Silly @texasdemocrats.bsky.social — y’all should know you’re only allowed to skip town to block votes when you’re covering up for powerful pedophile rings, not when you’re trying to save democracy.

We’re starting to think it was never about protecting kids

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

ALL CAPS THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ... GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

I am one of those younger astronomers, lolololol 🌊

Happy #BlackSpaceWeek to all those who celebrate!! As per usual, we’re starting off with our roll call. If you’re a Black person who does Space-related things, introduce yourself and tell us what cool things you do using the hashtag #BSW2025

Reporting by @astrobites.bsky.social on the impact of the proposed US budget on astronomy astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b... by @skylargrayson.bsky.social 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

The 2025 #NASA astrophysics senior review report is public. "Every mission received the highest possible rating for... scientific return", & are "producing important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner". Some important screenshots: assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/...

🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨 Good morning!! It’s easy in these times to feel like the problems are big and we are small. Trump is relying on us to give in to that feeling. But there are steps we can take — in coalition. Please help us save cosmic science ♥️ 🔭🧪⚛️ more of my thoughts on this here:

NASA, the NSF, and scientific research as a whole is under attack under the guise of “money-saving” that will actually explode the deficit and US debt, all while ruining society’s understanding of the world around us and cost people their livelihoods. Read this overview of the proposals 🔭☄️🧪

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

NRAO is listed as being hit with a 34.2% cut. Funding to the Green Bank Observatory would be cut by 68.6%, which would be absolutely cataclysmic.

"Why should my tax dollars go to fund your astrophysics research?" A thread. 🔭🧪 Brushing aside how absurdly little of the federal budget goes to science (according to the Planetary Society NASA accounts for only 0.3% of federal spending), the benefits of funding astronomy fall into two camps. (1/n)

There is zero ZEROOO doubt in my mind that AI cults are going to be huge. I don't mean, like, "I LOVE AI SAM ALTMAN IS SENPAI" I mean like, "I have used AI to tap into the deep secrets of the ancient, forgotten texts that tell the future and it tells me that /you/ have been /chosen/...to follow me."

Target-rich environment, this speech. 1/n

Then die t.co/2tcDvU4yDr

My sympathy and support for all the international students and postdocs at Harvard. I can only imagine how scary this must feel. Stay strong. And if there's anything I can do to help those in compbio, please reach out. All of us need to rally to help them out. 1/

This is especially important: “We call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students, including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes.”

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Latest Guardian column:

Excellent visualizations in this article illustrating how rich tech dudes have tentacles in all the places that would otherwise be holding them accountable. Here are main figures of you do not have subscription

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Also references to “learning our language” ignores the fact that there are multiple indigenous languages across the UK…

What's the messaging in the fight for science? It's that billionaires want to defund pediatric cancer research so they don't have to pay their fair share of taxes. #standupforscience #sciencenotsilence

A colleague who’s an astronomer in the USA just got this from LinkedIn in case anyone wants to know how things are going lately 🥴 🔭🧪

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The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning. 👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

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

Just looking into the NASA FY2026 Request - anyone else notice that $2.2 BILLION is being cut from space science... ...in order to "put a MAN on Mars"??? They're not even trying to hide their sexism anymore. 🔭🧪#academicsky www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...

Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

From Skylar Grayson/Cole Meldorf/Abby Lee/Drew Lapeer/Catherine Slaughter: NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready for launch, put tens of thousands out of jobs, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask Congress to prevent this! astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...

Wnaeth Llafur chwerthin ar Blaid Cymru pan ddywedon ni y dylen nhw feddwl am wladoli'r gwaith dur ym Mhort Talbot - ond mae hyn bellach yn ddigon da i Scunthorpe. Pam nad oedd hi'n werth ymladd dros swyddi Cymru? Dim ond Plaid Cymru sy'n sefyll fyny dros Gymru. ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Dros y penwythnos, ennillais gwobr am y cyflwyniad gorau gan myfyriwr PhD mewn cyfarfod am waith ymchwil disgyrchiant yn Mississippi. Mae o'n wobr breintiedig a dwi'n llawn cyffro i'w hennill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #gwyddoniaeth #cymraeg #yagym

AHHHHH! I won the award for @dgrav.org Best Student Presentation at the Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting this weekend in UMiss, Oxford MS 🏆 I didn't get a photo at the meeting, but here's a photo of me giving an earlier draft of this presentation at @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Physics Meeting 🔭🧪

new from Anavi at @astrobites.bsky.social !! esp. important today ! 🧪🔭☄️

The ionosphere is cool. But you know what is cooler? Well, we can use smartphones to measure the temporal and spatial variations in our ionosphere caused by solar activity. Made a little vid for @spaceaustralia.com Read the article here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm... #SpaceAustralia 🔭☄️

In all seriousness, it’s ridiculous that this wasn’t on the table when it came to Wales.

From Astrobites: There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2025 and provided some “peer review”. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/04/03/a...

Why the world feels so broken and how we fix it:

"The system" is a thing we create to organise ourselves. We should rule it, not the other way round. Systems can be changed, because they are human inventions. All of us can make our corner of "the system" better, more empathetic, greener. Progress comes by valuing the humans above the system.

aurorae on neptune ????? space is so cool

A decision I find hard to understand. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you're my age then you grew up during the 90s and you probably remember what a fucking sewer it was, the Loaded magazine era of, amongst other things, misogyny and casual, relentless homophobia. I wish I could say this survey is unexpected, but I don't think it is.

This is the coolest and funniest astronomy story I've heard in a long time 🔭☄️🧪

It's been a long time coming... the paper I led on GRB 221009A was recently accepted for publication by ApJ ! : ) Check out this poster I made for the project for the upcoming 'Celebrating 20 Years of Swift Discoveries' Conference !! 🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro #womeninSTEM

Astrobiters at #APS2025! 🪐🔭 Just @briles34.bsky.social and myself hanging out with the puppies in the Exhibit Hall! A big thanks to @apsphysics.bsky.social for supporting our work at @astrobites.bsky.social