As feds seal off labs from staff at NASA Goddard in prep for hasty evac+demolition, union reports: “Closure activities are proceeding during the government shutdown, which may be illegal under the Antideficiency Act and further endangers property.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet. www.space.com/space-explor...

Aerosols are so interesting! I love this visualization from NASAEarth. Fun side fact: a few percent of the dust in your home comes from the Sahara desert! (the purple stuff on the animation) It’s incredible what US funding for NASA and the sciences can do. www.instagram.com/reel/DOrH-Gm...

The images of inflatable prostestors bring me so much joy. Too much is going on right now in my personal life to be able to join in, but these images of joy in resistance and meeting the clownery of the current leading party with equal measures of buffoonery makes me feel hope for the future.

The nation’s military and defense journalists exited the Pentagon in unison Wednesday, having had their accreditation revoked after refusing to agree to the Defense Department’s new restrictions on their newsgathering activities.

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS: During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭 Why that matters 🧵

NASA SSC sent this to grantees: "NASA has reviewed the activities currently being performed under your entity's grant or cooperative agreement ... and have determined those activities to not be an "excepted" activity." nasawatch.com/shutdown/nss... #NASA

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning: www.science.org/content/arti...

Big R1s, where are your legal teams? Smaller places (and individuals like me) need you to start this fight.

I also had two papers come out this month! I worked on the first XRISM results from the Perseus cluster and got time on XRISM to observe A1914, which we discovered was undergoing a line-of-sight merger! 🔭

Today we received our final proofs for our upcoming @ioppublishing.bsky.social published book, "Integrating Computing into the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum." My introductory chapter is posted for free: dannycaballero.info/posts/iop-bo... #iteachphysics #iteachcs

🧵 You are watching the rugged and stunning landscape of an asteroid, a near-Earth object: 162173 Ryugu. The image was captured on 23 September 2018 immediately before hop of Rover-1B. Image source➡️ hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20... Image credit: JAXA 🔭 🧪 #science #histsci

Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/

On the 🔭🧪 postdoc job market? Excited about science with Rubin and big surveys? Come join us at DiRAC. I’m so excited that we’re able to offer a few of these Fellowship positions this year! Please share, LMK if you have Q’s! aas.org/jobregister/...

The res(t)ock is 73% funded! ✨ We're so close to bringing back 5 designs 🤩 You can still pre-order a pair here: sciencesocks.co/collections/...

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Our grassroots awareness team handed out over 200 mini-flyers yesterday at @airandspacemuseum! The flyers had facts on how to support NASA. Seeing as everyone in line was interested in learning about aeronautics and space, they were predominantly receptive to our message. #nasa #nasaneedshelp

Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.

Today's Virtual Astronomy Software Talk is a session on "Teaching Computational Astrophysics in the Era of AI". Come hear from several people's experiences. vast-seminars.github.io #astrocode Also, sign up for a talk to share your own codes!

People in prisons and jails have contributed to some of the greatest ideas in mathematics

i am preparing for a conference in october, and i went back and read this talk i gave at the climate hope conference in vancouver, and ugh. i just want to share it with more people. i think it's my favorite talk i've ever given. i usually never write them out. read if you'd like.

My latest paper on interstellar sulfur was highlighted recently in a NASA press release 🥳 science.nasa.gov/centers-and-...

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Idk if you've heard ... but there's a primary election coming up on Aug. 5! Outlier Media has a nonpartisan voter guide to help you with all your election questions. outliermedia.org/democracy/ Something not answered? Text REPORTER to 67485, and we'll try to answer it for you.*

I've had a few other former astronomers reach out to me lately about transitioning into data science/ML, and I decided to write about it. This is my personal journey from astro to ocean, and the most useful steps I took along the way.

I did a quick update of my slides, “From Astronomy and Physics to Data Science and AI.” github.com/taka-tanaka/...

The terror began immediately. Salvadoran guards beat them with their fists, boots and batons, shot them with rubber pellets, and forced them to lick other men's backs. What happened when we sent 230+ Venezuelans to a prison known for human rights abuses. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

Fact: Eighteen of the 25 ZIP codes in Southeast Michigan with the most expensive home insurance premiums were in Detroit as of 2022. That means Detroiters are paying far more for homeowners insurance than those in the suburbs, a policy some experts describe as modern-day redlining.

🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 🚀 the Voyager Declaration has LAUNCHED. NASA employees join a growing rebellion against Trump’s anti-science, anti-American agenda. 🧵(1/4)

After a few weeks abroad, I can say this: people outside the US see plainly what is going on — a swift descent into authoritarianism with dangerous parallels to Nazi Germany. Don’t be complicit or complacent. How do you want to be remembered by future generations?

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.

New paper out! This is a review of the published JWST observations of rocky exoplanets so far: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00933 Quick summary of the key points:

“If we don’t understand what’s happening and why it’s happening, you can’t be adapting. … You’re just going to suffer,” said a member of NOAA’s scientific advisory board. “We’re going to see huge impacts on infrastructure and lives lost in the U.S.” (Published April)

Like many NASA projects and missions, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute was asked to submit a closeout budget this week. Hopefully just a drill! But very difficult just the same. 💔 Regardless of what happens, I’m *so proud* of the service we have performed for the community over the years. ✨🪐💾🔭👩🏻‍🔬

IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org

What is the impact of the proposed mission terminations and cancellations on Arizona (U of A + ASU) Universities? These charts flag the missions with AZ participation and those impacted.

Protest planned to save NASA from Trump cuts! Join us in DC Monday, June 30, from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

Hanging with my spanish speaking relatives talking about pets. Me (in English): “The cat weighed 28 pounds?!?” Them: “No, 28 is the name of the dog” Okay, it’s not my fault — that was confusing! 😅

And then they have scientists who do science - and enable the rest of us to do science too. It turns out there are big things that are harder to do at Universities - it helps to have a federally supported lab to keep things evolving. But this administration is demolishing that.

"Nationally, half of all Black people say that secure bike parking will allow us to ride more often. Locally, in a densely populated city where a quarter of households report losing at least one bike to theft, the figure is sure to be much higher. Secure parking makes cycling accessible."

I learned that some one I know passed away today. Looking back at some of our text messages from years past, I wish I had had a chance to spend more time with them. Embrace the moment and spend time with people whenever you can. 💐

"In Northern Dene traditions, children learn through personal responses to challenges, riddles and experiences. Not through questions. Certainly not by being spoon-fed information. And in these matters, Dr. Cannon was functionally a child."