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hi new followers 👋 quick intro - I'm Adina, currently a NASA Sagan fellow at Michigan State, but I'll be starting as an assistant prof here next year 👩🏻🏫 my research focuses on observing very young planets and stars 🌟🪐🔭 I'm a crafter 🧶, baker 🥧, cat-mom 🐱, and Halloween enthusiast 🎃👻 🧪
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ESA Space Science
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Welcome to the new fellows selected to pursue their research in space science at ESA! Their projects span a broad range of topics from investigating the nature of dark matter to learning how Jupiter’s atmosphere works. Discover more about them 👉
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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Jasmine 🌌🔭
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i feel like society moved on from these too quickly
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Science Magazine
8 days ago
U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation.
https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl
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Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl
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astro hive mind - a student in my intro to astro for non-majors class asked about good astronomy documentaries they could watch. does anybody have any recommendations? 🔭 🌟#astronomy
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Just released: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval" - Minority Staff Report Prepared for Members of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives
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Alejandro Soto
16 days ago
This administration really hates Goddard Space Flight Center. I hope we can save it. 🧪
#planetsci
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Assessing the Goddard Space Flight Center: Call for Experts
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a little delayed, but congratulations to MSU grad student Sydney Petz for receiving an NSF GRFP 🥳
astro.natsci.msu.edu/news-events/...
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First Year Graduate Student Sydney Petz Wins NSF GRFP
https://astro.natsci.msu.edu/news-events/latest-news/grad-student-sydney-petz-wins-NSF-GFRP.aspx
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CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
22 days ago
LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.
#ArtemisII
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Scott Horton
29 days ago
Anti-war demonstrations occurred all across Israel this evening. US media decided you really didn't need to know about them.
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#ArtemisII
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about 1 month ago
Is this a new headline or did they just translate from the original German?
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Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-jews-penn-list-judge.html
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the number of times I've been mistaken for an undergrad on campus is now up to 5
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1) Let's 2) Go 3) Mets
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we were talking about solar flares and solar activity cycles in the intro astro for non-majors class today and somebody asked, "Do solar flares happen more frequently if a star spins faster?" ngl, I was shook by this intuition 💪
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András Gáspár
about 2 months ago
Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.
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really exciting work lead by Catriona Murray! TOI-3884 b is a planet on a polar orbit around an M dwarf. The transit has a persistent starspot crossing event. Using JWST, we measured the properties of the starspot and the Prot of the star 👀
arxiv.org/abs/2603.15414
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#stellarastro
about 2 months ago
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end of week cat cleanser
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2 months ago
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
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2 months ago
Read more:
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Cookie Clicker is still alive and thriving. that is all
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Andrew Karre
3 months ago
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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Happy "did you know the International Space Station is roughly the size of a football field?" Day to those who celebrate
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Mueller, She Wrote
3 months ago
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP.
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-garcia?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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starting the week off with a good laugh as Harvard astrophysicist shares his depiction of the aliens "aboard" the certified comet 3I/ATLAS: three-eyed Cornish pixies
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Joaquin Castro
3 months ago
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took on college. - Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville - Sports and Entertainment in Greece and Rome (yes, we were entertained) - Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology - Underworlds - Advanced experimental physics
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3 months ago
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Adam Parkhomenko
3 months ago
Seems like a good video for his trial
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Emily J
3 months ago
I’m glad there is an apology for posting Jew-hate on Holocaust Remembrance Day, but this is notably not an apology for the Jew-hate itself, just the timing of it. The article itself, which perpetuates ancient antisemitism, remains unchanged.
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Brett Morris
3 months ago
New job opportunity at
@stsci.edu
: Senior Astronomical Data Scientist for data analysis tools, working closely with my team and me. This role is very similar to mine. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. 🧪🔭
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Representative Seth Magaziner
3 months ago
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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3 months ago
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Olga Nesterova
3 months ago
Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)
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Holly Brewer
3 months ago
The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
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Will Stancil
3 months ago
Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.
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3 months ago
these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw
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Jennifer Brooks
3 months ago
There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426?from_app=1&darkmode=System&from_mobile=1&utm_source=webview?utm_source=copy
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3 months ago
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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3 months ago
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
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andy™
3 months ago
nine years old
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Leah Feiger
3 months ago
"You can only preach against ICE for so long before God calls you to get out of the pulpit and get to the streets”
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Adam Sawyer
3 months ago
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
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Thomas Leeper
3 months ago
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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Scientific American
3 months ago
"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
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NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-quietly-ends-financial-support-for-planetary-science-groups/
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3 months ago
People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
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are you an undergrad wanting to learn about or get more experience with ML/AI + TESS data? apply to work with me through the MSU Advanced Computational Research Experience for Undergraduates! applications are open until Feb 15, 2026
icer-acres.msu.edu
don't hesitate to reach out with questions!
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David Ho
3 months ago
This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.
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‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00091-0
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Dan Hon
4 months ago
I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is: January 16, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING
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Phil Plait
4 months ago
I'll say this very satisfying to watch.
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