Artemis update: It's been a tough time. He is still in the hospital, not eating. A few folks have asked how they can help, so I've set up a GoFundMe to help with costs. If you've ever loved Artemis, his gravity experiments and feel moved to help him, here's the link. gofund.me/252b7473c

On this day in 1913, the Baltimore City Council passed an ordinance requiring Black and white residents to live on separate blocks. The law was part of the first city-wide effort in the country to create legally segregated neighborhoods.

Idk why but every time I hear about Cecilia Payne - Gaposchkin's defense, I think about Dr. Jamila Peagues who became the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Astronomy (2021) as well Dr. Osase Omoruyi the second Black woman who earned her PhD from Harvard this past summer nearly 100 years later.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Life news -- starting Fall 2026, I'll be an Assistant Prof in University of Maryland, College Park's Astronomy Department! I'll be starting up a lab to measure all the substellar cloud things 🌤️🪐✨ and continuing alllllll the atmospheric model things Lowkey obsessed with the mascot #FeartheTurtle

This is a bad move, @chicago.suntimes.com

Last 5 hours - please share for our beloved friends to escape death in north Gaza ‼️ We have never exaggerated the needs of these families, but this urgency is more sincere than ever. They describe bombing every minute. Transport & shelter. 808/1000

Congrats to @joneskuma.bsky.social, co-winner of the DPS Urey Prize for early career researchers! #EPSCDPS

NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!

Idk why I'm still up or how. Luckily my talk isn't until 4 pm. I guess I'm just nervous. I'm about email my advisor he's gonna be like girl lmfaoooo 😂😂😂

Great talk!

For those that are attending EPSC - DPS, my first talk is today at 09:42 in the Saturn Room (Hall B) entitled: Black Space Week: Celebrating Identity, Innovation, and Representation in the Space Sciences.

I'm still jet-lagged and but I'm talking to friends and family at 4:20 am here in Finland. When I get back, I'm sleeping for two days! But today's adventure, seafood. 🥹 I cannot wait to video chat with @capricephillips.bsky.social to show her the food. 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

Spark Space id preparing to host high school students for the first exams in 2 years, and they need our help! Please give and share widely if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Does anyone know when the astrobetter rumor mill will be updating their website for postdoc and faculty jobs?

Daily "aww" for today... 😊 #dog #dogday #cat #catday #bluesky

9 years ago today, my father made his transition to the afterlife. His death flipped my world upside down. I hope he's resting peacefully. 🫶🏽💕✨️

"But Mikki how can you say that?" The Black maternal mortality rate said it. The violence against Black women by the state and in our communities said it. The ways "Listen to Black women" only applies after election losses say it. And this is not just an American issue so...why can't you hear it?

Both the right AND the left see Black women as expendable and the decision comes at a cost for EVERYONE eventually. This is #TheDoubleTax.

lol many white people on the left hate Black women as much as white people on the right. In this essay, I will-

When I first started coding, I used to be scared that I'd delete everything. Lmfaoooo Now, especially in today's case where my code is frozen..I remained sooooo calm. I tried everything before going to my advisor. I think I still may troubleshoot overnight.

12 hours left—once a month we help a genocide survivor stay housed & fed. Ahmed doesn't have right to work as a Palestinian refugee in Egypt; he's totally reliant on us. It's unfair but we've never failed him. Keep it up. Last check 204/550 www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

It’s always the most ignorant and uneducated conservatives who love to tell me, a person whose job is public policy, that I don’t know what I’m talking about .

"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."

I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

I can't believe he basically got people to Pokemon Go To The Polls.

a federal judge ruled against an order that would restore all of the funding terminated by the NSF. some context here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/n...

NEW: The White House wants to kill off Juno, NASA's mission to uncover Jupiter's secrets. Fortunately, its legacy is clear. Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky. Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Spent time with my favorite 😍 little guy this weekend. 💕

astronomers on tuesday announced that my favorite planet has a new moon! 🌌 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/s...

Not all of my mods are broken on sims 4. 🙃😒😭

Final tally 🧮. PhD in Astronomy 🪐, 2 Masters Degrees in Astronomy, Graduate Certificate in College and University Teaching, Bachelor’s in Physics and a Minor in Mathematics. Let’s just say im glad to be #PhinishedPhD #BlackinAstro

Time really does go by so fast. 10 years apart with my nibling.

Scripps Oceanography’s new director aims to build collaborative studies toward ‘understanding and protecting our planet’ www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/08/04/s... #astrobiology #oceanography @minwadhwa.bsky.social

Always blows my mind how many selfish shitty people there are in the world.

Filmore Brown worked 7 days a week for over two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house. Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about. “It was stolen from me”

He didn’t listen to Obama 🙌🏾

moar picturessss

Next $2,000/£1,535 will be matched for six families to eat! 👋🏾 Survival funds aren't a waste of time. We do whatever we can to keep Palestinians alive RIGHT NOW. Take unprecedented action for their next hour, day, lifetime. 1022/3835 by Saturday: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Conservatives are so funny because the places to live in the country are liberal. Historically, the best times in the country happen under liberal leadership. Just a complete detachment from reality.

I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.

I’m beginning to think that people only question if law enforcement are trained when they’re not brutalizing and killing Black people.

As a Chicagoan, it is really hard to feel anything but disdain for the Univ of Chicago knowing the harm that place has done to the Southside and its residents.

She stood on business for our children. Free Afeni and god protect her

I found the TikTok video 🥹 (correction: 15 years)

Just saw a Black woman in her wheelchair being helped in a pool by other Black women. They carried her as she floated, first time in a pool in like 20 years. She felt free in that water and they held her up. That’s what it’s like being us. We really all we got.