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For World Book Day, here is a clay tablet from ancient Uruk. It’s over 5,000 years old and preserves some of the earliest examples of writing. The signs represent numbers and various products tallied up for a festival of the evening star, the goddess Inana (associated with Venus) #WorldBookDay

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Latest felt+bead piece: Jupiter and Europa #SciArt

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VERY excited about the discovery of quartz (which I, as a non-French speaker, will now forever call "le minéral iconique") on Mars!

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It’s worth emphasizing that so much industry work - including my own research - depends heavily on academic innovation The US has a strong economy in part because we invest in the basic research. We destroy the bedrock of research on top of which industry is built, we stifle innovation [cont’d]

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Three years ago, I had the honour of collaborating with Ukrainian dancers from Edmonton via a virtual meeting. They taught me some Ukrainian dance moves, and I taught them some Bhangra moves. I'm sharing the video today in solidarity because standing with the oppressed is standing for lasting peace.

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Just a reminder that being joyful, celebrating the things you love and doing the things you love, is an act of resistance. The goal of fascism is to spread despair and hopelessness. You cannot pour from an empty cup, my friends.

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NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

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i want to see this energy and not a scintilla less

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Not only is this a beautiful image, taken by a techological marvel. Look at the credit. That's the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency as well as NASA. And then the data was released freely online so that someone could dig into the data. Look what we can do when we work together.

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Slava Ukraini! u24.gov.ua/about

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Even when you have a great science question, mission concept, and team, it is incredibly hard to get a planetary mission funded and built

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Giants xkcd.com/3055

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Want to tell the public what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is asking for first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work. www.wethebuilders.org

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🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Terminated CDC employees—reach out! ⬇️

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The moment the protesters' BOOs kicked in at yesterdays USDOT anti-rail press event www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8iB...

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Today, Trump DOT Secretary Sean Duffy announced he is auditing California High Speed Rail, in what is clearly a pretext to revoke $4 billion in federal funding, like Trump did last time. But is Duffy right about HSR's problems? Here's why not: 🧵 www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...

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When I was a postdoc @ NASA/Ames in 1989 Bill Borucki was that guy who wouldn’t stop talking about his out-there idea for a space telescope that could detect exoplanets. He persevered. His brilliant idea finally gained support, launched, worked, revealed to us we live in a universe full of planets!🧪

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Please share: The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Admin’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies. If you were terminated since 20 Jan 2025 please fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

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I am literally studying equal opportunity at IBM and as far as I can tell they started doing aesthetic nods to inclusion on their onboarding documents and so forth in 1972 at the latest

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I finally have emerged from jury duty! Went in on Jan 21. Served my country better than a lot of the yahoos in the news right now.

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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

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The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

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Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

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Report: NASA will layoff 10 percent of its workforce by the end of Tuesday, with an even more "significant" reduction in force coming in the next few months.

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I can't believe it has already been 4 years since the Perseverance rover landed on Mars! #planetsci The rover was equipped with six engineering camera that captured more than 26.000 images during the landing! This thread contains some of my favorites:

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Happy Landiversary Perseverance! 💕🧵

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This is my favorite ever colored pencil drawing so far. Jupiters Great Red Spot with Europa ❤️ #spaceart

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Check out this processing, by Estonian photographer Andrew Bodrov, of the latest 360° panorama captured by Perseverance with her Mastcam Zoom camera (Feb. 8, 2025 - Sol 1412) #Mars 🧪🔭 www.360cities.net/image/mars-p... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/360pano.eu

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At the edge darkness, a forbidding region of storms and twisted clouds in Jupiter’s northern latitudes. A jet stream cuts across, well above the layers below. Juno Perijove 40, February 2022. flic.kr/p/2n6xdYq

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This thread is a masterpiece.

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Had a great day at #gally1 today - thanks to everyone who came to @spacegirlkim.bsky.social and my Perseverance rover talk today and those who found us later to chat!

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Frost Highlights in the Springtime This image of a crater rim strikingly shows what appear to be bright white flows coming from gullies in the crater wall. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_05... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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In reality, the Nahua peoples who spoke of "Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl" didn't use that name for what's now the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, that name means "the Fresh Water of Chalchiuhtlicue," and it refers to her mansion in the midst of the cosmic sea, to the east the sea-ringed world. I'll explain. 1/

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@schiff.senate.gov

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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