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Russ Vought's attacks on NASA earth science continue

Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/hubble-pee... 🔭 🧪

it’s incredibly important to note that on the new footage that came out from the ICE agent himself, halfway through the video he switches his phone between his hands, opening up to grab his gun way before renee good even starts driving

The new Congressional NASA budget does look way better, but we need to acknowledge that even if NASA "gets its budget back," it will not undo the massive amount of damage done across the country. It won't bring back the many scientists and engineers who've lost their jobs and had to move on!

If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.

Astronomers are on “Cloud 9” with a new, starless gas cloud Just 16 million light-years away is a massive cloud of gas, weighing in at around 1.4 million solar masses. And yet, there are no stars inside at all. Here's what that means. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #stars #astronomy #astro

Really proud of this work from our small team on the discovery of the first starless galaxy #astrosci 🔭🧪 science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.) the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

The mistake that the Senate Dems are making is that they think they are playing a game that will be repeated in the future-in which case, the optimal course of action is compromise. But the Trump regime is doing all it can to ensure this is the last cycle under the Constitutional order.

They're tearing Goddard apart for scraps and I'm supposed to write as many proposals as I can to scramble for a fraction of the money NASA has left? Depressing, degrading, and dehumanizing in a time when the future of planetary science can be measured in the number of people it leaves behind.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA: 🧪🔭 🧵

if you are at all interested in the status of the local value of the Hubble constant/tension, I would very much recommend reading this new paper! the local results are very robust, and point to a sizable and significant tension with measurements inferred from data from the early Universe 🔭🧪

#Cosmology The Local Distance Network: a community consensus report on the measurement of the Hubble constant at 1% precision The baseline result is H0=73.50+/-0.81 km/s/Mpc. by the H0DN Collaboration: Stefano Casertano, et al (incl. @styrofoamplates.bsky.social) arxiv.org/abs/2510.23823 🧪

can’t even make this shit up anymore

someone get the FBI to investigate OKC this shit is unwatchable

Genuinely curious: can Dems physically get close enough to use this as a backdrop? Political malpractice not to if you can.

The NBA is back tonight! Follow #NBAsky and convince your friends that Shams still posting on twitter is not a good reason to stay.

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

I count at least 2130 proposals so far 😭 #jwstcycle5 🔭🧪

The JWST Cycle 5 "Procrastination Monitor", i.e. Molly's proposal counter submission form, is up an running. Please fill it out if you have data to add to it. And do share! #JWSTCycle5 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

FUCK ICE FOREVER

As a shutdown approaches and Dem leadership does its usual schtick, just re-upping that basically every fed employee I've heard from in recent weeks (anecdotal, yes, but still!) is pro-fight, pro-shutdown-if-necessary. As I wrote a couple weeks ago about NIH: www.gravityisgone.com/the-walls-ar...

feeling this again today

#Cosmology The Perfect Host: JWST Cepheid Observations in a Background-Free SN Ia Host Confirm No Bias in Hubble-Constant Measurements by Adam Riess and co-authors (incl. @styrofoamplates.bsky.social) arxiv.org/abs/2509.01667 🧪

David Grinspoon confirms that his term appointment as NASA's Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy will not be renewed and the position itself is being eliminated. He'll participate in Wednesday's Astrobiology Update (which is listed on our Calendar).

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Getting A NASA Grant Just Became Very Political nasawatch.com/trumpspace/g... - "Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."

NASA Goddard is in real jeopardy!!! Employees received a memo that center is closing the cafeterias, vending, visitor center, rec center, etc. Oct 1, which is start of the fiscal year. HQ Cheeto lackeys trying to kill NASA before Congress can act.

🚨🚨🚨 Jeffrey Epstein during a 2010 deposition: Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? A: Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL. www.wired.com/story/a-top-...

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

Goddard Director resigned…

Breaking news: The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation. scim.ag/4eIo0m4

NASA started in 1958, so to cut it to early 1960s levels is back to an era when NASA was just beginning. It is so alarming seeing many senior colleagues at NASA, international scientific leaders and innovators, saying their goodbyes on social media and e-mail.

oh come on lmao

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

in the #arXiv Envisioning the Distance Ladder in the Era of the Habitable Worlds Observatory by Gagandeep Anand @styrofoamplates.bsky.social and co-authors arxiv.org/abs/2507.02056 #HWO #Cosmology 🧪

NASA appears to be pressuring mission leaders to think of the White House's FY26 budget proposal as an operating plan (i.e., work to close out missions even though Congress hasn't decided on the budget yet): arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Yet again: Managers do not have to follow illegal executive orders.

ughhhhh. what pieces of shit. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... #astrosci 🔭🧪

Audio from today's #NASA Town Hall: soundcloud.com/keith-cowing... Speakers - Janet Petro, Acting NASA Administrator - Brian Hughes, NASA Chief of Staff - Vanessa Wyche, Acting NASA Associate Administrator - Casey Swails, Deputy Associate Administrator

I think at least some of you follow because of NASA flavored things. And I am hearing some VERY bad things that are getting memory holed as quickly as they occur. Not only that, but significant chunks of leadership at NASA Centers have been taking early retirement offers, leaving staff unprotected

My latest for @physicsworld.bsky.social explores the deepening mystery of the Hubble tension, as new results – with one exception – emphasise how local measurements of the Universe's expansion rate differ from the value predicted by the CMB. Is new physics needed? physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-con...

NASA Goddard is pushing through a 48% staff reduction!!! This could impact the upcoming Roman Space Telescope and many other future Astro missions. News coverage seems not sensational enough. Are we really going to let NASA (as we know it) die quietly? www.space.com/space-explor...

Is the Hubble tension a real problem? #AskEthan Famed astronomer Wendy Freedman claims (including in an interview with me) that the Hubble tension may not be real. A large suite of evidence, rebutting many of her claims, suggests otherwise. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astronomy #astro