Minh Huynh
@astrominh.bsky.social
Radio astronomer. Politics nerd. Avid ultimate frisbee player. Comic book geek and MCU fan. Opinions own. she/her, dr 🏳️🌈
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This is pretty significant and that it’s been 11 years since they tried to build on Maunakea and Kanaka Maoli protectors have successfully impeded them is a major victory for traditional knowledge keepers and people fighting for Kanaka sovereignty. 🔭🧪
www.tmt.org/news/708
www.tmt.org/news/708
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is pretty significant and that it’s been 11 years since they tried to build on Maunakea and Kanaka Maoli protectors have successfully impeded them is a major victory for traditional knowledge keepers and people fighting for Kanaka sovereignty. 🔭🧪
www.tmt.org/news/708
www.tmt.org/news/708
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November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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#CentresOfExcellence #CE26
ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!
It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!
It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
#CentresOfExcellence #CE26
ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!
It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!
It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
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Today in PASA we published a new image of our Milky Way at low radio frequencies, in unprecedented colour and detail. Here's just a tiny piece of it -- the whole thing is ten times bigger!
We're seeing high energy electrons whirl around cosmic magnetic fields from exploded stars, and more!
We're seeing high energy electrons whirl around cosmic magnetic fields from exploded stars, and more!
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Today in PASA we published a new image of our Milky Way at low radio frequencies, in unprecedented colour and detail. Here's just a tiny piece of it -- the whole thing is ten times bigger!
We're seeing high energy electrons whirl around cosmic magnetic fields from exploded stars, and more!
We're seeing high energy electrons whirl around cosmic magnetic fields from exploded stars, and more!
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Or have a play with our interactive optical/radio viewer and watch our video about it here: www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
A new, expansive view of the Milky Way reveals our Galaxy in unprecedented radio colour - ICRAR
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled.
www.icrar.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Or have a play with our interactive optical/radio viewer and watch our video about it here: www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
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how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
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Another superb image from the team at HEO!
They're a Sydney-based start-up and are doing fantastic things. Super nice team too!
What's gonna blow your mind is this is taken from another satellite in a higher orbit - looking down.
All these objects are moving very quickly relative to each other! 🤯
They're a Sydney-based start-up and are doing fantastic things. Super nice team too!
What's gonna blow your mind is this is taken from another satellite in a higher orbit - looking down.
All these objects are moving very quickly relative to each other! 🤯
An absolutely incredible image of the International Space Station taken by a *satellite* also in orbit by heospace.com & blacksky.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Another superb image from the team at HEO!
They're a Sydney-based start-up and are doing fantastic things. Super nice team too!
What's gonna blow your mind is this is taken from another satellite in a higher orbit - looking down.
All these objects are moving very quickly relative to each other! 🤯
They're a Sydney-based start-up and are doing fantastic things. Super nice team too!
What's gonna blow your mind is this is taken from another satellite in a higher orbit - looking down.
All these objects are moving very quickly relative to each other! 🤯
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Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is flying past Mars today. Might get some cool views!
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
Mars Orbiters Will Have Front-row Seats to Interstellar Comet
Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet will aim a suite of instruments at Comet 3I/ATLAS to capture details about this enigmatic object.
skyandtelescope.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is flying past Mars today. Might get some cool views!
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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Astronomers have long been blessed by the existence of #ADS - excited for the new @scixcommunity.bsky.social platform, expanding to other disciplines - developed via NASA #openscience funding. Look forward to trying it out! 🔭🧪
#SciX is created by the #ADS team & operates out of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA Cooperative Agreement. Created and developed by scientists, for scientists, SciX builds on decades of open research infrastructure and collaboration: https://bit.ly/CfASciXNews
September 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Astronomers have long been blessed by the existence of #ADS - excited for the new @scixcommunity.bsky.social platform, expanding to other disciplines - developed via NASA #openscience funding. Look forward to trying it out! 🔭🧪
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If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
NSF Award Search: Award # 2347850
Structure theory for measure-preserving systems, additive combinatorics, and correlations of multiplicative functions
www.nsf.gov
August 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
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Someone once said the most utopian thing about Star Trek is that 7 coworkers can call a meeting in the conference room and adjourn after only 3 minutes with a definitive plan of action.
August 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Someone once said the most utopian thing about Star Trek is that 7 coworkers can call a meeting in the conference room and adjourn after only 3 minutes with a definitive plan of action.
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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I honestly don’t know how we ever recover from this loss of institutional knowledge. There’s no reason to do this…we learn nothing from history.
Tomorrow I will go to work and train those who come after me as best I can, like always, because I truly love NASA #nasa 🧪🔭🚀🛰️
www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...
Tomorrow I will go to work and train those who come after me as best I can, like always, because I truly love NASA #nasa 🧪🔭🚀🛰️
www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...
Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.
www.npr.org
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I honestly don’t know how we ever recover from this loss of institutional knowledge. There’s no reason to do this…we learn nothing from history.
Tomorrow I will go to work and train those who come after me as best I can, like always, because I truly love NASA #nasa 🧪🔭🚀🛰️
www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...
Tomorrow I will go to work and train those who come after me as best I can, like always, because I truly love NASA #nasa 🧪🔭🚀🛰️
www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...
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More postdoctoral researchers secured access to sophisticated scientific instruments when an Australian facility made their application process anonymous
go.nature.com/3J4AA3j
go.nature.com/3J4AA3j
Postdocs get more equipment time when applications are anonymized
Early-career researchers’ access to neutron-beam instruments jumped from 61% to 78% at one Australian facility.
go.nature.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
More postdoctoral researchers secured access to sophisticated scientific instruments when an Australian facility made their application process anonymous
go.nature.com/3J4AA3j
go.nature.com/3J4AA3j
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A fav inaccurate one is Stranger Things, it’s set in 1983 but has Livermorium which was discovered in 2000 and added officially to the table in 2012
July 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A fav inaccurate one is Stranger Things, it’s set in 1983 but has Livermorium which was discovered in 2000 and added officially to the table in 2012
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Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
July 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
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Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are out! These were taken 5 hours ago. Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy. Best of luck to the researchers trying to write up papers for this... archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭
July 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are out! These were taken 5 hours ago. Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy. Best of luck to the researchers trying to write up papers for this... archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
July 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
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Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional.
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
July 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional.
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
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the American government is effectively ending its space program.
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
www.politico.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the American government is effectively ending its space program.
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Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
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Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana
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July 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co. over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on #Saturn on July 5th, 09:00-09:15UT. Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key. This 📸 credit: Mario Rana
pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/v...
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