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Linn Boldt-Christmas
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🇸🇪 Exoplanet atmospheres + chemistry + formation at Uppsala University 🪐🔭 Also into astrobiology, policy, climate, equality/EDI, and scicomm ✨ (she/her) – linnboldtchristmas.wordpress.com
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Linn Boldt-Christmas @nplinnspace.bsky.social · Aug 27
Do you love WASP-107 b? Do you love making use of *both* ground VLT + space JWST obs to detect molecules in a "warm" (Teq<800K) #exoplanet in transmission, even in a crazy confusing cloudy atmosphere?!

🚨 It's PAPER* DAY! Which means #scicomm thread!

🧵⬇️🔭🪐🧪

*pre-print!

arxiv.org/abs/2508.18964
VLT/CRIRES+ observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b: Molecular detections and challenges in ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy exoplanets
Atmospheres of transiting exoplanets can be studied spectroscopically using space-based or ground-based observations. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so there are benefits to both approache...
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esaearth.esa.int
Today we’re celebrating 52,600 orbits of Earth by the Sentinel‑3A satellite, together with @euspa.bsky.social and @eumetsat.int
For ten years, it has been delivering data on oceans, land, ice and atmosphere.
The constellation will grow with the launch of Sentinel‑3C in late 2026🚀
A night‑time photo of the Sentinel‑3A satellite launch, showing the rocket rising from the pad amid bright orange flames and thick billowing smoke. The rocket and launch towers are illuminated against a dark sky. Satellite view of Earth’s high northern latitudes, showing a vast expanse of snow‑covered and ice‑covered terrain in soft purple and blue tones. The left side of the image fades into darkness, marking the boundary between night and day. Cloud formations swirl above the icy landscape. A false‑colour infrared satellite image of a large hurricane approaching Florida. The storm’s cold central clouds appear deep blue, surrounded by lighter blues and yellows, while the surrounding warm areas show as bright red. Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas are outlined with labelled cities including Tampa, Miami, and Havana. A natural‑colour satellite image showing thick plumes of brown Saharan dust blowing westward from Africa over the deep‑blue Atlantic Ocean. Swirling white clouds sit above the water, while the coastline of northwest Africa and the bright desert interior are visible on the right.
February 16, 2026 at 10:55 AM
nplinnspace.bsky.social
🧪🔭 The Terra Hunting Experiment is *so close* to first light — our instrument HARPS3 is looking sharp!

If you wanna know more about our upcoming decade-long hunt for an exoplanet Earth, @sciencenews.bsky.social recently did this great article on what we’re up to: www.sciencenews.org/article/eart...
February 16, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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andrealuck.bsky.social
Mars - Cloud over Promethei Terra

Full size 5k image and more info: flic.kr/p/2rWMYkb 🔭🧪
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

@esa.int Mars Express 2025-05-24
ID: HR000_0000 (ND+RED+GR+BL)
View of Mars from orbit, showing a curved horizon against the blackness of space. The dusty tan surface is marked by scattered impact craters and rugged ridges. Along the horizon, a thin pale bluish atmospheric layer creates a misty glow, and a single distinct white cloud is visible near the upper layers of the atmosphere.
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
Yep!

Excluding a few dinosaurs and traditional institutions that persist over on Twitter, I get all my science news, leads, and chats with scientists through here now.

The feeds also allow me to monitor all the topics I’m interested in so as soon as any new paper drops … it’s in my TL!

🔭🧪⚒️
katharinehayhoe.com Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 2d
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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February 14, 2026 at 10:57 PM
nplinnspace.bsky.social
Once again, humanity has been fooled by the classic prank ”this is surely a fixed value that we can use as a unit of measurement forever” on us by the natural world around us — first a foot, then a stone, now the radius of Jupiter. When will we learn?! 🧪🔭
February 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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chrislintott.bsky.social
Astronomers: highly recommend this thoughtful opinion piece by @hogg.bsky.social on how to think about our field in light of the development of large language models. whether you agree with him or not it’s vital to discuss the principles behind our science. 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181
Why do we do astrophysics?
At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...
arxiv.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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physicsworld.bsky.social
How do you track space debris as it makes its fiery descent through the Earth’s atmosphere? Geophysicists have come up with an intriguing new answer: use a network of earthquake sensors to follow the shock waves the debris creates. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/earthquake...
Earthquake-sensing network detects space debris as it falls to Earth – Physics World
Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere
physicsworld.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
nplinnspace.bsky.social
🔭🧪 Mark your calendars & pre-order this incredibly exciting new book all about astrobiology (!!) and #exoplanets and much much more by the amazingly talented @toomanyspectra.bsky.social! I CANNOT wait to enjoy this first for myself and then gift it to everyone I know 🤩
toomanyspectra.bsky.social seven rasmussen — STARSHIPS out 8/4/26 @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 4d
can’t believe it’s finally my turn to do this but:

COVER REVEAL!!

here is the long-awaited cover for CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS by the incredibly talented Kamille Rodriguez

pre-order here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...
black background white text and white frame, around the edges are colorful things like galaxies, planets, leaves, and sea creatures
February 11, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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toomanyspectra.bsky.social
can’t believe it’s finally my turn to do this but:

COVER REVEAL!!

here is the long-awaited cover for CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS by the incredibly talented Kamille Rodriguez

pre-order here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...
black background white text and white frame, around the edges are colorful things like galaxies, planets, leaves, and sea creatures
February 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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andrewjonesspace.bsky.social
Close-up of liftoff.
February 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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transport.esa.int
Women aren’t just reaching for the stars, they’re engineering the rockets that get us there. On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, these are some of the faces of @esa.int Space Transportation.
February 11, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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sarahkendrew.bsky.social
love it 🔭
mattkenworthy.bsky.social Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 6d
At the last Spirit of Lyot conference we were handing out stickers with this meme:
a meme with the guy awarded a medal and celebrating wildly, then pulling out to see he's third on the podium. He's direct imaging, with transit being first and radial velocity being second.
February 10, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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asuarezmascareno.com
With the help of some colleages, I have drafted a letter for the director of science of ESO about the situation of the latest time llocstion in ESPRESSO. I share It here in case someone supports its content and have comments or want to co-sign it. docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🔭#exoplanets
Letter of concern to ESO
*To co-sign the letter, please add a comment with your name and institution here or at the end. Concern regarding scientific balance in ESPRESSO allocations: the RV detection science case *In coordin...
docs.google.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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asuarezmascareno.com
A better version of the plot with the biggest missing pieces. I truly cannot wrap my head around all this 🔭#exoplanets
February 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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emily.space
🔭☄️ #exoplanets
benjaminpope.bsky.social Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 6d
Very happy to advertise a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science position with me and Christian Schwab at Macquarie University in Sydney.

We'll be working on applying machine learning & differentiable physics models to extremely precise radial velocity surveys.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science
PRIMARY DETAIL - Salary Package: $109,272 - $117,108 (HEW Level A.6-A.8) - plus 17% employer's superannuation contribution and annual leave loading. - Full time, 3 year fixed-term role - Macquarie Uni...
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February 10, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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science.esa.int
The 2026 ESA Graduate Trainee positions are waiting for your applications!

Step into a unique role where you’ll contribute to inspiring space missions and work alongside leading professionals from across Europe.

Discover the available positions 👉 jobs.esa.int

#ESArecruits 🔭 🧪
Ad for the ESA Graduate Trainee Programme 2026. A person is standing in the middle of a road looking at a meteor in the sky. The person has a backpack and holds a mobile phone in the hand. The landscape looks desert-like. The Milky Way band is visible across the sky. An ESA logo is placed on the upper right-hand corner, whereas on the lower right-hand corner the name of the agency is written: European Space Agency.
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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reggiek.bsky.social
I have student projects available for all levels!

Interested in simulating star formation and interactions with the star-forming cloud? Have a look at these!

I work with students to align the project to their skills, interests, and academic level. 🔭✨#Astronomy

rajikalk.github.io/html_pages/s...
Student projects - Kuruwita
rajikalk.github.io
February 9, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Big opportunity to work with a great cosmologist! ⚛️🧪
tukohbin.bsky.social Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 16d
I am looking to recruit a PhD student for the October 26 entry. It will be funded by STFC. Project(s) will be some combination of early universe cosmology, numerical relativity and strong gravity, and dynamical compactification of extra dimensions!

Apply through this portal

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February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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astroprofhoff.bsky.social
Super interesting 🧵 on darkness and how we conceive of it (both legally and culturally). 🔭🧪
joshuasokol.bsky.social Joshua Sokol @joshuasokol.bsky.social · 11d
There’s an interesting lawsuit out of Connecticut I’ve been following that rests on the question of whether darkness — yes, darkness, the primordial Erebus himself— is a natural resource. Here’s why that’s potentially a big deal.
February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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rockyworlds.bsky.social
📢 Less than 1 hour left until this talk begins!

14:00 UTC = 15:00 CET = 09:00 EST = 06:00 PST = 23:00 JST

If you haven't signed up to our mailing list to access the Zoom-link, you can also watch it live on our YouTube channel 🔭☄️🧪 Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t9B...
rockyworlds.bsky.social Rocky Worlds Meetings @rockyworlds.bsky.social · 12d
Would you dare to stand up against the wrath of a star?! Brave little Venus does... and still has an atmosphere! ☀️💨🪐🧲

Next #RockyWorldsDiscussion on Thu 5 Feb @ 14:00 UTC features Moa Persson on "Venus: Defying the Solar Wind Without a Magnetic Shield"

More: www.rockyworlds.org/event-detail...

🧪🔭
An image of the speaker, Moa Persson. She is smiling and looking into the camera over her shoulder. She has light brown hair down to her shoulders, and is wearing a blue shirt with glasses. She is holding a hammer as she is completing her "thesis nailing", a tradition at many Swedish universities for finishing PhD students. An artist illustration of Venus, and its atmosphere eroding against solar winds. Credit: ESA (Animation by C. Carreau) Longer caption attached to the image on ESAs website, posted November 2007: "Mars, Earth and Venus are immersed in a flow of plasma, an ionised and highly variable gas originating from the Sun, called the solar wind. While Earth has a planetary magnetic field, which can deviate the flow of solar wind, Venus (and Mars) don’t. Gases in the upper atmospheres of these planets are ionised and can thus interact with the solar wind. Venus is as large as Earth and it is difficult for its atmosphere to escape due to the planet’s gravity. The solar wind is the best source of energy to accelerate the upper atmosphere’s charged particles, giving them enough energy to escape. This is why Venus loses its atmosphere due to interaction with the solar wind. To understand this phenomenon, the key questions that the instruments studying plasma on Venus Express must answer are: what and how much of the atmosphere is lost, and where is it lost? Right now, solar activity is at its minimum in the 11-year cycle, making the solar wind weaker than average. The critical question now is how solar wind interacts with Venus when solar activity is low."
February 5, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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rasjournals.bsky.social
Published in #MNRAS: "Solar carbon abundance from 3D non-LTE modelling of the diagnostic lines of the CH molecule", Hoppe et al. This is Fig. 2: please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... to read the paper. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
Comparison of synthetic and observed solar G-band intensity at wavelength 4306.8 ± 15 Å at different positions across the solar disc (different rows). The synthetic G band has been convolved with the SST photometric filter transmission function (M. Carlsson et al. 2004). The G-band observations were acquired with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST; G. B. Scharmer et al. 2003a) on La Palma in 2003–2004 (T. E. Berger et al. 2004; Y. Lin et al. 2005; Van Der Voort private communication). For more detailed information on these observations we refer the reader to https://www.isf.astro.su.se/data1/gallery/. We show the disc centre µ = 1 at the bottom and two angles approaching the limb above. The black and white levels of the observations were adjusted to account for the different processing of the individual measurements.
February 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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itzimex.bsky.social
Postdoc position in my team at CAB CSIC-INTA, Spain. We are hiring in the Milgatz project 🔭 to do TolTEC science on dusty star forming galaxies eas.unige.ch/jobs.jsp?typ...
A description to be found also here (please make sure to use http instead of https): www.itziararetxaga.net/2025/06/atra...
February 5, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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rockyworlds.bsky.social
Would you dare to stand up against the wrath of a star?! Brave little Venus does... and still has an atmosphere! ☀️💨🪐🧲

Next #RockyWorldsDiscussion on Thu 5 Feb @ 14:00 UTC features Moa Persson on "Venus: Defying the Solar Wind Without a Magnetic Shield"

More: www.rockyworlds.org/event-detail...

🧪🔭
An image of the speaker, Moa Persson. She is smiling and looking into the camera over her shoulder. She has light brown hair down to her shoulders, and is wearing a blue shirt with glasses. She is holding a hammer as she is completing her "thesis nailing", a tradition at many Swedish universities for finishing PhD students. An artist illustration of Venus, and its atmosphere eroding against solar winds. Credit: ESA (Animation by C. Carreau) Longer caption attached to the image on ESAs website, posted November 2007: "Mars, Earth and Venus are immersed in a flow of plasma, an ionised and highly variable gas originating from the Sun, called the solar wind. While Earth has a planetary magnetic field, which can deviate the flow of solar wind, Venus (and Mars) don’t. Gases in the upper atmospheres of these planets are ionised and can thus interact with the solar wind. Venus is as large as Earth and it is difficult for its atmosphere to escape due to the planet’s gravity. The solar wind is the best source of energy to accelerate the upper atmosphere’s charged particles, giving them enough energy to escape. This is why Venus loses its atmosphere due to interaction with the solar wind. To understand this phenomenon, the key questions that the instruments studying plasma on Venus Express must answer are: what and how much of the atmosphere is lost, and where is it lost? Right now, solar activity is at its minimum in the 11-year cycle, making the solar wind weaker than average. The critical question now is how solar wind interacts with Venus when solar activity is low."
February 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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rockyworlds.bsky.social
A HUGE thank you to all attendees of the #RockyWorlds4 conference in Groningen! We had an absolutely incredible time talking astronomy, geoscience, biology, and so much more 🚀🌋🌱🪐✨🔭🧪

Catch the recorded talks on www.youtube.com/@rockyworlds

And see you in Berlin in 2028! berlin2028.rockyworlds.org
A group photo showing a huge crowd, namely the attendees of the Rocky Worlds 4 conference! They are stood up and around a big staircase and walkway inside a modern building; smiling; and throwing their hands up.
February 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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dutchspace.bsky.social
So they will do another WDR after fixing the issues seen and move the launch the March

Full overview here:
www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

#ArtemisII
NASA Conducts Artemis II Fuel Test, Eyes March for Launch Opportunity   - NASA
NASA concluded a wet dress rehearsal for the agency’s Artemis II test flight early Tuesday morning, successfully loading cryogenic propellant into the SLS
www.nasa.gov
February 3, 2026 at 8:48 AM