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

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece! Using our VLT, they observed the Sculptor Galaxy in thousands of colours simultaneously 🌈 The more shades of colour there are in an image of a galaxy, the more we can learn about its inner workings. Read more: www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

About to lose my job I spent a decade in school for cause the orange man hates science and this once-in-a-lifetime Pacers run has been giving me hope, but now that’s going south too. shit sucks.

The Planetary Society will provide a NASA budget briefing on Thursday, June 12, at 12pm ET! We'll answer the top-rated scientific community questions, share everything we know, and give you our expert perspective on what's going on. Register for free here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Seven charts that show the perilous situation NASA is facing. www.planetary.org/articles/nas...

Rick Carlisle, the showman. “In 49 states, it’s just basketball. But this is Indiana.”

20+ years as a pacers fan, and it’s so good to finally watch this team go to the finals. So unbelievably happy. LETS GO ‘CERS

NASA's detailed FY 2026 budget documents are now posted: www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...

From Abby Lee @abigaillee.bsky.social : As a part of AAPI month, we interviewed Dr. Janice Lee, an astronomer who uses space telescopes to learn about star formation! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/28/i...

I love this Pacers team to death but they’re going to give me a heart attack lol #NBASky

LETS FUCKING GO PACERS

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

News organizations loathe covering their own scandals. This is how it’s done.

Say it louder for the folks in the back. NASA’s annual call for grant proposals is now 68 days late.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Stop telling American scientists to just move to another country challenge

If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion. If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.

I cannot make this but encourage my fellow New Yorkers who can to go. Let's apply some pressure.

Now that Schumer and Dems have abjectly decided to cave, when they scream about the cuts that Musk and Trump continue to undertake in violation of *their own CR,* it will only sound all the more hollow. Great job all around, guys.

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

Schumer's logic here also dictates getting rolled on the debt ceiling and on next year's budget. I think he's got to go

STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO FOCUS ON THE SCIENCE AND THAT WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH HARD TIMES IN THE PAST. THIS IS NOT THAT. JFC