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Caturday snoozles

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Various birds taking off and landing at our feeder 🪶 🌱

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting specific, clear examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

I knew that Kovin guy in Star Trek Voyager looked familiar… it’s Grady, nephew of Jessica Fletcher! I don’t trust him in the Delta Quadrant any more than I do in Cabot Cove.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

submitted 22 hours ago • 41 comments

The roundness of this goldfinch tells you it was below freezing this morning 🪶 🌱 Borb

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

New processing of IC1396A, the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula in Cepheus. Dark clouds of dust block out light from background stars and glowing gas to create this iconic shape 6 hrs, Seestar S50 with dual narrowband filter (Ha+O III) 🔭 🧪 Siril 1.3.6-dev, GraXpert, GIMP

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Saw this in the office break room of NOAA NCEI today. I’m going to take this “feel good” energy from an anonymous person and forward it to all of you, especially those that work for or alongside NOAA. I’m proud of the work we do, and I’m grateful for all NOAA does. Thank you.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I am not a federal employee, but many of my colleagues are. The work they do to better understand + inform the public on volcanic hazards is deeply important. We are a team. The attacks on education and NSF harms our shared mission. There is no public sector equivalent for the operational work we do

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Fun pictures spotted in the background of this episode of Star Trek Voyager! 🔭 🧪 NGC 6543, the Cat’s Eye Nebula: Hubble + Chandra Saturn’s rings: Cassini M16, the Eagle Nebula: Hubble

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Reprocessing this beauty again, M42 the Orion Nebula with M43, de Mairan’s Nebula, and Sh2-279, the Running Man Nebula. I just love to stare at these frothy pink and lavender clouds of glowing gas, bounded by ribbons and filaments of dark dust 2.4 hrs Seestar S50 🔭 🧪 Siril 1.3.6-dev, GraXpert, GIMP

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

They came back a little later! 🪶 🌱 This one is clearly enjoying the buffet

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A flock of red-winged blackbirds visited today! I counted 5 on the ground under the feeder, but they left before I could grab my camera. Luckily one visited the feeder too 🪶 #birds

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I think it is really important to understand that many people - both public policy and scientists - spend... countless hours working on science programs and priorities, and I can not express how fucking exhausted I am by these people.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Today at our bird feeder: a curious cardinal with a full beak 🪶 #birds

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Shhh. It’s quiet time

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Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

M74, the Phantom Galaxy A grand-design spiral galaxy that is about 32 million light years away and oriented so that we have a face-on view of the spiral pattern. 11.6hrs, Seestar S50 🔭 🧪 Siril 1.3.6-dev, GraXpert, GIMP

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Goldfinch! 🪶 #birds

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning from this cardinal with a beak full of breakfast 🪶 #birds

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

It’s cool that the more research we have that generative AI in its current form actually erodes learning and learning capacity, the more billionaires will just double down on saying the opposite. AI education as “good enough for the poors” is really fucking gross.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I have spent a lot of time reworking this galaxy, but I think I’m happy with it (for now). Be sure to zoom in a bit to enjoy pink ionized hydrogen regions and sprinkles of luminous blue stars M33, Triangulum Galaxy 10.4 hours, Seestar S50 🔭 🧪 Software: Siril 1.3.6-dev, GraXpert, GIMP

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Please enjoy this tifted titmouse 🪶 #birds

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments