Paper day! "Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z~11-13 Revealed by the Just Wonderful Space Telescope". These galaxies potentially push our cosmic frontier to only ~300 million years after the Big Bang!!! arxiv.org/abs/2207.09434 🧵and behind the scenes notes We searched @JWSTscope data from the fabulous early release programs (GLASS and @ceers_jwst) for the most distant galaxies. We found two stand-outs, which show the classic hallmark of being at ridiculous redshifts -- they go from well-detected to zero rather abruptly.

Deeply unappreciated fact: the most "impactful" person in science right now is this Kazakhstani hacker queen. She is the one-woman bridge to the largest repository of scientific knowledge ever collected. She has probably done way more for under-represented/under-funded/under-resourced communities who can't afford the gatekeeping of modern publishing than any well-meaning "broader impact" grant.