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Alex Padilla, a US Senator getting dragged out of Kristi Noem's press conference for asking questions. This is not America.

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"I trust to luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well." Today has been her birthday.

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I fucked up the link. HERE IT IS: www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

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Wow. RFK announced via a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that he is removing all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which is the expert panel at the CDC that decides who is eligible for vaccines and whether insurers should cover them.

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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NPR CEO Katherine Maher on plan to claw back funding from public broadcasting: “I want to be unequivocal about the significance and urgency of this threat.” Staff memo:

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We're going to learn some tough stuff today about the White House's proposed budget for fiscal year 2026—including what they have in mind for NASA. I'll share what I hear, but remember: CONGRESS decides how much money NASA gets, not the White House. So whatever happens today, the fight continues.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

Since last May, 4 billion people—half the world’s population—have experienced an extra month of extreme heat, thanks to climate change. eos.org/articles/cli...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 SAVE THE DATE: The world's First Look at images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is coming June 23, 2025! 🔭🧪 Get ready for a preview of how Rubin will soon #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🌌 More details soon—stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 24 days ago • 40 comments

Ready for the latest K2-18b drama? Madhusudhan is claiming even stronger evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all. Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵 #exoplanets 🔭

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

submitted 37 days ago • 3009 comments

It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

submitted 38 days ago • 67 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 39 days ago • 2314 comments

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

submitted 42 days ago • 1730 comments

Cuts to NOAA funding threaten our ability to predict and monitor hurricanes and tornadoes—putting lives and communities at risk. But NOAA’s work goes far beyond weather. Guest blogger Dr. David Shiffman shares 10 vital but lesser-known roles NOAA scientists play.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

I’m pretty sure all the astronomers already heard this bad news, but idk how many other folks know about this proposal—NASA science would be absolutely GUTTED if this passed. US astronomy & astrophysics would be dead. We can’t let this happen—tell your reps, & your friends! 🔭

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We, along with a powerful coalition of science, industry, and advocacy groups, released a joint letter today urging congressional leaders to push back against potential cuts to space science. Read the letter and join us in standing up for space science: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

That’s it, we’re officially Great Again

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I wanted to try and figure out how Neil Gorsuch concluded that 'Pride Puppy', an ABCs book about a lost dog at a pride parade that he insists he read, exposes kids to "bondage" and "sex workers." The answers are somehow even dumber than you can imagine. A brief thread:

submitted 51 days ago • 117 comments

The FBI just arrested a Wisconsin circuit court judge for failing to assist ICE to its satisfaction in their kidnapping of a human being out of court custody and into a death camp. Any attempt to soften the reality of that statement is fascist propaganda.

submitted 51 days ago • 25 comments

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 54 days ago • 16 comments

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

submitted 54 days ago • 157 comments

If your perception is that all interactions are transactional and that there is no such thing as sincerity of curiosity, or a desire to discover, then you will never value science. No matter how many economic arguments there are for funding it. Because you don’t understand the fundamental premise.

submitted 54 days ago • 16 comments

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

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"Not strong evidence" - @spschmidt.bsky.social "Almost certainly not life" - @tessafisher.bsky.social In which I round up some Community Response on the exoplanet biosignature paper from last night 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

hey fellow astronomers, I took the last two days off, anything interesting happen in the #exoplanets world lately?? 🔭🪐🙄

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Also, if you are writing about exoplanet observations for some reason right now you can feel free to mention the termination of the NIST atomic spectroscopy group, which enables spectroscopic observations of all kinds www.change.org/p/oppose-the...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Sarah’s rules of looking for life with only chemical signatures: 1) the smaller the molecule(s) the more likely they can also be produced by abiotic processes 2) one molecule, if it can be produced by any abiotic process, will never be enough to definitively claim detection of life

submitted 60 days ago • 25 comments

Thanks for the clear summary of this “hint” 🙄

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First the rumour was a 20% budget cut. Then, 50%. Now the president's NASA budget is out and it's a 68% cut to astrophysics ($1.5B to $487M). Even if this gets reversed in four years, we will never recover the missions, partners, people who will be gone. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 65 days ago • 60 comments

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

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I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid. And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!?? God, we are fucked.

submitted 74 days ago • 174 comments

Wesleyan President Michael Roth gets it and — more importantly — says it out loud. time.com/7272520/appe...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

submitted 76 days ago • 150 comments

If the US invades Greenland, things will never be the same in our lifetime. We will be seen as Nazis and Fascists for the rest of our lives. And make no mistake, they are serious about this.

submitted 76 days ago • 142 comments