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Posting tips and answering questions about how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌍

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🎂 Account originally joined mstdn.social on 16th Nov 2020

Der etwas andere Account des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

- professional PhD astrophysicist #XraysAreTheBestRays
- published author & artist
- #ClimateCrisis & Astronomers for Planet Earth
- science communication #VicisAstro
- artwork #VicisArt
- book recs #VicisBooks
- foodie & chef #ViciCooks
- living between Zuid-Holland (50%), Süddeutschland (20%) & on the road (30%)
- she/her

Housekeeping:
- private account, not speaking for my employer
- most posts expire after 12 months
- direct messages from non-mutuals are blocked & ignored

• Astronomer and science communicator
• Media Officer at the European Southern Observatory - @esoastronomy
• Won't shut up about space
• #astronomy #astrophysics #science #astrophotography #space
• he/him
• Toots in English and español
• 🇪🇸 → 🇺🇸 → 🇨🇱 → 🇩🇪

Astronom, Autor, Podcaster, Science Busters, Wissenschaftskommunikation

Wir sind das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) und lieben unsere Themen Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt, Energie, Verkehr, Digitalisierung & Sicherheit! 
Web: https://www.dlr.de/de
Impressum: https://www.dlr.de/de/service/impressum 
Datenschutz: https://www.dlr.de/de/service/datenschutz 
Netiquette: https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/social-media/netiquette

Adjunct scientist, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg / Former Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration at the European Space Agency / JWST Science Working Group Interdisciplinary Scientist / Co-founder Space Rocks / New worlds ahead / Opinions very much own 



Now living in a hilly part of Germany & very much missing regular cycling with the wide horizons & big skies of The Netherlands 😢🚴‍♂️

The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

Wissenschaftsjournalist 🖋️
Reporter für den @weltraum bei @riffreporter 🛰️🚀✨🪐
Geologe ⚒️ 💎 🌍
Podcaster @astro_geo 🎙️
Hobbyimker 🐝
Lebt in #Tübingen 🏔️🚴

Prof. Astrophysics, columnist D/NL, bestseller author “Licht im Dunkeln/Light in the Darkness/Licht in de duisternis” about the first ever image of a black hole shadow with the Event Horizon Telescope, that I was deeply involved in. Work at Radboud University, Nijmegen (NL), live near Cologne (D). Am a happy European, Christian, dad, and granddad. #fedi22 #astronomy #science

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Deutschlands größtes Beschleunigerzentrum. Ein Forschungszentrum der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft. 
English feed @DESYnews

Official Consortium of ESA's Euclid mission on the Universe's dark matter, energy & expansion, 15 European countries + USA + CAN + JAP, 2000+ scientists + engineers. Telescope successfully launched 1 July 2023 and now arrived at L2. Scientific surveys started 14 February 2024. First science data released!

Science writer in Germany since, gasp, 1982 specializing in all things space. Blogging all the time - in German - on https://skyweek.wordpress.com Supports tootfinder

Zentrum für astronomische Bildungs- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in Heidelberg - Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach in Heidelberg, Germany. Toots auf Deutsch and in English

Früher - previously: @hausderastronomie

Impressum - Imprint: https://www.haus-der-astronomie.de/de/impressum

#SimulatedUniverses #AstroPhysicsFactlet
Professor in #Astrophysics at the University of Bologna and former #ERC grantee.
I study the cosmic web, extragalactic magnetism and clusters of galaxies with colorfull simulations.

https://cosmosimfrazza.eu
#science #physics #astronomy #COSMOMAG

Eure Korrespondenten aus dem All. Stolzes Mitglied der @riffreporter

Ein Onlinemagazin von Felicitas Mokler, Franziska Konitzer, Patrick Klapetz, Uwe Reichert und Karl Urban

Official account of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), the leading organisation for Earth, planetary & space science research in Europe. Online 10-5 CEST Mo-Fr | #EGU26 3- 8 May 2026.

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany

MPI · Sun and Heliosphere · Solar and Stellar Interiors · Planetary Science

International Max Planck Research School: @imprs_solar

Discoverability: #mpi #solarphysics #astrophysics #astronomy #planetaryscience #geosciences #astrodon #space #maxplanck #imprs #göttingen #tootfinder #fedi22 searchable

Fediverse history: Previously @mpsgoettingen, moved to this profile in June 2025.

Astronomer, #ESAEuclid developer, cares enthusiastically about #space, #urbanism, #climatechange, and #HumanPoweredVehicles

Begleitet uns in die faszinierende Welt der Radioastronomie.
Join us in the fascinating world of radio astronomy.
Home of the 100 m Radio Telescope Effelsberg

The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is the largest research institute in the world specializing in general relativity and beyond. The institute is located in Potsdam and in Hannover.

Das Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) ist die weltweit größte Forschungseinrichtung zur Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie und darüber hinausgehenden Themen. Das Institut befindet sich in Potsdam und in Hannover.

Die DPG ist die älteste und mitgliederstärkste physikalische Fachgesellschaft der Welt.
Hier schreibt das DPG-Kommunikationsteam (/SE /MR /ML /WS /SD /YG).

Pro Podcast-Folge hörst du eine wahre Geschichte zwischen Weltall und Erde, #Astronomie und #Geologie, erzählt von Franziska Konitzer und Karl Urban (@pikarl).

Wir sind der Podcast von @weltraum und stolzes Mitglied der @riffreporter.

Assistant Professor of Planetary Physics at Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen 🇪🇺 he/him 🌍🧬🌋🔭🖥️ #Exoplanets #Atmospheres #Astronomy #Geophysics #Geochemistry #PlanetaryScience #OriginOfLife #Astrodon

Astronomer and Astrophysicist, Galactic Archaeologist and Simulator, Husband and Dad, Director @AIP_Potsdam, backyard astrophotographer

Migrating from Twitter...
he/his; husband; father of 3; climate and energy policy Umweltinstitut München; astronomer at Leiden University; co-founder Astronomers for Planet Earth. Active with ADFC Garching und B'90/Die Grünen Garching

We are the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) - the worldwide collaboration that captured humanity’s first image of a black hole.

Astronomical research institute in Heidelberg specializing in exoplanet atmospheres, planet and star formation, galaxies and cosmology / Astronomisches Forschungsinstitut in Heidelberg mit Schwerpunkt auf Exoplaneten-Atmosphären, Planeten- und Sternentstehung, Galaxien und Kosmologie – Impressum: http://mpia.de/impressum (Titelbild: D. Elsässer)

Radio astronomer at MPIfR/Effelsberg observatory, Python programmer, Spectrum manager, amateur astro photographer; #EBHIS, #HI4PI

Chair of the Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies #CRAF

Physiker, Max-Planck-Institut-Öffentlichkeitsarbeiter, ehemaliger Einstein@Home-Radioastronom in Hannovers Umland

Physicist, Max Planck Institute Press & Outreach Officer, former Einstein@Home radio astronomer in and around Hannover, Germany

Astronomy, education, outreach, #scicomm, outdoors, geocaching, weather balloons. And cats. In English and in German. she/her

The German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft, AG) is the German national professional association for astronomy and astrophysics.

Astrophysics and science management.

Stellar atmospheres. Radiative transfer. Evolved stars. Pulsations. Planets.

Currently employed at MPI for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen, scientific coordinator of the IMPRS @imprs_solar. Opinions are my own.

Fedi creature since early 2020. Previously @schuh on astrodon.social since November 2022, moved main account to academiccloud.social in May 2025.

An institute of the University of Hamburg

International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen and at TU Braunschweig: a PhD program in astrophysics and geosciences at @mpsgoettingen @unigoettingen @thegoecampus @tubraunschweig

Discoverability: #imprs #solarphysics #astrophysics #astronomy #planetaryscience #geosciences #astrodon #space #mpi #maxplanck #unigöttingen #tubraunschweig #tootfinder searchable

Hier trötet das Astronomiemuseum der Sternwarte Sonneberg. Wir befinden uns in Sonneberg im Ortsteil Neufang.
https://astronomiemuseum.de

"✨ Willkommen im Planetarium Bochum!
🔭 Neuigkeiten aus der Welt der Astronomie & spannende Updates direkt aus dem Planetarium.
🌌 Lasst uns gemeinsam ins Universum eintauchen! 🚀"

Herzlich willkommen im Weltall!
Astronomie, Astrofotografie, Vorträge
Marco Sproviero

Astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

Main interests are the Milky Way and the Local Volume.

Science: Astronomy, Molecular biology, Muscular dystrophies, Renewable energy, accessibility.

Tech: NeXTSTEP, macOS, iOS, and WebObjects developer.

Politics: Conservative Green party activist for over 30 years (D, NL, BG)

I speak English, German, Bulgarian. Russian, Dutch, and Spanish and I learn Japanese, French. and Vietnamese.

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The consortium for particle, astro-, astroparticle, hadron and nuclear physics.

Astrophysiker, freie Software Enthusiast, Linux-Sysadmin, Queer-Mensch 🏳️‍🌈, Mitglied Die Linke, aus Marburg

Astronomer at Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP).

Posting about papers I'm involved in, podcasts I listen to, and other things vaguely related to my work.

Der deutschsprachige Onlinedienst für Astronomie, Astrophysik und Raumfahrt. Gegründet 1999. / Astronomy & space news in German. Established 1999.

Astrophysicist at the Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics in Göttingen

Astronom, Autor, Podcaster, Science Busters, Wissenschaftskommunikation

Hier vor allem zu Wisskomm, bin aber auch unter [email protected]

Der Dachverband der Geowissenschaften (DVGeo) stellt eine übergreifende geowissenschaftliche Vereinigung dar, deren Ziel die Förderung der Geowissenschaften und deren Anwendung in der Ausbildung, deren Vertretung in Politik und Gesellschaft sowie der Transfer von Wissen ist.

Here, the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (GAVO) toots. This is primarily automated posts notifying you of what is new in the VO Registry, but we now and then sprinkle in an occasional blog post or a pointer to some exciting new VO development.

journalist, author, astronomer, culture aficionado, northern german, european - not necessarily in this order | founder & editor astronews.com | co-founder & editor astronomie - DAS MAGAZIN | he/him