If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm. Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.

sun: massive flare! bsky: aurora! me: aurora! michigan: ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

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then pay NASA employees to analyze the data and publish it, like proper science

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

it's crazy to me that a congresswoman is calling on NASA to release data on 3I/ATLAS while actively destroying Goddard, the campus responsible for supporting/building the missions the data comes from. the second crazy thing is believing it's aliens.

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Glad to see this story covered by the press. I've heard from colleagues that Goddard labs are being moved/closed during the government shutdown while employees are unable to receive notification/e-mail/warnings. There's fear that they'll return after the shutdown & labs will be gone. 🔭

the dentist asked what my major was, so I guess my Halloween costume is... an undergrad?

today's project ft. Enoch and the pumpkin people from Over the Garden Wall 🎃

spotted at a pizza place in Toledo, OH. the crust was excellent

The handmaid's tale outfits and messages are accurate.

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

I'm guessing ~3300 based on some inbox numbers lolsob

last night's arXiv read like everyone's trying to get their papers up and citable before the jwst deadline ngl 👀

there was also a unicorn on the riverwalk, but I forgot to take a picture 😭

Ohio State astronomy is still waiting to see what happens with the federal funding landscape before deciding whether to proceed. With programs that are still TBD, I recommend waiting right now because *application fees do not get refunded if they decide to cancel after you have already paid*!!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

getting in the spirit when it's 80°F means black flowers 🥲☠️🦩🎃

#stellarastro 🔭🌟 look at all the rotation periods @meirs.bsky.social measured from the ground!!

rotation periods! variables! machine learning! arxiv.org/abs/2509.14423

oh man, I can't wait to see what the new season of Futurama holds on Monday 👀🤖🚀

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

13/10, no notes on the department welcome back party drinks 🍎🍏

The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying. Political violence has no place in this country and should never become the norm. I’m sending my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.

petition to talk about tenure contracts the same way NFL players talk about their contracts. For example, an assistant professor would have a 75 percent six-year contract with a possible extension and a signing bonus (start-up)

behind enemy lines #LGM ⚾

It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.

Today our team released findings on the nature of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, based on our first round of JWST observations. The data are incredible: Not only did we detect and map gas and dust in the coma, but we found that 3I is one of the most CO2 rich comets ever seen! Check it out:

maturing is realizing my entire career path was shaped to achieve this one reference

now accepted 💪

Apparently zero TESS proposals were "selected" because they don't know about funding. Best ranking you can get is "selectable". 🧪🔭 #exoplanets

today, I'm 1 year old on Saturn (and also officially an assistant professor, but the Saturn birthday is cooler) 🪐

Massive protests have broken out in Israel calling for Neyanyahu to step down, a deal to return the hostages, and to end the Gaza genocide. 300,000 protested in Tel Aviv, 2.5 million gathered around the country. #3E #FreePalestine

Always trying to help

tag urself. I'm "suspected passive technology" - do not perceive me

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this is due to a combination of (a) having a wayyy bigger than expected incoming class and (b) the state of federal funding as much as it sucks, it's important to be transparent about where we stand. hopefully other departments will follow

I've had a few other former astronomers reach out to me lately about transitioning into data science/ML, and I decided to write about it. This is my personal journey from astro to ocean, and the most useful steps I took along the way.

aww yeah ☄️ 🔭 🛰️ arxiv.org/abs/2507.21967

summer project presentations from Ryan and @adalyngibson.bsky.social at the @michiganstateu.bsky.social MidSURE conference today!

seasonal allergies made his lip swell, making him look extra pouty 🥺😂