saavikford.bsky.social
CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
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It’s my job to make more educated people. We used to have bipartisan agreement that that was a good thing, and I still believe we have majority population agreement that that is a good thing.
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I get the sense that a lot of people see protesting as cringe because they don't understand what it accomplishes, and I get that... to them, I say: just go. Experience what it feels like to be part of a Very Large Crowd of your fellow citizens. That feeling has radical political implications.
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I’ve applied to NASA, um… idk how many times?
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Must do this while simultaneously knowing we can’t win every battle, but we mustn’t concede anything until we are truly beaten.
It’s hard, I won’t lie.
But hope is a discipline, as Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social says.
Now is the time to build strength & train ourselves to be disciplined.
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History is read backwards, but LIVED forwards. None of us can predict what will be going on in a year, for better or worse. History isn’t written yet—we still have time to fight. Let’s do everything we can to salvage every piece of our scientific endeavor—which is every person who contributes—we
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That's one thing I'll never understand about some politicians. Every place has its share of problems, but if you are running for a position you should, IMHO, be coming from a place of love. Any politician that comes in claiming a place is a shithole gets sideeye from me. Why are you even here?
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Omg. I would actually want to die if I was that actor. The pharmacy line is a sacred MYOB space, as far as I’m concerned…
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He added we should use our knowledge wisely, and ‘for good’.
Again, not saying they deserved it, but assassination is NOT a risk generic non-military scientists face disproportionately.
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While the strikes are VERY bad & I am NOT saying it was ok, I do tend to put weapons scientists in a separate bucket in terms of risks.
When I learned about hydrogen opacities for stellar atmospheres, the prof noted what he was about to write on the board was also in a locked safe at Los Alamos.
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Sorry I’ve not been super on top of the news: WHAT?!? Who got assassinated and WHERE????
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Right?!? Like they were FABULOUS earrings! They were the size of ping-pong balls on a long dangle and looked like the moon, half lit/half dark.
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STEM-wide supplement for our astronomy-originated mentoring program (AstroCom NYC)… Space Grant fills in lots of funding support for students at small and rural institutions across the US as well—Space Grant by analogy to Land Grant institutions!! Destroying it is shooting STEM training in the foot.