“In the longer term, it’s the loss of capability, the ability to make these observations, because, like many things, it’s much easier to break than it is to reconstitute." CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati shares the impacts of the NOAA funding pause in @thehill.com ⬇️ thehill.com/policy/energ...

Trail walk with the woodpeckers tonight. All kinds. Plus the views

As a #scicomm scholar, my favorite part of the #artemis coverage is how it humanized science. This crew showed up to this mission with their entire selves, reminding us that scientists aren’t just weird recluses who exist only in labs and ivory towers 💚

Cats are great if you wanna see the contents of an animal's stomach without special equipment

“Tell the world... to keep this energy going. Let's invest in togetherness.” ~Victor Glover, Artemis II crew member

me watching them crack open the side hatch of integrity: i know it smells crazy in there

I'm moonscrolling

Did you hear or feel the sonic boom from the Artemis II reentry? Fill out a “Did You Feel It?” report! It will say earthquake but fill it out for the boom. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??” SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.

Hello. I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”. youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8

It's why we talk about genAI as a labor problem. 99% of all problems that genAI "solves" is just "hire more people and pay them a liveable wage."

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“To do so, OMB is using an obscure part of the budget process called apportionments to murder the program through small cuts — though rather than a thousand cuts, in this case it only takes five.” Apportionment is happening at many agencies, including NOAA. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/this-is-wh...

Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse. It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

Last nights trail walk yielded 2 pileated woodpeckers and a fox, while todays trail walk featured a bald eagle. twas a wonderful escape from fake All Apocalypse eve.

doomscrollers: “There are so may posts! all of my training has finally paid off!” Narrator: it was indeed “All Apocalypse” Eve, and they were P R E P A R E D

Ok, so that's incredible.

This feels almost like a chicken race of a flyby. Orion turning towards the approaching Moon. But then missing it. Play with the 3D of the flyby via my interactive HTML file with a Plotly 3d plot from here: figshare.com/ndownloader/... (55 MB dowload). Based on NASA's trajectory data, converted

Loving how the #artemis announcer is giving so much credit to the importance of the crew's qualitative observations of the moon's surface, going so far as to say we can provide critical context and relational understanding of the moon's features with our own eyes that cameras and computers cannot.

I just finished the book "The Light of Battle" about Ike and the lead up to D-day. While I am not pretending the Allies were perfect, I was struck by the debates that went on about how to limit civilian casualties from bombing Axis & occupied countries. Read this excerpt & contrast with POTUS today

Last night, it was called out when we passed the 144-hour return mark. Why is that significant? Because we’ve designed a crew survival approach for a cabin depressurization scenario through which we could support the crew for 144 hours. Today’s suit tests were part of testing those capabilities.

Current status.

This isn’t a war so much as it’s dozens of war crimes in a trench coat.

I wish @samillingworth.com would post on BlueSky more. His Slow AI Substack is one of my favorites, and absolutely worth the time spent reading. open.substack.com/pub/theslowai

never saw a motorcycle split in half quite like that.

timeline cleanse

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Be more devoted than you ever have to your creativity, and definitely don't outsource it.

If things are unlikely to go back to where they were and the current direction is disastrous then it is more important than ever to know where we want to go. Radical imagination time. And definitely time to hone your art, your craft, your imagination, and your humanity.

White House again proposes steep NASA budget cuts For the second consecutive year, the White House is proposing a major budget cut for NASA that would significantly impact the agency’s science programs and the International Space Station.

THERAPIST: and what do we do when we're sad? ME: get another used cat? THERAPIST (nodding): get another used cat

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

Joy and wonder straight to the veins.

thunderstorm with rainbow.

The research closures are also a killer. Here's an earlier thread discussing USFS research, what was, until 2025, an unheralded crown jewel of US science. bsky.app/profile/jimw...

See also this post on Donald Shoup, which convinced me that free curb parking is actually a bad idea: www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-prophe...

Majestic, well done @rickcarlsson.bsky.social

I've updated my pairs study from initial feedback (thanks!): new question framing, rebalanced effects, phone-friendlier and now showing your results at the end. Testing round 2 now open: give it a try at xangregg.github.io/pairstudy121... #dataviz

your grandparents voting for reagan

Best I can reckon, this would be the most people ever assembled on Boston Common in its 392 years? Would be the papal visit in '79, the last No Kings in '25, then today. drone shot pulled from CNN #NoKings

Something Kevin’s recent pieces have flagged for me is the sneaky veil of ideological compression involved around “AI” in critical discourse and not merely in the obvious hype cycle.

My bizarre and highly questionable method of completing Money Stuff, this “joke” (which was no doubt intentional), was just the final example in a parade of issues and events with this newsletter. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

The Eds up update is a gem of an article; writing with, of and for joy and wonder centered around harmony. Enjoy that deep experience of being together doing wonderful things

"The parents of dead children are a problem." This is some of the best disaster reporting/writing I've seen in a long time. Disaster denialism is a cult. nymag.com/intelligence...

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

‼️ Apparently EM-DAT was financially supported through USAID. There's an open letter you can sign to garner support CRED finding a new sustainable funding source. This is the most critical international disaster dataset we have that underlies both research & practice openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...

It’s a mystery why autistic nerds like Star Trek

A closer look at the #medicane, known as Storm #Jolina or Storm #Samuel depending on the agency. (CIRA/RAMMB SLIDER)

All this. Yes.