Lifelong sky watcher • Publisher of The Evening Sky Map (PDF) each month since January 2000: skymaps.com/tesm/ • Interests: Astronomy outreach • Astro-imaging • Supernovae | Career scientist (retired)
Kym Thalassoudis PhD
Jeffrey Silverman @jmsilverman.bsky.social Earthling, American Jew, Calitexafornian, Data Scientist, Dr of Astrophysics, Disneyphile, SciCommer.
Also on FB, IG, & Threads.
Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social Astrophysicist
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Dan Schneiderman @dan-schneidy.bsky.social Science is Everywhere! Community Engagement Manager at RMSC. Previously Eclipse Partnership Coordinator.
Peter Edmonds @peterdedmonds.bsky.social Australian-American husband, father, professional nerd, astronomy communicator, dog spoiler, cricket fan. Opinions mine. He/him. 
Nicole Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com Physics professor, astronomer, education researcher, and scicommer who loves dogs, speculative fiction, weights, and good trouble. NH, US. She/They.
Opinions are mine alone. RT≠endorsement. Posts are ephemeral.
I swear a lot.
noisyastronomer.com
The City University of New York @cuny.edu The nation’s largest urban public university system serving 247,000 students on 26 New York City campuses. Led by @cunychancellor.bsky.social Félix Matos Rodríguez. Learn more: cuny.edu
CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social A graduate school of arts and sciences, The Graduate Center is a community of scholars dedicated to the idea that learning is a public good.
Trent Dupuy @trentdupuy.bsky.social astronomer with no hobbies
AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy @aascsma.bsky.social Committee of the @aasoffice.bsky.social charged to enhance participation in astronomy at all levels of experience.
They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social Official. Our new LP The World is To Dig is here at TMBGshop.com. Multi-night stands in Boston then on to Austin Dallas Houston Minn St Paul DC and beyond www.TMBG.com for tickets.
The Slackers @theslackersband.bsky.social Musical collective that plays Ska, Reggae, Soul, and RocknRoll since 1991. We are DIY not AI.
Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social Professor of astronomy 🔭 at Ohio State. Co-chair of @aascsma.bsky.social. Alum of UCSC and MIT. She/her 🇲🇽
Kat Troche @kuiperkat.org Professional amateur astronomer with astrosociety.org + aaa.org 💫
Emmy + Webby winner 🏆
Have scope, will travel 🔭
Opinions are my own 👩🏻💻
linktr.ee/kuiperkat
Skavoovie & the Epitones @skavoovie.bsky.social They played, recorded, people danced, and fun was had by all.
Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social humanoid astrobiologist 🌌 SFF author (largely oxygen by mass) 📚 transhumanist 🤖 star trek autism character 🖖 she/they 🏳️🌈 instructor @ Columbia ✒️ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS now availabile wherever books are sold 👀
sevenrasmussen.com
Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com astronomer, bairn, many other things separable by commas
http://www.nialldeacon.com/
Kelly L. O'Donnell 🖖 @drkellyodonnell.bsky.social Botanist, Ecologist, Science Educator, BioBlitzer, Nature Matchmaker. I like OERs, C*Science, embroidery, and Star Trek.
she/her/hers. opinions my own.
Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social Celebrating and amplifying the Black experience in space-related fields. EST. 2020
✉️ blackinastro@gmail.com
Website: blackinastro.com
https://www.blackinastro.com/black-space-week-2026
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Senior Vice President of Woke 5
Astronomy on Tap DC @astroontapdc.bsky.social Drink in the Universe with scientists eager to share their love of space with you with fun, engaging talks in a bar!
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Katey Alatalo, Ph.D. @kateyalatalo.com Astronomer ✨ Dreamer ✨ Crime Scene Investigator for Galaxies ✨Views are my own
The sky calls to us, if we do not destroy ourselves we will one day venture to the stars. - Carl Sagan
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out it’s hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com
The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc The City Reporter is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving New Yorkers. Sign up for our newsletter: thecityreporter.nyc/the-city-newsletters. Send tips: thecityreporter.nyc/contact/
Wandering Scientist @wandsci.bsky.social Still straining against the 2nd law of thermodynamics 
Dr. Moiya McTier @goastromo.bsky.social “Genuinely funny astrophysicist”
“Artemis reincarnated”
“I want to be her when I grow up”
order MOTHERS OF INVENTION 🏺
moiyamctier.com/muses
Karen James @kejames.bsky.social Environmental geneticist & outdoorswoman into eDNA, botany, evolution, space, sci-comm, skiing, Outlander & kindness • auntie • cat mom • she/her
“I would teach my feet to fly”
Banner art by @truelovebirch@bsky.social
📍Unceded Wabanaki land (aka Maine)
Suki Ewers @sukianemone.bsky.social The Opposition/The Resistance/Anti-Fascist
💙🧪Science especially Cosmology and Astrobiology
💙📚Books, Libraries, Education
💙🎶Musician at Mazzy Star, Palos Altos Band, Anemone, Old ToyTrains, Molino
🚫Hate🚫Racism🚫Lies🚫Conspiracy Theories
Brett Morris @brettmorr.is Astronomer, software engineer.
Supporting space telescopes, open science, and data access in astrophysics.
Thrilled and haunted by dots on stars.
http://brettmorr.is/
Posts my own, not my employer's.
janiceleeastro @janiceleeastro.bsky.social ✨ looking to our future with NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (SuperHubble!) & AI
✨ studying star formation and star clusters in nearby galaxies with PHANGS, Hubble, JWST
Erin M. May, PhD @astronomay.bsky.social Staff Astronomer @ a place - Exoplanet Atmospheres. All data is good data.
Plus Knitting, Stickers, Baking, and other crafty things. Toddler mom.
Previously known as @_astronoMay on the other site.
ErinMMay.com
SiderealStickers.Etsy.com
briley lewis @briles34.bsky.social astrophysicist • NSF fellow/PhD candidate UCLA (formerly
Columbia undergrad) • crafty human • dog mom • freelance science writer in SciAm SPACE PopSci & Astrobites • she/her
Beth Willman @bethwillman.bsky.social LSST Discovery Alliance, CEO
Philip Muirhead @philipmuirhead.bsky.social Astronomer at Boston University. Director of the Perkins Telescope Observatory.
Carrie Conners @carrieconners.bsky.social I like poems. Author of: Species of Least Concern (2022), Laugh Lines (2022), and Luscious Struggle (2019). LaGCC English prof. WV roots. https://linktr.ee/connerscarrie
Jennifer Weston @jweston1123.bsky.social Astronomer at the US Naval Observatory. Loves cooking, eating, reading, science, hiking, travel, and board games. My opinions are my own, and do not represent the organizations with which I am affiliated. 
Dr. Emily Rickman @astrorickman.bsky.social Astrophysicist - European Space Agency/STScI 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Direct Imaging Exoplanets & Brown Dwarfs✨🇬🇧🇦🇺🇨🇭🏳️🌈 she/they
Elisabeth Matthews @elisabethastro.bsky.social Exoplanets, disks, and everything in between 🪐💫
https://ecmatthews.github.io/
she/her
Dr Rajika "Reggie" Kuruwita @reggiek.bsky.social Sri Lankan-Australian Astrophysicist 🇱🇰🇦🇺. Post-doc at the Australian National University. Binary and multiple star formation! ✨ Cats, Space, science-based life choices, DV survivor, She/her, opinions my own
Astronomy on Tap HQ @astronomyontap.bsky.social 🌟Scientists & educators reveal how they explore the Universe, at bars & pubs around the world!🌟HQ account, follows satellite locations, organizers, & venues🌟 astronomyontap.org
Natalie Starkey @starkeystardust.bsky.social Science communicator & author (Catching Stardust; Fire & Ice). Science & Technology Editor at JMP Statistical Software.
Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social Award-winning public health reporter at KFF Health News. Bylines at Nature, New York Times, National Geographic & more. AmyM@kff.org Signal: AmyMaxmen.25 www.amymaxmen.com & https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/amy-maxmen
Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social Digestible summaries of the latest astronomy research. Written by an international team of grad students for undergrads! Supported by the @AAS_Office. #scicomm
Ned Wright @mapping3k.bsky.social UCLA astronomer working on space CMB and IR. On the COBE, WMAP, SIRTF and WISE missions. Asteroid (241527). See my cosmology tutorial at https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
Bruce Macintosh @bmacastro.bsky.social Astronomer working on imaging extrasolar planets, instrumentation, and science policy. Spare time: hiking with a golden retriever, and not playing enough boardgames.
Director, University of California Observatories, but opinions are my own. He/him
Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social Professor of planetary science at Johns Hopkins. Titan’s biggest fan. Pomeranian wrangler. Runner. Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. She/her. sarahhorst.com
Planetdr.26 on signal
STARtorialist @startorialist.com ✨ Space 🪐 Life ☀️ Style 🌌 shop & blog co-founded by professional astronomers
🛍️: shop.STARtorialist.com
Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social Engineer, data wrangler, and martian photographer at NASA-JPL, Los Angeles. Curiosity Rover ECAM PUL. Saturn native, commutes to Jupiter. USMC vet. Opinions are mine https://apoapsys.com
Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social Ceramic painter bringing dramatic galactic moments to your dinner table. PNW. (she/her)
linktr.ee/amyraehill
Restock: Aug 15th, 10am PT
Swapna Krishna @swapnakrishna.com space reporter. covering Artemis II for NatGeo.
occasionally: national geographic, engadget, fast company, wired, science friday, npr. links: http://bio.site/skrishna
also: Star Trek, Star Wars, knitting, books, parenting
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev Official Mirroring APOD BOT for Bluesky.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
Src:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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Flowers Georg @pantalonesfuego.bsky.social I like pie. she/her
Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social Professor of astronomy working at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands on the direct imaging of extrasolar planets and transits of giant ring systems || Opinions my own || Will tell Dad jokes for cash. https://kenworthy.space/
Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social European Space Agency Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. Team Lead for the MIRI instrument on JWST. Runner, dog mum, cyclist. 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Opinions my own. 
James Davenport @jradavenport.com Astronomy professor in Seattle. Coffee drinking, year-round-plaid wearing, joke telling space dad. Searching for ET, caring for humans.
https://jradavenport.github.io
🔭☕️🎤
Johanna Teske @johannateske.bsky.social She/her/hers. Astronomer, runner, feminist, vegan, Nats fan, Peloton fan.
Ryan Trainor @crosstrainor.bsky.social astrophysicist / dad / asso. professor at F&M College / visiting scientist “at” JHU / he / him.
interested in galaxies, AGN, data science, and justice.
Caroline Morley @astrocaroline.bsky.social Astronomer, Associate prof at UT Austin, mother of two small humans
Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social Planetary astronomer @UCNZ: envisioning worlds from here and elsewhere, in a dark & glorious sky. Rutherford Discovery Fellow & Assoc. Professor. Asteroid (10463). Pākehā; she
Jamie R. Lomax @jrlomax.bsky.social Astrophysics, Skier, Hiker, Professor, Does Polarimetry for Food & Science, Opinions Are My Own & Do Not Reflect the DoD/DoN, Follows/Likes/RTs ≠ Endorsement
Abbie 🌟 @abbiestev.bsky.social Experimental public programs in sci + art + tech, extronomer, nerd doctor of black holes & neutron stars, Michigoose, toddler mom, neurospicy, sober, pro-trans, she/her #BiinSci #WomenInSTEM #UglyDogs
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social Prof. of Astronomy and Physics, Haverford College. PI of Galaxy Zoo. Radio astronomer. Check out my latest book “The Astronomers Library” about books, libraries and astronomy - three of my favourite things. Brit/US.
saurabh w jha @sublunar.bsky.social astronomer, looking up
Scott Seagroves @scottseagroves.bsky.social 
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social Caltech/IPAC Planet Hunter | Chief Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute | @TEDFellow | Science consultant | SHERA PI | My views are not the views of NASA | She/her
Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social Disabled, queer, Jewish, cyborg, astrophysicist, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches. Building joy with a side of chaos. "To paraphrase Gandalf the Grey, a wizardess is never late. Nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to."
Sophia Gad-Nasr @astropartigirl.bsky.social I do cosmology and astroparticle theory. I pick apart the Universe to figure out how it works. Science Advisor. Dark Matter hunter.
🇵🇱✡️🇪🇬☪️
Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social Astronomer, occasional artist, sometimes takes pictures
(she/her)
Vivian U @justtheletteru.bsky.social Associate Scientist at Caltech/IPAC studying black holes and galaxy mergers with a nerdy sense of humor. Roman Proposal Lead. < 15 minutes of fame from PBS NOVA showcasing JWST science. TEDxMB 2024 speaker. Views are my own.
🌐 https://vivian-u.github.io/
Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social UK astrophysicist and science communicator working at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Author of 'The Planet Factory' and editor of ‘Planetary Diversity’. Very into space, virtual reality, computer graphics and rescue cats.