Thomas Sch.
@thomassch1970.bsky.social
Curious SW Dev|Hobby astronomer|Roman history lover|Embedded software|drivers, BSPs, FPGAs, µCs, Linux & VxWorks.
CO2 decrease? nuclear energy!
CO2 decrease? nuclear energy!
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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/...
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...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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/...
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/...
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Gavin is also President of the Duke chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), and was covered in this recent story: today.duke.edu/2025/10/spac...
Space Club Envisions Life on Other Planets One Day | Duke Today
today.duke.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Gavin is also President of the Duke chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), and was covered in this recent story: today.duke.edu/2025/10/spac...
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I will be sending out early access emails today at 2pm PT! Make sure to check your spam folder to be safe. Thank you for clicking, liking, sharing all the things! It really helps me reach other space nerds ☺️
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October 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I will be sending out early access emails today at 2pm PT! Make sure to check your spam folder to be safe. Thank you for clicking, liking, sharing all the things! It really helps me reach other space nerds ☺️
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stellerarts.com/pages/leviat...
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stellerarts.com/pages/leviat...
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If you like astronomy posts, then you'll probably really like the astronomy feeds!
If you didn't know, Bluesky gives you direct control over your social algorithm. Instead of doomscrolling, look at space instead:
If you didn't know, Bluesky gives you direct control over your social algorithm. Instead of doomscrolling, look at space instead:
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you like astronomy posts, then you'll probably really like the astronomy feeds!
If you didn't know, Bluesky gives you direct control over your social algorithm. Instead of doomscrolling, look at space instead:
If you didn't know, Bluesky gives you direct control over your social algorithm. Instead of doomscrolling, look at space instead:
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I have an ask, as they say:
My newsletter is always free on Monday. Please share it with a nerd you know! I love astronomy and space, and I bet you know a lot of folks who do too. My whole point is to get the word out, and you can help immeasurably with that. Thanks!
My newsletter is always free on Monday. Please share it with a nerd you know! I love astronomy and space, and I bet you know a lot of folks who do too. My whole point is to get the word out, and you can help immeasurably with that. Thanks!
In this corner: OCSN-49, a star cluster with hundreds of members wandering the galaxy
And in THIS corner: a diffuse giant molecular cloud with 100,000 times the Sun's mass just minding its own business
It's the CLASH of the EONS! Who will win?
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/star-clust...
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And in THIS corner: a diffuse giant molecular cloud with 100,000 times the Sun's mass just minding its own business
It's the CLASH of the EONS! Who will win?
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/star-clust...
🧪🔭
Star cluster vs. giant molecular cloud: who wins?
The answer surprised me, and I do so love being surprised.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I have an ask, as they say:
My newsletter is always free on Monday. Please share it with a nerd you know! I love astronomy and space, and I bet you know a lot of folks who do too. My whole point is to get the word out, and you can help immeasurably with that. Thanks!
My newsletter is always free on Monday. Please share it with a nerd you know! I love astronomy and space, and I bet you know a lot of folks who do too. My whole point is to get the word out, and you can help immeasurably with that. Thanks!
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Until Kipekee came along, Wamata was the favourite at our Nairobi Nursery. Initially, we witnessed sibling rivalry, but over time, she has changed her tune. In a sign of progress, Wamata even allowed Kipekee to play with her in the dust one day, engaging in gentle trunk touches: swt.bio/wamata
October 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Until Kipekee came along, Wamata was the favourite at our Nairobi Nursery. Initially, we witnessed sibling rivalry, but over time, she has changed her tune. In a sign of progress, Wamata even allowed Kipekee to play with her in the dust one day, engaging in gentle trunk touches: swt.bio/wamata
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
This bugfix looks fine
This bugfix looks fine
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Visit Planner timed out.
Visit Planner timed out.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
The valve stuck open.
The valve stuck open.
October 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
This bugfix looks fine
This bugfix looks fine
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The Dept of Geography & Environment at @ulethbridge.ca is hiring an Instructor: a broadly trained Geographer with strong spatial analytical skills and experience in the geosciences, incl. GIS, Remote Sensing, mapping & spatial modelling. Appl. deadline: 1 Jan 2026. uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8717
Faculty of Arts & Science - Instructor II or III (Geography and Environment)
The Department of Geography & Environment at the University of Lethbridge invites applications for a continuing appointment at the rank of Instructor II or III to commence on July 1, 2026, subject to ...
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October 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Dept of Geography & Environment at @ulethbridge.ca is hiring an Instructor: a broadly trained Geographer with strong spatial analytical skills and experience in the geosciences, incl. GIS, Remote Sensing, mapping & spatial modelling. Appl. deadline: 1 Jan 2026. uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8717
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Spectrum of Chaos made it safely to Germany! 🥹
Holy cow!! This is. A. Masterpiece!! I love the color composition & detailled art work! One can definitely tell your scientific background🌠🌌🌌Thank you😊🙏🙏🙏
October 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Spectrum of Chaos made it safely to Germany! 🥹
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This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!
To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why
Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!
To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My new hobby: hoarding U-Haul boxes from Tucson AZ! 😄
Finally could pick up my painting from @stellerarts.com yay!! Looking forward to unbox this weekend 🤩🤩
Finally could pick up my painting from @stellerarts.com yay!! Looking forward to unbox this weekend 🤩🤩
October 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
My new hobby: hoarding U-Haul boxes from Tucson AZ! 😄
Finally could pick up my painting from @stellerarts.com yay!! Looking forward to unbox this weekend 🤩🤩
Finally could pick up my painting from @stellerarts.com yay!! Looking forward to unbox this weekend 🤩🤩
Kurze Woche - wenn Montag schon Dienstag ist!
September 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Kurze Woche - wenn Montag schon Dienstag ist!
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It’s Friday night.
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
September 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It’s Friday night.
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
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Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!
Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!
Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
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Stop what you’re doing and look at the new JWST images! Uploading a picture won’t do them justice, so here yah go: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
NASA's Webb Explores Largest Star-Forming Cloud in Milky Way - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most
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September 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Stop what you’re doing and look at the new JWST images! Uploading a picture won’t do them justice, so here yah go: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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I have a friend who lost his job in the DOGE nonsense. He's very reliable, and has extensive experience in IT project mgmt leading multi-million $ contracts. If you need someone like that or know someone who does, I'd appreciate a DM and I can connect you.
September 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I have a friend who lost his job in the DOGE nonsense. He's very reliable, and has extensive experience in IT project mgmt leading multi-million $ contracts. If you need someone like that or know someone who does, I'd appreciate a DM and I can connect you.
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"Tell me about the waters of your homeworld, Usul."
September 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"Tell me about the waters of your homeworld, Usul."
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[BREAKING] The Planetary Society and 14 partner organizations released a joint letter calling for explicit NASA science protections in Congress's stopgap spending bill.
Read it here:
www.planetary.org/press-releas...
Read it here:
www.planetary.org/press-releas...
Coalition of science, education, and space organizations urges…
A coalition of science, education, labor, and space advocacy organizations today sent a joint letter to congressional appropriations leaders urging them…
www.planetary.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
[BREAKING] The Planetary Society and 14 partner organizations released a joint letter calling for explicit NASA science protections in Congress's stopgap spending bill.
Read it here:
www.planetary.org/press-releas...
Read it here:
www.planetary.org/press-releas...
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We have job opportunities in the APEx department at MPIA - please spread the word!
Postdocs: aas.org/jobregister/...
Tenure-track staff: aas.org/jobregister/...
Max Planck Research Group Leaders: aas.org/jobregister/...
+ happy to host ERC, Humboldt, and other third-party funds.
Postdocs: aas.org/jobregister/...
Tenure-track staff: aas.org/jobregister/...
Max Planck Research Group Leaders: aas.org/jobregister/...
+ happy to host ERC, Humboldt, and other third-party funds.
September 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We have job opportunities in the APEx department at MPIA - please spread the word!
Postdocs: aas.org/jobregister/...
Tenure-track staff: aas.org/jobregister/...
Max Planck Research Group Leaders: aas.org/jobregister/...
+ happy to host ERC, Humboldt, and other third-party funds.
Postdocs: aas.org/jobregister/...
Tenure-track staff: aas.org/jobregister/...
Max Planck Research Group Leaders: aas.org/jobregister/...
+ happy to host ERC, Humboldt, and other third-party funds.
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For your Friday, another stunning view of the cosmos from JWST—this time of jets of plasma blasting out from a newly formed star.
It looks like a painting.
It looks like a painting.
September 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
For your Friday, another stunning view of the cosmos from JWST—this time of jets of plasma blasting out from a newly formed star.
It looks like a painting.
It looks like a painting.
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I was just coming here to say this!
It's Friday night.
I did enough this week.
You did enough this week.
It's Friday night.
I did enough this week.
You did enough this week.
It's Friday Night (here in Germany),
You did enough this week!
Hope you relax well!
You did enough this week!
Hope you relax well!
September 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I was just coming here to say this!
It's Friday night.
I did enough this week.
You did enough this week.
It's Friday night.
I did enough this week.
You did enough this week.
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Each man is a little war.
September 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Each man is a little war.
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I sent the email at 1:59pm and it’s being kinda slow today 😆. Took me a couple minutes to get it myself.
OMG NO WAY THOMAS 😭 thank you. It’s going to look amazing next to Spectrum of Fate because now you have a planetary nebula & a supernova remnant ahhhhh!
OMG NO WAY THOMAS 😭 thank you. It’s going to look amazing next to Spectrum of Fate because now you have a planetary nebula & a supernova remnant ahhhhh!
September 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I sent the email at 1:59pm and it’s being kinda slow today 😆. Took me a couple minutes to get it myself.
OMG NO WAY THOMAS 😭 thank you. It’s going to look amazing next to Spectrum of Fate because now you have a planetary nebula & a supernova remnant ahhhhh!
OMG NO WAY THOMAS 😭 thank you. It’s going to look amazing next to Spectrum of Fate because now you have a planetary nebula & a supernova remnant ahhhhh!
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Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.
I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:
emmkid.info
I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:
emmkid.info
Portfolio
emmkid.info
September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.
I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:
emmkid.info
I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:
emmkid.info
Meine Superheldenkraft:
Bier unsichtbar machen.
Bier unsichtbar machen.
September 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Meine Superheldenkraft:
Bier unsichtbar machen.
Bier unsichtbar machen.