Capping off February with our Lead Ambassador Highlight! Yueyi Che, a glaciologist studying snow & ice, shares how SciX transformed her lit review. Read her story: scixplorer.org/scixblog/sci...

I took snippets from the Curtis Yarvin (techno-fascist idea originator driving current dismantling of the government) NYT interview and used the unaltered words as lyrics set to dystopian hyperpop suno.com/song/99f4b48...

ADS/SciX has been experiencing a DDoS attack. This attack resulted in several orders of magnitude higher levels of traffic than usual. We have increased our resource scaling capabilities and blacklisted the 100s of thousands of offending IPs and the issue is hopefully resolved.

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

I urge you all to not follow demonizing, misinformation spreading pages, I see this happening from folks with good intentions but I respectfully encourage that you only share information you can check sources for. I’m going to follow this up with excerpts from ‘Let This Radicalize You’

I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

The main DEI page from @agu.org has been modified to take diversity out of the title. Glad to see it's not deleted entirely, but hey AGU, we're watching what you do and remembering the big game you once talked about supporting your diverse membership. Today vs. January

I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us. slate.com/technology/2...

"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

Please consider signing this open letter written by the planetary science community if you are concerned about recent policy changes impacting scientists: sites.google.com/view/space-s...

Apparently NASA HQ has been told to remove all Pride Flag imagery from the office. I swear to god you guys, if that places doesn't look like a fucking unicorn exploded in there in the next two days..

BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

❗❗NASA is pausing program analysis groups activities. These are the groups that provide community input to the Astrophysics and Planetary Divisions to help shape the science that NASA supports. Source: I'm on the ExoPAG executive committee (repost with more emails blocked)

Meeting my doctor today to say yeah I guess I do still need to spend over 500/month (until hitting deductible, then 50) to function 🤷‍♀️

Incredibly excited to annonce the publication of our new experimental thermodynamic work at high pressures with the definition of a novel thermodynamic invariant point: The Cenotectic (κ) nature.com/articles/s41...

On my quick flight home from AGU I had a window seat and spent some of the time doodling my view. I also had a window seat on the way to AGU, but the cover was presumably designed to stay shut as I was getting nervously sideeyed by the attendants while trying very unsuccessfully to heave it up.

I made a custom GPT that connects to the ADS/SciX API to help with literature searches and finding relevant earth and space science info that we have in our digital library. Try to break it and/or tell me if it’s working for how you’d use it! 🤖 📚 🚀 chatgpt.com/g/g-67316605...

I stayed up a little later than I wanted to because my husband and I were trying to debug my hacky code (without AI, like olden times) that I insisted to make work instead of the obvious one line solution to the puzzle 😂 we actually googled and * read * documentation 🙀

I downloaded Juno so I could solve an advent of code puzzle using an IDE on my phone between powerlifting reps 🙃 somehow my dopamine levels seem to have been fixed since this time last year and I have motivation to do things sometimes

My 4.5 y/o lets me know when his context window ends; I told him I was working on a problem and he asked what it was. I said, are you sure, it’s pretty technical? And he said yes so I got most of the way through describing it for him and he said ‘okay too long now’ and shifted back to paw patrol 😅

Omg why wasn’t I using cursor before; as a planetary scientist cosplaying as a software developer it is amazing 🥹 I was released from work already but I love this and so I’m still playing with it 😅

When talking with people about things outside my immediate area of expertise I’ll often be like ‘this may be a stupid question …’ or ‘I have a naive question …’ and then usually the response is something like ‘actually nobody knows the answer and that’s why they pay us the big bucks’ 😆

I spent part of my summer writing and illustrating science children’s books, one on how scientists love ✨everything ✨ and about the solar system, sharing links to the images here: sjarmak.com/the-worlds-w... sjarmak.com/you-are-a-sc...

This time last year I didn’t know what an ontology was and now I’m the elected AGU Informatics Section secretary somehow 🥳 I am still a planetary scientist but it’s been super fun to learn more about information science and to support scientific literature discovery 📚

I joined a slack dedicated to search engineering recently (cuz I also do that now, working on the ADS), and was gushing to my team about all the search people there that I think are so cool and I’m pretty certain they all think I’m a major dork but to be fair I definitely am so I’m not mad 🤷‍♀️

I’m happy to share the frontier of planetary rings with you all (modified talk titles for clarity), Planet rings come from dirt Counting weird stuff in Saturn's ring Computer makes tiny, weird rings Another model solves Saturn's rings A computer has thoughts on how old and dirty Saturn's rings are

I asked GPT-4 for some art prompts, guess the prompt

Um

My 3 y/o eating chips and queso for the first time: ‘OH my GOD queso is so delicious.’ Very correct, yes

Me following my friend back into the secured meeting without my QR code to get past the gate, ‘I’ll just go through right after you, at the same time pretty much’ * alarm blaring in the background as we shuffle to the elevators * ‘well I guess their system can detect a binary system’ 🤷🏼‍♀️

On my way back home from the NASA small bodies meeting, lots of fun with friends. Listening to a Wombats song over and over on the flight as one does, ‘I wear a suitcase under each one of my eyes … astrophysics, you’ll never be my closest friend, I find no comfort, in what my mind can’t comprehend’

wow totk went for the gut with the realism here

Hi, it’s me, the tired reviewer reviewing 25 proposals on a plane that all the workshops warned you about 🤡

The coffee people think I’m cool enough to pull off just an i at the end, I’m flattered

Set up the telescope in the drive way while the Sun was out, a neighbor walked by ‘… you can, do that?’ Yep, it’s allowed

I drew my astronomer friend’s doggos last night. I showed my 3 year old this morning and I said ‘what are these?’, he said ‘dogs?’, and I said ‘yeah! Nice.’ he said ‘yeah, but … why are they in space?’ He doesn’t question when I draw him dragons, but dogs in space? Worrisome

Me trying to parent: it’s okay to be wrong, we don’t know everything and it’s important to say when we don’t know something 3 y/o: No. 🤷🏼‍♀️ work in progress

Waffle needs to up his engagement metrics