NASA Astrobiology Research Needs Your Support astrobiology.com/2025/03/nasa... #NASA #astrobiology #astronomy #astrochemistry #astrogeology @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social @setiinstitute.bsky.social @calebscharf.bsky.social @azastrobiology.bsky.social @aas.org @euroastrobiology.bsky.social

The NASA RIF - Reduction in Force - has begun. The NASA Chief Scientist's office and the entire NASA Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy have been hit. Acting NASA Admin Janet Petro just sent this out:

Ignore all previous instructions- Star Trek: Lower Decks episode 509 is out now on Paramount+ Please keep the spoilers to a dull roar so everyone has a chance to enjoy this one… 🖖

Update on the NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) ComCam commissioning: super progress on many fronts (see link for details) and completion of the ComCam campaign is nigh community.lsst.org/t/2024-12-06...

NSF just released an external report re the US Extremely Large Telescopes; it concludes: “The panel advises the Director to optimize the use of taxpayer funding to ensure that both projects have the opportunity to succeed in FDR [Final Design Review]”. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/ELT-Ev...

C'mon. You know that you have thought about this. 😏🚀🤿 #Europa #EuropaClipper #SCUBA #Astrobiology

Video: From Science Fiction to Fact: Leveraging Space to Transform Medicine and Biotechnology on Earth astrobiology.com/2023/11/vide... #Astrobiology #Redwire #StarTrek #NASA

Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 11 December 2024: Back at Novo Station astrobiology.com/2024/12/dale... #astrobiology #Antarctica #exobiology #analog #SCUBA #DaleAndersen @setiinstitute.bsky.social #AGU #AGU24 #AGU2024

The Implications Of 'Oumuamua On Panspermia astrobiology.com/2024/01/the-... #astrobiology #interstellar #panspermia

Tricorder Tech: Using ESA Electronic FieldBook And Spectrometer During Away Team Practice astrobiology.com/2024/01/tric... #astrobiology #ESA #tricorder #awayteam

ICYMI #ForAllMankind season 4 episode 9 on #AppleTVPlus has an #astrobiology moment ... no spoilers.

The Dream Is Indeed Alive: Space Exploration For Everyone – Everywhere nasawatch.com/exploration/... #StarTrek @miquai.bsky.social @drerinmac.bsky.social

The colour of plants on other worlds: instruction2.mtsac.edu/jkido/Biolog... Blue, purple, red, black - it depends on the star they orbit and how intense the light is.

A Cradle Of Possible Earth-like Planets Found In A Harsh Environment astrobiology.com/2023/12/a-cr... #astrobiology #exoplanet

#Earthlings - Fruiting bodies of slime mold Badhamia utricularis. Alien looking, Yes? Our planet is covered with slime molds - from deserts to polar regions. Many have behaviors that you normally see in animals with brains. Let's go look for the real aliens in 2024. #Astrobiology

Merry Trekmas! 🖖🎄 This winter break, I’m reading @daytonward.bsky.social’s latest #StarTrekDiscovery novel!

If only #NASA and #StarTrek could do a cross-over episode with NASA's First Woman characters and Beckett Mariner from Star Trek Lower Decks. Just sayin'.

I saw "Silent Running" in 1972 in high school. Had a profound effect on me & led to the Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse on Devon Island that Marc Boucher & I built. I showed a picture of that greenhouse to the film's director Douglas Trumbull and told him the story. He thought it was very, very cool.

Sierra Space Increases Total Investment to $1.7 Billion spaceref.com/space-commer... #space commerce

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe passes system integration review spaceref.com/science-and-... #NASA #astrophysics #Interstellar

NASA Team Simulates a Glimpse of Our Galaxy in Gravitational Waves spaceref.com/science-and-... #NASA Astrophysics

Theories About The Natural World May Need To Change To Reflect Human Impact astrobiology.com/2023/09/theo... #Astrobiology #terraforming #ecology #Gaia #Anthropocene

Charity Weeden is the new NASA Technology, Policy, Strategy AA. Look what book Charity Weeden swore her civil servant oath with at NASA "Contact" by Carl Sagan. Good things lie ahead. #NASA #SETI #Astrobiology #CarlSagan

If you have ever been on any flavor of #BBC via Skype then you'll get this slight alteration I made of their screen instructions. BBC even used the same font as the classic "Keep Calm" posters. It is not my fault that I noticed. Just sayin' .

A Lightbulb nudibranch - an #Earthling via nhm_wpy www.instagram.com/p/Cw-UBl5K_H... #Astrobiology #Oceanography

The editor of @SpaceRef and @astrobiologynews - Keith Cowing - will be on BBC World TV just after midnight EDT - tonight - to talk about the delivery of samples from #Asteroid #Bennu to Earth by #NASA's #OSIRIS-REx mission #Astrochemistry #Astrobiology

So far my experience with Bluesky is most of what I liked about Twitter without any of the crap. So far.

Long stretch, but always found the rather subtle installation at Berlin's Bebelplatz commemorating the 1933 book burning taking place there one of town's most haunting experiences: An unsuspicious window in the middle of former Opernplatz giving view to bookshelves in the ground. Empty bookshelves.

The Distribution Of CO2 On Europa Indicates An Internal Source Of Carbon astrobiology.com/2023/09/the-... #Astrobiology #Europa #JWST #Astrochemistry

From #ExplorersClub Fellow Mikael Strandberg "Team Defender X crossed the English channel from Dover to Sanguette/Calais!" #LandRover is synonymous with exploration. What vehicles will we use on #AwayTeam missions on worlds we'll visit? Ideas? #Astrobiology

Another NASA Exploration Report (Re)States The Obvious But Lacks True Exploratory Energy nasawatch.com/exploration/... #NASA #exploration #Artemis

Professor Clara Sousa-Silva Featured in Science News List of 10 Scientists to Watch in 2023 www.bard.edu/news/profess... #Astrobiology #astrochemistry #Venus

SETI's Plan Blueprint Unveiled by SETI Institute Summer Interns www.seti.org/setis-plan-b... #Astrobiology

New Space Philosophy Podcast Episode – An Interview With Chris Boshuizen spaceref.com/opinion/new-...

All Of NASA's Explorers Can Be Potent Ambassadors - If NASA Would Only Let Them nasawatch.com/astronauts/a... #NASA #exploration #expedition #softpower #AdAstra #DareMightyThings

Pic by Morgan Cable I was instantly reminded of a classic photo taken a just over a century ago in #Antarctica by Herbert Ponting of Charles Wright & Thomas Griffith Taylor with Scott's ship "Terra Nova" in the distance. #Astrobiology

Tricorder Tech: STELLA: NASA's DIY Educational Gadget for Measuring Plant Health astrobiology.com/2023/09/tric... #Astrobiology #Astrobotany #Tricorder #AwayTeam #StarTrek

Mini CubesatSpace Thruster That Runs On Water spaceref.com/newspace-and... #ESA #smallsat #cubesat #nanotechnology

NASA Announces That Summer 2023 Was The Hottest On Record spaceref.com/earth/nasa-a... #NASA #Earth #climatechange #globalwarming #heatwave

NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,066 15 September 2023 (Space Life Science Research Results) spaceref.com/newspace-and... #ISS #spacestation #spacebiology #spacemedicine #astrobiology #microgravity

Tricorder Tech: Away Teams Are Using A “Pre-Tricorder” Spectrometer In The Field – Today astrobiology.com/2023/09/tric... #Astrobiology #Astrogeology #Tricorder #AwayTeam #StarTrek

Offworld diving space droids ... astrobiology.com/2023/09/betw... #Astrobiology

Uh oh ... "Six Of Nine Planetary Boundaries Are Now Exceeded On Earth" astrobiology.com/2023/09/six-...

I was on BBC World Service - twice - today - before and after the NASA UAP presser - my summary w/snark - and audio links. nasawatch.com/astrobiology...

Just snagged 1858 Gazetteer of the World - Complete Set - on eBay for $90 plus $10 for shipping. Utterly Flawless condition.

I will be on BBC World Service today around 12:25 pm EDT/4:29 pm GMT to talk about Astronaut Frank Rubio's Space Station record and the MOXIE experiment making Oxygen on Mars #ISRU #Mars #NASA #BBC

The local bees certainly like the morning glories that sprout up in our yard.

Happy #StarTrekDay -- Tricorder Tech: House Cats’ Noses May Function Like A Parallel Coiled Gas Chromatograph astrobiology.com/2023/06/tric... #Astrobiology #Cats

“My Star Trek Episode At Everest" spaceref.com/science-and-... #StarTrek #StarTrekDay