I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

New HLSP: New optical high-resolution images and point source photometry for unusual, disturbed, and/or interacting galaxies from the Arp (1966) and Arp & Madore (1987) catalogs, from an HST SNAP program (PI @dalcantonjd.bsky.social), are now available at MAST. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/hags 🔭

ARP! ARP! ARP! ☄️🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2509.09011

Seattle’s response to an anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist church event scheduled for later today. “240 kazoos provided.”

Baked goods, but you can choose your preferred, quantified proportion of frosting. #EatingMyFeelings

call us old fashioned but, this account finds newsom's "check out my rock-hard AI nipples. they're absolutely glistening" platform less inspirational than pritz's "you fascists bring that shit here and I will personally fuck your asses up."

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation

Galactic bubbles like never before! @eric-koch.bsky.social introduced BubbleZoo, a citizen science project cataloging JWST’s mesmerizing voids in galaxies, at the JWST session on galaxies at the 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop! 🔭 #astroedu www.youtube.com/watch?v=726s...

"In short, the new rules would mean that all federal science research would need to be approved by a political appointee who may have no expertise in the relevant areas, and the research can be canceled at any time if the political winds change." arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

Agencies are permitted to use peer review, as a treat, as long as agency personnel routinely ignore its recommendations?

I submitted an atlas paper that has been weighing on me for years, and I thought I was perhaps being a big ole baby, but it literally had over 1,100 unique figures in it.

"[T]hey all made deals that Mr. Orban engineered: peace with the strongman, in exchange for subjugation and humiliation. Going along is what did them in." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

The Senate just posted the report language of its FY26 science appropriations bill. This text lays out what they want done and carries the force of law if it is included in the final spending bill. It's a line-by-line refutation of Trump's proposed budget for NASA and NOAA.

NEW PIECE IS UP. I don’t enjoy facing the truth about this court, but it must be done. Yesterday’s decision in McMahon has me convinced. Hope you’ll sign up for the September webinars. We need the people - not just lawyers - to understand what’s at stake. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

As currently configured, NASA newest grant opportunity release represents an ****82%**** cut to planetary science research funding. research.ssl.berkeley.edu/~mikewong/bl...

Rolling Stone continues to teach a masterclass in headline writing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Say you flip burgers and work the grill and the new owner comes into Burgertown and tells you to no longer use spatulas and grills to make food because grills and spatulas are "woke." You have to use a spoon and cook food on an open campfire. That's how fucking stupid it's getting at the NIH. 🧪

Every major American newspaper had damn well better be dropping major exposés about the government paying random fascist collaborators to cosplay as government agents.

In response to the ever-increasing number of submissions to the Open Journal of Astrophysics, I'd like to invite more astrophysicistsonto our Editorial Board. We're looking for volunteers with expertise in any area of astrophysics! Please contact me or @ojastro.bsky.social astro.theoj.org

I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.

Don't miss our new NASA Science spending and economic impact resource at dashboards.planetary.org/nasa-science.html — see space science spending in every state and congressional district and custom reports for each region. A unique resource.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Read @joshtpm.bsky.social on the silence factor. "The Trump White House and The Great Quieting." Recommended. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-t...

🚨Hiding under 6 sections of science sounding rhetoric is an edict to appoint officers at each agency that will be responsible for detecting research that isn't "Gold Standard Science" as defined by the White House🚨 Stay tuned for rapid response action! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency.

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

I don’t think it’s made it over here from the Other Place yet, but @1goodtern.bsky.social, who has consistently monitored the on-the-ground impacts of COVID in the UK, made some jaw-dropping charts of correlations among infection rates for different bugs, pre- and post-2020.

Bumper sticker of the day.

Also, the union that represents NSF employees (AFGE Local 3403) also sent an open letter today to the National Science Board urging swift and vocal action. "Please do not hesitate to take a stand defending NSF, even if it is your last act as a member of the NSB." www.savensf.com/_files/ugd/e...

Hearing now that every National Science Foundation grant is having to go through a new “DOGE review”. So existing grants and long term science and technology research having to undergo review by one of Elon’s interns. Huge percentage not passing their muster.

‼️ If you're feeling helpless and frustrated about the NSF news today, here's an action item for you, via @aibsbiology.bsky.social and @aas.org. Call your representative and tell them to "sign on to the Neguse-Fitzpatrick DCL." aas.org/urge-nsf-sup... and takeaction.io/aibs/action-...

My grandfather was a coal miner and I’m pretty sure he would have been glad to know I grew up to be a scientist, if he hadn’t died of black lung.

No Donald Trump you cannot actually undo centuries of work & legislation to integrate Black people into the public sphere with an executive order. BUT let's see if some compliant cowards act like he can & start rolling back civil rights even more.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever used the Wayback Machine! ✋ The Internet Archive project (funded in part by NEH, #IMLS and #NSF) is an invaluable treasure trove of millions archived sites, texts, software, movies and more. All FREE. And a vast majority of federal funding has been cut. archive.org

If you’re comfortable, here’s a form to submit info on terminated NSF grants for greater collective transparency and insight among grantees: Kudos to @scott-delaney.bsky.social for putting together. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

The fucking laughter at 0:25.

Focusing on things that spark joy, which includes Fruit Bat. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

So, for any universities who are not paying attention or thinking they will be spared, here it is, as plain as day. Pushing back individually and as a group is the only rational strategy.

Dear Breakthrough Prize Billionaires: Fund the Science You’re Watching Trump Destroy www.scientificamerican.com/article/dear...

I really hit the wall today, and maybe you did too, so perhaps you need to meet Zipper.

this took literally 15 seconds (esp bc Jessica has a suggested comment in the replies to the quoted post!) Please take a sec to comment!

Current US economic planning.

Shoutout to the woman, walking the morning streets of NYC, sipping on her Starbucks, chomping on her ear of corn.

hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it'd strip care from DACA recipients, too. context & guidance in the thread. do it while you’re still fired up from/about protests. only 4.5 days left!

How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole ➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...

Really proud of the team behind this one! 🔭