Space Sciences Laboratory @ucbssl.bsky.social The UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) designs, builds and operates high-return, low-cost NASA missions. Our engineers, scientists and staff support a wide range of space and ground-based projects. ๐
https://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Gabriela Canalizo @gabycanalizo.bsky.social Astronomer at UCR. Interested in supermassive black holes. She/her.
AstroMonnier @astromonnier.bsky.social John Monnier, Professor of Astronomy, U. of Michigan
Favorite Things: Imaging Stars & Exoplanets with Interferometry
Developer: MIRC-X, MYSTIC, STARI
2014 Michelson Investigator Prize; 2019 AAS Joseph Weber Award
http://monnier.us
Opinions my own.
Dr. Clarissa R. Do ร @astroclary.bsky.social b. thomas soifer (exp) postdoctoral fellow @ caltech astro | ucsb and ucsd alum | coffee, โธ , Star Wars
clarissardoo.github.io
Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social Professor of astronomy ๐ญ at Ohio State. Co-chair of @aascsma.bsky.social. Alum of UCSC and MIT. She/her ๐ฒ๐ฝ
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
Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw (he/him)
Astronomer;
Leads the Nearby Universe group at the Flatiron Institute / CCA;
Asst. Director of Scientific Software @ Simons Foundation;
Astropy;
Music;
https://adrian.pw
Bryan Gaensler @scibry.bsky.social Dean of Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Astronomer, sci-fi connoisseur, rugby league devotee, puzzled parent ๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐ฆ. Opinions โ UCSC.
Santa Cruz CA, USA. He/him. bryangaensler.net
Miles Cranmer @milescranmer.bsky.social AI + Astro/Physics. Assistant Prof at Cambridge.
astroautomata.com/
Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social Prof. of Astronomy and Physics, Haverford College. PI of Galaxy Zoo. Radio astronomer. Check out my latest book โThe Astronomers Libraryโ about books, libraries and astronomy - three of my favourite things. Brit/US.
Laura Rogers @astroloz.bsky.social Astronomy postdoc studying dead planets around dead stars (a.k.a. polluted white dwarfs)
โ๏ธ+๐๐ซ=๐ญ๐ฒ
Eduardo Vitral @evitral.bsky.social Astrophysicist ๐ฐ๏ธ๐โซ๏ธ | Globular clusters | Dwarf galaxies | Black holes | Dark matter | ๐ง๐ท๐ฎ๐น๐ซ๐ท๐บ๐ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ | He/him
Website: https://eduardo-vitral.github.io
Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social Professor of Astrophysics @ Univ. of Amsterdam. Neutron stars, pulsars, dense matter, X-ray astronomy. Mom, Migrant. "Particles in stars blah blah". Does science with NICER on the International Space Station and schemes for EVEN BIGGER SPACE TELESCOPES.
janiceleeastro @janiceleeastro.bsky.social โจ looking to our future with NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (SuperHubble!) & AI
โจ studying star formation and star clusters in nearby galaxies with PHANGS, Hubble, JWST
Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. @ehneilsen.name Currently a member of the Survey Scheduling Team for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Also worked on the SDSS, the Dark Energy Survey, and DESI.
ORCiD: 0000-0002-7357-0317
Opinions I express here are mine, not those of my employer.
SPIE @spie.org Welcome to the official account of SPIE, the international society for optics and #photonics. Over the past five years, we have invested over $26M in the international optics community! ๐ก
Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu STScI is the Science Operations Center for Webb, Hubble, and Roman space telescopes, & Mission Operations Center for Webb. We help humanity explore the universe with advanced space telescopes and data archive. news.stsci.edu
Jonathan Fortney @jjfplanet.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz Astronomy Professor, Director of the Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL). Textbook Forthcoming: "Planetary Astrophysics: Exoplanets & Solar System." Father, Husband, Minnesotan, Runner. Proud product & employee of the public school system.
Kelsey Johnson @profkelsey.bsky.social Mother, astrophysicist, educator, writer, artist, thinker about things. Views expressed are mine. Duh.
Claudia Scarlata @scorfano.bsky.social
Brian Siana @briansiana.bsky.social Astronomy Professor at UC Riverside / Chair of the Riverside Board of Public Utilities / Heat pump evangelist
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social Astronomer at the University of Washington.
Building time-domain surveys (ZTF & Rubin Observatory) & looking for compact objects in our Galaxy.
Aliza Beverage @alizabeverage.bsky.social Space and sometimes other things | Astro grad at UC Berkeley | She/her
Samaya Nissanke (she/her) @samayanissanke.bsky.social Astrophysicist, gravitational waves and multi-messenger astronomy, working mother, European + ๐ @ โค๏ธ, British + born in London UK, professor at the University of Potsdam, DESY & German Centre for Astrophysics (DZA); also @GRAPPAcentre at Univ. of Amsterdam.
Will Clarkson @drcheers.bsky.social Astronomer, dad. Faculty at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Gwen Rudie (she/her) @gwenrudie.bsky.social Astronomer, mom to one human, partner to another. Staff Scientist at Carnegie Observatories. Director of CASSI.
Geoff Bower @gbower.bsky.social Director of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Alyssa Goodman @alyssagoodman.bsky.social Astronomy Professor at Harvard. Founder of glue solutions, inc. & http://path-to.org. Views are my own.
Tanmoy Laskar @tanmoylaskar.bsky.social Astrophysicist | artist | baker | composer | choir director | community builder | passionate #socialjustice advocate ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ he/him- R Dr. Raquel A. Martinez @rmartinez.bsky.social
Joshua ๐บ๐ฆ Bloom @profjsb.bsky.social Prof at @UCB_Astronomy โข Wise.io cofounder โข Inventor โข Dad โข #Tennis ๐พ everything โข Anti pickleball, Anti #TransparentMoon. Posts are my own (un)doing.
ewan douglas @douglase.bsky.social Professing on space telescopes of all sizes; Tucson, AZ.
Gregory Walth @vega18h37m.bsky.social Astronomer at Caltech/IPAC working on the Roman Space Telescope. Interests: Dusty galaxies, CGM, gravitational lensing, data pipelines, coffee. He/Him
https://gwalth.github.io/
Tod Lauer @todlauer.bsky.social Extragalactic astronomer (black holes, galaxies, galaxy clusters, stellar pops) who also dabbles in planetary astronomy. Really, basically a pixel pusher.
Emily Rice @emilylrice.me Astronomer at CUNY & AMNH, CEO of STARtorialist, HQ for Astronomy on Tap, I guess Iโm trying to make science fun?
My shop: shop.STARtorialist.com
Adolfo Carvalho @miles2au.bsky.social Astro PhD Candidate at Caltech studying young stellar accretion disks and everything young stars! Avid runner and enjoyer of sports ๐
Peter Frinchaboy, Ph.D. @pmfastro.bsky.social Professor of Star Clusters (he/him/his). Opinions mine - do not represent my employers
John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social Tenure-track astronomer working on galaxies, machine learning, and AI for scientific discovery. Opinions my own. He/him.
Website: https://jwuphysics.github.io/
Ryan Trainor @crosstrainor.bsky.social astrophysicist / dad / asso. professor at F&M College / visiting scientist โatโ JHU / he / him.
interested in galaxies, AGN, data science, and justice.
Jeyhan Kartaltepe @jeyhan.bsky.social Associate Professor at RIT investigating galaxy evolution. Co-lead of the COSMOS Collaboration. Passionate about public outreach, science communication, and inclusivity. Currently working on all things JWST (especially, COSMOS-Web, CEERS, NGDEEP, PRIMER).
Sarah Loebman @sloebman.bsky.social Astrophysics faculty, diversity, equity, & inclusion enthusiast, passionate about Big Data and the Milky Way.
Dr. Macy Huston @mhuston.bsky.social astronomy postdoc @ uc berkeley | gravitational microlenser | they/them
Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social Associate professor of Physics and Astronomy at UNC Chapel Hill studying young exoplanets and stars. Dad to one human and one cat. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐. Carrboro Citizen. http://andrewwmann.com
August (Gus) Muench @augustfly.bsky.social data editor in New Haven; tree/bird/sky watcher; former Bostonian/Floridian/IR Astronomer
Dan F-M @dfm.io Retired computational astrophysicist
Interpretability at Anthropic; prev Google DeepMind, Simons Foundation, Journal of Open Source Software
(he/him)
https://dfm.io // https://github.com/dfm
San Francisco QuakeBot @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social Iโm a bot real-time posting/skeeting M 1.0+ earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Built by @djcentos7.bsky.social
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
Mallory Molina @mmolina.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University | Astronomer interested in dwarf galaxies and their black holes
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/m-molina
Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network "Ok. Not good. Probably bad." Disabled, queer, Jewish, cyborg, astrophysicist, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches. Building joy with a side of chaos. "..a wizardess is never late. Nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to."
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
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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/
Mike Brown @plutokiller.com Astronomer, planet hunter, Pluto killer, bear whisperer, finger-wrapped dad. Dangerous secularist. Foot soldier in the War on Cars. He/him.
mikebrown.caltech.edu- G Greg Herczeg @gregherczeg.bsky.social Welcome to the medium place.
Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social Astrophysicist. Author of STARSTRUCK (PEN/E.O. Wilson Longlist, NCBA finalist, a Penguin Random House Common Read). ๐งฟ๐ช๐ฌ BRCA+ occasional model, fervent activist.
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.
Eilat Glikman @eilatg.bsky.social Astrophysicist. Quasar enthusiast. Physics professor. Mother, etc. Misanthrope who loves humanity. Why canโt we get this thing right?
Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social Plumian Prof in Astro @U Cambridge & Prof Astro-/Particle Physics @U Amsterdam. All things black hole, member: Event Horizon Telescope, Africa Millimeter Telescope, CTAO. Space, sci-fi, cats, music, valve amps, other unabashed geekery. www.seramarkoff.com
Saavik โCareful of the Ankleโ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social Australian astronomer
he/him
Sydney/Gadi
Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social Penn State Astronomer (he/him), personal account. โWe went and made everything a computer without ever bothering to fix computers.โ
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. ๐ฌ๐ง๐ง๐ช Opinions my own.
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.
๐ https://vivian-u.github.io/
Peter Gao @planetarygao.bsky.social Staff Scientist @ Carnegie EPL. Planetary and exoplanet atmospheres. He/Him/His. Black Lives Matter. Trekkie. Opinions are my own.
Carl Rodriguez @carlrodriguez.bsky.social Professor of astrophysics at UNC, studying colliding black holes, swarming stars, and other things that go bump in the night. Big fan of transit, biking, climbing, Durham NC, he/him
dynamics.unc.edu
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social NZ theoretical astrophysicist studying exploding binary stars. Sci-fi addict, feminist, non-binary femme. Pronouns: she/her/they. All views my own.
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