I'm not the first one to point this out, but as a culture we're _really_ going to need to have the discipline to write "strange AI" rather than "weird AI" because everybody born before 2015 is going to read it as "Weird Al" and cause a massive amount of confusion. Thank you for your attention.

Actual White House quote: “go fuck yourself.” Its not being some pearl clutching prude to ask whether this is really how most Americans want their kids to see the seat of our government behave. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"For years, Black troops fought for policies to thrive in the service—including around grooming. To Hegseth & the White House, that’s the whole problem: a military with Black leadership & women in senior roles." blackhairinformation.com/general-arti... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republicans don't need a single democrat to keep the government open. If the government shuts down, it's because republicans want it to.

Happy BratfEast! As @asrivkin.bsky.social calls it, one of the High Holy Days of Planetary Science :)

As a shutdown approaches and Dem leadership does its usual schtick, just re-upping that basically every fed employee I've heard from in recent weeks (anecdotal, yes, but still!) is pro-fight, pro-shutdown-if-necessary. As I wrote a couple weeks ago about NIH: www.gravityisgone.com/the-walls-ar...

Well don't I feel stupid

Folks, please go vote for perovskite! It's one of the oldest minerals in the solar system!! www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...

Exciting Announcement: Our program is the 2025 winner of the @agu.org Award for Advancing Inclusive Excellence in STEM! We are so thankful to our peers and former students that nominated us for creating geoscience field training opportunities for all ⚒️🌎♿ news.clas.ufl.edu/geospace-pro...

GeoSPACE was a spark that lit my interest in volcanoes and planetary geology, and that's why I'm thrilled to celebrate this AGU award honoring the GeoSPACE team. It's a recognition of the mentorship and opportunities that make a program like GeoSPACE life-changing for students.

"OMB said that Alderaan could be spared if Leia decided to share the location of the rebel base"

"Republicans need to get serious and restore healthcare and avoid a government shutdown." Government funding runs out next week and Republicans need Democrats’ votes. Tell your senators to HOLD THE LINE against any funding deals that hand Trump a blank check: indivisible.org/camp...

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

We keep asking our reps to stand up and fight to restore Constitutional order to Congress. Well, this Continuing Resolution is where they have leverage. This is where they have an opening. Call your electeds and support them for doing just what we have asked! www.thefarce.org/how-to-lose-...

How to avoid politics on Bluesky: 1. Close the app 2. Continue enjoying your own privilege, blissfully ignorant of all the ways that politics shapes your work and vice-versa.

We have to act like the MAGA in one precise way. We must act as if we are part of the fight, that we have some agency, and we’re not just victims of our often feckless Democratic leadership.

Thrilled to see growing consensus that Dems must step up in the Continuing Resolution fight. Key to doing so? Refuse to frame this as "shutting down government." Instead, call it what it is - refusing to be an accomplice to turning the government into a weapon against the American people.

Most recently, Dr. Edgar was the Deputy PI of the Artemis III Geology team. We're all over the Moon for her to help us explore as geoscientists 🌒🔴 🧪🔭⚒️🪨🪐🚀

Easy 🧵 over coffee this norning for how federal agencies are allocated and spend 💵. This is for USAID but it's true for NASA, NSF, NIH, NOAA, and others.

This is a similar phenomenon to when you ask people how much of the budget we spend on X, Y or Z.

This is excellent, and pithy, and very generalizable, and entertaining to boot.

technologically advance a band Death Robotaxi for Cutie

Last week of summer, we took a last-minute trip to Ocean City! We weathered a storm, walked on the beach, swam in the Atlantic, drank fruity rum punches, read books, ate lots of crab cakes, hung out on the Boardwalk, watched kites, & used a metal detector for the 1st time (OC beaches are very clean)

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As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Well we've spent $45 million on the national guard in DC but I guess they’re too busy blowing leaves to worry about protecting schools www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIN...

USA! USA!

A national day of remembrance on 14 October, you say? Timed to commemorate the birthday of a victim of a tragic murder and galvanize public opinion to change society for the better? On second thought, I might be willing to get behind a version of that.

Josephine Silone Yates was a professor of chemistry & among the 1st women in the US to head a university science department. She was also a journalist & editor & served as the president of the National Association of Colored Women in 1901.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

A coalition of groups led by the Planetary Society has sent a letter to Congress urging that an "anomaly" be included in the CR to keep NASA missions operating that are proposed for termination in the President's Budget Request (PBR). www.planetary.org/press-releas...

The Planetary Society is holding a briefing this afternoon (Wed, Sept 17) at 4:00 pm ET to talk about the NASA budget. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... A recording will be posted on their YouTube channel later: www.youtube.com/user/planeta...

"It’s a study in the perils of relying on the ultrarich to fund science: when the guy with the billions is ready to move on, the whole project is off." Remember Breakthrough Starshot, which was supposed to send a fleet of tiny probes to Proxima Centauri? By @sarahscoles.bsky.social in SciAm 🧪🛰️

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

From NASA: Minatogawa, Olduvai, and Mungo. What's in a name? A nod to the story of humanity's origins. New official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid our Lucy spacecraft visited in April, recognize research & discoveries about early humans on Earth: go.nasa.gov/4goPDS5

Jonas Salk is sad when you let your kids get polio

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I very much appreciated reading this article this morning. Thank you for the reporting @propublica.org . Request to follow up on the parenthetical halfway through that Coulter is now working for NASA (!!!).

Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.

The nexus is violent white men but everyone is supposed to pretend this is not the case.

I was today years old when I learned that Big Audio Dynamite wasn't just a band trying to sound like what The Clash would be in the late 80's, it was The Clash in the late 80's. (ok well just Mick Jones) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8z...

Moonstones Cereal (1976-1977): A sweetened, fruit-flavored multigrain cereal, shaped like moons, planets, and stars. Marketed with a fantastical outer space theme, detailed vintage-style artwork, and a weirdly deep, detailed lore...see 🧵 for more on that! And buckle up, this is a LONG one!

this is awful, but NASA has been discriminating against the chinese for a long time. it is total bullshit. space should be a sector built upon international cooperation, not this nastiness

House appropriators offer support to threatened NASA missions House appropriators offered support, but no specific funding, for several NASA missions slated for cancellation in the administration’s 2026 budget proposal.

How to Send Your Name to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis II Mission

Could these rocks host evidence for past microbial life on Mars? Definitely. But can geological processes create the same features? Yes. The only hope to try finding out is by bringing the samples back. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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.

Age verification? I drank Zima