I can barely form words today I’m so completely overjoyed. Today my advisors and I as well as our amazing collaborators published a paper in Science Magazine confirming the existence of #strippedstars for the first time. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The 2024 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, which is awarded for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research based on measurements of radiation from an astronomical object, goes to Maria Drout (@uoft). aas.org/grants-and-pri…

I will be starting a tenure-track position at UNSW in Sydney starting in May! I am looking for two PhD students to pursue projects in radio cosmology. More details here: nicholebarry.com

Congratulations to CTAC Postdoctoral Fellow Brenna Mockler on being selected as one of three finalists for the American Astronomical Society (AAS) High Energy Astrophysics Division's (HEAD) Dissertation Prize. Mockler will present a talk at the division's meeting in April. head.aas.org/dissertation/d…

Woo our teams results on the Neutron star in SN1987A are now live. We got this data in the very first week of JWST science operations and have been working on it since then to rule out all other scenarios.

#SaveChandra savechandra.org

.Chandra Observatory Director Dr. Pat Slane has posted a statement to the Chandra community related to the demonstrably incorrect statement used to justify Chandra’s catastrophic cuts in the FY25 Request cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/announceme… #SaveChandra

Flagship NASA space telescope faces a penny-pinching death In the Presidential FY2025 budget request, Biden called for decommissioning NASA's Chandra: our flagship X-ray telescope. The reasons given? All untrue. So here's what we can do. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

Astronomers are fighting to save the Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of the "Great Observatories" of the 90s, after NASA budget cuts threaten to bring the telescope to a premature end. Story by me Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-s…

The plot that triggered this verbatim comment: All-time combined spending on NASA, across 65 years of budgets, after adjusting for inflation, is less than the last three years of Pentagon budgets. All-time combined NASA spending in RY$ is less than 1 year of Pentagon spending.

EVERYONE!!!! MY FIRST FIRST AUTHOR PAPER OUT NOW! Read all about the work I’ve done these past 2 years searching for triple systems unbound by supernovae 💫💫💫💥 arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06540…

🚨 GAME CHANGER PAPER ON ARXIV 🚨 The wonderful Steph Monty has discovered that globular clusters trace the chemical evolution of their host galaxy 🌌 Looking at the accreted stars in the Milky Way, the accreted globular follow the same track 🤯 ( a 🧵) arxiv.org/abs/2405.08963

why is NASA (effectively) cancelling Chandra? well, here's my un-subtle chart showing why NASA Science is in so much trouble, and why it's worth fighting for. I hope that congress acts to restore NASA Science to $9B in 2025.

Higher degree by research students in Australia work full-time hours but receive $11.7k below the minimum wage. The Universities Accord recommended that the higher degree by research stipend should be increased to support junior researchers, we are campaigning for that to happen!

The website is coming, but the dates are July 7 - 11, 2025 at the University of Melbourne. Josh Sokol Betsy Barton Black In Astro ™ BlackSciFi Journal of Skyscape Archaeology Sophia Centre

My research paper is out in the world 🇲🇽🤍🎉 “On the Progenitor of the Crab Pulsar”, Cruz-Cruz & Kochanek et al. 2024 I hope you all get a chance to read it or just take a glance at it 😅 arxiv.org/abs/2408.07130

From sahil hegde: In today's bite we discuss issues of equity and access in computational research and a new company, Camber, working to streamline research and democratize high performance computing! astrobites.org/2024/09/05/equ…