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.

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.

GOVT: No, Brett you’re missing the point. Our real priority is taking food away from hungry children, while we take away their healthcare or force them into poverty, and deploy the military against citizens. Dismantling the most popular federal agencies in US history is just a lovely byproduct.

“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-...

As feds seal off labs from staff at NASA Goddard in prep for hasty evac+demolition, union reports: “Closure activities are proceeding during the government shutdown, which may be illegal under the Antideficiency Act and further endangers property.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

As NASA closes Goddard Space Flight Center, Union says: “High profile missions currently supported by the public, Congress and/or the President (e.g., Roman, Dragonfly) will be immediately harmed or endangered.” 🧪🔭

This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪

We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end. The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭

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

Heads up: the deadline for regular registration for #AAS247 is Friday, November 7. (Late registration is still an option after Friday, but more expensive). While you and your colleagues/students register, remember to register for the @astropy.org workshop! 🔭 #astrocode

Live in the Northern Hemisphere and want to see a comet older then the Solar System? Nice overview of upcoming pre-dawn visibility for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with small amateur telescopes 🔭🧪

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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Encourage a student to register for the astropy workshop! 🔭 #astrocode

Jobs! Postdoc on crowded field photometry with the Roman Space Telescope at @stsci.edu. 🔭 #astrocode Deadline December 5: stsci.slideroom.com#/login/progr...

Q: How old is the star HD 140283, at the center of this image? A: Quite nearly as old as the universe itself. Paper (Lundkvist et al., from last week): arxiv.org/abs/2510.11532 View on the sky: aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/?...

One-hour crash course: how astronomers' shortest path to measuring the air on a habitable zone planet is menaced by the very star that throws light on the planet. Thanks @afeinstein20.bsky.social for inviting me to MSU, it was a great trip! 🔭🧪 #stellarastro

We can still debate how many students should be trained for the small number of jobs that await them. Zero isn’t the number anyone wants. This is turning off the pipeline. 🔭🧪

For this money, your tax dollars could have paid for a second TESS mission to find planets, but instead:

To be clear, they’re still welcome in the party. Just swapping leadership.

gut check on the fall of the republic:

"The secret sauce has been poured down the drain," says David Draper, former Deputy Chief Scientist of NASA, over the recent firing or departure of 1000s of NASA employees, which will be catastrophic for the legacy of the US🇺🇸😖🚀 www.planetary.org/articles/400... h/t @floragraham.bsky.social 🧪

Over at the STScI ranch, Helpdesk tickets are tracking below previous cycles. Suggests you're all experts by now, or resubmitted last cycle's unsuccessful proposals! 🔭

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

Happy JWST Cycle 5 deadline day to those who celebrate. 🔭 Like past cycles, 1,663 proposals have been submitted between my first submission on October 3 and my last submission today at 9am Eastern.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 11% of its staff today, including many people working on an active Mars rover mission. “There’s no whitewashing the ‘doomsday-eve’ feeling that's looming over all our heads,” wrote one JPL’er. eos.org/research-and...

Layoff notices at JPL are going out today. About 11% of the Lab, or 550 people, are being let go. I'm thinking of my friends and colleagues there, some of whom will still be employed after today and some of whom won't. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.

Increasingly in favour of the Marie Kondo approach to collaborations in science. Does your collaborator spark joy? If not ➡️♻️🗑️ No one's skills or knowledge are so unique or indispensable that they get to make your day miserable with every interaction. 🧪🔭

Quite shocked to see that my colleagues left graffiti in the men’s room at BWI.

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...

I worked as an academic in Europe five years ago. I always heard folks say: “yes things are strange now, but the US will always be a powerhouse in scientific research and higher education.” That didn’t age well. Science in the US will never recover if this continues. 🧪

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Shared with permission from Carl Stahle, Retired, Vice President of Goddard Retirees and Alumni Association, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Link in the document text: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil... (Original LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/carl-s...) @roguenasa.altgov.info

US’s trajectory in space science leadership in a nutshell

I'll be leading this winter's @astropy.org workshop at AAS in Phoenix. 🔭 #astrocode If you advise a student, encourage them to register for the workshop! If you are a student, ask if that's ok 👉👈

Colleague: how do I submit a proposal for JWST time? 🔭 Me:

Another tour de force from @astroshashank.bsky.social. Mapping stellar surfaces helps us understand that star’s planets, since the planets are illuminated by splotchy stars. 🧪🔭 Somebody hire @astroshashank.bsky.social!

Super happy about this paper today led by the brilliant @astroshashank.bsky.social - equations and information theory about what an interferometer really encodes about a stellar surface.

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell. NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA. 🧪🔭 www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Federally funded observatories give you the universe. 🧪🔭

Astronomers: we approach the precipice at the edge of the brink of the shutdown, here's a reminder. 🔭 Non-astronomers: directly or indirectly, most of the astrophysics done in the USA is funded by federal grants, and/or done by federal employees and contractors. Send love.

Delighted to be getting tons of questions about our new Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy mode on MIRI; available for the first time in #JWST Cycle 5. Remember the fastest way to get answers is the Helpdesk hosted by @stsci.edu >> stsci.service-now.com/jwst

New feature released in the @jupyter.org Sidecar package: set new sidecar locations relative to other sidecars. Make dashboards/default arrangements of multiple widget outputs! Thanks for the help, @martinrenou.bsky.social. 🧪 Install: pip install sidecar Demo code: gist.github.com/bmorris3/b3e...

JWST Cycle 5 deadline extensions may be granted to submitters affected by an upcoming government shutdown. See the link for details: 🔭 jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportu...

sun feeling ~flouncy~ 🔭

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers. Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*. tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.