The Astrosky Ecosystem
We're building new social media tools for astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts online - from feeds to account hosting.
Website: https://astrosky.eco | GitHub: github.com/the-astrosky-ecosystem
Account managed by @emily.space
- Social media is essential for outreach and communication. So why should a single bad actor be able to destroy it? 🔭☄️ We don't think that should be the case, and that's why we're building The Astrosky Ecosystem - starting with the Astronomy feeds. We now have a paper about our project! #astrocode
- On Monday, we're going to be arXiv-official! 🔭☄️ We just submitted a short paper outlining our project to the arXiv 🥳
- There are some fun stats in there, like the number of weekly views that the feed gets! 🔭☄️
- We're rolling out some new bespoke branding designed by the wonderful Janine Jochum in Vienna - you'll see the logos on the feeds and on our accounts change over time! These logos were handmade for us 🎨, and they replace the emojis we used before as temporary stand-ins across the project!
- At the AAS meeting this week? Find Kyle if you'd like to get some free sticker swag for your laptop! 🔭☄️
- Do you enjoy the Astronomy feeds? Help us to build them! 🔭 We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer, but we're looking for a range of skills:
- Help us to build the Astronomy feeds and The Astrosky Ecosystem! 🔭 ☄️ #astrophotography We'd especially like to find >1 frontend dev to help work on replacing @bot.astronomy.blue with a simpler web interface, but we have some backend & devops needs to fill too. More details in the post below ⬇️
- Reposted by The Astrosky EcosystemIf 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:
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- Spam over - sorry for clogging your timeline for a sec!
- Welcome to the Stellar Astronomy feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #stellarastrononomy or #stellarastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Heliophysics (Astro) feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #heliophysics or #solarastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- This feed exists for technical purposes.
- Welcome to the AstroSci feed! Contains posts about astronomy and planetary science research. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add ☄️ or #astrosci to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Radio Astronomy feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #radioastronomy or #radioastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- This feed exists for technical purposes.
- Welcome to the Planetary Science feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #planetaryscience or #planetsci to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Milky Way feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #galactic or #galacticastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Astro Software & Methods feed! Discuss software and stats for astro here. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #astromethods, #astrocoding or #astrocode to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Astro Instrumentation feed! Discuss astronomy instrumentation here. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #instrumentation to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the History of Astronomy feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #astrohistory or #historyofastronomy to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the High Energy Astrophysics feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #highenergyastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Extragalactic Astronomy feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #extragalactic or #extragalacticastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Exoplanets feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #exoplanet or #exoplanets to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Astronomy Education feed! Discuss astronomy education here. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #astroeducation or #astroedu to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Cosmology feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #cosmology to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Astrophotography feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #astrophoto, #astrophotos or #astrophotography to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Astrosky feed! Contains all posts from all signed up users of the Astronomy feeds. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- Welcome to the Astronomy feed! Contains a filtered view of astronomy content on Bluesky. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add 🔭, #astro or #astronomy to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:
- We're about to send lots of posts from this account, which will be the new main pinned posts for the Astronomy feeds - sorry for the spam!
- We just posted a getting started guide on our website, with tips & advice on how to get started on Bluesky. Share it with a colleague or friend who might like it here! 🔭☄️ #astrophotography
- Reminder for the #exoplanets feed:
- Important news about the #exoplanets feed: We have removed the planet emoji as a way to post to the feed. Consistently, around ~50% of the posts to the feed are false positives, as 🪐 is a really common emoji. You can still post to it with #exoplanets!
- Important news about the Stellar Astronomy feed: we have removed #stars as a way to post to this feed due to false positives - as with the other subtopic feeds, it's only intended for scientific posts! You can now only post to it with #stellarastronomy or #stellarastro.
- Important news about the Milky Way feed #galactic: We have removed the hashtag #milkyway as a way to post to the feed, as it was causing a huge number of false positives. The hashtags for the feed are now just #galactic or #galacticastro. As a reminder, the feed is intended just for science posts!
- Important news about the #exoplanets feed: We have removed the planet emoji as a way to post to the feed. Consistently, around ~50% of the posts to the feed are false positives, as 🪐 is a really common emoji. You can still post to it with #exoplanets!
- 📌 We have a new feed aimed at professional astronomers! 📌 The AstroSci feed is just for science posts, and you can post your smoking hot research there with the comet emoji ☄️ AstroSci crossposts back to the main Astronomy feed, and all subtopic feeds post into it too. 🔭
- All done - it actually only took a few minutes! Normal service resumes on our new, shiny hosting! 🔭 #astrophotos #exoplanets #cosmology #milkyway #stars #planetsci
- We're moving hosting providers for the Astronomy feeds today! Ingestion of new posts & the feeds themselves will be degraded for at least a few hours. 🔭 #astrophotos #exoplanets #cosmology #milkyway #stars #planetsci We'll post any updates in the thread below ⬇️
- We're moving hosting providers for the Astronomy feeds today! Ingestion of new posts & the feeds themselves will be degraded for at least a few hours. 🔭 #astrophotos #exoplanets #cosmology #milkyway #stars #planetsci We'll post any updates in the thread below ⬇️
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- How to pin the Astronomy feed to your home screen:
- Good morning, #AAS245! Help your colleagues join Bluesky with the starter pack below ⬇️
