WaPo burying the lede here on their otherwise informative analysis of the federal workforce. If Trump succeeds in making a 25% cut to the federal workforce, that makes less than a 1% cut to federal spending. Why? Because most federal spending is in grants or contracts going to people or companies.

This is for any other Xennials out there: I always thought the mid-life crisis was supposed to be a personal thing, not a national or global thing. Was I wrong? 🤔

Finally deleted my dormant X account. Now the right wing trolls are in charge of my real life so I don’t need to experience it online.

Fully concur with @emily.space. @esa.int ‘s Gaia mission has been transformative & a triumph for #openscience. Kudos & gratitude to my colleagues at the agency and to the whole Gaia data consortium for stellar work 💫✨🔭

Horrified at the news out of LA and the devastation in Altadena in particular. I always stayed there during my many visits to JPL and enjoyed running through the hilly streets and sampling many of the great shops and eateries. Keeping my JPL colleagues in my thoughts.

Happy 113th birthday to #FairNewMexico, my beloved home state. Photo is one I took of chimney rock above Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu with Cerro Pedernal in the background

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Astronomer: Actually we’re not sure if it is a real gap in my resume or whether we just haven’t yet discovered what I did during that time. We’re going to need a bigger telescope to find out. 🔭

Impressive results from MeerKAT PTA with just 4.5yrs of data!

Nine years ago today: ESA launches LISA Pathfinder, a mission to demonstrate key technology for LISA. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work this mission through operations and analysis. A great spacecraft and a great team put us in position to make LISA happen.

Hi, I’m a gravitational wave astronomer. My greatest hits include “opening a new window on the universe”, “Einstein was right”, and the Christmas multimessenger song “do you see what I hear?”

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For any US-based #LISA researchers who may be out there, NASA is running another round of the LISA Preparatory Science program to build capability to leverage LISA science. NoIs are due Jan 17th and we've posted a list of "science gaps" to help inspire proposals. nspires.nasaprs.com/external/sol...

I have a long flight coming up today and I’m bored. Let’s do this. What’s a question about gravitational waves and/or black holes that you always wanted to ask? 🔭

Quick trip to Ocean City, MD to visit family for Thanksgiving. Enjoyed a peaceful day at Assateague Island National seashore which was good for the soul. My crazy kids even went swimming in the ocean despite the cold temps.

Some semi-recent progress on our LISA work at NASA Goddard. We took delivery of a prototype telescope for LISA back in May. This telescope isn't used to take pictures, it's used to transmit laser beams across the 2.5 million kilometer LISA constellation. science.nasa.gov/missions/lis...

One of the best things about doing science at NASA is the opportunity to work with science communicators who are absolute pros and help you tell your story. www.nasa.gov/podcasts/cur...

[1/?] To mark the occasion of my 500th follower, which seems really strange given that I have made exactly one post on this platform since making an account about 18mo ago, I wanted to briefly introduce myself to the community.

Whelp. Here we go with Bluesky