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WHAT IS A NEUTRON STAR? And why should you care? Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟‍♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...

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Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

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They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues

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Lights, camera, action! The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩 The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed

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The erosion of trust in science & scientists — sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans — has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.

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Three senior scientists with exemplary records in research, leadership, and mentoring will join the #CottrellScholar community as recipients of RCSA’s 2025 Robert Holland Jr. Awards. Congratulations to Kevin Hewitt, Angel Martí, and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz!

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Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people

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RCSA is a sponsor of the University of Arizona’s 20th annual College of Science Lecture Series, Can We Talk? The Science of Communication, which begins Thursday, March 6. Catch these free lectures at Centennial Hall or on livestream. bit.ly/3sN0Kxj

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AAS Members: Check your inboxes for a message from AAS President Dr. Dara Norman to learn more about how AAS has been advocating for the scientific enterprise and how you can help!

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Going to a rally/protest? DO IT SAFELY. BE SMART. Good advice here. I took a snapshot with my phone on what phrases to say to cops, too.

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The First Astropy User Survey Is Now Open Please take the 2025 Astropy community survey to help us further improve its functionality, usability, and support of the astronomy and scientific research communities. aas.org/posts/news/2...

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For those who are not yet subscribed: please join the AAS Education biweekly email newsletter here: lists.aas.org/AASEducation... So many of you have amazing astronomy education, outreach, communication, and mentoring projects. I'd love to feature your work in the newsletter! #astronomy #astroedu

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WE JUST GOT DOGE’D no funding for this year. We have to cancel the program and email 450 applicants there will be no REU program in physics at MSU. First time in 20+ years. I’m fucking livid, y’all.

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Excited to see the science these talented folks are planning with @vrubinobs.bsky.social! Early-career faculty can join us for the 2025 edition of the LSST Scialog meeting series by self-nominating here: rescorp.org/scialog/earl... 🔭

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Just in case you thought DEI was some new-fangled idea at NASA, I found this Equal Opportunity Award trophy at NASA HQ today which was first awarded to Goddard Space Flight Center in 1980, which was 45 years ago for people who are too afraid to count.

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I got a mid-career award with promotion, four years after getting the early-career award. Keeping it real, my partner asked if this means I'll get the late-career award in four years. 🫠

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hi friends! in these trying and anti-intellectual times I am trying to put myself out there as a sci-commer as much as I can. looking for a podcast guest? a science talk? a panelist? let me know! my background is in astrophysics, astrobiology, and science fiction. sevenrasmussen.com

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Still not quite believing it but feeling very fortunate to be among the 2025 Sloan Research Fellow cohort!

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The Nazis segregationists are firing anyone who had the audacity to be hired or promoted during the Biden administration, including people who help make American science happen 🧪 www.wired.com/story/nation...

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starting week 6 of teaching my first full graduate course as faculty and i gotta say, im extremely thankful for folks that put their educational materials online.

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Applications open for the 2025 Argonne training program for extreme scale computing (ATPESC) - a really great intensive summer school for HPC extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov

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anyone who wants to send me weird messages today feel free to venmo me instead @/sanjana_curtis, I’ll buy compute nodes

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Howard University is officially reclassified as an R1!!!! Remaining the only HBCU to have this status. carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/...

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Space Drafts #104 is happening next Tuesday (Feb. 18) at 7:30p Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts104. Aldana Grichener will be teaching us how to make gold out of neutrons and Haowen Zhang will be telling us about black holes near and far!

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I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

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In response to headline “Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database” I want to re-emphasize that all these grants were public record and written in response to public solicitations supporting DEI content. No “uncovering” or “releasing” was done here

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New from me in BBC Science Focus: how slippery little neutrinos are threatening to mess up our search for #DarkMatter www.sciencefocus.com/comment/neut... 🧪🔭

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hey fellow, pre-tenure junior faculty, how are we managing this all? asking for a friend.

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I am thrilled to speak in the College of Science Lecture Series "Can We Talk?". On March 27, Chris Impey and I will explore a really cool topic: communicating with alien civilizations! science.arizona.edu/community-en... @stewardobservatory.bsky.social @uarizona.bsky.social @uarizonalpl.bsky.social

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this is illegal FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

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Saw a post from UCO about the new 2025 AAS Fellows, and I realized that only 4 out of the 24 new Fellows are women: three at UC campuses (+me, who was nominated by colleagues at UC campuses). 🤔 😬 🔭

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I wrote up some thoughts on how DEI is a deep part of the experiment of America, how we have become divided, and what I'm going to do about it. I'm no expert, but I have thoughts. #dei #edusky #physicssky #astrosky danny.hellmo.space/posts/our-di...

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What the NSF is doing this week is damaging generations of scientific researchers and American investments in science. Billions of US tax payer dollars in investment, being thrown away, because of a fucking fishing expedition that is intended to terrorize and set the stage for a real witch hunt.

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Hey - yes I know about the horrors - Remember to eat. Have a drink of water or tea. Take your meds. Check in with a friend.

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BTW THERES A 2000 CHARACTER LIMIT. Call and read your letter to staff. They will listen.

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