I’m looking for books / long form articles discussing the ecological impact of LLMs and AI ethics. I would love materal that gives ideas for how (if possible) to implement AI tools ethically wrt environmental concerns. Even better if its from an indigenous perspective.

New in the shop: #Voyager socks 🛰 It feels like I've been wanting to make these for almost as long as Voyager has been in space (48 years lol!) Featuring the spacecraft, the #GoldenRecord, and their trajectories past the outer planets 🤩 🔗 sciencesocks.co/prod...#Voyager#GoldenRecord,🔭🐡🧪🎨

A nice paper by @asborlaff.bsky.social showing that launching telescopes to space doesn't necessarily solve the light pollution issue from satellites. These are satellite trails seen by NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, which appear in 73% of all its images. Eek. arxiv.org/abs/2605.27501

I got tenure! 🥳😅

Woohoo! Robert Frazier, PhD student who did his pre-candidate project with me, had it accepted for publication today! An impressive comparison of a JWST spectroscopic phase curve to a set of 3-D models (of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b). Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2605.01589

Martin Weisskopf, who helped shape modern X-ray astronomy and was the Chandra Project Scientist for many years, died last week at the age of 84. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that people write letters of support to sustain the mission. www.berryhillfh.com/obituaries/m...

🎧 Listen to the full NewAthena community playlist at: open.spotify.com/playlist/2E5...

"You hear theyre using chickens as camera gimbals now?" "What?" "Chickens. Strap a camera onto their head. No shake. Chicken camera gimbals"

instead of "planet" or "dwarf planet", we instead could have: 🪨 tiny rock (comets, asteroids, etc) 🌑 smol rock (makemake to mercury) 🌍 earth-like rock (mars upto a bit bigger) 🌕 super-rock 🔵 mini gas fren (neptune, uranus) 🪐 gas fren! (saturn, jupiter) 🟤 large gas fren!!!

🚨🚨🚨Alarming dismantling of support for fundamental science in the US🚨🚨🚨

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

The National Academies are seeking suggestions for experts to participate in a Congressionally mandated consensus study conducting a high-level assessment of current technical and scientific capabilities housed at #NASA GSFC Submit nominations by 24 April 2026 survey.alchemer.com/s3/8800415/A...

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Physics bachelors programs at Bowling Green, Kent State, Ohio U, and Wright State will be eliminated! ⚛️🧪🔭

🔭 I have a good problem for the Astro hive mind. I now have several “for funsies” undergrad projects that are turning into publishable work. With the cost of publishing being so high these days — can anyone recommend a reasonably reputable, refereed, free open source journal? Pros and cons?

Yeah, so this is why many astronomers are less than completely excited about the Artemis missions. (Which is not to detract from the courage and hard work of everyone who made Artemis II so successful! But we have to understand there are other motives involved than science and inspiration.)

Yeah that’s cool

#apod 2026-03-26 Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260326.html#apod

Our sweet collie almost got a field trip to work today because we both forgot he was in the car. 😅 We remembered to take him to doggie day care one intersection before getting on the highway.

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student at a college or university in Michigan? Outlier is looking for its next summer intern! Come work in our newsroom to assist with TXT OUTLIER, our text message service that delivers critical information to Detroiters. Interested? Apply by April 1:

Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.

This is the first time that a Concept Study has been killed due directly to the actions of the government that commissioned the study in the first place.

NASA’s next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed Did you think that the cuts to NASA made in 2025 had all been reversed, and everything is now fine? Think again. NASA's AXIS mission, on account of that 2025 bloodbath, is now dead. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #NASA #AXIS #Xray

really exciting work lead by Catriona Murray! TOI-3884 b is a planet on a polar orbit around an M dwarf. The transit has a persistent starspot crossing event. Using JWST, we measured the properties of the starspot and the Prot of the star 👀 arxiv.org/abs/2603.15414 🔭 #astronomy 🌟 #stellarastro

In this documentary by Ben Proudfoot, Jocelyn Bell Burnell tells her story about being raised as a Quaker, her struggle being the only woman in the room in STEM & how hard it was to pursue that path against the attitude that women were to be in the home. womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/03/i-ch...

Many things to say about X-ray astronomy right now but one quick comment on the quote unquote "smallness" of its community relative to optical astronomy: Optical astronomy is >>6,000 years old, X-ray astronomy is 60 years old. The size of a community is also a function of its age. (1/n)...

The gutting of NASA Goddard has had a devastating effect on high energy astrophysics. The AXIS probe mission proposal was rejected without review. (The Goddard X-ray mirror lab was significantly impacted by shutdowns and pressured retirements, against the congress approved budget for NASA.)

The @axisprobe.bsky.social team learned that the phase A concept study report of AXIS (the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite) will not be reviewed because the lost personnel at NASA Goddard and government shutdown impacted our schedule and budget. 🔭 Here is the PI's e-mail with the explanation.

What do a property speculator, a scrapyard operator and a former Packard Plant owner have in common? They have tax debt on Detroit properties that should have put them in foreclosure. We pressed Wayne County Treasurer Eric Sabree on how he decides who avoids foreclosure. No answers.

Little Red Dots xkcd.com/3212/

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

Two new #JWST images of the Cranium Nebula, one in the near-infrared (left) and one in the mid-infrared (right). The Cranium Nebula (or PMR 1) is 5,000 lightyears away. JWST's imaging capabilities reveal the intricate structure of shells of material being ejected from a dying star.

Thank you @gizmodo.com for covering this illegal actions by OMB. Full article: gizmodo.com/white-house-...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

We can look in shock at what was said & done a decade ago, but similar things are probably happening right now, and possibly right under our noses too - as wealthy individuals are becoming increasingly part of the science funding ecosystem for universities.

Indigenous communities nationwide are increasingly reporting encounters with immigration agents, including detention — despite them being U.S. citizens and members of sovereign tribal nations.

This x 10^6

Wow. 🤯

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...

Can’t stop thinking about the gargantuan gulf between the kid glove, caveat-laden, “having your name all over the Epstein files doesn’t mean you did anything wrong”-treatment of the men in Epstein’s inbox… and the brutalize first, ask questions later policing in Minneapolis.

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

#SaveNASA #NASAcuts The NY Times and other news outlets reported that GSFC decreased its workforce by 11%. This figure is misleading; the actual reduction was significantly higher. Here are at least two reasons why: 1- Timing of Retirements: These statistics are from November 2025, a 1/4

Funding opportunity! Check out this new program from NASA. Looking for PIs at smaller schools who want to collaborate with NASA scientists and researchers! science.nasa.gov/researchers/...

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On the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, we’re also remembering the life of fellow civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, who passed away on Tuesday at age 86.