On Sunday, I married the love of my life, and it was the most perfect day.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #DR19

Discover the ✨amazing✨ possibilities of LVM in this image of IC 434 in the Orion constellation, featuring the Horsehead Nebula emerging on the left (credit: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26...). Find more information here: sdss.org/robotic-tele...

Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19

we all need the reminder; remember, we are not powerless

I got to share something my journey in this interview with @astrobites.bsky.social ! Thank you all who made this possible :) 🏳️‍⚧️

If you are looking for a way to support the STEM equity community in light of the funding cuts, please consider donating to the Access Network. This group is amazing. The funds will be used to host the annual network gathering that was being planned by a wonderful group of students.

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program recently named 24 new fellows to its 2025 class. The program enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA astrophysics: bit.ly/4c2ZJpI 🔭 🧵

So excited and honored to be a part of this amazing group of scientists!!

An amazing rally. We are the 99%!!

OSU astronomy professor and former chair David Weinberg says the SB1 bill banning DEI will make it less rewarding to be a prof here, hurts students, and cause talent to leave the state. newrepublic.com/article/1924...

MUTUAL AID ALERT: Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread! - choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)

Excited to be giving a public planetarium talk at Embry Riddle University tonight! Love showing off the @sdssurveys.bsky.social data :) Sold out show!!

I am a coauthor of this letter, which asks folks in power at NASA and other institutions of space exploration to do more to resist ongoing efforts, and instead support the incredibly diverse people across the country that make the field what it is. Sign here: sites.google.com/view/space-s...

Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪

We all knew that attacking trans people doesn’t defend women but I think it’s important to highlight how brazen the lie is, that in fact attacking trans women is becoming a vehicle for attacking all women, as trans women said it would be.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

LAWLESS NSF: Every NSF employee who is following the director on this funding freeze and fishing expedition is in violation of US code. per the post below, this language has been reauthorized twice, most recently by Biden in 2022 as the CHIPS Act. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 🧪

NPR segment on the ongoing issues with the executive orders and NSF: www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

I'm really gonna need folks to pay attention to the anti-disability language that Donald Trump used today. You can read @metrauxjulia.bsky.social for details. It is as central to what he's doing as the misogyny and racism and homophobia and .... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“That paragraph was gone as of Thursday afternoon, as was the assertion that Rubin shows what can happen when “more minds” participate in science. The word “more” was replaced with “many,” shifting the meaning.” 🧪 🔭 www.propublica.org/article/vera...

No one is telling us what to do, and we’ve received a lot of conflicting information. Many people were advised to pull funds on Jan 28th. This will be devastating for many folks. Check in on your fellows and see if your university can offer them emergency funds.

I'm obviously delighted about the funding freeze being stopped. AND Remember the list of EOs, INCLUDING the stripping of "DEI" from everything, INCLUDING the banning of gender affirming care for those 19 and younger, INCLUDING the trans ban in the military with virulent hate language

I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework medium.com/space-anthro...

NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility. Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects. www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

Choosing only white people is also identity politics.

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

Hi all! @deechiebaby.bsky.social and I will be formally submitting this letter to AAS leadership on Tuesday, so please sign on if you haven't already! 🔭 Link to letter: tinyurl.com/AAS245-Letter

@bot.astronomy.blue signup

Are you concerned about this year's lanyards at #AAS245? Sign onto our open letter tinyurl.com/AAS245-Letter

Interested in near-peer mentorship? The Access Network has just released its starter kit for developing near-peer mentorship programs! I am so happy to have shepherded this document to completion with Gloria Lee and many others--it's many years in the making! arxiv.org/abs/2501.05524

It's five now. Jason Tumlinson and the HWO Folks have set up this one, which is now at $3K+ in donations and sending out money immediately. More funds for broader community are coming ... www.gofundme.com/f/support-na...

If you just can't wait, our paper is out on arXiv now! arxiv.org/abs/2401.02484 Thread to come...

Apply to & advertise the AAS CSMA Micro-grants program! Offers grants of >$500 to support BIPOC undergrads to pay grad school application fees, GRE testing fees, virtual conference registrations, or to purchase textbooks and research supplies. Deadline is October 13! aas.org/posts/news/2...

It's application season so I wanted to share my NSF AAPF! My full application is on my website. Reading successful proposals really helped me to craft my own. Feel free to share! www.emilyjgriffith.com/nsf-aapf-app...