Now the @insidehighered.com map is updated to show >800 visas revoked across 150+ colleges in 41 states. Ohio State's known number of revocations increased from 7 to 11.

It’s paper day! Check out our latest paper on galactic shapes in FIREbox. Tip of the hat to Courtney Klein for leading this effort! 🔥 📦 🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2503.05612

It’s paper day! Our paper on galactic sizes has now been accepted for publication (ApJ). Tip of the hat to Francisco Mercado for leading this effort! arxiv.org/abs/2501.04084 @astronomerc.bsky.social

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MUTUAL AID ALERT: Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread! - choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)

*this is illegal* FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

Effects of galactic environment on size and dark matter content in low-mass galaxies https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.04084 Francisco J. Mercado, Jorge Moreno, Robert Feldmann, Marckie Zeender, Jose A. Benavides Blanco, Courtney Klein, Coral Wheeler, James Bullock, Lina Necib, Philip F. Hopkins

The @aasoffice.bsky.social will issue full registration refunds for all of our colleagues impacted by the devastating fires in CA. If you are an #AAS245 registrant and in CA standby for an email on how to request your registration. We at the AAS are heartbroken for you and ready to support.

Kicking off the new year with a paper day! With @jorgitomoreno.bsky.social, Robert Feldman, Marckie Zeender, José Benavides, Courtney Klein, Coral Wheeler, @jbprime.bsky.social, @linoush95.bsky.social, and Phil Hopkins arxiv.org/abs/2501.04084

In the blink of an eye, Francisco more than doubled the size of our research group. As a postdoc, he has really exceeded all expectations! 🌌 🔥

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

The @aasoffice.bsky.social CSMA hosted a great session at SACNAS on building community in astronomy w/ @astrojennifer.bsky.social, @astroarianna.bsky.social, @skyientist.bsky.social, & Sebastian Monzon. Among the great lessons from the panel, @astroarianna.bsky.social shared this amazing wisdom. 🔭

Congratulations to Francisco for his first invited conference talk! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽