Andrew Mann
@amann.bsky.social
Associate professor of Physics and Astronomy at UNC Chapel Hill studying young exoplanets and stars. Dad to one human and one cat. 🏳️🌈💗💜. Carrboro Citizen. http://andrewwmann.com
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BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Dear Picasso toys. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Dear Picasso toys. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
It's been a long journey from a child who hated going to Synagogue to an adult that hasn't been inside a synagogue in 20 years. But all those years of being a terrible Jew have finally paid off.
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It's been a long journey from a child who hated going to Synagogue to an adult that hasn't been inside a synagogue in 20 years. But all those years of being a terrible Jew have finally paid off.
Is this satire? I hope this is satire… www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
It’s My Right To Pull an All-Nighter, Canvas. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
As we recover from our fifteen hours without Canvas, we should reflect on how sites like these affect our lives and those around us — for better and for worse. All I ask is this: Professors, please ex...
www.thecrimson.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Is this satire? I hope this is satire… www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Prediction for this JWST cycle 🧪🔭
October 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Prediction for this JWST cycle 🧪🔭
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This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.
I’m a collaborator on 5 proposals submitted AFTER the deadline.
At least 2000 jwst proposals. 🧪🔭💩🍑🍉⛈️🏖️
October 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’m a collaborator on 5 proposals submitted AFTER the deadline.
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So, we are tracking well above Cycle 4. Figure by @mpudoka.bsky.social and Yongda Zhu. 🔭
October 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So, we are tracking well above Cycle 4. Figure by @mpudoka.bsky.social and Yongda Zhu. 🔭
At least 2000 jwst proposals. 🧪🔭💩🍑🍉⛈️🏖️
October 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
At least 2000 jwst proposals. 🧪🔭💩🍑🍉⛈️🏖️
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My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭
inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718
inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718
INSPIRE
inspirehep.net
October 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭
inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718
inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718
My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭
inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718
inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718
INSPIRE
inspirehep.net
October 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭
inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718
inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718
52 hours before the deadline is a good time to start a JWST proposal, right? 🧪🔭
October 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
52 hours before the deadline is a good time to start a JWST proposal, right? 🧪🔭
The UNC employee healthcare has now gotten so expensive and bad that it makes the most financial sense (for me) to decline it. #tarheels
October 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The UNC employee healthcare has now gotten so expensive and bad that it makes the most financial sense (for me) to decline it. #tarheels
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Brief life update: On Monday I resigned from my appointment at Lowell Observatory. I wish my remaining friends and colleagues the best of luckin their endeavors in increasing new visitor center visitation, and continuing to pursue world-class research in the face of having ended tenure today.
October 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Brief life update: On Monday I resigned from my appointment at Lowell Observatory. I wish my remaining friends and colleagues the best of luckin their endeavors in increasing new visitor center visitation, and continuing to pursue world-class research in the face of having ended tenure today.
I was once again overlooked for the Nobel peace prize.
October 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I was once again overlooked for the Nobel peace prize.
Remember, if tenure were gone tomorrow, Loeb would certainly be untouched (he brings in tons of private money). The people criticizing him, that’s a bit less clear.
Loeb is an example of why we need tenure, not a reason to get rid of it.
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Loeb is an example of why we need tenure, not a reason to get rid of it.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Remember, if tenure were gone tomorrow, Loeb would certainly be untouched (he brings in tons of private money). The people criticizing him, that’s a bit less clear.
Loeb is an example of why we need tenure, not a reason to get rid of it.
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Loeb is an example of why we need tenure, not a reason to get rid of it.
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Extrapolating from growth just at my house, one day the entire universe will be nothing but Rosemary and toddler fingernails. 🧪🔭💅
October 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Extrapolating from growth just at my house, one day the entire universe will be nothing but Rosemary and toddler fingernails. 🧪🔭💅
There are two kinds of email inboxes:
0-5 unread emails
>10,000 unread emails.
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0-5 unread emails
>10,000 unread emails.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There are two kinds of email inboxes:
0-5 unread emails
>10,000 unread emails.
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0-5 unread emails
>10,000 unread emails.
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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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What happens when a star cluster disperses? Well, it forms a stream of stars - and those streams are all around us!
In a new paper by Sebastian Ratzenböck at the CfA / @univie.ac.at, we looked into streams near to the Sun, and found that the Milky Way's disk is *full* of streams! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic
In a new paper by Sebastian Ratzenböck at the CfA / @univie.ac.at, we looked into streams near to the Sun, and found that the Milky Way's disk is *full* of streams! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic
September 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
What happens when a star cluster disperses? Well, it forms a stream of stars - and those streams are all around us!
In a new paper by Sebastian Ratzenböck at the CfA / @univie.ac.at, we looked into streams near to the Sun, and found that the Milky Way's disk is *full* of streams! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic
In a new paper by Sebastian Ratzenböck at the CfA / @univie.ac.at, we looked into streams near to the Sun, and found that the Milky Way's disk is *full* of streams! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
What's one more plot when you've already maxed out the AAS publication charges? 🔭🧪🤑💸💰
September 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
What's one more plot when you've already maxed out the AAS publication charges? 🔭🧪🤑💸💰
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This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best.
Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters.
The latter understand what's going on.
The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
The latter understand what's going on.
The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD
It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this.
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September 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best.
Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
So… will there be an NSF GRFP call this year? 🧪🔭
August 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
So… will there be an NSF GRFP call this year? 🧪🔭
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Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF)
www.nsf.gov
August 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...