Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, but I’ve been working on a project. After 65 hours of integration, my largest and longest astro image to date is finally complete. This is a 4-panel mosaic of the Fighting Dragons of Ara 🐉🔥 #Astrophotography #nebula #NGC6188 #FightingDragonsOfAra #tasmania

I'm advising one NSF graduate fellow working on understanding how heavy elements produced by the first stars mixed into subsequent generations of stars, ultimately leading to our own existence, and have another considering thesis work with me on planet formation.

Well... I just found out today that the proposed FY26 president's budget will eliminate the NSF graduate research fellowship program that is funding my Ph.D. I have an award in progress, too. This won't just affect future funding or applications.

Well, ready to gamble?

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

The destruction of the US scientific enterprise continues. Or, at least, work from home just got another boost.

Join the American Physical Society @apsphysics.bsky.social in opposing crippling cuts to US science funding. www.aps.org/initiatives/...

Jargon overload: I am revising two papers using the acronym SFE. In one of them it stands for star formation efficiency, while in the other it stands for surface free energy. Yikes!

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

New @amnh.org curator Jackie Faherty's (co-mentored) student celebrating her thesis defense. Congratulations!

🚀 Curious about how the Museum produces its iconic Hayden Planetarium Space Shows? Join us on June 25 for a look at the making of the Museum’s new Space Show: Encounters in the Milky Way. Learn how scientists transformed data into a journey through our galactic neighborhood: bit.ly/4jQi2AE

The famously draft-dodging president violating 4 U.S. Code § 9 "Conduct during ... passing of flag": "During the ceremony of hoisting or lowering the flag or when the flag is passing in a parade or in review, all persons present in uniform should render the military salute. (1/2)

An amazing valedictory piece by Dennis Overbye on my colleague Carter Emmart's career as Director of Astrovisualization at @amnh.org. I've had the immense privilege of working with him multiple times, resulting in planetarium shows seen around the world (Journey to the Stars and Dark Universe).

#nokingsday is even being covered by Fox... #nokings

Please tell me people have flooded his social media accounts with this Obi-wan GIF.

Hitler: burned down the Legislature Putin: blew up five apartment buildings TACO: 300 demonstrators in LA. Stephen Miller isn't the sharpest tool in the shed even if he is a world-class hater.

BREAKING: Texas lawmakers passed S.B. 37, which dramatically increases state control of public universities. Allowing politically appointed bureaucrats to police curricula and override faculty expertise is a direct threat to academic freedom in Texas.

📡Our antenna is getting into position. Our station engineers are pointing the antenna towards Voyager.

Proposed US retreat from the Solar System.

Looks like I may have to start learning the rules and residency requirements for European Research Council grants if I want to continue funded research in understanding how our planet and star formed in context.

The fact that the U.S. is turning inward and potentially set to decimate the science from its own space program while China is offering up its recently returned lunar samples for researchers around the world to analyze speaks volumes as to how the tides of science are going to shift.

The actual definition of "Habitable Zone"

It's a grift all the way down, isn't it?

🔭A 700 km diameter trans-Neptunian object pulled out of the @darkenergysurvey.org.web.brid.gy by heroic computational analysis, likely representative of a large, hidden class of objects.

This work by Chen, Ho, & Tung shows nicely one of those things obvious in retrospect: that the first stars formed in a supersonically turbulent medium produced by the collapse of their parent gas clouds (something that Ibáñez-Mejía, myself & Klessen showed for modern gas clouds in 2017). (1/2)

So much for freedom of speech and the press!

@niemandbesonders.bsky.social brings the receipts in this thread.

Data that tells many stories.

I don't know how much of this structure is interferometer noise vs real, but the idea that we can resolve any structure at all on the surface of a star other than the Sun is still astonishing.

They say it can’t be done, but here we are, California is generated 106% of California’s entire state electricity demand from renewables. California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world. Let that sink in. #energysky #greensky

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Spectroscopic confirmation of a z = 14.44 galaxy. Our Aeos star-by-star simulations of galaxy formation actually run as far as that, maybe allowing a direct confrontation with observations? 🔭

Apparently falsifying a hypothesis is now forbidden by order of the Great Leader.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

"“How could it be that Mottones, a degenerate African, might advise a Carthaginian general!” (Livy 25.40.12) ... Carthage lost, while the multi-ethnic Roman army welcomed Mottones, and won.

Not water: it’s a mystery where streaks on the Martian surface come from, but a new paper rules out water as a cause and narrows down the other options 🔭🧪 www.universetoday.com/articles/pla...

The shift from Euro-American to Chinese research institutions shown in these rankings is dramatic 🧪

The journal @nature.com compiles a list of leading research institutions ranked by counts of "high-quality research outputs." (www.nature.com/nature-index...) Surely not definitive, but the change over the six years from 2018 to 2024 is astonishing. (1/5)

The NOAA science seminars continue tomorrow with a verrry relevant talk on "The Social Value of Forecasting Hurricanes" by Renato Molina. Unsurprisingly, he finds that public investments in hurricane forecasts pay for themselves many times over in reduced losses. Read: www.nber.org/papers/w32548

Why you don't let ChatGPT off a short leash...

Welcome! The Galactic Center has more gas, stronger magnetic fields, a bigger black hole, and more stars forming than anywhere else... follow @battersbot.bsky.social to learn lots more! 🧪🔭 [adding this to the science and astronomy feeds]

Climate scientist Jeff Masters explains how our new Energy Secretary Chris Wright is using numbers selectively plucked from IPCC reports to mislead Americans about climate change.

In response to NASA’s decision to force IFPTE-represented employees at NASA’s Goddard to move out of their offices in New York City, IFPTE altered Members of Congress that this action is not only disruptive, but wastes federal resources and harms the critical work of these scientists.

Built like a brick shithouse.

And thus shall we recognize traitors

Incredibly sad news that the only Mycetoma research center in the world was destroyed in Khartoum. Scientists lost 40+ years of samples, a significant setback in the fight against an already neglected disease. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

Short thread (hopefully in plain English) on the nuclear deterrence dynamics in the India-Pakistan relationship and where this goes if escalation continues. <1>