When I started research in astronomy, I didn't get why grad students had [insert long object phonebook names] memorized. Now, after staring at the same 5 galaxies FOR THE PAST YEAR 🥲, I can tell you not only their names, but when they wake up, and how they like their coffee.

Ghana's Maths Queen @angela_tabiri is the first African to win The Big Internet Math Off competition. She's on a quantum mission to mentor girls and hopes her 2024 win will encourage more African women to take the subject. https://t.co/SmZTiVDg2P #BlackHeroesMaths

Exciting times ahead! Along with the Hubble Fellowship deadline in 2 weeks, two awesome fellowships in Toronto are up for grabs too! Come to join our adventure! Dunlap fellow: https://t.co/UmuW2gZog1 CITA fellow: https://t.co/jXbYkc0Cyr

Introducing our first #AstronomyOnTapTO speaker, @UofTArtSci Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jacqueline Antwi-Danso! On November 29, Jaqueline will explain how we can see the distant universe by looking at infrared light! See https://t.co/suUjcOV7gp for more details!

#BRNBrilliance: NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Jacqueline Antwi-Danso discusses how she is tackling one of astronomy’s biggest challenges in her search to find the earliest distant quenched galaxies in the universe. Don't miss tomorrow's video 🎥 https://t.co/CxrC9ctQOv #UofT

“We will Not Be Silenced” this generation will not be the one that watched our country sink. We will speak up and use every means accessible to us. Nature Will always take care of itself and we will help keep that way. Edited by @CALYGRAFY #StopGalamseyNow #FreeTheCitizens

? 🤔 Thanks to a cosmic magnifying glass effect, the gravity of a massive galaxy cluster is warping two distant interacting galaxies (a face-on spiral and a dusty red galaxy) behind it, making them appear multiple times, tracing a familiar shape. https://t.co/R423bnKtUF

📢Calling all African women scientists 👩🏿‍🔬#SciencebyWomen is back! 👉🏿This edition, the 10th one already, the program offers 23 fellowships in 21 research centers. For more information👇🏿 https://t.co/Du1OypULpO

It's great that Iwájú has Nigerian voice actors. It's important to leverage the talent that already exists in Africa when telling our stories, and the West has largely failed to do so. I still cringe whenever I hear people pronounce Lagos as "Lah-goes" in @Marvel's Civil War. 🥴

As a child growing up in Accra, it would have been ✨a dream ✨ to have a hover car or a robotic crime-fighting pet like the main character, Tola does (assuming ECG works 🙃). She even has a gadget that can braid hair in seconds! Anyway, fantastic series. Highly recommend.

The futuristic angle was really neat too and was done without minimizing the very real issues that plague Nigeria (and sadly, much of West Africa) e.g., income inequality, power generation (NEPA 👀) issues, crippling traffic, and child kidnapping.

It's clear just how much work went into making sure the series was an accurate portrayal of Nigeria. I loved seeing all the little details like the Yoruba and pidgin thrown here and there, ankara, coral beads, puff puff and other street food, and even pure water sachets.

Just found out about #IWÁJÚ and I am blown away. It's amazing to see African stories on the big screen being told by Africans and for Africans. It's authentic, thought-provoking, and overall simply inspiring. Congrats to @Kugalimedia. I hope to see more content like this!

JWST has revealed a galaxy that formed very early in the history of the Universe, and stopped forming stars much earlier than expected, writes @jacqdanso

Very excited to have been involved in this paper led by Anna de Graaff that hit the arxiv today, where we present the new record holder the most distant massive quiescent galaxy to be spectroscopically confirmed (for now): https://t.co/ypbSNmOtI2

Are you an African citizen scientist with an interest in writing brief or long articles about space sciences and astronomy? Your write-ups could range from fiction stories to news on happenings in African space and astronomy, or your personal experiences in the field.

Nakeeyat The Poet takes us back to 1957, the year Kwame Nkrumah proclaimed Ghana to be an independent nation 🇬🇭 Happy Independence Day ☺️ #TV3GH #GhanaAt67

Astronomers from @UofT are leading dozens of workshops ahead of #Eclipse2024 at @torontolibrary branches across the city. A limited number of eclipse glasses will be available for workshop attendees to take home & use on April 8! Join one near you https://t.co/7uGHXtlRqR

These are some of the Twi translations by @GhanaNLP Khaya AI that human evaluators highlighted as “remarkable”. Even in cases where an equivalent word doesn’t exist, such as “manifold” it comes up with an equivalent phrase that explains it 🤯 try it now - https://t.co/B7LOLONq6k

A new paper from the UNCOVER team hit the arxiv led by me and including @isskywalker, @astrowhit, and @jacqdanso! In the pursuit of the constraints on early universe galaxy formation, we followed up on a candidate old massive galaxy at z~4 with NIRSpec: https://t.co/ECkHqEx0rm

This is a critical moment for the astronomical sciences. Congress needs to pass a bill that provides the necessary support to federal science programs. Call/email your representatives today to let them know how important federal funding is to you! https://t.co/pdIhEDoG1e