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.

Our story: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean. Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone." Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)

The dinosaur extinction event is my personal unit for getting a sense of astronomical time. For instance, if the local bubble formed 1-2 Myr ago, that’s After Dinos = very recent!!

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Viola Fletcher, one of the last two known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit seeking reparations for the attack — one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history — has died. She was 111.

Gender-affirming care saves lives

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

We will not forget who enabled fascism in the United States.

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.