Science is under attack, and it can't defend itself. That's why we are rallying NATIONWIDE this SATURDAY, MARCH 7th to TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE!!! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally, volunteer, register to host a rally or a pop-up protest! It's time to Stand Up for Science!

So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

Trump sent our servicemembers into a war of choice from his beach club in Florida. With no clear objectives or any sense of an endgame. And without any authorization from Congress—no public hearings, no justification to the American people. I will vote to end this war.

Just checked back on ASF Vertex Portal ... NISAR data now more widely available - up to 109,261 files. Including more data over tectonic regions of Europe/ Near East @ericjfielding.bsky.social @geoandyhooper.bsky.social @uk-comet.bsky.social @richardthomasw.bsky.social @timwrightleeds.bsky.social

I find myself slightly suprised to be recommending a video from the Norwegian Consumer Council, but it's bloody good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

NASA has started releasing over 100,000 NISAR L-band level 1 to level 3 data products for a wide variety of sites. This data is uncalibrated and preliminary but includes up to 3 months of scenes in some places. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/nisar-r...

⚒️ 🧪 A M5.3 earthquake struck western Bangladesh earlier today. The USGS estimates that more than 150 million people in this densely populated delta experienced at least intensity IV shaking. What do we know about this earthquake, and the geology that caused it?

"Private money cannot replace public funding of science" Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day today is NISAR images acquired before and after the magnitude 7 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake in Yukon near the border with Alaska. It shows the huge number of landslides and avalanches in the mountains triggered by the earhtquake science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Horrified by the news that Carl Grillmair of IPAC/Caltech has been murdered

The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) has a great guide for using the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) data (see below). The 25 NISAR Sample products were released in January, and a much larger set of preliminary products will be released at the end of February. nisar-docs.asf.alaska.edu

During each eruption at #Kīlauea, this technique provides an important tool for HVO scientists. Preliminary results from episodes that span from mid-Jan. 2025 to early July 2025 show that magmas came from ~1 mile (1.5 km) beneath the surface, the location of the shallow Halema’uma’u magma chamber.

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering. https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d

Fitting that the Guardian Story about the new massive cuts 2 UK astronomy has an image of 1 of the Gemini telescopes in instead of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The UK's access 2 Gemini Obs was severed with the last set of massive cuts to the blue sky research. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

This 4.5-minute video gives a great explanation about the new use of AI assistance to improve efficiency of planning drives by the NASA Perseverance rover on Mars. The Mars Guy YouTube channel has excellent informative videos every week. #MarsGuy #NASA #JPL #Mars youtube.com/watch?v=wubO...

Just an incredible and unusual landslide at Niscemi, Sicily, Italy, as captured by @planet.com SuperDove satellites 🧪⚒️🛰️

A massive landslide has occurred in SE Sicily, likely due to excessive rainfall from Storm Harry www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... May make a good test case to determine NISAR capabilities. Could region be included in Feb 2026 release ? @ericjfielding.bsky.social @gfun.earth @rowenalohman.bsky.social

How to Download and Visualize NASA-ISRO NISAR Data in QGIS | Step-by-Step Tutorial Learn how to download and visualize NASA-ISRO NISAR SAR satellite data in QGIS without coding! This complete tutorial shows you how to use the NASA Earthdata plugin for QGIS to access powerful SAR data.

Another great way to to access #NISAR data from QGIS - this new plugin from @giswqs.bsky.social (h/t @jotatx.bsky.social) Given the file size of some of the #NISAR products we'll still better ways to subset information. @ericjfielding.bsky.social @gfun.earth @richardthomasw.bsky.social

Sample data from the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) L-band imaging radar is now available from the NASA EarthData system. These are preliminary products with some caveats but include an interferogram for the November 2025 volcanic eruption in Ethiopia. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/nisar-s...

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Congratulations to Cal Poly and Cal Poly Pomona students for taking the top award at this year’s Rose Parade! California is home to some of the greatest colleges and universities in the world, and I applaud these students’ ingenuity and creativity.

Falcon 9 upper stage second burn complete at T+52:23, about 4 min ahead of the press kit timeline

Pandora was selected as a part of NASA's inaugural class of Pioneers missions. This is a $20M cost cap program meant to do new and exciting science for a fraction of the price of a flagship mission. See the initial press release from selection here! science.nasa.gov/astrophysics...

Yay! Dr. Tanya Atwater finally getting public credit for her (very big) role in the plate tectonics revolution.

When spacecraft fail, what happens? Mars Guy explores the Maven mission's unexpected rotation and potential fiery end. Episode 248 / 4th January, 2026

WTF. Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or THROWN OUT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.

*This* is what the people of Pompeii, and Herculaneum, and many other hapless souls saw—this is what a pyroclastic density current looks coming RIGHT at you. Filmed from a CCTV camera during the Mount Semeru eruption on Java, Indonesia on 4 December 2022. Video credit: PT United Tractors Tbk

Several NASA projects are testing new ways to explore Mars. Death Valley sand dunes were used to test automatic navigation of drones over featurelesss areas of sand. www.nasa.gov/solar-system...

HiRISE Image of Exocomet 3I/ATLAS! On 2 October 2025, MRO turned away from Mars to image 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar system! https://www.uahirise.org/releases/3i-atlas/

“Space Waste” – New Reports Underscore Impacts from Satellite, Rocket Body Reentries as an “Uncontrolled experiment” www.leonarddavid.com/space-waste-...

Aurora's back at it Wednesday early evening at Poker Flats northeast of Fairbanks (65ºN). #akwx #Aurora @carrieinfbx.bsky.social @alaskannah.bsky.social @akskierken.bsky.social

Our National Parks are our “crown jewels.” Just one expert was plugging abandoned mines that leak methane and oil into these lands — until this administration let him go. Their reckless cuts endanger Americans and create a new public health crisis.

FYI @rookisaacman.bsky.social is NOT an account run by Jared Isaacman or anyone associated with him. Yes, I checked.

This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start. Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!

JVL and Sarah Longwell take on the absurd “Sandwich Guy” trial: "Got the officer up there talking about how he felt the impact through his ballistic vest and there were onions and mustard everywhere. And the jury looked at this and said: get the fuck out of here." www.thebulwark.com/p/jury-acqui...

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

Hurricane Melissa developed into a major Category 5 hurricane and is poised to make landfall in Jamaica overnight, where catastrophic damage is expected, according to the US National Hurricane Center's forecast. Follow for the latest maps and forecasts reut.rs/3LbNFck

The Landsat 4 remote sensing satellite was launched by NASA in 1982 and later operated by the commercial company EOSAT for NOAA and USGS until it was retired in 2001. It reentered over the China-Vietnam border area on Oct 8.

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet. The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

No Avi, that Perseverance Navcam picture you posted isn't showing 3I/Atlas, it's just Phobos, the brighter one of Mars' moons. If you were even half the expert you think you are, this possibility should have been quite obvious and worth mentioning.

This is complete and utter pompous bullshit. It's telling that of the people proposing it wants to anoint themselves director general when every one of his claims of having discovered technosignature interstellar objects has been debunked by the planetary community. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01405

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from. Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.

The government shutdown will halt some federal research at agencies already struggling with staff and funding cuts 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

The first NISAR (NASA-ISRO SAR) L-band radar images now released! Early images acquired before NISAR reached the final science orbit. The mountains of Mount Desert Island in Maine, USA, are beautiful. I first visited Mount Desert Island with my family when I was small. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

NASA’s Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing (OPERA) project released the Troposphere Zenith Radar Delays (TROPO) dataset that allows InSAR users to reduce effects of atmospheric propagation delays for improved measurement of ground motion. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/nasas-o...