Worked on this yesterday with my new found free time with the kid starting school. From HST Proposal 17067, The diversity of protoplanetary disks: Imaging a complete sample of edge-on disks in four nearby star-forming regions Principal Investigator: Gaspard Duchene flic.kr/p/2rnisMm

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

Driving a rover was a dream come true for @tanyaofmars.bsky.social. Story by @BowlerHatScience.org. buff.ly/IhAhhKr Read more in our August issue, out now: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2025

Thanks for sharing a bit of my career story! 🧡

I love my SpaceX Inspiration4 spacesuit & can’t believe she’ll be on display in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum next week in the new Futures in Space exhibit. I’ll be there Monday from 11-12 for a Q&A with Space History curator Emily Margolis. Come say hi! 👋🏾👩🏾‍🚀🚀🙏🏽 airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/eve...

It's International Moon Day! Since the 1950s, humans have been sending missions to the Moon. This rich archaeological record is under threat from proposed mining and settlement activities. #InternationalMoonDay 🧪 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Improve your surroundings with #sciart Latest paintings: artologica.etsy.com

"...anyone who actually understands LLMs knows that it can’t achieve new ways of thinking. It’s just putting together words in the most statistically likely way, forming connections that may sound like a well-thought-out argument but are actually not...'intelligence' as humans would define it."

Creative work in general pays far less than people think it does, especially relative to the notability one can have. The correlation between "fame" and "income" is rather shaky, especially the further down you go on the fame power curve. Lots of "world famous" creators are broke as hell.

I got one of these the first time around and can say, being from the rainy Pacific Northwest, it's legit the best umbrella I've ever owned. 10/10 would recommend if you're in the market for an ultra-nerdy umbrella! ❤️

A large brown barge, a cyclonic region in the North Hemisphere, on Jupiter as it appeared to Juno on Perijove 18. flic.kr/p/2iV5zCS

🚨🚨🚨 FREE DATA ALERT! 🚨🚨🚨 If you're a federally funded researcher in the U.S., you can access GHGSat's high-resolution methane emissions data for free through NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program! 🌎 More info on how to apply here: bit.ly/3I4ldrs

Permanently shadowed craters on Mercury: amazing results! • Older polar craters host more ice, suggesting steady-state processes drive long-term accumulation. • Younger radar-bright craters imply recent resurfacing • Two young, ice-rich craters suggest episodic delivery from comets or asteroids. 🧪

Light pollution, both on the ground and from megaconstellations, is cutting us off from one of the only universal things humanity shares across the globe: Visual access to the night sky. And it has serious biological, scientific, and cultural consequences: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

Another old 2018-ish piece #pixelart #art

"To associate Mars exploration with the devastation of American space science...to tie it to the alienation of our allies and partners, is to doom the effort to failure. Mars deserves better." - @caseydreier.bsky.social Humans deserve better too. spacenews.com/the-administ...

🌟🇪🇬 WITNESS HISTORY! Join Dr. Alfredo Carpineti on an 8-day Egypt expedition (July 29 - Aug 5, 2027) for the LONGEST solar eclipse of the century! ☀️🌑 Over 6 mins of totality near Luxor's ancient wonders! ✨ Do not miss it! pastpreservers.com/witness-hist... #ancientEgypt @drcarpineti.bsky.social

I was a NASA Space Grant Student in my junior year of undergrad, it was through this program that I really started to see what a career in planetary science could look like and where I could fit within it.

I was a NASA Space Grant recipient for earth sciences (seismology!) and rocket payload systems during my junior year because I wanted to explore more of space. Opportunities like this MATTER.

At a Star Trek convention ages ago, I was standing at the front of a line to get past a curtain into an event. Mark Alaimo (Gul Dukat) popped his head out of the curtain, looked at me, and asked if I could grab him a coffee if he gave me $5. I absolutely said yes and acquired said coffee.

This is a solar eclipse. Seen from the surface of Mars by the Perseverance rover in 2022. That moon is the little space potato Phobos. And you can even see sunspots!

At CUNY we’ve routinely used Space Grant funds to pick up extra students who appear ‘out of cycle’ for our undergrad programs, or for bridge funding for PhD students (where advisors have 3yr grants that don’t get renewed or have a grant about to start)… not to mention the 2yrs they funded us for a

i was a two-time nasa space grant fellow during my phd. in addition to supporting my cosmology research (weak gravitational lensing), i did outreach in local public schools, and helped design two special astronomy exhibits for the science museum (exoplanets & comets).

I was a NASA Space Grant recipient as an undergraduate for my research with self-replicating RNA investigating the origins of life. I did not continue an academic path, but since graduation have worked exclusively in scientific fields, including DNA manufacturing and environmental monitoring.

I was awarded two Illinois space grant fellowships as an undergrad, getting crucial research experience which led to multiple publications. Most importantly, it allowed me the time and space to learn what it meant to do research in computational astrophysics, leading to my career today.

CT Space Grant scholarships support multiple of our current students, and I likely wouldn't have finished grad school without support from the AZ and PA Space Grant programs. Eliminating Space Grant is going to reduce the number of scientists and engineers graduating US universities, period.

A NASA Space Grant is how ASU recruited me to its doctoral program in physics, supporting my first year of studies. These programs have made incalculable impacts on the field and broader STEM education.

I was a NASA Space Grant recipient as an early career faculty. That grant was vital in getting a brand new research program off the ground, that resulted in 7 MS students and multiple undergrads. All are still working in STEM fields.

Under the proposed White House budget, the NASA Space Grant program would be eliminated. I was a NASA Space Grant recipient during my Masters—it funded my research on water on Mars. I then went on to work in science & mission ops on multiple NASA Mars missions immediately after graduation. (1/2)

Astronomers have used the ultraviolet capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the surfaces of four icy moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon! They were in for a surprising finding 👉 esahubble.org/images/opo25... 🔭 🧪

An interesting thread about jargon in science communication!

Attn: Reporters/Influencers/etc - If you are doing a story on the PBR and the science cuts, and you want to reach the mission leadership of OSIRIS-APEX, you can reach out to me. I can't promise access to everyone, but if you're looking to save US space science, so are we.

If you are a researcher whose federal funding has been terminated, the Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response grants to close the gaps. Application deadline is June 13: (h/t to @agu.org's Planetary Sciences Section newsletter for the info!) www.spencer.org/research-gra...

Each Friday night, I write up what happened in science & higher ed. - the budget proposal for research & where it stands - latest attack on universities: accreditation - NAS misunderstands the State of the Science - but good news from Maine! This was week 20: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Today is the Space Horizons conference in Ottawa, focused on the Canadian space sector. 🔭🇨🇦 Canadian Space Agency president Lisa Campbell: "We'll keep making the case for space...because we know it's a pathway to solutions."

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Shadow of the Beast #Mars June 2, 2025 - Curiosity Sol 4558 🧪🔭 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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.

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

To me the most insane part of the proposed white house budget cuts to science is that they hardly save any money! They do not reduce the deficit in any meaningful way! We spend a small amount of money on science,which has yielded incredible returns.

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

My people, we need two LIGO sites to prove sources are astrophysical and not, like, a rabbit hopping nearby. ⚛️

Canada has long worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. to push the boundaries of exploration. But in today’s political climate, we must ask: What should our priorities be, & how can they serve all Canadians? We need a bold, cross-agency strategy for Canada's future in space. spaceq.ca/trumps-space...

Heads up on this vital 100 hour streaming marathon on the value of weather and climate expertise as National Weather Service struggles with staff shortages and reduction in service www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Programming update: Stand Up For Science is hosting a series of summer science teach-ins, inspired by Vietnam era activism. @standupforscience.bsky.social I will be doing one in Silver Spring (exact location TBD) about ocean science and conservation on May 30th.

🌍 We're launching a science webinar series! 🛰️ Join us for the inaugural session of GHGSAT's Science Webinar Series, a new platform to share cutting-edge research from the academic community using methane emissions data. Register for free: go.ghgsat.com/exploring-gl...