It is all-the-way winter in Michigan.

Copy-pasting @sciguyspace.bsky.social's post from TheBadSite to spread the message here. I entirely agree with Eric's second point: the space community has been suffering from the lack of stable leadership at NASA. [cont'd]

Happy Thanksgiving! Gotta calm the nerves during halftime #GoLions

I wish I could take credit for this, but yeah nuttin' but clouds up here in MI #NoAurora #Sad #WeatherCanEatMyButt

This storm is highlighting our lack of capability. Our two spacecraft capable of real-time solar wind monitoring are struggling. ACE's plasma detector is giving clearly WRONG data, while DSCOVR is known to give unreliable values. SWFO, hurry up!

This looks like it could be a big one! Look to the skies this evening.... But now that I've said that, I've jinxed it.

Jaw has been on the floor for the past 10 minutes now...

HOLY CRAP THIS SPACE WEATHER STORM LOOKS REAL AF.

Little dude loves his head rubs

When you feel political cartoonists have been working too hard and deserve something easy as a treat

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Periodic reminder that it is useful to always keep your CV/Resume up to date. Not sure where to start? Here's a template passed on to me during my graduate school years, and I've modified it based on feedback from others. Feel free to use and share! open.substack.com/pub/plasmane... #CV #Resume

Greatly enjoyed this seminar by Dr. Jesse Woodroffe. Some human-space environment effects discussed that I hadn't thought about at all, including human-generated VLF radio signals being detected in space and potentially scattering particles! events.umich.edu/event/136477

I am *very* excited for SWFO. High quality, real-time L1 data is the current cornerstone of space weather monitoring, and we've been struggling with that recently.

AND... WE HAVE LIFTOFF of NOAA’s #SWFOL1 satellite, riding along with NASA.gov's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (#IMAP) and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory! More about SWFO-L1: noaa.gov/SWFOL1 #LetsGoSWFO!

I'm about to get my COVID vaccine. Can't wait to go out and start a fight with the first COVID I see

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

look at my FBI director dawg we are never finding this man

Hell yeah the first talk at an IEEE meeting is about space weather.

Kicking off an international conference in Italy by listening to warnings about travel complications in the host nation of the next meeting: the United States. We're being warned about searches, visa problems, and other actions that visitors may be subjected to while in the US. This sucks.

When my students don't know the word "cromulent"

Very unfortunate storm in the end. The magnetic field of the storm was predominantly northward- meaning it could not effectively transmit energy to the Earth system, preventing the aurora from moving southward. BOOOO!

Isle Royal (very near Canada!) is showing some color, but it's pretty diffuse right now. The storm isn't cooperating for us mid-latitude/lower Michigan folks right now. :( www.nps.gov/isro/learn/p...

Storm is here! Solar wind speed is ~675 which might not be enough to push things south enough for us Michiganders. Magnetic field is yet to cooperate, but it's still early...

YES! Now before we all start reposting pseudo science craziness, let's get some speed estimates and remember that southward oriented magnetic field is important for creating aurora (and other "fun" effects) at Earth. In other words, it's going to be a bit before we know if we should be excited.

Today was a good day. for running.

Just found out that Tohru Araki passed away. His work on storm sudden impulses was very important to me; I was lucky enough to meet him at a conference. Sad to see that he is no longer with us. :(

feeling vulnerable and deep (why am I spending twenty minutes convincing ChatGPT to read a long and oddly formatted table instead of typing it into excel myself)

"Hurling dildos at WNBA players had a very particular message: You may think you are elite athletes, but to us you are still here to be mocked & sexualized & demeaned. And when Don Jr. posted that image to his 9.7 million followers, he was saying *That’s what I think of you too, and so does my dad*"

the internet always made you stupid but this is like weaponised stupid

This is super bad. Space weather monitoring, forecasting, and threat mitigation have been a national priority under the previous THREE administrations. Under this one, DSCOVR was deactivated for unknown reasons. Now, we have lost our ability to monitor the solar wind for who knows how long.

Holy crap twitter sucks rocks.

well shit

I think most people severely underestimated how much fascism and kleptocracy would triumph through the surrender and default of forces that should have opposed it.

The Onion is kicking it up to 11 lately.

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

BOOM! X1.9 flare from AR 4114 happening NOW! Will we see a CME? That is the question everyone must be asking right now... let's wait and find out! #heliophysics

Tonight, I'll be at Ann Arbor's Top of the Park festival talking about space. Specifically, that we shouldn't think of space as a perfect vacuum. There's so much going on in terms of gasses, plasmas, and magnetic & electric fields that can't be ignored! www.a2sf.org/events/nerd-...

A team lead for a project I work on just called a meeting to tell us he is resigning and leaving the U.S. He is an immigrant who got his PhD in the U.S. and was now contributing to NASA science projects and helping our nation achieve space weather goals. And now he's gone. For what?

Breaking space news: We have made our own solar eclipse in space! 🌘 Today, we release the first images from our Proba-3 mission, which flies two spacecraft in precise formation to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit. Learn more ➡️ www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

Trump’s unhappy. But not unhappy enough.

Holy crap. Never change, AA.

Lord, I know I am not perfect. I know I stray from Your will. I know I fail every day to earn Your grace. But if You let Donald Trump sue Elon Musk for defamation I will clean up my act and do everything I can to glorify you. No monkey’s paw stuff please; I want to be able to cover it too.

STOMPIN' INTO A NEW WEEK WITH MORE NASA UNCERTAINTY THAN LAST WEEK! YEEEEHAW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXB...

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

Daughter-unit registering for Calc 2: "I picked this instructor. The other instructor had slightly higher ratings, but also says, 'there's no crying in calc'. That's not what I need." I can confirm that sometimes, there is crying in calc.

This is a must read. Civil servants are people, people who have a passion for helping the country where they work. They often work long hours for pay less than they could make elsewhere. They are driven by purpose of service. They do not deserve this. wapo.st/3GWKK5k