Science communicators: At what point does a useful technical term become jargon? We made a flowchart to help answer the question. Think we got it wrong? Tell us what you'd add, remove, or rewrite. #SciComm #AcademicSky #ScienceCommunication

A very nice bug!!!

My husband and I met during a summer ecology class at KBS when we were undergrads at MSU way back in 2003 AND this class takes place during our wedding anniversary. We are also big aquatic plant nerds. Sadly, we can't make it to this class, so some happy couple better attend in our honor!

I remember watching a program a long time ago about the restoration of a classic chair and the discovery that it was stuffed with Afro-textured hair and I just wanted to scream and scream.

Five year old girl on BBC News in item on Artemis II hopes we can find life on other planets so "we can be family with them.." Wish politicians would share her attitude to those who are different.

This! It's true! "That's it. That's all I have to say. In these times of uncertainty, it would be folly to submit a proposal without having a conversation in advance. And it would be squandered opportunity to not have a conversation if you're not funded."

Behind the scenes of one of our supervols👀❌👑

We’re saying it was science because Science has ALWAYS been capable of horrendous things and implicated in slavery, colonialism, the Holocaust. Not because we believe that racism, ableism etc are scientifically ‘valid’ or ‘defensible’ Begging you to think beyond memes.

I'm saving this one to revisit when I'm feeling discouraged. It's a (bittersweet) reminder that we can rebuild with better intentions.

Mars Sample Return, multiple times over

Watching a barred owl snooze peacefully made my day better

Scientists led by Sara Seager at MIT proposed the industrial gases nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) as ideal technosignatures to search for intelligent life on distant planets. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/these-gases-...

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

Just fyi- Trump claims he ended DEI...but literally last month we won our lawsuit, preventing him from cutting civil rights laws including the commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in schools. www.aft.org/press-releas... . www.aft.org/press-releas...

Migraine people: Do you ever get the kind that don't hurt unless you think or move? I hate this kind. They're like a mean trick because I think it's over and then I get up to go to the bathroom and my head explodes in pain.

We talk about the Goldilocks Zone for habitable planets mostly from a temperature perspective, but it's not the only thing that counts. Being in the right zone during accreation matters as well - wrong composition, and you won't have the building blocks for life. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@comptonscatter.bsky.social here ye gan wor kid #Crinoid #Kaiju

If you need 150 people in palaeontology, geology, zoology, scicomm and related. And I could list more, but ran out of space!

We are a nation in which thousands of Black people were "legally" kidnapped with the assistance of the federal government & sent back into slavery. We are also a nation in which thousands of white & Black people organized in their local communities to try to stop those kidnappings. "We" are both.

I'm unreasonably delighted to learn this!

I've read articles stating that Ohio Senator Jon Husted has not released a statement about the end of TPS for Haitians. This is his response when constituents email him about the issue.

Cool, cool

St. Vincent de Paul in Springfield, Ohio is helping children of Haitian immigrants obtain passports ahead of whatever ICE action may come. These kids are US citizens who were born in Ohio to parents living here under temporary protected status. Donate here to support: svdpspfld.org

BREAKING: A U.S. District Court judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end protected status for about 330,000 Haitians living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status.

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Check out this entire thread for vetted organizations you can donate to to support Springfield's Haitian Community. I set up a recurring donation to the Haitian Community Help and Support Center.

Springfield Ohio Support Links! We are rallying, gathering resources, and connecting with neighbors

Basically just don't participate in any surveys or studies about trans people right now unless you can verify who's behind it and what their intentions are. Do not give your info to strangers if you're trans in 2026.

Woke may come in and out of fashion. But I've been Black this whole time.🤷🏿‍♂️ I don't get to call time out. Similarly, trans kids don't get to call timeout. Gay folk don't hop back in the closet for a few years during a US fashy crash out. So my recommendation: stay true to your allyship values.👍🏿

Another link to help ICE detainees after they are released. Melinda is legit so I'm comfortable with her endorsement. Sorry I don't have more time to do the vetting myself today. bsky.app/profile/meli...

It's worth noting that ICE and CBP shot more of those vulnerable neighbors *in-between* Good and Pretti. And yet... You know what nevermind. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I just finished reading The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde and now I need everyone else to read it and meet me at the coffee shop so we can chat.

Hi y'all You still have a few days to apply for our open professor position in planetary science in Bern, Switzerland. See more details below! For any questions, feel free to reach out to me. 🔭🧪⚛️#planetSci

Consider adding the weight of your voice in opposition to the administration's decision to turn its back on cooperative knowledge building. agu.quorum.us/campaign/152...

This is good news!

This is exactly the woman I want representing Americans in Congress. She had me at Star Trek. (Actually, before that, but Star Trek clinched it.)

I grew up in the Rouge River watershed and I miss it!

I recently read The Women's March by @jchiaverini.bsky.social, which features Alice Paul along with Ida B. Wells, Maud Malone, and others. It was an uplifting read for those in need of political inspiration right now.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

It is so very sad that random internet articles about curiosities are no longer authored by actual people with strange little passions. I'm not even sure what the internet is for now that AI articles are so pervasive.

The Trump Administration is trying to silence dissent and attack our most fundamental freedom: the right to speak out without fear. I stood with my colleagues in the House and Senate to protect Americans from any administration that fears the truth and democracy.

Watching elected officials acknowledge the moment and fight to defend free speech is what I needed today

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Hey FEMA - we need to talk about the $200m you owe us. This is a big deal:

No More Unions Allowed At NASA. Happy Labor Day. nasawatch.com/personnel-ne... #NASA @NASA

"The whitewashing effort includes government agencies tasked with preserving history. And in every case, the resources were publicly accessible when Donald Trump took office. Then they vanished."

Asteroid Bennu Is A Time Capsule Of Materials Bearing Witness To Its Origin And Transformation Over Billions Of Years astrobiology.com/2025/08/aste... #astrobiology #Asteroid #Bennu