Good morning from the Grand Canyon, everybody 🙂

🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions. 📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146... #sciencepolicy #saveNASA

I posted this on my story and Instagram asked me why I was doing sponsored content without disclosing it....

FINAL HOUR, please share ⚠️ no one shares anymore. Every day, every boldness, every hope needed for Palestinian life. This is just one way for six families to afford food, secure shelter for their kids, and schedule a C-section ‼️ 417/1000

They're tearing Goddard apart for scraps and I'm supposed to write as many proposals as I can to scramble for a fraction of the money NASA has left? Depressing, degrading, and dehumanizing in a time when the future of planetary science can be measured in the number of people it leaves behind.

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After 13 years as the top federal workplace, NASA is facing an employee exodus and months of turmoil after deep budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration. If fully implemented, the changes could reshape U.S. science for years.

I won’t give up. Let’s be bold. Support is dropping for survival funds just as Palestinians are preparing for a bleak in tents. Share the funds—any funds. This is just one fund for six families. You’ve helped them so much. Don’t forget them. 10 HOURS LEFT. Food, healthcare, shelter: 60/1000

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"

So honored to be featured by Science News for my work on Pluto! They interviewed me for this video, in which I wax poetic about Pluto, work-life balance, and why scientists working now need to be doing their part to make science a better place for everyone: www.sciencenews.org/article/adee...

in case anyone is wondering: neither Musk nor Google will be putting data centers in orbit. It's just not a thing that will happen.

The Science News piece dropped the same day I climbed back out of the Grand Canyon - I've been spending the last few days running astronomy programs at the Bright Angel and Havasupai campgrounds, and using this month's full Moon to talk about lunar geology, the ethics of mining the Moon, and more!

So honored to be featured by Science News for my work on Pluto! They interviewed me for this video, in which I wax poetic about Pluto, work-life balance, and why scientists working now need to be doing their part to make science a better place for everyone: www.sciencenews.org/article/adee...

The great thing about consistently being Really Cool is someone at Grand Canyon can say "I watched your TedX talk from 8 years ago," and I can reply "Yep, and I stand by everything I said in that talk! I was right and I'm still right!"

Please share—12 HOURS LEFT. Sarah & her mom have gone two years without adequate healthcare for their chronic diseases and now their conditions are VERY fragile and expensive to treat b/c no medical aid. This is an EMERGENCY. Give/find the Abdelwahed’s link here. 49/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Yes, defend SNAP, but making econometric arguments about it saving other costs or increasing productivity is losing the plot. As Elaine Brown said, "Because we are so used to the capitalist construct, it doesn’t occur to us that we have a human right to eat; because if you don’t eat you will die."

Spark Space has been active for many months now doing critical work for students and workers by providing a free safe space for them to do their work, and they need our help to keep going! Please donate and share if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Spark Space has been active for many months now doing critical work for students and workers by providing a free safe space for them to do their work, and they need our help to keep going! Please donate and share if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Spark is still going, still resisting, still in need of your help: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Going sicko mode (drinking second cup of tea immediately after finishing first cup of tea)

Tonight! Please check the time zone, if you are not joining us from the UK. 7 pm GMT www.timebie.com/std/greenwic...

A very good point - the right to refuse to use genAI must be enshrined as a principle of academic ethics

Had a real "art imitates life" moment when I sat down to work this morning:

Tonight! And thank you for the time zone reminder❤️ 7 pm GMT #WeKeepTelling

Everything I've learned about baseball has been against my will

Every word of this article is true. And I challenge you to read it.

Tomorrow! Please do register (it's free!) and donate if you can - and US folks, don't forget to check your time zone tomorrow when attending 🙂 I'll be reading a favorite from Rasha Abdulhadi as well as one of my own poems!

SUNDAY 🫶🏾 register for free!! I’ll be reading a favorite poem by Samih Al-Qasim plus a brand new original poem. One of the projects the reading benefits is this one, run by a dear friend of the Giving Circle to help displaced families in Mawasi: chuffed.org/project/mawa...

*John Wick voice* Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back ….back at Grand Canyon and up to some astronomer in residence stuff once again!

Final 3 hours - please share. REJECT condemning Palestinians to death. Six families need: - Food in famine - Shelter in winter - Urgent medical help & a C-section - Winter items to prevent hypothermia Last check 1310/2901

#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet. www.space.com/space-explor...

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

My latest Nation column, on ICE forcing asylum seekers to report for hearings, and then arresting them at those hearings... And on the rise of an oligarchy that chooses to fund ballrooms but not foodstamps. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA: 🧪🔭 🧵

FINAL 3 HOURS. Please share. We can’t meet their needs anymore. Six families we’ve helped survive six months of the worst conditions on the planet. And we can’t help anymore because support has stopped—even as these conditions persist. 728/1000

Intellectual diversity is important, critical we have both people who report history accurately and those who lie about it.

How this week's been going:

How this week's been going:

will kim is still in ICE detention

The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by. www.wired.com/story/federa...

This isn’t a real ceasefire in Gaza – it’s a holding pattern before war returns | Sanam Vakil

I for one think it’s really cool that I’ve pursued a career in which I’m working so hard I’ve forgotten how to be me, but that’s still not actually working hard enough ✨

Even worse when you find out Middlebury College had another death of a trans student in 2023, then hosted an anti-trans talk last winter, before kicking Lia off of both her teams this fall.

I hope people connect that the open fascism we see in USA today & the speed with which it is swallowing our institutions could only happen if our politicians had spent decades engaged in a bipartisan effort to build a healthy infrastructure for fascism in the 1st place.

5 hours left, please share. I want someone, anyone, to look me dead in the eye and explain that mutual aid doesn't matter when our friend can only afford her C-section if strangers like me and you give her support. To welcome new life in Palestine amidst genocide: what holier duty? 309/1000

"To call her death merely a suicide misses the larger truth—no suicide happens in a vacuum. Policies designed to make life unlivable for transgender people bear responsibility too; every trans suicide is a murder by those in power." www.erininthemorning.com/p/every-tran...

We are LIVE with a live edition of Thunder Road!!

I’ve got a Springsteen-themed show this week on The Search for Planet 9, coming up at 9 am PT/12 pm ET! Listen here: 1190.radio

Shares appreciated, 12 hours left 🚨 Dear Nya and her family are so desperate to secure a bit of shelter. After countless displacements, this family, mostly kids, faces deadly winter in a tent—and YOU can help. Give / find their link here. 62/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...