The 3rd prompt of #printerSolstice2526 is one so I made a #linocut of the 1st woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist & professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). 🧪🐡🎢👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci I've shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art

Make it viral.

NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. But Congress's current proposed budget for the agency would leave them stranded. What's at stake? Take a deep dive with this recent feature:

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

This is very much worth a read. Breaks down why "it's the racism, stupid" really is the answer to why "everything is so partisan right now" in an elegant way #uspoli

184. The Space Race wasn't all just white men - if you go looking, you will find the women. 🧪 🔭 #WomenInSTEM #TabClosed2026

I talk a lot about AI and "male loneliness" as a lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of dealing with other humans, but the rejection (most noticeable in MAGAts and anti-vaxxers, but spreading to, sigh, everything) of the *idea of expertise* is a symptom of the same problem. (thread)

And the thing is, you cannot do *anything*-- assuming you're not a hermit who crafts everything you own from scratch and has never bought anything in your life, including tools--without depending on other people. You move through life constantly trusting in other people's expertise.

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). 🧮👩🏼‍🔬🔭🎢🐡🧪 #histsci As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as 🧵

Susanoo is a Japanese kami (god) known for his unpredictable and often violent behaviour in myths involving his sister Amaterasu (the sun goddess), and his banishment from the heavens. He is a god of seas and storms, but there is another side to this unlikely hero. After his... #MythologyMonday 1/4

BIG new batch of images sent back by Perseverance! Took some work, and my laptop struggled, but what a wonderful view... Look at those beautiful dust dunes, sculpted by Mars' icy winds... As they say, "Welcome to my world..." ;-) Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

Have you signed?? Medical progress is being attacked by RFK Jr. He's got to GO!!

that alluvial fan coming out of the san gabriels near wrightwood really is something: visible from the pelona schist that just comes pouring down wildhorse canyon when 10" of rain falls like it just did, spreading out 15+ miles into the mojave

#JunoCam: Zoom out and zoom in! These painterly views of Jupiter were processed by participatory scientist Kevin M. Gill. Interested in processing your own JunoCam images? Visit: buff.ly/9YvnJFy 📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

Idea: impeach everybody

The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

100,000 hi-res views of the Martian terrain! For your viewing, science, and landing-site-selection pleasure. go.nasa.gov/4oXJQpu

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For today only (Dec 14) All Systems Red (1st book in The Murderbot Diaries) is on sale across all US ebook retailers for $2.99 (published by Tordotcom, edited by @leeharris.net cover art by Jaime Jones) www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

We shouldn’t have to live like this. I’m not THAT old, and I remember we *didn’t* live like this. Powerful segments of society have made a choice that the regular scene of dead bodies in classrooms is an acceptable cost of doing business, and we shouldn’t have to accept that. I’m sad and I’m angry.

Many people are saying 😂

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel

I usually post widefield colour "postcard" views of Mars, but today, just for a change, here's a rather more abstract view for you all... Perseverance's tracks meandering across the Martian landscape... Hope you like it! Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. She was a pioneer of stellar classification and co-creator of the Harvard Classification Scheme. Over her lifetime she *manually* classified around 350,000 stars. (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Image: Harvard University, Radcliffe Archives

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

“listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go” - E. E. Cummings 47 years ago today: the Pioneer Venus probes reached Venus, descending through the swirling global clouds and scorching, crushing air to send back word of the unknown gasses and mysterious conditions below… (1/3) 🧪

The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4741 drive this weekend. flic.kr/p/2rKRes8

If we can magically find $12B for an agriculture bailout caused because of made up tariffs, we can find funding for trains, libraries, & clean energy. Btw the annual budget of the EPA is $9B. The whole thing! About the same with the National Science Foundation. Cut bad stuff, triple good stuff.

I shoulda mentioned this BEFORE the stream, but I just got done have a wonderful conversation with @starstryder.space on @cosmoquest.org as part of their Hangout-a-thon! You can rewatch it here, and then see what else CosmoQuest is up to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgpr...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

A surprise about the early history of the Moon. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-c...

Is there lightning on Mars? The Perseverance rover on Mars has serendipitously recorded sounds and electromagnetic signals that are characteristic of lightning in dust storms. ☑️ www.nature.com/articles/d41... ☑️ rdcu.be/eR5lp #Mars ⚡🔭🧪

Thank you for your past service, Senator Kelly - and for your service today, by standing up to the authoritarians.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

Here’s an annotated version of our comet image. We also want to thank our downlink and uplink teams who spent a huge amount of time working on this. Our camera was not designed to image interstellar objects 19 million miles away, but their hard work and planning paid off.

Congrats to HiRISE and MRO for doing it again! This is an OUTRAGEOUS image because it involves taking a spacecraft designed to roll 20˚ side-to-side but mostly point down, and having it pop a wheelie to point the camera away from the planet... (🧵) #PlanetSci 🧪

Here's our captioned release: www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_08...

Don't forget about LA. The feds never left (& won't be leaving until at least 2028). The people will continue to fight. * data below as of November 1 from @lapublicpress.bsky.social

The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition. People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.

An Amazon climate summit built on contradiction, creating unease for California delegates - LA Times www.latimes.com/politics/sto... #COP30

Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈 ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals. The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do. #SpaceForAll