Johanna Teske
@johannateske.bsky.social
She/her/hers. Astronomer, runner, feminist, vegan, Nats fan, Peloton fan.
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So sad to hear that Alice Wong has died. Her work has informed my understanding of disability and disability advocacy for as long as I can remember, and we just listened to her on this episode of Radiolab a few weeks ago: www.wnycstudios.org/story/voice/
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
So sad to hear that Alice Wong has died. Her work has informed my understanding of disability and disability advocacy for as long as I can remember, and we just listened to her on this episode of Radiolab a few weeks ago: www.wnycstudios.org/story/voice/
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A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
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Thanks to Ben Cassese and @aasnova.org for this lovely summary of our paper!
If you were standing on a sub-Neptune exoplanet, would you be standing on a rocky surface or in a magma ocean? aasnova.org/2025/11/05/s... 🔭🧪
Standing on a Sub-Neptune
If you were standing on a sub-Neptune exoplanet, would you be standing on a rocky surface or in a magma ocean?
aasnova.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Thanks to Ben Cassese and @aasnova.org for this lovely summary of our paper!
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I just don’t think they comprehend how inspiring NASA has been, and still is, for humanity. Kids are not going “I want to work for ESA when I grow up” they are saying “I want to work for NASA when I grow up”
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I just don’t think they comprehend how inspiring NASA has been, and still is, for humanity. Kids are not going “I want to work for ESA when I grow up” they are saying “I want to work for NASA when I grow up”
@karagoucher.bsky.social @deslinden.bsky.social candidates for the Technogym competition! 😆
Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. (From 2024)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vampire-bats-treadmills-metabolism
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vampire-bats-treadmills-metabolism
Putting vampire bats on treadmills reveals an unusual metabolism
A bat gym shows that vampires are more like some insects, burning amino acids from blood proteins rather than the carbs or fats other mammals rely on.
www.sciencenews.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
@karagoucher.bsky.social @deslinden.bsky.social candidates for the Technogym competition! 😆
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Absolutely floored to have received an award for "open and inclusive" #scicomm and outreach. I'm not usually one to broadcast such things, but I think highlighting this type of work is more important than ever. Please consider getting involved in your own communities! 🔭🧪
www.uu.se/institution/...
www.uu.se/institution/...
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Absolutely floored to have received an award for "open and inclusive" #scicomm and outreach. I'm not usually one to broadcast such things, but I think highlighting this type of work is more important than ever. Please consider getting involved in your own communities! 🔭🧪
www.uu.se/institution/...
www.uu.se/institution/...
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The second big reason is related:
Fundamental, basic science, the foundation of US tech and biotech innovation, is a public good in the economics sense.
As @josephestiglitz.bsky.social puts it: a key feature of public goods is that without the gov’t they are underprovisioned.
/last vid
Fundamental, basic science, the foundation of US tech and biotech innovation, is a public good in the economics sense.
As @josephestiglitz.bsky.social puts it: a key feature of public goods is that without the gov’t they are underprovisioned.
/last vid
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The second big reason is related:
Fundamental, basic science, the foundation of US tech and biotech innovation, is a public good in the economics sense.
As @josephestiglitz.bsky.social puts it: a key feature of public goods is that without the gov’t they are underprovisioned.
/last vid
Fundamental, basic science, the foundation of US tech and biotech innovation, is a public good in the economics sense.
As @josephestiglitz.bsky.social puts it: a key feature of public goods is that without the gov’t they are underprovisioned.
/last vid
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The first big reason why NIH is irreplaceable?
Scale. The NIMH budget alone is $2.4 BILLION. NIH’s budget is around $48 billion. In comparison @hhmi.org is $1B, the fabulous American Cancer Society is around $150M. We are talking about the diff between millions and billions.
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Scale. The NIMH budget alone is $2.4 BILLION. NIH’s budget is around $48 billion. In comparison @hhmi.org is $1B, the fabulous American Cancer Society is around $150M. We are talking about the diff between millions and billions.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The first big reason why NIH is irreplaceable?
Scale. The NIMH budget alone is $2.4 BILLION. NIH’s budget is around $48 billion. In comparison @hhmi.org is $1B, the fabulous American Cancer Society is around $150M. We are talking about the diff between millions and billions.
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Scale. The NIMH budget alone is $2.4 BILLION. NIH’s budget is around $48 billion. In comparison @hhmi.org is $1B, the fabulous American Cancer Society is around $150M. We are talking about the diff between millions and billions.
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no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI
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I loved this interview, highly recommend.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I loved this interview, highly recommend.
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Have you always dreamed of being a Max Planck director? Well, here is your chance! The Max Planck society has an open call for directors: www.mpg.de/25111395/mpg... #astronomy
www.mpg.de
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Have you always dreamed of being a Max Planck director? Well, here is your chance! The Max Planck society has an open call for directors: www.mpg.de/25111395/mpg... #astronomy
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The University of Arizona announced Monday it won't agree to the proposed compact, and instead submitted a statement of principles to the government.
Compact Live Updates: U. of Arizona Says It Won’t Sign On, Becoming Seventh Campus to Decline
The flagship instead submitted a “statement of principles” to the government. Meanwhile, professors at the University of Texas at Austin urged their campus not to go along with the effort.
chroni.cl
October 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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In Cycle 2, I was co-PI of the largest volume limited survey of nearby white dwarfs with #JWST. Our first result is out! Out of 56 white dwarfs, one showed a possible candidate companion between projected separations of 0.5"-2" or roughly 10-40 au. 🔭 #astrosci
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...
The MIRI Excesses around Degenerates (MEAD) Survey I: A candidate cold brown dwarf in orbit around the nearby white dwarf 2MASS J09424023-4637176
The MIRI Excesses Around Degenerates Survey is a Cycle 2 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Survey program designed to image nearby white dwarfs in the mid-IR with the MIRI imaging mode. Only a handful...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
October 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
In Cycle 2, I was co-PI of the largest volume limited survey of nearby white dwarfs with #JWST. Our first result is out! Out of 56 white dwarfs, one showed a possible candidate companion between projected separations of 0.5"-2" or roughly 10-40 au. 🔭 #astrosci
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...
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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. 🔭
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gene kelly is antifa
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
gene kelly is antifa
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w/ Oli Shorttle, @johannateske.bsky.social & Eliza Kempton we reviewed our current understanding and prospects for peaking on the inside of small #exoplanets in "Constraining exoplanet interiors using observations of their atmospheres": www.science.org/stoken/autho... & arxiv.org/abs/2510.08844 🔭🧪⚒️☄️
October 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
w/ Oli Shorttle, @johannateske.bsky.social & Eliza Kempton we reviewed our current understanding and prospects for peaking on the inside of small #exoplanets in "Constraining exoplanet interiors using observations of their atmospheres": www.science.org/stoken/autho... & arxiv.org/abs/2510.08844 🔭🧪⚒️☄️
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
Very interesting work!
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Very interesting work!
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So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.
Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...
Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington
The Department of Astronomy has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. General Information for applying to UW Astronomy Graduate Program. Applications must be submitted using ...
astro.washington.edu
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.
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My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:
Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:
Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.