The StarXiv ✨ podcast @starxiv.bsky.social A podcast where Payel Das (@payeldas.bsky.social) and Michelle Collins (@runningastronomer.bsky.social) discuss papers from astroph
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Chris Lee @cpl43uk.bsky.social AstroSpace Advisor, Former Chief Scientist UK Space Agency, Visiting Prof (Uni of Leicester), FRAS FBIS #BristolAstroSoc, Astro, #Space #Astrophotographer, #Park-run #ProgRock, #Sci-Fi, #anti-Trump #anti-Reform (he/him)
David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social Astronomer and Astrophotographer. Pictures of space appearing in posts, magazines and on the telly. 
Tom Abel @tomabel.bsky.social Computational Cosmologist interested in fluids and plasmas making up things in our Universe. 
Pengfei Li @pengfeili.bsky.social Assistant professor at Nanjing University. Humboldt fellow previously @AIP. Work on dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters. 
Emily Farran @ekfarran.bsky.social Professor of Psychology - spatial cognition in typical & atypical development, STEM. UKRN Institutional Lead, University of Surrey. Advocate of transparent & open research.
Prof Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant.bsky.social Astronomy Prof at Open University. 26.2. #RejoinEU, £➡️€. Views not OU’s and often not even mine. He/him
🐘 https://mas.to/@stephenserjeant
🧵 https://www.threads.net/@prof.stephen.serjeant
ORCID 0000-0002-0517-7943 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0517-7943
Madison Walder @madastro.bsky.social (She/her) | Astrophysics PhD student @Uni of Surrey | determined to yee some haws while I'm here ✨
Ethan Taylor @astroeth.bsky.social Postdoc apart of Surrey Astro | looking at naturally forming globular clusters within the EDGE simulation suite, and their evolution | #BlackInAstro
Viraj Manwadkar @virajmanwadkar.bsky.social Physics grad student at Stanford, he/him
Interested in all things astro ...
Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social Emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Nottingham. Too frequent appearances on YouTube. All my own views.
Andrey Kravtsov @grumpy1.bsky.social 
Nora Shipp @norashipp.bsky.social UW Astronomy | ✨stellar streams✨ | she/her
Brooke Simmons @vrooje.net Professor of Astrophysics: Galaxies, Black Holes, the Changing Sky. Also Zooniverse humanitarian and disaster relief lead. People first, then science. She/her
Benedikt Diemer @benedikt.bsky.social Assistant prof of astrophysics at UMaryland. Immigrant. Maker of Colossus, SPARTA, and other codes.
http://www.benediktdiemer.com
Clara Martínez-Vázquez @claramarvaz.bsky.social Astronomer researching about variable stars and dwarf galaxies 
Steve Desch @deschscoveries.bsky.social Professor of astrophysics / planetary science / meteoritics at Arizona State University.
Chris Conselice @conselice.bsky.social Astronomer and Professor, Manchester
Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social Nuclear, particle, and astrophysics experimentalist at Case Western. Posting about physics, climate, urbanism, Cleveland. See also:
https://bmonreal.github.io/personal.html
https://www.project8.org/
Pau Ramos @brugalada.bsky.social Milky Way dynamicist, working mostly with Gaia data, and also a member of the JASMINE project. Currently living in Japan 🇯🇵
I love cinema, music, manga and the stories I get to experience through videogames. - J John Regan @jaregan.bsky.social Astrophysicist at Maynooth University in Ireland. Trying to figure out how massive black holes formed and evolved in our Universe. Mayo GAA fan and supporter.
Kelly Truelove @truesciphi.org Technologist | Erstwhile computational physicist | Projects at TrueSciPhi.org: Explorations in computational philosophy via AI dialogues • Curated science & philosophy podcast collections
Akshara Viswanathan @astroakshara.bsky.social PhD researcher in Kapteyn Institute, Groningen, NL|
Observational astronomer investigating baby Milky Way's shenanigan |🇮🇳🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇱|
she/her | தமிழச்சி 
Jessica Birky @jessbirky.bsky.social Astrophysics + data science grad at University of Washington
she/her 🏳️🌈
https://jbirky.github.io/
Katy Rodriguez Wimberly, PhD @spacedocdubb.bsky.social ✨astrophysicist✨CSUSB Professor studying Near Field Cosmology w/ 🔭 & 💻🌌 🖖🏽Board Member Astronomical Society of the Pacific 💫
Matthias Steinmetz @galacticrave.bsky.social Astronomer & Astrophysicist, Galactic Archaeologist & Simulator, Husband & Dad, Director @AIP_Potsdam, backyard astrophotographer
Jos de Bruijne @astrojos.bsky.social Father of 2, husband, hobby wildlife photographer, #AFOL. Astronomer at European Space Agency @ESA working @ESA Gaia & @ESA ESDC. Tweets are my own. He/him/his.
Laura Watkins @laurawatkins.bsky.social Head of the Science Policy Division at STScI. Research focuses on kinematics and dynamics of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies. Views my own.
Slavko Bogdanov @slavkobogdanov.bsky.social Astrophysicist ordinaire. Columbia University.
slavko.org
Marcin Semczuk @msemczuk.bsky.social Dad & Husband | Postdoc in Astrophysics (galactic dynamics & morphology) at the Universitat de Barcelona 🌌 | 🇵🇱 in 🇪🇸 | FPL enthusiast ⚽️
Florent Renaud @florenaud.bsky.social Astrophysicist making galaxies crash and computers collide. Or the other way round 🔭
Research professor (directeur de recherche) in astrophysics at CNRS / Strasbourg Observatory, France 🇫🇷 🇪🇺
Meghan Gray @emeegray.bsky.social Professor of Astronomy. Midlands.
Xiaohui Fan @xiaohuifan.bsky.social quasar hunter, traveller, runner, yankees fan, wine lover and the best chef in the world according to my kid. Regents' Professor of Astronomy, Univ of Arizona.
Sandro Tacchella @sandrotacchella.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Astrophysics, studying the evolution of galaxies, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St Edmunds College 🇨🇭🇺🇲🇰🇷🇬🇧
Emily Hunt @emily.space Postdoc @univie.ac.at working on star clusters & machine learning
Passionate about a better future for science communication via @astrosky.eco
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (she/her), Ⓥ
Website: https://emily.space
GitHub: https://github.com/emilyhunt
Hossam Aly @astrohoss.bsky.social Astrophysics postdoc, currently at TU Delft🇳🇱. Planet Formation, Accretion Discs (especially misaligned and warped ones), Dust Evolution, Computational Astrophysics. Formerly Leicester🇬🇧, Milan🇮🇹, Lyon🇫🇷, and Heidelberg🇩🇪. Originally from 🇪🇬
Jeff Carlin @jeffcarlinastro.bsky.social Astronomer studying dwarf galaxies and their tidal remnants, and the nearby universe in general. Data Management Science Validation Scientist and Deputy Lead Community Scientist at Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
Sarah Pearson @spacewsarah.bsky.social (she/her)
Astrophysicists, Assistant Professor at U. Copenhagen, former NASA Hubble Fellow at NYU - Dark matter, stellar streams, galactic dynamics. SciComm: writer, talks, YouTube
http://drsarahpearson.com/
Michael Murphy @michaelmurphy.bsky.social Professional astrophysicist, amateur human.
Science fan, renewables groupie, political malcontent.
Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. Opinions my own.
Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.eurosky.social (Former) physicist with alliterative name waiting for the lab accident that will grant him superpowers. Now does HPC IT. 🏳️⚧️-ally
Anke Ardern-Arentsen @ankeaa.bsky.social 🇳🇱 Galactic Archaeologist 🔭✨, postdoc at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. Married to @zachary-ardern.bsky.social, evolution-explorer
Johanna Hartke @jhartke.bsky.social Astronomer. Collegium Researcher at the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku, FI. Working on galaxy halos, intra-cluster light and planetary nebulae as kinematic tracers and all things IFU. She/her.
John Forbes @redshiftless.bsky.social Astronomer in Aotearoa/New Zealand at the University of Canterbury.
Pusher of pixels, pens, arrays, and computer keys.
www.johncforbes.com
Maxime Delorme @mdelorme.bsky.social Codes de simulation en astro, jeux-vidéo, gauchisme et chats mignons. lui/il
Compte dédié au dev de mon jeu indé : https://bsky.app/profile/khonsuhq.bsky.social
Bannière par @captainjim87.bsky.social
Haus der Astronomie @hausderastronomie.bsky.social Zentrum für astronomische Bildungs- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in Heidelberg | Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach in Heidelberg, Germany. Posts in erster Linie auf Deutsch but also in English
https://www.haus-der-astronomie.de/de/impressum
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.
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
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
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social Australian astronomer
he/him
Sydney/Gadi
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.
Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de Astronomy and relativity outreach (Tweets in German & English) | personal account | he/his | managing scientist @hausderastronomie.bsky.social | director @astro4edu.bsky.social |outreach @mpi-astro.bsky.social | Seestar enthusiast
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
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.
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. 
Percy the Mars Rover @percyrover.bsky.social Proud immigrant, social distancing on Mars, and serving up piping hot cafecito. Parody. Created by @richferro.com
Sarah Loebman @sloebman.bsky.social Astrophysics faculty, diversity, equity, & inclusion enthusiast, passionate about Big Data and the Milky Way.
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social Theoretical astrophysicist specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it. Based in Ireland. Personal account. Call me old-fashioned but I don't like fascists. He/him/his.
Blog: telescoper.blog
Richard Alexander @richardalexander.bsky.social Astrophysicist at the University of Leicester | Dad | Cyclist | Exiled Scot
https://rdalexander.github.io
Johanna Teske @johannateske.bsky.social She/her/hers. Astronomer, runner, feminist, vegan, Nats fan, Peloton fan.
Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com Astronomer, movement artist, & educator based in Chicago 🛸 Founder, Not Not Rocket Science ✨Co-founder, the JustSpace Alliance 🚀they/them causing mayhem
notnotrocketscience.com
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social Astrophysicist
Support the work of Jonathan's Space Report:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition
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
Ji Hoon Kim @jhkim.bsky.social Astronomer@Seoul National University; Project Manager/Scientist of 7DT/7DS; LSBGs, Star-forming ISM, Late-type galaxy dynamics; He/him/views are own
Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social Astrophysicist, Associate Professor @UCBerkeley. Interested in black holes, stars, galactic centers, astronomy instrumentation, adaptive optics.
SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social Our mission is to lead humanity’s quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and share that knowledge.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
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/
Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social Astronomy prof at U Michigan; exoplanet atmospheres in 3D; cares about people more than science; despises chocolate (she/her)
Song Huang @dr-guangtou.bsky.social Astronomers at Tsinghua University; love galaxies; learning how to build a 6.5m telescope now
Paul McMillan @mcmillan-astro.bsky.social Astrophysicist working on Milky Way dynamics and Gaia data. University of Leicester. Views expressed are my own.
Website: https://paulmcmillan-astro.github.io/
Henry Ngo @astrodino.planetngo.ca Data scientist. Previously worked in planetary astronomy. he/him/his
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/
Anna Hughes @annaghughes.bsky.social 🌊 marine conservation 🪸
🇨🇦 BC mountains and ocean dweller 🥾🏄♀️🏂
ja yritän joskus puhua suomea.
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
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/
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social Dad, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Louisville. He/Him/hey you. Opinions are my own. As are the typos.
Astronomy, datascience, ethics & occasional US/EU politics. 
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
Dr. Heloise Stevance @sydonahi.bsky.social Astrophysicist - Schmidt A.I. in Science Fellow - Oxford Uni - she/they
Sky surveys
Exploding stars
Hungry black holes
AI Literacy
Beatrice Tinsley Lecturer 2021
Caroline Herschel Prize 2024
hfstevance.com
Grumpy D Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social You should have listened to me about galaxy growth and structure formation. But now, there are way more important things to worry about.
Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social astronomer, frustrated sports fan, perpetually confused family man.
Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social Astrophysicist, Cat Dad, Comic book enthusiast. Lecturer at University College Cork (Ireland)
He/Him
https://mtremmel.github.io
Peter Yoachim @ianpaulfreeley.bsky.social Jackass with an action bias. Also an astronomer.
Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social Data scientist in population health @ Leiden University Medical Center. Former astrophysicist: extronomer! Beer sommelier. Pythonista. Aspiring Bayesian. Dad. Puzzle solver and Go/Baduk player.
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.
Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social Astrophysicist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics & U. Washington. 
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.
Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Senior Vice President, American Astronomical Society
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Nicolas Martin @nfmartin1980.bsky.social Astronomer, CNRS/INSU researcher at Strasbourg Observatory. Local Group inhabitant.
Erik Tollerud @eteq.bsky.social Astrophysicist, Python coder, and general lover of nature in all its forms. Tweets are my own. He/they.
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 
Denis Erkal @derkal.bsky.social Astrophysicist working on dark matter, near-field cosmology, and galaxy formation. All opinions are my own. He/him.
Alex Ji @alexji.bsky.social Near-field Cosmologist and Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Chicago. he/him
Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social Professor of astronomy 🔭 at Ohio State. Co-chair of @aascsma.bsky.social. Alum of UCSC and MIT. She/her 🇲🇽
András Gáspár @andrasgaspar.bsky.social Associate Astronomer at the University of Arizona. JWST/MIRI Instrument Team. Debris disk aficionado. Classic car enthusiast. Opinions my own. He/him- S shea gk @sheagk.bsky.social software engineer / data scientist, former astrophysicist, technophile, clippers/steelers/wvu fan.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com