I've been MIA here for a bit, so maybe I missed it if someone else proposed it. What about a virtual, open, social media centered Alt-LPSC? Come up with a hashtag, encourage planetary scientists to share images, videos, or text about their current research projects. All free and open to all.

Where is alt-LPSC going to be?

Announcing a NEW workshop from myself and @jagrier.bsky.social EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE LEADERSHIP: A NEW WORKSHOP ON STRATEGIES FOR UNLOCKING INDIVIDUAL POTENTIAL August 18-20, 2025, 4 hours daily, 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm EST (entirely virtual) workforce.psi.edu/leadership/

Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Links to register to all our events! www.blackinastro.com/black-space-...

This table was downloaded on Feb 21 when ROSES 2025 was published and public for a few hours before being taken down for revision of 'EO compliance'. Late items marked in red. Due dates less than 60 days off marked in yellow. This will be updated as more due dates are missed.

ROSES 2025 is now 67 days late. And counting.

NASA has closed its chief science office, its technology/policy/strategy office, and the DEI branch of its equal opportunity office. 23 people have been fired, per a HQ spokesperson.

There are lots of BIG emotions during this week of the annual LPSC meeting. Some folks are there and wondering if it will be their last time. Some are not there due to government regulations. Some are not there due to the dangerous actions of the Texas government. #LPSC2025 #PlanetaryScience

A group of planetary scientists, who have served as co-chair of the former Cross-AG EDIA Working group, has written an open letter on "The value of EDIA to planetary science" sites.google.com/view/the-val.... Please co-sign the letter if you agree that EDIA efforts make for better science.

The US risks diminishing its hard-won advantages when it undermines its investment in national institutions and strips them of their people and resources, writes Janet Vertesi. As the moonshot teaches us, building up is much harder than tearing down. www.techpolicy.press/invigorating...

Fascinating and well-researched article about the interaction of money and knowledge at NASA. Bottom line: You can loose knowledge if you cut NASA too much. (Example: we had to relearn how to get to the moon.) I'd bet that this applies to other government agencies.

I started to do a back up of AG documents that have been purged here: planettreky.com/documents/ I will also post other planetary documents and resources as I find them. #PlanetaryScience

From the CHOIR collaboration: To stand with our community in physics, astronomy, & planetary science affected by the federal grant funding freeze we (choir, Black in Astro, Astro Poverty Survey, Movement Consulting) have organized a mutual aid initiative. www.choircollaboration.com/mutual-aid 🔭🧪

Some folx have only realized the extent of this crisis now that their own science is at stake. I'm glad these colleagues have mobilized, but I doubt they realize the key to ending this crisis *forever* is to center our most vulnerable members. 🧵 #standupforscience2025 #academicsky #sciencesky 🧪🔭😷👩‍🦽⚛️🏳️‍🌈

Given how many individual careers in American science have been delayed, ruined, or just made much harder than they should be due to insecure misogynist twerps, it would somehow make sense for the entire enterprise of American science to face the same at the hands of an insecure misogynist twerp.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

This is a letter I did not want to write. There is a WWII-era saying: “If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.” If you voted for #Trump, you are a #Nazi. brandy-schillace.medium.com/the-letter-b...

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

“It feels like a betrayal by NASA....It’s inefficient, it’s wasteful, and it’s also just messed up.” This is how scientists inside and outside the agency are feelings about the cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Words by me: 🧪

"Gender bias in the workplace can be particularly evident in STEM disciplines where systemic biases and barriers impact the career progression of women and often lead to a lack of retention of qualified women within organisations and research institutions." #WomenInSTEM

Seeing reports that the traitors and spies have infiltrated NASA HQ… Send your favorite, second-favorite, and least-favorite (but not maga) NASA HQ employees love and hugs today.

Trump and the GOP are in a full-out war against science. I have a lot to say about that. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-attack... 🧪 🔭

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

Elon Musk's DOGE team gained access to NASA today. Musk is the CEO of SpaceX, which is NASA's largest private contractor. This is a MAJOR conflict of interest. Let's talk about it👇

Once again, why I hate that fucking poem. They come for anybody, we show up for anybody, it’s actually much simpler. Welp.

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

I've signed. 🧪🔭

ICYMI: I talked to federal employees across eight agencies about the internal chaos they're experiencing because of Trump/Musk and how they feel going forward in their jobs. A clear theme? They are scared -- and also pissed and digging in for a fight. "Fuck that." www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...

Please for the love of all that is good, DO NOT PREEMPTIVLEY COMPLY. If you are not a civil servant and are shutting down the resource bank, website etc. etc. you run on non-gov servers bc its DEIA related or adjacent - do not shut it down. You are literally making their jobs easier.

Some of the people that lost their homes in Altadena, will be living in their cars or tents 6 months from now, with the few possessions that they could save. If tomorrow, I cited them for sleeping in public, and then threw the rest of their stuff away? You'd call me evil! But in 6 months? Sweep!

Porcini mushrooms are the best mushrooms.

THIS IS HOW THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR WE CAN BECOME THE FUTURE FOR EACH OTHER We just look for ways to show up for one another. What do I have that I can offer? What do you have that you can offer? How can we come together over here, over there, and over there too?

NASA: Here's our metric that we are measuring. Here's a plot showing that we failed to meet this metric. But, there are reasons why this plot is wrong and why we can't measure what we actually should be.

First talk today at #OPAG is Bob Pappalardo and Jordan Evans with a EUROPA CLIPPER update. Launch was successful! Mars flyby on 3/1/25, E-THEMIS will get data If you are interested in doing ground-based observations to support Clipper, contact Bonnie Burratti

Now that there are more folks on BlueSky, I was thinking about restarting the live tweeting of meetings that I used to do on that other bird site. #OPAG is this week, but I am so out of practice!

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Next #OPAG presentation is about R&A by Henry Throop.

Attending #opag in Ithaca today, so let's try sharing. Hearing now from Eric Ianson the deputy director of NASA Planetary Science Division (PSD). Uranus mission is scheduled to start in 2027.

Hey scientists, don’t use AI generated artwork. Hire an artist. #OPAG2023

In 2015-2016, my kids attended Hand in Hand in Jerusalem, 1 of 6 Hebrew/Arabic schools working to create shared Jewish/Palestinian society. It was also the year of "Intifada of the Individuals,"— stabbing attacks & car rammings, on avg 3x day for a bit. Here's some of what I learned from the best:

Next up at #DPSEPSC2023 is Robert Salcido of the San Antonio Pride Center.

Madeline Pettine—Juno’s polar orbit gives unique views of Io that enable global mapping of infrared volcanic emission. They find that the heat flow doesn’t match tidal heating models particularly well. #TeamIo #DPSEPSC2023

Ishi Shah—ground-based IRTF observations of Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, provide an opportunity to monitor Io’s dynamic volcanic activity. Eruptions ongoing at Kanehekili and Janus, quiet at Loki. #TeamIo #DPSEPSC2023

Always gives me a little thrill to see a scientist using a graphic I made to give context to their presentation. Especially when it’s someone as eminent as Bill McKinnon, who’s receiving the Kuiper (career) prize at #DPSEPSC2023

Is this thing on? Where are the Planetary folks? Anyway, I'll try live-blogging parts of #DPS2023, especially the EDIA sessions.

Still trying to catch up with the planetary science group on here. Please share this! Workshop on EDIA for Leaders in Planetary Science #EDIALPS co-led by myself and JA Grier October 23-25, 2023 More information at edialps.psi.edu

OK, who else on this here site is going to #DPS2023? aas.org/meetings/dps55

Good Morning IRTF. It's been a while. I hope I remember how to use this camera. Thankfully, my graduate student takes better notes than I do. So far, everything thing I've needed I found that she'd written down.