Unilever/Magnum has been silencing Ben & Jerry’s when the brand has tried to speak out about social injustices & progressive values. It’s wrong. Join me & sign Ben from Ben & Jerry's petition & be entered in a raffle to win a free pint of his pro-ceasefire sorbet! sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

So @drspacejunk.bsky.social and I are doing another pod with @stilgherrian.com tomorrow! Look out for it not too long after that! Lots of space things to talk about, incl. space things that seem to be falling out of the sky (lots) ....

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

If you are a person who told everyone they were overreacting in 2016, and you have since realized you were wrong, I think you have a valuable role to play right now: Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.

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

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Register yourself or a student for the 'Python and Astropy for Astronomical Data Analysis' workshop at @aas.org on January 4, 2026. 🔭 #aas247 #astrocode You'll get a broad overview of the astropy functionality that powers astronomy, taught by the @astropy.org team. github.com/astropy/astr...

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

Oralè Resisters Viva Chicago #LALO #VivaChicago #Chicago #USDemocracy

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

Did you know? 💡 Childhood shows like The Magic School Bus, Cyberchase, Sci Girls, and Peep and the Big Wide World were funded by the National Science Foundation. These shows have been a significant contributor to science education in and out of the classroom for decades.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#Communiqué 🗞️ Du 3 au 5 octobre 2025, célébrez la Fête de la science avec les Échappées inattendues du CNRS à la @citedessciences.bsky.social et au @museeartsetmetiers.bsky.social ! #FDS2025 #ÉchappéesInattendues 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/ec...

This fee is absolutely horrendous, and I feel sick for multiple friends in the US or who were planning to take up positions in the US very soon. Hell, even people I spent time with this week at @stellarorigins2025.bsky.social here in Vienna might not get back into the US tomorrow

"The Hepatitis B vaccine has nearly eliminated maternal transmission of the disease in the United States, slashing the incidence to fewer than 20 cases a year from about 20,000 a year before 1991..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

Last week, I was able to catch a glimpse of the @nasaromantelescope.bsky.social telescope (well partially as she was in TVAC). I also was lucky enough to briefly chat with a few of my colleagues at NASA Goddard, who are some of the most talented and hardworking scientists and engineers around.

We've reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets! I talked with @aussiastronomer.bsky.social about where things go from here. (A great graphic by @unamandita.bsky.social visualizes the amazing jumps in planet finds since the first ones were confirmed in the 1990s.)

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC. We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program supports promising postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research which contributes to NASA Astrophysics. 🔭 🧪 Applications are now open: stsci.edu/stsci-resear... Credit: NASA.

So it is the guns then? 🤔 www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

RFK is secretary of Hazards and Human Suffering. His testimony today shows his staggering incompetency and his complete indifference to the truth — indifference that is costing lives. He must be impeached before he harms more people. #ImpeachRFK

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

Technicians recently tested two major deployments for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC) and the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS): go.nasa.gov/41X95PN #NASARoman 🔭 🧪

NEW: More than 199,000 federal workers have left their jobs or have been forced out by the Trump admin since Jan. 2025, per a new report. That’s nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce. “We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

As 1,000 more unnecessary National Guard troops from GOP-led states arrive to enable the Trump regime’s hostile takeover of a U.S. city, remember that you have the power to fight back. Visit freedcproject.org/allies to learn how you can support D.C. It’s going to take all of us to save democracy.

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has now surpassed FIVE HOURS of his "magic minute" sharing the stories of Americans who will be impacted by Trump's Big Bullshit Bill. Jeffries has also name-checked Republicans whom Democrats are targeting in next year’s election.

The Big Beautiful Bill is such a heartless and reckless piece of legislation. I knew this was crystallizing, but the impending passage of the BBB only confirms this…we are so lost as country…and will be for years to come.

Someone who says this should be banished from the WH.

Inbound: Astronomers Discover Third Interstellar Object 🧪 🔭 The object in question is currently at +18th magnitude, moving slowly along the border of the constellations Serpens Cauda and Sagittarius, right near the galactic plane. Credit: @filipp-romanov.bsky.social

The NSF should not be displaced from their current building. I stand with the NSF employees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oc7...

💥💥 Double detonation!  For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. The fingerprint that points to this mechanism is represented by two separate shells of calcium.   Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2511/ 🔭 🧪 ☄️ 1/

3rd interstellar object! Using @astrafoxen.bsky.social's orbit below, it would've had velocity 57.9+-0.9 km/s entering solar sys... faster than 'Oumuamua (26km/s) or Borisov (32km/s), & absolute mag H=14.9 suggests bigger too (maybe ~few km diameter) #A11pl3Z looks like Leet for "Allplease" :)

This will cause untold harm and death. Just that simple.

Senate Republicans passed Trump's budget bill and it’s now heading back to the House. If it makes it past the House, 17 million people will lose their health care. Text CALL to 43367 to get the info you need to call your Congressperson’s office.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 At 7:59am, Zeldin - Trump crony and head of EPA - received the Declaration of Dissent from EPA workers. Workers are uniting against political interference, censorship & rollbacks at EPA under Zeldin’s leadership. Someone’s week is off to a bad start. (1/5)

If any NOAA (or former NOAA) friends are interested in doing something like this, I am on Signal and happy to chat through ideas and put you in touch with the right people.

🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

I worked at Planned Parenthood. They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.   Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.