Sam Dunham
@astrodunham.bsky.social
Computational astrophysicist, ramp enthusiast, Black Lives Matter, free Palestine, advocate for animal welfare and US prison reform, co-owner of the beagle brigade, he/him
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join us today for the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks (VAST) seminar:
vast-seminars.github.io
@emily.space will tell us about building astronomy communities
#astro
#astrocode
vast-seminars.github.io
@emily.space will tell us about building astronomy communities
#astro
#astrocode
Virtual Astronomy Software Talks
vast-seminars.github.io
October 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
join us today for the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks (VAST) seminar:
vast-seminars.github.io
@emily.space will tell us about building astronomy communities
#astro
#astrocode
vast-seminars.github.io
@emily.space will tell us about building astronomy communities
#astro
#astrocode
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Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW!
The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...
The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Physics)
The Department of Physics at Oregon State University (OSU) is seeking an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure/tenure-track faculty position.Any hiri...
jobs.oregonstate.edu
October 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW!
The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...
The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...
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today the new season of the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks kicks off: vast-seminars.github.io
Some of the organizers will talk about their own projects this time. Join us at 11am (NY time).
#astro
#astrocode
Some of the organizers will talk about their own projects this time. Join us at 11am (NY time).
#astro
#astrocode
Virtual Astronomy Software Talks
vast-seminars.github.io
September 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
today the new season of the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks kicks off: vast-seminars.github.io
Some of the organizers will talk about their own projects this time. Join us at 11am (NY time).
#astro
#astrocode
Some of the organizers will talk about their own projects this time. Join us at 11am (NY time).
#astro
#astrocode
The only time I ever see a post from truth social is when it’s a screenshot of one of trump’s messages. I like the idea that he is literally the only person that posts there and the feed is just a list of his ramblings
August 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The only time I ever see a post from truth social is when it’s a screenshot of one of trump’s messages. I like the idea that he is literally the only person that posts there and the feed is just a list of his ramblings
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One more paper from the group out arxiv.org/abs/2508.00062 🎉 Led by Lieke Sippens Groenewegen, who finished her MSc in my group @grappainstitute.bsky.social in February, and with @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social we developed an end-to-end pipeline for kilonova lightcurves and spectra #highenergyastro 🔭🧪
August 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
One more paper from the group out arxiv.org/abs/2508.00062 🎉 Led by Lieke Sippens Groenewegen, who finished her MSc in my group @grappainstitute.bsky.social in February, and with @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social we developed an end-to-end pipeline for kilonova lightcurves and spectra #highenergyastro 🔭🧪
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To kick off here on bluesky I wanted to share some recent work from the group. First off arxiv.org/abs/2504.11537, the first science paper produced with our new GPU-accelerated GRMHD code GRaM-X.
3D full-GR simulations of magnetorotational core-collapse supernovae on GPUs: A systematic study of rotation rates and magnetic fields
We present a series of fully three-dimensional, dynamical-spacetime general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) for a progenitor of zero-age-main-...
arxiv.org
June 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
To kick off here on bluesky I wanted to share some recent work from the group. First off arxiv.org/abs/2504.11537, the first science paper produced with our new GPU-accelerated GRMHD code GRaM-X.
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In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, Nate Brown (NateBlackest on Twitch) joins us for Blast Corps, the 1997 action-destruction game for the Nintendo 64.
Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮
Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮
July 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, Nate Brown (NateBlackest on Twitch) joins us for Blast Corps, the 1997 action-destruction game for the Nintendo 64.
Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮
Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮
What game do you play with your female dog in summer? Tick-or-teat
July 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
What game do you play with your female dog in summer? Tick-or-teat
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youtu.be/kBLkQIi3S18
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AAS Journal Author Series: Amber Young on 2024PSJ.....5....7Y
Amber Young (Northern Arizona University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on Earthlike exoplanets.
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AAS Journal Author Series: Amber Young on 2024PSJ.....5....7Y
Amber Young (Northern Arizona University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on Earthlike exoplanets.
AAS Journal Author Series: Amber Young on 2024PSJ.....5....7Y
YouTube video by AAS
youtu.be
June 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
youtu.be/kBLkQIi3S18
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AAS Journal Author Series: Amber Young on 2024PSJ.....5....7Y
Amber Young (Northern Arizona University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on Earthlike exoplanets.
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AAS Journal Author Series: Amber Young on 2024PSJ.....5....7Y
Amber Young (Northern Arizona University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on Earthlike exoplanets.
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Some fun news to interleave in your TLs - the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program is an open sandbox for the astronomy community to collaborate on confirming and characterizing planets. It's totally voluntary, but apparently, if you build it, they will come!
www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/exoplan...
www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/exoplan...
Exoplanet discovery database, ExoFOP, reaches 1 million files and counting
Discovering an exoplanet doesn’t mean having one, definitive eureka moment. Instead, it requires multiple observations, sometimes from multiple observatories, and the scientific community coming toget...
www.ipac.caltech.edu
June 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Some fun news to interleave in your TLs - the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program is an open sandbox for the astronomy community to collaborate on confirming and characterizing planets. It's totally voluntary, but apparently, if you build it, they will come!
www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/exoplan...
www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/exoplan...
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"Why should my tax dollars go to fund your astrophysics research?" A thread. 🔭🧪
Brushing aside how absurdly little of the federal budget goes to science (according to the Planetary Society NASA accounts for only 0.3% of federal spending), the benefits of funding astronomy fall into two camps. (1/n)
Brushing aside how absurdly little of the federal budget goes to science (according to the Planetary Society NASA accounts for only 0.3% of federal spending), the benefits of funding astronomy fall into two camps. (1/n)
May 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Why should my tax dollars go to fund your astrophysics research?" A thread. 🔭🧪
Brushing aside how absurdly little of the federal budget goes to science (according to the Planetary Society NASA accounts for only 0.3% of federal spending), the benefits of funding astronomy fall into two camps. (1/n)
Brushing aside how absurdly little of the federal budget goes to science (according to the Planetary Society NASA accounts for only 0.3% of federal spending), the benefits of funding astronomy fall into two camps. (1/n)
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DO YOU WANT TO HELP PALESTINIAN PHYSICS STUDENTS THIS SUMMER?
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Donate here:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-pa...
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Donate here:
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Donate to Support Palestinian Science with Scientists for Palestine, organized by Mario Martone
Scientists for Palestine's 2025 campaign to support Palestinia… Mario Martone needs your support for Support Palestinian Science with Scientists for Palestine
www.gofundme.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
DO YOU WANT TO HELP PALESTINIAN PHYSICS STUDENTS THIS SUMMER?
⚛️🧪
Donate here:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-pa...
⚛️🧪
Donate here:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-pa...
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Hey I’m hiring a 4-year PhD student in #astronomy at UCC to work on studying massive black holes in cosmological simulations! Fast turn around on this bc it is so late (due 6 June) but please pass on to any interested and qualified students! Feel free to dm/email me! 🔭🧪
www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...
www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...
Job Opportunities | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
www.ucc.ie
May 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Hey I’m hiring a 4-year PhD student in #astronomy at UCC to work on studying massive black holes in cosmological simulations! Fast turn around on this bc it is so late (due 6 June) but please pass on to any interested and qualified students! Feel free to dm/email me! 🔭🧪
www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...
www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...
A haiku:
Was gonna go out
Laid down and took a quick nap
Not gonna go out
Was gonna go out
Laid down and took a quick nap
Not gonna go out
April 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A haiku:
Was gonna go out
Laid down and took a quick nap
Not gonna go out
Was gonna go out
Laid down and took a quick nap
Not gonna go out
Midwesterners don’t want walkable cities because otherwise they wouldn’t know how to start a conversation with someone who just arrived
April 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Midwesterners don’t want walkable cities because otherwise they wouldn’t know how to start a conversation with someone who just arrived
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today's Virtual Astronomy Software Talks seminar:
* Devarshi Choudhury (UvA): X-PSI—neutron star X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference.
* Matthieu Schaller (Lorentz Institute): SWIFT—SPH with Interdepednent Fine-grained Tasking
in ~2.5 hours (11am NY)
vast-seminars.github.io
#astro #astrocode
* Devarshi Choudhury (UvA): X-PSI—neutron star X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference.
* Matthieu Schaller (Lorentz Institute): SWIFT—SPH with Interdepednent Fine-grained Tasking
in ~2.5 hours (11am NY)
vast-seminars.github.io
#astro #astrocode
Virtual Astronomy Software Talks
vast-seminars.github.io
April 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
today's Virtual Astronomy Software Talks seminar:
* Devarshi Choudhury (UvA): X-PSI—neutron star X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference.
* Matthieu Schaller (Lorentz Institute): SWIFT—SPH with Interdepednent Fine-grained Tasking
in ~2.5 hours (11am NY)
vast-seminars.github.io
#astro #astrocode
* Devarshi Choudhury (UvA): X-PSI—neutron star X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference.
* Matthieu Schaller (Lorentz Institute): SWIFT—SPH with Interdepednent Fine-grained Tasking
in ~2.5 hours (11am NY)
vast-seminars.github.io
#astro #astrocode
Does anyone know if this EO furthers Yarvin’s plans? Is it increased isolationism or is it just unrelated?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Protecting American Energy From State Overreach
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
April 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Does anyone know if this EO furthers Yarvin’s plans? Is it increased isolationism or is it just unrelated?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I feel like the new EO has a lesson about tariffs
April 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I feel like the new EO has a lesson about tariffs
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I've finished my extremely basic normie tariff discussion. Here's what it looks like.
April 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I've finished my extremely basic normie tariff discussion. Here's what it looks like.
I agree it’s a deliberate choice, but you have no idea what’s happening in the vast majority of their lives. Have you asked any of them why they haven’t shared these posts?
18 months into a genocide and not a single day speaking out about that genocide to tens of thousands of followers is a very deliberate choice. We have been ASKED to use our platforms.
Every one of these PhDs in my mentions can’t manage to read “care…and share a survival fund” - go back to school…!
Every one of these PhDs in my mentions can’t manage to read “care…and share a survival fund” - go back to school…!
Why do you say they don’t care? Not posting about something doesn’t mean not caring about it
April 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I agree it’s a deliberate choice, but you have no idea what’s happening in the vast majority of their lives. Have you asked any of them why they haven’t shared these posts?
Why do you say they don’t care? Not posting about something doesn’t mean not caring about it
April 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Why do you say they don’t care? Not posting about something doesn’t mean not caring about it
How do folks learn about rallies near them? Maybe I just missed it but I don’t remember seeing anything about the hands off rally today
April 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
How do folks learn about rallies near them? Maybe I just missed it but I don’t remember seeing anything about the hands off rally today