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This week's #scicomm job blast is out! There's a fresh list of space industry opportunities, including internships. thescicommspace.substack.com/p/trajectory...

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An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

submitted 46 days ago • 671 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 46 days ago • 861 comments

An autism registry sounds a lot like a particular residence used to systemically kill 6M Jews, 3.3M soviet POWs, 2M Poles, 250k gypsies, 100k people with disabilities, 15k queers, and more..... Source: holocausteducation.org.uk/wp-content/u...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

The forgotten history of the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) spacecraft and one engineer's brave attempt to keep NASA space station planning alive during Apollo. Kennedy's Moon Speech messed up everything. From No Shortage of Dreams. 🛰️🔭🧪🚀🪐🌏🌖👩‍🚀 spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/11/spac...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

When one of my old boss's buddies was credibly accused of harassment and assault while doing Antarctic fieldwork, he told us (his students) that Antarctica "turns men into animals" and thus his buddy can't be held responsible. Counterpoint: No?? No it doesn't???

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

submitted 51 days ago • 335 comments

Embroidery complete! The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous sketch made by John Huobolt.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I know it's hard to notice the absence of something, but the fact that there was no NASA press release for this JWST result is so damning.

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

It's really hard to make videos about all of the cool science coming out all of the time. I really appreciate Trump trying to help me out with this problem by making it so no new science comes out ever.

submitted 52 days ago • 110 comments

The kids are alright

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States. Spread the word to drive attention and support!

submitted 52 days ago • 21 comments

The new Twisters II movie should either advocate for better funding for NOAA and NWS... or show a world where we've stripped that funding and are now dealing with the consequences of no information.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Another example of the administration’s evident lack of concern for public safety.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

If enacted, the cuts would "take us back to the 1950s in terms of our scientific footing and the American people," says Craig McLean, a former director of NOAA's office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the agency's research arm. www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

The erasing continues. Erase them and disappear them. They're definitely coming after women's rights -- voting, right to work, right to own a biz, right to have a checking account, right to body autonomy, you name it. They're telegraphing the whole play with these moves.

submitted 53 days ago • 176 comments

I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The entire press team. It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is. To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

submitted 61 days ago • 94 comments

Just got paywalled by a journal article from ... checks distance back in time .... from 1976. A paywall on knowledge that is half a century old lmao (I was able to access it through my institution, just highlighting the ridiculousness of that whole concept)

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

With access to good science--whether it's because of internet, language, educators, etc.--people will die. It's happened before, it's happening now, it'll happen again.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Where's my shark ASMR???

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

In surprising news, two Americans do their jobs. 😅 In all seriousness, I'm glad the astronauts are getting some spotlight, but can we talk about the 9.5 months of science they conducted to benefit humanity instead of the space vehicle that broke last summer?

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Disturbing to have official NASA statements that are flat out lies, and well known to be lies. The plan to return Willmore and Williams right about now was in place since mid 2024. At most, Trump leaned on NASA to speed it up a few days by skipping usual handover tasks.

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Dr. Pepper fuels my work and a lot of other NASA Houston folks. We survive on it at 2am when coordinating with the humans living above us.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Please don't make tuberculosis great again. Please read John Green's primer on the disease. open.substack.com/pub/thescico...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Could we just DNA sex text all track and field athletes if we are going to invade Olympians' privacy?

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment