Beer, Fossils, and the Moon! I’ll be one of the speakers at the next “Science & Suds” on Monday, November 17th, 7pm at Los Angeles Ale Works in Culver City 🍻⚒️🌔 www.scienceandsuds.com

Everything that actually made America great is being destroyed

This is particularly sad as Lowell has long been a centre for Solar System planetary astronomy, a rare field internationally 🔭

Also, queer representation is down right now, in a culture that’s increasingly hostile to us. So we need more stories beyond the pattern of “assimilated queer couple, likely where one dies”. We deserve a wider range of queer lives on screen.

LEGO trying to bankrupt me.

Hey planetary scientists! I don’t know about y’all, but ADS makes my life so much easier.

it’s giving Jupiter south polar vortex tbh

Saturn as seen from Titan's polar regions. During winter season in south hemisphere a big, high altitude cloud hangs above south pole. #Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy

Astronomers have discovered rings forming around a Centaur. For real: Chiron (a comet-asteroid hybrid orbiting beyond Saturn) has set of rings that seem to be changing by the year. Regardless of what's happening on Earth, space continues to be amazing. 🧪🔭 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

My old painting of a brown dwarf. This view represents a moon of a brown dwarf being lit up by the sun-like star, which is second component of this star-brown dwarf system. #Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets

Looks like the comic con is over, which is a bummer because I was hoping I could get the Riddler to come to my Mimas talk this morning 😔

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...

The search for life's building blocks on Enceladus just got more complicated. Experiments show that radiation can also produce organics from ingredients found on the icy moon. 🔭 🧪 eos.org/articles/spa...

The application portal for the next wave of @carnegiescience.bsky.social postdoctoral fellows is open through November 3. I hope you’ll consider joining us 🚀

A dark day is coming.

Watching Starship test, and they just mentioned Starship will start lunar landings in 2028. Is that just a casual statement about (an unsurprising) Artemis III slip?

A message from JPL Director Dave Gallagher announces a JPL layoff of 500 people has been announced that is "not related to the current government shutdown". www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-wor...

New paper out! Let’s do a gravity science mission to Mars!

The government may be shut down, but that won't stop our Save NASA Science Day of Action. Nearly 300 advocates are joining me here in D.C. on Monday to #SaveNASAScience More: planetary.org/dayofaction

US’s trajectory in space science leadership in a nutshell

"ESA plans to release imagery by next week. NASA will not be able to release any of its data, or even comment on it, until the U.S. federal government ends the shutdown."

Looking up how to apply for funding to put a TV screen outside my office just so that I can have the Kilauea stream going at all times.

CNSA has released an image of Tianwen-2 in deep space using a robotic arm, giving us a proper look at the spacecraft and return capsule for delivering samples from near Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. Tianwen-2 has been in space for 125 days, is 45 million km from Kamoʻoalewa.

Pretty cool photo

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

In the last 6 days, 9 asteroids passed inside the Moon’s orbit. Estimated sizes: ~1–38 m. All were discovered this month, a reminder that countless small, faint NEOs slip by unnoticed until they make a close pass.

This also works for planetary science…

Lately, photographer Ragnar Visage started sharing video footage of past Iceland eruptions and I feel like no one sees it. Check out this video and his channel. So mesmerizing! ⚒️🧪 #Geology 🌋 youtu.be/aSOdrS2R3jA?...

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

If folks at #EPSCDPS enjoyed my talk about Mimas, its giant impact basin, and how it connects to its young ocean, the paper JUST came out at Earth and Planetary Science Letters: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

This is disgusting and insulting to the entire astronaut corp and NASA as an institution. Attitudes like this are why Challenger happened. This regime doesn't value human life, only the illusion of progress. We're also not in a space race, and even if we were, that doesn't justify risking safety.

A new image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS yielded some serendipitous art. The Gemini South telescope observed the comet through four color filters. While tracking its motion, the telescope split the light from surrounding (unmoving) stars into little rainbows. 🔭🧪 noirlab.edu/public/image...

Live in the U.S.? We’re organizing in-person meetings for you to speak directly with your elected officials in Washington, D.C. October 5–6, join us and nearly a dozen partner organizations for the Day of Action to save NASA’s space science. Make your voice heard. www.planetary.org/advocacy/day...

OK, we've let go of about 20% of the NASA workforce, the Administration seems to want to force this 24% NASA overall budget cut & 47% science budget cut down the agency's throat by any means necessary, the lander is still the long pole in the tent & we're going to the Moon in 2 years? Sure, Sean.

I am heartbroken and enraged that our hospital systems are abandoning trans people. Truly, disgusted that they are bowing down to our fascist government. I know some places are fighting, and I'm grateful for those doctors. For me, this echoes what happened with abortion around the country.

A fundamental issue in our society right now is that people are unable to distinguish the difference between being uncomfortable vs unsafe (perpetuated for years by media) Are you among an unfamiliar group of people? Are you in a big city? Are you really unsafe or are you just feeling uncomfortable?

Didn’t know funding for Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching was also cut.

The Trump regime is systematically crippling & blinding US science wherever science can provide independent information to the US public which the fossil fuel lobby doesn’t like. A kind of self-harm for which the US will pay dearly for decades to come. Destruction is fast, recovery slow & costly.

Sign AGU’s letter to defend climate science. 
The Trump administration has proposed overturning the EPA’s endangerment finding — the science-based determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.

The Administration’s #GoldStandardScience order undermines research integrity & threatens public trust in science. Read AGU President Brandon Jones’ latest #FromtheProw, & stand with us:

Yes!! GO AGU!!!

This excellent piece describes the deceptive practices used by quacks to advance false claims. Beware! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sign of the times- Michigan State, one of the biggest astronomy programs in the USA, is not accepting ANY applications for its graduate program this year 😖 🔭🧪🎢

Superb observation by the SWOT altimetry satellite of the July 30 #tsunami. Data acquired ~1h after the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake show the waves propagating across the Pacific with a great agreement with @rocangel.bsky.social's model! [more here](www.aviso.altimetry.fr/fr/missions/...) #CNES #CLS

NASA is making plans to shut down two Earth observing satellites that provide key data to climate scientists and farmers, despite lawmakers telling them it’s illegal to do it. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social eos.org/research-and...

Please join us in congratulating Samantha Moruzzi, who today successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation, Geophysical Evolution of Sputnik Basin on Pluto. Congratulations, Samantha! 📸: Samantha is pictured with her advisor, Dr. Jeff Andrews-Hanna.

this is why the "oh, everything is gonna be ok after the midterms/next presidential elections" ppl are blowing my mind. what are you even saying, the destroyed satellites aren't going to un-destroy themselves and NASA doesn't have any spares lying around futurism.com/white-house-...

I'm tired of being calm. T-shirts and stickers are available at willburrows.art/shop

ISRO successfully launched and deployed NISAR in its intended orbit with a precision of ~2km to its desired placement.