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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16h

We just submitted a whole *slew* of SHERA abstracts to the January 2026 #AAS247 meeting in Phoenix.

So if you're interested in learning about the science, targets, methods, and instrumentation of this VERY COOL MISSION CONCEPT, come check out our talks!!!

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is yelling at the woman .

Alt: Two men are shouting at each other to hype each other up.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16h

WHY DELAY THO.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20h

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 20h

It just took me a full hour to submit a fairly standard reimbursement claim. 🙄

Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 21h

There's a special circle of hell for designers of online forms that make you manually fill out all the information, and then create and upload a separate file with all the same information.

I hope it involves them clicking through a series of unsolvable requirements to an unmeetable deadline.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 21h

There's a special circle of hell for designers of online forms that make you manually fill out all the information, and then create and upload a separate file with all the same information.

I hope it involves them clicking through a series of unsolvable requirements to an unmeetable deadline.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 22h

I'm in short sleeves and I just walked past a colleague on the street outside in a puffer jacket. Change of seasons, y'all!

Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 22h

Angelenos confused by sudden cooler weather.

a man is wearing a plaid shirt and saying i 'm severely underdressed

Alt: a man is wearing a plaid shirt and saying i 'm severely underdressed

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 22h

Angelenos confused by sudden cooler weather.

a man is wearing a plaid shirt and saying i 'm severely underdressed

Alt: a man is wearing a plaid shirt and saying i 'm severely underdressed

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 1d

a man is standing in front of a group of people and saying `` win , win , win , win ! ''

Alt: A hockey coach is going along a line of kids before a game saying WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN!

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, the point is - GO AND GET A MAMMOGRAM IF YOU'RE DUE YOU CAN BE REASSURED *AND* GET A GIFT.

Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 1d

Afterwards today, the nurse practitioner gestured at a pile of pink goodies and said "We're giving away gifts, because it's breast cancer awareness month!" and I was like "Isn't the gift finding out you don't have breast cancer?!"

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 1d

Afterwards today, the nurse practitioner gestured at a pile of pink goodies and said "We're giving away gifts, because it's breast cancer awareness month!" and I was like "Isn't the gift finding out you don't have breast cancer?!"

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 1d

See this is why I'm no good at the grift. The money! I forgot to ask for the money.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 1d

Well I propose that the United Nations name ME the Director General of Dark Energy Studies and gift ME 500 hours of over-subscribed telescope time a year, if this is how we're doing things now.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 1d

This is complete and utter pompous bullshit. It's telling that of the people proposing it wants to anoint themselves director general when every one of his claims of having discovered technosignature interstellar objects has been debunked by the planetary community. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01405

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 2d

Awwww man, I got so excited reading this thread and watching the locations get closer and closer to CA and then it veered to TX. 😭😭😭 @vromansbookstore.bsky.social let's get Martha Wells please!!!!

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 4d

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Friday night.

I’ve done enough this week.

You’ve done enough this week.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 4d

My husband hasn't heard of 'stuckee', as in, the person who gets stuck with the unwanted task. Is it Australian? Too old-fashioned? Too new-fashioned?!?

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 4d

"Knowing that you are a visual organiser and need to see your stuff is life changing."

I think I just unlocked four decades of trauma between my mother, who can't stand to see anything not put away, and myself, who needs stuff to be out where I can see it.

THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH.

Dr J. M. Wall @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure if I'm ADHD or just dyspraxic but either way I feel this. Cluttering on YouTube really helped me. She recently did a collab with How to ADHD and it was amazing. Knowing that you are a visual organiser and need to see your stuff is life changing.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 4d

129 days until spring training starts!

#RedSox

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5d

Oooh let me check!

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5d

And I’m especially annoyed because I steered her away from Amazon and Temu to Etsy! It’s scams and rip-offs all the way down.

Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5d

This new thing on Etsy where people list a costume with a low price and then when you click, the price is for a "PNG File" of the costume and the costume itself is 4-20x as expensive?! Is really upsetting my 10yo daughter who just wants to Halloween shop on her allowance, and seems kinda scummy.

Screenshot of Etsy listing for a blue jumpsuit, listed as $15.06.

Screenshot of the price once you've clicked through the item, showing that a PNG File is $15.06, but the actual jumpsuit is $57.96-$63.40.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, and ugh. 😭🫠☠️

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5d

😭😭😭

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5d

When did Etsy get so crappy? I thought Etsy was the Good Place for niche items.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5d

This new thing on Etsy where people list a costume with a low price and then when you click, the price is for a "PNG File" of the costume and the costume itself is 4-20x as expensive?! Is really upsetting my 10yo daughter who just wants to Halloween shop on her allowance, and seems kinda scummy.

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