A new Space Policy Edition episode today! Guest Lou Friedman argues that the recent announcement of a potential biosignature collected by Perseverance should reignite our commitment to Mars Sample Return,. www.planetary.org/planetary-ra...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

My ultimate Halloween candy ranking. This is final. I will not be taking questions. #Halloween

Tua next week #Dolphins #finsup

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about. Would be a shame if it went viral.

A borb with fabulous eyebrows for #Wrensday (Carolina Wren) #birds 🌿 #HeadInBirds

Amazon, the second largest employer in the U.S., aims to replace more than half a million jobs with robots, internal documents show.

good day to fire chris grier directly into the sun’s burning rays

Super proud of my parents turning out for the Buffalo, NY #NoKings protest and showing how my family has been #AntiFascist for generations!!! #fdt #FreeSpeechMatters #USA

I know this is just going to attract flak, but damn, it's interesting (IRL and if you happen to be writing Sci-Fi). So... what's the mining ore situation on Mars? 🧪⚒️ <hiding behind the corner> . . . <peeking> Let's talk a bit about this paper. 1/9 🧵 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

GOP in Congress: “Those young republicans are vile for saying they love Nazis” Also GOP in congress: “I have no idea where that Nazi flag in my office came from”

The “oh they were joking” and “boys will be boys” explanations have already started. They’re in college! You are an adult in college.

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

So are we still overreacting by calling Tr*mp and republicans fascists? And Nazis? And racists? And misogynists? A hate group? Are we taking all this out of context? Exaggerating? Read what the next generation of republican leaders think in their own words:

Alright, it’s #LoseForLaNorris time #Dolphins

If Waller had been on the 2023 Fins team my life might have been very different #Dolphins

I'm incredibly honored to be a part of this team and proud of this award!!! But I'm just a very small part of this program. Anita Marshall @bakingsodavolc.bsky.social deserves all the credit for the idea, the passion, the grunt work, and for its success!!! ⚒️🧪🔭

BREAKING: Massive protests taking place right now in Chicago against Trump this evening. Keep it up!

Just learned that @emilymandel.bsky.social’s next book has a release date a year from now and that’s TOO FAR AWAY and the synopsis sounds F’ING AWESOME and I can’t wait. If you haven’t read these books GO READ THESE BOOKS!!!

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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Hey Farmers. You Voted for This.

If you don’t teach your students your subject, you’re not doing your job. If you teach your students to ask AI first, you’re ensuring they’ll never be *needed* for any job. You’re also guaranteeing that knowledge of your subject slowly dies. Asking ChatGPT is gaining neither knowledge nor skills.

New research from a team including UF Geology Prof. Courtney Sprain published in @commsearth.nature.com shows that when the dinosaurs went extinct, the landscape responded to their absence, and quickly! ⚒️🧪

It's national voter registration day today, and please register to vote. Today, as a new American I registered for the first time ever.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is proposing to eliminate the entire Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. I strongly encourage you to voice opposition to this cut at the appropriate link in the thread below. More details are available here: budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...

So everyone getting fired Friday, or…. Also time to start watching college QBs #Dolphins

Unbelievably, embarrassingly bad take. WOW. We should NEVER celebrate violence, and that’s true with Kirk, but nor should we whitewash the toxic filth he believed and advocated, or how he did it.

This song is hittin' harder today... "Terror's the product ya push Well I'm a truth addict, oh shit I gotta headrush Sheep tremble and here come the votes Thrown from the throat, new cages and scapegoats"

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

On the same day that Maga activist Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah, two high school students were shot in Colorado. There is NO excuse for gun violence in our country. I am praying for gun control NOW: an Assault Weapons Ban and Universal Background Checks immediately! 

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Quick friendly reminder that Bluesky is entirely fucking public and you should post accordingly! Heads on straight, gang!

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Just saying, I appreciate the journalists pushing back as much as they did in the NASA press conference today. Lots of hammering on the "but how are you going to do science if you're slashing the budget right and left?" in the questions. Well done ✊

Duffy says today's announcement is consistent with "the president's vision and mission of continuing science to support human exploration beyond Earth." Fact check: this administration has proposed canceling Mars sample return.

To sum up: we have 🪨 A cool rock from #Mars that may or may not hold evidence of ancient life 🛰️ An internal fight over whether NASA should spend its money on science or human exploration, and on what planet 🤔 A totally uncertain future for this amazing rock 🧪

So I found a neat rock

Look, I mean, the gross overreaction to the McKay paper got us the Mars exploration program that includes this rover. So if this gross overstatement from NASA people who should know better gets us Mars sample return, would I be unhappy? No

Watching a NASA press conference being led by the guy who is stripping NASA for parts is particularly galling.

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Fins up, baby!!!! We’re back!!! #Dolphins #FinsUp

Chicken wings

Theropod tracks "of a very large dinosaur for which we currently have no skeletal evidence." Mill Canyon site, near Moab, Utah #FossilFriday

This is gonna make about $4 billion dollars