Did some art based off a LANDSAT image of a glacier in Banff. This is acrylic gouache on a 6"x6" wooden panel. #sciart

North St Pats at Steamboat Springs maxinehartnett.com/gallery/fine... In honor of the best run I took last season while skiing!

Have you ever looked at a science file format and thought "wow, I wish I had some kind of kitschy t-shirt to talk about how much I love this? Well, good news. maxineh.threadless.com/designs/vint...

Check out this crazy mosaic image of the auroral oval from space on the night of Nov 11-12! You an can see just how extended the oval was due to the impressive solar storm that impacted and delivered a G4 (Kp 9-) geomagnetic storm - the third strongest of solar cycle 25!

While in San Antonio for DASH 2025, I got the opportunity to sit and do some plein air painting (or, as maybe we should call it in space science, in situ painting!)

Here is a view of today’s eruption from the Sun, currently en route to Earth. You can see a full ‘halo’ in the data, indicating the plasma is coming our way. You can also see the ‘fuzzy snow’ in the images, caused by particles from the solar flare hitting the camera!

uv makes installing and using Python *so* easy! It works on pretty much any computer and it's lightning fast. 🔭☄️ #astrocode If you're still using conda, pyenv, or... basically any other tool, then I can *highly* recommend switching:

We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR. It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

🤩🤩🤩 "I once believed love would be burning red...but its golden. Like daylight..." -Taylor Swift

🚀 IMAP has launched! When it reaches its orbit 1 million miles from Earth, IMAP will study the Sun, including the LASP-built IDEX instrument that will study interstellar dust. Huge thanks to our partners and the LASP mission team. No one gets to space alone. Congrats, IMAP team! 📸 NASA/LASP

If you write software for heliophysics - there is still travel funding available for DASH, the conference on Data, Analysis, and Software in Heliophysics. Apply and come talk about software! dash2025.space.swri.edu

Since I'm going to the IMAP launch in September, I want to make some stickers to give out (like I did at AGU) with a limited edition launch only sticker. Here's what I came up with - was sort of aiming for "so bad it's good" but actually I think it might just be .. cute? #sciart

I'm starting work on Libera this week. It took a lot of googling to figure out that it's going to be attached to a satellite called JPSS, which made me feel bad, until I talked to my brother and he told me that...

Apparently today is World Embroidery Day! So please enjoy my version of the Wonders of the Night Sky, cross stitch and embroidery on navy Aida fabric, pattern by Climbing Goat Designs 🧶 🔭

I appreciate the discussion of CMEs and X-class flares in the new season of strange new worlds

The House Appropriations Committee markup is the next step in the process to Save American Science. I detailed the devastating nature of the cuts the president proposed here: bsky.app/profile/emex...

Trying something different today #art #watercolors #watercolor #tradart #mountain #mountains

I just discovered these last week inside the frame files I was using and I am definitely obsessed. So delightful!

Since I work on IMAP on the software side only, I don't get to interact directly with instruments or the spacecraft. This is my way of learning more about it and admiring the people who do get to get hands on! #sciart 🧪☀️

This is a painting of the ULTRA instrument launching on IMAP soon. It will image energetic particles from the edge of the solar system to study how the solar wind interacts with interstellar space. Part of my IMAP series where I do studies of the spacecraft and the people building it. #IMAPMission

3/3 But this is still an encouraging early sign that Congress (or at least a bipartisan committee in the Senate) DOES NOT WANT TO SLASH SCIENCE FUNDING. But we also need to keep up the pressure too!!! So continue calling your reps especially if you're in an appropriations state or district.

Read this. And then call your Senator and tell them to save NASA science. www.planetary.org/articles/sci...

Playlist for being a US scientist rn: Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads American Idiot by Green Day Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen The Writings on the Wall by OK Go I Bet on Losing Dogs by Mitski Hard Times by Paramore All Things End by Hozier

I did this watercolor based off a plein air piece I did last year. When I finished, I opened up another block of paper and found a 90% finished painting of the same scene. The problem is I like this version better! Should I finish the worse iteration and give one away...? Not sure. Vail, CO

The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

NASA budget is very dire. It would cancel/indefinitely pause 3 of the missions that my team is running (including MMS and MAVEN). The two missions I'm on will survive at full budget, but that would pretty much have my career dead in the water once they end in mid 2026 unless a miracle happens...

Each of us needs to find that peaceful center, that happy place, where we can be our best selves.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Proposed NASA cuts in context, courtesy of the Planetary Society #astronomy #science

A piece about the current state of science funding in the US, long-running datasets which use multiple generations of satellites, and Excalibur. Pictured is one of the GOES satellites, a joint NOAA/NASA mission for long running Earth observation using many different satellites. #sciart #nasa #noaa

Three years ago I sneakily painted my first planet in watercolour at work.🤭🤭 Did you know a year on Mercury is only 88 days?!🤯 🔭🐡🧪 #SpaceArt

Digital Painting Study 🎨 : Pride and Prejudice 2005 (20th Anniversary) “I'm very fond of walking.” “Yes... yes I know.”

A piece about the current state of science funding in the US, long-running datasets which use multiple generations of satellites, and Excalibur. Pictured is one of the GOES satellites, a joint NOAA/NASA mission for long running Earth observation using many different satellites. #sciart #nasa #noaa

#BlueSkyArtShow #Earth #Photography Garden of the Gods, Colorado

Astoundingly, my dog still smells faintly of skunk when she gets wet. It's been 5 months! And she is a greyhound, there isn't much fur!

New blog! Been curious about how i created these posters and worked with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social to launch a campaign to spread seeds around Philadelphia? I talk about paper choice, my favorite pencils and erasers, and how you can launch your OWN seed-sharing campaign. Link in bio

Made a new block print to decorate my cube with

I'm putting a tariff on the word "tariff"! Hooked up an arcade dispenser to give me a ticket every time that god-forsaken word shows up on my computer screen. 20 tickets == 1 beer

Flower parade in the Netherlands today... @esa.int with a great show, Ariane 6 rocket 🚀

Here's one way you can fight for NASA science: contacting your representatives using this tool from the Planetary Society. www.planetary.org/advocacy-act... 2/2

It's impossible to overestimate how damaging this would be for everything from routine weather forecasting, to modeling and tracking hurricanes, to preparing for climate change. Every American will be worse off if this happens. For decades to come. (Gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/c...

Quick piece of #sciart for the HIT instrument on IMAP!

Call your reps! Script (heliophysics focused, easy to adapt if you want) ➡️ solarnews.aas.org/2025/a-call-...

Just a little birthday card for a friend :)

📷 This week's #EarthFromSpace is a #Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of part of one of the world’s natural wonders – the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Queensland, #Australia 🧪🌏 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

‘Sound’ (loud sound), ‘sound’ (safe and sound), and ‘sound’ (water) are not related. ‘Sound’ (loud) comes from Latin ‘sonus.’ ‘Sound’ (safe and) comes from Old English ‘gesund,’ meaning "healthy." ‘Sound’ (water) comes from Old Norse ‘sund,’ meaning “strait."

Boss today invited me onto a project and was talking about how I am the senior expert and the right person for the job etc etc and it was very scary. I could feel imposter syndrome stalking me like a jaguar or perhaps a hawk of some sort

Imagine the guy auditing you is like ok now let's take a break. And look at my daughters presentation on data processing.

My students gave presentations at a conference this week, and one of them said her dad was so proud that he paused his audit of BoA to make them all look at her presentation 😭