looking for shipping companies to move our personal goods from the US to denmark and the one i trust the most uses a jpeg in place of a hyperlinked phone number. amazing

"pre-existing conditions" is eugenicist logic, BTW

wanting to show my advisors something in my terminal window and having to modify my cutesy kirby-themed background and font color so he doesn't hate it (for accessibility purposes he is not a hater it is not unwarranted)

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

look im just as happy to celebrate zohran’s victory as the next guy but as a south asian shia woman whose family has begged her to go into local politics for a decade now his win is going to be the talking point for my family for years to come

this is actually a horrible race science-y way to wipe your hands clean of the climate injustices happening in the global south bc some people are “built to withstand that kind of heat”. No. That’s climate change. None of us are built for it. It will kill you.

got my ms degree in astrophysics. this is a dream come true — for Shirin in 2015, who started in physics, for Shirin in 2017, who switched to planetary science due to harassment, for Shirin in 2019, who realized she wanted to do nothing but research forever.

my brother, my parents, and my bestie are all flying in for graduation and this is the most excited I’ve been in a minute!! I didn’t get to celebrate my undergrad graduation (2020… oops!) so getting to celebrate my masters in nyc is bringing me so much joy

Happy pride!

Because I posted this elsewhere here’s me and a bestie @jakepost.tech during @saavikford.bsky.social class this semester — one of the best classes during my masters!!

Welp, apparently the NASA Postdoctoral Program has eliminated their July application cycle (with the deadline being rolled over into their November cycle). That certainly doesn't bode well.

Eyyy my research made Universe Today!

Trying to reconcile how all positive change had to be incremental, studied in perpetuity & ultimately stalled with ‘how are we gonna pay for that?’ but dismantling everything was done quickly, ham-fistedly & with total disregard for cost of money and lives & no institutional guardrails mattered.

this is a nightmare. Telescopes aside, funding woes are so bad that people like me trying to get into phds are facing great difficulty even breaching the acceptance threshold — it’s been exhausting as someone who first applied in 2020!

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

she spin on my jet til I kick

I’ve started doing hot yoga/pilates and one thing I need everyone to know is that the women in these workout sessions will be the only survivors of the climate change apocalypse

thesis: submitted!!!

Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency.

Had dinner with our friend / neighbour Richard who’s the senior space weather scientist here in Aust (at the BoM) and we were talking about the impacts that the recent cuts at NOAA are having / going to have on global collaboration efforts like space weather monitoring. It’s not at all good.

Scientists, the provost of Columbia is one of us. Angela Olinto is a physicist, who chose to avoid mentioning Mahmoud Khalil, who chose not to stand up for him, when telling Columbia faculty that it would be "business as usual" when he was illegal arrested and detained. Our institutions have always

My roommate has been concerned for a while about the stability of her job, and here are her worst fears being realized thanks to DOGE. The work that she and others do to help fund and start incredible projects remembering queer and BIPOC history and archives have been under threat for so long, and

Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.

Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.

Don’t believe a word out of his mouth. I remember that he ran as a progressive. I remember supporting him, canvassing for him, donating to him, back when I thought he was a genuine progressive. He lied about being on the left to us then, and he’ll keep lying to us about it now.

so stressed out that I’ve got two different cross-stitch projects going

NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Ever wonder how gravitational wave detectors like LISA would hear the signal of binary black holes orbiting around a supermassive black hole? 🔭 Well check out my first 1st author paper investigating that very topic, live on the arXiv today! 🔥📄 arxiv.org/abs/2502.10591 Explainer in 🧵👇 1/10

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

i hae been saying this shit

Every few months I have to debate myself on whether I should keep my natural nails or get acrylics… again and again and again

monday tomorrow :(

my therapist enjoys torturing me and i pay him to do it. i was working on an erp script and my suds level went down and he said “how about we open up the unfinished paper you want to write” and uhhh yea that got me crying

"zionist" was just added to Twitch's list of hate speech terms

Turns out typical crème brûlée is crunchier than the surface of Saturn's largest moon. And there's data to prove it (14/14)

this isn’t a real place so I can still ask this does anyone know how to date casually

nothing like a birthday party with friends to make you feel loved

hopped into the NYC halloween parade w @scientistrebellion.bsky.social to spread the news of our impending doom - if we don’t step in now.

so I just experienced my first “is there a doctor on this plane situation” and it made me wonder - why don’t we have medical staff on all flights? Paid to be there?

we had a guest speaker in our galactic astrophys class the other day and they kept saying “nobody likes dust. everyone hates dust” little did they know…

I was so annoyingly lost at this metro station and this message being simultaneously hidden and loud made me chortle

My island was there before 1492. My ancestors were alive before 1492. Decolonize your mind. Decolonize your syllabus. Decolonize your fiction. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

Just finished a trip to visit CUNY Astro, AMNH, and the Flatiron CCA and I’m beyond excited to be entering my master’s program with exceptional support and funding for research. I’ve never been more grateful and excited to be in academia. Thank you so much. Cya in August! 💕✨

I’m so grateful to be exploring New York - being on foot and traveling by bus/train allows me to soak up every last bit of the city. Ultra grateful to be moving here soon (even though the rental situation is pretty bleak)

Hey Larry, quick question

apartment hunting in New York is… a sport. My shins are sore from climbing up and down steps in a rapid pace in order to show everyone around me that I’m fit enough to live here (which is also a reminder of how inaccessible so many living spaces are for many)

Using a mutual’s following list to find my other friends

So I was trying to find a nail salon to do my nails before I traveled and stumbled upon Georgia O’Keeffe’s successor

1980s car interiors. Clockwise L-R: Volvo Tundra, Subaru Alcyone, Isuzu Impulse, Buick Questor Concept. All analog everything. Easy to reach buttons. High contrast displays.