No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight. Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

SNL NAILED IT. A must watch about double standards, coverage, and who gets to be human. #blacksky

One thing about living in NYC at this moment is how straightforward it is to integrate community-based resistance into your daily life. Signal chat blows up? Put down your tea and run three blocks to intercept ICE. Scheduled protest? Jump in, express rage for an hour, then finish your errands.

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Protest in NYC will be 4pm at Union Square

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

The @flatironinstitute.org's Adrian Bayer studies the structure of galaxies and the remnant heat from the universe’s creation, known as the cosmic microwave background: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/unveiling-the-universes-origins-and-current-state-by-modeling-its-many-faces/ #science

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

I went to a protest in New York City today and three Proud Boys were circulating among the crowd pretending to be members of the press (or maybe influencers) interviewing individual protestors. But espionage is not their forte; one was wearing a body cam and a "PB" patch. Stay vigilant, people.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

🧪⚛️ NSF is seeking community feedback on their draft strategic plan for the next few years. Now is the time to make your views known. (Maybe disbanding nearly all advisory committees wasn’t the best idea.) www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Good write-up from @planetarysociety.bsky.social on the budget bill that passed Congress, explaining what space science has gained and lost, and which projects appear to be funded for FY26 (including Uranus, HabWorlds, & contributions to international missions). www.planetary.org/articles/adv...

There is something in here about how women organizing literally everything else is fine and expected but organizing opposition to a fascist government is a problem. Like what do you think we’re all doing when we set up phone trees for the a PTA? That’s community organizing you doorknobs

My favorite sign from NYC today @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

QOTD: What car do you want most, but know would be an absolutely miserable experience to own?

Tomorrow, many of us will gather in Union Square in NYC to rally for trans kids, their rights and access to gender-affirming care. Alongside fighting for trans rights and healthcare for all in our community. With many other actions needing attention. 3/8

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

There’s another emergency rally in NYC this morning—9am Foley Square. Kristi Noem is going to NYC today to hold a press conference. New Yorkers are showing up in mass to tell her to get the f*ck out. Join @handsoffnyc.bsky.social in the streets. It’s time to get loud and stay loud.

There's a lot of interesting conclusions, but the one I like most is this: well-funded professional archives increase science return multiplicatively. They support BOTH new discoveries using archival data shepherded through the decades AND use of brand new observations. (2/3)

House and Senate appropriators have released a "minibus" appropriations bill that includes CJS (NASA, NOAA, NSF). NASA would get $24.44 billion, slightly less than FY25 but much better than the proposed $18.8 billion. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

The Pacific Northwest delivered the goods <swoon>.

(GenX relevant only) I was walking through LAX and saw a man in outrageously tight black leather pants and boots, just standing and waiting, but with his nose in the air and absurdly correct posture, one knee slightly bent. As I passed, mesmerized, I realized “Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance”.

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

If you're in NYC, check out the links from my FIND YOUR ORGANIZING HOME IN NYC zine - zinefun.fyi Tons of groups out there! Some of my faves: @bkindivisible.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social @comixaction.com @socialists.nyc @jfrejnyc.bsky.social

It's a shame the word "chevelure" (originally meaning something like "a head of hair") didn't catch more on in Astronomy: 1791. Herschel, in Phil. Trans., LXXXI. 78. "A star of about the 9th magnitude, surrounded by a milky nebulosity, or chevelure, of about 3 minutes in diameter."

Love this plot of the infrared absorption of lots of different hydrocarbon molecules (and DMS). Titan measurements are used here as an exercise for interpretation of exoplanet measurements. Niraula+ iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... 🧪🔭☄️🪐

I will just keep reposting this essay until everyone reads it.

This framing.

This framing.

This perceptive Cory Doctorow essay about the landscape of AI and speculation about its future is absolutely worth a read. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

The color of the sky in Seattle is aurometalsaurus #777978

One of the features that emerges early in dementia is a loss of inhibition. About 6 months before my dad lost all semblance of the ability to live independently, he would just…say things. Absolutely no filter, and often grossly inappropriate and rude. Now add that on top of a baseline of awfulness…

Have you ever wanted @astropy.org tutorials on: – spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image, – computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements, – cross-matching astronomical catalogs? Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode

"According to project scientists working on NASA's next generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.. they were given only four days to empty a mission-critical laboratory." www.space.com/space-explor...

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of please let MAGA continue to attack people here and abroad for the promise of a future vote on healthcare.

Congrats @ohdearz.bsky.social on receiving the Nancy Grace Roman Award from ASP for promoting gender equity snd inclusion in astronomy and related fields! It was awesome to be there and see all the amazing things! Truly well deserved! astrosociety.org/who-we-are/a...

I’m deeply honored to receive the Henry Primakoff Award of the American Physical Society! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/05/c... @flatironinstitute.org @fermilab.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org @perimeterinstitute.ca

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.

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

My favorite book on scientific writing!

The guys on the AstroViz mailing list are trying to convince "Lynnie" the spammer, who is offering duct cleaning services, to come and clean up the dust around Sag A*

Texting with the family about the Canal street bullshit here in NYC and autocorrect was having a hell of a time with “fascist brownshirts”.

Trillionaires for Trump. “Whose yachts? Our yachts!” “Slow and expensive buses” “We paid for three terms”

This triggered a core memory of a road trip with my very young kids, where we would go around and add a sentence to a story in turn. I started with “once upon a time there was a little girl.” Which was serenely followed by a lispy little kid voice adding on their part: “And she was eaten by wolves.”

“‘My building is shaking. So, I'm like, “What is that?” Then I look out the window, it's a Blackhawk helicopter,’ said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.” Raiding a Chicago apartment building from above as if they were on a mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Absolutely demented.