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.

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...