Was at the No Kings protest in Los Angeles yesterday. So damn proud of this city. We will keep fighting to overturn this fascist dictatorship. #NoKings #LosAngeles #protest #democracy

trump is killing millions by funding rugpull www.aaas.org/sites/defaul...

Republicans passed a package that guts $9.4 BILLION in critical funding. They’re coming for global health, humanitarian aid, national security—& even PBS & NPR. Let me be real clear: What they’re cutting saves lives, keeps the world stable, and tells the truth.

Notwithstanding the tragic clusterfuck back on Earth, a brave robot continues her mission there on Mars #Mars June 5, 2025 - Perseverance Sol 1526 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

We're just a couple of months away from NOAA demanding that we surrender our lives to the soul-cleansing power of hurricanes.

Science doesn’t improve by cutting Black, Hispanic, and women experts. But that’s exactly what happened—38 out of 43 removed from NIH boards were just that. And they wonder why trust in institutions is fading.

Currently getting my PADI open water scuba diving certification. 🤙 #scuba #scubadiving #diving

Fascism is here. Due process is dead. The Supreme Court is a hollow husk.

News flash

Hey all! Time for a new introduction: 🚀 I’m an engineer on the Mars rovers ⭐️ I’m 26 and live in Pasadena, CA 🤖 I’m big into reading, creative writing, the outdoors, and photography 🪐 Trying to be an online support for women in STEM

26 orbits around the Sun! 🚀⭐️

From Matthew Rohrer's book, Surrounded by Friends: bookshop.org/a/862/978194... #poem #books #writing

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

An octopus riding a shark

Finally finished this little guy! Onto the next space cross stitch. #crafts #crossstich #space

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

Roses are red Violets are blue

Looking for some more penpals 🤩 I love connecting with folks across physical letters. Ideally someone close-ish to my age (26), female/nb, outside of the US! I promise NASA stickers 😂 #penpal #writing

Bought one! Cool shirt, but more importantly it means voting with your dollar to support an open and decentralized Internet for and by the people.

OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there. If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it. Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.

Love a good testbed day. #engineering #womeninstem #nasa

Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.

Excerpt from “How to Do Nothing” by Jenny Odell. Current read.

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

pov: you just landed on the moon and see earth in the distance

Saw some lovely landscapes & wildlife on Santa Cruz Island. #camping #California

One Planet, Two Rovers 1. Perseverance, Feb. 26, 2025 (Sol 1429) 2. Curiosity, Feb. 25, 2025 (Sol 4464) 📷 NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭 #Mars

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

In Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, we watched a family of guanacos (wild llamas) be stalked by a puma at the feet of the Cordillera Paine mountains. Can you spot the puma in the bushes? #Chile #Patagonia #wildlife

In other news, I just got back from Chile. Here’s my favorite photo of me from the trip: in Torres del Paine, Patagonia. #travel

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

1) Open up image 2) Search around the middle 3) Find the small, bright dot just left of centre 4) Congratulations! You've found the Curiosity rover on Mars, imaged from orbit.

Turns out The Great Filter was the people we met along the way.

Just passed my two year work anniversary at NASA JPL. It’s been a strange time in JPL’s history, but certainly a few years full of growth and learning. Grateful to be here and to see what the future holds. #SpaceThreads #NASA #Mars

Protest currently going at Senator Alex Padilla’s @padilla.senate.gov LA office, 100+ people, staffers are outside taking verbal and written requests from constituents. Primary message from us is to grind things to a halt in the Senate. Organized by local Indivisible orgs.

“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said a former Noaa official. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”

NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

Back in the hot seat today. Rover ops continues chugging, despite it all. #mars #nasa #marsrovers #SpaceThreads #engineer

WIP! #crossstitch #crafts

Seems about right...

“We are going to need each other. This means staying attuned to the possibility of a collective power, instead of attached to a proprietary pain.” -Arielle Angel

Does anyone know what MAGA supporters are saying on their “other Internet”? Do they think what Trump is doing is right? Any evidence of questioning the government shutdown and illegal takeovers of our systems?

Had some fun visitors to rover ops today! 😉👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 #artemis #astronaut #NASA

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order threatening to override families with transgender youth and shut down access to gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 nationwide. This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Really loving my new iPhone minimalist homescreen setup. It gives me enough pause when I open the app that I don’t instinctively go to scroll on social media, and the minimalism makes me feel calm. A good alternative when a dumb phone doesn’t work for your life.