‼️ROSES-25 #heliophysics UPDATE‼️ tldr; New interagency (non-NASA) agreements (IAA) process can take a year. IAA must be approved prior to submission. LWS Step-1 is due Jan 21, so time is short. #NASA may reject proposals b/c of delayed approvals.

Capela do Senhor da Pedra. #ArtAdventCalendar #Day4

📢Another bit of news for #NASA #Goddard folks. Multiple contacts report that #GSFC library is closing down, keeping only ~10% of the books and artifacts. No plan for the other 90%? Originally scheduled to shutdown on Dec 9 -- now delayed (new date unknown) @roguenasa.altgov.info #SaveLibraries

How do we know it wasn’t Ron playing the first time saying he was Ray, and now he’s playing again?

I hope @agu.org is going to speak to #AGU25 attendee safety, and acknowledge the potential increased threat to some attendees based on what some morally corrupt, bigoted CPB/ICE agent thinks about how they look or where they're from. Allow people to cancel & refund their registration $.

I mean...just look at this. It goes on and on and on. #ArtAdventCalendar is amazing and you really should check it out.

#ArtAdventCalendar #Day3b Okay, I know this is the second one today, but I just finished editing it and I really like it... I know it might be too busy, but still.

This piece really resonates with me and my exact story — I don’t come from a science background, but decided to chase my passion. It took a lot of hard work (basically restarting from scratch) but previous experience across industries gave me the right tools to persist through challenges.

"Take My Hand" #mural of Harriette Tubman, in Dorset Maryland - Michael Rosato #artist #StreetArt #WallMural #murals #art #HarrietteTubman #CivilRights #BlackSky #BlackHistory

This is a great reframing. And also consider this same question within the framework of orbital debris. How many do we need knowing that once they are defunct there is a time delay before they are removed from the system.

#ArtAdventCalendar #Day3 A Colorado cliff face.

This article is an extremely well presented discussion about the current funding challenges for science and medicine in the US. Highly recommend. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @nytimes.com #FundScience #publicpolicy @altnih4science.bsky.social @roguenasa.altgov.info @roguenoaa.altgov.info

@lofgren.house.gov, ranking member of the House Science, Space & Technology Committee, sent a follow-on letter to #NASA about the audit of Goddard's planned closures/relocations. It contains the schedule for “consolidation” activities at the main #gsfc campus. lofgren.house.gov/media/press-...

Thank you, @lofgren.house.gov , for your continued support of #NASA and NASA science!!! @roguenasa.altgov.info

Took a look back at a recent (by some definition) paper, translated the title from science -ees to English and talked about why the work is important: both to a space physicist and to the general public. open.substack.com/pub/plasmane...

New ltr to NASA OIG from HSS&T RM Lofgren (D-CA) shares skdl of "consolidation" activities at NASA Goddard thru May 2026 and urges OIG to hasten its investigation to what's happening there. democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do... democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

#ArtAdventCalendar #Day1 Beautiful Washington DC in the spring.

Also #ArtAdventCalendar pariticipants...one of the major reasons for the event is to support other artists so please share (and follow ?) other artists.

Don’t forget! Tomorrow, December 1, is World AIDS Day! Look for a thread tomorrow. Here’s a link to some teaser info… worldaidsday.org/about/

State of the Union Message to Congress | The American Presidency Project share.google/IUmGqS1quf0i...

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.

This is absolutely right. “Read More” is permanently written on my chalkboard because I KNOW that my reading skill has always been lower than I want (and need) to really be great at what I do 🔭🧪📖

Happy Belated Thanksgiving open.substack.com/pub/plasmane...

I've never heard of this channel until today, but what a fantastic, wholesome idea. Many of us had experiences where the father figure in our lives was absent from a young age. And I think all of us would have had the "how do I tie a tie?" question come up at some point. This channel does good.

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What do you know, we're the same size 🤣

Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today. Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities. Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.

To recap: •Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually •Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses •The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45% 1/2

May you feel the joy of these biologists finding a flower they'd searched 13 years for: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

Recording of a @ucs.org webinar on "How Scientists Can Stand Up for Democracy". Share around our science communities (and beyond) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf6o... #StandUpForScience #StandUpForDemocracy @aas.org @agu.org @planetarysociety.bsky.social @roguenasa.altgov.info @roguenoaa.altgov.info

Here's a throw back to my first first author paper with my PhD advisors. Brian Fraser and @drsteve1663.bsky.social Sorry Steve for calling it cute, but it really is! Such a cute little study and paper. :). open.substack.com/pub/plasmane...

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

You can’t keep trying to individualize systemic problems. The problem isn’t views, it’s a system set up to benefit the few at the expense of the many. I LOVE public transit, but it doesn’t exist here in any meaningful way. And it would cost way more to move somewhere that did.

i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine "i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people

A reminder: the DOGE cuts that cost tens of thousands of people their jobs in the #dmv didn't have to happen. We are trillions of dollars in debt as a country *not* because of these highly educated and highly skilled government employees - but because of this criminally destructive Administration.

Not quite ready for the weekend to end, but man this was a beautiful day.

Another older watercolour drawing showing St Edward's Passage in Cambridge next to the Arts Theatre and David's Bookshop when it had a shop on that side of the church (now it only has one on the other side) #watercolour #fineart #cambridge

My child would like to lodge a complaint with the city that our local drainage is too good & we lack sufficient puddles. We’re having to hunt way too hard to splash. We’re under rain warning! Why aren’t the drains blocked with leaves? Who graded such smooth slopes?? This competency is unacceptable.

THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH

Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Turns out you shouldn't outsource your thinking and learning. Google = flawed card catalog LLMs like Chatgpt = even worse cliff notes.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Disobeying illegal orders cannot be sedition. The Uniform Code of Military Justice, article 92, requires service members to follow LAWFUL orders. If an order is illegal, they have a duty to DISOBEY. Obeying an illegal order can result in criminal liability.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

Science PSA: Never abbreviate “analysis” as “anal”. Ever.

Over the past month or so, I wrote about some old papers, trying to explain why people should care. Here, I looked back at a paper about space policy. And while times have changed, & the industries impacted by space weather have grown, the message remains. plasmanerd.substack.com/p/space-phys...

‼️HEADS UP‼️ Wed, Dec 3: nomination hearings for #NASA director (J Isaacman again) and Commerce Sec. (S Haines; includes #NOAA & #NIST) 👀 Live stream on the #Senate Committee website or YouTube @roguenasa.altgov.info @noaa.gov @roguenoaa.altgov.info @aas.org @agu.org @planetarysociety.bsky.social

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Flickr (Feb 20, 2025) The installation of SASS-B panels to the Outer Barrel Assembly of the Roman Space Telescope is underway at NASA Goddard. flic.kr/p/2qU3kGU