Amir Caspi, Ph.D.
@astronamir.bsky.social
Astrophysicist (solar/stellar) @SwRI.org in Boulder, CO. Instrumentalist, data jockey, programmer. Gamer. Nerd. Vell, I'm just zis guy, you know? | PI @CubIXSS @citizenCATE2024
I did it. I finally did it. I found something worse than “dessert hummus.”
Behold this abomination — the sushi hot dog.
Behold this abomination — the sushi hot dog.
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I did it. I finally did it. I found something worse than “dessert hummus.”
Behold this abomination — the sushi hot dog.
Behold this abomination — the sushi hot dog.
Some amazing aurora tonight, visible from Boulder! Some highlights from tonight here. (The views from Minnesota are -spectacular- based on what I’m seeing from friends there!)
Go look up!! (And north.)
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
Go look up!! (And north.)
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Some amazing aurora tonight, visible from Boulder! Some highlights from tonight here. (The views from Minnesota are -spectacular- based on what I’m seeing from friends there!)
Go look up!! (And north.)
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
Go look up!! (And north.)
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
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NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!
September 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!
An amazing story by my friend & colleague, @dbseaton.bsky.social, highlights the personal, professional, & societal value of NSF’s REU undergrad research program, & the irreplaceable losses if planned funding cuts are enacted. A must-read.
🔭⚛️🧪☀️ #scicomm #citsci
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🔭⚛️🧪☀️ #scicomm #citsci
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Small, affordable undergraduate research programmes changed my career and strengthen US science. Why cut them?
Like so much else, this small scientific programme is on the Trump administration’s hit list. This will hurt the United States, says Dan Seaton.
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
An amazing story by my friend & colleague, @dbseaton.bsky.social, highlights the personal, professional, & societal value of NSF’s REU undergrad research program, & the irreplaceable losses if planned funding cuts are enacted. A must-read.
🔭⚛️🧪☀️ #scicomm #citsci
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🔭⚛️🧪☀️ #scicomm #citsci
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@philplait.bsky.social looks like you’re a clue in today’s @sciam.bsky.social crossword! www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...
Science Crossword: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Play this crossword inspired by the July 2025 issue of Scientific American.
www.scientificamerican.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
@philplait.bsky.social looks like you’re a clue in today’s @sciam.bsky.social crossword! www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...
My daughter just described light as “flavored energy.”
May 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
My daughter just described light as “flavored energy.”
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The documentary about our Citizen CATE 2024 project, that engaged with 36 teams of community volunteers to observe the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, premieres next week, April 23 at 7pm MDT. Register to attend in person or online! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci
news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...
news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...
Screening of 2024 eclipse documentary Gathered in Darkness | NCAR & UCAR News
news.ucar.edu
April 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The documentary about our Citizen CATE 2024 project, that engaged with 36 teams of community volunteers to observe the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, premieres next week, April 23 at 7pm MDT. Register to attend in person or online! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci
news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...
news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...
The documentary about our Citizen CATE 2024 project, that engaged with 36 teams of community volunteers to observe the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, premieres next week, April 23 at 7pm MDT. Register to attend in person or online! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci
news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...
news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...
Screening of 2024 eclipse documentary Gathered in Darkness | NCAR & UCAR News
news.ucar.edu
April 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The documentary about our Citizen CATE 2024 project, that engaged with 36 teams of community volunteers to observe the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, premieres next week, April 23 at 7pm MDT. Register to attend in person or online! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci
news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...
news.ucar.edu/133016/scree...
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Our community-participation project for the total solar eclipse, Citizen CATE 2024, was featured on #AGU24 TV! We’re so grateful to our 225+ community scientists who helped us on this exciting project. We’re processing over 2 TB of data and will have new eclipse visuals soon! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci
A groundbreaking initiative, Citizen CATE 2024 united communities across the US to study the solar corona during the total eclipse. This groundbreaking citizen science project fosters collaboration & advances solar research. @agu.org #AGU24 youtu.be/EAH9oqrfQc8
Citizen CATE 2024: Uniting Communities to Unlock Solar Eclipse Mysteries
YouTube video by WebsEdge Science
youtu.be
December 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Our upcoming CubeSat, CubIXSS, was featured on #AGU24 TV. Launching in late 2025, CubIXSS will study solar flares & the Sun’s multi-million-degree corona. Together with @suncetcubesat.bsky.social, we’ll make groundbreaking new observations of solar eruptions and the hot corona!
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
Get to know CubIXSS, a CubeSat the size of two shoeboxes set to revolutionize solar observation. Utilizing the innovative MOXSI, it will capture unprecedented soft X-ray data from solar flares, advancing solar physics & exploration. @agu.org #AGU24 youtu.be/SplXdAw8e9Q
Exploring Solar Flares with CUBIXSS – The CubeSat Imaging X-ray SolarSpectrometer
YouTube video by WebsEdge Science
youtu.be
December 10, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Our upcoming CubeSat, CubIXSS, was featured on #AGU24 TV. Launching in late 2025, CubIXSS will study solar flares & the Sun’s multi-million-degree corona. Together with @suncetcubesat.bsky.social, we’ll make groundbreaking new observations of solar eruptions and the hot corona!
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
Our community-participation project for the total solar eclipse, Citizen CATE 2024, was featured on #AGU24 TV! We’re so grateful to our 225+ community scientists who helped us on this exciting project. We’re processing over 2 TB of data and will have new eclipse visuals soon! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ #CitSci
A groundbreaking initiative, Citizen CATE 2024 united communities across the US to study the solar corona during the total eclipse. This groundbreaking citizen science project fosters collaboration & advances solar research. @agu.org #AGU24 youtu.be/EAH9oqrfQc8
Citizen CATE 2024: Uniting Communities to Unlock Solar Eclipse Mysteries
YouTube video by WebsEdge Science
youtu.be
December 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Our upcoming CubeSat, CubIXSS, was featured on #AGU24 TV. Launching in late 2025, CubIXSS will study solar flares & the Sun’s multi-million-degree corona. Together with @suncetcubesat.bsky.social, we’ll make groundbreaking new observations of solar eruptions and the hot corona!
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
Get to know CubIXSS, a CubeSat the size of two shoeboxes set to revolutionize solar observation. Utilizing the innovative MOXSI, it will capture unprecedented soft X-ray data from solar flares, advancing solar physics & exploration. @agu.org #AGU24 youtu.be/SplXdAw8e9Q
Exploring Solar Flares with CUBIXSS – The CubeSat Imaging X-ray SolarSpectrometer
YouTube video by WebsEdge Science
youtu.be
December 10, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Our upcoming CubeSat, CubIXSS, was featured on #AGU24 TV. Launching in late 2025, CubIXSS will study solar flares & the Sun’s multi-million-degree corona. Together with @suncetcubesat.bsky.social, we’ll make groundbreaking new observations of solar eruptions and the hot corona!
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
🧪🔭⚛️☀️
OMFG I just discovered “Human vs Hamster” on Magnolia Network where people run a human-sized rodent gauntlet in a race against a hamster — who wins half the time — and the hosts are straight out of the Panem Capitol from Hunger Games and I feel like I’m having a stroke
December 7, 2024 at 5:32 AM
OMFG I just discovered “Human vs Hamster” on Magnolia Network where people run a human-sized rodent gauntlet in a race against a hamster — who wins half the time — and the hosts are straight out of the Panem Capitol from Hunger Games and I feel like I’m having a stroke
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In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising.
I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.
If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.
If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
December 5, 2024 at 9:12 PM
In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising.
I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.
If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.
If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
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good news everyone! the science continues! check out Physics & Astronomy 2 (electric boogaloo):
go.bsky.app/4Kr3B48
go.bsky.app/4Kr3B48
November 29, 2024 at 9:33 PM
good news everyone! the science continues! check out Physics & Astronomy 2 (electric boogaloo):
go.bsky.app/4Kr3B48
go.bsky.app/4Kr3B48
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attempting to collect #scicomm focused #physics and #astronomy accounts into one #starterpack! this list is by no means complete—if I've missed you, please just shoot me a DM.
go.bsky.app/NvQERru
go.bsky.app/NvQERru
November 29, 2024 at 3:11 AM
attempting to collect #scicomm focused #physics and #astronomy accounts into one #starterpack! this list is by no means complete—if I've missed you, please just shoot me a DM.
go.bsky.app/NvQERru
go.bsky.app/NvQERru
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Astrophysics Data System (ADS) User Feedback Survey
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No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure, like a dipshit.
The man in black fled through the desert, and the gunslinger followed like a dipshit
October 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure, like a dipshit.
I have a joke about the Cyclops but it’s one I can’t repeat.
I have a joke about Ea-Nasir but it’s not high quality.
I have a joke about Midas that's pure gold
October 24, 2024 at 3:59 AM
I have a joke about the Cyclops but it’s one I can’t repeat.
Houston-area folks, I’ll be at the Lunar & Planetary Institute (LPI) on Thursday, Oct 24 to give a public talk — open and accessible to everyone — on solar eclipses and awesome experiments! Hope to see you there! 🧪🔭⚛️ #CitSci #SciComm
www.lpi.usra.edu/features/202...
www.lpi.usra.edu/features/202...
In-Person Event: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Chasing the Shadows of Solar Eclipses
Join the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) for an in-person presentation by Dr. Amir Caspi from the Southwest Research Institute.
www.lpi.usra.edu
October 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Houston-area folks, I’ll be at the Lunar & Planetary Institute (LPI) on Thursday, Oct 24 to give a public talk — open and accessible to everyone — on solar eclipses and awesome experiments! Hope to see you there! 🧪🔭⚛️ #CitSci #SciComm
www.lpi.usra.edu/features/202...
www.lpi.usra.edu/features/202...
In-Person Event: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Chasing the Shadows of Solar Eclipses
Join the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) for an in-person presentation by Dr. Amir Caspi from the Southwest Research Institute.
www.lpi.usra.edu
October 18, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Houston-area folks, I’ll be at the Lunar & Planetary Institute (LPI) on Thursday, Oct 24 to give a public talk — open and accessible to everyone — on solar eclipses and awesome experiments! Hope to see you there! 🧪🔭⚛️ #CitSci #SciComm
www.lpi.usra.edu/features/202...
www.lpi.usra.edu/features/202...
Reposted by Amir Caspi, Ph.D.
Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪
The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists
Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science
www.scientificamerican.com
October 18, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪
Aurora from Boulder! 🔭🧪⚛️
October 11, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Aurora from Boulder! 🔭🧪⚛️
Higher than I thought, but still a young elder I suppose.
September 22, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Higher than I thought, but still a young elder I suppose.