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Sarah Kendrew
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European Space Agency Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. Team Lead for the MIRI instrument on JWST. Runner, dog mum, cyclist. 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Opinions my own.
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carlnotsagan.github.io
i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)!

i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social!

apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Research Associate I Computational Stellar Astrophysics (Steward Observatory) | American Astronomical Society
The University of Arizona (U of A) Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory (SO) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will work with Professor Ca...
aas.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
sarahkendrew.bsky.social
It seems like just yesterday that we were in design reviews for GRAVITY the OG version - now there‘s GRAVITY+ with multiple lasers! ESO and Europe/Chile are powerhouses for ground-based astronomy right now. 🔭
eso.org ESO @eso.org · 23h
1/ Milestone achieved by the VLTI upgrade GRAVITY+: a laser has been installed at each of the previously unequipped VLT Unit Telescopes.

This will dramatically enhance the VLTI observing power.

Discover more with #ChasingStarlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzK1B3VU1L8

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Four astronomical domes stand in a desert landscape, each launching a bright orange laser into the sky. A nearly full moon glows on the left of the image. The text “What are these lasers for?” is visible on the image.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
sarahkendrew.bsky.social
Highly recommend booking a flight while you’re already on your way to the airport. Strong secret agent vibes. Quite exhilarating.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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nasawatch.bsky.social
Some Notes On Jared Isaacman And NASA Science
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Some Notes On Jared Isaacman And NASA Science
A recent Politico article cited some internal ideas Jared Isaacman offered to Interim Administrator Sean Duffy
nasawatch.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
sarahkendrew.bsky.social
A trans friend in the UK was barred from her local gym (where she's been a regular for years) after a complaint from another woman about her being in the women's changing room. Just terrible. Far outside my wheelhouse on the legal side, but if anyone with experience has advice, happy to hear it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
sarahkendrew.bsky.social
be safe everyone!
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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royalastrosoc.bsky.social
Our Public Talk this month is all about the mystery of Cosmic Dust

From fragments of asteroids to cometary tails, the plumes of outer solar system moons and even debris from our own activities in space, the talk will have a bit of everything.

⏰ 6-7pm
📅 Tue 18 Nov
📍Burlington House, London
🎟️ FREE
Graphic promoting the RAS Public Talk for November titled 'Cosmic Dust'.
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
sarahkendrew.bsky.social
Gorgeous 🔭😍
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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chrislintott.bsky.social
New paper day - looking at the rotation rates of bars in galaxies in different environments. Work by the awesome Natalia Puczek, who did her MPhys project with Becky Smethurst. arxiv.org/abs/2511.02054
Bars in low-density environments rotate faster than bars in dense regions
Does the environment of a galaxy directly influence the kinematics of its bar? We present observational evidence that bars in high-density environments exhibit significantly slower rotation rates than...
arxiv.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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philplait.bsky.social
Paid subbies to my newsletter can read about how a Little Red Dot may actually be a (mostly naked) Big Black Hole.

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A Little Red Dot may be a mostly naked supermassive black hole
This has implications for how such behemoths form in the first place
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 7d
NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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jwmason.bsky.social
This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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wbaltv11.bsky.social
A portion of Key Highway is closed out of an abundance of caution, Baltimore City emergency officials said. See video on WBAL-TV 11 News, in the WBAL-TV 11 News app, on WBALTV.com: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/key-highway-closed-baltimore-road-damage/69238520 
A portion of Key Highway is closed out of an abundance of caution, Baltimore City emergency officials said
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
sarahkendrew.bsky.social
Posted by #Baltimore City of Emergency Management & the Mayor's office on f/b 👀
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
sarahkendrew.bsky.social
"[Helen Andrews] argued that the “great feminisation” of American workplaces [...] since the 1970s is at the root of everything from the demise of free speech to competitive decline" love when these opinions are held by college-educated women with successful professional careers! anyway, great piece
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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kissphoria.bsky.social
listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public
Another family, the Hares, also moved from Abilene, Texas, to Russia to shield their three sons from what they say are harmful elements of American culture. “It was the promise of a country that would not promote the LGBT agenda. We liked the fact that LGBT is basically outlawed here in official ways,” Leo Hare, 62, told NBC News via a video call from the family’s new home in Ivanovo, Russia. Russia has strict laws against the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relationships,” which have in practice banned public displays of LGBTQ identity, including wearing or posting the rainbow flag on social media. They say their initial plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through just as they boarded the plane from Texas, and the family spent a bitterly cold winter caring for chickens, horses and rabbits on a farm 70 miles south of Moscow in exchange for free board. At one point, they even had to bring the goats and their newborns inside their cabin to keep the animals from dying. Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord's son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg in what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said. The couple went to the police and the local court to file complaints about their lost money and with their concerns that they had been swindled, but say they have received no help from law enforcement officials. NBC News contacted Domodedovo police for comment but did not receive a reply.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
sarahkendrew.bsky.social
A strong day for women's marathoning: new course record in New York AND new US course record. Well done, incredible humans. 👏🔥🫶
fastwomen.bsky.social Fast Women @fastwomen.bsky.social · 8d
Hellen Obiri wins the New York City Marathon in an incredible 2:19:51. She takes 2:40 off the previous course record, which had stood since 2003.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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astrokat.bsky.social
Are you a grad student interested in writing for Astrobites, or do you know one? We're recruiting! Apply by November 26 :)

astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...
Apply to Write for Astrobites 2025!
Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th.
astrobites.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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thocarp.bsky.social
A JWST wonder, once again! 🔭

This is the image of the NGC-2440 planetary nebula as seen by the JWST one year ago, that I processed last night! Look how wonderful that thing is 😍
And if you zoom on the centre, you can see a little dot which is suspect is the white dwarf!

HD: flic.kr/p/2rCzjR1
The NGC-2440 planetary nebula seen in infrared light. The outer part looks like a bubble that is expanding in every directions, appearing mostly in grey and violet colours. In the middle of that bubble lie the outer layers, appearing in orange, of the dead star being pushed away, mostly towards the right and left side of the bubble. In the very centre of that lies a little white dot, which I suspect is the remnant of the dead star: the white dwarf. Several stars and far away galaxies can be spotted in the background.
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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tomoljenkins.bsky.social
Trump regime denies visa to human rights lawyer and @houseoflords.parliament.uk member Helena Kennedy, a regular US visitor where she owns a home. She believes visa withheld because she signed a letter criticising Trump. The US Ambo should be called in by FCO www.newstatesman.com/politics/com...
Human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy denied a US visa
Big Brother Trump is watching. Plus, your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
www.newstatesman.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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thebaltimorebanner.com
BPD officer suspended, under investigation after ‘alarming’ video shared on social media
BPD officer suspended after ‘alarming’ video shared on social media
A Baltimore Police officer has been suspended and is under investigation after a video that appears to show him attempting to hit someone with his cruiser was shared across social media platforms.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM