If you have SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to the contrary, please be so good as to present it.

Hey #astrosci community! After working on this project for 3 years, there's a new Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive that's just been newly made available at @stsci.edu: archive.stsci.edu/missions-and... follow me to learn more! (1/n)

A gunman tried to silence my wife in an extreme act of political violence. Now, Trump has called for my execution because he didn’t like what I had to say. Gabby and I know, when others try to silence you, you must keep speaking out — and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

"Gold standard science" just means who ever has the gold, the wealth, gets to say what counts as science.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

Life is something that happens to planet(s). This lava on east end of Hawaii just solidified in 2018. Life is processing it. Just incredible to see how fast life responds to a little challenge like a fresh lava flow. A mile NE of the 2018 “fissure 8” cone on Kapoho Rd near Puna Geothermal Venture

@aussiastronomer.bsky.social Interesting idea for automated plot in NASA Exoplanet Archive?

Great news: Johns Hopkins makes tuition free for most undergraduate students. ($200k/year or less is about 85% of American households.) hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...

ICE sprays large canister of pepper spray directly into family car—hitting 1 year old baby. "They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said man who took video. "ICE agents drove by and sprayed pepper spray directly inside—where their baby and 16 year old sister sat." Cicero, Illinois

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

3I/ATLAS #comet #3IATLAS

#Roman #Microlensing Data Challenge 2026 (RMDC26) Kickoff Workshop @ #AAS247 in Phoenix, Sunday, January 4, 2026 rges-pit.org/data-challen... #NASA #exoplanets

Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

After 13 years as the top federal workplace, NASA is facing an employee exodus and months of turmoil after deep budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration. If fully implemented, the changes could reshape U.S. science for years.

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

If even half of what is in this article is true, the effects may set #NASA and US space program back **decades**. #AAS #astrophysics '“In terms of future missions, once this lab goes away, we won’t be able to do anything like it again,” one Goddard employee said.'

Big congrats to Jennifer Burt, Xavier Dumusque, and Sam Halverson on finishing their epic (instant classic) Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics article "Precise Radial Velocities"! arxiv.org/abs/2511.01954 contains some great new graphics for talks on #exoplanets #EPRV #DopplerSpectroscopy

Biggest #NYC election turnout since imfamous 1985:

I have just received from Kevin Walsh of SWRI a re-analysis of the PUNCH data for 3I/ATLAS, & have redone our gas and dust coma prediction models as a result. These new data agree well with the independent reductions of Thomas Lehmann and bode well for the Juice observations starting November 2nd.

A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA: 🧪🔭 🧵

Exoplanet atmosphere characterization is built on a foundation of lab data and chemistry. We need more reaction rates, cross sections, & line lists, at a broader range of conditions than the Solar System. Got together with Earth/planetary scientists to comment on this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall." These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Advisory Number 18 ...MELISSA LIKELY STARTING TO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY AND EXPECTED TO BECOME A MAJOR HURRICANE TOMORROW... ...LIFE-THREATENING AND CATASTROPHIC FLASH FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN HISPANIOLA AND JAM... Additional Details Here.

NEWS: Astronomers announce discovery of a "Super-Earth" in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star just 22 light years away

The amounts of data from the Nancy G. Roman Telescope will be staggering! To prepare for the Mission, become familiar with the tools and data. Our first webinar will be focused on the “Tools for Exploring Roman’s Core Community Surveys". For more information, please check our website: bit.ly/4oaaewG

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 11% of its staff today, including many people working on an active Mars rover mission. “There’s no whitewashing the ‘doomsday-eve’ feeling that's looming over all our heads,” wrote one JPL’er. eos.org/research-and...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

Gibson et al. “TESS Discovers a Second System of Transiting Exocomets in the Extreme Debris Disk of RZ Psc” showing 24 exocomet transits and the existence of a broken power law for the sizes of these exocomets, unlike Beta Pic’s exocomet distribution #exoplanet #astrodon #astrosci

How do giant planets influence the type of #exoplanets that form in the habitable zone? A thread 1/🧵

Well put

"In response to the White House press conference about Tylenol, leucovorin and #autism, the SDBP (Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics) developed and approved two statements, a professional statement and parent/ family informational sheet." sdbp.org/sdbp-stateme...

Shared with permission from Carl Stahle, Retired, Vice President of Goddard Retirees and Alumni Association, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Link in the document text: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil... (Original LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/carl-s...) @roguenasa.altgov.info

🔭🧪🪐Fabulous article in BBC today marking the 30th anniversary of 51 Peg b, discussing also the hunt for Earth-like #exoplanets with the Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social — can’t believe we’re so close to starting this incredible survey (later this year)! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. The legacy of the Roberts court.

Crazy…. An asteroid that you could probably fit on your couch, passed about 419 km over Antarctica yesterday, just passing by. Absolute magnitude 31.5 (maybe ~1.6m wide if albedo were 0.15). #NASA #2025TF spaceweekly.com?p=798573

My new color photographic map of Pluto is now online. Full resolution image version (~322Mpix) is available on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/10958... PDF version (~73MB) is available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1EW-x... 🧵 1/5

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), top Democrat on Senate Commerce Cmte, is out with a Democratic staff report: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency." www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Autism is not a "disease" or "epidemic". Autism has a strong genetic component. There is no evidence that vaccinees or Tylenol cause autism. Access to autism diagnostics have dramatically increased as reported rates increased. Neither Trump nor RFK Jr are scientists or medical professionals.

The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!

#Steelers #herewego

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 162: 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting On September 17, 2025, NASA announced that the number of exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, tracked by NASA has reach... #Exoplanet #Science #Exoplanets #Planetary #Science Origin | Interest | Match

In case there wasn’t enough terrible news #NASA

Some sad #exoplanets news in a paper led by me: “YSES 2b is a background star”#exoplanets A distant M dwarf star some 2 kiloparsecs behind the star just so happens to have a non-zero proper motion in EXACTLY the wrong direction: this required multiple GRAVITY observations to solve… #astrosci #astrodon