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Despondent over the NSF and NASA proposed budgets. Normally Congress would ignore such a outlandish presidential request. But normally I could come up with a snarky comeback and today I can’t.

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Dr. Kit Blount was a treasured member of our university community and instrumental in STEM education and teacher preparation during her career at East Texas A&M University. A Martian crater has been named in her memory and honor. #ETAMU #Mars www.tamuc.edu/news/mars-cr...

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I was very disappointed to find myself today as the lone department head in my college vocally arguing for the right to continue to cover issues of sexuality, race, and gender in science courses. It is important to my faculty, to me, and most importantly to our students not to self-censor.

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Yes, I bought it because of the name. Clever capitalism FTW

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Some words of mine made Science magazine. But I will not be advertising this at my university - I am not sure they’d appreciate me sticking my head up in the e current political climate. www.science.org/content/arti...

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I have a student whose visa has been pulled. PhD student skilled in optics. If you are aware of a non-US PhD position pls email me directly. 15 day window. Feel free to share.

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here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

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"Sure, technically, I’m a part-time lecturer and not a professor, but seeing as how no one in my family gets that, a roving gang of far-right street thugs won’t request my full job title and last pay stub before bashing in my skull with a bat."

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Sunset at McDonald Observatory during a dust storm. It looks and feels a bit like Mars, though here it is a tad warmer and a little more oxygen is in the air. I think I’ll wait a while before opening the domes.

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I couldn’t find my target. At first it was clouds, but the e sky has cleared. So I went to a bright star to check pointing. And I found the pointing was fine, the sky was clear, but we were slightly out of focus…

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I had a dream last night that I was a soccer ref in a game along with Pete Hegseth. He kept going around giving Nazi salutes but claimed he was pointing at airplanes. Needless to say he missed many obvious fouls. I was no use because I don’t know the rules of soccer.

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Movies you’ve watched more than six times, GIFs only

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KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

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I had a dream last night that a certain South African Nazi was coming for dinner and I had to make Gar Compote. Anyone know if gar is poisonous?

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Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

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Paul Atreides doth go to a Frensshe bakerye to picke up breade. Upon arriving at the Frensshe bakerye, Paul Atreides doth fynde that the Frensshe bakeres have lefte a box for hym. Paul Atreides asketh: "What ys yn the box?" And the Frensshe bakeres responde: "Pain."

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The Oregon Trail generation speaks

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“But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this…. 1/2

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www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans...

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I’m listening to Shostakovich Symphony #5 while doing paperwork this afternoon. It feels quite appropriate.

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The day I visited Auschwitz some 32 years ago was the most devastating, difficult, yet ultimately transforming single day in my life. I wish I could share the experience with every human I know.

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If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live.

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A good night after a stressful day

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IMO if William Henry Harrison could give his inauguration speech in the cold, so can Donald Trump.

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P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of #meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Currently attempting to delete my 20yo Facebook account. WOW They don't make it easy. Here's the instructions, for anyone else in the same boat: www.facebook.com/help/2245628...

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I had a dream last night that involved me being driven as a prisoner into a modern arena by Josef Stalin and Mao Tse Tung, and I proceeded to escape via an elaborate song and dance routine a la Bugs Bunny. The crowd loved it. Much better than my usual anxiety dreams.

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100 years ago today, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell. There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

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Jimmy Carter was the first President I can recall being aware of and probably the only President in my lifetime who, upon death, will be remembered as a fundamentally decent person

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Got visited by only two ghosts last night because I’m not doing too badly but there’s definitely stuff I still need to work on. My personal growth goal forChristmas 2025 is to get just the pointy dude

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Enjoying Christmas waiting for a connecting flight at Chicago Modway. The traditional carol “Dirty Diana” is playing and my wife and I are singing along.

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